Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!gatech!mcnc!kk From: kk@mcnc.org (Krzysztof Kozminski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MacDraw II bug with Page Setup Message-ID: <1215@speedy.mcnc.org> Date: 20 May 89 03:57:01 GMT References: <10185@claris.com> Reply-To: kk@mcnc.org.UUCP (Krzysztof Kozminski) Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC Lines: 40 In article gould@pilot.njin.net (Brian Jay Gould) writes: >Exactly. When you reduce the page in MacDraw classic, the working page >size is larger, giving you room to work if the page was full. In MacDraw II >you set page reduction (lets say 80%), and the page still looks the same >on the screen. On paper you get a drawing at 80% with white space on the >lower and right sides. > >So I guess Claris is confirming that its a bug. Do you know when a fix is >coming? Actually, the response I saw indicated rather that the fellow from Claris did not understand what was your problem. Anyway, this is no bug. Go to the Layout Menu, select Drawing Size item to get a dialog. Click in the small white rectangle in the left upper corner of a large grey rectangle. Watch the numbers that tell you the drawing size increase. You now have a full page at your disposal. All this is quite logical: while you told the program to change the scale of your drawing in the Page Setup, you *did not* indicate that you want more drawing area - and there is a separate command to do this. The working space did increase, you just forgot to tell the program to show it to you. Note: a similar thing happens if you select 'larger drawing area' in laserwriter options dialog. Now, the old Mac Draw had it's own brain damage; if I remeber correctly, by changing the page setup from portrait to landscape and back, you could get your drawing size to increase to the max possible limit. (Which was apparently due to the fact that MacDraw used to round up the drawing size after each Page Setup operation). If somebody from Claris is reading this, here's a suggestion: If the Page Setup command makes the drawing size *not* to be an exact multiple of the page size, ask the user whether the drawing boundaries should be adjusted to coincide the page boundaries. In order not to annoy the users with these dialogs, make the default behavior (one of: display dialog, adjust automatically without a dialog, do nothing) settable by the user. KK