Subject: Re: commit: Complete Dom's page colour work.
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Sun Mar 25 2001 - 09:22:15 CST
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Randy Kramer wrote:
Sorry for confusion, I just checked by Word2k. It turned out that word
doesn't have option to set page color on screen - but it uses standard
Windows' setting "window background" (configured via Control
Panel->Screen(?)->Decoration(?) and clicking on the upper window in "preview"
- sorry I have russian version of windows so I can't tell you real names of
tabs and icons).
I still find this behaviour of Word very handy!
> 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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