Re: [artworks] Page Size Limitations
- From: tez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:40:07 GMT
In message <b585289551.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have been experimenting with importing very wide draw files (ie
>> approx 15,000mm wide) into Artworks (v2.X.00). In the 'Page setup'
>> menu I have set the custom width to accomodate the width of the
>> drawfile, but it automatically defaults back to a maximum width of
>> 3000mm. [snip]
> There are reasons for this limitation. Not everything would work
> smoothly with larger documents, in particular if you started zooming
> into areas to the very right. I suppose ArtWorks could allow larger
> page sizes if the maximum zoom factor was limited accordingly for such
> documents.
Thankyou Martin for the explanation. It would indeed be nice if
Artworks could cope with larger page sizes. For family trees the
example quoted isn't the largest possible by any means (it would be
nice to be able to handle a maximum width of 30,000mm).
>> The whole drawfile appears to be 'within' Artworks, as one can 'select
>> all' and move it across the visible page.
> So, could you not simply press Ctrl+A ("select all") and scale the lot
> by 0.2? That would allow everything to fit.
Yes, this indeed works fine for the example quoted. The scaled down
version can be saved as a pdf and using !PDF to view it (at an
appropriate scaling) produced a very readable file. However I tried
the same trick with a bigger tree (30,000mm wide), which Artworks
handled ok, but !PDF didn't allow sufficient scaling of the resulting
pdf (it's limited to 800%) for the file to be acceptably readable.
(note: Adobe Reader 8 does allow sufficient magnification to enable
the pdf to be read easily, but my experiments with GView on RISC OS
failed to produce a readable file).
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Regards,
TerryK
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