Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing default margins and font for a group of users
On 01/25/2012 01:11 AM, Carl wrote: The user data is saved on a mapped drive on the server and the user profile is on the local PC as part of the user's windows profile. Yes all these users are using different flavours of Windows Can you push a template out over your network? I am not sure of the exact location of the template folder, but should be similar for all the Windows machines (I use Linux). I would look for LO in the Program folder and navigate to the template folder. You could have a problem with 32 and 64 bit locations. On 24/01/2012 16:38, Jay Lozier wrote: On 01/24/2012 03:39 AM, Carl wrote: Hi, I need to change the default margins and font in Libreoffice Writer and Calc for a group of about 100 users. How can I do this without having to go and do it manually on every PC? Regards Carl Werner Where is the user data stored? If on a server, create a new default template and update the appropriate file in each user folder (or alternately change the default template location). If locally, I do not have a good idea. Also, what OS's are involved, I assume Windows. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing default margins and font for a group of users
Hi :) There is a folder called templates in the user-profile http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile but there seem to be other weird places too and i am not sure which is used and whether any of them are not used. Looking in Tools - Options - Paths You can see that the templates path is has a few different alternatives rather than just one but did not seem to include the path to the folder in the user-profile! Aaaargh!! Is it easy enough to add an extra path? Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 25/1/12, Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing default margins and font for a group of users To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 25 January, 2012, 8:06 On 01/25/2012 01:11 AM, Carl wrote: The user data is saved on a mapped drive on the server and the user profile is on the local PC as part of the user's windows profile. Yes all these users are using different flavours of Windows Can you push a template out over your network? I am not sure of the exact location of the template folder, but should be similar for all the Windows machines (I use Linux). I would look for LO in the Program folder and navigate to the template folder. You could have a problem with 32 and 64 bit locations. On 24/01/2012 16:38, Jay Lozier wrote: On 01/24/2012 03:39 AM, Carl wrote: Hi, I need to change the default margins and font in Libreoffice Writer and Calc for a group of about 100 users. How can I do this without having to go and do it manually on every PC? Regards Carl Werner Where is the user data stored? If on a server, create a new default template and update the appropriate file in each user folder (or alternately change the default template location). If locally, I do not have a good idea. Also, what OS's are involved, I assume Windows. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: one language in the installer libre office
On 2012-01-24 8:05 AM, Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote: for all would be better if it were a language and a dictionary in the installer to be smaller, so that every time download of 200 mb, 135 mb only. Please support me in this matter, thanks in advance. This was discussed before back in November 2010 (when LibreOffice started distributing the first betas) At the time it was argued that due to the reduced number of mirrors and disk space allocated for this project, it would be better initially to have a single installer instead of a localized installer for each language supported. This means that for each version you had a 200Mb installer instead over 100 (example) localized 150Mb installers which would take 15 Gb. The main problem is that removing all the extra languages only saves you some 50Mb. Is this worth the trouble? What I had suggested once before was something that would solve *both* problems... It should be fairly simple for a competent programmer (which I'm not, or I'd contribute something myself)... 1. Break the primary installer into the main installer, and the different language packs (isn't this already done for the linux version? If so, it would only need to be done for the Windows version, which, in the long run, would simplify things in itself) 2. For the download page, let the auto-detect code work the same way, but add the ability to detect the language as well 3. Make the default suggested installer the platform and language version that is detected 4. Provide a way for the one downloading the software to choose a different primary and/or*additional* languages if desired 5. When the user clicks 'Download', a script *generates* the desired installer *on the fly* by simply combining the primary install package and the selected languages into a single install package. I would think this would be pretty easy for windows, but maybe more complex for linux because of all the different package managers out there... Anyway, that is what *I* would do if I were King... ;) -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Mysterious spacing problem
Libre Office (3.3.4) on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 11.10) creates faulty spacing with some characters. Letter combinations that have the same width as the equivalent ligature (for example fl as two separate letters v. the f-l ligature) are spaced differently. It is possible to open a font in Fontforge and confirm the spacing of the characters; it is also possible to open a test file in another application (e.g. Abi Word) to confirm that the spacing is the same. Only Libre Office changes it. Does anyone know why this happens? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: one language in the installer libre office
On 2012-01-24 1:46 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: HI :) Ahhh, it would be great if Windows had an official package manager that could look after all the apps, not just the MS ones and could make sure everything on the system got updated instead of just patches for Window's own security flaws. Something that could help people pick and choose the packages that got installed for a program so that you could tell it what to install and then walk away with no need to hand-hold it answering questions all the way through and with each program having it's own different 'style'. Hmm, but then it would look a lot less like Windows and might even be a little safer which would be a nightmare for all those antivirus companies. Regards from Tom :) It would also be nice if Linux would migrate to a universal one size fits all package manager that did everything on your wish list for a windows package manager. Tom, please keep your stupid anti-microsoft rants to yourself. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot delete certain blocks of text with grey background (Readonly content cannot be changed...)
