RE: [discuss] [Q] [developers need hints]: How should it work???was [Re: [discuss] Re: How can I remove the language attribute from text inWriter?
On windows the program you are looking for is http://www.kompozer.net/ Like most opensource programs OO.o trys to be best at what it already does, not move into areas that are already covered by good alternatives. Which is why openoffice does not have a mail program although it integrates with existing ones. -Original Message- From: Ian Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 3 June 2008 1:35 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [discuss] [Q] [developers need hints]: How should it work???was [Re: [discuss] Re: How can I remove the language attribute from text inWriter? On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 08:22 -0700, snookerss wrote: i love open office but it needs to put in FRONT PAGE for web designs like ms office has or something close to it thats compatible! Ahrrg no!. If you want to design a website use the right tools for that job. Few people design a serious web site with Front page and casual users are much more likely to make a web presence in a web 2.0 environment like Drupal, Elgg, MySpace etc these days. You can export HTML from Writer but given that resources are not unlimited I don't think we should divert them into activities that are really out of date just to emulate MS. Ian -- New QCA Accredited IT Qualifications www.theINGOTs.org You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] OxygenOffice.org's packages for OpenOffice.org
That's great extensions/addins are the best way to avoid bloating out the standard installer after all not everyone needs templates or clip art right away. -Original Message- From: KAMI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 24 November 2006 3:56 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] OxygenOffice.org's packages for OpenOffice.org Hello OpenOffice.org Fans! I am uploading some OxygenOffice Professional based extensions to enhance your OpenOffice.org experience :o) You can download it from here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170021package_id= 208656 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Paul Maddison - openoffice phonetic guide enhancement
You might consider investing the money that would otherwise be spend on upgrading MS office on hiring a consulting programmer to implement this feature. Also if enough people collaborate on providing the raw information needed for the guide then it may be implemented sooner. Try contacting the OO.o localization team for the Japanese language as they will understand the difficulties of implementing such a guide. If enough small and medium sized businesses sponsor specific features in the way that WordPerfect filters were sponsored the progress of Oo.o will be significantly improved. -Original Message- From: Paul Maddison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 8 September 2006 8:55 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] Paul Maddison - openoffice phonetic guide enhancement I have used openoffice.org over several versions and I think it is a good development The only thing that keeps me using Microsoft Word is the Phonetic Guide for Japanese. When I write Kanji (Japanese characters derived from China) I can click on the phonetic guide icon and a list of suggested phonetic characters appear that are accurate about 97% of the time. This feature really speeds up my work. Openoffice.org text writer has a phonetic guide but no suggestion appears. If the software could include this feature I would be able to convert completely to Openoffice.org writer and so would several of the people I research with: especially because there is a portable version that can be carried around in a USB chip (pendrive). Paul Maddison Australia - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] DO YOU HAVE A CALENDAR FEATUTE SIMILAR TO MICROSOFT
Actually there already are versions of OO.o with everything included such as email/IM client etc, except they are usually called Linux distros. The extent of the integration is a different matter, but OO.o is already better off than say Word which will happily spindle fold and mutilate any excel spreadsheet you manage to open. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Network Discovery
If your running windows I'd look at a package called The Dude http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Dude_usage_notes#What_is_the_Dude It does network discovery and diagrams the results -Original Message- From: Daniel Kasak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 7 July 2006 12:04 PM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Network Discovery Phillip Bruce wrote: But my main focal question is the ability to perform network discovery so that a diagram of a given network be created on a fly. I be interested to see if anyone on the developement team of openoffice has given any thoughts to developing something to that effect. If so where are they now with that development. I very much doubt whether this is being considered. It's considerably outside the scope of an office productivity suite, which traditionally consists of a word processor, spreadsheet, database, drawing app. What you want is a specialist network discovery tool. -- Daniel Kasak IT Developer NUS Consulting Group Level 5, 77 Pacific Highway North Sydney, NSW, Australia 2060 T: (+61) 2 9922-7676 / F: (+61) 2 9922 7989 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.nusconsulting.com.au - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Dump X11 for Mac
