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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Status of the WYSIWYG support in KWord.
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2001-07-09 19:47:52
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On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:17:52PM +0200, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> 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....

Maybe; but the release itself brings _SO_ much improvement over the 
1.0 version...

I prefer the; 'release early, release often' phrase here, otherwise we 
will never release.

Remember that with every release more people see the speed of developent and 
the potential in general, and more people will use and eventually help 
developing KOffice.

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new
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