Re: [libreoffice-design] Page numbers on background

2011/6/23 Astron <heinzlesspam@googlemail.com>:
> THE SURVEY:
> 1. What's your screen size and resolution (most of the time)?
> 2. What paper format do you use?
> 3. Do you work in full-screen?
> 4. Do you use any multi-page mode (for instance two pages in one screen?

My responses:
1. 23" / 1920 * 1080
2. A4 (sometimes A5) mostly portrait in Writer, landscape in 
Calc
3. Sometimes.
4. Yes, often comparing texts, translating, versioning.

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> @RGB ES/Mirek:
> > Which page number? The "physical" page number, the "printed" page number, both?
> > At least on Writer it is quite common that page 1 is the "physical"
> > page 7, for example.
> > I vote for "both" ;)
>
> I'm there with Mirek voting for only physical page number. It's seems
> more useful for e.g. finding out on which page you are or finding a
> print range. As Mirek said, the printed page number is also displayed
> on the doument itself. Nevertheless there are a few other solutions
> here:
> * make it configurable (which would be lowest common denominator, but
> given that LibO already has so many knobs, buttons and screws this
> seems a bad solution
> * present both, but only if they _differ_, with the "printed" value
> smaller and below the "physical" value.

I recall a complex report I once (ages ago) had to manage in 
MSWord; with appendixes in Roman numerals, lots of 
independently numbered sections, indexes and stuff. Quite a 
mess, and the poor program choked regularly on the page 
ranges (renumbering the sections). Getting around was not 
easy, I would have liked indicators of both 'nominal' page 
number and 'real/physical' page number. Both in the status 
bar and as tooltip on the scrollbar.

Something like: [nominal - physical / total]
e.g:  xvii - 56/264 and  3 - 59/264

Hope you get the idea from my meager explanation, maybe it's 
too complicated anyway.

Best regards,
Sveinn í Felli


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