Jörg,
Am 20.05.2008 um 16:53 schrieb Joerg Lehmann:
> Maybe a single page should alread have a paper
> format, as opposed to a mere canvas. If one would adopt that view,
> paperformat should not have a default at all or a sensible one (i.e.,
> not None).
I see your point, but I disagree. It's a (very useful) feature to have
no paper format, i.e. use the bbox of the canvas.
> I have a slight tendency towards this point, i.e., that there should
> be always a paperformat for a page. And then, it would probably also
> make sense to specify A4 as default, like we already specify some more
> or less arbitrary margin (for the fittosize functionality)...
>
> Hmm...
Note that PyX is not a page layout program. Its primary use is for
figures. Ok, those are single page objects. (Or maybe call them single
not-even-like-page objects.)
>> This distinction is perfectly valid for PostScript
>> vs. Encapsulated PostScript, but document.page is not source of this
>> distinction. Both PostScript variants do have a page instance (or
>> maybe several pages for PostScript) in its document structure. And
>> for
>> PDF this distinction is not valid at all as there is no special
>> figure-
>> only case.)
>>
>> As Jörg quickly agreed to my solution and we already applied it to
>> the
>> repository, I think we're done with it. Except Jörg wants to jump in
>> again. However, if Jörg still agrees and thus Jörg and I do favour a
>> particular solution (which is not always the case BTW), you guys out
>> there basically have to live with it. :-)
>
> Hey, I can always be convinced of a better solution. And in the
> specific
> case, I was also initially a bit mislead and thought that we were
> arguing about the canvas and not the page.
I do understand your point. Maybe we should have a document._page or
something like this (we should have a proper name for that) and a
_document ... which are for single page documents without paperformat
only. On the other hand it is quite useful to have a paperformat
option in canvas.writeXXXfile(). We certainly should keep this feature.
André
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