From koffice Mon Nov 04 13:25:25 2002 From: Vadim Plessky Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 13:25:25 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: [kde] KDE version of OpenOffice? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=103641972527483 On Monday 04 November 2002 1:20 pm, David Faure wrote: | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Monday 04 November 2002 08:39, Piotr Gawrysiak wrote: | > - drawing functions (for inserting scalable graphical elements directly | > into document, without embedding or copying) | | Interesting - what's wrong with embedding a small drawing object (e.g. | karbon in koffice)? | | I know that MSWord can insert lines/rectangles/etc. directly into the | text, but this never worked as I wanted (drawings moved in random | directions when the text moves down, due to some more paragraphs being | inserted above it). So I always preferred to insert an object (even if only AFAIK insert arrow/line works with KWord-1.2, too. I guess I just need to package some of my arrows/rectangles in on tarball, and put it on web. In contrast with MS Word, which supports only very primitive drawings (check quality of clipart which comes with Word 2000, it seems they use polylines instead of bezier curves, etc.), KWord supports SVG. While I wish to have betetr support for SVG in KOffice, even current possibility to embed SVG in KWord docs is very impressive. I think it's a "killer feature" . I am not sure that OpenOffice can do this. | a "msword object", but so that all the small pieces of drawing are bundled | together into one object). This is pretty much what an embedded karbon in | kword can do, so I'm surprised by this "wish". | | - -- | David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ ____________________________________ koffice mailing list koffice@mail.kde.org To unsubscribe please visit: http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice