Tyler

Thanks for the response.

David

there will always be Anssi,:)
I vote for it too

But actually, merci bien a vous, Bert! That's what I was looking for. Cool.

Thanks for your replay and advice Mr.Gaieus .

Regards_______ 😄

grumble

Oh. I see. Never mind.

Subtle, isn't it?

Generally the PDF should be fine, unless you run into issue with font not on printers machine that may not be included in the PDF. But when exporting from InDesign you can package fonts with the file or with PDF export.

I agree keeping it Vector (PDF) is better than raster. You can always have the printer run a test of early version to test the workflow. And you could always dump to raster at the end and just swap those links into InDesign in place of the PDF's.

By the way a great workflow from Layout>PDF export is into Adobe Illustrator. It brings in Layout Layers (but doesn't not keep the SU layers of any viewports). You can do offset lines (someone mentioned this as LO feature request in a different post), you can use any of Illustrator's pens for very cool line styles. You can turn layers on and off, add text, make last minute changes etc. Then this cal all still be linked into InDesign to layout the book.

Can you post a simple model or LayOut document and I'll look at it? Thanks.

b

I'm n ot sure you can use ruby for LO U(at this point at least).

But I think the development team will soon find out something (this is always the case with new OS X issues).

First, try to save to multiple locations - is there something wrong with where you're trying to save the document? Try "Save As" and see if you can rename. If you're saving to a network drive there can be issues. The file is not "Untitled" so you've saved before, and maybe it looks like a file system issue.

b

thx a lot. It works 😍 😍

@gaieus said:

@tim said:

...Though I must admit that a few months back I wold have been very pleased to find the pdf imported into SU as lines and not an image....

I thought the Mac version of SU can do it - but only because the Mac system supports pdf a lot better way than Windows.

Of course it also depends on the pdf format (if it is in vector format and not raster).

Are you sure you cannot do it (I see you are on Mac) or was it just a raster based pdf?

Unfortunately SU only offers to import pdfs as image, texture or matched photo. Seems kinda dumb to not import as vectors but maybe it is difficult and not seen as worth the effort.

Hi
I upgraded to SU8 and LO3 the day it came out - and thanks for including many of our requests! Page numbering still missing though!
Cheers

Hi bravoddb,

I'm not shure but you can do it in Sketchup. Look at this post: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=20911#p175685.

Karlheinz

Moved to layout wish list, seems more appropriate 👍 Good suggestions btw, keep 'em coming. Im sure the chaps over at google will be interested to hear your suggestions.

@gpaul said:

Hi Tim,

I'm Paul McLean and I am the Google engineer who is mostly responsible for text in LayOut.

Thanks very much for explaining the problem.

@gpaul said:

What you are trying to do is a great idea and entirely reasonable. The hitch is that LayOut stores text in the document in RTF format. RTF does not support alpha (transparency) values for font color, so that information is lost when the internal text engine generates the RTF for LayOut to store. Granted the UI shouldn't be giving the user the expectation that alpha is supported for text (this is a logged bug and not as easy to fix as you might imagine).

Ah, right. Good old RTF. I don't suppose the colour table in indexed by the font foreground command can include transparent colours? Probably not. RTF was carefully designed to be infuriating...

@gpaul said:

A work-around might be to create a "water-mark" image with transparency (PNG supports this) and overlay that on the page. Put it on a layer by itself and it will stay out of your way when editing the document.

Yah. Excellent idea. I already have the text on a layer so I can easily turn it off when the drawings are printed in final form, so this should be easy.

Thanks again.

[Edit] Created a PDF file with just the large text in low-opacity colour, inserted it into the draft layer and presto - no more issue.

@rhankc said:

...If a secton's cut edge could be selectable, the surface could be made and then a material used...

You can already

right click on a section plane and "Create group from slice" which will create edges that are already selectable or even better, use TIG's (recently updated) SectionCutFace plugin to even make those faces you wish
Of course, it's still in SU and even if you use these methods, you still cannot dimension in LO which I understand is the major wish of many LO users (me not included but understanding the need)

I only go to the scrapbook once Dave to set the line tool parameters with the style sampling tool. After that it's a simple process of click & drag to create the curve tangent from the text box and then double click at the end point. No editing required; plus you can add extra points if you need to get around those bits of the drawing you need to keep clear.

And for the OP the process would work just the same but just click (don't drag) so you get straight line segments.

@bjanzen said:

This speaks to unbounded versus bounded text boxes,

[snip]
Ah, I see what you mean. I'll modify my bug-claim then - the unbounded table seems to be really unbounded. It doesn't have a right edge (that I can discover) at the right edge of the paper area and in fact seems to place it completely off the right of the 'world'.

If the bounding box of the unbounded box (urk!) were actually selectable it would be easy and obvious what needed doing. I would also tend to expect that swapping from unbounded to bounded would create a bounding box around the available text i.e. typing some text and going unbounded>bounded ought to return the box to where it started.