On Monday, 31 March 2008 19:24:35 bulia byak wrote:
So, the question of what to write to SVG file is secondary. I'm more interested in your comments on the proposed UI.
I know you asked this of the OP, but multiple pages (if I grok the idea) would be very nice to have and I thought I'd cast a 'vote' for something similar to the old Freehand style of doing it, with tweaks:
1. The canvas with the page is like it is now. 2. There is a window with little pages (boxes with numbers) in it that can: a. Add/Remove a page. (buttons/keys or context menus) b. Click-clicking on a box shows that page on the canvas c. Dragging boxes changes page order. d. Enable/Disable a box (greys it) to include/exclude pages. e. What's drawn off-page stays on the screen while pages come and go. f. Selecting many boxes and 'grouping' them shows all those pages on the canvas (when selected). It also allows dragging of that group to re-order. Deleting too. g. Double-spread boxes, shown with a darker middle line, can be added or made by dropping a page onto another one (perhaps with a mod key to indicate left/right, or drop to left/right of target page box.) h. Each page gets it's own set of layers.
The way (I think I recall) that Freehand did it was to show all the pages on the canvas. The little boxes window was like a zoomed-out view. Dragging the little pages also 'dragged' the actual pages and they could be scattered higgeldy-piggeldy around the canvas. This could work too, but Inkscape has a limit to canvas size and that might cause problems - for example I was designing to-scale (in millimeters) and, at that size, one cannot zoom out much more than about 20meters by 20meters. After that it becomes purely a drag-canvas-around affair.
hth \d