Re: [artworks] ArtWorks 2.7 goes multi-page
- From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:24:27 +0100
In message <cbc501bf4e.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message of 5 Mar, Michael Drake <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In message <ec64e8be4e.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > ArtWorks 2.7, the next major version of ArtWorks to be released at
>> > this year's Wakefield Show in May will offer support for documents
>> > with multiple pages. [...]
>>
>> Wow. Thank you for doing this Martin! It sounds great. :)
>
> Very much seconded.
>
> I regularly have a few (large and high definition) scans that I like to
> stick together on separate pages. I see that JPEGs are accepted by
> Artworks at their native file sizes; it would be nice if the same could
> be done for TIFF files, rather than storing them as Sprites. Though PDF
> sometimes achieves a similar compression to TIFF.
Yes, the compression facilities offered by PDF are very useful.
Unfortunately, that does not hold true for PDF files generated by
ArtWorks. So far, direct PDF export does not use any compression,
which means that the PDF files are unnecessarily big, in particular
those containing (non-JPEG) bitmaps, but even without any bitmaps the
files could be quite a bit smaller if the main content stream was
compressed. This will hopefully change.
As for TIFF files: In contrast to JPEGs, which can be passed natively
to PostScript and PDF, the benefits of handling TIFF files natively
are not really that significant, it is mainly a question of ArtWorks
file size. Rather than doing that ArtWorks would benefit far more from
simply compressing the sprites in saved files. Then, the compression
would apply to both native RISC OS bitmaps and to converted TIFF
files. But then, the question is whether file size is as much an issue
today as it used to be. For PDF files certainly, because one might
want to put them on the web and send them around by e-mail.
Martin
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