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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Feb 12 17:12:40 +0000 2007 ------- @peter: > If the whole document is centered, presumably on the widest (landscape) > page(s),and the portrait pages are centered relative to the landscape page(s), > then shouldn't the portrait pages also be centered relatively to the view > area? The problem is that we can't handle different left page borders without rewriting large parts of the layout code view code. In our current code all pages must start at the same x position of the screen. The current fix for this issue where we just add a constant additional left border to all pages (calculated from centering the widest page of the document) is very easy and helps in all cases where you don't have alternating page widths. My assumption is that this is true for the vast majority of documents. > Most people have a resolution of 1024x768, and only 26% have a resolution > higher than that(1)! I'm guessing the most common monitor size is 17" (with > very few larger than that). Fine, so if these numbers are correct (where did you get them from?) only 26% of the users have any real problem with the current behavior at all. On my 1024x768 notebook screen and 100% zoom factor the difference between a centered and a non-centered page in format "portrait" is ca. 2 cm on the screen. For larger zoom factors there's no difference between centered and non-centered view at all. That's definitely not a big issue. > Microsoft Word's handling is very effective: The portrait pages remain > centered(!!!) and the landscape pages, if there is not enough space to be > centered, are left-aligned and extend to the right as far as needed (farther > than to the left) Word seems to behave differently here, depending on the zoom factor. On my 1280x1024 monitor and 100% both pages (portrait and landscape) are centered while at 150% only the portrait page is centered and the landscape page is left aligned to the portrait one. I assume that on your monitor you will get both pages centered if you use a zoom factor smaller than 100%. We can't do the same as we currently lack the ability to place pages on arbitrary places on the screen (something that due to the effort is planned for a later version covered by issue 1598). But you are right, there could arise a new problem for users with smaller screens. Thanks for pointing that out before we had to fix that later on. So perhaps we could center the document not in all cases (only in case the empty space exceeds a certain value and the document has alternating page widths) or we should allow to switch centering off manually (I prefer the first option). That means in the example in your screen shot where a portrait and a landscape page are shown above each other we wouldn't change anything to the current behavior (the portrait page will stay a little bit off-center) but in case the user has a 1280 or 1600 pixels width the document will be centered as planned. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
