[libreoffice-users] Re: Downloads all torrents now?

2014-01-22 Thread Pedro
Hi Doug doug-2 wrote I believe that using Torrent is a security problem and I would not use it. That is FUD spread by the music and film industry. If the torrent is created by someone you trust (in this case TDF), even if the data is spread through the computers of many users (that is the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: “No default printer found. Please choose a printer and try again”

2014-01-22 Thread Yanis Zavakos
Dear Pedro, As suggested, I updated to LO 4.1.5.1. No messages appeared during installation. Had to restart Windows 7 to start LO. The printing problem (“No default printer found. Please choose a printer and try again”) arised again. Best regards, Yanis On 21/1/2014 13:25, Pedro wrote: Hi

[libreoffice-users] Slow new paragraph

2014-01-22 Thread heikki
Hi, When I press enter it takes five seconds before the cursor becomes visible at the beginning of the next line. The processor seems to work heavily during those five seconds. Starting the libreoffice writer with the command lowriter Kirja.odt takes less than fifteen seconds and also

[libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Base report

2014-01-22 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 20/01/2014 21:02, Harvey Nimmo a écrit : Hi Harvey, Can anyone help me to create a list report which has one field that may expand to more that one text line? Most lines of the report in the detail report section are just one line deep. However, a few fields may wrap round to more than

[libreoffice-users] Re: “No default printer found. Please choose a printer and try again”

2014-01-22 Thread Pedro
Hi Yanis Yanis Zavakos wrote As suggested, I updated to LO 4.1.5.1. No messages appeared during installation. Had to restart Windows 7 to start LO. The printing problem (“No default printer found. Please choose a printer and try again”) arised again. Ok. So you now have the option to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Slow new paragraph

2014-01-22 Thread heikki
Thank you Tom for hints. The file Kirja.odt is 273 KiB. Graphics cache: Use for libreoffice: 40 MB Memory per object: 20 MB ( There is no graphics in the document ) Turned off java and restarted. Said twice, that needs java for some operations and offered to turn it on. I said no. Worked ok,

[libreoffice-users] How to copy a frame with its text and sub-frame contents?

2014-01-22 Thread Peter West
I'm creating a flyer to be printed on an A4 sheet, which will then be cut in half, so I want identical contents on the top and bottom halves of the page. I have created the top in one of two frames that I have placed on the page. The frame contains a background image, text, and a sub-frame.

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to copy a frame with its text and sub-frame contents?

2014-01-22 Thread Peter West
Ok. I had two problems. 1) I somehow got two copies of the file open simultaneously. When I tried to select the frame for copying, copy was not an option. Once I sorted that out, 2) when I selected what I thought was the main frame (and, indeed, I had), when I tried to paste into the second

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to copy a frame with its text and sub-frame contents?

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:39 22/01/2014 +1000, Peter West wrote: I'm creating a flyer to be printed on an A4 sheet, which will then be cut in half, so I want identical contents on the top and bottom halves of the page. I have created the top in one of two frames that I have placed on the page. The frame

Fwd: SOLVED: [libreoffice-users] Slow new paragraph

2014-01-22 Thread heikki
Thank you libreoffice users. Seems I got *the* advice to solve the problem ;-) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: SOLVED: [libreoffice-users] Slow new paragraph Date: Wednesday 22 January 2014, 15:32:17 From: heikki heikki.vali...@elisanet.fi To: Brian Barker

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloads all torrents now?

2014-01-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Many people think it's a security problem before they 1. Use it and poke around to see what is going on, what it's doing (or more importantly what they are NOT doing!), monitor download/upload traffic or 2. Read up on it, study the specs, find out about the protocols or read through the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: “No default printer found. Please choose a printer and try again”

2014-01-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This is all brilliant stuff for the bug-report! Many thanks for testing all this! Really all this should be being done through the bug-report rather than on this mailing-list. This mailing-list is really about helping Users with individual problems and then hopefully moving on when the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nikolai Cassanova: Hi, I am having problems with OLE objects in microsoft word documents

2014-01-22 Thread nikolaigauntiet
Hi Tom, Increasing the memory didn't work. Libre office still crashes and I can't figure out why it does that when i click on the object. Also when i turned off java and clicked on the object it then asked me to turn on back Java in libre office. I can't send the actual word document because

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Downloads all torrents now?

