On Saturday March 31 2007 12:39 pm, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> Mathias Bauer wrote:
> > Peter Hillier-Brook schrieb:
> >> Mathias Bauer wrote:
> >>> Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> >>>> That's correct the way things are, but it wouldn't be very
> >>>> hard to incorporate in a table-based system. Even the
> >>>> "competition" have achieved it:-)
> >>>
> >>> As the labels document is just a regular document that is
> >>> created by a Wizard it should be possible to create such a
> >>> document based on a table manually. Would you volunteer to
> >>> create such a document for any label format of your choice just
> >>> for demonstration purposes? By playing around with it it could
> >>> be easier to grasp the difference and the possible advantages
> >>> and disadvantages (if there are any ;-)).
> >>
> >> I assume that you are not asking me to write a Wizard, but
> >> merely to supply a table-based template?
> >
> > Of course. :-)
> >
> >> I've created a few, both A4 and US sizes and they are available
> >> for download from:
> >> http://hbsys.co.uk/openoffice/Just%20Templates.zip
> >
> > Thanks, got them and will play with them a bit.
> >
> >>> Currently I understood that the main advantage of the tables
> >>> approach is the vertical alignment. Is there anything else that
> >>> could be used as a justification for the effort to change the
> >>> wizard?
> >>
> >> Only ease of manually creating new formats comes to mind
> >> presently. That was my secondary driver after vertical centring.
> >
> > Isn't that what the wizard is for?
>
> My bias is showing :-) I just feel more comfortable with tables and
> I know that I can work much more quickly - despite only 2 decimal
> place accuracy in the user interface. Now fixing that would be well
> received ;-)
>
> Regards
>
> Peter HB
Here is the work around for your decimal accuracy: learn to use
the metric system. One meter is 39.37 inches. That means 0.01 mm is
0.0003937 inches. That seems to be very accurate to me. While I live
in the USA, I use cm all the time when working with OOo. That still
gives me an accuracy of 0.003937 inches. I can live with that.
Dan
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