Background tool & page background setting

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Montag, 4. Juni 2012, 19:54:03 schrieb C. Boemann:
> On Monday 04 June 2012 19:45:36 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Am Montag, 4. Juni 2012, 19:39:06 schrieb Friedrich W. H. Kossebau:
> > > is anyone currently working on working support for setting the page
> > > background, master page and drawing page?
> > > 
> > > I would like to be able to control how the page looks like. The
> > > Background tool does not really work for me on the page (and elsewhere,
> > > hm...), though I can set a background by the tool's config widget. How
> > > should I use that tool? Or is it broken?
> > 
> > Sent before re-reading, should have been:
> > 
> > is anyone currently working on working support for setting the page
> > background, both for master pages and for drawing pages?
> > 
> > I would like to be able to control how the page looks like. The Background
> > tool does not really work for me on the page (and elsewhere, hm...),
> > though
> > I can set a background image by the tool's config widget, but not a color
> > or even a gradient. How should I use that tool? Or is it broken?
> > 
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> Are you talking stage? the background tool is not accessible in Words at
> least
> 
> The pagetool in Words is currently being developed by a SoK student, and the
> ui will change a lot, so please don't work on the pagetool.

Okay, so will ignore Words for now. But same problem with Karbon/Stage/Flow. 
In Karbon I can at least set the canvas color. But that's it.

Will the pagetool be reused outside of Words?
 
> You can work on the rendering/loading/saving part of it though

Mh, less interesting if there is no UI to control it :)


So what about the other question, might have been ignored due to my double 
posting, but even more interesting to me, so repasting here:

Then I wonder if it possible to control if the background should be printed or 
not. The attribute "style:print-content" seems not applyable, did I see 
correctly? Or is the page background never printed anyway?

I have a certain use-case in mind:
I want to print with black color on a given sheet of paper, either a pre-
printed formular or just some coloured paper. And I want to see already on the 
screen how the print-out will look like on the printed paper. I.e. the 
background should look like the paper/sheet, but just for display, when 
printing just the stuff I added should be turned into burned toner/dried ink.

If there is no such attribute, I want to propose that we at least create one 
within Calligra (and work on getting this in the spec). 

Cheers
Friedrich