🚀 go-pugleaf

Chris Robertson wrote:
> 
> >While some topics of the list sound important (like tables...;), I
> >still think that FW is far from being professional... sorry. :-(
> >While I'm hardly trying to write my dissertation with FW4, I had to
> >find out that it is nearly unusable for larger texts.
> 
> Yep, can only confirm that.. I wrote a 20 page mathematical paper full of eps
> graphics .. editing that was just so INCREDIBLY SLOW!
> 
> >7)  The postscript-interpreter for EPS-GFX doesn't use contained
> >    preview-image-info (bitmaps). Rendering takes too long even on a
> >    040, esp. since it is sometimes rendered unnecessarily (e.g. when
> >    simply moving an EPS-GFX).
> 
> Hmm, I spent a LOT of time messing around with EPS gfx.. And I did get the
> preview to work eventually. I used a prog on the Aminet (called something like
> EpsLab !?) to add a preview image. Rendering time was still terrible though
> (030/25) - At one point I had to add an 8MB full page size eps, but printing
> that was just so _incredibly_ slow (like, it never finished!) that I just
> printed that page with ghostscript instead.

I still use FW2 for printing EPS to postscript because FW3 locks 
up every time I try to print linked imported EPS graphics, FW3 
appears not to handle the end of file character properly from 
the EPS file if the pic is not displayed. 
If FW5 can print without having to display the EPS pic then I'll 
upgrade to it, otherwise no point since it still does not do
auto-numbering for paragraphs to be included in a TOC, and FW3 
is quite simply brilliant for everything else I need.

Richard Stevens
richs@rd.bbc.co.uk
These are my words and nothing to do with my employer.