Re: PDF output

"Schmidt" <sss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23e9BSfPGIHA.5160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

and, just curious - what for would you use
something like that [outline text]?

Just a quick note to support my previous response, Olaf. My wife has just woken up (who is very much more into all this "artistic" stuff than I am!) and she says (amongst lots of other things!) . . .

Most companies are very heavily associated with just a few
special "company colours" and sometimes you want some
very bold text in a document in a specific one of those colours.
In many cases the colour does not contrast heavily with white
(or with whatever other background you are drawing it onto)
and it doesn't look very sharp. In such cases you can get a
very nice effect by drawing the text in the desired fill colour
but with a very thin outline in a "very dark version" of the same
colour, or alternatively with a very thin outline of a colour
that does contrast sharply with whatever background you are
drawing it onto, to produce nice clean looking output.

Anyway, that's what my wife says. You're very welcome to argue with her if you wish to, but personally I wouldn't advise it ;-)

One other thing I've just thought of that doesn't appear to be there and that I imagine will be on top of the "wanted list" you eventually receive after you have distributed your code is an "actual size" view of the page so that the user can see the entire page in detail using scroll bars. The sort of thing you get in Word and Publisher and other things when you set the View to 100%. Or perhaps a "page width" view so that the user can get to see the full width of the page without horizontal scrolling and can move around the page with just a vertical scroll bar. Those things might be worth thinking about.

By the way, I thought you would have had a better response than you've had with your request for feedback regarding "real world" printer output and possible code additions, especially after posting such very useful code. It doesn't actually suprise me, because the same thing has happened to me in the past on more than one occasion, but it does sadden me a little :-(

Mike



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