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Thanks for the heads up, Patrick. I'm impressed that MS has such a
user-oriented suggestion interface (most software vendors don't!) as well as
such intelligent and caring experts as yourself. I also love OneNote and
appreciate its features, with merely a few exceptions. That being said, I'm
disappointed in the area of page importing to ON and printing to letter-sized
pages from ON.
Perhaps computer performance is an issue. I use a maxed-out Motion
Computing LE-1600 for class notes. With ON 2007, when I try to scroll
through a 70-page handout page that contains lots of color and graphics
(e.g., PowerPoint slides made the originals, which were distributed by the
professor as PDF), the scroll process stutters. That's not a good thing when
I am trying to take notes in real time during the lecture. Perhaps if it
didn't do that, I would be happier with compound pages for the handouts.
The biggest aspects of having a subpage-per-paper page for me is when I
print stuff out and when I re-arrange the order of those pages. In my ideal
world, I would import a document from another source into ON and the image on
the ON page would be the same size as the original (In ON 2007 Beta, that is
not the case) so I wouldn't have to mess with re-sizing the image (which is
much more difficult if I have already made some annotations--it even affacts
page images that fall below the image I'm re-sizing on a compound ON page).
If I needed to drag & drop pages to change their order, or plop them into
another section, it would be easy to find them and move them. Instead, I
have to find and select the page image I want within a long ON page first.
If I annotated pages in the document, I would like to print them or export to
PDF and have the original document reproduced exactly, with the inclusion of
my annotations. In essence, go from original document back to the same
document, unchanged by ON. It seems that less regard to printing and paper
pages has been given to this latest version of ON than in the 2003 version.
Another example of being somewhat insensitive to the needs of printing is
the lack of a ON template that is 8.5 inches wide, but unlimited in length.
When I take handwritten notes in ON, I'd like to know when I am approaching
my 'paper' right margin. Again, this facilitates printing later onto
letter-sized paper. Without such right margin, I write notes that are wider
than the letter-sized paper. (Especially since I vary zoom views while
taking notes.) Sure, ON will print the page by scaling its width down to
smaller print, but then the non-wide parts of the (long) page are scaled
down, too. When I print my notes, they don't look like I took them on a
letter-sized page. My way around this is to use a letter-sized template and
create lots of subpages or new ON pages to continue notes that are longer
than an 11-inch page. I could also use print preview and then go back into
the notes page and edit the length of wide lines, but who wants to do that
just to print? It would be good to be able to emulate a paper tablet with
handwritten notes and then have them print out as if I took the notes on a
paper tablet.
As much as keeping information in cyberspace is an attractive ideal, we do
have to go to hard copy still.
Keep up the good work on OneNote. It's a great product. I'll review the
blogs you suggested, too.
user-oriented suggestion interface (most software vendors don't!) as well as
such intelligent and caring experts as yourself. I also love OneNote and
appreciate its features, with merely a few exceptions. That being said, I'm
disappointed in the area of page importing to ON and printing to letter-sized
pages from ON.
Perhaps computer performance is an issue. I use a maxed-out Motion
Computing LE-1600 for class notes. With ON 2007, when I try to scroll
through a 70-page handout page that contains lots of color and graphics
(e.g., PowerPoint slides made the originals, which were distributed by the
professor as PDF), the scroll process stutters. That's not a good thing when
I am trying to take notes in real time during the lecture. Perhaps if it
didn't do that, I would be happier with compound pages for the handouts.
The biggest aspects of having a subpage-per-paper page for me is when I
print stuff out and when I re-arrange the order of those pages. In my ideal
world, I would import a document from another source into ON and the image on
the ON page would be the same size as the original (In ON 2007 Beta, that is
not the case) so I wouldn't have to mess with re-sizing the image (which is
much more difficult if I have already made some annotations--it even affacts
page images that fall below the image I'm re-sizing on a compound ON page).
If I needed to drag & drop pages to change their order, or plop them into
another section, it would be easy to find them and move them. Instead, I
have to find and select the page image I want within a long ON page first.
If I annotated pages in the document, I would like to print them or export to
PDF and have the original document reproduced exactly, with the inclusion of
my annotations. In essence, go from original document back to the same
document, unchanged by ON. It seems that less regard to printing and paper
pages has been given to this latest version of ON than in the 2003 version.
Another example of being somewhat insensitive to the needs of printing is
the lack of a ON template that is 8.5 inches wide, but unlimited in length.
When I take handwritten notes in ON, I'd like to know when I am approaching
my 'paper' right margin. Again, this facilitates printing later onto
letter-sized paper. Without such right margin, I write notes that are wider
than the letter-sized paper. (Especially since I vary zoom views while
taking notes.) Sure, ON will print the page by scaling its width down to
smaller print, but then the non-wide parts of the (long) page are scaled
down, too. When I print my notes, they don't look like I took them on a
letter-sized page. My way around this is to use a letter-sized template and
create lots of subpages or new ON pages to continue notes that are longer
than an 11-inch page. I could also use print preview and then go back into
the notes page and edit the length of wide lines, but who wants to do that
just to print? It would be good to be able to emulate a paper tablet with
handwritten notes and then have them print out as if I took the notes on a
paper tablet.
As much as keeping information in cyberspace is an attractive ideal, we do
have to go to hard copy still.
Keep up the good work on OneNote. It's a great product. I'll review the
blogs you suggested, too.
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