Dump X11 - make it native Mac and you will automatically get Mac users. Thanks for the assistance. There is a native OS-X port of OOo, but it's the 1.1.x version. From memory, the native OS-X port of 2.0 was dropped due to a lack of developer interest. But maybe you can give them a prep-talk and get them to deliver? Really funny reply, I guess Apple users are used to having their hands held more than most, unlike windows users who expect things to crash all the time, and like myself are delighted by the stability of OO.o - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Visual Basic in OpenOffice.Calc
You can control Ooo from C# or VB.net via a usercontrol on your forms which may be what you are looking for See http://opendocument4all.com/content/view/22/39/ -Original Message- From: CPHennessy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 May 2006 3:32 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org; Vitaliy V. Dubil' Subject: Re: [discuss] Visual Basic in OpenOffice.Calc On Thu May 4 2006 16:50, + Vitaliy V. Dubil' wrote: Hello! Can you advice me where I can download examples of using Visual Basic in OpenOffice.Calc VBA cannot yet be used directly in Calc, but I think engineers from Novell are working on this. However you can have a look at Starbasic macrois which are quite similar. have a look at the documents and examples on http://api.openoffice.org. Please reply to discuss@openoffice.org only. Normally users@openoffice.org is the best list to ask questions about using OpenOffice.org -- CPH : OpenOffice.org contributor - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Email
-Original Message- From: Alexandro Colorado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 12 April 2006 9:57 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Email On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:39:42 -0400, Andrew Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 55,000 euros is $66,600 US dollars...hehe :) Yes, that would be a potential way to get it done, and if I had available cash, I would definitely pitch in. Ok but why reinvent the wheel, just support the porting of Evolution to windows and that would cover at least two major operating systems. The present status of Evolution win32 is more or less beta, with an installer under development. Putting developer time into integrating OO and evolution would be significantly less expensive than starting afresh. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] OpenOffice.org Premium 2.0.2
Not actually spam I think OO.o premium is as I understand it the standard version of OO.o plus clip art from OO Extras and addons such as fonts See http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discussmsgNo=56131 for details It looks to be 176mb in size which is not bad considering the additions. -Original Message- From: Chad Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 21 March 2006 9:39 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org Premium 2.0.2 Can we spell SPAM? On 3/20/06, Szalai Kálmán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Please download the latest Premium version of OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 from here: ftp://ftp.fsf.hu/OpenOffice.org_hu/devel/OOB680_m5_Premium HU and EN language versions available on Win and Lin platforms... KAMI - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/ Because everyone loves free software! http://www.chadwsmith.com/ Because, admit it, you've got nothing better to do right now... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Re: SO 5.2 Images Pixels
Evolution Win32 is Alpha software so an installer is probably on its way, until then Read the instructions in ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.12/2.12.2/win32/README.evolution . Download all the non-developer (i.e. not the ones with -dev- in their names) zipfiles in ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/platform/2.12/2.12.2/win32/ , and their dependencies subdirectories. Unzip them all in the same place eg c:\evo\ Add prefix\lib\evolution\2.6\components and prefix\bin to your PATH. Run evolution-2.6.exe. Where prefix is something like c:\evo\ Expect some errors at this point the discussions at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=evolution-win32-devel may help. Be aware as Alpha software this should be only used for testing purposes not with your work email or anything. Its still mainly of interest to developers. -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randomthots Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:03 PM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] Re: SO 5.2 Images Pixels Daniel Kasak wrote: As someone else posted recently, there are win32 builds of evolution available now. Unfortunately, there's no installer. I'm not exactly sure how to run this. -- Rod - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Evolution for win32 goes alpha
I don't know if this has been mentioned before Periodically the users list gets a question like what do I use to Replace Outlook on win32 ? the usual reply being thunderbird which is good but lacks some corporate features. In future we can refer such querys to the evolution win32 project The alpha quality release for 2.5.4 is available for download at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.12/2.12.2/win32 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite
Oh come on, OOo should really have all these things integrated, with a gimp-like tool as well, and it's own integrated OS, and a dog agility course designer, and an integrated network packet sniffer would be nice, and... :) Well this is where extensions come in, got the Gimp installed ? download a set of gimp menus. Want to email using thunderbird ? download that extension. Part of the reason MS software has problems is that it requires integration with lots of their other products. So outlook requires exchange to work well which requires the crappy IIS and active directory and a well configured MS DNS and ISA server and if any of that is imperfectly configured then the whole lot falls in a heap. Its better to keep OOo integration modular and optional so extensions that link to the market leaders like thunderbird or evolution are the way to go. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Google - no thanks
