Hello Giuseppe Castagno, I would add an additional feature to the standard user, i.e., the ability to correctly select text from the PDF. Currently, it seems, selecting Indic texts from PDFs produced by OOo doesnt work at all well.
The problem is that the actual text should be for a cluster and not per-glyph as it would be for English/Latin. So a sequence of glyphs maps to a sequence of Unicode codepoints (in the correct order which may not be the same as the order of the glyphs). Regards, Rajeev J Sebastian ----- Original Message ---- From: Giuseppe Castagno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 12:21:52 PM Subject: Re: [gsl-dev] PDF - a print format ? Philipp Lohmann - Sun Germany wrote: > Some enhancements and bugfixes recently showed to me that our PDF export > feature perhaps needs further consideration. It seems to me that there > are two groups of users for PDF export: > > There are those who use PDF like they would a printer. After a PDF > document is created it is basically unchangeable like printed paper. > Also PDF often is used as preview of a printed version in this case. > This use case probably originates from the common method to produce PDF > using software that poses as a print driver. > > Then there are those who want to create PDF documents as a portable way > to present content (e.g. as presentations) or even have interactive > features like form controls. > > So what does this trivial insight tell us ? The first group would > probably want that all settings that concern printing (see e.g. > tools->options->writer->print) would also apply to PDF export. The > second group however would most probably not want the printer settings > to apply; e.g. they would want their text in colors even if “print > black” is selected in the print settings. It might be useful to have > have an extra check box in the PDF export dialog that says “Apply print > settings”. > > Any opinions ? so, we may well divide the users wrt PDF production into: 1. advanced user 2. standard user I think this is basically true, advanced users export PDF to give their audience documentation in electronic form, that is a document which has links, bookmarks pane opened at first, etc... then documents thought to be used mainly in their electronic format; whereas standard users will treat the PDF as a standard way to distribute document to be printed without much thoughts to all the rest of the features, for example to print only from PDF, the hyperlinks don't need to be in a color different from the rest of text. I would add a third user kind: 3. advanced user that would like to produce PDF useful in both electronic format and printed, for example, with links in standard font color (well, actually I didn't see anyone asking for this in lists, may be I'm the only one member...), if interested I'll try to explain in a follow-up. About the idea of adding the extra check box "Apply print settings" I think that's basically good, but I also think that some thought should be given to 'merge' the meaning of the two settings, for example the option regarding picture processing as Christof pointed out in another mail. -- Kind Regards, Giuseppe Castagno Acca Esse http://www.acca-esse.eu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
