On Friday 06 July 2001 16:34, David Faure wrote:
> After all the discussions about the WYSIWYG problems in KWord, and
> after reading a little bit of Abiword's source code (it turns out Abiword
> does it the way I thought, but at least it confirms my idea about it ;), I
> have started to implement a solution in KWord. Obviously, this is about
> doing the layout at a constant, precise resolution (1440 DPI is what I
> found in abiword and it sounds ok to me), with big fonts, and displaying
> the stuff with smaller fonts but using that precise layout.
> This requires to change a lot of KWord's code (not the class design, but
> all the coordinate conversions), so this won't go in before KOffice-1.1.

IMHO this is a ship stopper for koffice 1.1....

> Just to let you know that I'm working on this, and that big changes in
> KWord should be avoided until this is committed, otherwise the conflicts
> will be huge. For the same reason, I can't really make a libkofficetext for
> kpresenter before 1.1, but that's not a problem either - porting kpresenter
> to it is for after 1.1 anyway.
>
> Can't tell if the solution works well yet, this fork of KWord is quite
> broken at the moment ;-) (If there is interest in helping with it, I can
> commit to a branch, of course)

Sorry, no tiime, will move next week to berlin

Bye
Alex
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