I want to do "big technical drawings" and include spreadsheets,
formatted text and tables within them..
But I can't.
Yeah the multi function - but limited or no cross-function set up is
really getting to be a pain in the arse.
It's sort of like getting free crippleware - similar too audio programs
that only convert 30 seconds of a song, and have the save function
disabled.....
That is OK as a trial - not a 22nd Century Office Program.
I and a lot of other people need REAL computing power, with real
functionality, not "trial based crippleware".
Overhauling the suite into "one program" with all functions and all
paper sizes in it, is the only viable option for the future.
Of course one ought to be able to have ones chosen formatted templates,
for ones own documents, but the OOO program as a fundamental working
tool, ought to now move to a single file format, with all functions
available, on all paper sizes.
One person wrote me this:
I feel the same, I always wanted, when I ran a retail electronics store
to be able to produce an invoice form with the word processor that would
have embedded blank spaces that when filled in would automatically
calculate labor charges, parts and merchandise prices, total prices,
sales tax etc., with automatic deductions of those items from the
store's inventory. In other words, have database and spreadsheet
functions available WITHIN the word processor. If OpenOffice.org could
do that, it could actually replace most business software, and would
become the ultimate "killer-app".
So what is the path to implement this change.
Shane
mike scott wrote:
On 18 Jul 2008 at 0:31, callmeshane303 wrote:
Well the other night I was doing a drawing in DRAW, and I had to insert
a table...
But there was NO table production function, in the Draw program.
...
What I'd like to see is to get rid of all the separate file and process
types, and have the ONE program - with the ONE file type, with all the
functions in it.
...
I really want the universal full functionality - of all the programs, written
into the ONE program.
I commented a while ago about the lack of consistency between
components - for a supposedly "integrated" suite it actually seems
quoite atrocious. Fields are restricted to a tiny set in Draw (try
doing a mail-merge of a Christmas card!!), you've commented on
tables; grouping of objects isn't possible in writer (try lining up
inserted pictures), as isn't text flow between text boxes. The list
goes on.
Dare one ask why?
For the life of me, I can't see why /all/ the facilities shouldn't be
available in some form to /all/ components - even if the UIs are
different to reflect the differing emphases of those components.
