From koffice-devel Mon Jul 09 20:07:06 2001 From: Thomas Zander Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 20:07:06 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Status of the WYSIWYG support in KWord. X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=99470935905901 On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:04:28PM +0200, David Faure wrote: > On Monday 09 July 2001 21:47, Thomas Zander wrote: > > 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. > > Yes. Besides I tried fixing this already (forked the source on one of my machines), > and it's a big change, breaking a lot of stuff. Better do it AFTER 1.1, not before. > Can't be done before. I'll also need some input from some font experts :} > Hehe, I really will try to make some time ;) -- Thomas Zander zander@earthling.net The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new _______________________________________________ Koffice-devel mailing list Koffice-devel@master.kde.org http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel