Re: Is it possible to have a single page in landscape and the rest in portrait

From: Noel Faux (noel.faux_at_med.monash.edu.au)
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 23:01:49 EDT

  • Next message: Martin Sevior: "Re: Is it possible to have a single page in landscape and the rest in portrait"

    Ryan Pavlik wrote:

    > 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.

    Will do :)

    >
    > Alternatively, if you can code in C++, we want you!

    I've had some ~1years worth of C++ experince and it would be fun to pick
    to up again. However, time is an issue atm, and will be for the next 18
    months. After that I would be willing to help out. Are there developers
    in Australia, whom I can chat too and are there source docs I can look
    at for moment :) ??

    > 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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