In message of 4 Feb, Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In message <5acb592850.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > In message of 4 Feb, Robert Greenfield <theboss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> The original OvPro document of mine was a single page handout which I want > >> to put into a booklet for my year 9 students. If I did it over again the > >> original page would probably be more appropriately done in Artworks as the > >> text requirements don't need any fancy frames. > >> One of those classic cases where you start the document in one app but > >> later you think about changing to the other app! > >> Makes me wish that OvPro could export as Artworks or Artworks could import > >> OvPro docs (even with certain limitations). > >> That interoperability would be so good :-) > > > Portable Document Format has to be the real answer. It was a revelation > > to see Stewart Brookes flinging PDFs between EasiWriter and ArtWorks at > > Rougol last month. > > I wish I had seen that, I am sure I would have learned something. :-) Never mind the learning, it was the entertainment that was such fun, particularly the phone asnwering act giving a sequence o numbers to dial. He even got one of his callers to sing us a song. > Still, I do not think you would have much joy with that approach in > this case, at least with the present state of PDF text import in > ArtWorks. At the moment you end up with lots of individual text > objects after importing a word processing file, which makes editing a > pain. Things might be different if it was possible to turn these text > objects into a single text area. Stewart did take the liberty of suggesting that a future (chargeable) ArtWorks upgrade might extend its capabilities. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@xxxxxxxxx For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling