Re: multipage documents?

[ecker]

Antoon Pardon wrote:
>
> Well since sketch seems to have attracted new people that
> are willing to work on it, I think it is time to raise
> this question again.
>
> Will sketch in the future be able to handle multipage documents?

Multiple pages should certainly be considered. New features will increase
the number of users for whom skencil is the best draing program. I have no
experience with multiple pageed documents. If you think it is useful, why
not ?
It is not easy to oversee all details. It would be important to know more
precisely the effort and  the consequences. Skencil should be as self
contained as possible, i.e. also the majority of excport and import
filters should then support multiple pages. I am a bit reluctant to do
fundamental changes, at least without much planing.
If you are willing to make a plan and work on the implemention, I will
certainly help,
Christof

>
> If yes, how wil they interfere with layers.
>
> Personnally I see two possibilities here.
>
>
> 1) A document has pages and a page has layers.
>
> This is a rather straight forward organisation
> and should probably be rather easy to implement.
>
>
> 2) A document has pages and layers. Pages
> can independently contain a number of layers.
>
> This would be more flexibler:  e.g. one could
> have a common layer on all pages as a common
> backgroud, but it would also be more tricky
> to implement.
>
> --
> Antoon Pardon
>
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