XP Mail Archive: XP> Image Rotation/Orientation in XHTML-Pri

XP> Image Rotation/Orientation in XHTML-Print

From: BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1) (jim.bigelow@hp.com)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2003 - 16:01:22 EDT

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    Hello,

    There were several discussions last year [1, 2] about how to handle image
    orientation in XHTML-Print documents. The PWG has asked the W3C's CSS
    Working Group to consider CSS mechanisms to specify the orientation of an
    image with respect to the document's orientation in 90 degree increments
    first and at an arbitrary rotation second.

    I'm asking for comments about the type of rotations needed:
    1. rotation about the center of the image
    2. rotation about an edge: flip horizontally or vertically
    3. rotation about a diagonal
    4. rotation about any (x,y) point in Cartesian space, inside or outside of
    the image
    5. other (please specify)

    The rotation is independent of rotations implied by portrait versus
    landscape printing.
    For example, consider a document that contains 2 paragraphs of text printed
    in portrait orientation on a letter sized piece of paper. An image placed
    within the text would also have portrait orientation. The same document
    printed in landscape orientation would require that the printer rotate both
    the text and the image. However, the text and image would still have the
    same orientation with respect to each other, regardless of portrait or
    landscape printing.

    This information will help the CSS working group specify css property that
    will meet the needs of the user community.

    You may send comments to either the W3C style mailing list
    (www-style@w3.org), this mailing list (xp@pwg.org), or directly to me.

    Jim Bigelow,
    Editor: XHTML-Print & CSS Print Profile
    W3C HTML and CSS Working Groups
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xhtml-print-20030729/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/css-print/
    Hewlett-Packard
    208-396-2068
    jim.bigelow@hp.com

    [1] http://www.pwg.org/xhtml-print/minutes/Minutes-April-17-2002.txt
    [2] http://www.pwg.org/xhtml-print/minutes/Minutes-June-24-2002.html



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