[discuss] Keep getting error: "personal settings are locked"

2006-07-20 Thread Ernst de Haan

Every time I boot my machine and then start OpenOffice.org, I get an
error message:

  "Either another instance of OpenOffice.org is accessing your
personal settings or your personal settings are locked. [...] Do you
really want to continue?"

I didn't have this before. It started somewhere around my upgrade to
2.0.3, I think. But this may be unrelated.

My configuration:
- Windows 2000 Pro (English)
- OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 (English)
- My "My Documents" folder is on a network share and made available offline

Any suggestions?

Regards,


Ernst

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Re: [discuss] Keep getting error: "personal settings are locked"

2006-07-20 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg

Ernst,

Ernst de Haan wrote:

Every time I boot my machine and then start OpenOffice.org, I get an
error message:

  "Either another instance of OpenOffice.org is accessing your
personal settings or your personal settings are locked. [...] Do you
really want to continue?"

I didn't have this before. It started somewhere around my upgrade to
2.0.3, I think. But this may be unrelated.

My configuration:
- Windows 2000 Pro (English)
- OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 (English)
- My "My Documents" folder is on a network share and made available offline

Any suggestions?
if I understand correctly, this message keeps popping up, with every 
start of OOo?!
OOo checks for a running instance by looking for a .lock file in the 
user preferences (~/.openoffice.org2/user/) directory. You may want to 
look if such a file exists and why it can not be replaced.




Regards,

Hope that helps



Ernst

Kay

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Re: [discuss] Keep getting error: "personal settings are locked"

2006-07-20 Thread Ernst de Haan

if I understand correctly, this message keeps popping up, with every
start of OOo?!


No, with every boot. And at boot time, OOo automatically starts the
quickstarter. And then I get the error message.


OOo checks for a running instance by looking for a .lock file in the
user preferences (~/.openoffice.org2/user/) directory. You may want to
look if such a file exists and why it can not be replaced.


I found it at:
C:\Documents and Settings\ernstdh\Application Data\OpenOffice.org2

Indeed there is a .lock file there. Note that this file is not shared,
it's a local file on my machine.

Perhaps OOo starts up twice during boot.

Anyway, I'll see if I can find anything out when I reboot. Thanks for the help!

Regards,


Ernst

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Re: [discuss] Keep getting error: "personal settings are locked"

2006-07-20 Thread Andreas Schlüns

Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote:

Ernst,

Ernst de Haan wrote:

Every time I boot my machine and then start OpenOffice.org, I get an
error message:

  "Either another instance of OpenOffice.org is accessing your
personal settings or your personal settings are locked. [...] Do you
really want to continue?"

I didn't have this before. It started somewhere around my upgrade to
2.0.3, I think. But this may be unrelated.

My configuration:
- Windows 2000 Pro (English)
- OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 (English)
- My "My Documents" folder is on a network share and made available 
offline


Any suggestions?


if I understand correctly, this message keeps popping up, with every 
start of OOo?!
OOo checks for a running instance by looking for a .lock file in the 
user preferences (~/.openoffice.org2/user/) directory. You may want to 
look if such a file exists and why it can not be replaced.


There exists a bug inside OOo 2.0.3 regarding this lock file.
Normaly it's removed on closing OOo. So next start of an office
does not show this message. But if you dont close the office but logout 
from e.g. windows  these lock files inst removed successfully.

So you will get this message on next time you start the office.

Workaround: Please shutdown the officer (even the quickstart module) 
before you logout from windows ... or ignore this message even it cames 
up .-) Because if you know that there is only one office instance 
running this message box means nothing dangerous.






Regards,

Hope that helps



Ernst

Kay

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Re: [discuss] Keep getting error: "personal settings are locked"

2006-07-20 Thread Ernst de Haan

Andreas,



There exists a bug inside OOo 2.0.3 regarding this lock file.
Normaly it's removed on closing OOo. So next start of an office
does not show this message. But if you dont close the office but logout
from e.g. windows  these lock files inst removed successfully.
So you will get this message on next time you start the office.


That really helps. That sounds exactly like my problem.

Thanks a lot!


Ernst

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Re: [discuss] Using OO with screen magnifier

2006-07-20 Thread Uwe Fischer

Hi,

Jens Gierke wrote:

Hi!
First of all I've to say that my English is not the best but I hope you 
will understand what I want to say^^


no problem, You know there is a german user list, too, at 
http://de.openoffice.org/ ?


