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In article <May.19.09.33.47.1989.20997@pilot.njin.net> 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