[02 Jul 2008] Feature Request hollywood designer

[Ferrule Media]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:33:35 +0200

Hello:)

I have got a couple of suggestions to a future version:

1) the ability of saving snapshots of *all* pages, in addition the function allready present. Now it is only possible to save a snapshot of the selected page.

It would also be great if the user could choose the output-resolution of the snapshots before saving them.

2) a "make brush"-function. The user should be able to mark an area of the screen, and this section (objects + background)should then be added to the page as a new seperate brush. (like an integrated sgrab)

This way the user could easily make new brushes of textobjects, or "merge" two objects to one brush - and let them be shown simultainously. It would be useful both when working on amiga presentations, but even more so when working on a mac or windows executable. (partly because of the lack of truetype fonts.)

Is something like this possible to add?

Best regards Torgeir

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Wed, 2 Jul 2008 23:43:49 +0200

Hello:)

I have got a couple of suggestions to a future version:

1) the ability of saving snapshots of *all* pages, in addition the function allready present. Now it is only possible to save a snapshot of the selected page.

It would also be great if the user could choose the output-resolution of the snapshots before saving them.

This is planned.

2) a "make brush"-function. The user should be able to mark an area of the screen, and this section (objects + background)should then be added to the page as a new seperate brush. (like an integrated sgrab)

This way the user could easily make new brushes of textobjects, or "merge" two objects to one brush - and let them be shown simultainously. It would be useful both when working on amiga presentations, but even more so when working on a mac or windows executable. (partly because of the lack of truetype fonts.)

This is not likely to come because it's not something that many people would need and it's also sort of a "strange" feature However, some day Designer will have an Arexx interface and then one could implement such a feature by writing a Rexx script for it.

[Ferrule Media]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:02:40 -0400

Hello Andreas

haha.. so you think my feature-request is strange ? you are probably right

And i guess it works ok at the moment aswell, even if it is more timeconsuming

Now i do the following :

1) make a snapshot,

2) import the snapshot in photoshop,

3) make seperate brushes of the text

4) import the brushes to my designer-script and replace the normal objects.

(i also resize the snapshots, since my pc-executables normally use a lower resolution than my amiga-versions)

Still, the "snapshot all"-feature will be welcome!

Thank you very much for your quick answer - great support as always!

Torgeir