Extra Extra


Extra! Extra!

Before we move away from the classic office applications, I would like to take another moment to address the issue of templates. Although StarOffice, the nonfree commercial sibling of OpenOffice.org, comes with a number of templates for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation graphics, OpenOffice.org is still quite light in this area. As I mentioned earlier, the Impress package has no included templates at all.

To resolve this issue, the OO Extras Web site was born (see the Resources section at the end of this chapter). Travis Bauer has put together a great site with a number of community-created and -distributed templates for the OpenOffice.org suite. The site is laid out so that you can look for things specific to your application of choice, and screenshots are provided so that you can get a preview of what the document will look like. Because OO Extras has become an international affair, these extras come in different languages as well.

A visit to OO Extras is well worth your time. Perhaps someday you too will contribute to this growing body of work.



Moving to Linux(c) Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!
Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!
ISBN: 0321159985
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 247

flylib.com © 2008-2017.
If you may any questions please contact us: flylib@qtcs.net