Re: [artworks] A problem with PDF export
- From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:25:27 GMT
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. I do
> not think any modern version of RISC OS creates such sprites but it
> was probably used for screen grabs ages ago, or maybe after removing
> columns from the left. The sprite can be updated in Paint: Use "Adjust
> size" to increase its width by 1, then decrease it again. This will
> convert it to the standard format. ArtWorks should probably do the
> conversion step itself when loading the sprite and/or convert sprites
> in existing ArtWorks files when they are loaded but I thought they
> would be extinct by now.
Spot on, as ever and thanks: all is now well.
I copied this sprite, and a whole collection of such charges intomy
machine around the year 2000 and fully expected to be able to continue
to use them as building blocks for these designs. I know I found that
ArtWorks would not load one or two low-colours sprites, but it gave me
an error message and I dealt with this. 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?
--
Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@xxxxxxxxx
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