Re: Margins for A4 sheet

[Thomas Harding <tom thomas-harding name>]

Badly quoted below :

 info on current printed area in centimeters or inches would be useful to figure out paging 

(beware that ms-foo print servers makes regularly jokes, especially with anything but A4. Which will unlikely 
be splitted on A4 (an empty or "locked' tray is sufficient) )

Find the bleeding edges, Luke :p

BTW, I never looked at an ''auto print crop marks'' option (i'm not a tree killer).

Also associated with something like "sozi" Inkscape plugin (with direct view in a dia XML markeup extention, 
then JS/viewports for svg or wathever at export), 

It would be a killer feature!

For whose don't know, effect is spotting/clipping on (rotateds as needed) rectangles (viewports are for svg 
what bounding boxes are  in PostScript).

Not a troll: currently I need to export to svg, then half blind inkscape/sozi edit.  also I never tried a PDF 
export of Sozi ''animations'', and expect PDF 1.n scripting is out of scope).

Sozi is especially good on schematics presentations (teaching, ...)

And thats keeps intact ''unfinite area''... 

B Regards,

TSFH.


Hans Breuer <hans breuer org> a écrit :
> At 10.06.2014 12:35, Dumitru Ursu wrote:
> > On 06/10/2014 12:29 PM, Dumitru Ursu wrote:

> Actually I have given some thoughts on an optional, more page oriented
> view 
> but it goes more along the line of multi page programs like Keynote, 
> Powerpoint etc.
> And your problem at hand would not magically vanish with this, because 
> still the user needs to decide how many objects should fit to one page.
>
> > Having one A4 sheet by default is the way people are acustomed to
> work.
> If you are not willing to adapt do Dia's approach, it's probably best
> to 
> switch to a program which fits better to you and your needs. Or read
> and 
> understand Michael's response:
>   https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2014-June/msg00028.html
>
> > Or maybe some watermarking at each grid intersection: <This is page
> 1,
> > 600x800px>
> I dont understand why page size should be reflected in pixels. Almost
> all 
> of Dia's shapes are fully scaleable without any information loss.

Not so bad idea from him, even wrong : a watetmark of "current printed area #n on m", expressed in 
centimeters or inches - accorded to current page setup (so you can figure current scale, estimate how it will 
look like, eg on paper or on screen projection.

I think notably about the ''Sozi'' plugin from ''Inkscape'' (which unfortunately need to open the file 
simutaneously in a web browser, or having a clock and a rotate fonctions brain enableds. A task where 
MS-Windows sucks with it's fuckin file locking behavior).

Sozi is based on viewports and something like smil JavaScript enabled.

BTW:

We could poll on polls usability !

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