Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
1) Can we make the figures have chapter numbers
Yes, but it may be more hassle than it's worth.
Fair enough, I thought it was an easy button to push.
I've found that the easy stuff often has the weirdest unintended
consequences, and/or some "gotcha" in the setup. Murphy's law, I
reckon...
When you are done,
I would be interested if you created a chapter or file called "How to
make a book." I suppose it would be the same as the master document
chapter, yea?
Probably the same, though I plan to do a specialised version
about our books, covering specific choices I made, problems
encountered, solutions found (or, if no solution, then what
choices we made to avoid the problem), etc. The master doc
chapter needs to be a bit more generic.
... many (most) callouts or other OOo drawing objects
(lines, circles, etc) added to screen captures move away from their
intended location, or go behind the screen capture; the cure for this
is to put the screen capture and all the associated callouts or
drawing objects into OOoDraw or GIMP or some other package, group
them, and save or export them as one graphic.
Should we do this when we make the callouts.
Yes.
I suppose it is too late now, and eventually we will be editing in 2.0.
All the problem figures have to be redone before we can publish
the final version of these books. They goof up much worse in
1.9.X than in 1.1.4, but I don't know if that will change in a
later beta. It's also possible that once the files are saved as
.odt, then the problem will go away... but I won't count on it.
One of these days I'll do a test of saving a set of .sxw files as
.odt and see how that goes for creating a book with a master doc
in 1.9.X. Hmmm... if you get bored, Peter, you could try that
yourself. :-)
Are their issues filed? Should we file issues about this?
I plan to do that, but I need to (a) do some more testing, and
(b) create a set of small files to use as an example to attach to
the issue. (I've got several issues to prepare and file.)
Some other problems may have to do with OOo itself; I'm not sure. One
problem is that a PDF created by 1.9.X is considerably larger than a
PDF created by 1.1.4...
Has this been reported? Do we know why?
I believe it has been reported. As for why, I assume a lot of the
increase (if not all) is the extra code resulting from the
bookmarking and cross-referencing function in 1.9.X.
Cheers, Jean
