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5. Within xnview select area you actually need and press Shift

x so as to crop picture

down to selection.

6. Press Ctrl

a to mark all contents.

7. Ctrl

c to copy contents into memory.

8. Back in your thesis press Ctrl

v to insert content of memory into your text.

9. Add a Caption.

Note: Linux users might like to familiarize themselves with the programme KSnapshot.

30 Pictures

In a similar way you can insert pictures from your hard drive: go to Insert › Picture ›

From File and choose the picture you want from your hard drive or USB-stick.

You can also directly scan a picture, though I would suggest you do this via the freeware

programme xnview we talked about in section 29, which allows you much more freedom to

manipulate your picture, for instance increase contrast or get rid of parts you don’t want.

You can also insert a picture directly from the internet by right clicking it and choosing Copy.

Back in your text insert it using shortcut Ctrl

Again, don’t forget to give all your pictures a caption, so you can easily reference them (see

section 23 on Cross-References) and automatically create a table of illustrations.

31 Presentations & Graphics

Apache OpenOffice has a module Presentation (similar to Microsoft’s PowerPoint). I

won’t say much about it except that you should keep presentations simple e.g. only using black

on white (which also makes printing cheaper). On the whole there is a danger that the audi-

ence concentrates too much on the projection and not on what you are actually saying, so it’s a

technique I would be pretty wary of.

Note: Refrain from using self made graphics with arrows pointing in various directions in

order to visualise a complex reality. I’m not talking about straight forward statistical graphs but

the kind used to describe things like institutions, social relations or even psychological phe-

nomena. For three reasons:

i) a graphic suggests that reality can easily be reduced to some simple visual structure, which is

rarely the case;

ii) at least one dimension is usually missing, i.e. that of time – a double arrow for instance

doesn’t tell you which interaction starts first and how long the interval between the two inter-

actions is;

iii) it is often said that one image expresses more than a thousand words – but this isn’t neces-

sarily the case; possibly a photograph or an architectural plot, but even a photograph needs

interpreting.

The central problematic is that of contestation. If a person says something then you can say

something else, you can contradict him or her, and this is where human language developed over

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