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Subject: Requirement: page and line break indicators
+NAME Sean McGrath +CONTACT seanmcgrath@propylon.com +CATEGORY (select one or more from below) import-export +SCOPE (select one or more from below) text +USE CASE I have a set of ODT documents to batch process into a report. The report needs to cite locations in the ODT documents using page and line number. +DESCRIPTION Unlike some "high end" wordprocessor/DTP packages such as FrameMaker, ODT provides no way to access hard/soft page breaks or hard/soft line breaks. Obviously, the soft line/page break information is volatile - opening up the same ODT in another ODT processor will most likely result in new soft line/page breaks. However, there are many high-volume usage scenarios where having access to line/page number information of the last rendering is very useful. Examples include citation of line/page info in reports, back-linking from HTML to PDF on a page-by-page basis, pre-flight checks etc. This problem of page/line view on one side and content-oriented object flow view is as old as the hills. I'm a big fan of designing around the latter but facilitating the former. I.e. allowing ODT implementations to optionally record soft page/line break information in point elements or perhaps processing instructions. Sean
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