Re: [discuss] Make Wrtite a little better

2010-11-17 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 17/11/2010 00:25, Sabiazoth wrote: It is true that with Microsoft Office you can do more stuff than what you can do with Open Office; I disagree. It is certainly true that MS Office can do things that Open Office cannot - but it's also true that Open Office can do things that MS Office

Re: [discuss] Make Wrtite a little better

2010-11-17 Thread Graham Lauder
On Wednesday 17 Nov 2010 13:25:29 Sabiazoth wrote: Well, with that said, you said a mouthful. You can't really complain what is free, can you, David? You sure put a lid on my mouth. Thank you for pointing out the importance of free software. I must say, I probably won't complain any

Re: [discuss] OOo's Help

2010-11-17 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi Harold, thank you for your comments. On 13.11.2010 11:10, Harold Fuchs wrote: In another thread in this list there has been discussion about the Help in OOo. In reality I think it's only just OK. There are many examples I've discovered over the years (I don't have details, mea culpa) where a

Re: [discuss] Make Wrtite a little better

2010-11-17 Thread David B Teague
On 11/17/2010 7:12 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: Actually OOo will do quite a bit more than MSO, SNIP Edit PDFs I would like to know more about editing a PDF file with OOo. I know there is an add-on that enable pdf import into Draw. Incidentally, this also enables hybrid pdf-odt export. While

Re: [discuss] OOo's Help

2010-11-17 Thread David B Teague
On 11/17/2010 7:46 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: We know the search function in Help Viewer is not optimal. To say it politely. We have many good ideas how to improve the search, but unfortunately we do not have resources to do the hard work of coding. Volunteers are very welcome. Granting all you

Re: [discuss] Make Wrtite a little better

2010-11-17 Thread Robert Derman
Graham Lauder wrote: On Wednesday 17 Nov 2010 13:25:29 Sabiazoth wrote: Well, with that said, you said a mouthful. You can't really complain what is free, can you, David? You sure put a lid on my mouth. Thank you for pointing out the importance of free software. I must say, I probably

Re: [discuss] OOo's Help

2010-11-17 Thread Robert Derman
David B Teague wrote: On 11/17/2010 7:46 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: We know the search function in Help Viewer is not optimal. To say it politely. We have many good ideas how to improve the search, but unfortunately we do not have resources to do the hard work of coding. Volunteers are very

Re: [discuss] Make Wrtite a little better

2010-11-17 Thread Graham Lauder
On Thursday 18 Nov 2010 04:02:52 David B Teague wrote: On 11/17/2010 7:12 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: Actually OOo will do quite a bit more than MSO, SNIP Edit PDFs I would like to know more about editing a PDF file with OOo. I know there is an add-on that enable pdf import into Draw.

Re: [discuss] OOo's Help

2010-11-17 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 11/17/2010 1:27 PM, Robert Derman wrote: David B Teague wrote: On 11/17/2010 7:46 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: We know the search function in Help Viewer is not optimal. To say it politely. We have many good ideas how to improve the search, but unfortunately we do not have resources to do the

Re: [discuss] OOo's Help

2010-11-17 Thread David B Teague
On 11/17/2010 2:27 PM, Robert Derman wrote: I still say that there should be a users manual right in the download package. And to keep it to a managable size, it should be in ODF format not PDF and it should be formatted 8.5x11, not 5x7. Also it should be edited down to no more than 100

Re: [discuss] Make Wrtite a little better

2010-11-17 Thread David B Teague
On 11/17/2010 4:55 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: Hi David, it's actually quite simple if you get familiar with Draw, it simply treats blocks of text in the PDF as a section or a text box. If you have the PDFimport extension installed just open OOo and go fileopenfoo.pdf. Use the standard Draw tools

Re: [discuss] OOo's Help

2010-11-17 Thread RA Brown
On Wed Nov 17 2010 16:40:18 GMT-0800 (PST) David B Teague wrote: On 11/17/2010 2:27 PM, Robert Derman wrote: I still say that there should be a users manual right in the download package. And to keep it to a managable size, it should be in ODF format not PDF and it should be formatted

Re: [discuss] Make Wrtite a little better

2010-11-17 Thread RA Brown
On Wed Nov 17 2010 16:43:31 GMT-0800 (PST) David B Teague wrote: Your response is both kind and thorough. I'll spend some time playing with Draw. One of the many things I want to do is to put finger numbers on music for the bass. That's fairly straightforward in Paint.net, but not easy in