In article
<49297.91.85.218.30.1512582508.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bob Ardler <ardler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
With John McCartney's advice and Steve Fryatt's PDF
PrntDefn file have been "print"ing -- ie saving --
drawfiles converted via TechWriter to pdfs. 365 files
converted as a start, but puzzles have arisen.
(1) Coloured text and diagrams save/"print" as shades of
grey. Is there no coloured variant of pdf?
(2) 3 drawfile originals used 19,660 bytes. As 3 pdf
files they took 21,443 bytes, The same 3 drawfiles
dragged into TW and saved as a 3-page pdf took 14,797
bytes -- suggesting something like: a pdf has a bulky
management section but the conveyed file is compact. Most
of the files being converted are 30[ish]-sheet maths
exercises, so should we save space by putting them in
30-page pdfs? A number of the pdfs downloaded to this
RO4.02 RiscCube don't open. Size or missed update? Is
that an argument against 30-page size?
(3) A few days after the McCartney/Fryatt solution was
adopted, a disc arrived from RComp with their PDF suite.
To use, or not to use, that is the question -- whether
'tis wiser in the mind to challenge the slings and arrows
we dummies fear, or to take arms against a sea of
swottitude, and by trialnerroring end them? Sorry, can't
think what to ask re RComp's or Fryatt's PDFs and
draw-to-pdf.
