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Readability of Lab Background ; Horizontal lines how?by Suman.Chakrabarti@nasa.gov - 05:22PM, Sep 07, 2004 |
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I've found using the "Lab" background in NoteBook to be difficult. The loud blue lines just get in the way of easy readability. About the best I could do is use Arial Rounded MT Bold as a font, but even that clashes with the blue grid. Reading paragraphs of text just isn't easy. What fonts or style do anyone else use with the Lab background?
Also, how do you put in a horizontal separator line between entries? That would also help distinguish entries in an outline. I'm using highlighting now, but I'd rather save that for pointing out text than as a separator. |
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Sorry. Didn't mean to post redundantly. Was getting site errors when I repeatedly tried to post for an afternoon. Here's something that would enhance readability with a busy background. Suppose that you could set the BACKGROUND COLOR of a CELL to an OPAQUE color. If I could make it opaque WHITE, then that would be an excellent contrast with the LAB page background. In fact, I have numerous times taken printouts or pictures and taped it to a lab notebook. I'm studying the manual section on Cell Attributes, but I don't see this yet.
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The next major release lets you set the colors of a paper style's lines. And in the appearance pane of the Cell Attributes inspector you can set a cell's background color. __jayson
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I already said offline that changing the colors of a paper style's lines will be valuable. Changing the cell background will be equally valuable. There's a number of things worth looking forward to in the next version! Need another beta tester? 
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Well, after nearly 4 years, I returned to using Notebook. Wrote a draft technical note of a logistics database import process. This product was very useful. Once again, although I considered using Lab or Engineering page backgrounds – they look wonderful – I decided to just use the "Notes" template for ease of use. And that I wouldn't have to worry about which bold font to use for readability over the highly colorful background. This decision worked out fine, and my tech note included over 50 screen shots and more copied files. Notebook is still salutary. I guess my request still stands on having an opaque background for cells, as Jayson mentions above. I believe he mentioned shipping at the end of August for the new version that can do this. I look forward to it. One other thing I hope it addresses: making shrunken images look less dithered. Any screen shots that I had to reduce to about 30% looked very dithered until I turned on anti-aliasing. Even then, printed copies looked a bit blurred. One workaround would be to do the reduction in something like Graphic Converter – perhaps I should remind myself that Notebook isn't a graphics program per se. One more thing: I think both Jayson and Elizabeth were guests at some times of the MacVoices and MacJury podcasts by Chuck Joiner. I listen to those fairly regularly, and hope they return to be interviewed, especially after version 3 ships.
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This feature was added in NoteBook 2.0 or 2.1 - you can give any cell an opaque background color today. On the screen NoteBook will do its best to scale images so that they look nice. When printing, NoteBook passes the hi-res version of the image to the printer so that when you Save as PDF and zoom in, say, the image isn't blurry. There have been some issues in 2.1 with printing and hi-res images - please contact support ( http://www.circusponies.com/support ) for assistance with this.[/QUOTE] We will see :-) Best, __jayson
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Suman.Chakrabarti@nasa.gov
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12:36PM, Sep 08, 2004