Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 74630
no easy way to edit existing fontwork
Last modified: 2013-10-14 06:33:42 UTC
Wrote some Text in a textbox. Choose 'Fontwork' from the context menu. Apply an arc form to the text. You will get an old style fontwork. Close the fontwork window. Now try to alter the form of the fontwork. There is no way in the UI to get the Fontwork window back. My big wish for enhancement: Add an permanently item into the context menu for calling the fontwork window. Fontwork can be applied to nearly all drawing objekts and I see no reason, why you have dropped it. My small wish: If you have got an existing fontwork, then you can reach the fontwork dialog via context menu. Or make the fontwork window a normal toolbar that acts like all the other context depending floating toolbars. I know that I can customize the drawing toolbar to get that icon, but that is not a comfortable way.
Reassigned.
The same issue still remains in the version 3.2 Old style Fontwork button should be placed side by side with Fontwork gallery button in the drawing tool-bar as well as in into the context menu for different objects. There is a lot of things what could be done with old style Fontwork but not with Fontwork gallery.
I suggest to rename "an old style fontwork" (Fontwork - Previous Version) to "Fit Text to Path" as in other drawing programs.
AW: +1, Added me to CC. "Fit Text to Path" is a very good idea. Also the eight prototypes in the upper part of the dialog should be removed; they just cause confusion.
The AOO 4.0.1 is still missing "Fit Text to Path".