Huan Mo schrieb:
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.
Cropping is in 2.4 in the menu and even interactively in 3.0. Brightness
and Contrast is in the toolbars which pop-up automatically when
selecting an image objects. I'm not sure what You mean with 'compressing
storage size', though.
There once was a small image editing tool in OOo, but it was removed for
two reasons:
- There was not the Manpower to extend it to needed, modern standards
(feel free to do seomething here, it's OpenSoure :-)
- You cannot really compete with tools which concentrate on only one
thing like image editing (e.g. gimp, etc.), so the decision was to leave
extended functionality to apps which can support them better anyways.
The idea is to do needed complex changes in a external program
(copy/paste?).
HTH!
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.
File an enchancement request on OOo, please (i think it's a good, small
enhancement). I hope You are registered there and file bugs/ideas there...?
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!
Looking for Your enchancements, too! Don't ask what Your country can do
for You, ...
It's open source :-)
Huan Mo
From Virginia Commonwealth University
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