On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:13 +0200, Dr. Matthias Weisser wrote: > Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, > > I got the below mail from Sun and therefore want to address > some problems that I had transferring my 148 page book > containing 130 pictures of a digital camera > from word to Open Office 1.1.3. in january this year. > > I have heard that open office would like to be the future > number one program for text editing. So here comes > my report: > > The sdw is a 118kB file and I have about 130 external > picture files mainly as jpg in a separate directory. >
I would like to direct your attention to http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo1.x.x/user_guide.sxw THis document contains 439 pages, 70 tables, 342 graphics, 45 OLE objects and was written with OOo. So to continue. > _problem 1: _ > in comparison to word the time to load is very long. > I can live with this for now, but it is not convenient > because Open Office is the newer software and normally > should perform better than the older one. No big > problem at the moment. :-) > Upgrade to 1.1.4 or 1.1.5. Both load faster than 1.1.3. Also enable the quickstarter if your system supports this. > _problem 2:_ > there is page 23 where I cannot move the pictures as I want. > If I made one bigger and afterwards smaller the text would > not move up to the picture again. I tried to solve this several times - > unfortunately without success. I could not find a difference > to the other pictures that worked. May be having a look at > the xml code would be helpful in this case. I did not know > how to procede(sic) with this. I suspect that the problem is that MSO Word does not anchor graphics very well. I observed this when using StarOffice4.x and 5.x. The key is to anchor graphics in OOo rather than depend on Word. I also suspect that you forgot to set wrapping to suit the positioning of the graphic. > > _problem 3:_ > sizing the pictures seems to be less smooth than with word. > It seems to be difficult to get the same height in comparison > with microsoft. > I do not understand this statement. Perhaps you could explain more fully as I have had no problems sizing. > _problem 4:_ > sometimes I have two pictures in one line and want to have > only one picture text line belonging to both of them > instead of having 2 lines belonging to each of the pictures. > I tried using one line, but have problems getting a consistent > spacing between line and picture. > If I have 2 pictures the spacing is bigger. Are you talking about captioning? If yes, then you should know that the captioning is done with frames and you could insert both graphics into the same frame. > > _problem 5:_ > after editing some jpgs in PaintShopPro 5 I was able to > look at them in Irfan, but I was unable to cut them **by opening > the graphics window by a double mouse click. I had to > convert the jpg to the big bmp file format to get this to work. > Another do not understand situation. For one why use JPEG which is a lossy format rather than one of the lossless formats such as PNG? Sedcondly, I do not understand the procedure you are using. Please explain. > _problem 6:_ > the export to html works well but the pictures are not shown > as I did cut them. > Please explain. > _problem 7:_ > the export back to word showed some problems with the > overall page layout. So I could not rework some details > using word. You must remember that OOo is an Office Suite that happens to handle files for MSO. The conversion is very good, in my opinion, at about 95% on both import and export. Not bad considering that these functions were built without the benefit of a description from MS. I would like to suggest that exporting to PDF would be a better choice if you are distributing the document. > > May be some of these problems have been solved in 1.1.4 > or 2 beta, but I had no time to check this yet. > I would really like to use Open Office in the future, but > there are still some draw backs which I hope will be overcome > soon. :-) > I have already suggested that you upgrade to take advantage of the many fixes et cetera that were part of the 1.1.4 release. 2.0 beta candidates appear to offer even better MSO compatibility and load speed. Please take the time to check it out. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