On Wed 25 Jan 2012 12:16:51 WST, Jay Lozier wrote: Often the grayed out areas are fields such as date, page number, etc. I am not sure why you can not delete them, have you saved the file as *.odt and then try editing. Yep, tried that — same problems. Fields can be updated, using ToolsUpdateFields (F9). Tried this too, still nothing. Are there other conditions under which sections of a document can become read only? Perhaps the fields thing is a red herring. — Jason -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Bug report - pasting from Notepad to Calc
You did not specify the text delimiter. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: one language in the installer libre office
On 01/25/2012 07:42 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-24 1:46 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: HI :) Ahhh, it would be great if Windows had an official package manager that could look after all the apps, not just the MS ones and could make sure everything on the system got updated instead of just patches for Window's own security flaws. Something that could help people pick and choose the packages that got installed for a program so that you could tell it what to install and then walk away with no need to hand-hold it answering questions all the way through and with each program having it's own different 'style'. Hmm, but then it would look a lot less like Windows and might even be a little safer which would be a nightmare for all those antivirus companies. Regards from Tom :) It would also be nice if Linux would migrate to a universal one size fits all package manager that did everything on your wish list for a windows package manager. Tom, please keep your stupid anti-microsoft rants to yourself. There are a lot of issues that MS has to deal with that make it easier to use and install certain software packages. Linux may have new and different ways of doing things that what people have done for years with MS desktops, but it does not mean that one is better than the other. Each has its good points and its bad points. Now with MS going the way with its desktop interface with Win 8, like Ubuntu did going from GNOME 2.x to Unity, there will be much to deal with then. For now, most people prefer Windows over Linux for its ease of use. Win 8 will change that opinion for many users. So yes, the installer for MS Windows would be much better if it was broken down to installer file and language/help pack files, like Linux is currently doing. NO, Windows is not better than Linux and Linux is not better than Windows, as it currently stands. We all have our own opinions which is the better one, but it does not need to be discusses on this list. The real issue is the way LO treats the different platforms with one not needing language packs while the other one does. That should not be. It should be the same with all the platforms, download the installer file and download the language and help packs that are needed beyond the basic English ones in the install file. If you do it for Linux and Mac, you should do the same for Windows. It is only fair, is it not? Also, with the reworking of parts of LO so it would work properly with Unity, the developers will/may need to do the same with Win 8's tablet style of interface on their Win 8 desktops and laptops. Some articles are stating that people may move over to Linux [with not Unity style of desktop environment] once Win 8 comes out. So we will need to help these Windows users with their needs, and not rant and rave about how bad Windows is/was. We need to help them move over to LO from MSO and help anyone who moved from Windows to Linux with their issues and needs with dealing with LO in the Linux desktop environments. I use Ubuntu for my desktop since early 2010. I still use Windows for some systems though. I like the way Linux has everything you may need for software packages without needing to pay all that blood-money for doing your needed work. They should charge for their work, but not prices that seen to be made to suck as much blood-money as possible from its users. Now Linux has issues with drivers for the most up-to-date devices, since volunteers have to buy the devices and write the drivers for them, instead of the device developers writing one for Linux. Although there are other issues that make Linux not the best for many users, it is still a vital platform of many. Each has its good and bad issues. Neither it a perfect platform. So let us stop the my platform is better than yours issues here. It is hard enough for LO users to get the Windows people to use a free package like LO over paying for MSO on their Windows systems. There is where we need to target Windows users, not their use of Windows over Linux platforms. We need to get users to switch to LO, not try to convince them to switch to Linux. This is the real need. This is what we need to keep our energies focused on. LO is free and is just as good, or better, than MSO. We need to prove it to its users. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot delete certain blocks of text with grey background (Readonly content cannot be changed...)
