[libreoffice-users] Re: pdf creation issue on a single file?
Am 28.07.2012 15:42, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I will gladly send this file to anyone who can assist as I need to create and post to a public user mailing list a PDF at the end of the month. Yes, please. Help is much appreciated Hylton Let's see what I can do for you. -- 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] Forcing a paragraph onto odd numbered pages
HI :) It probably wasn't worth mentioning but i'm glad you did. it's interesting to get these tidbits from this list and is part of the reason a lot of us are probably here. Thanks and regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 2/8/12, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: From: Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Forcing a paragraph onto odd numbered pages To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 2 August, 2012, 3:48 At 09:47 01/08/2012 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I do this with page styles. I have a style called chapter_first_page, which is always a left page. Is it worth mentioning that this is the opposite of the usual convention? In left-to-right languages, if any convention is followed, it is that chapters are made to start on a recto - a right-hand, odd-numbered page. Brian Barker -- 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] insufficient user rights if I change the filename
Please don't top-post in a bottom/inline posted thread... On 2012-08-01 9:09 AM, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-07-31 10:33 PM, anne-ology wrote: are you perchance clicking on 'save' rather than 'save as'? I don't know why the 'save' is there;-) Obviously it is so that you can easily save changes to a file that has already been saved/named, without having to save it to an ever different name... if that was the reason for 'save' then it would save in the same folder, rather than some temp [?] folder with some strange name where it's not findable ;-) Perhaps you are confused... It *does* save it in the same folder, because it simply saves the changes to the *same document*. It only saves a document to the TEMP folder if you open it from an email, and then possibly only for certain mail clients (Thunderbird being one). I think this same un-findable folder is used for saving when the program auto-saves; Again, you are badly mistaken. If you create a document, and save it to a specific folder, then later open that document for editing, both saves and auto-saves simply save the changes to the document where it resides. So... either you are badly mistaken, or your computer system is badly broken. -- 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] insufficient user rights if I change the filename
On 2012-08-01 2:19 PM, Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com wrote: I've had BSODs and similar events with Windows 7, Vista, XP, Windows 98, ... . I don't know, but I suspect that some of these may be hardware not software. Spencer These are almost *always one of two things: 1. Bad power supply, or 2. Bad video card/buggy video driver -- 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] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles
Hi, Firstly, thanks for all the replies about my blank page question. That is all working nicely, however, I am now stuck trying to get writer to insert a blank line before a paragraph. It is important it is *exactly* a line as otherwise the baseline of the text on the opposite page won't line up. Using 'spacing above paragraph' and trial and error I can get very close to adding a line, but if the font or font size changes this will break. Even a formula for working out the 'spacing above paragraph' would be a massive help (I've tried just using the point size of the font but this doesn't work :( ) or perhaps there is a 'snap to baseline' option somewhere? In case you're wondering why I don't just hit return to get my extra line, I am trying to create master copies of my books using LO so that I can use export to PDF for the print version and export to xhtml for the ebook formats. For this to work all the layout needs to be done using styles. Thanks, Rob -- 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] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles
Hi Rob, rob wood schrieb: Hi, Firstly, thanks for all the replies about my blank page question. That is all working nicely, however, I am now stuck trying to get writer to insert a blank line before a paragraph. It is important it is *exactly* a line as otherwise the baseline of the text on the opposite page won't line up. Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the feature Register true. Kind regards Regina -- 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] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles
Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Rob, rob wood schrieb: Hi, Firstly, thanks for all the replies about my blank page question. That is all working nicely, however, I am now stuck trying to get writer to insert a blank line before a paragraph. It is important it is *exactly* a line as otherwise the baseline of the text on the opposite page won't line up. Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the feature Register true. Kind regards Regina This is a very nice thing to know. I did not know it was possible. Using the Page style to select this feature: 1) Right click the page style being used. 2) Select Modify. 3) Click the Page tab. 4) Register true has a check box (tick box?) which is third down in the Layout section. --Dan -- 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] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles
Thanks, spent all morning trying to get that to work :) The only problem I have left is that where I have set the very first character of the very first paragraph to be 50% bigger than everything else, with register true turned on, this causes an extra blank line to be added beneath the first line. This enlarged letter has been done with a character style. Any ideas on how this can be fixed (other than removing the big capital or turning off register true)? On 2 August 2012 14:40, Dan elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Rob, rob wood schrieb: Hi, Firstly, thanks for all the replies about my blank page question. That is all working nicely, however, I am now stuck trying to get writer to insert a blank line before a paragraph. It is important it is *exactly* a line as otherwise the baseline of the text on the opposite page won't line up. Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the feature Register true. Kind regards Regina This is a very nice thing to know. I did not know it was possible. Using the Page style to select this feature: 1) Right click the page style being used. 2) Select Modify. 3) Click the Page tab. 4) Register true has a check box (tick box?) which is third down in the Layout section. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.** org users%2bh...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** unsubscribe/http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** Netiquette http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/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] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles
