Hello Frank, Thanks very much for your good advice. I have updated the spec about the page preview feature. I hope that you could read it. If the spec has problems, I will fix it. :)
Feedback welcome! Best Regards maoyg 2007-12-12 发件人： Frank Loehmann 发送时间： 2007-12-08 00:53:30 收件人： maoyg 抄送： [email protected] 主题： Re: [sc-dev] Some questions about the page margins feature! >Hello Maoyg, >Please find my proposal for the new toolbar for the Page Preview mode here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/mwiki/images/5/58/Page_Preview.odt >The icons shown are just placeholders. >Feedback welcome! >Best regards, >Frank maoyg schrieb: > Hello Frank, > >Sorry for the delay. I was busy working on the new solver feature. > >Printing in Calc is an important task and there are several areas of > >possible improvements. Changing the page border in Page preview is one > >of these. So thank you for taking care of this issue. > Thanks very much for your reply. > >My comments: > > - Changing the page margins will change the page breaks of a table. So > >this also affects the page break preview. But the page break preview > >could currently not be reached from page preview. Excel allows to call > >the page break preview from that view directly. > > - Please add a button to the toolbar to show/hide margins. Not every > >user wants to see those borders. Default should be hidden in my opinion. > We will add a button to the toolbar to show/hide margins in the spec > of the page margin feature. > Default it should be hidden. > > - At least on Windows systems, the printer driver provides the minimal > >page margin of the assigned printer. (i.e. press Page Down key in a > >margin field of Writer Page dialog to test this behavior) So maybe we > >should snap but not limit to these minimal page margins. > > - We should change the line color if the user moves the line outside > >the minimal page margin. > We think that the minimal page margin values should not be negative, > so the minimal value of the page margin should be 0, and the reason is > that the line is not allowed to move outside the paper size. > > - Please do not show dialogs, if a margin cannot be further dragged. > >I would propose to change the color of a line in that case (i.e red) to > >give feedback and restrict further movement outside the allowed area. > We will cancel the dialogs when the page margin cannot be further dragged. > The solution is each margin(right, left, top or bottom) returns back > to its last position. > > - Please do not use no exclamation points in dialogs (table 2 & 3). It > >is like shouting the user. > >Please don't hesitate to put me on CC or write me directly for any Calc > >related UX question. > We will cancel the table 2 & 3. > > >I want to add another suggestion to this feature discussion. > >Printing a spreadsheet is sometimes not that easy as it should be. Think > >about a small table you want to print out in a maximized size on a > >single page in Calc. > >There are two ways to achieve this goal. First you can change the > >formatting (font sizes etc.) of your table, or second you can change the > >scaling factor for printing in the Format Page dialog, which saves you > >much time and effort. > >This feature is already present but hard to find. Furthermore it > >provides no immediate feedback on changing the scaling factor in a modal > >dialog. Same is true for the page borders issue you are currently > >working on. So it looks like it could perfectly fit into this new > feature. > We think the second way is better. > > >We could introduce this as a spin field in the Page Preview tool bar and > >furthermore in the Page Break Preview mode. So the user would get > >immediate feedback when changing this setting and she could see how the > >printout will look like. > >Would it be possible to add this to the page border feature set? I could > >provide a mock-up of the tool bar if this would help to implement > this feature. > I hope you can provide a mock-up of the toolbar to me, we will discuss it. > > I'm looking forwards to your reply. I will update the spec of the page > margin asap. > If I encounter some question,I will email to your.:) > Thanks & Best Regards > maoyg > 2007-12-07 -- Sun Microsystems GmbH Frank Loehmann Nagelsweg 55 User Experience StarOffice 20097 Hamburg Phone: (+49 40)23646 882 Germany Fax: (+49 40)23646 550 http://www.sun.de mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH,Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten, Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schro"der, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
