Wm Stewart wrote: > > > Hi, I've copied below our input on: > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=33825 > since I believe this issue is so important. Feedback greatly > appreciated. Anyone know if this is in the works? > > At http://Eseri.com/ we have integrated a full FOSS organization in a > box to help FOSS compete with Microsoft across the board. However our > experience is that the lack of an Organization Chart capability in > Impress, and compatibility with the PowerPoint version of this feature, > to be the number one issue holding back wide-spread customer embrace of > OpenOffice. More info: > > While Writer and Calc compatibility with MS Office is now very good, > greatly moving it forward as a suite that can interoperate without risk, > Impress compatibility with Powerpoint is much less solid. Business > users of MS Office use PowerPoint a lot, and often create organization > charts with its builtin tool, found under Insert / Picture / > Organization Chart. > > These organization charts do not come across to Impress - the lines get > reformatted all over the place - and they cannot be edited and sent back > to an MS Office user. (I'd be glad to provide example files, and/or > provide any other examples requested on Impress / PPT compatibility in > general.) > > The reasons the Powerpoint Org Chart tool is so useful is mainly two-fold: > > 1. The automated layout capability is an order of magnitude more > convenient than manually creating and then editing a chart in any > drawing package. You can select a branch, and automatically change with > one click the layout of the whole branch or entire chart to right-side, > left-side, or standard layout. All alignment is automatically taken > care of. Very useful. > > 2. You can also select a branch and drag it in entirety to another > node of the org chart, and the entire branch moves with all alignment > against the rest of the chart, and the rest of the chart moved around to > make room, again automatically so everything is equally spaced and aligned. > > I don't downplay the effort to replicate this or make it work seamlessly > with a PowerPoint org chart that has been imported. Our input is simply > that both of these - replication and compatibility - are very > significant issues, and addressing them would go a very, very long way > to enabling the majority of users to move from MS Office to OpenOffice > without any barrier, trouble, or risk on the presentation software > side. Embrace and replace! > > We request that the urgency of this issue be raised and addressed as a > priority issue. > > Cheers, > Bill Stewart > Eseri CEO > > -- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
Bill, While this list is a good place to get feedback on this issue getting it on the User Experience mailing list may help to get it done. I will be adding a vote for this issue as I feel that it is needed, in Draw as well as Impress. Andy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