Are you the author of the package ?, nice idea and implementation. This would be a nice addition to the main project for 2.1 How about a button for integration with Wikipedia's sister project http://en.wiktionary.org/ a dictionary wiki which seems a natural fit for a word processing package. There are also dictionaries for other languages. It already has 95,913 entries in english that's the same size as 20 % of the merriam-webster unabridged dictionary and growing. -Original Message- From: Laurent Godard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 October 2005 2:41 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Google - no thanks i already did it using OOoWikipedia Well it is not Google completeness, it is far more serious, as Wikipedia is free :) http://www.indesko.com/sites/en/downloads/ooowikipedia/view - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Google - no thanks
I suspect that enriching documents with web content eg enable the user to add a link to definition of a technical term by just selecting it right click and add definition would be the kind of thing that would be considered. Or maybe analysis of document content to provide a set of topical web pages ? This would be useful for students, or researchers. Such features could be made search engine agnostic (but with google as the default) Anyway I like Google's moto ! Given that, supporting opensource is a natural step for them. -Original Message- From: Greg Schmitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 13 October 2005 12:36 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] Google - no thanks I've been using Open Office for a couple of months now. I read with horror the news item highlighted on the OO homepage about coupling with Google. No thanks! If you put a Google toolbar in OpenOffice be sure you give me a way to get rid of it. Google is a huge corporation with some rather questionable practices (IMHO). Google just might be the next Microsoft. -g. schmitz - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] copernic and OO0
For reason known only to themselves (corporate ownership ??) they don't support Ooo formats. Try a sane alternative such as google desktop search -Original Message- From: A.G.Forman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:05 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] copernic and OO0 The excellent Copernic desktop search does not see *.sxw files. Is there any way of making them visible on Windows XP? Andrew Forman - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] copernic and OO0
You could also try O3find (http://web.tiscali.it/fanelia/sw/o3find/) Which supports 98, it also has a dos version. -Original Message- From: Larry Gusaas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2005 1:34 PM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: RE: [discuss] copernic and OO0 Google desktop does not run on Windows 98 therefore it is not a sane alternative. Of course using any version of M$ Windows is not sane in the first place. I'm switching to a Mac as soon as possible. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Re: Breaking News: Massachusetts mandated use of OpenDocument is FINAL
Whats the bet MS brings out a special version of office available only in Massachusetts to address this, like the media player less version of windows in the EU. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] new product project recomendations
Try Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) for diagrams, and Planner (http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Planner) for projects. Thunderbird makes a decent replacement for outlook but keep an eye on Evolution for win32 (http://evolution-win32.sourceforge.net) None of the above are MS compatable at the file level but frankly who cares. -Original Message- From: Mike Hambrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 12 September 2005 9:34 PM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] new product project recomendations I would like to recommend these as future projects. Things that might make you suite even more appealing and able to beat Microsoft. A diagramming software like, and compatible with, Visio. A Gant Chart program like, and compatible with, Microsoft Project. A full personal management product like, and compatible Outlook. Just some recommendations from someone looking for other alternatives mainly to help supply the student population with. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Page numbering
Have you considered writing a macro ? Just use the macro recorder to record a typical page number insert then if needed change the critical values to variables And prompt the user for the value, you can then assign the Macro to a toolbar. e.g. Dim Pageoffset as Integer Pageoffset = InputBox( Please enter the page offset: ) -Original Message- From: J. Robert Lennon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 1 August 2005 5:33 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] Page numbering Hi there-- Just wanted to drop a suggestion regarding the upcoming version of OpenOffice... I LOVE this program, especially writer, and regard it as superior to MS Word...except in one instance: page numbering. I want to be able to insert page numbers in a document OUTSIDE the margin formatting, and I want to be able to start at any number, not just 1. Unfortunately the offset command doesn't seem to work, the footer steals page space from the main body, and all of this takes half a dozen commands to execute. I have to load things into Word just to print, because I often print separate chapters of a large document-in-progress (in my case, a novel). Please provide an easy page number insertion command in the next version! JRL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Community-based computer literacy project
