I haven't used Manjaro before, but since it's a derivative of Arch
Linux, LibreOffice must be in it's official repo, and installing
LibreOffice must be the same as it is in Arch linux, just try:
pacman -S libreoffice
This will install the most recent libreoffice release for you.
You can also che
Hi!
I was curious as I'm currently in the process of migrating
my distribution to manjaro Linux which is the best download for it? I'm
having some confusion as Manajro is a Arch derivative that is neither
RPM or DEB based, for those that don't know Arch has the AUR (Arch user
repository) which i
On 08/06/2013 at 00:10, Ken Springer wrote:
> I've not used Word regularly since 2003, so I can't say whether
> the menu interface that appears when you hide the ribbon is as
> functional as its predecessors.
There is no "menu interface". You simply hide content of ribbons, leaving tabs
at to
On 2013-06-08 10:10, Ken Springer wrote:
On 6/7/13 3:41 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
I too wouldn't touch Kingsoft with a barge pole. I want to steer
towards using formats that will be
around and usable in a few years time. I want to be able to open
documents maybe 10-20 years from now without h
On 2013-06-08 12:10, Virgil Arrington wrote:
This has been fascinating reading all of the opinions about user
interfaces and the dreaded ribbon. I've not found *anyone* who
actually likes the ribbon. I agree with several of you who have
observed that the ribbon makes using styles much harder.
On 8 June 2013 07:44, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> As I think about software evolution, there was little consistency back in
> the DOS days. For example, Wordstar had its Ctrl-key combinations that were
> hard to learn but, once learned, made touch typists *very* proficient.
> WordPerfect preferred
Hi :)
There are a lot of very simple drawing programs on Gnu&Linux; gpaint (a bit
like "Paint" in Windows accessories), gnome-paint, apparently mtpaint is as bit
less simple and good for photos but still very basic.
Draw is excellent, especially for what you were using it for. The arrows
p
On 08/06/2013 at 18:59, "Jean-Francois Nifenecker" wrote:
> An idea I've been having for 20+ years now is: how about an office
> automation tool (wordprocessor, spreadsheet, whatever) that would come
> with the bare minimal features (define: bare minimal) and could be
> "enhanced" by adding featu
On 06/08/2013 02:44 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
2013/6/8 Jean-Francois Nifenecker :
Le 08/06/2013 20:16, Doug a écrit :
What the heck is a mail merge? I use Thunderbird, i wouldn't have any idea
how to do any kind of mail in a word processor. And I don't know why I'd
ever want to.
Say you
2013/6/8 Jean-Francois Nifenecker :
> Le 08/06/2013 20:16, Doug a écrit :
>
>>
>> What the heck is a mail merge? I use Thunderbird, i wouldn't have any idea
>> how to do any kind of mail in a word processor. And I don't know why I'd
>> ever want to.
>>
>
> Say you want to send an invitation by mail
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
On 06/07/2013 03:50 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
I need to relearn the interface for Paint Shop Pro X5, when I used
version 5 since the XP days. But since I can not get v5 to install
on Win7 Home Premium that my laptop has, I h
Le 08/06/2013 20:16, Doug a écrit :
What the heck is a mail merge? I use Thunderbird, i wouldn't have any idea
how to do any kind of mail in a word processor. And I don't know why I'd
ever want to.
Say you want to send an invitation by mail to your 10.000 friends. You
simply write the letter
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Doug wrote:
On 06/08/2013 11:32 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:16:42 -0400, Tom Davies
wrote:
Hi :)
That point keeps coming up but it best said the other way around
80% of MSO almost never gets used.
/snip/
How many people know how to mail-merge? Not
On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:16:31 -0400, Doug wrote:
On 06/08/2013 11:32 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:16:42 -0400, Tom Davies
wrote:
Hi :)
That point keeps coming up but it best said the other way around
80% of MSO almost never gets used.
