Atlantis Reader suggestion

[Eccentric Engineer]

I have been wondering whether the management might produce a Freeware Atlantis Reader.

That is, a feature minimum version of Atlantis Ocean Mind to do the following (only) : -

i) Display on screen text as it appears when using full version of Atlantis Ocean Mind (including columns)

ii) Print the document correctly, including columns etc.

iii) Nothing else - no copy text to clipboard etc., no editing, no file save (the file will aready be saved anyway - this is only a view and print utlilty.

Reason

I want this because I produce documents with Atlantis out of preference (I like Atlantis) but pages do not always display and print the same with other programmes. I had a case reported only today where I had used SHIFT RETURN for a new line in a paragraph, and the recipient got a widely spaced few words across the page. And many other programes have a differet number of lines per page which can mess up layouts if you want a new paragraph to start on a new page and it just happens to do so without CONTROL RETURN for New Page.

[Robert]

I want this because I produce documents with Atlantis out of preference (I like Atlantis) but pages do not always display and print the same with other programmes. I had a case reported only today where I had used SHIFT RETURN for a new line in a paragraph, and the recipient got a widely spaced few words across the page. And many other programes have a differet number of lines per page which can mess up layouts if you want a new paragraph to start on a new page and it just happens to do so without CONTROL RETURN for New Page.

Greetings--
This is not linked to Atlantis, this is actually happening with all word processors. It all depends on the printer driver installed on the recipient's system. Margins, pagination, and a few other formatting characteristics will often display slightly differently according to which printer is installed.
The only way round this is to create and send a PDF version of your documents. PDFs display and print in the same way, irrespective of the system they are viewed on.
Note that a future version of Atlantis might allow users to save their documents as PDFs.
Cheers
Robert

[Guest]

The only way round this is to create and send a PDF version of your documents. PDFs display and print in the same way, irrespective of the system they are viewed on.
Note that a future version of Atlantis might allow users to save their documents as PDFs.

That would be very useful.

How soon?

I hope it woill not be held up by Adobe wanting excessive royalties on PDF.


But I have a feeling that word processors like Open Office end up with one extra or fewer lines per page because of a different interpretation of whether or not to split paragraphs which over-run a page. Part of laying out a document as a work of art - for the sake of legibility - is trying to avoid having paragraphs split near the beginning or end. This is osmething you have to do manually, and seems to vary with word processor. I have noticed that MS Word (pardon me for mentioning it) seems to get an extra line per page.

[Eccentric Engineer]

I posted that reply, and thought that I wsa set up for automatic "Log-In" and that the Bulletin Board software also automatically added my name.

Eccentric Engineer

[luha]

There are several programs that let you save documents as pdf-files. I prefer (apart from Adobe Acrobat) PDFcreator, which can be downloaded from http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/. When this program is installed, you simply print your document and choose PDFcreator as your printer.

[Guest]

It is a good idea to have atlantis reader - program that can view and print .doc, .rtf and .pdf files but not to edit them. It will be usefull for many people including me, who use word processor only for reading or printing