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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jan 26 16:47:13 -0800 2007 ------- We just got a user's request on the German dev mailing list, asking for higher limits in order to be able to print some technical drawings on a plotter using OOo: http://de.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=31257 Let us see what the user tells: MS Excel can't cope with a graphic of more than 3 m, but Calc can do. (It might be very interesting for the user experience team to see that somebody uses the spreadsheet module for printing graphics. ;-) Unfortunately, when printing the graphic, it will be cut every 119 cm, because this is the maximum page size in both, Calc and Draw. The user can't understand why an advantage in competition with MSO suddenly turns into a disadvantage. So I think we can learn that the current size limit obstacles our (potential) users, and that they don't understand why there is this limit. On the other hand, if we allowed even unsafe values which lead to errors, it would damage our reputation. But I don't think an "either anything or nothing" position is helping here, unless we can guarantee a date for an implementation that is both, safe and suitable for our users. As we neither know when OOo3 will come, nor if the precision problems will be solved until then, I think this is the moment for a trade-off, in particular because the possible errors will only occur with very large (> A0) paper sizes (or am I wrong on this?). The user says he is using paper rolls of 50 m length. I think this should be a pretty sensible limit for the length. For the width he is asking for more than 3 m, possibly 5 m, which for me seems sensible, too. Thus, I'ld like to suggest to increase the page size limit to 5 m x 50 m. If both values need to be the same, 5 m x 5 m would be acceptable. (How much of our "margin of safety" would this cost?) My vote for having this implemented ASAP. Not only in order not to miss the OOo2.3.0 deadline, but to have more time for testing, too. (Maybe this is also something somebody wants to tell about in the developers' blog?) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
