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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 20 16:43:14 +0000 2007 ------- I had a look into the spec and I found a lot of details about the way the pages should be distributed - for me that's the part that comes at the end of the whole feature. We have to do quite some work before we can discuss about that, the two biggest parts are: (1) The object positioning of Writer must be changed; currently Writer has a continuous layout for the whole document and the visible part (per window) is defined by a rectangular part that is “cut out” from this whole continuous document area. The upper left corner of that cut out area is aligned to the upper left screen coordinate of the view area. What we need now is that each object must remember its position not in absolute “document” coordinates only but also addionally in coordinates relative to the upper left corner of the page it is currently located on. When a particular page is displayed the view code must be changed to reflect that. This is a huge effort that roughly(!) estimated will take 3 months of code rework and testing. (2) The ruler and scrollbar code must be changed considerably. The exact algorithm of how pages shall be arranged is the smallest part of all; I think not more than 10-20% of the development and testing time, roughly 1-2 weeks. In general I don't want to go for an “editable print preview” but for a “multi page edit view”. This means: no “matrix” like display of pages, just one “row” of pages should be enough to make better use of wide screens. Having two editable pages above each other will result in very small pages (as long as screens are “landscape” oriented) and editing them will be quite hard. So I don't see a reason to invest additional time for this, at least in the first version. And I don't see a reason to take care for "odd" and "even" pages in an edit view, this is something I still want to keep for the Print Preview (and I want to keep this one non-editable). (As a western european inhabitant I described my ideas in a “left to right” and “top to bottom” logic, I hope you can translate that into other writing directions.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