Because of a visually impairment I have to use a screen magnifier 
(ZoomText or Magic). These programs have a useful feature: when you're 
writing a document, the screen magnifier follows the cursor, at least in 
MS Word this works.
I really miss this feature in OO because working is so very difficult 
for me. So my question: Would it be possible to integrate something like 
this into the next versions of OO? It really would make work easier for 
lots of visually handicapped people.


this is already possible.
Open Online Help, enter "accessibility" as index entry, double click the 
link about "assistive technology" to find the requirements and 
specifications.
In short, you need to install Java Runtime Environment and the Java 
Access Bridge software, then you can use Zoomtext 7.11 or later.


See also the OpenOffice.org Help Tips and Tricks blog at 
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/oootnt?entry=accessibility_can_help_everyone


Regards
Uwe
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Re: [discuss] Free viewer for OpenDocument, TextMaker, Microsoft Word, and RTF

2006-07-20 Thread Chad Smith

On 7/19/06, André Wyrwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



But "microsoftoffice.com" is not "officesuites.com". That's the
difference that makes it dodgy to me.



I still don't see the difference, but you can see things as dodgy that you
want to see as dodgy, as you said.  So it's generic.  So what?  His viewer
will view 5 formats that cover most of the major office suites, so what's
wrong with calling it an office viewer?  I mean, you throw a PDF viewer and
a WP viewer on there, and you got your bases covered.  Although, maybe "Word
Processor viewer" may be more appropriate, since he didn't mention
spreadsheets, emails, presentations, or databases.

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Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread Mathias Bauer
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Is there a way to take an OO.o doc, get all letters replaced with X or x,
> metadata stripped, embedded images replaced by blanks with the same sizes,
> and every other names (variables, bookmarks, fields, references,
> color/style names) anonymized?

Replacing the text should be easy, also stripping the metadata.
Replacing the images might be a bit harder, perhaps creating an empty
image or metafile of the same size and replacing the embedded one is
possible through direct file access. Another approach is replacing
embedded images by links (to anywhere). I assume that the document
should behave as before even with the broken links.

The problem is: what else needs to be exchanged, what is really
necessary and what's just paranoia?

So we need a complete list and we need to dicuss what needs to be on it.
As an example, why do you mean that color and style names need to be
replaced?

> As most bugs happen on complex documents, most complex documents are
> created in corp-space and corporations don't like disseminating internal
> info for debugging purposes I suppose I'm far from the only one with
> knowledge of bugs but no way to report them.

Yes, I totally agree. We could get much more (and better) bug documents
and of course that would be fine. I thought about such a macro by myself
some time ago but I just didn't have the time to write one. If we
assembled a list together perhaps someone familiar with macros could do
the job. It would be a very valuable contribution as it would help to
improve the quality of OOo.

Best regards,
Mathias


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Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread Robin Laing

Mathias Bauer wrote:

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:




As most bugs happen on complex documents, most complex documents are
created in corp-space and corporations don't like disseminating internal
info for debugging purposes I suppose I'm far from the only one with
knowledge of bugs but no way to report them.



Yes, I totally agree. We could get much more (and better) bug documents
and of course that would be fine. I thought about such a macro by myself
some time ago but I just didn't have the time to write one. If we
assembled a list together perhaps someone familiar with macros could do
the job. It would be a very valuable contribution as it would help to
improve the quality of OOo.

Best regards,
Mathias




There is also the issue of better documents if there is a limit on file 
sizes that can be uploaded.  If you have a complicated document that is 
over 1M, you cannot upload it (at least according to the issue page). 
You may have to remove some aspect of the document that fixes the bug or 
makes it harder to trace.


I have run into this already.

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Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 11:41:16 AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have several complex corp documents which make OO.o go crazy one
> way or another. I'd like to report the bugs to get them fixed, but
> OO.o devs will just ignore me without test documents and there's no
> way I'll post internal company info in the wild.  [...]

hmmm...  This same discussion happened here 2/3 years ago. I already
pointed out, back then, that I had had to give up OO.o on the job
because it would *not* exchange complex documents (patent
applications, scientific papers...)  with MS Office in any acceptable
way, AND that I could not submit confidential company docs as test
documents. 

> Is there a way to take an OO.o doc, get [everything]... anonymized?

Afraid not, because basically it's not a technical problem.

