The issue is not the precison with which Open Office can place an
element on a page -- you can only specify 2 decimal place when your
default unit is set to points, You get get a much smaller increment
(.00014") -- it's just that if you are used to working in inches
switching to a different unit of measure is a pain.
At the risk of getting abused again -- even though I still say that
laser and inkjet printers are not accurate enough for .005 to make a
difference and if you are using an imagesetter and have printers and
artists involved, I would work on the assumption that yopu would pick
the correct tool for the job and use a page layout program with the
precison you need.
So the real question is how much of a Swiss army Knife should Open
Office be -- at what point does the application become so bloated
with features and options that it begins to resemble another well
know office package.
Thanks
Andy
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On Oct 29, 2005, at 7:16 AM, mike scott wrote:
On 28 Oct 2005 at 11:57, Robin Laing wrote:
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The question is how much accuracy to you really need in a document.
The issue here isn't really inch or mm but precision. Housed are
built with less precision than what you are asking for. Thousands of
an inch? Come on. I have a hard time visualizing a 100th of an
inch.
Can you purchase a ruler with a 100th of an inch scale?
I've used a metal ruler with 1/64 inch divisions. Not so far off 10
thou -- and even if you can't /measure/ .01 inches accurately by eye,
you can still, I suspect, easily /see/ the difference between .01 inch
and .015 inch.
More to the point, why limit, whether deliberately or accidentally,
available precision? I can't see that it costs extra to have it;
those
who don't need it won't bother, those who do will take it for granted.
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