Re: Header and Footer

Thanks for the suggestion - I have found 2 ways of acheiving what I want
(logo and company details at the top of the first page only, about 2.5"
depth, and one line of text at the bottom of the first page only).

Selecting 'header different first page' and deleting the contents leaves a
2.5" deep header on subsequent pages which is no use to me.

Both of my solutions do not use a header - the 2.5" logo and company
details are inserted into the body text

>Interesting that you raise this problem.
>On March 16, 2005, I filed a suggestion to have this
>problem fixed in Abiword, and was told it really
>wasn't a problem.
>See:
>http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8645
>
>FWIW, you might want to add to that thread a "me too."
>
>(Note the suggestion was made over two years ago, when
>v. 2.2.5 was current; since then, AbiWord has not been
>modfied as to this point.)
>
>In the meantime, one thing I found that a user can do
>(which perhaps you already have tried and rejected as
>unworkable for your purposes) is, by trial and error,
>determine a combination of a top page margin and a
>header size that can accomodate part of what you want
>to appear at the top of page 1, and in that space put
>as a header at the top of page 1 something such as the
>company name or logo. The rest of what ordinarily you
>would put in the header of page 1 put at the outset of
>the body on page 1.
>In the header space on page 2 and subsequent pages,
>put what you would want to be a header on each of
>those pages - if nothing else, a page number, the
>current date, or the addressee's name and title.
>I found that through trial and error, in large part
>judging by the white space appearing between the
>header and the body on each page, a reasonably
>acceptable document could be achieved. Of course,
>once you have found something that is acceptable, make
>a template for it.
>I didn't address the matter of the footer as it
>appears from your last post on May 17 that you have
>solved that problem.
>/one
>
>
>--- David Lister <dl@xita.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I would appreciate any info on how to set up Abiword
>> so that the Header and
>> Footer only appears on the first page only (Header
>> and Footer different on
>> first page doesn't seem to do this).
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> DL
>> -----------------------------------------------

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Received on Mon May 21 14:19:04 2007