Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-20 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
See bottom for continuation of discussion. On 11/19/2015 2:19 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 11/19/15 11:04 AM, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: A bit of a rant. My apologies and respect to all who have made Draw possible in advance. On 11/19/2015 11:25 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Dave, dave boland sch

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-20 Thread Rob Jasper
Mike, Well done! I fully agree with you- I opened a new calc document, changed the measurement unit from cm to inches. That marked my document as being changed! As far as I see there's nothing changed in the document Then I changed a column width to 1 (inch) and saved I took another documen

[libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Ken Springer
On 11/19/15 11:04 AM, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: A bit of a rant. My apologies and respect to all who have made Draw possible in advance. On 11/19/2015 11:25 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Dave, dave boland schrieb: Thanks all. If I make a suggestion to LO - add some more CAD abilities to Draw s

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread manuel_songokuh
good, but libreoffice will be enhancement ok? but i like libreoffice againt to microsoft office (dollars) ok? Da: dave boland A: Pertti Rönnberg ; LibreOffice Inviato: Giovedì 19 Novembre 2015 19:35 Oggetto: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place Actually

[libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread V Stuart Foote
dave boland wrote > Actually, all I'm doing is laying out a greeting card. The print shop > needs 1/8" margins, and I'm a stickler for detail. ... Set the page size first (to whatever the printer wants for the card), and then from Tools -> Options -> Draw -> General set your "Unit of Measure" t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread dave boland
Actually, all I'm doing is laying out a greeting card. The print shop needs 1/8" margins, and I'm a stickler for detail. I agree that Scribus or a CAD program has more flexibility, but I like LO. Seems like the consensus is that my suggestion is possible, but will have to wait for funding. Make

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread manuel_songokuh
15:23 Oggetto: [libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place dave boland wrote >  If I make a suggestion to LO - add some more CAD abilities > to Draw such as higher precision.  LOD is a very useful program, and > could be even more useful. Maybe request for user selec

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Dave, Depending on what you are going to draw; if anything either technical or building/cottage then you can try either ProgeCAD Smart 2009 or Draftsight, both have free versions that are fully functional 2D CAD programs for private use only. Especially Draftsight is quite easy to learn. Downl

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Mike Scott
On 19/11/15 15:39, V Stuart Foote wrote: No, the all measurements in the StarOffice -> OpenOffice Draw/Impress legacy are derived from raster screen bitmap graphics which has maintained the text "print" centric practice and uses a smallest "Field_Unit" of twips for calculations of placement onto

[libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread V Stuart Foote
No, the all measurements in the StarOffice -> OpenOffice Draw/Impress legacy are derived from raster screen bitmap graphics which has maintained the text "print" centric practice and uses a smallest "Field_Unit" of twips for calculations of placement onto the canvas. A twip (1/1440") --from Posts

[libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Ken Springer
On 11/19/15 6:20 AM, dave boland wrote: Thanks all. If I make a suggestion to LO - add some more CAD abilities to Draw such as higher precision. LOD is a very useful program, and could be even more useful. This is a always what happens to good software, be it FOSS, commercial, shareware, wha

[libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Pedro
dave boland wrote > If I make a suggestion to LO - add some more CAD abilities > to Draw such as higher precision. LOD is a very useful program, and > could be even more useful. Maybe request for user selectable precision? In your example 1/8 inch = 0.3175 cm so if someone uses the metric system

[libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 18/11/2015 19:48, dave boland a écrit : Hi Dave, > > I want to locate a line 1/8-inch (0.125") from the margin. LOD > truncates that to 0.13". Is there a way to get 3-places? What precision do you have under the Tools - Options - Draw - Grid dialog preferences ? Also check out the Capture