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["Ivan Lezhnjov Jr." <ivan.lezhnjov.jr AT gmail.com>]

Friday 22 August 2008, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting "Ivan Lezhnjov Jr." <ivan.lezhnjov.jr AT gmail.com>:
> > Okay, just take a look at these screenshots and you'll understand what
> > this issue is all about:
> >
> > http://217.117.75.2:8001/screenshots/kword.png
> > http://217.117.75.2:8001/screenshots/acroread.png
> >
> > This is how a A4 page looks like on my system. This issue appeared
> > only two or
> > three stable grimoire releases ago (does it sound like English to you?).
> >
> > This issue doesn't seem to be program specific... in a sense. Neither
> > kword nor acroread were set up to represent standard A4 page like this.
> >
> > So, I presume it is some other software that defines the size of page
> > formats system-wide but I don't really know what software that is.
> >
> > If you happen to know how to fix or at least know where to start
> > troubleshooting this issue let me know, please.
>
> I've never tried A4, so I don't know what it should look like as
> regards to those screenshots, and mine always are set to US Letter
> anyways. We do not have an /etc/papersize, but perhaps this Ubuntu
> issue will help: http://www.computechgroup.com/?p=327 or perhaps this
> Debian info (also for /etc/papersize):
> http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-customizing.en.html
>
> Or are you complaining that the programs are showing you zoomed out,
> instead of fitting to the width of the screen? That's a user setting
> for most programs, or the programs changed their default in recent
> versions.
>
> -sandalle

The issue is that A4 paper size in Kword should visually correspond to a set 
of width and height proportions appropriate for this type of ISO standard, 
i.e. 210,00mm width and 297,00mm height (like in this screenshot with 
OpenOffice Writer [0]. Kword seems to have paper width & height set for ISO 
A4 correctly but the application visually represents these proportions in a 
damn wrong way [1]. A4 should visually look like this [2] (note that I 
changed paper orientation to make it look like A4 in this screenshot).

Note also, that rulers, specifically the left starting margin of a horizontal 
ruler, look fucked up too.

Your reply instigated to look me a bit deeper into the issue and I figured 
that it might be that Kword's XML template for A4 (A4.kwt) got somehow 
botched. I'm not really familiar with KWT template syntax but it looks like 
there's something wrong. I'm going to recast koffice and see if that helps.

[1] - http://217.117.75.2:8001/screenshots/kword-1.png
[2] - http://217.117.75.2:8001/screenshots/kword-2.png

Thanks for reply and instigating me to recast koffice this early in the 
morning =)

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