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List:       kplato
Subject:    Re: How to split the page vertically into two equal parts
From:       Dotan Cohen <dotancohen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-07-06 6:31:44
Message-ID: AANLkTinSljavQ692v8V8mByr4zKf9mtgnllwJWp-3mIx () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 6 July 2010 00:26, Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday 2. July 2010 15.04.10 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I need to split a page vertically into two equal parts. I tried doing
>> this with a table, but it seems that one cannot control the height of
>> the rows manually by page percent. So how should I split the page?
>
> Hey Dotan,
>
> a solution that you may not have thought of but works pretty nicely is to have
> two text frames on your page.
>

All right, lets try that. I don't have the Koffice Handbook installed
and I cannot seem to install it, and online I only found the Handbook
for version 1.x. So please excuse me for not RTFM, I cannot find it!


> If you create a blank document using the 'Custom Document' part of the startup
> dialog

Done.

> you can just remove the main text area

I tried all the menus and right clicking, how is it removed?


> and after you created a blank
> page you can insert two text shapes.
>

I did manage to drag a text shape _onto_ the existing blank document
but clicking and doubleclicking on it won't let me type in it. There
was Loren Ipsum text in there when it appeared, it's gone now.


> On inserting your text shape you get the question if you want to connect to a
> frameset. If you want to have different independent text in the top and bottom
> parts, you should create individual framesets.
>

Yes, I created a new frameset., whatever a frameset is.


> On the "Options" tab of the frame properites make sure you have "If frame
> overflows" -> "Create a new page" selected.
>

Thanks.

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Dotan Cohen

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