Dear Gordon: I agree, auto-complete is frequently a nuisance, as it ass a judgemental application. Like all applications that make judgemental decisions or do diagnostics, they are trouble prone and always will be.
A computer has no real intelligence! Only a human being has that. Hence there are many decisions that they cannot make effectively, especially when they would need to deal with a large hierarchy of pre-existing information to do so. This is what has made OCR, Vectorisation, and certain other applications problematic and difficult and expensive to develop. Example: If I scan, OCR and reconstruct a large text item, I find I spend about 25% of my time scanning, 25% of my time in the OCR (using ABBYY sprint), and 50% or more in the reconstruction, largely in word, except that I may have to edit the extracted graphics in Photoshop elements or Gimp. I may also have to crop and scan the graphics separately, in order to get a rendition suitable to include in the final document, as I would not want to scan a lot of stuff in 600 D.P.I. colour when I don't need or want the colour for the text (but do need the 600 DPI for good OCR). The graphics can go in 300 DPI colour very nicely, since that is enough for the human eye when this is printed. Exception: If there is a need to crop and enlarge, depending on the crop ratio, I may then need to scan at a higher resolution, crop and then enlarge, trading resolution for size to get what I need. Best regards, Bruce Martin -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Sent: December 12, 2009 12:05 PM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] Re: Open office, a godsend and a nuisance? chris.nove...@pcc.edu wrote: > Hello to those at open office or those in discussion of open office. I'm a student and i love using open office, i love what it represents, i love how it works and compaires to word, but i want to address something i think is long overdue in addressing; And i'm taking a break from my finals study to address it because it is so annoying it makes open office go from a godsend to a nuisance. > > When you are working on a document, nothing, i repeat, nothing, is more annoying then when it tries, in all friendly intention, to edit the document for you. The most important of these auto-editings to address here is simply when you are numbering something, and it FORCES a space, about tab size, before each of your numbered lines. In word, i believe there is a little helper that pops up at the bottom of the screen, that when scrolled over gives you the option to disable this nuisance from hell. In contrast, open office forces you to investigate the matter like a technician, and has the most disgusting, albeit detailed, options window, that anyone simply wanting to disable the autonumbering option will cringe at seeing. > > CAN it be made, that an update could allow for simple, nearly AUTO disabling of this auto-nuisance? I'm crossing my fingers and going back to studying. On another note, thank you for reading and thank you for an amazing program! > > Chris > Just the same as MS Word then.....THAT has some horrific annoyances as well.... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.716 / Virus Database: 270.14.107/2564 - Release Date: 12/14/09 02:37:00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
