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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: question about frame ordering and text flow
From:       Samuel Penn <sam () bifrost ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-12-30 17:26:55
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On Saturday 28 December 2002 21:22, David Faure wrote:

> Not so basic. How should the user tell the program, in which order he wants
> the text to flow? The GUI for this is the hard bit (the feature is itself
> very easy). Make a decent proposal for a GUI, and it might be implemented.
> This is how you can contribute to KWord, without even writing a single line
> of code....

The way this was done in Impression Publisher (DTP package for
RISC OS), was that it was a printing option. You selected
'Pamphlet', said how many pages you wanted to fit to each side
of paper, and it just went and did it at print time.

So, say, you'd write your document as standard A4 portrait
(one column per page), then when it comes to print it, it
rotates each page, shrinks it to A5, and prints two A5 pages
to each A4 page (or four, if you count double sided printing).

Thinking about it, the shrink may have been an option, so
you could start with A5 pages, then print as pamplet to A4.

-- 
Be seeing you,
Sam.

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