Re:Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
by phaemon on Sunday September 29, 2013 @04:00AM
(#6464489)
What an appalling Gish gallop. Well, as usual, the only thing to do is point out the first wrong thing. Conveniently, everything you said was wrong, so I can just pick the first clear statement you made: you can rotate text within a table.
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Re:Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
by frozenport on Sunday September 29, 2013 @04:25AM
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http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/3990/how-to-rotate-in...
also
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48804
--edit, not sure why links to the bugzilla describing the issue are giving me downvotes...
--edit 2 : I actually hit this bug when making a flyer, the bottom had little flaps with our groups email. It broke PowerPoint compatibility, and I had to reboot into Windows.
--edit 3: You made laugh when you mentioned that "You can't invert the text quite so easily, you have to draw a rectangle with text in which can then be rotated any arbitrary degree." That sums up whats wrong with many user side facing programs. Too bad LibreOffice doesn't support pipes :-)
Re:Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
by phaemon on Sunday September 29, 2013 @04:40AM
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Probably because both those links specifically say you can rotate text 90 and 270 degrees. You can't invert the text quite so easily, you have to draw a rectangle with text in which can then be rotated any arbitrary degree.
Next time you trawl bug reports looking for anti-Linux material, try reading them more carefully.