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.microUgly wrote:http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=826&p=5014&hilit=multiple+pages#p4197
Does CorelDraw support pages? I assumed it wouldn't since Illustrator doesn't.
David wrote:Illustrator support multi pages.
alextretij wrote:microUgly wrote:David wrote:Illustrator support multi pages.
No it doesn't. Not without a plugin as suggested above. ...
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Illustrator have plugin for it.
llogg wrote:inkscape is illustration software. not page layout software. i don't mind not having multipage support in the least. when i'm ready to layout pages i use scribus.
David Hewitt wrote:I guess i can see both sides of the argument here...
I think though the multi-page vector supporters are people who want to produce something (perhaps a small leaflet)within the vector app that they are very familiar with and don't want to have to export their considerable graphic expertise....
(Multiple times for each graphic) to a print layout program (which they are not familiar with) when what they are producing is not the classified adds section of a newspaper.....
IE when the print and layout functionality in their vector app is adequate they can then do all the work where they feel comfortable.......And as they are probably fluent in vector illustration they don't have to go through the agony of exporting and laying out stuff... right out of their comfort zone....
@heathenx:
Unfortunately yes, I had to write it in this way. The SVG standard does not include layers. The layers are created by the inkscape team using a group with a custom attribute. I am also using the groups to organize the pages. I use the current layer to display the current page number and to display all the elements of the current page and I use another hidden layer to organize the other pages. If you use layers for organization, you could very easy use the pages for organization. If you put things on a layer and then hide them to use elements from another layer and so on, this is exactly what this extension is doing.
To leave the possibility to use the layers, it would mean that the extension shouldn't use them. It would be very difficult to implement this extension without using some layers. This being said, this remains one of the TO DO things (re-enabling the layers) if the demanding of the feature will justify the time necessary to implement it. It would be much more complicated to implement something like this without the use of the layers. And even so, there are some issues that needs to be solved. For example, when you create a layer on a page, would it be visible on another page? If so, what about it's elements? Normally the elements should be visible only on the page in which they are created. Wouldn't this generate confusion?
