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From: scott@NIC.GAC.EDU
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Subject: Re: SOME (MORE) ADVICE FOR NEXT
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Date: 12 Oct 90 16:18:42 GMT
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louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>In fact, some of us have duplex laser printers available (Ethernet attached
>on the local network), and would like to be able to specify "double sided".
>
>It seems like the printing software could look in the Adobe Printer Description
>file for the printer you selected to determine which "features" you have
>available (duplex, multiple input/output trays, stack face up/down, etc).

[And all the other stuff . . .]

Actually, this stuff all belongs in the PageLayout panel.  IMHO, you should
be able to "print" (in quotes, because you could also save, etc) double-sided,
side-by-side (like enscript), also multiple pages (like four on a page
for draft - to see what it looks like overall), and much much more.  I
really liked a utility I had for PCs and HP LaserJets which printed
side by side, and if you fed correctly, both sides of the page.  Really
made for nice, three-ring-bindable output.  Now that I _really_ print
out stuff . . .

Another complaint I have with the current PageLayout is that if I've got a 
small graphic I've just designed in Draw, it forces it to a best-fit
position.  The problem is, I like to design the graphic in Draw, save to
eps, and then drag it over to WriteNow.  Since the graphic is generally
longer in the horizontal direction, PageLayout decides to Landscape it.

_Not_ what I want.  Then, I have to go in and edit the file directly
to fix all that.  If the graphic is narrow enough to fit fine on the
page in Portrait, there's really no reason to Landscape it.  Also,
it'd be nice to adjust stuff like where it is placed on the page if
it is small enough (in this case, I'd like to push it flush to the
top of the page).

I know that Draw is not designed to be a general-purpose drawing tool,
just a demo.  But the problem, here, is in the PageLayout panel, I
believe, so any other app would suffer with it, also, if they used the
same panel.  I don't know for sure if the 2.0 PageLayout works the
same way, though I'd assume it does.

scott hess
scott@gac.edu
Independent NeXT Developer	(Stuart)
NeXT Campus Consultant		(Not much, really)
GAC Undergrad			(Horrid.  Simply Horrid.  I mean the work!)
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