Is Express's Problems A Cocoa Problem?
Posted: 2004-10-24 01:43:18
Greetings:
Just so it's not me, I'd request you to take a single page "virgin" Word (Courier 12) or (RTF converted) NW 6.5 document and import it into Express and eyeball each copy. Is the Express version exactly the same as the Word or Classic NW or does the Express one seem to "swell" and run off several bottom sentences into a second page and do you have to reset Express's paragraph ruler settings to keep the same number of characters on the same line as Word or Classic NW?
I've been told that this occurs (and maybe Express's other problems?) because Express uses Cocoa, which draws characters differently than Quickdraw with extra pixel character and line spacing and so on. This is why Mariner's conversions of Classic NW (via RTF) and Word documents are rendered so faithfully (character per character, line per line and paragraph ruler settings) with miminum adjustments.
Maybe it's too late, but maybe Nisus should reconsider using Cocoa in Express. A fast and dirty way "out" would be to "upgrade" NW 6.5 into a OSX version using Quickdraw like Mariner does, which ought be far "easier" to do than converting the whole works to Cocoa. Nisus can call this OSX NW 6.5 "Nisus OSX - Heavy Duty" compared with Express, which could be marketed as a more lightweight OSX Nisus word processor.
James Greenidge
Just so it's not me, I'd request you to take a single page "virgin" Word (Courier 12) or (RTF converted) NW 6.5 document and import it into Express and eyeball each copy. Is the Express version exactly the same as the Word or Classic NW or does the Express one seem to "swell" and run off several bottom sentences into a second page and do you have to reset Express's paragraph ruler settings to keep the same number of characters on the same line as Word or Classic NW?
I've been told that this occurs (and maybe Express's other problems?) because Express uses Cocoa, which draws characters differently than Quickdraw with extra pixel character and line spacing and so on. This is why Mariner's conversions of Classic NW (via RTF) and Word documents are rendered so faithfully (character per character, line per line and paragraph ruler settings) with miminum adjustments.
Maybe it's too late, but maybe Nisus should reconsider using Cocoa in Express. A fast and dirty way "out" would be to "upgrade" NW 6.5 into a OSX version using Quickdraw like Mariner does, which ought be far "easier" to do than converting the whole works to Cocoa. Nisus can call this OSX NW 6.5 "Nisus OSX - Heavy Duty" compared with Express, which could be marketed as a more lightweight OSX Nisus word processor.
James Greenidge