/snip/
How many people know how to
On 06/08/2013 11:32 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:16:42 -0400, Tom Davies
wrote:
Hi :)
That point keeps coming up but it best said the other way around
80% of MSO almost never gets used.
/snip/
How many people know how to mail-merge? Not as many as know how to use
bold!!
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
On 06/07/2013 03:48 PM, Luuk wrote:
On 07-06-2013 21:30, Stefan Gruber wrote:
Tom Davies schrieb am Freitag, 7. Juni 2013 12:33:
Does anyone know of companies that do product-lines that are easily
compatible with Gnu&Linux?
Look at Kyocera
Hi :)
Isn't it called Abiword?
Regards from
Tom :)
>
> From: Jay Lozier
>To: users.global.libreoffice.org
>Sent: Saturday, 8 June 2013, 18:14
>Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] CNET is claiming the best free MSO
>alternative is not LO
>
>
>On Sat, 08 Jun
On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:59:13 -0400, Jean-Francois Nifenecker
wrote:
Hi,
jumping in the bandwaggon..
Le 08/06/2013 18:33, Jay Lozier a écrit :
I think there is a basic agreement that at least 25% of the features in
MSO could be eliminated and no one would notice. I would not be
surprised i
On 6/8/13 8:59 AM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
>
> An idea I've been having for 20+ years now is: how about an office
> automation tool (wordprocessor, spreadsheet, whatever) that would come
> with the bare minimal features (define: bare minimal) and could be
> "enhanced" by adding features thr
2013/6/8 Jean-Francois Nifenecker :
> Hi,
>
> jumping in the bandwaggon..
>
> Le 08/06/2013 18:33, Jay Lozier a écrit :
>
>>
>> I think there is a basic agreement that at least 25% of the features in
>> MSO could be eliminated and no one would notice. I would not be
>> surprised if LO and AOO could
Ok, sorry. Did it again. Replied privately, that is. Here's to the list:
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From: Johnny Rosenberg
Date: 2013/6/8
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] CNET is claiming the best free MSO
alternative is not LO
To: Jay Lozier
2013/6/8 Jay Lozier :
> On Sat, 08 Ju
Le 05/06/2013 07:28, Jean-Francois Nifenecker a écrit :
Ordered by Lulu :)
and received today! Nice job Lulu!
And my thanks again to the doc team :)
--
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Hi,
jumping in the bandwaggon..
Le 08/06/2013 18:33, Jay Lozier a écrit :
I think there is a basic agreement that at least 25% of the features in
MSO could be eliminated and no one would notice. I would not be
surprised if LO and AOO could eliminate about 20% of the features
without anyone not
I use Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop, with MATE desktop environment.
The key, for the printer drivers/PPDs, is finding the ones that have the
most options. When my Epson printer still worked properly, I had 3
printer-driver version of that printer setup. Each had a different
combination of print
big
remark:if you use printer with PostScript but print complex
object you will need a lot of memory in printer.I have got Xerox
Phaser 7750 with 384MB ram and on the A3 paper
from time to time we receive errors on the printouts.This is
system independent (Linux,
On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:04:20 -0400, Kracked_P_P---webmaster
wrote:
On 06/08/2013 11:32 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:16:42 -0400, Tom Davies
wrote:
Hi :)
That point keeps coming up but it best said the other way around
80% of MSO almost never gets used.
Then split the re
W dniu 07.06.2013 16:35,
Kracked_P_P---webmaster pisze:
I wonder if you can install
the drivers without having the printers installed so you can
test the drivers for their options within LO.
The same "hpcups" driver
On 06/08/2013 11:32 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:16:42 -0400, Tom Davies
wrote:
Hi :)
That point keeps coming up but it best said the other way around
80% of MSO almost never gets used.
Then split the remaining 20% up between different sorts of users.
Most people only use t
W dniu 07.06.2013 15:03, Tom
Davies pisze:Mieszko's might even help me fix our current Oki and Ricoh
printers which would be a double-plus in my favour.I haven't got experience
with OkiLinux - maybe I am wrong but
if printer uses PostScript should works.Long time ago I had Ricoh -
di
On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:16:42 -0400, Tom Davies
wrote:
Hi :)
That point keeps coming up but it best said the other way around
80% of MSO almost never gets used.
