Jeff Cours wrote:

> Howdy --
> 
> I use OO 2.1 Writer to take notes in class.  I'm running it on a Windows 
> Tablet PC.  I would really like the the ability to pop out the stylus 
> and draw a diagram into the middle of my notes.  I currently have 
> ctrl-shift-D bound to insert a frame where I can use the drawing tools 
> to create a diagram, but the drawing tools are too cumbersome to keep up 
> with a professor writing on the board full blast.  Even the freehand 
> drawing tool has to take time to find the endpoints and to all the nifty 
> things that let you grab it and move it around, by which time the prof's 
> moved on to the next thing. 
> 
> What I really want is something similar to Word's "insert ink comment": 
> a very fast thread that just grabs the mouse position, as long as the 
> button's down, and throws the bits into the frame as a bitmap drawing.  
> Ideally, it should be fast enough to capture written words, though I 
> don't care at all if it can do OCR. It would also be wonderful if it 
> supported the ability to erase (preferably by letting me use the 
> "eraser" end of the stylus, as some of the tablet-aware software does).
> 
> Does anyone know of such a feature, or an extension that might provide 
> that feature?

As you are using Windows you could insert an OLE object with MSPaint. It
should be possible to create a macro that inserts such an object and by
assigning it to a button or shortcut you can insert it pretty fast.

Ciao,
Mathias

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Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer
OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS
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