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. Makes sense. Dave On Thu, Nov 19, 2015, at 11:53 AM, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: > 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. > Download from their own homepage. > Pertti Rönnberg > > > On 19.11.2015 17:33, Ken Springer wrote: > > 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, whatever. Developers keep adding features > > until it becomes bloated, buggy, and slow. > > > > Then users complain about it being bloated, buggy, and slow. > > > > If you need that type of precision for your project, maybe LO isn't > > the correct software. > > > > My suggestion would be to try page layout software and a basic > > CAD/drawing program. Do your drawing (I'm assuming you need to do > > more than just a line) then input the drawing into the page layout > > software where you'll have so much better options for layout than you > > ever will in LO. > > > > FWIW, I've yet to see any word processing that has more than 2 decimal > > places for spacing. > > > > Also, if you want truly good looking text, use page layout software > > and a quality font. I've yet to see a word processor that does > > kerning. Word processors do character spacing, which is not the same. > > Document processors do kerning, AFAIK. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- dave boland [email protected] -- http://www.fastmail.com - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