> corporations don't like disseminating internal info for debugging
> purposes

Exactly. The real problem is legal. In those same corporations, you
are going to be fired or (badly) reported to your manager if you:

* install and use any unhautorized software on company hardware
* send out any company file, scrambled or not, without a reason
  related to your official assignment or job description
* spend company time doing anything not related to your official etc..
* bring company files at home _not_ for work reasons, to "play" with
  them with unknown sw on a home PC which could contain trojans
  releasing the files on the net
* etc

Unless, of course, one managed to get an official company policy which
authorizes and handles how employees can support for free, during work
hours, some unused sw, after the same corporation outsorced all
aspects of IT to 3rd parties since it's not "core business"

The existence of an anonymizing macro wouldn't change this a bit: it
just cannot be used in many workplaces, period, unless one goes
through way more trouble and _risks_ than any potential benefit.

Assuming, of course, that such a macro would be actually useful and
usable:

Submitter: "see, OO.o screws up the placement of all integral simbols
in the equation on page 5"
Developer: "which of these scrambled characters was the integral?"

Answer A: "Gee, I can't figure it out anymorein this mess"
Answer B: "Er, it's lowercase Z. Which has a completely different size
   and shape, so it causes different effects..."

That's why, I believe, it wasn't written then and won't be written (or
used) yet for another while. Which is a pity, I agree.

For the record, back then I concluded suggesting that, rather than
waiting until complex corporate files can be submitted, it could be
much more effective if the filter developers stopped waiting for user
input but:

* systematically searched online *published* patent applications,
  research papers and so on
* opened them in OpenOffice
* patched it until the files look good.

I don't know if this has ever been attempted at any scale.

Luckily, in another year or two it will be Microsoft which will have
to be able to render OpenDocument correctly, not the other way
around. Then, at least for new documents, it won't be an OO.o problem
anymore.

Ciao,
Marco

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Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le jeudi 20 juillet 2006 à 09:54 +0200, Mathias Bauer a écrit : 
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to take an OO.o doc, get all letters replaced with X or x,
> > metadata stripped, embedded images replaced by blanks with the same sizes,
> > and every other names (variables, bookmarks, fields, references,
> > color/style names) anonymized?
> 
> Replacing the text should be easy, also stripping the metadata.
> Replacing the images might be a bit harder, perhaps creating an empty
> image or metafile of the same size and replacing the embedded one is
> possible through direct file access. Another approach is replacing
> embedded images by links (to anywhere). 

You need to replace images by blank images of the same size or you'll
hide pagination bugs linked to image size (not a theorical concern - one
of those things is why I initially wrote this)

Also a 2-color black or white png compresses well, so that would help
documents fall under the upload size limit.

> I assume that the document
> should behave as before even with the broken links.

I fear in many times the pagination would change

> The problem is: what else needs to be exchanged, what is really
> necessary and what's just paranoia?
> 
> So we need a complete list and we need to dicuss what needs to be on it.
> As an example, why do you mean that color and style names need to be
> replaced?

because humans will choose descriptive names which may include company
name, and paranoïd users won't upload documents which may link them to a
particular employer (see the Sun foo colors in the default palette)

> > As most bugs happen on complex documents, most complex documents are
> > created in corp-space and corporations don't like disseminating internal
> > info for debugging purposes I suppose I'm far from the only one with
> > knowledge of bugs but no way to report them.
> 
> Yes, I totally agree. We could get much more (and better) bug documents
> and of course that would be fine.

Regards,

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Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread Robin Laing

M. Fioretti wrote:

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 11:41:16 AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:



Hi,

I have several complex corp documents which make OO.o go crazy one
way or another. I'd like to report the bugs to get them fixed, but
OO.o devs will just ignore me without test documents and there's no
way I'll post internal company info in the wild.  [...]



hmmm...  This same discussion happened here 2/3 years ago. I already
pointed out, back then, that I had had to give up OO.o on the job
because it would *not* exchange complex documents (patent
applications, scientific papers...)  with MS Office in any acceptable
way, AND that I could not submit confidential company docs as test
documents. 









Luckily, in another year or two it will be Microsoft which will have
to be able to render OpenDocument correctly, not the other way
around. Then, at least for new documents, it won't be an OO.o problem
anymore.

Ciao,
Marco



Well stated.

This is the issue I have run into a few times.  I manually changed the 
document to ensure it was clean.  In some cases, I have created test 
documents to upload as I did yesterday.


The legal issues are a major show stopper.  With employee's even getting 
fired for making a post on a blog, it would be allot worse if you 
released company documents.


There is one benefit to making the changes manually.  You may find the 
part of the document that is causing the problem.  I hate to bring up an 
old thread of Reveal Codes (issue 3395) like feature, but this is one 
place that they may actually be useful to a user.


There can be some pretty awful formatting practices that could just 
create the problem.


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Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread Robin Laing

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

Le jeudi 20 juillet 2006 à 12:59 -0600, Robin Laing a écrit :


There is one benefit to making the changes manually.  You may find the 
part of the document that is causing the problem. 