On 01/25/2012 07:49 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: On Wed 25 Jan 2012 12:16:51 WST, Jay Lozier wrote: Often the grayed out areas are fields such as date, page number, etc. I am not sure why you can not delete them, have you saved the file as *.odt and then try editing. Yep, tried that — same problems. Fields can be updated, using ToolsUpdateFields (F9). Tried this too, still nothing. Are there other conditions under which sections of a document can become read only? Perhaps the fields thing is a red herring. — Jason .docx is a type of compressed archive which can be opened using zip-utility. You cna get to the raw xml file. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot delete certain blocks of text with grey background (Readonly content cannot be changed...)
Jason Heeris wrote (25-01-12 13:49) Are there other conditions under which sections of a document can become read only? Yes, you can see the options in the dialog Edit Section (with the cursor in the section). -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] what is the alternative of countifs function in libreoffice?
hi, is there any alternative for countifs function in libreoffice (not countif)? say,in one column gender of the participants are written (male/female).in next column height of the participant is written.now i want to count how many females have height =1.55 metre.how to do it in libreoffice? in ms office 2010,there is this function- countifs(criterion range 1,criterion 1,criterion range 2,criterion 2) which could do this.could not find anything like this in libreoffice.is there any alternative? thanks in advance, regards, -- Dr soumalya ray http://drsoumalya.blogspot.com drsouma...@gmail.com MBBS,MD(PGT-C.Medicine),Ex-HousePhysician(Medicine) Skype: som3776 | Twitter: @docbkp http://twitter.com/docbkp -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Display changes in sidebar as in MS Word
I am reviewing some MS Word documents and we are using the Track Changes feature. The feature works surprisingly well between LO 3.4 and MS Word. However, LO shows the deleted text inline, whereas MS Word shows the deleted text in a sidebar similar to how comments are displayed. The MS way is preferred as it preserves document formatting, and the documents in question are in fact destined for printing so the formatting on the page is critical. Is there any way to coerce LO to show the deleted text in the sidebar? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Display changes in sidebar as in MS Word
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: I am reviewing some MS Word documents and we are using the Track Changes feature. The feature works surprisingly well between LO 3.4 and MS Word. However, LO shows the deleted text inline, whereas MS Word shows the deleted text in a sidebar similar to how comments are displayed. The MS way is preferred as it preserves document formatting, and the documents in question are in fact destined for printing so the formatting on the page is critical. Is there any way to coerce LO to show the deleted text in the sidebar? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] what is the alternative of countifs function in libreoffice?
Hi, Am 25.01.2012 17:16, schrieb soumalya ray: say,in one column gender of the participants are written (male/female).in next column height of the participant is written.now i want to count how many females have height =1.55 metre. Use DataPilot. (Chosse: Data → DataPilot → Start). Your problem is exactly what it was invented for. Here is the LibreOffice manual: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/5/52/0308CG3-DataPilot.pdf :-) Stefan -- LibreOffice - Die Freiheit nehm' ich mir! -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: what is the alternative of countifs function in libreoffice?
