In message <49297.91.85.218.30.1512582508.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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"Bob Ardler" <ardler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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.
Bob
