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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 26 03:07:17 -0700 2005 ------- AW: Reason is that the DrawingLayer internally is (still) based on 32bit integer coordinates and uses 1/100th mm. Together with the area surrounding the page (where You can place objects, too) it's an area of 3x page size. So 2.2 billion (signed integer) allows a theoretical max of 22 x 22 Km (21,47483648 exactly), so the page may be up to 7,1 x 7,1 km big, theoretically. BUT: There is a huge amount of integer-based calculations working on that, so You need some security distance for numerical reasons. Those are not (at least not all) numerically safe (!). There is no good argument for the current limit, but one thing is clear: Each expansion of the limit will raise the possibilities for numerical errors and nonsense happening in DrawingLayer due to numerical errors (quadratic?). At least the current limit is tested by users. Do not forget that You can also define a scaling in Tools/optins somewhere which will also use some of the available internal precision. You will run in trouble with huge values here. So i would not recommend to change it for OOo2.0. And Yes, we are working on changing the DrawingLayer to double precision (hopefully for OOo 3.0). Since we cannot do a redesign (not enough manpower) we are forced to slowly migrate, keeping the existing code working. So i cannot guarantee for OOo3.0, but i see it as a necessity anyways. HTH. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
