Re: [artworks] Variable lines that connect objects
- From: Ned Abell <nedabell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:19:08 +0100
On 14 Jun, Gavin Crawford <gav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I wish ArtWorks had some sort of script file abillity, or a
> more open file format that would allow applications to
> construct ArtWorks files directly, instead of using Draw
> files that have a limited subset of objects. Obviously, an
> open file format could be considered a problem if someone
> could create an ArtWorks file without needing to buy a copy
> of ArtWorks, but a file format that was interpreted by
> ArtWorks, and was easy to create - and that handled all
> the ArtWorks objects and features would be the answer.
> A method I was going to employ at one stage was to generate
> ArtWorks EPS files, but the not all of ArtWorks' objects
> can be encoded in the EPS format, so it seemed a huge
> amount of work, and still not achieve a complete set of
> features. Also, I think if an 'ArtWorks Document
> Description' or an 'ArtWorks Script File' was available, it
> should have it's own filetype so when double clicked would
> be automatically interpreted by ArtWorks, unlike using an
> EPS file which needs to be dragged to ArtWorks, as there
> could be other applications that would get the DataLoad
> message.
I interchange a lot of files between Artworks and several
Linux and RO applications and Martin suggested that using PDF
as the transfer medium was a good idea.
As you can print to PDF from many applications on different
platforms its worked well for me.
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besters..
Ned
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