Well I agree that we should be promoting OOo products, however, sometimes an independant package can provide a bit more functionality and saves a lot of messing around. It just depends what you're doing with the image and what the user is used to using.
It may be best to slightly reword what you've said Nino to read as follows: "Although you may prefer to use a special image manipulation tool (such as GIMP) to obtain professional image results, OOo offers functionality to modify images too. See Chapter <Then refer the reader to the appropriate chapter>" On 30 March 2010 08:39, Nino Novak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010 12:52, Claire Wood wrote: > > Hi All > > Hi Claire, authors, > > > Just 2 things. > > > > On p8 - Method 1, Quick & Easy, but not recommended. > > A similar misgiving comes up in WG Ch8, p12, when it says: > > "Although OOo provides many tools for working with images, for best > results it is generally better to use an image manipulation program > such as GIMP to modify images (for example, to crop, resize, rotate, > and change color values) and then insert the result into OOo." > > As for me, I'd prefere a slightly different viewpoint (and did so in the > German "translation"), e.g. sort of... > > "... although you might prefer using a special image manipulation > software (like GIMP...) for obtaining professional results, OOo offers > rather convenient functionality to modify images..." > > ... or similar, please feel free to practice britification of this > non-native wording ;-) > > Just to avoid to transport a message like "best is not to use OOo at > all" ;-) > > Nino > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Best wishes Claire Wood
