On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Huan Mo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I am a graduate student on biology/biomedicine/bioinformatic field. Since I > am using a Ubuntu (linux) system, openoffice.org 2.4 is the only productive > software in my system. I very appreciate robust function of Openoffice.org, > but there is still some inconvenient aspects where should be improved in > my opinion. > > 1. There are no basic image edit tools in Writer and Impress, such as > cropping the picture, changing the brightness or contrast, compressing > storage size if we resized the picture. This makes me very frustrated.
Actually there is, just right click on the image and select Image and you will be able to see the cropping utility. Also you can activate it from the image menu. There is also many effects like, sharpen, solarize, and contrast is on the image menu that appear at the top. You can see the magic wand that have these effects here: http://openoffice.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341cdb1753ef00e552ffc84e8833-pi > 2. During a class, I found it very inconvenient to type in notes, > especially on a small laptop screen, comparing to MS Power Point Style. > > 3. On version 2.4, when we stop the slide show, it is still the beginning > slide on the editor, rather than have shifted to the current slide, which is > also very unconvenient. > > 4. In MS Office 2007, the reference function (for citation in academic > writing) is very very helpful for students, faculties and scientists, > especially that it can automatically converting different styles of > citation. I HIGHLY recommend Openoffice.org can integrate such functions in > the future releases. > > Looking forwards to your improvements! > > Huan Mo > > From Virginia Commonwealth University > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
