To say the least, the extension takes a while to learn how to use. drag the cyan-colored frame in the upper left of the editing window over the graphic you want to crop, resize the cyan frame using its handle, then press the Enter key to crop. To use it, you have to select a graphic, click the CropOOo button. CropOOo adds that functionality for Draw, Impress and Writer. In short, Pagination gives you all the most common page number options in a concise dialog that should take you less than 20 seconds to go through.ĭespite some first-rate drawing tools, lacks any means of cropping a graphic.

You can also choose whether to make left and right pages mirror images of each other, or to omit the number on the first page.

The dialog gives you options for placing the page number in a header or footer, setting the number's alignment, and choosing a number format. Taking a hint, perhaps, from some of the changes to the code in IBM's Lotus Symphony, Pagination adds a Page Number dialog to the Insert menu. If so, then Pagination will be useful to you. You can get around this problem by creating a template that has page numbers built in, but, when you are doing a short document, you may find manual formatting easier. The problem is that page numbers are tied to page styles in Writer - a concept that is beyond most new users' experience. Newcomers to Writer often have problems learning how to add page numbers. After installation, you have to restart before the new add-on is available. Like all add-ons, they install from Tools -> Extension Manager, and can be installed either for the current user account, or globally on your system. In no particular order, below are some of the Writer add-ons that are most useful. Some of the most useful add-ons are those that extend or change the functionality of Writer. There is even a web page that is slowly beginning to rival the Firefox extension page. Today, extendedPDF remains a must-have - so much so that Debian versions of include it as part of the basic packages - but the choices have expanded dramatically. When I last wrote about add-ons for in September 2004, the examples were relatively limited, with extendedPDF the outstanding example. After a slow start, add-ons for are finally starting to reach a critical mass.

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