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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Experiences with KWord 1.2.1 (KDE3.1)
From:       Rob Buis <rwlbuis () xs4all ! nl>
Date:       2003-02-19 20:33:20
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Hi,

> What would be really nice, would be the possibility to draw objects
> like rectangles, ellipses, stars, bezier curves directly in the text,
> because this would really fit very well with the desktop-publishing
> like approach of KWord. Inserting Karbon objects is not an option
> here. If I design a document and want to put some stars into the text,
> just to make it look nicer (maybe a Christmas card or something like
> this), then the text should float around the stars (maybe use two
> colums and put the star in the middle of the columns). Or it should be
> possible to put the star in the back and write the text just over the
> stars in the background.
>
> I think Karbon14 already has most of the features I am thinking about,
> implemented. Probably documents like I am talking about are already
> possible with Karbon14. But I would also like to see these things in
> KWord directly. Just imagine some longer texts which few graphical
> objects to make it look nicer. Then it would be really better to use a
> word processor and put some graphcis in.

Hear, hear :)
I think the embedding works too clumsy here, at least on my system PII 800 it 
takes 3-5 seconds to switch between kword<->karbon embedded part. This simply 
doesnt invite to edit any drawed objects, because of the delay. Also the new 
menu/toolbar can be confusing. I think the way ms Word does this is 
better/good enough, with its biggest advantage that there is no delay between 
switching from text editing to drawing manipulation, its simply point, click 
and edit the drawing. I doubt any average user would want much more than what 
ms word has to offer on the drawing side.
Cheers,

Rob.
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