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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 17 23:47:56 +0000 2008 ------- I'm glad to see that people are thinking a lot about this issue. @discoleo: > In the meantime I strongly oppose DPI. As I said, I don't care about the semantics of this. Since pixel/length is what people normally are actually wanting, that is probably what should be actually used here (pixel/cm or pixel/inch). > In Adobe Illustrator CS3, everything has been moved to the document > creation dialog. Yuck. As someone who uses OOo Draw, this is the worst place to put it. This is an export setting not a document creation setting. > Why implement something in 20+ dialogs, when one can have everything put > logically in one place and control the whole document-creation process > in a unitary way? Why does this have to be in 20+ dialogues? There is only one raster export dialogue and this is the only place it needs to be. > As mentioned previously, CS3 seems to limit the PPI to only 3 values: > - screen: 72 PPI > - medium: 150 PPI > - high: 300 PPI Again yuck. That is a complete pain in the backside and provides me with yet another reason not to use CS3. Please go back and read *carefully* the two use cases I posted earlier. You may not think they are valid because you do not work that way. The fact is that others do and so the interface should allow them to do so. Your interface suggestion would require me to export from OOo Draw at the highest possible resolution and then resize the image in some other drawing tool such as the gimp, or use some other intermediate file format as the conversion tool (e.g. odg => pdf => png). These extra steps are what we are trying to remove here. > I bet 99% will watch at approx. 72 PPI. [And don't come with LCD > monitors. These are a travesty as every professional user can witness.] My laptop has 110 dpi. I have not even seen a computer with less than 96dpi for a very long time, even on CRTs. LCDs are a reality and remember that OOo Draw is there to be used by mum and dad making graphics for their website as well as a professional user. > As said, a 600 DPI Laser Printer actually prints at some 60-85 PPI (or [..] You have made your point. Please stop banging on about it. It's completely orthogonal to the question of being able to export the vector graphic at arbitrary resolutions. The feature request is not "please allow me to export the graphic at resolutions for printing" it is "please allow me to export the graphic at arbitrary resolution". > D.) COLOUR-SPACE This is also completely irrelevant to the current discussion. If you want colour space management in OOo Draw, then open a separate issue for it rather than confusing this one any further. > And I can only urge you to watch again the Adobe Illustrator tutorial. I did and it confirmed why I don't like it and why OOo Draw can be a much better program. > Now, I hope that everyone will understand why I insist on my previous > solution. It is in the best interest of OOo and its users. I wholeheartedly disagree. Your suggestions are fantastic for some use cases -- in particular the ones that *you* use. At the same time, they are horrible for many other users and from seeing how drawing programs are used widely by non-professionals this is a real use case. Please do not tell other people that they way they work is wrong and that they need to be protected from themselves. Please at least do us the courtesy of trying to understand what we are asking for and work others' requirements into your schemes rather than just declaring that you are an expert in the field and that only your ideas matter. Your experience and expertise is valuable to the discussion; so is the experience usage patterns of other users. If you look carefully at the other suggestions that have been made for how to provide this feature, you will see that their suggestions will allow you to do you work and also allow me to do mine. That's whole lot more powerful than something that satisfies only you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
