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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Calculating the size of headers/footers in KWord import filters
From:       "Clarence Dang" <CTRL_CD () bigpond ! com>
Date:       2001-12-18 11:18:24
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Hi,

It's me again :)

Note: In this mail, I'll refer to Framesets and Frames as the same thing
since all my framesets only contain 1 frame!

I'm implementing headers and footers in an import filter.  The headers and
footers are the same on every page so the layout of the document looks like
this:

header text  ("Even Pages Header")

body text
body text  ("Text Frameset 1")
body text
more body text etc.

footer text  ("Even Pages Footer")

The trouble is that for the Header, Footer and "Text Frameset 1" frames, how
do I calculate the dimensions in advance?

<!ATTLIST FRAME
    left CDATA #REQUIRED
    right CDATA #REQUIRED
    top CDATA #REQUIRED
    bottom CDATA #REQUIRED

E.g. For the Header, I can easily specify the 'left", "right" and "top"
attributes but how does the import filter know what the "bottom" will be
(maybe the user had a long header)?  Since the attribute is "#REQUIRED", I
don't know what to do :(

The "bottom" of the Header would obviously affect the "top" of "Text
Frameset 1", just as the "top" of the Footer would obviously affect the
"bottom" of "Text Frameset 1".

<FRAMESET frameType="1" frameInfo="3" name="Even Pages Header" visible="1" >
  <FRAME runaround="1" copy="0" right="567" left="28" newFrameBehaviour="2"
bottom="HOW DO I KNOW THIS???" runaroundGap="2.83465" top="42"
autoCreateNewFrame="0" />
</FRAMESET>

I'm pretty sure that someone has implemented headers and footers before
so...
Please help! :)

Thankyou!
Clarence


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