Ian Symons ian.sym...@yahoo.com.au 15 Jan 2014
dev@openoffice.apache.org RE: Suggested modifications to Open Office Draw Hello, The following suggestions generally have work around solutions, however performing such is a real pain when these are common actions. 1. Re the ruler on the left side, please orientate the numbers horizontally. The vertical numbering blends together and is unreadable. 2. Re Snap Lines, Snap Points and Grid a. It is a common error that when positioning lines and shapes that the Snap Line or Snap Point is accidentally moved slightly. This is often not noticed immediately. Please provide an option to lock these Snaps into their set position. b. It would also be nice when dragging such Snaps that the X-Y co-ordinates are displayed during the dragging, and displayed for say 1 second after the mouse button is released. It provides confirmation to the user that the setting was not altered upon releasing the mouse button. c. It would be very good if the Snaps could be grouped with an object and: d. that upon copying and pasting onto another page that those Snaps are also retained (the position would be relative to where you placed the group on the page). e. I do not know if there is already a way to do this, but it would be a big help if when dragging Snaps that they would snap to the selected grid. f. And I do not see any way to specify the grid divisions. Again, this would be a help. 3. Please provide a line circular arc tool that lets you: a. Specify the origin (point of rotation) b. Specify the radius c. Specify the arc begin angle d. Specify the arc end angle e. Allows an option to close the curve at the origin to create a segment 4. Please provide a line arc tool that lets you click on a line and convert it to a circular arc – the point would appear at the centre of the line and be dragged at a normal to the line So instead of Modify – To Curve you would also have Modify – To Circular Curve 5. Please provide an option to allow a line to be specified in two ways, shown on the one dialog box a. Origin, length and angle b. Begin point and end point 6. It is a real major pain that intersecting lines cannot be selected and fragmented at their intersecting point(s). Please fix this. 7. Please make it easy to add onto a line by clicking onto a line, selecting an end point, then selecting a line tool (line, arc, polygon) and then just use that line tool to extend the original line. 8. Lastly, I know this is not intended to be a 3D Cad program. But a few features would help. a. Have the ability to group several shapes before rotation. b. When the 3D view comes up, have buttons to select the front, top, bottom and side views (a total of 6 views). c. This is a big one – some ability to edit 3D shapes Thanks everyone. Best regards, Ian
