From koffice Mon Nov 04 13:32:19 2002 From: Vadim Plessky Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 13:32:19 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: [kde] KDE version of OpenOffice? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=103641976027519 On Monday 04 November 2002 2:23 pm, Piotr Gawrysiak wrote: | David, | | > Interesting - what's wrong with embedding a small drawing object (e.g. | karbon in koffice)? | I guess that it is a matter of personal preference, but for example for me | (with objects): | | - I have to switch to another aplication (and even if this is embeded | object, I must first activate it prior to editing) | - I have to draw within other application working area and not *on* the | document I am preparing You don't have to switch to another application. It works in KWord/KO directly. | - There is no paragraph or word level control over graphical elements | placement There is. As far as I understand, you want to move graphics together with formatted paragraph? You do it in KWord by moving/resizing frames. 'Frame' is much more powerful concept, comparing to pure paragraph. | - Font/colors/styles handling - with embeded objects I cannot (for | example) select all document's content's and globally change lines color | (note also that in typical document you would have to use several separate | embedded object in various places of the document) You can change color for the font, globally. I believe upcoming Karbon versions would support "styles" (for layers, objects, etc.), so it would be possible to have "Style Editor" for your arrows, triangles, circles, etc. | - It sometimes gives finer control over document elements placement (KWord | - being a frame-based editor - mostly addresses this issue though) | | Still of course this might be matter of taste... I wonder what are other | people opinions. MS Word sucks. Haven't used OpenOffice much. Ventura Publisher is still better than KWord, but costs a lot of money. I hope KWord would beat Ventura in year or two ;-) | | > 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 | | Hmmm, well, MSWord *implementation* of this idea definitely leaves much to | be desired :-) MS Word's design is terrible. Ami Pro had much better design (also frame-based). It's a pity they couldn't market it well, and MS Word dominates the market. | | Piotr Gawrysiak | | ____________________________________ | koffice mailing list | koffice@mail.kde.org | To unsubscribe please visit: | http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice -- 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