OpenOffice Writer Book Preview Mode

OpenOffice.org 2.0

Document - ID	Specification Owner	Last Change	Status
	Gunnar Timm	2004-04-07	Final
Conforms to	
Applies to	Writer
Task ID(s)	i26117
Category	Feature

Abstract

View a document in the page preview where the pages are placed as the were printed as a book.

i-Team Members (The specification owner is part of the i-Team)

	Name	E-mail Address
User Experience	Christian Jansen (CJ)	christian.jansen@sun.com
Development	Oliver-Rainer Duesterhoeft (OD) Gunnar Timm (GT)	oliver-rainer.duesterhoeft@sun.com gunnar.timm@sun.com
Quality Assurance	Michael Rüss (MRU)	Michael.Ruess@Sun.COM
Documentation	Uwe Fischer (UFI)	uwe.fischer@sun.com

Approved for Implementation

	Approved by	Date
User Experience		
Development	Oliver-Rainer Duesterhoeft (OD) Gunnar Timm (GT)	2004-04-07 2004-04-07
Quality Assurance		
Documentation	Uwe Fischer (UFI)	2004-04-07
String Review		

Document Change History

Rev. Level	Change	Initials	Date
1.0	Misc corrections		02/26/04
1,1	Adding chapters 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3	OD	2004-03-10
1,2	Finalization	GT	2004-04-07

Contents

Glossary	1

1	Motivation	1

2	User Scenarios	1

3	Goals	1

4	Requirements and Dependencies	1

4.1	Requirements	1

4.2	Technical Dependencies	1

5	Detailed Specification	2

5.1	State of the art	2

5.2	Book preview mode	3

5.3	Extension of page preview toolbar	4

5.4	G11n	5

5.5	Error Conditions	5

6	Future Tasks	5

7	Notes	5

8	References	5

Glossary

Term	Description
page preview layout	The layout of the whole document determined by the number of columns and rows in the page preview options. It is comparable with a table layout, where the cells consist of document pages.
page preview layout page	A page preview layout page is the a set of document pages, which are laid out in the a certain number of columns and rows given by the page preview options.
position of a [document] page [in the page preview layout]	The position of a document page in the page preview layout is the number of the column and the number of the row the document page can be found in the page preview layout.

Motivation

When doing a pre-print check of the document in the page preview, it might makes sense to show how the document will look like when printed as a book.

User Scenarios

The user wants to check how the document will look like when printed and bounded to a book. Now the preview only shows the document as a sequence of pages, regardless of the location of a page. E.g. does not distinguish between left and right pages. In the future the user will get a view similar to a book lying in front of him.

Goals

Provide a book preview mode, which can be activated via a function in the page preview toolbar.

Requirements and Dependencies

Requirements

Add an icon to switch between the to possible preview modes.

Technical Dependencies

No further dependencies.

Detailed Specification

State of the art

In current page preview the document pages are laid out as given by the page preview options. The default page preview options on the first switch from normal view to page view are to show the document pages in the 2-column-1-row-layout.

In the background the whole document is laid out according to the given page preview options. A document page will get a certain position in the page preview layout, which will not change by scrolling or zooming. E.g., in a 3-column-2-row-layout the document page 7 has got the position 1st column in 3rd row in the page preview layout.

On switching to the page preview the visible area of the page preview layout will start with the row, which contains the page, in which the cursor position in the normal view is. The page in the 1st column of this row will get the focus. A complete page preview layout page will be shown in the current window. Thus, the zoom level will be adjusted accordingly.

The number of columns and rows of the page preview layout is remembered, when the user switches back to the normal view. Thus, if the user switches to the page preview again, the page preview opens with the last number of columns and rows.

Thus, due to the fact that a Writer document always starts with a right page, the user will see with a 2-column-X-row-layout in the first column right pages and in the second column left pages. This view isn't very sensible for a document, which will be printed as a book.

Illustration 1 of page preview in state of the art:
cursor in normal view is on page 3, previous page preview layout was 2-columns-and-3-rows

Book preview mode

In order to provide a better support for documents, which will be printed as a book, the book preview mode is introduced for the page preview. Activated via a new button in the toolbar the current page preview layout is switched to the book preview mode.

In the book preview mode the document pages will be laid out as given above with the little difference, that the position of the document page 1 will be 2nd column in 1st row. See following illustration:

Illustration 2 of page preview in book preview mode

By the book preview mode it is assured, that the document pages, that will be on the left side and on the right side, if the document is printed as a book, can be viewed side by side as in the book.

The status of the book preview mode – switched ON or OFF – will be remembered as the number of columns and rows of the page preview layout. Thus, that a user, who switches on the book preview mode in a page preview, gets the book preview mode again, if the user switches again to page preview.

Extension of page preview toolbar

A new icon is inserted in the page preview toolbar with a corresponding tooltip and a corresponding extended tooltip. Its inserted between the icons for 'Page Preview : Multiple Pages' and 'Zoom In'

Old toolbar:

New toolbar:

Please notice that the icon for “Two pages” is now used as the “Book preview” icon because it shows already a book. So the icon for “Two pages” is now new and similar to that, which is used for “Multiple pages”.There are no entries planed for the menu / context menu since there are no entries already available for e.g. “Two pages” or “Multiple pages”.

String list

Item	English	German	Comments
Tool Tip	Book preview	Buchansicht	

G11n

Pay attention in cases where pages in books are turned from left to right.

Error Conditions

Future Tasks

Right now the settings for this view are neither persistent nor document specific. In the future the mode of the preview should be stored with the document.

Notes

References

OpenOffice Writer Book Preview Mode

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<http://specs.openoffice.org/writer/bookpreview/bookpreview.sxw>

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