Proportionate Font-size increase/decrease in a pre-formatted text doc

[bkpsusmitaa]

Dear Sirs,

I have been using Debian (Knoppix) Linux with Libre Office software exclusively for the last seven years.

I have found a conspicuously absent feature which I shall explain below:

I have a pre-formatted document with different font and font attributes, such as colours, size, etc.
I just want to increase the font size of the document proportionately, without changing anything else.

How to do it?

If this feature is already there please let me know.

I have seen the feature in html editors.

Just to add an integer +i to all font-sizes.

Eager to hear from you,

Rajib Bandopadhyay

Dedicated FOSS GNU user

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Dear Pierre, or should I say, Mr. Samyn, or Prof. Samyn?

You are just adorable!

The post was just warm-up

Now here is the final issue:

The document I downloaded from the internet has all the formatting in Default Style itself, some in Times New Roman 8, Some in Arial 10, Sans Condensed 12, some in normal, some, bold, still some, Italic.

While creating the document the creator did not follow a particular, specific and rigid style.

Now I am suffering because of this stupidity.

I have tried find/replace with formatting, without success, as I have never used the find/replace with various options ever.

I am afraid Style and Formatting won’t help, because of the idiocy.

How can I implement a solution for this document? It is a good document, and I would need to edit it to suit my requirements. And there is no copyright violation involved.

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To: Mr. Lupp,

Yes, Sir, I appreciate your humour But really, I am not sure whether the document is copyleft, and so I didn’ t want to take a chance by sending the link. I copied the document’s format and uploaded it.

And, sir, I am really impressed! A guest had come to our house, and I was temporarily away from my laptop. By the time I returned I find my karma jumping to 11!

I am indebted for the support I received. So now I hope you would get the correct picture about the peculiar formatting.

My regards, Mr. Lupp

format.odt

The no. of pages for the original document is 200. While the formatting style is exactly as shown in the file format.odt managing 200 pages by removing all styles and then applying them individually is tedious ad nauseum.

[Lupp]

We all suffer from stupidities. … One of them may be the Arial font itself …

If there are not too many different direct formats, and those present (mostly) are at least usable for a complete paragraph each, it might be doable to create ‘New Style from Selection’ in the Stylist (F11) for the most relevant styles, and to regularise the complete document with their help.

Knowing the original URL a more detailed suggestion might be possible.

[bkpsusmitaa]

Yes, I want to, but I need three points to upload an attachment

[Lupp]

A quoted URL isn’t an attachment.

I will see, however, that enough “Karma” be with you.

[PYS]

Search & replace could be considered if it was necessary to replace direct formattings by styles. But, with all due respect, such a layout is to me nonsense. Attributes are multiplied without semantic value.

My advice would be to erase all these direct formattings (select the entire document and then Ctrl+M) and then assign paragraph (and characters) styles that suit your needs.

I don’t see the point of wasting your time in various “search & replace” successive in that case. Regards

[bkpsusmitaa]

Dear Mr. Samyn, I will commit suicide if I am to edit a 200 page document. I hope you have seen the formatting style, as in format.odt? I am utterly irritated. On the one hand the file is a very important document to me in terms of information, but useless as print for small, smaller & varied fonts & formatting - formatting is essential to categorise information and for the ease of reading the printed document.
Which is why I was searching for an expert like you to help me find a way. Regards

[PYS]

Hi

This feature already exists when using the inheritance of styles which is defined in the Organizer tab: Inherit from.

If you are creating a Style that is based on another Style, you can enter a percentage value or a point value (for example, -2pt or +5pt).

In the example Proportion.odt:

• Heading inherits from Text Body (140%)
• Heading1 inherits from Heading (130%)
• Heading2 inherits from Heading (115%)

So, edit Text Body style will be reflected on dependent styles

Regards

[bkpsusmitaa]

I tried for this entire time. Then I found an optimal solution.

I converted the .odt file into .html file. Then I opened the source text of the html file in Geany (for easy discerning of the text-clusters via colours).

I found that the character sizes ranged from 1 till 13. So I searched from sizes 1-6 and replaced them with size 6, sizes 7-10, with size 10, and 11-13, with size 13 - in short clustering all the sizes into three groups, easily discernible.

Then used Writer to convert the html file back to .odt file. And viola, had a better comprehensible formatting that still retained the weight, italic, subscripts, superscripts, etc.

However, I still distinctly remember there was an application natively available in Windows98SE, most probably called Frontpage Express(not Frontpage, that has to be bought separately ), that had the facility to proportionately increasing/decreasing of font sizes in a text document in the html format. How I miss these applications!