On Friday 28 February 2020 13:22:19 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Thanks for all the support! Next time I'll insist on LaTeX again,I guess :( > > Anno domini 2020 Fri, 28 Feb 13:00:56 -0800 > > William Morder via trinity-users scripsit: > > On Friday 28 February 2020 12:29:40 Michael wrote: > > > On Friday 28 February 2020 02:21:21 pm Michael wrote: > > > > On Friday 28 February 2020 01:54:26 pm Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > > > > Anno domini 2020 Fri, 28 Feb 13:49:24 -0600 > > > > > > > > > > David C. Rankin scripsit: > > > > > > On 02/28/2020 12:41 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > > > > > > But how do I persuade that piece of a genius to > > > > > > > call gimp ??? > > > > > > Ah, hit send too soon :( Another possibility... > > > > > > As they are both open source, IF LO and FF are written in close to the > > > same language and if you also know a similar language, it shouldn't be > > > terribly difficult to rip out the FF code (about:preferences > General > > > > Applications) and merge it into LO. LO already has a 'Paths' > > > section, so you could use that for your LO template. > > Ok, there's no way to configure that pestilence. It always calls xdg-open > with absolute path (I'm sure somebody got payed quite a reasonable amount > of money to remove the config dialog that was present some versions back). > Patching LO is way too clumsy, so I'll have to patch xdg-open - at least > that is still an editable textfile ... yes, cheers, somebody will soon > discover that and patch it to be binary :( > > > For what it's worth, I open up graphics files for editing directly in > > GIMP, and almost never use "open with" features; but especially not in a > > word processing program. (Also, I use Open Office, and never warmed up to > > LibreOffice. They say they're interchangeable, but it's not true.) > > Problem is: there are already images inside the presentation and I do not > have the original images. And guess what: the "feature" "save image as .." > is gone, too. Probably removed by the same GNOME as the config dialog. In Open Office, I am pretty sure that I can still right-click on images and then choose to copy them. (This might have changed, as I haven't used that trick in a long while.) Then I manually paste them into a file manager, such as Konqueror, then open that file in GIMP. Then repeat the other steps as I said already. > > > Too many things can go wrong, like everything crashing, etc. Better to > > open it in GIMP, then edit, then save, and when you're done, import the > > file, however you like to do it, into your office program. > > > > If you're working on short documents, maybe it doesn't matter too much, > > but when you have large documents with lots of big graphics files, you > > will run into that problem of crashing. And nothing kills inspiration > > like a misbehaving machine. > > Oh yes. That's the next thing I fear. And the stuff is graphic-intense. Oh > my, I think it's called progress ... wait a second, wasn't that the deault > behaviour of "the great destroyer of companies and unlimited macro fun" aka > "Word"? > > Nik > In general, I stick to the most primitive features of office programs. When I do page layout, I basically am doing it the old-fashioned way (I mean, before computers), so that my pages have the look of a real book. Whenever I use the automated "features", something almost always goes wrong; and the best possible result is to end up with pages that don't quite look like I want. Rather than expecting the machine to do things for me unasked, or to anticipate what I want, I just want my machine to obey me. If I wanted something with a mind of its own, I would get a dog, or worse, a cat. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
