Background tool & page background setting

[t.zachmann at zagge.de]

Hello,

setting the background in stage and flow is possible when the background tool is selected by changing the fill in the styles docker.
Do you have some ideas on making this more discoverable?

Thorsten

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On 04/06/2012 20:02 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:

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

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