If your sure that this feature doesn't exist in OOo today, lodge an enhancement request using www.openoffice.org. People can then vote on the issue and if there is enough votes it may be included in later releases of OOo.
/paul On 11/13/05, JinXation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please excuse me for not explaining omr. I've recently joined a company that > has a product line of folder inserter systems. Within the folder inserters > there are addon components that interfaces the system to create a sorting > function within processed papers. Simply put OMR is Optical mark > recognition. OMR is a series of six marks within either the top left corner > of the page or the bottom row of the page. The marks are configured within > different levels of security. The easiest format works with a beginning > marker for the first page, and the final marker located on the last page. > This concept has more complex page checks. This system is utilized by many > different folding and inserting systems. Not to insult your intelligence, > but if you're wondering what folder inserters are, it's a mechanical system > that folds a number of pages and inserts the pages and an optional return > envelope into another envelope, seals and closes the envelope. Large > corporations going through thousands of pages need a way of checking the > page order. That's where OMR comes in. The insertion of this small barcode > is usually done with a program that costs thousands of dollars. I find this > as horribly unfair. I also find this as quite a wonderful feature located in > an office application. Microsoft does not utilize this feature in their > office suite. There are very few ways of accomplishing this feature, and > again, that's where the outrageously overpriced software comes in. There are > no rights for the feature legally. If you would like the specs on the OMR > field, I would be more than happy to send these to you. I'm a strong > supporter of Open Office, and I think that this feature could offer a lot of > exposure to the OO project. If you're interested in this please email me > back. I'll be more than happy to help with the programming of the feature. > Thanks for your time. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
