From: Ryan Pavlik (abiryan_at_ryand.net)
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 20:15:37 EDT
Noel Faux wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I'm a new user of abiword :) I'm trying to create a table in a
>>> document which can only fit if the page is orientated as landscape.
>>> I've searched the web and played with abiword without success. Is it
>>> possible to have a document which contains a mixture of portrat and
>>> landscape orientated pages. If so how is it done? If not are there
>>> plans to create this feature?
>>>
>>
>>
<snip>
>> Otherwise, to have the first page as Portrait and the second page as
>> Landscape,
>> you need to start a new document for the landscape page. This works
>> okay if you name each document the same. EG: samename1.abw
>> samename2.abw
>> samename3.abw, etc.
>> If the first page is portrait, second is landscape, and third is
>> portrait, you need a separate document for each page in order to
>> print out right.
>> That's how we do it.
>>
>>
> Ok thanks. To me that's very messy. Do you know if there are any
> plans to add page orientation into the options in the frame style
> section, as that looks to me like the most obvious place to cater for
> this. So you can have one complete document rather then 2 or more.
>
>
Well, as far as I know, you're the first person to request the feature.
Our development version is currently in Feature Freeze, meaning no new
features are being coded, to allow time for bug fixing before our 2.2
release. You may want to post a RFE (Request for Enhancement) bug in
bugzilla (found at http://bugzilla.abisource.com ), so that if a
developer gets some spare time, it may be implemented.
Alternatively, if you can code in C++, we want you! Feel free to
subscribe to the developer mailing list and send us a patch implementing
the feature. This feature isn't as simple as it sounds, since (if I
understand correctly) portrait and landscape are "printer driver/handler
level" commands, meaning that to mix them in one document, not only
would the layout engine need rather large modifications (Right now, it
can figure that the orientation in one place will be the same as the
next. How do you implement "fit to width" zoom while scrolling when the
pages switch orientation?), but AbiWord would most likely need to send
each "switched" page to the printer handler (on each of the supported
platforms) separately or rotate the text itself. I'm not saying it's
impossible, but it's definitely not in an immediate time frame. Right
now, the developers are working like crazy (and they're all volunteer)
to fix bugs and polish up our development version for the major 2.2
release later this year. Until then, unless you can help us out and
contribute some code, I'd suggest trying the tip suggeted, using
separate documents.
Thanks for using AbiWord!
--Ryan
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