And then 90% of testers won't finish the gruelling anonymizing work, the
problem won't be reported, probably not fixed, and another user will
restart the cycle months later



You won't get any complaint from me on this.  I have been stuck in the 
same situation myself.  Lack of time or "I will do that later" and later 
just doesn't come.


But even an anonymizer won't solve the situation if it corrupts the data 
and formatting enough to make it useless.  Or the user still has to go 
through the document.


This is a headache that I don't see any easy way out of.  :(

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Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 20:39:38 PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> For once we disagree

No problem, it happens to outstanding minds :-)

With respect to your remark that theory is greatly different from
practice and that:

> So as long as you don't get caught and don't crash your computer,
> everyone is happy.

I am perfectly aware that this is how things go in practice in mine,
yours and most other workplaces. Two facts remain:

1) if you get caught downloading music or other, er, non
   business-oriented material, you can at least _try_ to say
   "everybody else in the office is doing it, can you fire/punish
   everybody?" Ditto for installing and running, say, computer games
   on the office PC. Both things _look_ (in PHBs perception, that
   is) much more independent, ie less bad, from dangers to company
   information than running a macro just on those files.
  
2) so far, nobody has ever tried to wrote this macro and, unlike
   reveal codes, ooo startup time, "please integrate an email
   client/calendar/coffee pot" and similar, _this_ particular issue pops
   up just once every 2/3 years...

both facts seem to prove that yes, you are right, but in practice
almost nobody wants to "bother" running this particular macro rather
than OOO as is or mp3 players and so on, because he either doesn't imagine
the possibility at all or reasons as I wrote in my earlier message.

> > The existence of an anonymizing macro wouldn't change this a bit:
> > it just cannot be used in many workplaces, period, unless one goes
> > through way more trouble and _risks_ than any potential benefit.
> 
> The potential benefit of course is you can report problems and get
> them in a reasonable time

here's another trap. _Whose_ potential benefit? Remember that here we
are talking of big corporations (which often just outsorce IT and sw
choices to 3rd parties, these days, so local offices CANNOT change
anything). In a smaaall business it's very different, but what is the
benefit for an employee of a big company to run such a macro?
Bonuses? Career advances? FOSS and making the world a better place?
The first two are just slightly more likely than a return of the
dinosaurs. The third... can be accomplished much more effectively
helping to install and support OO.o in the local schools, for
example. Printing an OO.o manual for your kids school with the company
printer or sending anonymized company files to OO.o developers are
both illegal or forbidden. Given this, I'll bet that most pro-FOSS
white collars will prefer to do the first in their lunch break.

That, and the possibility for the developers to test themselves the
tons of .doc files _already_ online, are why I and, I guess, most
other users who have this problem simply end up _not_ wishing or
bothering for anonymizer macros.

Oh, and another reason why such a macro hasn't been developed yet and
would probably remain irrelevant is the fact that the bug reporting
interfaces at oo.o (and mozilla, evolution, whatever) are done and
worded for developers in the first place, that is pretty scaring or
confusing for end users. Notice how many people report a bug on the
list and disappear when asked (rightly!) to file them in the bug
tracking system...

I'm not happy about it, but I'm pretty sure that things stand this
way. Should I be wrong, great, all the better for OO.o.

> The sad fact is there are so many problems independant of the actual
> text written in the docs even if the macro wouldn't work every time,
> it'd still catch a lot of things.

You're right here.

> I'm a user. I only provide user input. If I don't have the means to
> do it safely, I won't.

Same here. I just pointed out that probably for many people "safely"
means "if they catch me sending out a company file, they'll eat my
ass, without even checking if it had been anonymized, so why bother?"

> (and since if I can't report problems I hit > easily there is a low
> chance they'll get fixed, I might as well stop using OO.o)

I agree. This exactly what I was forced to do in many occasions at my
job.

> The problem BTW is not limited to end-users. Before a corporation
> decides to deploy OO.o, it needs a way for its support staff to
> report bugs upstream safely.

Absolutely right. My corporation, however, like many others, doesn't
decide to deploy anything. We lease PCs and other HW with preinstalled
sw through a company-level deal between us and a service company. In
such a scenario (dealing not will your boss, but with external drones
which will send _official_ reports, complaints and other papers to
your boss's boss if they have to fix, remove or install anything
outside the service contract) makes debugging OO.o with company files
even less attractive.

