Wednesday 23 April 2014

format all comments

As part of our series of trying to solve in-house needs LibreOffice 4.3 will have a "format all comments" feature to change the character properties of all comments in a document.

Wednesday 16 April 2014

Printing comments in margins

Because a fellow RedHat employee requested it on Friday, LibreOffice Writer 4.3 will be able to print comments in the margin effectively as they appear on screen, which should take care of the old fdo#36815 feature request. There is now an additional "place comments in margin" option in the print dialog (and writer print options). On screen the comments are placed outside the real page area, so to actually get them onto the paper when printing, the contents of the page needs to be scaled down by approximately 75% of its original size to make space to fit the comments in.

Here's the additional comment place option in the print dialog

Here's some sample pdf output