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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: koffice/kspread
From:       Inge Wallin <inge () lysator ! liu ! se>
Date:       2006-02-24 14:59:30
Message-ID: 200602241559.30758.inge () lysator ! liu ! se
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On Friday 24 February 2006 14.25, Fredrik Edemar wrote:
> fredag 24 februari 2006 14:01 skrev Tomas Mecir:
> > On 2/24/06, Inge Wallin <inge@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> > > I don't like this.  A4 is the international standard.  US Letter is
> > > only used within the US. I think A4 should be the default paper size.
> >
> > I agree. A4 better.
> >
> > / Tomas
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> Maybe I was unclear: KSpread still has A4 as default paper size but
> OpenOffice uses US Letter. As OO doesn't save the paper size attribute in
> the file (which KSpread does), KSpread should assume that the size is US
> Letter if the attribute doesn't exist.

The original text said: 
> * OASIS loading: use "US Letter" as default paper size (sheets loaded from 
> OO had size (0,0) before) 

Since OASIS OpenDocument (ODF) is the default format for KOffice as well as 
many other office suites, it is debatable wether we should regard an ODF 
without a paper size attribute as automatically coming from OpenOffice.  

Additionally, users of OpenOffice when used outside US most certainly do not 
want US letter as their default format. I would go so far as to say that the 
majority of  the OpenOffice users want A4 as their default, wether the 
factory default is US letter or not.

I suggest we go back to A4 anyway and bugreport OpenOffice instead so that 
they start to save the page size.

	-Inge

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Inge Wallin               | Thus spake the master programmer:               |
                          |      "After three days without programming,     |
inge@lysator.liu.se       |       life becomes meaningless."                |
                          | Geoffrey James: The Tao of Programming.         |
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