I use the Drawing options of
View > Toolbar > Drawing
that will place some drawing options toolbar on the bottom "panel" of
Writer [4.2.x]. Then I just anchor the line to the paragraph or text.
As for printing PDF and fonts shown/embedded in other posts, I tend to
use doPDF for Windows to print out a nice PDF file that embeds whatever
font[s] I choose to use. I have some weird ones that seem not to embed
in the "Export to PDF" option[s] within Writer. doPDF creates a new
"printer", that look like it is a physical one. I have been using this
PDF "printer" long before LibreOffice ever came out and I just plainly
use it as my default printer for all my Windows systems.
I hate using those "auto replacement" options, since there are times
when they get in the way of some of my document editing between Word and
Writer.
On 09/23/2014 07:12 PM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote:
Thanks Cley,
I didn't think about the pdf route. That just may well work. I did try
sending an .odt to the secretary, same peoblem. When she opened it, some of
the lines were missing. I'll try pdfs next.
Thanks!
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Cley Faye <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't know how well it transition to .doc files, but my approach to make
answer lines is the following:
- create a new paragraph style (let's call it "Answer Zone")
- change the style spacing so that there is no extra space before/after the
paragraph
- change the style border to be a single line at the bottom, and disable
the checkbox that merge the borders between paragraphs
...after typing this, I just checked, and that's roughly what the "---\r"
route is doing. Damn. The issues seems to be that the "Merge with next
paragraph" option either doesn't exist in .doc format, or isn't carried
over correctly. And no more luck with docx.
Some sort of solution for your issue could be to just send the odt (recent
version of MS Office can read them, YMMV), or directly send the PDF, which
is clearly the best option if the recipient of your document will not have
to modify it, only to view/print it.
--
Cley Faye
http://cleyfaye.net
2014-09-24 0:27 GMT+02:00 "J. Van Brimmer" <[email protected]>:
I'm using 4.3.1.2 on Xubuntu Linux.
I am creating some lesson handouts for a class I'm going to be teaching.
I
have to email them to our secretary, who has to read them in MS Office
for
printing.
The documents are formatted in landscape mode.
In the document I enter a short text line, press Enter, then I type in
three dashes, press Enter, and waula, I have a horizontal line for the
students to write their answers on.
Sometimes I continue pressing Enter to automatically create as many
lines
as I need.
This works fine as ling as I stay in .odt format. But if I save the
document in .doc format, and then open the .doc file in LibreOffice, some
of the horizontal lines are missing. I have tried everything I can think
of, but I can't get all of the lines to "stick" from .odt to .doc format.
I have read the "Help" page here:
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Drawing_Lines_in_Text
.
But those tips don't work either.
I am being forced to work in Winbroke using BS Word. Help!
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->Jerry<-
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