Then split the remaining 20% up between different sorts of users. Most
people only use the Save button, Bold, Centre, Underline,
Hi :)
Gimp and Photoshop are about as complex as each other. The interfaces are
roughly similar to the point where if you have used one you could probably work
out what was going on in the other. They do have slightly different approaches
which means people familiar with one often claim the ot
Hi :)
That point keeps coming up but it best said the other way around
80% of MSO almost never gets used.
Then split the remaining 20% up between different sorts of users. Most people
only use the Save button, Bold, Centre, Underline, copy&paste errr that's about
it. Oh, receive email and repl
On 06/07/2013 11:06 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
On 6/7/13 4:46 AM, DJViking wrote:
Using font UWH Bookman L some letters look bold while in fact they are
normal.
Look at this screenshot of Libreoffice with some test text.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-lDdSLkpJa5dFdhUWNVUEpya0k/edit?usp=sharing
On 06/07/2013 03:50 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
I need to relearn the interface for Paint Shop Pro X5, when I used
version 5 since the XP days. But since I can not get v5 to install
on Win7 Home Premium that my laptop has, I had to upgrade it and
relearn the
On 06/08/2013 08:49 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
On 06/07/2013 03:48 PM, Luuk wrote:
On 07-06-2013 21:30, Stefan Gruber wrote:
Tom Davies schrieb am Freitag, 7. Juni 2013 12:33:
Does anyone know of companies that do product-lines that are easily
compatible with Gnu&Linux?
Look at Kyoce
On 06/07/2013 03:48 PM, Luuk wrote:
On 07-06-2013 21:30, Stefan Gruber wrote:
Tom Davies schrieb am Freitag, 7. Juni 2013 12:33:
Does anyone know of companies that do product-lines that are easily
compatible with Gnu&Linux?
Look at Kyocera TASKalfa Series...
fifteen years ago, Kyocera was
Jay provided a great response to this thread, but it appears as if he fell
into the trap of hitting "reply" instead of "reply all," so only I got the
benefit of his response. I'm copying it below.
Jay wrote:
My understanding of the original XEROX research is that is for desktop GUI
there is a
Hi :)
Wow! That worked. It was even selected by default, as one would expect, so
that it's only the seelceted area that would get searched by default.
Thanks and regards from
Tom :)
>
> From: Kevin Suo / 锁琨珑
>To: "users@global.libreoffice.org"
>Cc: T
I never tried Kingsoft Office myself, but I read a little about it
recently when I finally abandoned my old Nokia 3510 phone for an
Android phone. I found though, that Kingsoft Office doesn't support
ODF, and almost 100% of what I have is ODF so Kingsoft Office is
obviously not for me, and I never
Hi :)
To some extent, yes. IF it does work better. That is the crucial bit. What
other people are talking about is change that ends up breaking things without
improving anything.
The ancient phrase is "If it aint broke, don't fix it".
There are plenty of innovations possible without reha
Hi :)
ODF is implemented the way it's documented as an ISO standard. A lot of
programs use the same implementation. According to devs it's fairly easy to
write something that can read it.
Where programs have variations on their implementation those tend to be written
up as bug-reports (and g
I'm forwarding this off-list reply so that others can get help.
Kevin Suo
Original Message
Subject: Re: off-list Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Calc - Find in a column
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 18:02:09 +0800
From: Kevin Suo / 锁琨珑
To: Tom Davies
Hi Tom,
I see fro
Hello,
I have a problem with Impress 4.0.3.3 on Debina Squeeze. Had the same
problem on LO 3.6 too. Handout view doesn't show anything in Impress, I
see six blank boxes witch represents slides. Handout can be printed to
file, and that printed file shows my presentation normaly. It's hard to
p
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