Hello, I'm nearly finished with my thesis, which I've composed in OOo. I ran into very few problems, but I have some comments/suggestions for using graphics in writer:
1) Postscript support. That's probably asking a lot, but it would save me having to open each one in gimp, rotate and crop, then save as png... 2) Frames are awesome! My biggest problem with in line graphics in MS Office XP is that when I change the size of my graphics, they sometimes go flying onto the next/prev page on top or (worse) under other graphics, with or without its caption. With frames, that never happens, I size the image in the frame and then place the frame where I want (though sometimes the frame jumps to the next page if I resize it incorrectly). However, a graphic only gets a frame if you add a caption, so my suggestion is an option that will always wrap graphics in a frame. I use the frame as a placeholder (i.e. for smaller graphics... I set the frame to the width of the page so text doesn't wrap)... so it's a very useful thing. 3) Resizing. A big thing for me is keeping the scale of my images. I really like the shift+leftclick to preserve scale, however... sometimes (I haven't been able to isolate this), the height of a frame will not scale. I.E. I hold shift and click the corner of a frame and drag it smaller. The outline scaled properly, but when I let go the width changes and the height stays the same. I'd look into that 4) I like the positioning buttons for graphics (I.E. horizontal center), but they do not appear when a graphic is in a frame, so I've had to go into the graphics menu to center them. Anyway... definitely keep up the good work. I'm happy I could design, process and compose my entire thesis using open source software: yorick (programming environment), The Gimp and, of course, OOo. Cheers, -Lance --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
