Philip wrote :
> I appreciate the comments by Chris Condit regarding vector graphics. I have
> a commercial program im MetaCard (www.biblemaps.com) where I have several
> hundred maps that have to be converted to bitmap to be imported into MC.
> Yet, in order to print cleanly, I still have to include all the maps on the
> CD in vector format (in this case, I use PDF format).
I'm new to this list, and I'm quite happy to see that it's also a
"feature request list".
For quite some time, there's a feature I've had in mind (which was
also missing in OMO), and in some ways it echoes the above remark.
I've always found printing features (in HC, SC & OMO) quite limited
(to achieve sophisticated print outputs, one has to simulate the layout
with various fields, etc on a special card/bkgnd, and "hide" that card
to the user with a lock screen, etc - it works, but it's not very elegant).
The ideal feature would be to download to a laser printer the content of
a field or variable or external text file... This content could be Postscript
of PDF. Building a Postscript file with a script is an incredibly powerful
way to achieve great prints.
With HC & OMO I used to use an external called SendPS (from the
Rinaldi collection AFAIR). But it didn't work on Windoze.
Adding that feature to both Mac & PC versions of MC (AFAIK it already
exists on the Unix version) would be great.
Thanks.
JB
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