From: Martin Sevior (msevior_at_seviorpc.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 00:24:16 EDT
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 13:01, Noel Faux wrote:
> Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>
> > Noel Faux wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm a new user of abiword :) I'm trying to create a table in a
> >>>> document which can only fit if the page is orientated as landscape.
> >>>> I've searched the web and played with abiword without success. Is
> >>>> it possible to have a document which contains a mixture of portrat
> >>>> and landscape orientated pages. If so how is it done? If not are
> >>>> there plans to create this feature?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> > <snip>
> >
> >>> Otherwise, to have the first page as Portrait and the second page as
> >>> Landscape,
> >>> you need to start a new document for the landscape page. This works
> >>> okay if you name each document the same. EG: samename1.abw
> >>> samename2.abw
> >>> samename3.abw, etc.
> >>> If the first page is portrait, second is landscape, and third is
> >>> portrait, you need a separate document for each page in order to
> >>> print out right.
> >>> That's how we do it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Ok thanks. To me that's very messy. Do you know if there are any
> >> plans to add page orientation into the options in the frame style
> >> section, as that looks to me like the most obvious place to cater for
> >> this. So you can have one complete document rather then 2 or more.
> >>
> >>
> > Well, as far as I know, you're the first person to request the
> > feature. Our development version is currently in Feature Freeze,
> > meaning no new features are being coded, to allow time for bug fixing
> > before our 2.2 release. You may want to post a RFE (Request for
> > Enhancement) bug in bugzilla (found at http://bugzilla.abisource.com
> > ), so that if a developer gets some spare time, it may be implemented.
>
> Will do :)
>
> >
> > Alternatively, if you can code in C++, we want you!
>
> I've had some ~1years worth of C++ experince and it would be fun to pick
> to up again. However, time is an issue atm, and will be for the next 18
> months. After that I would be willing to help out. Are there developers
> in Australia, whom I can chat too and are there source docs I can look
> at for moment :) ??
>
Yes and yes. checkout the abi module from CVS. Look in the docs
directory. I work at Melbourne Uni on the other side of town from you.
I've thought about your feature request. It is something MS Word allows.
It's not particularly hard to implement.
We basically have to make the document dimensions a section level
property as opposed to the document property they are now. I plan to
implement this after the 2.2 release in a few months.
Cheers
Martin
> > Feel free to subscribe to the developer mailing list and send us a
> > patch implementing the feature. This feature isn't as simple as it
> > sounds, since (if I understand correctly) portrait and landscape are
> > "printer driver/handler level" commands, meaning that to mix them in
> > one document, not only would the layout engine need rather large
> > modifications (Right now, it can figure that the orientation in one
> > place will be the same as the next. How do you implement "fit to
> > width" zoom while scrolling when the pages switch orientation?), but
> > AbiWord would most likely need to send each "switched" page to the
> > printer handler (on each of the supported platforms) separately or
> > rotate the text itself. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's
> > definitely not in an immediate time frame. Right now, the developers
> > are working like crazy (and they're all volunteer) to fix bugs and
> > polish up our development version for the major 2.2 release later this
> > year. Until then, unless you can help us out and contribute some
> > code, I'd suggest trying the tip suggeted, using separate documents.
> >
> > Thanks for using AbiWord!
> >
> > --Ryan
>
>
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