On 31/08/2008 00:12, Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote:
Hi James / everyone,
Not sure why yours comes up as a Letter size... On my system I'm using
now and two others it is A4 as the default when first installed. I'm
not saying A4 is a 'bad format' as a default... I'm just saying if it
was set to something else as a default it would stop people confusing
OO.Draw as a DTP quite so easy. If indeed OO.Draw is meant for
creating drawings and flow charts etc then the most common thing that
will happen to these creations is they will be pasted into other
applications like OO.Writer or Scribus, so the need for A4 as the
default isn't (or shouldn't be) needed as it will most likely not be
printed from OO.Draw.
A square of some kind might be more applicable? Maybe 4:3 like a
standard monitor aspect.
Also the Visio program comes with lots of example stuff (like pictures
of things that can be 'linked' together and can store properties)...
e.g. you could easily show your network layout as it comes with
pictures of computers and routers and stuff. I know OO.Draw doesn't
have this as it is well... a drawing program :) It is something that
is being considered to draw people off Visio?
Also does anyone know if there are plans for an open standard DTP
format? I feel if it use Scribus I'll only be ditching one format
(Publisher PUB format) for another format that only works with one
program.
Sincerely...
Steven Maddox
(Cyorxamp)
Cyorxamp's Personal Website
http://www.cyorxamp.info
James Knott wrote:
Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote:
Hey!
New discussion here... well maybe old discussion from maybe a new
angle.
I'm told OO.Draw isn't meant to be Publisher and is more meant to be
Visio.
In other words diagrams, flow charts, etc... but not Desktop Publishing
As a result people have recommended Scribus to me as an alternative
to Publisher.
If this is all true... why does OO.Draw begin with an A4 page?
Might this be the main reason for the confusion? They see an A4
page... people think it is printable, that it reflects a page...
like a Desktop Publishing program.
Any thoughts folks?
Hmmm... On my system, it defaults to a U.S. letter page. However,
Draw is used for creating umm... drawings and sometimes people have
been known to print them. What should it default to, other than
standard paper sizes, if people print their drawings? While you can
do some DTP functions with OpenOffice, it's not as capable in that
regard as a proper DTP app.
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Doesn't it just take its setting from your printer's configuration?
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