Re: lingo-l Design Help
I think this sounds like a job for Acrobat, rather than Director. Bertil Flink Creative Media - Original Message - From: Anand Ravi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 4:36 PM Subject: lingo-l Design Help Hi List, Am designing a CD that will be shipped with the print version of an international medical journal. Challenges: - Extensive searching including word, phrase, proximity - Each article is abt 75 pages (in MS Word) - Tables of data needs to be represented - Final data will not be avail. until 3 weeks of market release - Greek / unicode characters to be supported Am currently using D 8.5. Am thinking of upgrading to MX. Can D be used for this? Will appreciate any thoughts from you all. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Design Help
Hi List, Am designing a CD that will be shipped with the print version of an international medical journal. Challenges: - Extensive searching including word, phrase, proximity - Each article is abt 75 pages (in MS Word) - Tables of data needs to be represented - Final data will not be avail. until 3 weeks of market release - Greek / unicode characters to be supported Am currently using D 8.5. Am thinking of upgrading to MX. Can D be used for this? Will appreciate any thoughts from you all. I don't think Director would be the ideal tool. It doesn't support Unicode, for one thing. It can do Greek, and most other widespread languages, with some effort, but not in Unicode. I've done similar things in C++ with third-party database packages, but I'd hesitate to do this in Director. Check into Acrobat, too--it can do a lot of the things you want. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Design Help
This is the kind of job the i´ve been doing for the past two years and using Director The point is, it´s not quite as simple as it looks, especially regarding documents in MS Word format. you should convert them to RTF first and even then youll have to do some arrangement directily in Director. Regarding the tables and images within the text. I use tables within RTF in Director and thay work just fine, but youll have to do some work before since once you import the table into d you can´t modify a thing within it, just the text but no way you can modify the formatting of the table itself. As for images what i do is link them to a different window (using MIAWs) with a hypertext link within the text so you can look at the picture while reading and close it whenever you like it. If you need more info just ask and i see what i can do, but Director is very useful for that kind of work, far more useful than Acrobat and you can even use Acrobat within Director with PDF Xtra if time is really short. - Original Message - From: Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:29 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l Design Help Hi List, Am designing a CD that will be shipped with the print version of an international medical journal. Challenges: - Extensive searching including word, phrase, proximity - Each article is abt 75 pages (in MS Word) - Tables of data needs to be represented - Final data will not be avail. until 3 weeks of market release - Greek / unicode characters to be supported Am currently using D 8.5. Am thinking of upgrading to MX. Can D be used for this? Will appreciate any thoughts from you all. I don't think Director would be the ideal tool. It doesn't support Unicode, for one thing. It can do Greek, and most other widespread languages, with some effort, but not in Unicode. I've done similar things in C++ with third-party database packages, but I'd hesitate to do this in Director. Check into Acrobat, too--it can do a lot of the things you want. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Design Help
On Thursday, Jul 17, 2003, at 04:01 Pacific/Auckland, Anand Ravi wrote (in part): Hi List, Am designing a CD that will be shipped with the print version of an international medical journal. snip Am currently using D 8.5. Am thinking of upgrading to MX. Can D be used for this? Will appreciate any thoughts from you all. and Bertil Flink wrote: I think this sounds like a job for Acrobat, rather than Director. I would agree entirely. As the text is in MS Word format it can be exported to PDF and then using Acrobat ( the full version not the Reader ) cross linking, Table of Contents, searching, etc can easily be added. In this instance Director would be redundant ( sad really ;-( )! Tony Bray Multimedia Consultant Tutor I have an inferiority complex but, its not a very good one. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
