Re: Margins for A4 sheet

[Chris Green <cl isbd net>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:05:43PM +0300, Dumitru Ursu wrote:
> 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)
I thinks that's right.  The inexperienced user (me, for example) tends
to dive in with a diagram that they want to draw before thinking about
details of how it will scale when they want to print it or put it into
a web page or whatever.

They complete a lovely diagram that looks good on the computer screen
and then find it's rather difficult to turn it into what they actually
want on paper (or web).

-- 
Chris Green