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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: question about autoCreateNewFrame
From:       Karl-Heinz Zimmer <khz () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-05-04 6:37:27
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On Tuesday 30 April 2002 14:27, Holger Schröder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i am still working on the kword->openwriter filter.

Great!  So we could combine the strengths of both worlds some day?  :)

> i have the problem, that the ow xml does not know about
> AutoCreateNewFrame, like kw.

I am not sure but it might be that the following information is helpfull:

The XML Draft http://xml.openoffice.org/xml_specification_draft.pdf
(== "StarOffice XML File Format Working Draft - Technical Reference Manual")
tells us the following on page 60:

    2.3.2 Master Pages

    [..]

    The attributes that you can associate with the <style:master-page>
    attribute are:

    *  Page name
    *  Page master
    *  Next stype name

So - if I understand this correctly - you 1st declare your 'Page Master'(s)
to specify the page propperties and then (2nd) use 'Master Page'(s) to
actually _assign_ such PageMasters to the document's content.

Now you can 'forget' about your page specifications: Writer will use the
active MasterPage until you tell him to use another one.

This feature can be used for having Writer automatically create the 'basic'
frameset (Header frame/ Body frame / Footer frame) on each page.


> in kw the a frameset is only created for the first page it appears, and
> then it is implicitly created on the following pages, as many pages as
> are needed to contain the whole text.

As long as you do /not/ specify another MasterPage the Writer should
behave the same way.

> now the problem is atm i have to guess, how many pages a given text will
> need.

IMHO you should /not/ have to calculate this during document creation time
since this is subject to be determined by the layout engine - not by you.

> i think it is wrong design, if my filter would have to do some
> kind of "font metrics calculation", so i would like to hace a
> numberOfPages attribute to the FRAME or FRAMESET element, which
> contains this number of pages actually needed to contain the whole
> text.
> it would belong to frame, but when i write a text needing more than one
> page, on the second page there is not only created the first frame, but
> already all frames, so it would also fit into frameset...

I am not sure if I understand the above sentences.
Did you read pp53 - 62 of the XML Draft?

Cheers,

Karl-Heinz

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-- 
Karl-Heinz Zimmer, Senior Software Engineer, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB
<mailto:khz@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se>            <mailto:khz@kde.org>

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