Hi Ian,
thanks for your suggestions, much appreciated. Some are pretty
interesting. Comments inline...
On 15.01.2014 20:27, Ian Symons wrote:
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.
I have not seen it blend togethter, but I agree that these would be less
irritating when done horizontally.
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.
Doy you talk about
- objects that get placed or
- objects which help positioning (HelpLines, Grid, edges of existing
objects, ...)
here? If you have cases where there is a misplacement in snapping,
please provide a reproducable example, this would be an error. Please
note that snapping can be influenced while in action by pressing
qualifiers (shift, ctrl, tab) and by changing snap features (see
view/toolbars/options in draw).
Note that you can create helplines with start to drag on the rulers,
they even have an UI for setting them to precise positions.
b.
It
would also be nice when dragging such Snaps that the X-Y co-ordinates
are displayed during the dragging,
This is in the last line of the app at the left; a text and measurements
dependent of the type of action is displayed.
The idea to keep this after MouseUp for a defined time is nice,
especially since the reason is very good.
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:
I do not understand if "Snaps" are the graphic objects or snap helper
pobjects; of course graphic objects can be grouped.
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).
Also not clear. The grid on the destinatopnmay be defined dofferent, do
you want that to be changed when pasting?
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.
They do depending on the settings
f.
And
I do not see any way to specify the grid divisions.
Again,
this would be a help.
See tools/options/draw/grid
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
In the drawing toolbar, use the rightmost dropdown from the toolbar
itself, choose customize. Use "add", Seelct "drawing" left, add what you
need. Best is to add "Ellipse", there are two, use the general one which
adds another drop-down toolbox to the menu.
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
You should be able to do that using the Points mode (see icon or press
F8 in draw/impress) and using the bezier stuff.
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
This is missing, only pos/size is available for the object, so if it's a
line you can define the start/end point exactly.
6.
It
is a real major pain that intersecting lines cannot be selected and
fragmented at their intersecting point(s).
Please
fix this.
Not possible with lines; would need to constuct filled objects including
the lines, using substract and extract the results.
Good suggestion to offer that with lines directly.
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.
You can add/remove/edit points using the edit points toolbar
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.
This is possible, group or just multi-select what you need
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
Yes, I would love to have 3D editing UI and capabilities. Help is needed
here, as a start we would need someone with UI experience who makes
suggestions. We would need some time and ressourecs for implementation.
I would support this, but can not promise time for this.
BTW: you have seen the 3D effects dialog in the context menu of 3D
scenes, have you?
And I hope you know that in AOO you can enter/leave 3D svened as you can
with 2d Groups, so quite some editing is possible in 3D already,
especially when you switch the view to non-perspective first (in the
dialog again).
Thanks
everyone.
Best
regards,
Ian
Ian, thanks and no worries :-)
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