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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Default Paper Size for KOffice?
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2001-10-26 16:36:42
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:14:03AM -0500, Joshua Johnson wrote:
> The two situations that I cannot seem to get to work are:
> 
> 1).  Default size for documents that are coming in form a filter (i.e. 
> MSWord)  When I open a document with a .doc it defaults to A4. This is the 
> one I have to be the most careful about.  When I print them the first few 
> lines are missing due to the page size difference.
> 
> 	More Detail ==> I have associated .doc with KWord and from KMail 
> 	whenever I open a .doc I have to switch the paper size to letter before
> 	printing.  (Is this a WvWare setting I am missing?)

This seems to be a bug with the import filter, I don't have any Letter sized
Word files to check, perhaps you can check http://bugs.kde.org if this is a known
bug and if it is not, then post a bug report there.

> 2).  When I start with an empty document it defaults to A4.

This is known (by me anyhow) and I plan to change the open dialog for KWord 
at least, and probably for the whole of KOffice to fix this problem. Thing 
is that some other things have to be done first ;)

> Starting a document fom a template works great, no problems there :-)
Great, then keep using that for now :)

> P.S. As a side note (thread) I saw that someone had complained about not 
> having footnotes automatically generated (MACRO'd, scripted, whatever) in 
> KWord. Is anyone taking on that issue?

Laurent is working on DCOP for KWord (among others) and this will provide the 
way for better scripting.
Footnotes themselves are currently not done, although there is a framework for
it. The framework however has been done a long time ago and might need updating...
If you are interested in working on this (please :)  then we can provide more
help then this small paragraph...

Cheers!
-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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