Am 25.01.2012 18:26, Stefan Weigel wrote: Hi, Am 25.01.2012 17:16, schrieb soumalya ray: say,in one column gender of the participants are written (male/female).in next column height of the participant is written.now i want to count how many females have height=1.55 metre. +1 for the data pilot. For single values you may try SUMPRODUCT(condition1;condition2;...) -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript
Hi, Here is more information about this issue: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=94173 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15938/libre-office-change-printer-language-type-from-pdf-to-postscript http://www.google.com/#hl=ensugexp=pfwlcp=25gs_id=2qxhr=tq=cups+printer+language+pdfpf=poutput=searchsclient=psy-abpbx=1oq=cups+printer+language+pdfaq=faqi=aql=gs_sm=gs_upl=bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osbfp=ed6966981cf4427abiw=1680bih=942 Don On 01/24/2012 12:30 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:05:19 -0500 webmaster for Kracked Press Productionswebmas...@krackedpress.com dijo: I am sorry you are not getting any help. I wonder it it is an isolated issue for Fedora 16. If people have not see this happen before, it is hard to figure out what is causing it. So is there any issues with printing/exporting the file to PDF then printing it out to your printer? Do your file require Postscript printing instead of HP default printer language? Exporting to PDF and then printing with Okular, Evince, Adobe Reader, or other PDF viewers works fine. But that is more work than just clicking the Print button, or even wading through the Print dialog box tabs and menus to change the default behavior. The problem is that there is a new PDF setting in the print dialog box. It used to be on OOo that the default was to use whatever print options were set according to the driver you selected in CUPS (Postscript, Gutenprint, PCL, etc.). Now you have to go into General tab Properties Device tab Printer language type where it gives you the options: *PDF Postscript - level from driver Postscript - level 1 Postscript - level 2 Postscript - level 3 And it is set to PDF by default. And the PDF option is broken - it does not use the font metrics built into the font, so characters print as though the font were a monospaced font. A word like limit comes out looking a bit like l i mi t (except that the second i is actually smashed into the m). Otherwise the printing is fine. And it uses the font metrics correctly if I manually select Postscript - level from driver, or Postscript level 1 or 2. It's just that the option is buried several clicks deep in the Print dialog box and I keep forgetting to change it from the default PDF. Also, it does this with all fonts. I don't know why there is a PDF option in the Device tab, because only a handful of very expensive late model high end printers actually have the new Adobe PDF print engine built in. I'm talking printers costing $5,000 and up. If I write the document with Abiword, Kword, or any other word processor, it prints fine just by clicking the Print button. I wish I could post screen shots of the Device tab in the Print dialog box so you could see exactly what I am talking about. Even better would be if I could add screen shots of the Print dialog box from OOo where this problem did not exist. But OOo is not currently installed on my computer, having switched to Libreoffice after upgrading from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16. I just need to find a setting to change the default from PDF to Postscript - level from driver or Postscript - level 2. It would be OK if Libreoffice would just remember the setting from last time I printed, but with each new document it has to be set again. If it's hard coded I'm probably going to have to uninstall Libreoffice and go back to OOo because I'm tired of wasting time, paper and toner every time I forget to change it. -- ** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Mouseover box for menue options
Hi I was wondering what or how to change the gray background color to see the fonts better. The fonts are black but the background is dark gray and i cannot see the menu item information. Can someone let me know what this process is to change it. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Mouseover-box-for-menue-options-tp3687680p3687680.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Reading *.pages in LibreOffice?
