Dear Erik and Barbara: I gather at least one of you is a school teacher! Have you seen the "Teacher's Pet" option?
For kids, you can do a lot with that and Oo draw. I am trying something myself to produce Christian depictions based on kids colouring pages (there pages are generally not copyrighted.) Eventually I have some ideas to make these depictions independent of the colouring pages and give them dimensions that are not feasible on paper. I have also used Oo Draw many times in presenting Toastmasters' speeches, maintaining a freetoasthost website and more. I have also developed custom colours and gradients. Added to that there is the CADOo project which seems quite extensive for a new project, although it does not do all Autocad does (and doesn't cost over $5000 a seat either.) I originally learned to do 3D mechanical drawing on a drafting board in the 60's and have followed this for the decades since, using it for both the schematic and the mechanical/visual side of drawing in my career as an industrial electronic technician. Admittedly all this is not learned in a day, but THE BENEFITS ARE IN THE DETAILS. Dale Carnegie is said to have said "We learn by association." Not only was he right, but the real meaning goes far beyond that. If we know one thing today (and everybody does), we will learn one thing today - if we are self-motivated to do so. Tomorrow we will know 2 thing, so we will then learn 2 more. The next day it will be 4, the next 8 and so on. This exponential curve is in all of us for life, not only in our learning but in our eyesight and hearing. It is that fundamental to nature. At times when I have said this to a 6 year old child, I might just preface it by saying: "Child or adult it this is the same for all for the rest of our lives." Typically this is said in a sympathetic tone of voice so the child will sense we care about them and that this insight is part of that caring. Cheers, Bruce M. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Duprey [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: April 7, 2010 8:57 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [discuss] PDF's Erik Telman wrote: > Hello, > > I use your program since 1.4 our something like that, and I really like what > you've done. > > Since I use it for school reasons again I more and more use the "converte to > PDF" button. > > Now there's is a function I hoped to find in OOo 3.2 and that would be to > view the PDF file I created. > Sinde Adobe starts becomming a pain in the ass (I'm alergic to painfull > asses) I want to get rid of as many Adobe programm's as possible. > > Maybe the function to view PDF file's already excists, but I couldn't find > it within 2 hours (program an fora/FAQ e.o.) > > > > Hope my idea can be put in to action. > > > > With kind regards > > Erik Telman I think Draw can now open these files, but you're probably much better off with a true PDF reader -- and Adobe is not your only choice. A lot of people here use the Foxit reader, which is free. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
