Re: [artworks] A problem with PDF export
- From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:17:26 +0100
In message <43ee032750.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message of 1 Feb, Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In message <9d93eb2650.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I have been working away at rather a complex ArtWork for a few months
>>> now and have just tried to save its present state as a PDF file but get
>>> the error from ArtWorks of:
>>
>>> Internal error 'LHWS' in SVGExport
>>
>> This is caused by a sprite being in an obsolescent format, having a
>> so-called "left hand wastage", which PDF export does not support. [...]
> [...] So if sprites such as these are
> not to be handled, I wonder if we can have a message to say they are not
> suitable when we first load them (it even) in?
Well, they are handled for everything else, and PDF export would
handle them as well if I had expected to see such sprites in ArtWorks
documents. Anyway, rather than displaying an error, it would make more
sense to simply convert them to a format PDF export can handle.
Martin
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