2014-01-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 All the error checking is a bit like all the intense quadruple redundancies built into transporter pads in Star Trek. Except that if 1 stray atom is out of place the whole image would be rejected by the torrenting server/host/main-place so no-one can add their own bits either

Re: [libreoffice-users] Slow new paragraph

2014-01-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Do you know how large the file-size is in Mb, kB or something like that? Have you tried increasing the memory settings in LibreOffice? Tools - Options - Memory and make sure settings are over around 20Mb. Also try switching off java usage in LibreOffice by using the same dialogue box but a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Slow new paragraph

2014-01-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Weird. Hmm, so no change after all that probably means you can turn java back on. If it asked for it twice then maybe it is needed. On a GnuLinux such as openSuSE it's likely to be a safer version of java anyway. It was still worth a shot though! :) 273KiB is quite a lot lower than i

[libreoffice-users] compatibility with Topaz signature pads

2014-01-22 Thread James Sweet
Hello, We use Topaz signature pads with MS Office Word and Excel. We are considering switching to LibreOffice. Is there a way to make LO Calc and Writer work with the Topaz plugins found on their website? http://www.topazsystems.com/Software/download/plugins.htm if not, is there some other way

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: “No default printer found. Please choose a printer and try again”

2014-01-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Good points, as usual. So in this case the 4.1.3 is the most recent best stable version for all the other machines on your networks but the 4.2.0 might be interesting on your own machine for only you to use. Regards from Tom :) On 22 January 2014 11:26, Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Base report

2014-01-22 Thread Harvey Nimmo
Dear Alex, Le 20/01/2014 21:02, Harvey Nimmo a écrit : Hi Harvey, Can anyone help me to create a list report which has one field that may expand to more that one text line? Most lines of the report in the detail report section are just one line deep. However, a few fields may

[libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Base report

2014-01-22 Thread Alex Thurgood
On 22/01/2014 16:40, Harvey Nimmo wrote: Hi Harvey, I am fetching records from a query and putting them in various text boxes in the 'detail' section of a report. Two fields of each record may, however, contain more text than fit into the corresponding text box and would need to be printed

[libreoffice-users] Error 2908 and 1935 after installing .Net 4.5.1 and attempting to update Libreoffice to 4.0.4

2014-01-22 Thread Tanstaafl
Subject says it. I uninstalled the old version (3.6.3 I think it was), then installed .Net 4.5.1, and when I tried to install Libreoffice 4.0.4, the installation failed, first got the error 2908, then the 1935. Hope there is an easy fix, because this is the Boss's computer. -- To

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nikolai Cassanova: Hi, I am having problems with OLE objects in microsoft word documents

2014-01-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) 6.3 Mb file is huge!! Does OLE mean embedded? Is it possible to just link to an external file and keep the music outside of the document? Regards from Tom :) On 22 January 2014 14:58, nikolaigaunt...@estelacm.sld.cu wrote: Hi Tom, Increasing the memory didn't work. Libre office still

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloads all torrents now?

2014-01-22 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 1/22/2014 2:05 AM, doug wrote: On 01/21/2014 08:15 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: I went to download the 4.1.4 upgrade and it looks as if all the downloads are now torrents. I vastly prefer to download the files directly. Is this no longer possible, or is there somewhere these are still available?

