You guys are going to think me dumb but what’s the difference between the size in ‘document set up’ and the ‘page size’ in the inspector please ?
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Not dumb at all. This is a fairly common point of confusion!
Think of the dimensions in the document setup dialog as the starting
point for any pages you create. For example, if you change these
settings, your existing pages will not be changed, but any new pages
you make after that point will reflect the latest settings. This also
applies to the HTML level, the Resources folder preference, and the
file naming setting. In software design terms, this is a Factory object.
The Inspector on the other hand reflects the current properties of
whatever is selected. It is a direct reflection and direct control
over anything you have it focused on. So if you make changes in the
Inspector while you have a page selected, those changes will
immediately take effect on the selected page.
Two important notes about the this. One, if you make a change in the
Inspector that cannot be accepted (say, set an object that contains
text to be 2px tall) then the property will not be accepted, and the
nearest possible value will be substituted silently (or occasionally,
noisily). Two, if you change the page height in the Inspector or the
Document Setup to be a particular height, but then add enough content
to overflow that height, Freeway will silently “grow” the page to
fit. Note that if you overflow the width, you will (properly) get an
alert to that fact, asking you to decide if that’s really what you
want. This is because HTML lets pages be nearly any height you like,
but if you modify the width, then you run the risk of showing a
visitor the horizontal scroll bar.
Walter
On Aug 4, 2008, at 4:57 AM, Roger Burton wrote:
You guys are going to think me dumb but what’s the difference
between the size in ‘document set up’ and the ‘page size’ in the
inspector please ?
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On 4 Aug 2008, at 15:16, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
This is because HTML lets pages be nearly any height you like,
but if you modify the width, then you run the risk of showing a
visitor the horizontal scroll bar.
That’d make a good euphemism: “Come on, Harry, show the little bleeder
the 'orizontal scroll bar”
best wishes,
Paul Bradforth
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On 4 Aug 2008, at 15:16, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
This is because HTML lets pages be nearly any height you like,
but if you modify the width, then you run the risk of showing a
visitor the horizontal scroll bar.That’d make a good euphemism: “Come on, Harry, show the little bleeder
the 'orizontal scroll bar”
“A malenky bit of the ol’ 'orizontal scrollbar, then…” (While whistling a show tune or hearing Beethoven in one’s head…)
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On 4 Aug 2008, at 17:22, waltd wrote:
“A malenky bit of the ol’ 'orizontal scrollbar, then…” (While
whistling a show tune or hearing Beethoven in one’s head…)
‘Me and my three droogs was just poppin’ down to the old ‘orizontal
scroll bar when …’
best wishes,
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I (kick) told you (kick) never to (kick) make the page (kick, kick) wider than the (kick) window (kick).
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Excellent exchange going on here, thank you both for brightening my morning (it’s dull and raining) best roger
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