I'm a fiction writer and find page breaks rather distracting. An alternative view mode with no breaks at all would be great, maybe by means of internal overriding actual page length and showing all text in an infinitely long page with no header nor footer.
I've tried everything to mimic this view mode: setting same color for background, interpage space and shadows, maximizing page height, even patching the EXE file (I'm a programmer myself) to change interpage spacing and height limits, but no trick works smoothly enough.
Outline management and operation stability are really great in AOM, and the app is superb as it is, but this single feature (lack of) prevents me from using Atlantis all the time. Is this feature or anything similar planned for future releases? Thanks.
Non paged view mode
Have you tried setting the top & bottom page margins to 0?
By the way, below is an excerpt from the Atlantis Word Processor End User License Aggrement:
By the way, below is an excerpt from the Atlantis Word Processor End User License Aggrement:
You may not alter the Software in any way, including changing or removing any messages or windows. You may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce the Software to a human perceivable form.
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cancamuso
Yes, I've tried setting to 0 both vertical margins and header/footer distances to edge, setting header/footer (both empty) line spacing to 0.1pt, and setting background & interpage & shadow colors to be the same, but even with those settings interpage space and shadow lines prevent from getting an even line spacing between last line in a page and first line in the next.
My attempt of patching the executable was the result of frustration with this issue, but I reverted to the original EXE as I don't want to compromise the stability of AOM nor violate the terms of the end user license agreement, and that's why I ask you about this feature.
Thanks for your reply.
My attempt of patching the executable was the result of frustration with this issue, but I reverted to the original EXE as I don't want to compromise the stability of AOM nor violate the terms of the end user license agreement, and that's why I ask you about this feature.
Thanks for your reply.
your call for 'toilet paper' like page setting remainds me that I also had once tried to achieve that with Atlantis but as in your case, that tweaking only approximates but is not the real thing
I used to have on Macintosh back in 1995 or thereabouts a word processor called WriteNow that could do just that, roll your document endlessly in one view after the toilet paper fashion and it was great and was the reason why I tried to get it with Atlantis much later on...
that little processor had IMO best Page/Document Style settings which I never found equaled in any other processor incl. Atlantis, it wasn't overall too simple or too complex and it was quite natural to use once you got insight how it works, unfortunately that processor went the way of dodo when it was in version 4.0 I think and is no more, I still run it on my old Macs when I want to do some longer fiction or technical writing and don't need any fancy modern computer or wordprocessor (however transfering the document even as plain text to some other modern PC is not simple and I can't recommend it to anybody not sawy with that)
I can't see that such continuous document view would be all that difficult to make in Atlantis, I make some documents that span several pages (my passwords, login names etc in cod documents) and even there those page breaks are annoying and serve no purpose except to force (page) breaks on me (I suppose I could maximize page height if I could be bothered)
vanDivX
I used to have on Macintosh back in 1995 or thereabouts a word processor called WriteNow that could do just that, roll your document endlessly in one view after the toilet paper fashion and it was great and was the reason why I tried to get it with Atlantis much later on...
that little processor had IMO best Page/Document Style settings which I never found equaled in any other processor incl. Atlantis, it wasn't overall too simple or too complex and it was quite natural to use once you got insight how it works, unfortunately that processor went the way of dodo when it was in version 4.0 I think and is no more, I still run it on my old Macs when I want to do some longer fiction or technical writing and don't need any fancy modern computer or wordprocessor (however transfering the document even as plain text to some other modern PC is not simple and I can't recommend it to anybody not sawy with that)
I can't see that such continuous document view would be all that difficult to make in Atlantis, I make some documents that span several pages (my passwords, login names etc in cod documents) and even there those page breaks are annoying and serve no purpose except to force (page) breaks on me (I suppose I could maximize page height if I could be bothered)
vanDivX