From koffice  Sun Feb 23 13:58:50 2003
From: Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 13:58:50 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Page sizes not consistent with ghostscript
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Ooh, sorry, I missed that KPrinter unlike QPrinter can not do custom sizes. So 
KWord has perhaps a user interface for custom size pages but in fact it is 
unsupported.

So unfortunately, your wish is not going to be implemented soon. I am sorry.

Have a nice day/evening/night!

On Sunday 23 February 2003 14:19, Mr E_T wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
>
> This is not entirely usefule as I have found that if you use the wrong
> paper size in kdeprint using cups ghostscript and hpijs then the print gets
> resized some.
>
> annoying.
>
> Also Some users such as my wife find the Custom page size to be confusing
> and annoying.
>
> I was actually wondering if more paper sizes could be added into kword
> using a mimetype sort of interface. Maybe even using the Custom page size
> interface. For convenience of the user.
>
> I dont know - it was just a thought.
>
> I also use these templates for convenience - you may want to include them
> in the distribution.
>
> > Ghostscript has little to do with a document paper size.
> >
> > Ghostscript only emulates a Postscript printer but it does not help to
> > write the Postscript file. So the application writing the Postscript file
> > needs to handle paper sizes itself. (Currently we use QT for all the
> > Postscript generation.)
> >
> > KOffice's paper sizes are those of QT's class QPrinter
> > (QPrinter::PageSize to be exact.) All other sizes are supposed to be made
> > with the "Custom" size.
> >
> > However your idea to have the smaller ISO C envelope sizes at hand is
> > interesting. Please add a bug report for a wish at KDE Bugs:
> > http://bugs.kde.org
> >
> > Have a nice day/evening/night!
> >
> > On Saturday 22 February 2003 14:38, Mr E_T wrote:
> > > I have found that the koffice papersizes do not match the ghostscript
> > > paper sizes and it is causing a little bit of difficulty.
> > >
> > > My wife is not a guru and would like to just choose a paper size such
> > > as c6 (which is actually an envelope size) - but gets confused that
> > > there is not much option.
> > >
> > > Especialy when ghostscript does have those sizes..
> > >
> > > I would have thought that most linux print programs use ghostscript and
> > > therefore would use the same papersizes as default.
> > >
> > > If this is not feasable then the option of creating your own paper size
> > > and including it into the format->page->size menu.+
> >
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