On 6 Dec, "Bob Ardler" wrote in message
<49297.91.85.218.30.1512582508.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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.
