Re: [libreoffice-users] Making horizontal lines in Writer

I use the Drawing options of
View > Toolbar > Drawing
that will place some drawing options toolbar on the bottom "panel" of 
Writer [4.2.x].  Then I just anchor the line to the paragraph or text.

As for printing PDF and fonts shown/embedded in other posts, I tend to 
use doPDF for Windows to print out a nice PDF file that embeds whatever 
font[s] I choose to use.  I have some weird ones that seem not to embed 
in the "Export to PDF" option[s] within Writer.  doPDF creates a new 
"printer", that look like it is a physical one.  I have been using this 
PDF "printer" long before LibreOffice ever came out and I just plainly 
use it as my default printer for all my Windows systems.

I hate using those "auto replacement" options, since there are times 
when they get in the way of some of my document editing between Word and 
Writer.

On 09/23/2014 07:12 PM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote:
> Thanks Cley,
>
> I didn't think about the pdf route. That just may well work. I did try
> sending an .odt to the secretary, same peoblem. When she opened it, some of
> the lines were missing. I'll try pdfs next.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Cley Faye <cleyfaye@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't know how well it transition to .doc files, but my approach to make
> > answer lines is the following:
> > - create a new paragraph style (let's call it "Answer Zone")
> > - change the style spacing so that there is no extra space before/after the
> > paragraph
> > - change the style border to be a single line at the bottom, and disable
> > the checkbox that merge the borders between paragraphs
> >
> > ...after typing this, I just checked, and that's roughly what the "---\r"
> > route is doing. Damn. The issues seems to be that the "Merge with next
> > paragraph" option either doesn't exist in .doc format, or isn't carried
> > over correctly. And no more luck with docx.
> >
> > Some sort of solution for your issue could be to just send the odt (recent
> > version of MS Office can read them, YMMV), or directly send the PDF, which
> > is clearly the best option if the recipient of your document will not have
> > to modify it, only to view/print it.
> >
> > --
> > Cley Faye
> > http://cleyfaye.net
> >
> > 2014-09-24 0:27 GMT+02:00 "J. Van Brimmer" <jerry.vb@gmail.com>:
> >
> > > I'm using 4.3.1.2 on Xubuntu Linux.
> > >
> > > I am creating some lesson handouts for a class I'm going to be teaching.
> > I
> > > have to email them to our secretary, who has to read them in MS Office
> > for
> > > printing.
> > > ​
> > > The ​documents are formatted in landscape mode.
> > >
> > > In the document I enter a short text line, press Enter, then I type in
> > > three dashes, press Enter, and waula, I have a horizontal line for the
> > > students to  write their answers on.
> > > ​Sometimes I continue pressing Enter to automatically create as many
> > lines
> > > as I need.
> > > ​
> > > This works fine as ling as I stay in .odt format. But if I save the
> > > document in .doc format, and then open the .doc file in LibreOffice, some
> > > of the horizontal lines are missing. I have tried everything I can think
> > > of, but I can't get all of the lines to "stick" from .odt to .doc format.
> > >
> > > I have read the "Help" page here:
> > > https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Drawing_Lines_in_Text
> > > ​ .
> > > But ​those tips don't work either.
> > >
> > > ​I am being forced to work in Win​broke using BS Word. Help!
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > ->Jerry<-
> > >
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