Re: [artworks] Ideas for new version
- From: Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:08:59 GMT
On 10 Jan, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote in message
<1b7906a34e.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> In message of 10 Jan, Gavin Crawford <gav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I don't feel that multipage handling is particularly an important
> > feature, as any ArtWorks document can be imported into Impression or
> > Ovation Pro to create a multipage layout.
>
> My use for multipage documents is to create multipage PDF files. OPro
> does not have its own PDF export facility so I rely on PrintPDF with
> GView. I gather that the ArtWorks PDF generating facility is inherently
> superior to the GView one. So I am thoroughly in favour of multipage
> layouts in ArtWorks.
I would imagine that you could tack multiple ArtWorks-generated PDFs
together using the Ghostscript tools; given that PDF->PS->PDF is always
vector, I'd hope there would be no loss of quality.
> > But if ArtWorks does receive multipage capabilities I would NOT want
> > to see it done as scrollable pages in one view as the ability to use
> > the scroll bars to navigate around one page becomes more difficult
> > when the vertical scrollbar becomes small and it's sensitivity in
> > relation to the page increases.
>
> I could live without scroll bars to go from page to page; I am used to
> this with the RISC OS PDF viewer.
The RISC OS PDF viewer has scroll bars, doesn't it?
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Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England
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