Hi all,

At work (where we unfortunately have to use MS Office), I have often the need 
to create a presentation or text-document made up by a couple of fotos with 
comments, to explain or document mechanical engineering problems.

I'm wondering, if there is a plug-in/add-on or similar available for Open 
Office that would ease my work.
I'm thinking of something, that works as follows:

1. Select several picture-files (preferably jpeg & tiff) in the file-browser of 
the OS (Win or Linux)

2. Opening the context-menu (right mouse-button or the key on the keyboard), 
where the user can choose from 2 commands like "Create OO Writer document from 
selected pictures" and "Create OO Impress presentation from selected pictures" 

3. Whichever command is selected, some picture-manipulation routine resizes the 
selected pictures in the background until their files-size(*) is less than 
250kb per picture and until their x-/y-dimensions(*) are small enough to fit 1 
picture per page/slide if the pictures should be beyond these limits (* = 
mentioned properties should be customizable by the user somewhere in the OO 
preferences dialog box)

4. The corresponding OO applications (Writer or Impress) creates & opens a new 
document(**) that contains as many pages/slides as pictures that were selected 
in step 1, with 1 picture per page/slide and some text-box beside or below it 
to add a comment (** = some template for these semi-automatic created doc's 
should be definable in the OO preferences dialog box)

5. The user can add comments to the pictures in the provided text-boxes and 
some arrows and other elements if desired, that help to explain the things that 
shall be explained or documented

6. The user saves the document or presentation and/or sends it by e-mail using 
the existing OO functionality in the file-menu

Such a tool would save me (and for sure, many other office workers) a lot of 
time.

Does someone knows a plug-in/add-on like this or knows how to implement it?

Thanks.

Hans

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