Hi Christopher, welcome on this list! And thanks a lot for your idea ...
Am Montag, den 14.03.2011, 19:59 +0100 schrieb Christopher Stark: > Yes. I think it might be useful. > > like this here: > > http://www.office2010-blog.de/de/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/SmartArtGrafik_auswaehlen.png > > It's don't think that it is difficult to achieve. I would create the > templates if someone else implements them Mmh, I think it would be just great to have this in LibreOffice, but then it'll require some more work (I fear, a lot of work!). The idea of SmartArt is to provide: * make it easy to apply changes afterwards * provide easy-to-use theming capabilities For example: If you work on an organization chart, then then it is easy to add another item "in the middle" and Microsoft Office will take care to move all the other dependent items. Same for all the other structural elements you've presented in the picture linked above. Consequently, the "Smart" in "SmartArt" refers to their programmability - it is not just graphics (see also [1]). I don't know whether/how to ask the developers for that. It's a huge task ... It seems that we are not even able to provide this via the Gallery, since the gallery doesn't support ODGs. Sigh. But, what we currently miss, are high quality templates - some guys here started to create some. Maybe they need some help. And this would be as important as having SmartArt capabilities. What do the others think? Cheers, Christoph [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2007#SmartArt [...] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
