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Throughout, the extension is a little fidgety, in the same way that World War 2 was mildly unpleasant. To use the site's Java-based extension, you will need to create a free account first. It is not as large as the better-known Open Clip Art Library, nor as careful about explaining licensing, although all its content appears to be in public domain. Many of the extensions are written in Java, although a free implementation like IcedTea or GCJ is usually all that is necessary, rather than a copy of Sun's Java.Ĭlkr.com is a site for royalty free clip art.
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Usually, the easiest way to install them is by selecting My Extensions, and readying them for the current account only. Like most extensions, those for Draw are installed via Tools -> Extension Manager. It may also explain why some of the few that are available are limited in functionality and awkward to use, and almost all seem to still be in heavy development. Probably, that explains why the Extensions page has only a handful of Draw extensions. Either users seem to expect it to be equivalent to the GIMP or Visio, or they fail to see its desktop publishing possibilities - but in all cases they are disappointed. Other than the issues listed above, I can use Open Office for all my other projects.Draw is probably the most under-estimated of the applications.
May I suggest that you integrate cropping in Open Office Writer and have it recognize other graphics from other programs. I'll have to use one of my other programs to crop my graphics from my files that I transfer over to this computer. It did not recognize it as a picture and I could not crop it. Then I tried to crop a graphic I pulled from one of my MS Office files to see if it worked. Another reason for not using Open Office regularly. Then I learned that the picture was not truly cut off but only similar to folding back the picture and anyone getting the file would get the whole picture. All the extra steps makes it a little unfeasible to use Open Office on a regular basis.
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After searching the internet, I discovered a tutorial that demonstrated how to crop in Open Office Draw. Was I surprised when I could not crop a picture. When I got OpenOffice with my new computer, I thought that this was great. I do a lot of cropping to make pictures fit into my bulletins and fliers. Many folks expect crop is always like "cut." OOo has the "delete user data info" button on the File/Properties menu, so maybe they do mention how the crop feature works but maybe I missed it.
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I recall large headline embarassments with other brands of software over the years where "redacted" info was easily revealed. This "unexpected disclosure of information" is not uncommon. So, consider OOo cropping like folding back the unwanted edge of a photo, rather than tearing it off.
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The ORIGINAL PICTURE, uncropped, is always in the XML ODF file and would be sent to any recipients (easily seen using any zip program, too). Or with the ooocrop extension, the handles yanked outward and Enter pressed. The crop limits can easily be moved back to the original borders. There are bars at the current crop limits. If a picture previously cropped in OOo is selected and OOo's crop tool is opened, the entire original picture is shown in the viewer.
OOo only stops presenting the unwanted information until someone says different. *WARNING* - OOo cropping does *NOT* remove the unwanted areas from the picture. But I'd like to pass along my experiences with OOo cropping in general: In addition to Draw and Impress which the author mentions, I see it also made a Writer toolbar called "oooCrop" and seems to work.
I did initially get an error but after closing OOo and the quickstarter, the second time was perfect. Thanks for the tip on where it installed and how it works, things the extension authors often omit.