mike scott wrote:
On 28 Oct 2005 at 11:57, Robin Laing wrote:
...
The question is how much accuracy to you really need in a document.
The issue here isn't really inch or mm but precision. Housed are
built with less precision than what you are asking for. Thousands of
an inch? Come on. I
is the resolution of a standard laser printer these days? @
1200 dpi, one dot is less than .001 inches!!!
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From: Jonathon Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 10:05 AM
To: users@openoffice.org
Subject: Re: [users] Measurement Unit = Inch: need more than
Andrew Fisk wrote:
Laser printers are not really 1200 DPI -- have you ever noticed that
you have Resolution Enhancement Technology you get 600 DPI dots that
are Half Stepped to make for a smoother line.
That is true of some laser printers. Others are true 1200DPI
Look at how the paper
is
On 28 Oct 2005 at 11:57, Robin Laing wrote:
...
The question is how much accuracy to you really need in a document.
The issue here isn't really inch or mm but precision. Housed are
built with less precision than what you are asking for. Thousands of
an inch? Come on. I have a hard time
The issue is not the precison with which Open Office can place an
element on a page -- you can only specify 2 decimal place when your
default unit is set to points, You get get a much smaller increment
(.00014) -- it's just that if you are used to working in inches
switching to a
Robin wrote:
Can you purchase a ruler with a 100th of an inch scale?
Yes.
and even if you can't /measure/ .01 inches accurately by eye,
This depends upon one's trade. I know several people who eye measure
(accurately) to the thousandth of an inch.
xan
jonathon
--
Does your Office Suite
= Inch: need more than 2 decimal
places
Robin wrote:
Can you purchase a ruler with a 100th of an inch scale?
Yes.
and even if you can't /measure/ .01 inches accurately by eye,
This depends upon one's trade. I know several people who eye measure
(accurately) to the thousandth of an inch.
xan
I have been following this since the beginning. I think an essential
point is being missed.
If the goal is to have OO used as widely as possible then any artificial
barriers are an issue. It appears that it will be very little work,
perhaps less than the work exerted in this thread. No
John wrote:
But the user should not have to use a less familiar unit of measurement.
For the majority of the world --- which means _every_ country but the
united states --- the inch is the unknown and much less familiar unit
of measurement. [Wondering if South African law still classifies use
Hello John
I'm with you on this. It seems such a small thing to correct.
When I print documents that have large photos the precise setting is
lost at only 2 decimal places. I too am more familiar with inches and
I'm not from the US of A - I just happen to be a pre-decimal Brit! (not
related to
On Friday 28 October 2005 04:52 am, Wangshanpo wrote:
Hello John
I'm with you on this. It seems such a small thing to correct.
When I print documents that have large photos the precise setting is
lost at only 2 decimal places. I too am more familiar with inches and
I'm not from the US of A -
Thanks for the input Dan, and for your encouragement for me to broaden
and develop my intelligence. The point you are missing here is that I
and many others prefer to work in inches - not that we are incapable of
thinking outside some prescribed boundary. In every other area of my
life I use
Wangshanpo wrote:
Thanks for the input Dan, and for your encouragement for me to broaden
and develop my intelligence. The point you are missing here is that I
and many others prefer to work in inches - not that we are incapable of
thinking outside some prescribed boundary. In every other area
I suggest that you enter an Request for Enhancement (RFE) into Issue
Tracker as this is the best way to have requests such as this evaluated.
If you haven't already registered, do the following:
1. To file an issue you must register with OOo by clicking the
My Pages tab and
Wangshanpo wrote:
Thanks for the input Dan, and for your encouragement for me to broaden
and develop my intelligence. The point you are missing here is that I
and many others prefer to work in inches - not that we are incapable of
thinking outside some prescribed boundary. In every other area
Andrew wrote:
Does it really make a difference?
Yes. [I've seen fights break out becuase the line width was 0.002
inches, rather than 0.003 inches. You might not be able to tell the
difference, but the layout rtist, the designer, and the printer will
all look at that 0.002 line and see that
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 18:33 +, Jonathon Blake wrote:
Andrew wrote:
Does it really make a difference?
Yes. [I've seen fights break out becuase the line width was 0.002
inches, rather than 0.003 inches. You might not be able to tell the
difference, but the layout rtist, the
Using Writer with a Measurement Unit of Inch:
When trying to set a Tab Stop dimension, there is a limit of 2 decimal
places. A dimension of .375 (3/8) gets rounded to .38.
The same thing happens when trying to set a Grid Resolution dimension.
The same thing happens when trying to set a Fixed
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