Re: Normal Mode and WYSIWYG printing.

If I recall correctly from my use and observation of MS Word, people
tend to use Normal mode when they're more concerned about the text than
the layout. While having a WYSIWYG "page break" line would be useful, I
think it is probably assumed that Normal mode is not Print mode and so
not Print-like. Perhaps a renaming is in order ("Logical" or similar?)

Just my exam-addled first thoughts...

Ryan

Jean Bréfort wrote:
> 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?
>>
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> WISIWYG printing should be present, at least as an option, on all
> platforms able to support it.
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>> Opinions please.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Martin
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