Subject: Re: Commit/RFP
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Apr 21 2001 - 18:03:03 CDT
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just committed a few new page-sizes to the fp_PageSize class, taken
> from some values obtained via GnomePrint.
>
> Now, GnomePrint also has a few functions to obtain default margin settings
> for different page sizes, which I think would be cool to have support for
> inside of abi. For example, lookie here (all values in mm):
>
> US-Letter: w:215.899994 h:279.399992 (t:25.399999, b:25.399999, l:25.399999,
> r:25.399999)
>
> A4: w:209.999994 h:296.999990 (t:28.222221, b:28.222221, l:28.222221,
> r:28.222221)
>
> Monarch: w:98.777775 h:191.205550 (t:3.527778, b:3.527778, l:3.527778,
> r:3.527778)
>
> Now it doesn't make sense for us to have 1inch (25.4mm) margins on Monarch
> paper, at least not by default. We can definitely be smarter here.
>
> So, would anyone be offended or against my putting some extra knowledge in
> the fp_PageSize class to know of these default margins, and code in abi to
> use these margins instead of the 1-inch default? This will also probably
> need some work done to the PageSetup dialog too.
>
Not at all Dom. It makes sense to change the default margins as you change
the page sizes.
Soon all the margins can be adjusted via the top and left ruler anyway.
Cheers!
Martin
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