BTW, that's one of the reason why I was already saying almost 5 years
ago
(http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=8757
and similar) that pressing our politicians to adopt oo.o formats would
be a much better strategy th

Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 23:38:37 PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Not surprising, it only reflects the tester/average user ratio.  Do
> you want to make tester life easier, because they are few and you
> need to nurture them, or do you want to discriminate against them
> because they're a minority?

Hey, don't get me wrong, we're on the same side. What gave you the
impression that I want to discriminate testers? I have nothing against
them or the anonymizer macro. If somebody ever writes it, it will
surely be a great thing. I have just explained why I believe that it's
unlikely to happen, or to be widely used.

> The benefit of a big corp employee to run such a macro is to get his
> bugs fixed, to he can justify continued use of his tool of choice.

I said that _personally_, I cannot justify it where I work and would
not make any difference, and that I believe most "big corp employees"
are in the same situation. If there are exceptions, I'm happy for it.

> And why would he want to use OO.o?

Of course PDF export is always a big plus. Defining a color
palette... I've never had any reason to do anything like that in 12
years I've been working, but surely can be very useful in other
careers/companies.

> But there is absolutely zero immediate benefit for the user, and
> even if altruism is satisfying small rewards always help.

I'm not sure I got what you meant with this last sentence. In any
case, I don't mean to discourage those who use and debug FOSS for
altruism. I have summarized why I believe anonymizers wouldn't be
practical as other alternatives. If OpenDocument wasn't advancing and
if I had the time, for example, I'd do what I described earlier with
public patents and research papers, and file bug against _them_,
rather than sending company files. Apart from legal issues, the former
would be much more interesting to read :-)
 
> Who do you think writes the service contracts? The contractor or
> your company?

:-) This is not fair. You know I can't speak really openly with my
real name on a public list...

Seriously, a multinational company, especially one so... smart to
outsorce its IT, has NO interest at all to specify "experiments" or
support for unneeded software, just to keep working and using without
wasting one minute years of older files. The contractor of a
multinational is often another big company which sells integrated
"solutions", ie very often has no interest at all to sell and support
relatively untested desktop stuff.
None of them will go towards FOSS unless forced by law.

So, again, this is why personally I've always thought more interesting
and effective to lobby for OpenDocument adoption rather than climb
this particular hill. I'm grateful to all who do file bugs with any
method against the .doc filters, of course, that's useful too.

Ciao,
Marco

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[discuss] "Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index"

2006-07-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
There has been comment in the media about a report on a French  
language website: "Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index"


The ZDNet article [1] claims to describe the proceedings of a  
confidential meeting within the French public administration. It is  
not appropriate for the OpenOffice.org community to comment on a leak  
from a private meeting. However, one of the people mentioned in the  
article, Eric Filiol, has posted two replies to the online article  
clarifying the purpose of the research and correcting some of the  
incorrect conclusions in the original article.


The OpenOffice.org office suite is being widely adopted within the  
French public administration, and the OpenOffice.org community has  
been working closely with the departments involved. OpenOffice.org is  
pleased that its source code is being scrutinised by the most  
important and respected department of security in France.


If security vulnerabilities are suspected, there is a well defined  
procedure within the IT industry for reporting, analysing, and  
resolving any issues, which aims to minimise any public announcement  
(and the resulting creation of exploits) until fixes are available.


The OpenOffice.org community confirms it regards security as of the  
highest importance and will react immediately to any security issues  
reported by the French public administration or other competent  
bodies or individuals.


-The OpenOffice.org Team 


[1] http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/informatique/ 
0,39040745,39362096,00.htm


See also,

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060718-7288.html




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Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread André Wyrwa
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Hi,

very nice discussion, guys. Interesting.

It's nice to see an actual rollout of the problems beyond pure
idealistic enthusiasm. ;-)

> Hey, don't get me wrong, we're on the same side. What gave you the
> impression that I want to discriminate testers? I have nothing against
> them or the anonymizer macro. If somebody ever writes it, it will
> surely be a great thing. I have just explained why I believe that it's
> unlikely to happen, or to be widely used.

Well, while I think what you say about the corporate situation is very
reasonable, this discussion started with at least one corporate user who
would be willing to use the macro. That's a start, i guess. ;-)

> Of course PDF export is always a big plus. Defining a color
> palette... I've never had any reason to do anything like that in 12
> years I've been working, but surely can be very useful in other
> careers/companies.

Believe me, your corporate graphic designer, your marketing director and
whoever else is concerned about your corporate id would like to slap
your head for that remark. ;-)

(I as one of them would even wish for OOo to remove every single way to
do indiviual formatting and force the user to create or use a predefined
style for every even just slightly different way of formatting. But of
course this is not reality.)

André.
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