Hello,
As of this time, no one that I am aware of is actively working on multipage support. Unless someone surprises us after 0.47 is released, I wouldn't expect it to be worked on until 0.49 at the soonest, and even this is dependent on someone really having an itch to scratch to get it implemented. Sorry that I can't give any real estimate on it, but that's just due to not knowing of anyone working on it (or planning to).
Perhaps we could suggest it as a summer of code project for a student or two to work on next year (provided that Google does SoC again and that we're accepted).
Cheers, Josh
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 11:05 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,
From the Inkscape Wiki pages it looks like implementing multipage support is a major undertaking - is there any rough estimate on when this will be attempted?
Thanks,
Phil.
Perhaps we could suggest it as a summer of code project for a student or two to work on next year (provided that Google does SoC again and that we're accepted).
Cheers, Josh
We should first think about how to do it :)
- numerical page field near the layer selector in the status bar which is hidden / inactive when the document has only 1 page - additional dialog that displays page thumbnails in a fashion similar to OO.o Impress or Evince side bar as well as page names - when saving formats which are not multipage capable we save them as a ZIP archive (+ extension to open archives as multipage documents) - multipage documents must give a choice of being opened in entirety, or a subset of pages - please no bottom tabs like in Corel Draw or Excel because it doesn't scale at all - before we do this the extension system and some of the SP tree (especially SPDocument) must be refactored
Regards, Krzysztof
On Sep 27, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
Perhaps we could suggest it as a summer of code project for a student or two to work on next year (provided that Google does SoC again and that we're accepted).
Cheers, Josh
We should first think about how to do it :)
Yes. Very much so.
I think before we focus on the details of *how* to implement, we first need to look at *what* we should be implementing.
"Multipage" can mean a few things. First is print work to go on multiple sheets of the same paper. An additional one, however, is animation. To many people (like classic animators) that is considered somewhat multipage. Also... despite probably needing to show up in the UI differently, we probably would want to structure some internals almost identically.
Do we also need to consider "N-Up" printing? Mail-merge badges? Hmm....
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 19:13 -0700, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Sep 27, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
We should first think about how to do it :)
Do we also need to consider "N-Up" printing? Mail-merge badges? Hmm....
If we do things properly, isn't N-Up left to the printing system (and drivers on Win32 I would guess) of the OS?
Mail-merge support would be phenomenal imho.
Cheers, Josh
I have a real use case!
I am working on a stickers album. It has around 20 pages. In each pair of pages I want to have a single picture in the whole backgroud. So, I have several SVGs, such as pages1and2.svg pages3and4.svg, and so on.
When printing, though, I need to export the pages as they will be printed on paper. That means, half of the paper will have page 1 and the other half will have the last page.
This seems to be a common case for magazines and most of the multipage content for printing.
Another issue is that very often, pages have a common base layout (such as decorative margins, headers and page numbers). It would be awesome if we could provide a templating system (based on clones, perhaps?) for that.
Felipe "Juca" Sanches
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Felipe Sanches wrote:
I am working on a stickers album. It has around 20 pages. In each pair of pages I want to have a single picture in the whole backgroud. So, I have several SVGs, such as pages1and2.svg pages3and4.svg, and so on.
When printing, though, I need to export the pages as they will be printed on paper. That means, half of the paper will have page 1 and the other half will have the last page.
Just use master pages in Scribus, eh? :)
Alexandre
Hello,
multipage !
I prepared a wikipage about that. Showing the different options. pls also support this page with your information.
Also there is a launchpad blueprint that links to the wiki.
I do a lot of technical drawings and the C0rel Way fits for me perfectly.
I would like multipage more sooner than later but if we do a 0.48 quickly then it will not happen. Will it?
Thx, Adib. ---
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Felipe Sanches wrote:
I am working on a stickers album. It has around 20 pages. In each pair of pages I want to have a single picture in the whole backgroud. So, I have several SVGs, such as pages1and2.svg pages3and4.svg, and so on.
When printing, though, I need to export the pages as they will be printed on paper. That means, half of the paper will have page 1 and the other half will have the last page.
Just use master pages in Scribus, eh? :)
Alexandre
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the wiki page is http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Multipage
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:44 PM, the Adib <theadib@...1439...> wrote:
Hello,
multipage !
I prepared a wikipage about that. Showing the different options. pls also support this page with your information.
Also there is a launchpad blueprint that links to the wiki.
I do a lot of technical drawings and the C0rel Way fits for me perfectly.
I would like multipage more sooner than later but if we do a 0.48 quickly then it will not happen. Will it?
Thx, Adib.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Felipe Sanches wrote:
I am working on a stickers album. It has around 20 pages. In each pair of pages I want to have a single picture in the whole backgroud. So, I have several SVGs, such as pages1and2.svg pages3and4.svg, and so on.
When printing, though, I need to export the pages as they will be printed on paper. That means, half of the paper will have page 1 and the other half will have the last page.
Just use master pages in Scribus, eh? :)
Alexandre
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