Greetings OOo Engineers!
Using Mac OOo 2.2r3 ppc and it's bullet-proof and looks great so far!
I have a G3 640meg 900Mhz iceBook and would like to know the best ways
to extend battery power while using Write. I assume OOo occasionally
polls the HD for various reasons, so is there any way to suspend this so
that OOo only accesses the HD on saves to extend battery life? Can a
future version do so? (taking after Mariner Write which totally loads
itself in memory so to curtail HD access -- I assume OOo can't "split"
its suites up so that just Write loads in memory and not Draw or Calc
etc..).
Another useful feature (if I overlooked an existing one):
A "One-Button Direct Print To PDF" toolbar button option. Have to jump
through too many hoops to do it now.
This is hard to explain: Click on a graphic and contextual menu pops up
with a preferred program to load and manipulate it, like Graphic
Converter. (Of course waiting on displaying QT clips in Write too...)
"Force Fondue" mode/button/macro for those importing fonts off web and
need conversion to OOo with minimal techie fuss.
An option to the squiggly red line defining misspellings and Compare
Documents inserts would be a "Highlight" mode (I think more familiar and
friendlier to high school/college students today too.)
A one-stop pop-up panel for setting up macros. To techies climbing
Everest is easy, but it's chore and turn off for a lot of newbies. Just
a pop-up panel with menu access to all OOo's features which one could
click on to construct macros. (alternative: remember how old OS-9's
AppleScript recorded macros? Easy as pie!)
Just a cool whim: Versioning documents via color backgrounds. (A hint by
the way screenplays color-code drafts). Starting with deep red and
progressing into the blue range. It's a like a color visual cue
equivalent of filing cabinet folder tabs. Just a whim.
A "Cherry On Top Dream" feature for the mavericks among you; a "Emulate
Final Draft" mode. (I know, I know, won't ever be. Sigh.)
This isn't meant to knock anyone, but is the word really getting out for
people to join the OOo development team? I find it awfully incredible
that what all the universities and colleges wordwide infested with
programming-savvy people that only a handful are working on OOo! It
would seem a big ribbon in anyone's IT resume to be involved in such an
effort! But at NYU and NY Tech here in NYC, hardly anyone even knows OOo
exists! This really seems more like a bad PR problem more than anything
else, and I wonder if sending e-mail flyers out to colleges all over to
be posted on their bulletin boards and going on Mac magazines and radio
shows would reap you all more talent to take the load off your hands.
Just my one cent (don't know what that amounts to in your other nations).
Thanks and keep up the great work!
James Greenidge
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