From: Noel Faux (noel.faux_at_med.monash.edu.au)
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 23:01:49 EDT
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 :) ??
> 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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