Does anyone know how to read a *.pages file created on a Mac using LibreOffice? PagesConverter0.6 available from Sourceforge will extract the text but apparently not the graphics. If the extension is changed to .zip, then a standard Windows unzip will work to make several other files available, including *.jpg, *.xml, and *.pdf -- but the image quality of the *.pdf version is often too low to be useful. Thanks, Spencer Graves -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Add pdf as page in document
Thanks I'll look for them On Wednesday, January 25, 2012 01:38:48 PM Steve Edmonds wrote: On 24/01/12 6:37 PM, upscope wrote: On Monday, January 23, 2012 09:32:29 PM Jeff Prater wrote: Your best bet would be to convert your newsletter to a PDF first. Then, insert the form into the PDF using PDF authoring software like Adobe Acrobat. That's what I would do. This will not work. First I use Linux, Second I cannot afford Adobe Acrobat which to the best of my knowledge does not have a Linux version. I can create pdf's from LibreOffice and Scribus. I have not had time to try this in Scribus, it is supposed to import pdf's, but latest update gives error on trying to open pdf. Need to report bug. Thanks for your reply anyway. In order to get bulletin out I just recreated the whole document as a pdf form in LibreOffice and then save whol bulletin as pdf. Alot of extra work. Hi. pdfsplit and pdfjoin for linux would allow you to insert a page in a pdf. steve - Jeff Prater On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:53 PM, upscopeupsc...@nwi.net wrote: Is there a way to put a pdf form into a page of a newletter? I know you can create one, but this form was sent to me to be included in the newsletter so people can fill it in and then print it for mailing. From writer: CODE: --- file--open and selected the document and file type as .pdf. /CODE: - It opens the pdf in draw instead of the select document page in writer. I know I save it as an image and insert it but then the users will not beable to use it. Thanks for any ideas. -- Russ LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:502) [from L.O website] openSUSE 12.1(Linux 3.1.0-1.2-desktop x86_64)|KDE Platform Version 4.7.4 (4.7.4) Release 11|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ, |8GB DDR3| GeForce 8400GS (NVIDIA-Linux-290.10-13.1.x86_64) -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsub scri be/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Russ -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Add pdf as page in document
Hi: There are some programs to manage .pdf format documents,... like PDF-Shuffler, PDF Chain and others that you can find for it. If you you use Ubuntu, Open Suse or similar flavors of GNU/Linux you can find those programs in the Install Program repositories. Regards, Jorge Rodríguez ___ El lun, 23-01-2012 a las 21:37 -0800, upscope escribió: On Monday, January 23, 2012 09:32:29 PM Jeff Prater wrote: Your best bet would be to convert your newsletter to a PDF first. Then, insert the form into the PDF using PDF authoring software like Adobe Acrobat. That's what I would do. This will not work. First I use Linux, Second I cannot afford Adobe Acrobat which to the best of my knowledge does not have a Linux version. I can create pdf's from LibreOffice and Scribus. I have not had time to try this in Scribus, it is supposed to import pdf's, but latest update gives error on trying to open pdf. Need to report bug. Thanks for your reply anyway. In order to get bulletin out I just recreated the whole document as a pdf form in LibreOffice and then save whol bulletin as pdf. Alot of extra work. - Jeff Prater On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:53 PM, upscope upsc...@nwi.net wrote: Is there a way to put a pdf form into a page of a newletter? I know you can create one, but this form was sent to me to be included in the newsletter so people can fill it in and then print it for mailing. From writer: CODE: --- file--open and selected the document and file type as .pdf. /CODE: - It opens the pdf in draw instead of the select document page in writer. I know I save it as an image and insert it but then the users will not beable to use it. Thanks for any ideas. -- Russ LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:502) [from L.O website] openSUSE 12.1(Linux 3.1.0-1.2-desktop x86_64)|KDE Platform Version 4.7.4 (4.7.4) Release 11|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ, |8GB DDR3| GeForce 8400GS (NVIDIA-Linux-290.10-13.1.x86_64) -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscri be/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Russ -- Atentamente, Jorge Rodríguez -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: one language in the installer libre office
