Hi Wayne,

On Fri, 2005-08-04 at 10:32 +1000, Wayne Schuller wrote:
> hi Andreas,
> 
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 06:59 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> > You would be correct if there were a single 0, but the dialog has
> > separate numbers for pages wide and pages tall. So 1 page wide and 0
> > pages tall just means reduce the width so that we only use one page wide
> > but print several pages for the height of the document. This is my
> > preferred version and I would love that it to default to that but other
> > users will have other preferences. 
> 
> Yes ok. "1" and "0" would be a much saner (+ usable) default than "0"
> and "0".

I could imagine that we could sneak that into gnumeric.

> 
> Special use of 0 is still not quite intuitive 

I think we all agree that this is far from optimal, but so far nobody
has come up with a better interface. Personally I would like to see 3
radio buttons:
O  Fit to ... pages wide by ... tall
O  Fit to ... pages wide
O  Fit to ... pages tall

or (second choice) a radio button, checkbox combo:

O  Fit to:    x  ... pages wide
              X  ... pages tall

with the special value 0 if used internally hidden from the user.

Unfortunately the dialog is already bursting at the seems and this would
require much more space.

> - is it documented? (my
> help system is not talking to gnumeric just yet - a quick scan of the
> xml shows it isn't.) We should document, it is obviously a useful
> feature!

I think this feature is that obscure that it wasn't thought of when the
documentation was written. I think everybody would agree that it ought
to be documented.

Andreas  



-- 
Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow
Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences
Concordia University College of Alberta

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