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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Does Kword respect printer margins from CUPS?
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-05-26 14:42:23
Message-ID: 200605261642.23521.faure () kde ! org
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On Friday 26 May 2006 16:31, Niels wrote:
> I think the printer settings should only come into effect when I actually
> try to print a document. 
Not if that means re-layouting the document without the user's consent though,
obviously. That's ok for kedit, but not for kword.

> If the printer's margins are larger than the ones 
> set in the document, I should get a warning. I think Microsoft Office did
> that ten years ago (I haven't used it since) and Openoffice also has some
> kind of warning when printing.
Right there could be a warning, but that's not really what you wanted anyway,
that's not the same as actually using those values.

> Kword currently doesn't have a way to remember margin settings across
> documents, apart from making a template, right? 
Right (or simply modifying the default template).

> That means that I have to remember the margin settings and set them 
> in each document. That's slightly inconvenient.
Hence the solution of modifying the template (which in fact creates a local
copy in ~/.kde).

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).

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