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- From: Richard Stevens <richs@rd.bbc.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Final Writer 5 Features
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 14:18:28 +0100
- Organization: British Broadcasting Corporation
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- Chris Robertson wrote:
- >
- > >While some topics of the list sound important (like tables...;), I
- > >still think that FW is far from being professional... sorry. :-(
- > >While I'm hardly trying to write my dissertation with FW4, I had to
- > >find out that it is nearly unusable for larger texts.
- >
- > Yep, can only confirm that.. I wrote a 20 page mathematical paper full of eps
- > graphics .. editing that was just so INCREDIBLY SLOW!
- >
- > >7) The postscript-interpreter for EPS-GFX doesn't use contained
- > > preview-image-info (bitmaps). Rendering takes too long even on a
- > > 040, esp. since it is sometimes rendered unnecessarily (e.g. when
- > > simply moving an EPS-GFX).
- >
- > Hmm, I spent a LOT of time messing around with EPS gfx.. And I did get the
- > preview to work eventually. I used a prog on the Aminet (called something like
- > EpsLab !?) to add a preview image. Rendering time was still terrible though
- > (030/25) - At one point I had to add an 8MB full page size eps, but printing
- > that was just so _incredibly_ slow (like, it never finished!) that I just
- > printed that page with ghostscript instead.
-
- I still use FW2 for printing EPS to postscript because FW3 locks
- up every time I try to print linked imported EPS graphics, FW3
- appears not to handle the end of file character properly from
- the EPS file if the pic is not displayed.
- If FW5 can print without having to display the EPS pic then I'll
- upgrade to it, otherwise no point since it still does not do
- auto-numbering for paragraphs to be included in a TOC, and FW3
- is quite simply brilliant for everything else I need.
-
- Richard Stevens
- richs@rd.bbc.co.uk
- These are my words and nothing to do with my employer.
-