From koffice-devel Tue Apr 18 10:41:55 2006 From: Boudewijn Rempt Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:41:55 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Flake requirements. Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=114535875719819 On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Thomas Zander wrote: > On Tuesday 18 April 2006 09:26, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > On Friday 14 April 2006 19:23, Thomas Zander wrote: > > > I actually designed the new pages in KWord to avoid this problem by > > > making a page either left, right or a pagespread. I.e. you would > > > just have a bigger page in between. > > > > Oh, good! How about the gutter? > > What about it? I intended not to have any. > Looking at your average glossy magazine I see > a) text that certainly has a margin from the page edge; KWord does that > with margins as well. > b) images that are on both pages. You don't want any gutter there. > Is there a situation I missed where a page-gutter is needed? I thought about the situation where you have a big map that's spread over two pages, but with a margin in between the two halves so nothing gets obscured by the binding. > For multi-column layout the normal gutter for those frames would be used. > > > > Well, its not needed by KWord per see. > > > I'm not sure why it would be harder for svg objects. All you need to > > > do is rotate the painter before you pass it to that flake objects > > > paint method. > > > Actually rotating all the points in the svg (which is the > > > alternative) seems like a harder nut to crack to me :) > > > > Well, if the outline shape shouldn't change, you'd need to clip the > > result of the painter to the old shape. That might be hard. At least, > > I'm sure I couldn't do that :-). > > You lost me, why would a rotated flake obj. not have its outline change? > If I rotate a square the outline would naturally change (typically get > bigger), just like in the example app. I thought that was what you meant -- say, have a butterfly-shaped outline, and then text inside rotated to 90 degrees. But I evidently misunderstood you. Boudewijn _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel