Re: Margins for A4 sheet

[Dumitru Ursu <dima ceata org>]

On 06/10/2014 10:59 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> Well I for one have (more than once) said that I'd like it to be much
> easier than it is at present to print diagrams on A4.
>
> Surely the usual way most people thank about a 'picture of something'
> is one that can be presented fairly sensibly on a sheet of paper.
> Creating a huge diagram and printing bits of it seems an rather odd
> way of going about things.
>
> Also, the 'big diagram printed in separate bits' doesn't produce
> something that's easy to bind into a document.  What one wants is
> *separate*  diagrams with annotated interconnections, lines simply
> going off the edge to somewhere on another page are not really very
> helpful.
Yup, it's a user experience problem. I think fexibility is what 
developers had in mind, and I agree that a good
program should allow for flexible workflows, and advanced features: but 
the defaults should be sensible, oriented towards
common use-cases (one could argue what a common use case is, but that's 
not that hard to find out, with a poll or something)

Dima.