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Subject: Re: [office] Public comment #20 -- default print range in tables
2008/7/1 Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@sun.com>: > Dave Pawson wrote: >> The objection to leaving it unspecified has been quoted. >> Nasty user experience. > > User experience is always a difficult topic. Some consider it to be good > user experience to ask the user what to do. Not that Michael. The end user getting a nasty shock when the application does something different implementations. I don't think anyone considers that a good experience. IMHO it should drive all our decisions and be a first consideration. > > Anyway, I think what is essential is that ODF allows ^the user^to specify the print > range. Therefore an application or author or application that does want to > specify what exactly is printed can do so. And an author or application that > wants to give other application some freedom here, can do that, too. Yes to the first. No to the second. If the app can then Prompt the user else Undefined. > > >> >> Even on a server someone is asking to print *something* >> ~Ask them what they want to print. > > I'm not sure. You may send an e-mail to the person that started the job, or > something like that. :-) But is that really what you want if you print a > document where let's say the first 10x10 cells have some content and the > others are all empty only because the document does not say that exactly > these cells should be printed? I didn't say that. I'm saying it is undefined if the user has not made a choice *and* the application does not have a range stored. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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