Print preview from Aven

[Graham Mullan]

Sorry to return to this topic like a dog to a bone, but I suspect that I
have not put myself across entirely clearly.

I agree that there are a number of ways of previewing printed files (I can
do it in Windows by using Acrobat Distiller, for example) but what I cannot
do is exert any real control as to what the result looks like.

For example,

Martin Green wrote:
> If you use printps and specify an output file, a postscript file is
produced
> This can be preveiwed in acrobat or ghost view etc.  Then printed if
> suitable.  Perhaps not ideal, but it is a suitable work around.

The relevant words here are "if suitable". What do you do if it is not
suitable? Aven allows very little flexibility in this, I have just printed a
copy of a plan which I want to fit on one A3 sheet. At the relevant scale,
Aven insists that it will take 3 sheets of A4, not two, as I cannot alter
either the layout of the information on the bottom of the sheet or the
placement of the plan on the sheet. I don't see how I can deal with any of
this without importing into a drawing program of some nature (too much work
at this stage of the project) and anyway "Compass" would let me do all that,
so why can't Aven?

Graham