I think I see what you mean (literally).
I knew about this, now try and see if KOffice will interoperate with OpenOffice or ABIWord in this manner?
I don't have OpenOffice so I don't know. Although, I can tell you can't copy from the GIMP into Krita (IMO Krita is shit anyhow. It's unstable and I prefer the GIMP's interface.
UNIX might be able to share data but Windows goes one step further and shares objects - a big advantage.
Everyone in the DOS world uses the same clipboard and stuff, I would guess.
Each app has its own clipboard but there were ways to get round this and no it wasn't pretty. I'm sorry I shouldn't have mentioned DOS here.
No, only text in Inkscape gets to the outside world, because it uses it's own internal clipboard.
I think the problem might be due to the fact that the Linux clipboard might not support vector formats, I don't know.
Could you do that easilly (i.e. almost-naturally) if both Inkscape and Abiword were made primarally for Windows (and made use of all it's API/stuff)?
Certainly yes.
Maybe. But KOffice is many different binaries (they share some core libraries) just like MS Office.
I can do exactly the same with Corel Draw and Word even though they don't share the same binaries.
Hopefully not too-frustrating. Otherwise, I could put you in contact with a good shrink.
It's very frustrating when you want to work with Inkscape and ABI Word, it it too much to ask to be able to draw something in a drawing program, then past it into a word processor and click on it to edit and adjust it?
You can convert it to a raster format, but that's a pain in the arse, the print quality is shit, you can't resize with out seeing the pixels and to modify the graphic you need to go back into Inkscape and re-export it to a raster, then re-import it to ABI Word.
Hopefully not too-frustrating. Otherwise, I could put you in contact with a good shrink.
- a typical zealot response, so it's the user's fault now for the OS's shortcommings. :rolleyes:
These issues still exist and calling the user stupid for noticing and being botherd about them is just plain childish.
How many people find Windows stability (I've had alot of issues with Windows' stability.
At work the admin have set the screensaver to lock the system and prompt for a password, I got round this annoying feature by setting the screensaver delay to 9999 miniutes (just under a week), I went on holiday for a couple of weeks and forgot to turn it off, when I came back it was still going, no BSOD, I just moved the mouse and it prompted me for the password.
Microsoft did all the important-for selling things first. I think that could partly-explain why Windows sucks so bad. My Windows experience is haunted by stability
I've already told you how to fix 99% of those issues.
If lack of DDE/OLE haunts you, get help.
OLE/DDE are very important tools in the office, they enable you to easilly create documents using many peices of software. OpenOffice and KOffice have implemented these features for themselves by using their own libraries and standards, when they really should've been part of the OS in the first place, hence they can't interoperate with each other.