Hi :) If something is really easy to implement in one OS but difficult or impossible in another then i think that it would be dumb to hold it back in the one and criticise the devs for not implementing it in the other. If we play to the weaknesses of all the OSes to ensure that LO appears the same on all OSes then it's going to be pretty bad in all. I wasn't having a rant although i realise that you could choose to read it that way. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 25/1/12, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: one language in the installer libre office To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 25 January, 2012, 15:19 On 01/25/2012 07:42 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-24 1:46 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: HI :) Ahhh, it would be great if Windows had an official package manager that could look after all the apps, not just the MS ones and could make sure everything on the system got updated instead of just patches for Window's own security flaws. Something that could help people pick and choose the packages that got installed for a program so that you could tell it what to install and then walk away with no need to hand-hold it answering questions all the way through and with each program having it's own different 'style'. Hmm, but then it would look a lot less like Windows and might even be a little safer which would be a nightmare for all those antivirus companies. Regards from Tom :) It would also be nice if Linux would migrate to a universal one size fits all package manager that did everything on your wish list for a windows package manager. Tom, please keep your stupid anti-microsoft rants to yourself. There are a lot of issues that MS has to deal with that make it easier to use and install certain software packages. Linux may have new and different ways of doing things that what people have done for years with MS desktops, but it does not mean that one is better than the other. Each has its good points and its bad points. Now with MS going the way with its desktop interface with Win 8, like Ubuntu did going from GNOME 2.x to Unity, there will be much to deal with then. For now, most people prefer Windows over Linux for its ease of use. Win 8 will change that opinion for many users. So yes, the installer for MS Windows would be much better if it was broken down to installer file and language/help pack files, like Linux is currently doing. NO, Windows is not better than Linux and Linux is not better than Windows, as it currently stands. We all have our own opinions which is the better one, but it does not need to be discusses on this list. The real issue is the way LO treats the different platforms with one not needing language packs while the other one does. That should not be. It should be the same with all the platforms, download the installer file and download the language and help packs that are needed beyond the basic English ones in the install file. If you do it for Linux and Mac, you should do the same for Windows. It is only fair, is it not? Also, with the reworking of parts of LO so it would work properly with Unity, the developers will/may need to do the same with Win 8's tablet style of interface on their Win 8 desktops and laptops. Some articles are stating that people may move over to Linux [with not Unity style of desktop environment] once Win 8 comes out. So we will need to help these Windows users with their needs, and not rant and rave about how bad Windows is/was. We need to help them move over to LO from MSO and help anyone who moved from Windows to Linux with their issues and needs with dealing with LO in the Linux desktop environments. I use Ubuntu for my desktop since early 2010. I still use Windows for some systems though. I like the way Linux has everything you may need for software packages without needing to pay all that blood-money for doing your needed work. They should charge for their work, but not prices that seen to be made to suck as much blood-money as possible from its users. Now Linux has issues with drivers for the most up-to-date devices, since volunteers have to buy the devices and write the drivers for them, instead of the device developers writing one for Linux. Although there are other issues that make Linux not the best for many users, it is still a vital platform of many. Each has its good and bad issues. Neither it a perfect platform. So let us stop the my platform is better than yours issues here. It is hard enough for LO users to get the Windows people to use a free package like LO over paying for MSO on their Windows systems. There is where we need to target Windows users, not their use of Windows over Linux platforms. We need to get users to switch to LO, not try to convince
[libreoffice-users] I am really disappointed about libreOffice
Dear libreoffice developers, I have used openOffice for years. And since you have released libreOffice, I use this in openSUSE 12.1 too. But now I am really disappointed about your software. LibreOffice crashed in my previous version while trying to do table calculation (typing the = sign caused the error). In LibreOffice 3.4.2 000340m1 (Build:1206) I got this error message: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::loader::CannotActivateFactoryException' In my opinion this blooper should not happen with your about 10 years openSource in office suite development! And I seriously think about to use only openOffice in future. Community openSource software means also to check the software before releasing. I am a german sofware developer in the last year of the apprenticeship. I love openSource and I am going to join a few openSource projects as soon as I got the skills for doing that. C++ is not teached in my school, which is required in the most openSource software. Yours sincerely Thomas Wunner -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
