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Subject:    DTP mode (Re: suggestions for the website)
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-07-02 7:25:47
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On Tuesday 02 July 2002 08:55, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> Am Montag, 1. Juli 2002 23:50 schrieb Nicolas Goutte:
> 
> > (Side note: it does not matter much that OpenOffice Writer's file format
> > does not know KWord's DTP mode, as the majority of the filters will not be
> > able to export it at all.)
> 
> Side note to this side note: I was always unable to see any practical use for 
> that "layout mode" (and I do layouts for a living). Is there anything in this 
> mode that can't be achieved in text oriented mode (I mean: except totally 
> confuse newbies ;-) and why anybody would choose it over the other one? 
> IOW: Is there really a point in keeping it at all?

In that mode, there is no "main text frameset", the number of pages
only depends on the existing frames.
When we add the missing "add page", "remove page" functions (too late
for 1.2), you'll see the purpose of the DTP mode ;)

In DTP mode there is also no header, footer nor footnotes (since all of those
relate to the main textframeset, in the non-DTP mode). One has to
make his own frames for headers and footers.

- -- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
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