On 3/14/06, Ross Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 00:07 +0000, Ivan dos Reis Andrade wrote:
> > On 3/13/06, Ross Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 20:21 +0000, Ivan dos Reis Andrade wrote:
> > > > Hi there
> > > >
> > > > I would like to know if someone is familiar with rulers in open
> office.
> > > >
> > > > What I'm trying to do is to format the rulers for a slide
> presentation
> > > I'm
> > > > doing at Open Office Draw. I have there several slides, and some of
> them
> > > > have a page full with contents and some pages have very little
> content,
> > > and
> > > > with those small pages, I would like to shrink the ruler so that
> when I
> > > > export the slide as JPG or PDF it appears only with the small
> content,
> > > and
> > > > not with a big white space that is not occupied.
> > >
> > > I may be misunderstanding, but from your description I think the
> > > solution is to select the small content and then export. In Draw, the
> > > File - Export dialog then has an option (checked by default) to export
> > > the selection. When there is no selection, it exports the full page.
> >
> >
> > Yes, it is more or less what I am trying to do. But I want to do it just
> in
> > one step, this means to export all Slides in once, for example to PDF.
> So
> > with this, the slides with little content would be automatically
> shrinked.
>
> I had a feeling I misunderstood. This doesn't sound like something that
> would be at all common in Impress - the idea being that all slides are
> the same size.
>
> On the premise that a dumb reply is better than no reply at all:
> Would it make sense, just for the export, to cut all the smaller slides
> to another presentation? - assuming the problem is that the rulers are
> affecting all slides at once.


Yes this is the real problem. the rulers are affecting all the slides at
once. and the same thing just happen in MS-Office. it would be nice that the
open office team-developers would do something to change this situation.

Does anyone knows how and where to make suggestions for the new releases of
open office?
i think this is a great functionality to be invented :p


>
> >
> > > I hope your someone can help me
> > > >
> > > > Ivan dos Reis Andrade
> > >
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