Talk:PlanetPhysics/OpenOffice Graphics on PlanetPhysics

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%%% This file is part of PlanetPhysics snapshot of 2011-09-01 %%% Primary Title: OpenOffice graphics on PlanetPhysics %%% Primary Category Code: 00. %%% Filename: OpenOfficeGraphicsOnPlanetPhysics.tex %%% Version: 3 %%% Owner: bloftin %%% Author(s): bloftin %%% PlanetPhysics is released under the GNU Free Documentation License. %%% You should have received a file called fdl.txt along with this file. %%% If not, please write to gnu@gnu.org. \documentclass[12pt]{article} \pagestyle{empty} \setlength{\paperwidth}{8.5in} \setlength{\paperheight}{11in}

\setlength{\topmargin}{0.00in} \setlength{\headsep}{0.00in} \setlength{\headheight}{0.00in} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.00in} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.00in} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in} \setlength{\textheight}{9.00in} \setlength{\voffset}{0.00in} \setlength{\hoffset}{0.00in} \setlength{\marginparwidth}{0.00in} \setlength{\marginparsep}{0.00in} \setlength{\parindent}{0.00in} \setlength{\parskip}{0.15in}

% this is the default PlanetMath preamble. as your knowledge % of TeX increases, you will probably want to edit this, but % it should be fine as is for beginners.

% almost certainly you want these \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts}

% used for TeXing text within eps files %\usepackage{psfrag} % need this for including graphics (\includegraphics) \usepackage{graphicx} % for neatly defining theorems and propositions %\usepackage{amsthm} % making logically defined graphics %\usepackage{xypic}

% there are many more packages, add them here as you need them

% define commands here

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For generating graphics from OpenOffice, create a new drawing, insert equations and arrows, etc. Right click and select Page Setup. **IMPORTANT** make sure you change the margins to zero and the width and height to a be just bigger than the drawing, otherwise you can get weird stuff in the page image mode. Then save as odg (good to upload this to PlanetPhysics also) and then export and select eps. Next usepackage graphicx in the preamble

\begin{figure}[h] \centering \includegraphics{OOfigure.eps}

\centerline{Figure 1: Latex/eps and OpenOffice} \label{Figure1} \end{figure}

The greatest advantage of OpenOffice is the ease of adding equations to the figure. The downside is the graphics take a lot of fine-tuning and do not look the greatest in html mode for some reason...

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