Yes, as an example, go to the arrows scrapbook, page Arrows | 3D | Curved. These are really SketchUp models, so you can open them in SketchUp, adjust fog, color, camera angle, etc... then insert in LayOut.

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The Mac has drop shadows on text by nature of the Mac Text System, but not on lines like this. However, we've had people do this via option/control drag-copying your arrow and changing the color (by sampling your arrows shadow color). I didn't try too hard to match your style, so you'd see which one I added.

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foo.pdf

Sure. Send it and we'll see the extent of this and file a bug. Thanks.

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Send the file to me and I can take a look as to why it's crashing. You can try unchecking "Auto" rendering in SketchUp Model inspector (a setting for all files), then opening the file to see if that helps. If the file is too big to privately send to me here, send it to Help->Contact Us and file a bug for LayOut and attach the file (and note "for Barry" on it).

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I'll try to respond both here and to Google Help: we did test our files on 10.4.11 (and one machine with ATI 1600 - the common MacBook Pro graphics card of 2 years ago), and we're not seeing it. To send in the file, Help->Contact Us->File a Bug and you can attach a file to the bug you're reporting. I'll get it from our support group and we'll test with your OS & graphics card, and this time with your file. Thanks.

We have had a regression bug from LayOut 1 where this would happen, but we haven't seen it lately. Just for grins, upgrade to 2.1.5803 if you could: LayOut->Check for Update.

Ah - so what's your OS and what's the fileserver OS? We put things on a server all the time, but it could be that we're not getting a consistent / true file status. Let me know, and we'll try to duplicate it and fix / change if possible.

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Your template also sets tool defaults (font, line start/end style), and you'll notice on our templates that we have different styles to match the style of the template. You should do the same.

Create a template, use the label tool to draw a label, modify it to the line style and font/font size, etc... that you want. Then sample it, and draw another label to confirm that the label tool is set to the style you want. Delete labels, and save your template. When you use this template, your label style should come through.

You'll see this if you unzip your template, then look at styleManager.xml. The defaults for each tool (text, linear dimension, label tool) and default document styles are set here.

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LayOut Crime Scene Forensics Dept.

Are you sure the link is valid, and you're not just updating the embedded version? LayOut keeps an embedded copy of the model in case you move the document or send it to someone. If LayOut can't find the link, it's in red, and it should never be in red if the document is truly updated. Can you confirm this by changing something on the file path listed in the link (opening separately in SketchUp and NOT by "open in SketchUp" from LayOut) and see if that change is picked up?

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If you were running Pro, you could use LayOut.

I answered (1) - cut & paste. (2) PDF embedding "just works" on Mac, not available without ghostscript on PC.

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No. I think it was listed by users on the recent Google Moderator suggestions for LayOut (now closed).

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What happens when you copy from Excel / paste to LayOut?

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Tim - if you can send me the file, I'll take a look, fix it, and see if we can categorize it.

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No direct way to do this with Excel, or to use viewports like you can with SketchUp models. You can insert tables in 2.1 in either PC or Mac, but being an old timer who's used RTF (rich text format) since before it was invented, your results always vary. You could try saving your spreadsheet to RTF (or in Google Docs, export to HTML), then File->Insert that RTF. You can then have the file update like other references in File->Document Setup->References.

I'm hoping others that use LayOut will add their suggestions...

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ps - Oh, as for Mac or PC, I will bow out of that call as I'm a fairly-biased former Apple Employee.

Francois - no software company in their right mind will commit to saying "we will do x in six months", because, well, you know why (he says, with a lawyer's pen jammed to the back of his head) . We have lists of feature requests, that come from many sources. For example, many of you voted on feature requests recently using Googe Moderator. That was helpful, and we thank you for the feedback. We listen to it. I wont give you the exact process of how we work through these things, but there is one.

Even great ideas don't always get implemented for many reasons that may be very subtle. It's a very good suggestion for multiple reason and I personally like it, but there are no promises.

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Sigh....

Yea, I'd agree. I'll file a feature request.

Yea, that's the issue. We're using something that's close, but not quite, and so we have to worry about how we do this. I don't think it's easy, and you have to worry about fitting in on the platform - most of Apple's palettes don't have text, either. So how does speeding up the tool tips work for you as a workaround for now?

frv - we still work on SketchUp, but we (a) consider ourselves the illiterati, and can't read or write well, (b) have no interest in texturizing your models for you because we're sure we'd do it in some fashion that would not make you happy, and (c) are totally lacking in any sense of humor or any understanding of sarcasm, which leads people to think we're suffering from Alzheimer's (see http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gs7pisYOVSybMpOXqK3CaW7KoXgA).

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I posted at http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=23769&p=202493#p202493 because I don't normally read this forum much. Workaround uses "defaults write com.google.sketchuppro7 NSInitialToolTipDelay" and some number, but please read the whole post. I'll read some of this and see if I like any of the solutions listed.

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