Re: [dev] I want to contribute in programming
I'm new to the list and have started building the 2.0 product. So, I'm getting there. ;-) By the way, if anyone has build instructions for 1.1.5 on OS X, please share. Marko --- David Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After that is a list of suggestions. I would > recommend taking number 5 - > "fix a bug". In order to do this you really need to > build OpenOffice.org > yourself. > This isn't the easiest or quickest thing in the > world but ask questions > on the mailing list if you get stuck, and be > patient. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dev] How does one package OO for distribution?
I managed to compile on OS X. Now I would like to create a distributable package or tarball. How does one do this, please? Marko __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dev] volunteer for English 3.0 for Mac PPC
There are German and French versions of 3.0 for Mac PPC but not English. Does the community need another version builder? I have the horsepower and the experience, particularly with FreeBSD which underlies Mac. I presume the primary task would be to compile in the language pacs. The latest revision to OSX 10.5.5 blew Open Office 2.3.0 and 2.4.0 out of the water with changes to X11. I had to recompile Mozilla, Gimp, and Xemacs. The German and French versions of Open Office seem to work flawlessly but using the German version with a dictionary in hand is tedious since most of the menu items are not listed. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dev] Idea of academic Impress use
Dear Developers! My name is Gábor Iglói. I'm a medical doctor in Hungary. I'm fond of opensource software and using OpenOffice.org for 1,5 years now. I like it very much actually I have written all of my important documents using this suite including my graduate essay. I follow the ongoing development of the OpenOffice.org 2.0 and I find it very promising. I have welcomed that the insertion of movie clips in Impress presentations has been developed. In fact, in the academic world it is very important to create and perform nice presentations for education. Unfortunately in this world M$ software has the monopoly - you just can't replace the PowerPoint because everyone uses it so when you bring your CD to anywhere you must supply your presentation in PowerPoint format. With Impress you can produce quality presentations but you can't transfer it to congresses. Even if you export it to ppt format there are some incompatibilities. And until now you could embed very limited video clips in your Impress presentations. I've also read about and searched for OpenOffice Viewer tools. I've read about developers' opinions about this topic: too much effort to create a stuff like that for all platforms, instead OO.o gives good support for HTLM, PDF or Flash export... This way it will be hard to give the academic world a working option for migration. You can't reproduce all effects of an Impress presentation in these formats and you can't embed movie clips either. I would suggest that maybe it would be a very good idea and this could make OO.o even more popular if you would create an Impress Viewer. You wouldn't need to support all platforms and all OpenOffice components because 1. Unix/Linux users have already installed OpenOffice/StarOffice on their machines - this is the ultimate office suite for *nix users (I'm in this group too:) - so they don't need a viewer app 2. OO.o Writer documents can be exported to PDF quite well so everybody can handle them - so a Writer Viewer wouldn't be so important (and OO.o has good support for the DOC format) 3. You would develop an Impress Viewer for only the MS Windows platform, because other platforms' users probably has and use OpenOffice.org already. That's why I think a standalone Impress Viewer is the most lacked component of OO.o. With the availability of a small standalone, installable or simply executable official Impress Viewer for Windows we could conquer the academic and perhaps the business scene. Thank you reading my letter, Gábor Iglói, M.D. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Idea of academic Impress use
G. Roderick Singleton Ãrta: Seems you missed http://www.indeview.org/ in your search. This project offers the capabilities you are looking for and if they don't currently exist they are planned. I recommend that you offer your support to this team and help them achieve a viable viewer that does what you want. No, I haven't missed it. And I've found http://os.up.edu.ph also. The problem with indeview is that you cannot playback embedded movies with it. In one don't need that, the PDF or HTML export would be an alternative too. I managed to playback movies in presentations with the aid of mplayer (www.mplayerhq.org) - creating a .cmd file playing back the movie in full screen then exiting automatically and running it from the presentation with a click on a link element helped me in the problem of video embedding, and I hope OO.o 2.0 will bring improvements in these fields, so I won't need these workarounds - but the problem that almost every place you need to perform a presentation there is the software background of MS Win & Office. If you could just burn your Impress presentation and launch it on the target computer with a small viewer application you just put the CD in and the presentation would start. I think many people would like that. Anyway it was just a suggestion. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Idea of academic Impress use
Barrie Backhurst írta: I don't know whether it whether it will help, but you can install OOo on a USB key. There is a How-To at http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/various_topics/USB_key.sxw Barrie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, this is interesting. - what type of installation should I choose? single user - all users - net? (actually I have tried out the net installation, but on the target computer when I tried to run program/soffice.exe it started the setup process: so should I do a single or all users installation instead - which one?) - I wonder if this technique is working on a CD-ROM too? - what if I choose not to install Java for compatibility (the target computer maybe doesn't have it installed). What features of Impress requires the JRE? - will this technique be available with the OO.o 2.0? (if yes and with a working Impress 2.0 native video playback the problem would be solved and Impress would be ready for widespread professional use) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Idea of academic Impress use
