On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:01, Rich wrote: >well, it seems that's what is going to happen in near future (for >example, a problem with fontwork object was not pursued as it is >supposed to be dropped) > Raises franticly waving hand here, to agree with the first poster. It seems to me thats a very usefull ability, and should not be arbitrarily dropped.
>Fred A. Miller wrote: >> On Tuesday 31 May 2005 1:30 am, Rich wrote: >>>actually fontwork seems to be of reduced functionality in 2.0... >>> >>>to increase compatibility with msword, fontwork gallery was >>> introduced that allows 16 presets. "old" fontwork allowed to >>> stick text to any arbitraly shaped figure (try drawing a crazy >>> line and add fontwork object to it. that's flexibility :):) ) >>> >>>it also seems that current fontwork behaviour will be dropped in >>> future (as some devs commented that it is going to be >>> unsupported, so probably removed shortly afterwards, too) >>> >>>i just hope that we can get it back someday - you could do a lot >>> of things with it easily that simply can't be done with fontwork >>> gallery. >>> >>>or maybe when word will be forced to minority market share. >> >> It would be a very ignorant decision, IMHO, to not continue to >> support Fontwork!! >> >> Fred -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
