Re: [css3-gcpm] paged presentations, page floats, paged navigation between documents from Håkon Wium Lie on 2011-10-12 (www-style@w3.org from October 2011)

From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:56:38 +0200
To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <20117.47286.392037.549513@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

Also sprach Brad Kemper:

 > > Paged Media currently always sends the block-axis overflow (or
 > > vertical-axis, I dunno which) to the next page.  Inline (/horizontal)
 > > overflow is hidden.  Presumably this should work the same.
 > 
 > Are you sure about that? I would expect a grid of pages, as when
 > printing from Excel or Adobe Illustrator.

Indeed, there's a use case for those kind of printouts. But they are
slightly beyond Paged Media and I don't think it's too complex to
address in that spec.

-h&kon
              Håkon Wium Lie                          CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com                  http://people.opera.com/howcome

Received on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:57:14 UTC