OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

Re: [office] Re: [xml-dev] A few questions about the file format.

  • 1.  Re: [office] Re: [xml-dev] A few questions about the file format.

    Posted 08-15-2003 15:40
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    Subject: Re: [office] Re: [xml-dev] A few questions about the file format.


    On Friday 15 August 2003 13:48, Michael Brauer wrote:
    > However, the CSS2/SVG font-face declaration has the same purpose but 
    > offers more powerfull font description. So I suggest we adopt it and 
    > leave the "style:font-style-name" in the specification only for 
    > compatibility reasons.
    OK, thanks.
    
    > > Seems very difficult for another application to implement this, if the choice
    > > of the color (depending on the bg color) isn't better specified. I suggest that
    > > the actual algorithm to determine the text color from the bg color be part
    > > of the file format documentation...
    > 
    > The style:use-window-font-color specifies that the document window's 
    > text color should be used. It can be specified either by the operating 
    > system or the office application, but it is not document specific and 
    > can vary from system to system. Since this can result in unreadable 
    > documents if the font and the background color both are very dark or 
    > very light, black is used on very light background colors and dark on 
    > very bright colors. Ony may include the actual algorithm for this, but 
    > I'm not sure whether this is realy required, because there will be no 
    > guarentee that a certain color is used anyway, and whatever color is 
    > used, it is correct.
    
    Ah, I see. Only information I'm missing: when printing, which color will
    be used? Will that be always black?
    
    What about the background color? Can it come from the system palette too?
    (If not, then this is a feature I would like to see in the OASIS format).
    
    -- 
    David FAURE, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
    Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
    


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