From koffice  Tue Feb 25 11:42:14 2003
From: Mr E_T <troll () logi ! net ! au>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:42:14 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Page sizes not consistent with ghostscript
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Nicolas Goutte wrote:

> On Monday 24 February 2003 12:47, David Faure wrote:
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> > On Sunday 23 February 2003 14:58, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Huh? Never realized that.... are you 100% sure?
>
> Well, as I found later (with the help of Philipp Müller), QPrinter cannot do
> custom page size either, as you cannot set the page size.
>
> > What is the actual problem, in fact? - I mean, if you print on an envelope
> > with a correct page size in KWord, why would it matter if kdeprint/QPrinter
> > think it's an A4 page, as long as the topleft corner is correctly
> > positioned?
>
> One problem that I see is that the bounding box of an EPS will therefore
> always be A4. So you cannot create an EPS that you then put for example in a
> Latex document. (This is less a KWord problem but someone already wanted
> something similar with KChart and failed. Now I start to understand why.)
>
> You will also get problems for custom formats that are wider or higher. KWord
> may paginate correctly but you could never print the areas out of A4.
> (AbiWord lists at least 3 formats (+ the bigger than A0 formats) that do not
> fit into A4 and that are not supported directly by KPrinter/QPrinter.)
>
> I think that all this make it more urgent to have our own Postscript output. i
> do not know if it is possible for KOffice 1.3, time-wise and because of KDE
> 3.1. However I think that it should be the main goal for KOffice 1.4.
> Therefore it would be good if some developers could check if kdeprint of KDE
> CVS HEAD would work without KPrinter. If not, it is perhaps time to do
> something. (i hope that we would not have to wait KDE 4.0 for binary
> compatibility problems.)
>
Would it not be better to have kdeprint updated so that kword can set the paper
size using either custom or an existing preset size??
-- 
regs MR E_T
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