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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Dcop automation in KWord and KOffice print dialogues
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2001-06-16 10:59:00
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 02:16:30PM +0200, Richard Bos wrote:
> On Friday 15 June 2001 23:37, Chris Howells wrote:
> > David Faure wrote:
> > > You can use DCOP to activate any action in kword now, but there isn't
> > > any facility for this kind of thing yet (creating a frame would require a
> > > special method since it's not only activating a menu item, it's also
> > > giving a size with the mouse).
> >
> > Ah, OK. That makes sense. Do you plan to add that functionality at some
> > stage?
> >
> > For something like business cards, which are about 85 x 55 mm, you would
> > generally want to get approximately eight identical cards onto a piece
> > of A4
> > paper. I was thinking that it would be a good think if KWord could
> > somehow handle this by having a single object (say the 85x55mm) which
> > would represent a single card card. YOu could then design the object,
> > e.g. put the name and address. During printing, KWord could put several
> > (perhaps eight or so would fit) identical objects onto a page.
> >
> > THis would make it considerably easier to design things like business
> > cards, IMHO.
> 
> 
> Isn't this something for killustrator or kpresenter?

No, the composition of text and graphics element is something which
KWord was(/is) created for ;)

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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