OpenOffice.org Blog provides an interesting tutorial on creating data entry forms from scratch, and saving them as PDF files. All you need is OpenOffice.org Writer.

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If you are a blogger, you probably have a long list of things you want to comment in the coming days, some useful links you’ve found in the internet, and photos / audio files / videos. It is a great idea to keep it in the single place, using application who organizes these notes and links.

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If you want to publish your own e-zine, or you are a student who wants to prepare presentation or a report, then you should definitely try out Wyneken. It is a content-oriented text processor that makes your life as a student easier by allowing you to create and manage digital notebooks.

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cb2Bib is another tool useful mainly for scientists, but it is also usable for students and all users who deal with large amounts of digitized data. It is a tool for rapidly extracting bibliographic references from email alerts, journal web pages, and PDF files. It facilitates the capture of single references from unformatted and non standard sources.

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Users of OpenOffice.org office suite often forget that they can also use the Draw – a simple application for creating vactor images and diagrams. However, this tool exists and is probably installed on your hard drive. So this might be a great idea to run this app and try it out. But wait, let’s begin with installing some useful extensions.

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If you start your own blog, you will soon realize that having only a web-based editor and some good ideas is not enough to become a successful online writer. It won’t help you when you try to send some files to a FTP server, prepare a PDF magazine with your own articles, edit photos, or manage your collections of links and citations. Therefore you should install some other helpful applications, very useful for all professional bloggers.

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Beta version of PDF import extension for OpenOffice.org is now available online. Fully functional version, special features like importing layout of LaTeX PDF or import of complex vector graphics, will appear later. However even the preliminary version of this extension allows to open and edit PDF documents up to version 1.4. Files with restricted permissions are not yet supported.

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OpenOffice.org splash screen can be eaily removed or customized – writes OONinja Blog. This article describes how to do it.

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OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas Blog gives some tips on printing two-sided brochures in OpenOffice.org Writer. It is easy as pie, if you know a couple tricks about how to make pie.

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Linux Journal published an article Installing Fonts on Linux. Daniel Bartholomew describes how to install fonts in Linux and KDE. The Font Viewer program is also described.

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