Hi, Thanks for your interesting comments, John and Christian.
> Typically 150mm x 105mm, although it varies. > Almost the same here.. 105 × 148 (DIN A6) - but postcards can have > almost any size, as long as they fit into a standard mail-slot / > letter-box > > Standard size can range from width:140-235 mm height: 90-125 mm > (the factor width/height must be >= 1,41) Hmm, they are different respectively. Japan Post also accept the different size to some extend. But the size of most unofficial postcards is 100*148mm for compatibility. This is the standard size. > > In your country, OOo is not required to implement supporting functions > > to write postcards, is it? > > Yes. No software "must" support creation of postcards in germany. Most > of the time postcards are written by hand anyway. People won't complain > if the software cannot deal with postcards. Oh, that is a significant point. In recent days, it is natural for us to print address with personal computers aids. In December, we have to send a lot of Nengajo (New Year's Greeting postcards). We cannot write them all by hands. > > I've written an article to let you know how postcards works in my > > country. It is attached in the end of this mail. Please have a look. > > Very interesting, thank you :-) - Postcards surely aren't used as much > in germany as they are used in japan. > > The only numbers I found regarding postcards is that during peak-times > (holiday season) up to 500.000 postcards (coming from foreign countries) > per day are delivered. That is about 18.000.000 during from June to > August. I have no idea how many postcards are sent from within germany. More interesting, Nengajo (New Year's Greeting postcards as I wrote) is about 3,000,000,000 and most of them are delivered during the first week of the new year. They are not sent from foreing countries, but domestically. It is very hard for deliverymen, of course, to deliver all of them but it is also hard for senders to write all of them. They need computer helps. In addition, the number of the entire mail matters including postcards, letters, booklet and so on, come to about 23,000,000,000. The half of them are postcards. From this perspective, you can also understand how important postcards are in Japan. > > [...] > > * Requirement for OOo > > > > - supporting Hagaki dimensions > > [x] although only by entering the values directy. Wrong. Ordinary people don't know the strict dimensions of the Hagaki. And this support is necessary for usability because a frequency in the use of Hagaki are as high as one of A4 and B5. In addition, I've never seen a DTP software which doesn't show Hagaki size in a size selection list except OOo. > > - Hagaki wizard (auto formatting and printing plural address in turn) > > [x] Basically a mail-merge, isn't it? - not sure what is involved in > auto formatting (maybe a template will do?) A template is not enough. The format of Hagaki changes according to circumstances. To fit in Hagaki, the font size of address must be lessened or enlarged. To list names of all familiy members in an address field, the font size and indent must be changed. To correspond Hagaki type (Hagaki has some types), the address field must be lessened or enlarged......the examples have no bounds. To accept all formats, templates are not good solution. The format has to be changed according to circumstances automatically. Therefore the mail-merge function is not avaiable because templates are no-good. > > - complementing address function for Base > > This is more tricky. But fundamental for Japanese. # I wish I showed you Hagaki Wizard of MS-Words and other similar softwares. -- Japanese Native Language Project Takashi Nakamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
