Re: [tdf-discuss] Two simple writer annoyances

2011-04-30 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Ian , No , we can not rotate a picture in LO , but LO is not our favorite application to handle our pictures and graphics. LO is build to produce documents, pictures are taken by camera and for correcting and rotating this pictures we can uses hundreds off different and specialised free and

Re: [tdf-discuss] Two simple writer annoyances

2011-04-30 Thread Ian Lynch
On 30 April 2011 14:03, Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be wrote: Ian , No , we can not rotate a picture in LO , but LO is not our favorite application to handle our pictures and graphics. LO is build to produce documents, pictures are taken by camera and for correcting and rotating this

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums - A Different Question

2011-04-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Harold Fuchs wrote: Has Oracle given permission for TDF to use its forum, or doesn't TDF need such permission? Does TDF *want* to use an Oracle resource? I think Drew has already explained this on multiple mailing lists, anyway: the forums at http://user.services.openoffice.org/ are run by

[tdf-discuss] Re: Two simple writer annoyances

2011-04-30 Thread plino
@Ian Over 20 years ago I used Impression Publisher and it could rotate graphics You are confusing programs: a Word Processor (such as LibreOffice Writer) is not a Desktop Publishing software. I suggest that you use the FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Desktop Publisher named Scribus

[tdf-discuss] Re: Two simple writer annoyances

2011-04-30 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-04-30 19:05, plino a écrit : @Ian Over 20 years ago I used Impression Publisher and it could rotate graphics You are confusing programs: a Word Processor (such as LibreOffice Writer) is not a Desktop Publishing software. I suggest that you use the FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source

[tdf-discuss] Re: Two simple writer annoyances

2011-04-30 Thread plino
This could also be a way of having our wordprocessing suite distinguishing itself from any other suites. I think you mean from OpenOffice and Symphony? MS Word and Softmaker's Textmaker already do this in 90 degree steps (clockwise and counter)-- View this message in context:

[tdf-discuss] Re: Two simple writer annoyances

2011-04-30 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-04-30 21:49, plino a écrit : This could also be a way of having our wordprocessing suite distinguishing itself from any other suites. I think you mean from OpenOffice and Symphony? MS Word and Softmaker's Textmaker already do this in 90 degree steps (clockwise and counter)-- View this

Re: [tdf-discuss] Two simple writer annoyances

2011-04-30 Thread Alexander Ostuni
Yes, it is build to produce Dokuments and because of that I need to rotate a picture. I work in a bank. We have restrictions on the installed programms. I am not allowed to install any application that can rotate pictures. I have to create our formulars/documents. Each of them has a barcode. I