Chad, many thanks for you immediate response.
Am Sonntag, 8. Januar 2006 17:24 schrieb Chad Smith: > On 1/7/06, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know, OOo has powerful 3 chart drawing tools, but when doing a screen > > presentation, the non-exactly-vertical or non-exactly-horizontal lines > > have a > > poor rendering. > > You mean like this? > > http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8029/1616/1600/OOo20Impress3dChart.jpg > > Where the lines are all slited? > > Yes, that is an example how the lines have a poor rendering. And it seems no to be the fault of OOo, rather the displays are not advanced enough (?) > > > I tried to rotate the OOo chart that it is exactly in the angle of the > > > powerpoint chart, but I failed. Does anybody know, if there is somewhere > > a dialog where I could enter the "right" numbers for angles,...? > > I agree. It is very hard to get the lines to be straight - I tried using > free rotate, I tried using the numerical interface - it just doesn't seem > to explain what it's doing. And there's no obvious way to make it at a 90 > degree angle or a 45 degree angle or anything like that. There's tons of > controls - but they don't really say what they do. And changing one a > small number (like 1 to 2) makes a huge difference, while changing others a > huge number (like 24 to 240) doesn't show much change at all. Yes, that is exactly what I have seen. It would be nice to have a few standard settings and if you know what you are doing the full control. Right now, OOo gives me a lot of control, which makes using it complex, though I am not sure, if I can control enough in dialog boxes to get the chart I want, i.e. if it pays off for me at the end, when I go through the complexity... > I don't know what to tell you. Maybe try http://www.openofficetips.com/ - > they have a lot of info on Calc (which is what I was using to make the > chart that I then pasted into Impress) - this post in particular may help - > but I didn't read i all the way through. > http://www.openofficetips.com/blog/archives/2004/11/charting_editin.html Interesting page, but it did not have what I was looking for. At least I know now, that the solution for my problem is not trivial and probably I won't get it without significant effort. So I either can go 2-D or try to do the charts with Powerpoint (though it would be nice to find a linux tool which can do that, koffice?). Many thanks, Rainer > -- > - Chad Smith > http://www.gimpshop.net/ > Because everyone loves free software! -- Rainer Dorsch Alzentalstr. 28 D-71083 Herrenberg 07032-919495 Icq: 32550367 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
