From koffice  Wed Feb 19 12:28:57 2003
From: Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:28:57 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Experiences with KWord 1.2.1 (KDE3.1)
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On Wednesday 19 February 2003 12:15, Michael Thaler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just wrote a curriculum vitae with KWord. I used the Page Layout
> mode. I created three frames, a small one with my name on top of the
> document, a big one with an inline table for the actual content and a
> small one on the bottom of the document with my address.
>
> First, I think the possibility to create an abitrary number of frames
> is very useful for certain documents. But why is it only possible to
> position the frames on a grid? Also resizing frames is not possible
> pixel-wise but only in steps of, say 8 pixels or so. I think
> positioning the frams on a grid is usefull in certain circumstances,
> but I would find it quite usefull to turn the grid of and position the
> frames abitrarily on the document, sometimes.

Does it happens also when you set the grid to 0?

>
> Next, the inline-table support is very nice, helped me a lot to design
> my curriculum vitae. On the other hand, there seem to be certain
> issues with the table suppurt. First, it is not possible to resize the
> cells abitrarily, so sometimes they are just to big for the chosen
> font, which looks ugly. I think KWord tries to estimate the right
> sizes, but it does not seem to do it always in a correct way. I also
> saw that the cell resized while writing, even if the letters were all
> the same size. Second, if I write two or more lines in a cell, the
> second or third line sometimes just disappears and the cell shows only
> the first line. The best way to deal with this is to save the document
> and open it again, then everything is displayed fine.

That is surely a bug. Try to find in KDE Bugs ( http://bugs.kde.org ) if there 
is not already such a bug for KWord. If not, please add a bug report.

>
> I would also find it very useful to have some simple drawing options
> in KWord, like placing lines in the document. I think I remember that
> this was possible, but now I did not find the menu option. Maybe I
> used the CVS version before I installed the Debian packages and it is
> already possible in CVS. Especially in the page layout mode, this
> would be very nice.

If I remember well, this is a common wish.

(Personally I would like to find a way to avoid duplicated code with 
KPresenter, but I have not found a way to do it yet.)

>
> Unfortunately all the MS Word documents I tried to import did not show
> correctly at all. They were composed out of some tables. But I did not
> try the latest CVS version.

The CVS version has a much better MS Word import (with the help of an 
external library.)

>
> Another thing I would really like to see in KWord would be a dialog
> that shows you all letters of a chosen font. I was looking for a small
> square to put in front of a line instead of a - and it is really hard
> without such a dialog.

You can use "Insert/Special character" (in German "Einfügen/Sonderzeichen".) 
With this dialog, you can select any font and any Unicode character.

>
> Just some suggestions, KWord is already really usable, thanks for your
> good work!
>
> Take care,
> Michael

Have a nice day/evening7night!

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