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Google Docs is char-by-char realtime, adds drawings

Luka [PersonRank 10]

Monday, April 12, 2010
14 years ago4,227 views

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/03/drawing-on-your-creativity-in-docs.html

Luka [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Nice new UI redisgn, and more collaboration features than before!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_hJ3R8jEZM&feature=player_embedded

WebSonic.nl [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Ha just got the press release.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

WTF? on the video you can see they use Google Apps for that site :
http://www.altostrat.com/
Screenshot:
http://i42.tinypic.com/14xigy8.png

But if you don't add "www" you get... WOWW
http://i43.tinypic.com/169ryav.png

Luka [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

http://docs.google.com/drawings/edit?id=1nuPdfL59lFAYA227YWGRCil3Tqu6GxblrtLxZsPQeVY&hl=en if you want to try drawings

que [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

It needs an option to scale or zoom the image or page to show all. When an image larger than the screen is imported or objects are drawn outside the page, you can still scroll around using the window bars, but there is no easy way to scale or zoom out to see it all again. I noticed a little resize icon in the lower right corner when a new drawing is started. That helps somewhat, but can be easily obscured and difficult to locate once objects exceed the page boundaries.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

On our doc (cf @Luka's link) there are more than 130 (sometimes 200) people editing at the same time. Google Docs doesn't crash. I love it. :-)

Jared Cherup [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

In the Document editor... there is no longer an option to view full screen or have the normal view (non fixed width page). Anyone else notice that?

David Mulder [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

As far as the char by char edits in normal docs... it didn't seem to work when I tried it out with two other computers yesterday evening.

[put at-character here]Jared Cherup: Both things you mention are still available. (FullScreen is called for ages "Hide controls" and you can tick of page view)

Luka [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

You can now force the usage of new editors : http://docs.google.com/settings?hl=en

Here are the limitations of new editors :
https://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=176442

JEShack [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Aw.. Google Kix is apparently the new version of Google Document. lmao.

i <3 the new document editor, it's so googly. Im still trying to adopt the new ui. and docs is no longer using latex which is bad. the equations made by the new equation editor were ugly when its printed, double bad.

JEShack [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Create new document using new ui at:
http://docs.google.com/document

i use this as one of my chrome app now. by using chrome switch.

WebSonic.nl [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Update (12:35 PM PST): Drawings are now available for everyone.

Update (2:46 PM PST): The "New version" link in spreadsheets is now available on docs.google.com.

Update (4:40 PM PST): The "New version of Google documents" setting is now available at http://docs.google.com/settings on the 'Editing' tab.

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