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Idea #12570: Make it possible to rotate images in OO.o

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Written by cumulus007 the 26 Aug 08 at 14:56. Related project: OpenOffice.org Word Processor. Status: Not an idea
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It's impossible to rotate images directly in Writer. I have to open them in Draw first and export the Draw image into Writer. That just sucks. I want to import a picture and rotate it instantly. Please add this function to OO.o!
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #12570
Written by cumulus007 the 26 Aug 08 at 14:56.
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maxim99 wrote on the 26 Aug 08 at 17:01
My comment might be out of place but OpenOffice.org is managed by Sun Microsystems, not anyone at Ubuntu, right? Maybe i'm just new around here.

kepardue wrote on the 26 Aug 08 at 21:14
You're absolutely right, but I'm starting to see more and more ideas in here relating to OpenOffice.org. The Ubuntu folks are starting to take more of an interest in helping out upstream, it would be nice if they could enlighten the OpenOffice folks some.

Particularly, the fonts and image rendering look terrible on all platforms (even in OS X where it's difficult to make anything look bad), but Ubuntu even worse than the rest. Sun seems to be stagnating the project, it would be nice if we could make the rendering at least as nice as MS Word on OS X, and have that apply to all platforms, within reason.

But also, as you say, rotating images and other simple things such as intuitively moving images or text frames around with text consistently reflowing around them, that could be accomplished easily and without adding clumsy UI. Apple's Pages seems to be an ideal example to model here. But OOo seems to be too tied to its bloat for this sort of thing.

cumulus007 wrote on the 1 Sep 08 at 14:38
kepardue, I totally agree with you. If Sun would develop a more elegant Office suite, I would have a better meaning about OO.o. The whole Office suite from Sun is a little bit crappy.

Vahan Harutyunyan (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 23 Oct 11 at 17:53
Please direct your suggestion to the OpenOffice/LibreOffice team.
Closing in Brainstorm.


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