Hi Caolán, On Monday, 2011-09-05 13:59:16 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:
On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 01:22 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 02:39:37PM +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:But before going there, I just need to make sure that we are on the same page wrt keeping the new algorithm and moving on to fixing whatever needs fixing.I'm not sure we want to keep the new algorithm as default, given that there are probably many areas in several applications to be adapted to the new behavior. Maybe best we make that an option until necessary changes are done. Opinions?That fine with me, even having the new algorithm as an off by default option would be fine.*speculation*, presumably this would have to be bubbled down at an OutputDevice level or something.
Sounds like an approach, though I don't have any idea how that could be accomplished given the different layout engines. However, I fear that too many tweaks exist in application code because of all those "in my Excel|Word|PowerPoint it is a pixel taller/smaller" complaints. While the casual user maybe could be convinced that now we do it the right way, for forms and legal or professional documents this may indeed be a problem, especially if a print-out suddenly consists of less pages or forms aren't lined up with pages anymore. Eike -- PGP/OpenPGP/GnuPG encrypted mail preferred in all private communication. Key ID: 0x293C05FD - 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD
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