Re: Image generation of AbiWord files

From: J.M. Maurer <j.m.maurer_at_student.utwente.nl>
Date: Thu Feb 24 2005 - 18:19:17 CET

>> I'm new to AbiWord so please correct me if I make a mistake :-).
>> Yesterday I had the idea to show little thumbnails of the templates in
>> the 'New from template' dialog.
>
>Martin has previous mentioned his interest in having previews that display
>the first few lines of content in a document.
>It isn't something I'd find particularly useful but I recall that Martin
>said he always puts a title at the top of each of his documents.

>I'm still not convinced that Thumbnails (at least the version of
>thumbnails described) will be all that useful but perhaps when you have a
>working implementation you will be able to go from there.

The thumbnails in nautilus are really small, and hence become rather
useless. However, we can present a view of the template in a seperate
preview area next to the list of templates, which could be considerably
larger.

That might work.

Marc
Received on Thu Feb 24 18:13:55 2005

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