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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Hi Benno,

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Benno Dielmann wrote:
> in my continuing struggle with the creation of a conference poster my 
> problems
> are getting less but some remain...
>
> Im working with A0 paper size (Document->Page->Size->A series->A0). When
> setting a shrinking factor bigger than 11, Texmacs crashes saying the
> following on the command line:
>
> Fatal error: shrinking factor too large in 'x_display_rep::prepare_color'
>
> Does this mean it doesn't support shrinking factors bigger than 11? This 
> makes
> it very hard working with A0-sized documents...

I remove this limitation on the shrinking factor for the next version.

> A second problem is exporting to ps or pdf: Acrobat reader as well as
> kghostview always display the exported file as A4, thus showing only a small
> section of the document. I haven't tried yet to print it because printing to
> A0 is expensive so I didn't want to take the risk... Unfortionately there is
> no option for a0 paper in neither of the two programs.

I guess TeXmacs cannot be blamed here...

> In TeXmacs, there is an option File->Page setup->Paper type which I don't
> really understand because I don't see the difference between this option and
> that in Document->Page->... (see above). And there is no setting for A0.
> Entering "A0" under "Other..." doesn't solve the problem with Acrobat and
> Ghostview.

Yes, the handling of page parameters is not very intuitive;
I plan to change this sometime soon when I have an afternoon.
Best is to set a0 both for the document size and printer configuration.
But if this does not work, then Acrobat and Ghostview are wrong...

> Perhaps it really was a silly idea writing a conference poster with 
> TeXmacs...

No, it was a good idea, because it helps us to track down these issues ;^)
B.t.w.: I also corrected the problem with background colors for the next
version.