Derek Meyer wrote:
On the release of OpenOffice 2.0, OOo has come up to (and surpassed)
Microsoft Office standards for the working professional. If you want to
increase the user base significantly, there are two things that I believe
must be done first and foremost:
* Implement a ClipArt system to compete with Microsoft's
* Improve Impress usability - see review posted all over online for
suggestions
These two things will increase appeal to the average home computer user.
With that audience, OpenOffice will gain tremendous ground - but until then,
the lack of ClipArt especially, will continue to distract attention from
your excellent suite. Potential users, such as schools and families, need
clipart available for projects, but without it they will continue to pay
ridiculous amounts for Microsoft Office.
Thanks for your consideration,
Derek Meyer
I also haven't read the reviews on Impress of which you speak, but from
posts to these lists I would not tend to argue with the idea that
Impress still needs work in some areas.
As to the ClipArt... I'm a pragmatic sort of fellow. One can find clip
art all over the place -- Web sites too numerous to mention (just Google
for it), CD's at Wal-mart with a few thousand images for $10, etc. For
that matter, I have absolutely no compunction against going to
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us and getting
clip art from Microsoft. There are no licensing restrictions that I can
see and the images work perfectly well in OOo.
I'm somewhat underwhelmed by the OpenClipArt project; don't get me
wrong, I'm behind the concept and I appreciate the efforts of the
contributors, but... well, way too many penguins for one thing. I've
tried to use it several times and I have yet to find an image that I
need. And until OOo can utilize SVG images, the WMF format from the MS
site is still the best choice for resizable images.
--
Rod
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