Greg, the Help Menu offers the Ragtime 5 Reference and so doing a
search there produced the page you referred to.
I explored the page sizes etc with the file received on a CD from a
PC running XP but could not produce a functional document. In the
end I had to resort to visiting my son, put it on his PC, did the
necessary editing and burning to a CD to take to the office tomorrow.
This afternoon I decided to try again on the Mac. Up came the
document saying it was in landscape in Page Setup but still only half
the page visible. I happened to click on the zoom button on the top
right of the page - SHIZAM - the whole landscape page appeared and I
could work on it. So simple that I could not think why I had not
tried it before.
Thank you for your investigations and thereby prompting me to
persevere. I hope you didn't waste too much of your time. Ragtime
is as you say a "pretty cool program" but clearly I have much to
learn about it.
Regards
Merv
At 2:13 AM +1100 15/11/04, Greg Sharp wrote:
Hi
I downloaded Ragtime Solo (free version) to see if I could find a way. On
page 334 of RagTime 5 Reference.pdf it states,
"This paper format dialog box panel is only available under Mac OS and only
for RagTime 5layout and master layout components." There's a few more lines
of text and a diagram.
A little further on it shows an icon that looks like 2 horizontal arrows on
top of each other facing opposite directions with a selection box beside it
that sets landscape view.
If you have troubles finding this setting you can read about it in more
detail in the manual I mentioned above. If you can't find the manual it can
be downloaded free from Ragtimes site or else contact me off list at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll organize sending you a copy
as an attachment or I can load it on one of my ftp servers for you.
If you still have trouble one of my customers is the Marketing guy for the
Australian distributor down in Leeton near Griffith, so he may be able to
help find out the best way to do this. It appears from my brief reading you
can also set these settings indepenently for pdf output and another option
to make it match your printers settings. It actually appears to be a pretty
cool program with lots of features but the settings are confusing.
Hope this helps
Greg Sharp
On 14/11/04 9:53 PM, "Mervyn & Giuliana Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greg, I took on your suggestion and a simple text document was sent
by email in landscape format and it appeared in portrait. I can
diminish the image size so that the whole page is eventually visible
but it is too small to work with.
I checked the application default settings and there appears to no
way that I can set the layout in landscape.
Any other thoughts?
Merv
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