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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: question about frame ordering and text flow
From:       David Faure <dfaure () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date:       2003-01-01 9:49:01
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On Monday 30 December 2002 18:26, Samuel Penn wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I see two categories of answer to this problem.

* At the page level: the "pamphlet" option when printing. This is indeed already
available in the print dialog! (Properties / Filter /  Add Filter -> 3 pamphlet filters).
Wow, kdeprint rocks.

* At the frame level: the need for manually selecting the order in which the
frames should be used for flowing text. At least a partial order, modelled with
an optional "next frame" for every given frame. I'll try to have a look at this.

- -- 
David Faure -- faure@kde.org, dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
KOffice-1.2.1 is available - http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2.1/
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