Using SVG Templates – Design

In this tutorial we will look at application support for creating high-quality designs using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) templates. SVG offers some unique opportunities over several of the other popular file formats in which templates are found. Most notably, SVG is vector-based, so it scales smoothly to every conceivable resolution — but unlike other vector […]

Your mail merging options with Thunderbird

If you use the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email client, you’re probably familiar with its powerful address book features: import and export, online status information for your friends, even synchronization. But one thing that’s not so obvious is how to do a mail merge to your address book contacts. Fortunately, where there’s a will — […]

Unleash your inner Old Master with MyPaint (Open Source)

MyPaint is a lightweight, easy-to-use open source painting application that you might not have heard of before. Unlike some of the more mature open source raster-graphics applications (such as Krita or Gimp), MyPaint doesn’t try to do everything: it’s not a photo editor, it doesn’t bother with paths, geometric shapes, text manipulation, or fancy masking […]

Secrets of the AutoText Tool (Openoffice.org)

The AutoText tool is much more useful than you might think. In fact, it hides a few clever features that can make your word processing more efficient. But let’s start from the very beginning. As you might know, the AutoText tool allows you to insert frequently used text snippets using abbreviations. BY DMITRI POPOV Facebook0Twitter0Google+0Pinterest0E-Mail0

Turbocharge OpenOffice.org Writer with AuthorSupportTool

  Although OpenOffice.org is a competent productivity suite, you can add some nifty features to it using extensions. There are hundreds of nifty extensions available in the official extension repository. Some of them add a feature or two, while others take OpenOffice.org to a whole new level. The AuthorSupportTool (AST) extension  belongs to the latter […]