Re: printing suggestions

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Alexander Kirillov wrote:

> OK: I did some major rewriting of "Printing" section of the manual in
> gnome_1_4 branch. In particular, I backported explanation of
> "Columns/rows to repeat" option (which started this thread) but also
> made quite few other changes. I'll try to update HEAD branch too, but
> not before I actually try Gnumeric for GNOME 2 - Andreas says this
> dialog has changed. 


Yes, (and is still changing). For example it has only 3 tabs left, which 
of course greatly affects the documentation.


> One quick question: the text below is result of my own observations. Can
> developers confirm that it is accurate?
>
> --------------
>  It is important to understand that Print Setup dialog sets the options
> for printing the current workbook.


FALSE. It contains options for printing the current sheet. (This is 
really somewhat tricky, since in 1.0.x every sheet has its own setup but 
 the setup of the current sheet is used for any one print job even if 
that print job prints several sheets. (I am thinking of changing this in 
  cvs head so that each sheet uses its own print setup since I believe 
this to be more natural.)

> These options are part of the
> workbook; they are saved when you save the workbook and loaded when you
> open a workbook. For example, assume that you are currently working with
> workbook Workbook1 and set in Print Setup dialog Orientation: landscape,
> then save the workbook. If you open Workbook1 later and print it, it
> will be printed using landscape orientation.


See the caveat above. You will have set landscape in the current sheet 
only. If you print with the same current sheet, you are correct.

> However, if you open
> another workbook (say, Workbook2) and print it, it will be printed using
> orientation which was set for Workbook2 (most probably, portrait).


yes.

Andreas


> ----------------
>
> Sasha
>  
> On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 22:54, Jody Goldberg wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:46:26PM -0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> >
> > > Added explanation to "Printing" section of the manual  in HEAD branch of
> > > CVS. By the way:
> > Can you back port to the gnome_1_4 branch so that it gets into 1.0.7 ?
> > Or would you prefer that I do it ?
> >
> >
> > > 1. "Printing" section could use some editing/rewriting - if no one
> > > objects, I plan to work on it next week. 
> > Great.
> >
> >
> > > 2. It seems that it'd be a good idea to add "Help" button to print setup
> > > dialog - some of the options are non-trivial.
> > Good thought.  Andreas is working on the print dialog now.
>
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