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Issue #|82567
Summary|Common Page Sizes
Component|gsl
Version|current
Platform|All
URL|
OS/Version|All
Status|UNCONFIRMED
Status whiteboard|
Keywords|
Resolution|
Issue type|ENHANCEMENT
Priority|P2
Subcomponent|code
Assigned to|pl
Reported by|discoleo
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2007 -------
INTRO
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After analysing for almost 9 month (January - October 2007) the use of various
Office applications (both OOo and competitor products), both at home (personal
use), in a business environment (auditing dozens of employees), and in various
other academic environments, I noted some common patterns of page sizes:
[for US-users: please consider letter-size whenever you encounter A4 during the
following paragraphs]
I.) NUMBER OF PAGE-SIZES
a.) most users (>80-90%) will use for most of the time (>80-90%)
a single page size
b.) most users (>95%-99%) will use at most 2 different page sizes
c.) almost all users will never use more than 3 different page sizes
I acknowledge, that here will be some very specific situations where some users
will need more than 3 pages. But these situations will affect a very limited
number of businesses.
II.) PAGE-SIZES PROPER
a.) the most used page size in Europe is A4 (letter in the US)
b.) I rarely encountered the use of A3 (mostly spreadsheets)
c.) I rarely encountered the use of envelope-size
THE PROBLEM
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When selecting a page size, the user has to choose from a big list of page-sizes
one will *NEVER* use. Most users will need *only* 2 or 3 page-sizes during their
whole lifetime.
SOLUTION
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a.) split the page-sizes list in 2 parts
b.) first part contains the 3 most frequently used page sizes
c.) the 2nd part contains all page-sizes
d.) allow user to define his 3 most frequently used page-sizes
[in my business would be A4, A3 and envelope]
This would allow most users (>99%) to easily and very fast select most of the
time (>99%) the proper page size with *minimal effort*, without impeding more
special users (<1%) to select different page-sizes.
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