Linux and Libre office questions

[Joseph Sinclair]

I did not mean to give offense.  I was just noting (perhaps overly harshly) that the document, in it's current form, is very difficult to work with due to the use of text boxes and no enclosing text content (definitely not the intent of text boxes in ODT).
Libre Office (or any word processor) is a fairly poor tool choice for this type of ultra-specific and precise layout positioning; XHTML with CSS3 is somewhat better for that purpose; SVG is even better; and a good page layout tool such as Scribus is best.


On 11/27/2012 11:56 AM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> 
> Joseph wrote:
>> IMO, this is a horribly designed document.
> 
> That seems a bit harsh, Joseph.
> 
> I may be a bit ignorant and inept,
> but I was merely trying to figure out how to
> create a document that would satisfy my client's
> very specific format/appearance requirements.
> 
> 
> 
>> The content is all in text boxes, so the only way to add a new page (with
>> all the content copied) is to click outside the text boxes (top-left
>> corner works); insert manual break, then select page; then copy/paste each
>> text box individually (there are 4) to the new page.
>> Alternatively, one might use the features of Libre Office (specifically
>> the Master Document support) to cause the content to be automatically
>> copied to each new page...
> 
> 
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