Your first point of reference for openoffice should be The documentation website, this has manuals you can download and distribute in acrobat format The address is http://documentation.openoffice.org/ See also http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Using_the_OpenOffice.org_Suite Best wishes for your project Justin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word
Sorry, I didn't realize that I could schedule work shifts for 500 people using Outlook When did they add that capability? Planner is a neat GPL Gantt chart and resource allocation app It's available under Gnome and there is a pretty complete windows port It looks like a good alternative for scheduling. These days when I install OO.o on an office PC I include Planner As well as GIMP/Audacity as part of a 'OpenSource' collection that is much more useful than the apps MS offers. Anyone have other suggestions I could add to my standard apps ? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] OO.o displaces Koffice etc in Fedora core
Fedora core was recently released with a trimmed down list of packages (it already takes up 4 CDs) that are best of breed. OO.o 2 displaces Koffice, Abiword, and Gnumeric which move to the very useful Fedora extras collection. While this a credit to the suite, I'm wondering if it good for diversity ? Is it likely that distros will come to depend on OO.o code in the way they do with Gimp code That is will OO.o become a system component for example by previewing/transforming documents or integrating with document management and corporate DRM in the way that MS Office does ? I certainly hope so because that would mean OO was moving to support high end and larger corporate users which would be good for funding and support. IBM please return the code you borrowed ! Justin Fitzgibbon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Ideas for Writer ~2.1 (or later)
P.S. -- It's a strong sign of a project when my only issues with it are minor annoyances like OMG!!!1 teh program took my focus!!1 instead of OMG!!!1 teh program took my document!!1) Even better that when it does corrupt a document you can unzip the file and look at the XML where the problem is located. For example I moved a document relative to its linked graphics and the graphics failed to display. I checked the XML and the links are stored as /../../Pix/GraphicName.jpg so that identified the problem. Moved the file back to its old position and all was well. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] customize startup menu
you could always name it with a numeric prefix to show items at the top of the list eg 01 my letter 02 my fax other stuff 1 more stuff - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] data base in OOo2?
I believe that the next version (5.x) of mysql will have both views and stored procedures. http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-storedprocedures.html http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-views.html MySQL/PostgreSQL are natural partners for OO.o for medium sized databases but we did need something for smaller scale my mailing list sized databases which don't require many features. -Original Message- From: Alexandro Colorado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2005 6:46 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [discuss] data base in OOo2? The again to be honest we still havent have a 'stable' implementation of the native database format into the OpenOffice.org GUI. Also MySQL products lack things that Access has like 'Views', while Oracle and PostgreSQL have stored process that are not supported by the GUI. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] Re: OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge
one responsible for corrupting a file that 20 other people are using and have to explain why I was using OOo instead of Word or Excel to my boss. From my experience OOo is likely to recover a document that can't be opened in word anymore rather than corrupt it, especially version 2. With different versions of Word around you get these problems anyway eg files that won't print in one version but will in another etc. I've fixed 4 word documents using openoffice in the last two days alone. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] openoffice security
This security should be on two levels - lower which allows changes on entering a password and locked _which prevents changes ever being made. If the contents of a document can be decrypted in order to view it theres no way to then lock it against changes, or prevent people printing it etc, using open source code. However it should be relatively easy to automatically compare signed documents (storing the signatures in a database) with newly opened documents, and pop up a message, eg this document was signed by you on dd/mm/, and is a valid copy if you didn't get such a message you would know the document had been tampered with. You could even have corporate signature database eg this document was signed by your boss, coworker etc. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [discuss] OpenOffice.org receives award.
Then they are stupid ;-) A difference of emphasis I think, if having the fastest hardware is really important to you, for games and the like then you'll want to save as much as possible on software to spend on the latest 3D accelerator or whatever. So gamers/modders could be an important market for Oo.o They are not people with limitless cash in fact the relative value of different hardware is ruthlessly examined in many cases. an example of this group would be overclockers http://www.overclockers.com.au/ very hardware and gaming orientated but not uninterested in FLOSS. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
