On 20/03/2006, at 12:01 AM, martin wrote:
Dear sirs.
First of all, let me say that OpenOfficeorg is a fine office suite,
and I like ith very much. Here are a few things that I would like
to see added to it in the future. I realize that some of these
things may be difficult to implement, and take considerable time
and work, but I feel that the effort would be well worth it to add
these features. I am not a programmer, or I would be offering to
help with the task.
1-A feature similar to the Make-It-Fit feature in WordPerfect. An
example of how this feature works in WP: Say you have a document
that is 1 1/2 pages long, and you want it to fit on 1 page without
the font being too small to be easily read. You use the Make-It-
Fit feature which automaticall adjusts line spacing and possibly
the font size to make the document fit on 1 page. I know line
spaceing can be adjusted in OpenOfficeorg Writer, but to do this
manually and get the desired results is very time consuming.
There is the option to scale to fit page I believe. Is this what you
want? This happens on printing, not to the actual document content
though, which is where the difference may come into it.
2-The ability to open WordPerfect documents that include graphics
correctly.
This is a work in progress. The WP filters have only just come in
with the 2.x version.
3-The Base part of the program needs to be able to OPEN an MS
Access database correctly. Not link to it, nor import tables from
it, but open it correctly, including all forms, reports, querries
etc...and then save it in other formats with all functions and
parts intact and working properly.
Wouldn't that be wonderful! If you can convince Microsoft to open up
the MS Access formats to the open source community, I am sure that
every effort will be made to bring this to fruition.
4-A way to convert large numbers of files from MS Word,
WordPerfect, Lotus, MS Excell, MS Access etc... formats to
OpenDocument, and other OpenOfficeorg file formats automatically
would be really cool!
There is a feature called the Document Converter wizard if you look
in the File menu of OpenOffice.org. It does this sort of work for you
and has done since the early days.
Thanks for taking the time to read my suggestions, and keep up the
good work!
Regards
Jonathon
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