Re: [libreoffice-users] horrizantal ruler measurement in pixels instead of mm, cm, inch

Hi :)

Being bad-practice does not stop things from wide-scale adoption.  If we want to 
marginalise ourselves and become increasingly irrelevant then making a stand 
about this and other issues makes sense.  If, on the other hand, we want to be 
wisely used in the mainstream then we will have to adopt many appalling 
prospects such as ".docx" formats.  Best-practice is something we aim for when 
we can but it's not always practical.

In this case of DPI & pixels as measurements i think we have to accept the 
measurement as defined by MicroSoft rather than the slightly more sensible Mac 
definitions.

Regards from
Tom :)





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From: Cley Faye <cleyfaye@gmail.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 27 January, 2011 13:05:50
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] horrizantal ruler measurement in pixels instead 
of mm,cm,inch

2011/1/27 arun kumar <arunkumar413@gmail.com>

> yes,but my blog's post-body width  always remains same  because the
> template is designed like that. What i'm trying to tell you is that i
> want to set the ruler to be in the same measurement  of pixels. Almost
> every webpage or blog template  has pixels as units. Unfortunately we
> dont have pixels scale in Libre Offfice .
>
> I think we should have the pixel scale because we have an option of
> HTML document in the File>New>.
The thing is, good design practice tend to avoid doing things with pixel as
the measurement units, for the reason explained in this thread.
For example, if your display is set to a specific DPI, having a pixel
settings in libreoffice would allow you to set the text exactly like you
want... but if someone browsing your website have another settings, your
text will be all off for this user.
For those reason i don't think it make much sense to add a "pixel" unit in
LibreOffice, as it will be dependant of a given DPI setting anyway. For your
issue, you might want to either translate your "pixel" settings in cm (or
anything) while editing the document, or properly design your site to use
those unit instead of fixed pixel settings...

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