Re: Normal Mode and WYSIWYG printing.

From: Jean Bréfort <jean.brefort_at_normalesup.org>
Date: Wed Dec 13 2006 - 06:32:07 CET

Le mercredi 13 décembre 2006 à 12:49 +1100, Martin Sevior a écrit :
> Hi everyone,
> I want to raise an issue.
>
> During the 2.5 cycle cycle the "normal mode" has been altered to fit the
> most possible text on the screen. This includes things like ignoring
> right margins, altering text indents and reducing the line spacing for
> documents line spacings set at 1.5 or 2.0 time minimum.
>
> This means that the document on screen can look considerably different
> from how it is printed. It is easy to get even the number of pages shown
> in normal mode to be different to what is actually printed.
>
> So the question is, do we live with this and tell our users that normal
> mode or embedded mode will not actually show you what your document will
> look like on paper?
>
> Or do we revert to the old behaviour which kept in the indents, spacings
> and gave WYSIWYG printing?

WISIWYG printing should be present, at least as an option, on all
platforms able to support it.

> Opinions please.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 13 06:28:02 2006

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