I am a new convert from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice, and I must say that I have completely made the shift, from using OpenOffice, to creating document in the open document format. I made an effort to disseminate the application to my students as well, believing in the creed of the opensource community in general.
I do have a suggestion for improving the OpenOffice suite. I tried to use the link to Feature Implementation, but didn't quite understand how to do it, so I opted to email instead - implying that I am no computer programmer, so pardon this email, as I know it would take up resources and time for you guys to read. Since one of the goals of OpenOffice is to become a (the most) powerful productivity suite, maybe one of the applications which should be included in the suite is a PDF viewer/reader/editor. Since Writer can export to PDF, perhaps OO should have a PDF application of its own. As I understand, PDF is a preferred format especially for business and commercial document sharing, so I guess it would really make OO a productive and power office suite if it had one. I myself prefer this format when students pass online papers for a number of reasons. That way, there wouldn't be a need to have a separate application to view PDF documents you are working on. I think there's really no need to elaborate it as I would think most readers would understand the point in all of this. PS I have not really done a thorough search, if in case this feature is already available in OO 2.2 and I am the only one not knowledgeable about it, so pardon me. I would however appreciate it if I could be informed of the latter. Thanks. ____________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://ph.mail.yahoo.com