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From: "Bruce Martin" on 10 May 2010 02:53 Dear Mauro: Depending on the role, type and degree of sight disability there are work arounds to accommodate. I used to do this for a friend who was well into his 90s and had macular degeneration. It took some experimenting but in the end he could send/receive email with his native country. Effectively, you would want to create the document in the normal way, then save it again with a modified filename. Then modify the 2nd file as needed. In the event that the person is to read all his stuff on his own screen, broad adjustments can be made to the screen resolution, etc to accommodate limited visual clarity, partial colour blindness and other situations. Each case is highly individual. Cheers to both of you, Bruce Martin in Canada. -----Original Message----- From: Mauro Castanho Claudino [mailto:claudino(a)kth.se] Sent: May 8, 2010 9:54 AM To: discuss(a)openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] Texting (writing) for Visual Impaired Dear Openoffice.org developers, One particular feature I would really like to see implemented in future versions of OpenOffice_Writer is the possibility of writing documents with one font typeface in web layout mode (or similar) but be able to save the document or export it (ex. in .pdf format) with another (customizable) font type(s), etc... according to a pre-established template for example. I know this seems somewhat unorthodox, but if you consider people with visual disabilities this is strongly preferable and important. I don't know up to which extent this aspect is part of your own policies as software developers, but I can assure you that for visual impaired persons this feature has a very strong impact! Also, coupled with this feature, the possibility of upon writing the document to have a blue screen background (or another high contrast color) with written white text to increase the contrast, even with low sized-fonts. The main idea is to be able to write a document with a 'blueprint' type background with white text but be able at the same time to save the document or export it with customizable settings. Also, this feature should be file related, meaning that each setting should be independent from file-to-file. This way, I can write a document and save it in a blue screen mode according to my own settings to be able to continue writing it later on, and another person be able to use the same word processor without the need to change the "my" settings to his/her own preferences. The preferences and settings should be independent and file related. The idea is to write documents according to the description made (independent of formatting for instance) and the output made customizable according to the preferences (type of font, size of font, layout of the document, etc.). Hope I was clear. Thank you very much for the attention. /Mauro Claudino. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org
From: "Bruce Martin" on 10 May 2010 02:56 Dear Mauro: How about this? -----Original Message----- From: Mauro Castanho Claudino [mailto:claudino(a)kth.se] Sent: May 8, 2010 9:54 AM To: discuss(a)openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] Texting (writing) for Visual Impaired Dear Openoffice.org developers, One particular feature I would really like to see implemented in future versions of OpenOffice_Writer is the possibility of writing documents with one font typeface in web layout mode (or similar) but be able to save the document or export it (ex. in .pdf format) with another (customizable) font type(s), etc... according to a pre-established template for example. I know this seems somewhat unorthodox, but if you consider people with visual disabilities this is strongly preferable and important. I don't know up to which extent this aspect is part of your own policies as software developers, but I can assure you that for visual impaired persons this feature has a very strong impact! Also, coupled with this feature, the possibility of upon writing the document to have a blue screen background (or another high contrast color) with written white text to increase the contrast, even with low sized-fonts. The main idea is to be able to write a document with a 'blueprint' type background with white text but be able at the same time to save the document or export it with customizable settings. Also, this feature should be file related, meaning that each setting should be independent from file-to-file. This way, I can write a document and save it in a blue screen mode according to my own settings to be able to continue writing it later on, and another person be able to use the same word processor without the need to change the "my" settings to his/her own preferences. The preferences and settings should be independent and file related. The idea is to write documents according to the description made (independent of formatting for instance) and the output made customizable according to the preferences (type of font, size of font, layout of the document, etc.). Hope I was clear. Thank you very much for the attention. /Mauro Claudino. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org
From: Malte Timmermann on 10 May 2010 04:57 For me this sounds like a feature request for a general draft mode, which could be helpful in different scenarios, including the scenario described below: In draft mode the current page format would be ignored, as well as all font information. All text would use the the same font. Font and background color for that mode would be configurable. You could switch seamlessly between draft mode and layout mode. Not sure what would happen to text frames, images and drawing object. I guess they would appear near the anchor position, w/o taking layout information into account. I don't agree that there should be any file specific configuration. Makes sense? Malte. Mauro Castanho Claudino wrote, On 05/08/10 15:54: > Dear Openoffice.org developers, > One particular feature I would really like to see implemented in future versions of OpenOffice_Writer is the possibility of writing documents with one font typeface in web layout mode (or similar) but be able to save the document or export it (ex. in .pdf format) with another (customizable) font type(s), etc... according to a pre-established template for example. I know this seems somewhat unorthodox, but if you consider people with visual disabilities this is strongly preferable and important. I don't know up to which extent this aspect is part of your own policies as software developers, but I can assure you that for visual impaired persons this feature has a very strong impact! Also, coupled with this feature, the possibility of upon writing the document to have a blue screen background (or another high contrast color) with written white text to increase the contrast, even with low sized-fonts. The main idea is to be able to write a document with a �blueprint� type backg round with white text but be able at the same time to save the document or export it with customizable settings. Also, this feature should be file related, meaning that each setting should be independent from file-to-file. This way, I can write a document and save it in a blue screen mode according to my own settings to be able to continue writing it later on, and another person be able to use the same word processor without the need to change the �my� settings to his/her own preferences. The preferences and settings should be independent and file related. The idea is to write documents according to the description made (independent of formatting for instance) and the output made customizable according to the preferences (type of font, size of font, layout of the document, etc.). Hope I was clear. Thank you very much for the attention. > /Mauro Claudino. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org
From: Lars Nooden on 10 May 2010 05:07
On 05/10/2010 11:57 AM, Malte Timmermann wrote: > For me this sounds like a feature request for a general draft mode, > which could be helpful in different scenarios, including the scenario > described below: Malte, it sounds vaguely like the ability CSS has to provide different styles based on the output medium. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html Using medium-specific style sheets would allow what Mauro had proposed, that PDF (paper) have one style and that the WWW have another. I hope that it is remembered that the Web is not paper and that while an author or web designer can recommend specific layouts and appearances, they should do their best to allow the page to be viewed under any circumstances that the user may choose instead. That includes not just typefaces but also other measurements including aspect ratios. So in the link above, the examples give in 7.2.1 are *poor* examples in that they use fixed measurements (i.e. px and pt) rather than relative measurements. /Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org |