Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!oliveb!sun!plaid!chuq From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: FullWrite on shelves Message-ID: <52688@sun.uucp> Date: 10 May 88 18:32:28 GMT References: <158@amcad.UUCP> <52428@sun.uucp> <2317@polyslo.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 46 Keywords: fullwrite nonvapor > It kind of grows on you, as you learn the program it keeps getting better. This is very, very true. Cautionary tale time. I was working with FWP last night redesigning my letterhead. Much to my dismay, FullWrite doesn't support Word's concept of "First Header" and "First Footer". I spent a good hour trying to muck FWP into giving me a first header. You only want the letterhead on the first page, after all. I finally gave up in disgust and started laying the letterhead out in the main body of the document. Almost immediately thereafter, I realized that if you put the letterhead in a sidebar, and tied the sidebar to the top of page 1, you had a first header. Even better, it was a good, generalized solution to the same problem and rather than build a customized feature to support letterhead, they built a generalized feature that happens to support it as well as other things. It works wonderfully, by the way. By trying to force FWP into a Word paradigm, I had major problems. When I stopped trying to reproduce my Word letterhead in a FWP document, and instead designed a FWP document, the thing fell into place cleanly and easily. And I'm more impressed with FWP than before -- general answers to general problems are better than specific features. Sidebars are really, really neat things. The more I play with them, the more I think their power is still under-appreciated. > It's there to support background pictures. You can have FullWrite print > a picture on every page, or just the first page. It's a simple way to add > fancy boarders or letter head to a document, and since it's a picture you > don't have to worry about where it is in relation to text. Here's an exceptionally stupid question. I can't get FWP to read either a background picture or a background EPS file. I have to open them up with MINIwriter. So how do your create/change/maintain these files in FullWrite? It isn't documented, and I can't find the feature. Do I really need a text-only DA to work with text so FWP can use it? I'm starting to look forward to pulling Word off my disk. I don't think it's going to be long, now.... Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ I come to preach to a religion that doesn't exist. It has no members. It has no clergy. It has no doctrine. It has no collection plate.