Shaun McDonald wrote:
It could be auto save is active on your machine at the moment. You
could take a look at that under "tools" > "options", however I would
personally rather the auto saving than reducing the hard disc activity.
With you low amount of RAM, you will probably find that there is
virtual memory being used. You will be more likely to get a longer
battery life by reducing the screen brightness, and also opening
"Activity Monitor" and quiting any unnecessary processes.
Okay. Main reason I mentioned this is the latest news is Mac laptops
surpass desktops in sales and MS Office/Word or others might make
battery life a sales issue.
There is already an export to PDF toolbar button. You click it and
choose where to save the PDF. I don't see why you have to jump through
hoops for it.
Okay, I should say imagine that in preferences you pre-define a folder
to toss your PDFs into so that if you see something you want to save as
a PDF without breaking your train of thought you just hit that toolbar
button and continue on like nothing happened or being prompted to do
anything else (like a "fire and forget" missile).
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...)
Are you talking about the Finder's "Open With..." menu item?
Similar to above. You pre-define apps in prefs so that later you don't
have to go through folder menus. Just click a menu item listed as "Load
Graphic Into Pre-Defined App" and away it goes!
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.)
Please elaborate, I'm not sure I understand what you are looking for
here.
Okay, I'll try better: Maybe it's a pseudo-cosmetic thing, but using
"highlighting" (like students using colored Dri-Markers to highlight
passages in textbooks) in place of squiggily underlining flagging
mis-spelled words or those the Compare Reject/Accept terms offers a
snazzier and more visible way that might appeal to students and folks
hard of seeing.
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.)
Sorry I don't know what you mean here.
"Final Draft" is a screenplay writing program. Some have tried to
reproduce its features via tons of macros in other programs, but chances
are it's far too complex for OOo to assume.
>Using Mac OOo 2.2r3 ppc and it's bullet-proof and looks great so far!
If you can tell me the language you are using, I will put it as a release. It is
better to read that it is working from someone who is using the product.
U.S.A. English (as opposed New York English) ;-)
James Greenidge
