To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=79877 Issue #|79877 Summary|Fixed Lower Page Boundary Component|Word processor Version|OOo 2.2.1 Platform|All URL|http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/issues/v2 |4n6/ju04_1048/ju04_1048.web.pdf OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|FEATURE Priority|P3 Subcomponent|code Assigned to|mru Reported by|discoleo
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 22 12:18:30 +0000 2007 ------- I can always tell the difference between a professional publishing application and MS Word. Unfortunately, this applies to OOo Writer, too. I will start therefore to file issues that describe these advanced features, features that make the difference between an advanced publishing application and the ordinary office bundles. = *Fixed Lower Text/Object Boundary* = The lower margin of all document pages shall be kept constant. Any objects (like text, images, tables, ...) that delimit the lower margin of the page shall extend up to this Common Lower Boundary. This gives a professional touch to the document. [The last page in the document shall be exempted from this constraint.] This feature can be applied to: - enable the same lower boundary for *every page* in the document - enable the same lower boundary for a *multi-column* page !!! *Lower Boundary:* refers to the baseline of the object / last text line at the bottom of the page. = Competing Product Analysis = MS Word XP does NOT have this feature. Unfortunately, this is a very poor comparator when it comes to high end publishing software. [I do NOT have access to newer MS products.] High End Publishing Software: I am aware of this feature since at least 1997. This is now 10 years old. Many high ranking journals publish articles formatted in this way: see e.g. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/issues/v24n6/ju04_1048/ju04_1048.web.pdf published in Clinical Infectious Diseases in 1997 (such old content can be accessed freely without a registration). For the full list of available journal issues, see http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/available.html (1 year old issues are usually free). Nature (http://www.nature.com) is another journal that publishes articles formatted this way (unfortunately no free access). Actually, I know a dozen of high ranking journals that use for a number of years now this publishing feature. = *EXAMPLES* = I will attach some images from an article published in 1997 in CID depicting this behaviour. I believe that these images do NOT violate any copyrights (they cover only small parts of the article) and represent fair use. See attached jpg-images depicting the lower boundary for some 2-column page examples: text-vs-text, text-vs-image text and small text-vs-small text (bibliography). = *IMPLEMENTATION* = Currently, the ODF-file format does NOT allow to save such information. Therefore, in a first step it is necessary to modify and extend the ODF-specification. I recommend doing this in the OOo 3.0 time-frame. This feature should be then implemented proper in a second step, somewhere in the OOo 3.x time-frame. However, some preparatory work should be done prior to OOo 3.0, too. == *IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS* == The line spacing and spacing between various word-objects (images, tables, paragraphs) should be increased automatically, so that the last line on the page / in each column will have a pre-specified base-line. See attached exapmles. A similar discussion took already place on the OASIS mailing list (2-4? months ago), though I don't know IF there was any progress on this. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
