Subject: Re: commit: Complete Dom's page colour work.
From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Sun Mar 25 2001 - 08:49:51 CST
I just looked at the help related to Format | Background --
help explains:
<quote>
Add a background color or texture to a Web page or Word document
Word displays backgrounds that you add with the Background command on
the Format menu in online layout view only. These backgrounds aren't
designed for printed documents.
</quote>
Randy Kramer (Not researching thoroughly.)
Randy Kramer wrote:
>
> I just checked Word 97 (I bet you didn't expect me to do that ;-) -- the
> "control" that I found under File | Print | Properties |
> Stamp/Background | Background is a combo box, with one of the choices
> being "None", which is what I think is meant by "White background".
>
> Aside: The Properties choice brings up a menu that may be printer
> specific. In this case my printer is a BJC-3000.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Randy Kramer
>
> Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, I thought the work that was committed was intended for printing, or at
> > > > least exporting to other formats (html, .doc, .rtf) and is per-document
> > > > attribute.
> > >
> > > Yes indeed it is. However exporting to those other formats is not
> > > implemented yet.
> >
> > Yes, but support for other formats will be implemented in the future I hope.
> >
> > > >
> > > > Anyway page color for display should be persistent preference, not
> > > > per-document attibute (obviously I don't want to set page color for each
> > > > document I open manually).
> > > >
> > >
> > > Ah I misunderstood. This departs a bit from the WYSISWYG framework.
> > > However you ask for something could be rather easily implemented by
> > > interpreting the default color setting "transparent" from White to
> > > whatever the color the user requests. Upon printing "transperent" would be
> > > white again. I can see that this behaviour could easily be confusing
> > > though. The user might think they have a blue background in their doc when
> > > in fact it's just a different setting for "transparent".
> >
> > It's a bad excuse for not implementing this feature. :)
> >
> > Hmm, we can make this preference defaulting to white, so unless user
> > explicitly changed it, the background will be white. But if they changed it
> > explicitly - they have to blame theirseves.
> >
> > > > As for "Always Print White Background" setting - yes, this is a must too IMO.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I agree. I think perhaps it should be a checked item in the print dialog.
> >
> > Yes, I also think default should be "on" for it.
> >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Martin
> > >
> > > PS. I've got to fix printing now. It doesn't work with the new page
> > > colours.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > -Vlad
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