Juergen Helmers írta: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 11:25, "Dr. Iglói Gábor" wrote: - will this technique be available with the OO.o 2.0? (if yes and with a working Impress 2.0 native video playback the problem would be solved and Impress would be ready for widespread professional use) I have tried all the dev releases of the upcoming OO 2.0 under Linux. Last I have had in use is the 1.9.77 release. In none of these the native insertion of video file in any format that I have tried (raw, avi, xvid, divx, mpg mpeg4) has worked. It simply can't play any of the formats I throw at it. There seems to be no configuration option. Does anybody have an idea how to get this going? I have to completely agree with the initial poster. The support of video files is absolutely essential for a presentation in the scientific community. I usually work around the ppt file problem, by simply bringing my own laptop along... Juergen Well, I have managed to insert MPEG-1 type mpg videos in OO.o pre-2.0. (I can convert my videos to this type with the following commands under Linux: mencoder -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video -oac copy source.avi -o pretarget.mpg mplayer pretarget.mpg -dumpvideo -dumpfile target.mpg you need mplayer for this) The good thing about this that you don't need to worry about wheter the host computer will be able to play back your videos (eg will the proper codecs be installed), because WinXP - and probably earlier Wins - can handle natively this format (through MCI) without any codecs. And if you set the bitrate (with -lavcopts vbitrate=) to 1100 kbps then you get a DivX-like quality, small filesize and continous motion of picture - even from a bare CD-ROM. So I found this format ideal for presentations. In the OO.o pre-2.0 (maybe 1.9.76, haven't tried 77 yet) I was able to insert this type of video clips. The playback hasn't fit to fullscreen and was not perfect in all aspects but I think this is a preview version and will be improved later. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dev] Is this the right place?
Hello! I'm just downloading the Beta Candidate of OpenOffice.org 2.0. I would like to ask where to report my reflections about it - if there will be any - to reach the developers the best? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dev] Developing OpenOffice Software
Hello: I would like to contribute to the development of the OpenOffice software. What do I do to sign up? -- Frank Zak -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Idea of academic Impress use
Michael Mikowski írta: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 08:19, Kai Ahrens wrote: Hi Juergen, the media playback implementation depends on an installed media backend on your system. [ Discussion of making presentation available on any PC ] There have been some interesting solutions presented here. How about this one: Why not take a "slimmed down" single CD distro, like feather Linux, http://featherlinux.berlios.de and remaster it to have the minimal set required to run OOo. The CD's init scripts could even be configured to automatically start up the presentation. The advantages could be many: - Would run on almost all x86 hardware; thoroughly transportable - Prevent use of your presentation without your approval - Easy distribution by CD -- Mike - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've already heard of that (with Knoppix). The problem is that you can't say that Linux will run on all available PC hardware. Let's take for example the problem of a secondary displays: you can't guarantee that the current Linux X drivers will handle all types of video cards and you can easily find yourself in a situation when the presentation won't go out to the secondary (projector) device. Then you just stand there with your CD in hand and... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Idea of academic Impress use
ÅtwÃrtk 17 februara 200514:32 "Dr. IglÃi GÃbor" pisaÅe: > >The advantages could be many: > > > >- Would run on almost all x86 hardware; thoroughly transportable > >- Prevent use of your presentation without your approval > >- Easy distribution by CD > > > >-- Mike > I've already heard of that (with Knoppix). The problem is that you can't > say that Linux will run on all available PC hardware. Let's take for > example the problem of a secondary displays: you can't guarantee that > the current Linux X drivers will handle all types of video cards and you > can easily find yourself in a situation when the presentation won't go > out to the secondary (projector) device. Then you just stand there with > your CD in hand and... I never had such a problem (and I'm using linux for 13 years now). Much more probable is that your knoppix boot sequence will choke on some weird BIOS and that it won't boot at all. But then, take a presentation with unicode chars from a Mac and try to run it on Powerpoint under Windows and you will already see how compatibility crumbles down on you. When I was organizing a conference, I received several presentations by email beforehand because my colleagues wanted to make sure that it will show up correctly -- mind you, they were expecting me to use Powerpoint (they didn't have the foggiest it would be OO and Impress under Linux) and they still were in doubt about the compatibility to their own PP presentations :-) If you want to be dead sure, you have to take slides, or bring your own computer. But then, you could always send the people organizing the conference a knoppix CD beforehand and ask them whether it boots. Cheers Edi -- Prof. Dr. Eduard Werner / Edward Wornar Institut fÃr Sorabistik, UniversitÃt Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15, 04109 Leipzig GNU PG public key on http://www.keyserver.net There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
