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OK, I cannot help feeling sorry for the trees, but if people prefer to
print and surrender all the nice search functions, hyperlink, clickable
ToC and so on... it is their choice :-)
To address some of Michele's points:
I don't think that any of the images will need recapturing only because
of the proposed change in layout. Many will need recapturing for other
reasons, mainly because they are out of date. In the Getting Started
guide, a very few needed resizing or cropping.
One of the layouts we tried was landscape orientation with two columns
and this created some serious issues with some figures that were too big
to fit in one of the columns.
There should be no problem if you use the "normal" A4 page even if it is
not really the best in this times of widescreen monitors (unless you
tilt it 90 degrees).
Producing the printed books (see note below) from the existing docs
turned out to take a LOT more work than I had expected, because I chose
a more book-like page size and therefore needed to resize many, many
images. I have now decided to produce the printed books in A4/Letter
size, which can be done directly from PDFs that are optimized for
printing.
Agree. In fact it may be easier to do the contrary, that is to move from
a print layout to a screen layout.
Therefore, I vote strongly for going back to a template for documents
that are intended to be printed, and I have created a new template
(still under development as I find things to fix that I missed) and have
applied it to all of the V3.3 draft Getting Started chapters.
Ideally we could produce both print-optimized and screen-optimized
versions, and in theory we can do that by just applying a different
template -- but in my experience some manual work may be needed to clean
up page breaks, for example. Still, that is something to consider for
the future, if/when someone is available to do it.
not as a priority but I will try to do some experiments.
New V3.3 template:
http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/res3/OOo3_3_chapter_template.ott/view
Thanks, will take a look.
Cheers,
Michele
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