I met this limitation last week; I was using mm (as normal in NZ) but I was needing to get 104 lines exactly onto an A4 page and the 2 decimal point line height constraint was a pain in the arse to me. I assumed, and why shouldn't I, I am just a normal user after all, that that was the limit to it's resolution and found another much uglier way to fit my lines as required. Had I known that greater pression was avalible by choosing Point I would have done so.....and that had NOTHING to do with imperial units.
So now I have to spend time learning how to vote for #45593 RFE in the Issue Tracker! On 10/30/05, John Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jonathon Blake wrote: > > John wrote: > > > >> All it takes to give OO the same capabilities of a page layout program > > > > At one point, _all_ enhancement requests that would make OOo more akin > > to Desktop Publishing was being rejected purely because "OOo is not, > > and never will be a Desktop Publisher" > > > >> How hard is this to do from a code standpoint? It is incredibly easy to > do. It probably wouldn't even result in MORE code. It would probably require > the change of a variable somewhere that determines the number of decimal > places. > > > > My suggestion is to: > > i) File an issue; > > ii) Sign the JCA; > > iii) Submit a patch that incorporates the change; > > iv) Open a duplicate issue with the patch. [The first one being > > closed because of the "OOo is never going to be a desktop publisher' > > mentality"] > > > >> that OO CANNOT be as good as a page layout program. > > > > More that historically, the gatekeepers have point blank refused to > > even consider enhancement requests that could even remotely construed > > as providing any desktop publisher capability to OOo. > > > > xan > > > > jonathon > > -- > > Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards? > > I already filed an issue: #45593. I am not equipped to write code. I > have written some code in Pascal for HP graphics workstations long ago, > but it's a whole other ballgame to write in C++ with all the > requirements for working on OO. > > Besides, there is someone out there who could do it in a few minutes if > they would just stop being so metric-centric, or whatever the issue is. > > Thank you. > > John Hardy > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
