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Subject: Re: [office] Public comment #20 -- default print range in tables
On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote: > Dave Pawson wrote: > > 2008/6/30 David Faure <faure@kde.org>: > > > >> I have asked myself, is this app-specific behavior or should it be in the spec? > >> The difference it makes is: if you send a document to someone else and tell > >> them "print this!", then a difference in behavior between two applications would > >> indeed break interoperability somewhat; the receiving user will print something rather > >> different than what the sender of the document intended. Page breaks at > >> a different place could rather ruin the printed document. > >> So, contrary to my first reaction of "this is app-specific behavior", I believe > >> it is useful to have this in the specification. > > We have to consider here that we are talking about the default print > range only, that is, the one that is used if the document does not > explicitly stores one in the document. That means, if an author wants to > make sure that another application uses the same print range, then she > or he can specify the print range in the document. Even more, > applications may store the print range with every document of this > appears to be reasonable. I see. I totally agree, please disregard my previous post. Interoperability comes from storing the desired print range in the document, rather than forcing N implementations to use the exact same algorithm for a default value. It's much much simpler to just expect those implementations to write out what they want. > For this reason, I believe it is reasonable to leave it up to the > application to calculate a reasonable print range. Authors/Application > that do not want to depend on this may just specify the print the range. Agreed. > > I'm not sure about page breaks (A4 vs letter David?) No solution there, obviously :) Not the common case though. -- David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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