AppleWorks drawing size limits?

Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org> wrote:

 > Are there limits to drawing size in AppleWorks?
 >
 > I have four JPEGs, 1100 x 1700 pixels, that I need to
 > paste together (some overlap), markup slightly, and
 > crop a little.
 >
 > Final output will be about 1000 x 6000 pixels.
 >
 > I also have to rotate about three degrees. But it's not
 > exactly three. Is there a way to rotate by a non-integer
 > number of degrees?

I recommend that you use GraphicConverter for this (ideally Photoshop
but you wouldn't be posting this if you had it). Whether you can do it
in Appleworks can quickly be determined by tying it!


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Adrian W wrote:
 > Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org> wrote:
  >>Are there limits to drawing size in AppleWorks?
  >>
  >>I have four JPEGs, 1100 x 1700 pixels, that I need to
  >>paste together (some overlap), markup slightly, and
  >>crop a little.
  >>
  >>Final output will be about 1000 x 6000 pixels. [snip]
 >
 > I recommend that you use GraphicConverter for this (ideally Photoshop

I'll be looking at that, thanks.

 > but you wouldn't be posting this if you had it). Whether you can do it
 > in Appleworks can quickly be determined by tying it!

I used Appleworks to attach the four pics into one,
aligning the overlaps carefully, then rotated two
degrees (ideal would be 2.4 but I decided this
was close enough), and saved as a single JPEG.
Imported into iPhoto, cropped the sides to remove
the jaggies from rotation, then copied the cropped
file out of the iPhoto library. Everything worked
pretty good up to this point. Finished size just
over 1000 pixels wide, 5000 high.

Then an interesting thing happened. I brought this
JPEG back into AppleWorks to add some lines (it's
an aerial photo on which I am marking a proposed trail).

When I was rearranging pieces copied from JPEGs in an
AW drawing, the program worked comfortably. But when
I use AW to open a JPEG _created_ by AW, every operation
takes at least fifteen seconds! Grab the end of a line
segment, drag it to the correct location, wait 5-10 seconds
and then the spinning pizza appears. Wait 5-10 more seconds,
and then the window updates. Click the scroll bar, same
double wait occurs. Click a zoom widget, same double wait. Etc.

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Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org> wrote:

 > Then an interesting thing happened. I brought this
 > JPEG back into AppleWorks to add some lines (it's
 > an aerial photo on which I am marking a proposed trail).
 >
 > When I was rearranging pieces copied from JPEGs in an
 > AW drawing, the program worked comfortably. But when
 > I use AW to open a JPEG _created_ by AW, every operation
 > takes at least fifteen seconds! Grab the end of a line
 > segment, drag it to the correct location, wait 5-10 seconds
 > and then the spinning pizza appears. Wait 5-10 more seconds,
 > and then the window updates. Click the scroll bar, same
 > double wait occurs. Click a zoom widget, same double wait. Etc.

When you opened the image afresh it would have opened in bitmap mode
(painting document) as against vector mode (draw document). If you want
to work in the draw environment open a blank draw document and insert or
copy/paste the JPEG into it.

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Adrian W wrote:
  >>When I was rearranging pieces copied from JPEGs in an
  >>AW drawing, the program worked comfortably. But when
  >>I use AW to open a JPEG _created_ by AW, every operation
  >>takes at least fifteen seconds! Grab the end of a line
  >>segment, drag it to the correct location, wait 5-10 seconds
  >>and then the spinning pizza appears. Wait 5-10 more seconds,
  >>and then the window updates. Click the scroll bar, same
  >>double wait occurs. Click a zoom widget, same double wait. Etc.
 >
 > When you opened the image afresh it would have opened in bitmap mode
 > (painting document) as against vector mode (draw document). If you want

No, it opens as a drawing. There are two different types of JPEG.
One of them opens in Paint, the other opens in Drawing.

 > to work in the draw environment open a blank draw document and insert or
 > copy/paste the JPEG into it.

I might try this. However, I now have GraphicConverter,
so I'm really having to concentrate to get the work done
instead of playing with this awesome program!

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