On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:25:52PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
Eagerly awaiting comment from Bulia on how he thinks a Tabbed interface can coexist with the need to show multiple pages (not yet in SVG but already in PDF and OpenDocument Draw).
Well, multi-page could be achieved entirely in-canvas, like a word processor, PDF viewer, or scribus does it, in which case it wouldn't be using a tab UI.
Draw doesn't use tabs for pages, but rather a sidebar selector. That may be a handy approach for navigating some kinds of multi-page drawings such as presentations or a website layout, but I'm not certain it'd be the best general purpose way of nagivating multiple pages.
Scribus has an interesting approach that distinguishes between 'page' and 'paper', allowing you to have multiple pages for a given piece of paper (such as with a tri-fold brochure).
Anyway, it seems there's a number of approaches for handling multiple pages that don't rely on tabs, so I would think that the multi-page feature would not interfere with a choice of using tabs for multi-document selection.
Bryce