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                  Issue #:|53228
                  Summary:|copy/paste complain (or maybe not)
                Component:|Spreadsheet
                  Version:|680m122
                 Platform:|PC
                      URL:|
               OS/Version:|Windows 2000
                   Status:|UNCONFIRMED
        Status whiteboard:|
                 Keywords:|
               Resolution:|
               Issue type:|FEATURE
                 Priority:|P3
             Subcomponent:|save-export
              Assigned to:|spreadsheet
              Reported by:|stargeizer





------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 11 14:34:21 -0700 
2005 -------
Have someone use AUTOCAD or AUTOCAD LT (Very expensive software that can do 
some engineering drawing... and pretty buggy also...)???

To make my life a little more easy i use spreadsheets to make some 
calculations, tables and copy them to autocad... I'm talking about autocad 
versions 2000-2006 (although 2004+ versions comes with this feature broken... 
and badly)

Usually if you copy a spreadsheet formatted with borders,(image_1.jpg) you can 
paste it in autocad and get a table with strings... more exactly border lines 
and text. (image_2.jpg). 

Using OpenOffice 1.9.122 i can get way better results that do the same with M$ 
Excel in Autocad 2004+... but still fails something.

#1: image_3.jpg... the borders are converted to squares (more exactly, a closed 
polyline of 4 vertex) in autocad. That shouldn't be a problem if you are using 
the drawings inside work... but at the moment to send this to clients this will 
be something anoying.. usually.

#2: Import OLE limitations: For medium-large sheets (let's say more than 100 
row's) you can't paste them in autocad fully... you get sometimes about 90-93 
imported. The rest is lost. I blame windows, since AFAIK there are some 
Limitations in OLE capabilities built in windows. BTW, There's a workaround: To 
reduce the size of everything in the spreadsheed (eg. arial font go from 10 to 
2.5 and rezise cells acordingly...) this way i can get some more cells 
imported. But for large spreadsheets this is no possible,and trying to copy 2 
or more times part of the content it will be pasted... at differents sizes and 
scales...

ok ok... i bet you may think now "this must be addresed at autodesk"... same 
think here, but the problem is that they only work at M$ level...

So what i'm asking here:

for #1: maybe some investigation to make the copy/paste from OOo to Autocad 
work as expected... (border = line... numbers and text = text) i think that was 
done before (otherwise no behavior like this would be done.. at least gnumeric 
for windows don't produce it (and nothing usable anyway...)).

for #2: is possible to make an export option : save as DXF???... using the 
copy/paste capabilities of windows not always produce expected results... or to 
indicate to the OS a fixed size of the object to make autocad paste it at a 
fixed size??..

I think at least #1 can be done in OOo.. (i tried gnumeric, excel with no good 
results (gnumeric don't export cells at copy stage.. only text, and excel... 
weelll.. who cares??? ;-) )

I know this can be "exotic" since no so many people would use Autocad and OOo 
in their works, but i think that something can be done here. (or maybe not???).

thanks for your time and sorry for my poor english.

J.

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