echnidna
14th August 2009, 10:40 AM
Open Office Writer Problems
I'm updating the Wombat Sawmill Plans which is frustratingly difficult because of ongoing problems with open office writer.
Occasionally while I'm scrolling up or down a page by putting the cursor on the up or down arrow in the vertical sidebar the scrolling takes off automatically and it will scroll to the end of the document. As it takes about 7 seconds to scroll each page and there are some 80 pages it takes some time for the auto scrolling to finish. Its a real pita.
I insert graphics into the document by pasting from the clipboard as its the only way I can transfer graphics into writer from my cad program.
Some graphics are small and mixed in with text.
These small graphics move with the text if I insert more text above them, including inserting new page. I regard this as normal.
However the large graphics which take up a full page do not move if I add more text above them. If I insert a new page (ctrl/enter) it turns up below the large graphics and I must move each large graphic by cutting and pasting into the desired location.
I couldn't make sense of the OO master document systemn as it doesn't seem to work with included graphics.
I thought of writing each section as a separate document, but this does not work as Select All only selects text and doesn't select included graphics. So I cannot cut and paste chapters into a complete document
If I wish to insert another page of info in the document it currently means I have to manually edit every following page manually to keep all the information in the correct relationship with the graphics.
I just realised this latest revision which has taken almost a week to do is done in A4 page setup whereas I should have done it in US Letter format so I may have wasted an entire week doing an Inch version of my existing Metric plans.
Looking for suggestions
I'm updating the Wombat Sawmill Plans which is frustratingly difficult because of ongoing problems with open office writer.
Occasionally while I'm scrolling up or down a page by putting the cursor on the up or down arrow in the vertical sidebar the scrolling takes off automatically and it will scroll to the end of the document. As it takes about 7 seconds to scroll each page and there are some 80 pages it takes some time for the auto scrolling to finish. Its a real pita.
I insert graphics into the document by pasting from the clipboard as its the only way I can transfer graphics into writer from my cad program.
Some graphics are small and mixed in with text.
These small graphics move with the text if I insert more text above them, including inserting new page. I regard this as normal.
However the large graphics which take up a full page do not move if I add more text above them. If I insert a new page (ctrl/enter) it turns up below the large graphics and I must move each large graphic by cutting and pasting into the desired location.
I couldn't make sense of the OO master document systemn as it doesn't seem to work with included graphics.
I thought of writing each section as a separate document, but this does not work as Select All only selects text and doesn't select included graphics. So I cannot cut and paste chapters into a complete document
If I wish to insert another page of info in the document it currently means I have to manually edit every following page manually to keep all the information in the correct relationship with the graphics.
I just realised this latest revision which has taken almost a week to do is done in A4 page setup whereas I should have done it in US Letter format so I may have wasted an entire week doing an Inch version of my existing Metric plans.
Looking for suggestions