[libreoffice-users] stall error, access taskjuggler report

2014-01-22 Thread e-letter
Readers, Is anyone experiencing an error when opening a taskjuggler html report? Writer fails to open such files, stalling and no error reported in the command terminal. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formatting Errors in Calc

2014-01-22 Thread Mark Bourne
James E Lang wrote: LibreOffice Version: 4.1.3.2 Build ID: 410m0(Build:2) on Kubuntu 13.10 Background: I use KingSoft Office Spreadsheet for Android on my phone because regrettably LibreOffice Calc for Android is not usable. KingSoft uses and saves .xlsx files. From time to time I upload one

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error 2908 and 1935 after installing .Net 4.5.1 and attempting to update Libreoffice to 4.0.4

2014-01-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Tanstaafl wrote: Subject says it. I uninstalled the old version (3.6.3 I think it was), then installed .Net 4.5.1, and when I tried to install Libreoffice 4.0.4, the installation failed, first got the error 2908, then the 1935. Hope there is an easy fix, because this is the Boss's computer.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nikolai Cassanova: Hi, I am having problems with OLE objects in microsoft word documents

2014-01-22 Thread nikolaigauntiet
Hi, Yeah 6.3 word document is huge. Yes it is embedded into the word document and I can´t copy it, to paste it into an external link. I don´t know what to do because this semester, I only had one class and next semester I will have about 10 classes. In my school, all professors will give

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Base report

2014-01-22 Thread Harvey Nimmo
On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 17:50 +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote: On 22/01/2014 16:40, Harvey Nimmo wrote: Hi Harvey, I am fetching records from a query and putting them in various text boxes in the 'detail' section of a report. Two fields of each record may, however, contain more text than

[libreoffice-users] Re: Error 2908 and 1935 after installing .Net 4.5.1 and attempting to update Libreoffice to 4.0.4

2014-01-22 Thread Pedro
Tanstaafl wrote I uninstalled the old version (3.6.3 I think it was), then installed .Net 4.5.1, and when I tried to install Libreoffice 4.0.4, the installation failed, first got the error 2908, then the 1935. Hope there is an easy fix, because this is the Boss's computer. Why are you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nikolai Cassanova: Hi, I am having problems with OLE objects in microsoft word documents

2014-01-22 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Nikolai, nikolaigaunt...@estelacm.sld.cu schrieb: Hi, Yeah 6.3 word document is huge. Yes it is embedded into the word document and I can´t copy it, to paste it into an external link. I don´t know what to do because this semester, I only had one class and next semester I will have about

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error 2908 and 1935 after installing .Net 4.5.1 and attempting to update Libreoffice to 4.0.4

2014-01-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, i take it you tried reinstalling the 3.6.x? E, did you shut-down and then switch on again? or at least a reboot? Regards from Tom :) On 22 January 2014 17:54, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Subject says it. I uninstalled the old version (3.6.3 I think it was),

[libreoffice-users] Re: having 2525 defined colors to choose from within LO

2014-01-22 Thread Owen Genat
krackedpress wrote I did not go through all of the 2525 color lines, and many of those lines were given to me, as is, like the Crayola colors. Some duplicates may be in color sequences, so they need to stay. Some are not and can be removed. Some non-working colors will be fixed or

[libreoffice-users] Re: Too many choices - not only colors

2014-01-22 Thread Owen Genat
Milos Sramek wrote For me, there are too many colors to choose from. I am lost in the (for me too large) table of colors. For example, I do not know how to choose a color, which is the same as some text elsewhere. It is even not possible to compare the colors visually (color perception

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto save didn't work?

2014-01-22 Thread rost52
Thanks Alex. It was a helpful. On 2014-01-15 23:38, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 15/01/2014 04:30, rost52 a écrit : Hi, Is below statement only valid for a Mac or also for a PC with XP? This is my experience on Mac over the different versions of LO from 3.3.0 to present, and having moved through

Re: [libreoffice-users] Just joined the list- users having trouble with gnome panels when using LibreOffice

2014-01-22 Thread Tony Godshall
10.04 LTS is lucid. We never went to gnome 3 since it broke too many workflows. We looked at cinnamon and mate and they made our workstations unstable. It's weird that an application could disrupt the ui as much as we're seeing. Our users are used to their workstations staying up for months and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Base report

2014-01-22 Thread Marion Noel Lodge
Hi Harvey, Originally I used Alex's method and made the height of the text box twice what I needed, to accommodate the overflow. But this has the effect of the report lines being effectively double spaced, except for just a few long lines. It also uses twice as much paper, if the report is