graphics ability?

[grammatim]

I was browsing in the OpenOffice manual and came across this exciting
possibility.

You can create a sphere using 3-D drawing and then apply a world map
to it as a "texture," and you have globe you can rotate!

My Office2003 book treats all the graphics capabilities in a separate
chapter at the front, so maybe this can be done in Word, somehow? The
corresponding chapte r in the Word2003 book calls graphics "quick and
easy," which strikes me as wishful thinking rather than reality. Is
this a misapprehension?

(I don't have Illustrator.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I hesitate to say that this sounds like wishful thinking even for Open
Office, but I'm reasonably certain you can't do it in Word 2003 (or even
PowerPoint 2003). It's possible that the new graphics engine in Office 2007
has something like this, however.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Nope. The new SmartArt is more focused on the kinds of diagrams you could make
(though not as easily or with as impressive results) with the Organizational
Chart tool in Word 2003. There isn't anything that can apply an arbitrary
picture as a texture, nor is there anything that rotates or does any animation.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I didn't really think there would be, and I'd be truly surprised to hear
that OpenOffice had this capability, either.

 

[grammatim]

I didn't go so far as trying it, of course, but the instructions are
on pp. 343-347 of the OpenOffice.org User Guide for v. 2.x.

I imagine it shows an advantage of the "open" system of software-
creation -- someone decided they wanted a module that could do it, and
went ahead and built one.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ah, I guess that makes sense.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

I didn't go so far as trying it, of course, but the instructions are
on pp. 343-347 of the OpenOffice.org User Guide for v. 2.x.

I imagine it shows an advantage of the "open" system of software-
creation -- someone decided they wanted a module that could do it, and
went ahead and built one.