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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    KPresenter/KIllustrator/KOffice suggestion
From:       "Pascal A. Niklaus" <Pascal.Niklaus () unibas ! ch>
Date:       2001-05-30 21:33:11
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Just a thought:

Do you know CorelDraws object manipulation dialog (it behaves more like a 
toolbar tough)? This dialog/toolbar is used for scaling (absolute sizes or 
relative, mirroring), moving, rotating and skewing objects. It allows to 
resize objects or a groups of objects selected. Units can be entered 
absolutely (e.g. 60mm, or 300 pixels), or relatively (120%). I've attached 
a PNG of the toolbar and the 'dialog' in case someone wants to have a look 
at it.

I find this dialog tremendously useful because it is easy to access and one 
often really wants objects to have a fixed size of fixed proportion, e.g. 
an object should be 2/3 the height of another etc.

Such a dialog/object manipulation tool would be very useful in several 
KOffice applications. Maybe it could be added in a central place such as 
the KOffice library? It would also be nice to include the "Align/Distribute 
horizontally/vertically"-type-of-functions as an additional tab.

Pascal
________________________________________________________

Present address:

Pascal Niklaus
Landcare Research
Private Bag 11 052
Palmerston North
New Zealand

Phone: +64 6 356 7154 (reception)
        +64 6 350 5799 3968 (direct)
Fax:   +64 6 355 9230

e-mail: <mailto:Pascal.Niklaus@unibas.ch>Pascal.Niklaus@unibas.ch or 
<mailto:Pascal.Niklaus@gmx.ch>Pascal.Niklaus@gmx.ch
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<html><div>Just a thought:</div>
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<div>Do you know CorelDraws object manipulation dialog (it behaves more
like a toolbar tough)? This dialog/toolbar is used for scaling (absolute
sizes or relative, mirroring), moving, rotating and skewing objects. It
allows to resize objects or a groups of objects selected. Units can be
entered absolutely (e.g. 60mm, or 300 pixels), or relatively (120%). I've
attached a PNG of the toolbar and the 'dialog' in case someone wants to
have a look at it.</div>
<br>
<div>I find this dialog tremendously useful because it is easy to access
and one often really wants objects to have a fixed size of fixed
proportion, e.g. an object should be 2/3 the height of another etc.
</div>
<br>
<div>Such a dialog/object manipulation tool would be very useful in
several KOffice applications. Maybe it could be added in a central place
such as the KOffice library? It would also be nice to include the
&quot;Align/Distribute horizontally/vertically&quot;-type-of-functions as
an additional tab.</div>
<br>
Pascal
<br>

<tt>________________________________________________________<br>
<br>
Present address: <br>
<br>
Pascal Niklaus<br>
Landcare Research<br>
Private Bag 11 052<br>
Palmerston North<br>
New
Zealand&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
 <br>
<br>
Phone: +64 6 356 7154 (reception)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; +64 6 350 5799 3968 (direct)<br>
Fax:&nbsp;&nbsp; +64 6 355 9230<br>
<br>
e-mail:
<a href="mailto:Pascal.Niklaus@unibas.ch">Pascal.Niklaus@unibas.ch</a> or
<a href="mailto:Pascal.Niklaus@gmx.ch">Pascal.Niklaus@gmx.ch</a><br>
_________________________________________________________<br>
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