Templates

Document Templates

Templates provide a quick way to create new documents form scratch. They define both the logical structure and appearance.

See background info for the personas.

Tasks

• Create new blank document
• Create new document from template
• Save document as template
• Edit template
• Manage templates

Template Styles

The different templates (in terms of task/structure) will share a similar style visually. Two basic visual styles are defined:

• Elegant -- A traditional/conservative look. Serif fonts.
• Modern -- Simple, fresh, contemporary. Sans Serif.
• Candybar -- Graphic, flashy.
• Accessible -- Emphasizing accessibility and simplicity as priority.

Dependencies

• Good set of quality templates to ship
• Online index of user-contributable templates

Template Repository

• Templates/website starting to create a website for managing templates; initial mail see: http://extensions.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=website&msgNo=524