rob wood wrote: Thanks, spent all morning trying to get that to work :) The only problem I have left is that where I have set the very first character of the very first paragraph to be 50% bigger than everything else, with register true turned on, this causes an extra blank line to be added beneath the first line. This enlarged letter has been done with a character style. Any ideas on how this can be fixed (other than removing the big capital or turning off register true)? This is known as a Drop cap. As a style, create a new paragraph style that is linked with the paragraph style you are presently using. Use the DropCap tab (page) of the new paragraph style to set the characteristics you want. --Dan On 2 August 2012 14:40, Dan elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Rob, rob wood schrieb: Hi, Firstly, thanks for all the replies about my blank page question. That is all working nicely, however, I am now stuck trying to get writer to insert a blank line before a paragraph. It is important it is *exactly* a line as otherwise the baseline of the text on the opposite page won't line up. Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the feature Register true. Kind regards Regina This is a very nice thing to know. I did not know it was possible. Using the Page style to select this feature: 1) Right click the page style being used. 2) Select Modify. 3) Click the Page tab. 4) Register true has a check box (tick box?) which is third down in the Layout section. --Dan -- 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] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles
This isn't quite the same, I don't want the capital to go down into the other lines (a drop cap) I want it to have the same baseline as the rest of the text like this (if you're viewing this in html mode): The first letter is bigger than the rest... This is the second line... However, if I try to do this in libreoffice with register true turned on, it is doing this: The first letter is bigger than the rest... [this gap appears] This is the second line... Interestingly using drop caps doesn't work quite right either with register true turned on. It makes a two line drop cap too tall (that is to say, it goes down two lines, like it should, but also up a line). On 2 August 2012 15:21, Dan elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: rob wood wrote: Thanks, spent all morning trying to get that to work :) The only problem I have left is that where I have set the very first character of the very first paragraph to be 50% bigger than everything else, with register true turned on, this causes an extra blank line to be added beneath the first line. This enlarged letter has been done with a character style. Any ideas on how this can be fixed (other than removing the big capital or turning off register true)? This is known as a Drop cap. As a style, create a new paragraph style that is linked with the paragraph style you are presently using. Use the DropCap tab (page) of the new paragraph style to set the characteristics you want. --Dan On 2 August 2012 14:40, Dan elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Rob, rob wood schrieb: Hi, Firstly, thanks for all the replies about my blank page question. That is all working nicely, however, I am now stuck trying to get writer to insert a blank line before a paragraph. It is important it is *exactly* a line as otherwise the baseline of the text on the opposite page won't line up. Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the feature Register true. Kind regards Regina This is a very nice thing to know. I did not know it was possible. Using the Page style to select this feature: 1) Right click the page style being used. 2) Select Modify. 3) Click the Page tab. 4) Register true has a check box (tick box?) which is third down in the Layout section. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.** org users%2bh...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** unsubscribe/http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** Netiquette http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/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] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles
On 8/2/2012 6:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the feature Register true. Kind regards Regina I have in fact wondered what Register true was for, thanks for that info. The question that next comes up in my mind is, does anyone know where in the world did a name like that come from? If it were me naming that feature I would of called it something like... Align Baselines. Is there a story or reason behind it? If it's not a good one, I vote for changing the name, because in 6 months or a year I'll have forgotten what it does (chances are slim I'll ever have to use that feature but still). I'm a big fan of naming things after their functions if and when it makes sense to do so. Thank you in advance. -- 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] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles
Andrew Brager wrote: On 8/2/2012 6:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the feature Register true. Kind regards Regina I have in fact wondered what Register true was for, thanks for that info. The question that next comes up in my mind is, does anyone know where in the world did a name like that come from? If it were me naming that feature I would of called it something like... Align Baselines. Is there a story or reason behind it? If it's not a good one, I vote for changing the name, because in 6 months or a year I'll have forgotten what it does (chances are slim I'll ever have to use that feature but still). I'm a big fan of naming things after their functions if and when it makes sense to do so. Thank you in advance. Use LO's help to search for this term. It answers your question. Hint, it has to do with how newspapers have been printed. --Dan -- 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] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles
Hi Rob, rob wood schrieb: This isn't quite the same, I don't want the capital to go down into the other lines (a drop cap) I want it to have the same baseline as the rest of the text like this (if you're viewing this in html mode): The first letter is bigger than the rest... This is the second line... However, if I try to do this in libreoffice with register true turned on, it is doing this: The first letter is bigger than the rest... [this gap appears] This is the second line... I don't know, why the gap appears. If I set the text-to-text alignment to bottom, it should not be there. Interestingly using drop caps doesn't work quite right either with register true turned on. It makes a two line drop cap too tall (that is to say, it goes down two lines, like it should, but also up a line). You can use drop cap. Write the first character, then write a Shift+Enter line feed and then the rest of the word. Then the space which is needed is above the paragraph. Kind regards Regina -- 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] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles
On 2 August 2012 18:18, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: However, if I try to do this in libreoffice with register true turned on, it is doing this: The first letter is bigger than the rest... [this gap appears] This is the second line... I don't know, why the gap appears. If I set the text-to-text alignment to bottom, it should not be there. Well, I've realised why it is doing it. As the first letter is bigger, it is making the bottom line of that line of text go lower, meaning the second line doesn't have the space to go where it normally would, but because register true is on, rather than just going marginally lower it has to skip down another line. I can over rule this by setting the line-width to fixed at some value less than a normal line (as register true overrules the fixed line width), but this mucks up the exported xhtml. The annoying thing is that because the first letter is always a capital there is no need for the bottom line to change. Using the Drop Cap and line feeds also mucks up the exported xhtml. :( -- 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] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles
Oops meant line *spacing* not line width. I don't know, why the gap appears. If I set the text-to-text alignment to bottom, it should not be there. Well, I've realised why it is doing it. As the first letter is bigger, it is making the bottom line of that line of text go lower, meaning the second line doesn't have the space to go where it normally would, but because register true is on, rather than just going marginally lower it has to skip down another line. I can over rule this by setting the line-width to fixed at some value less than a normal line (as register true overrules the fixed line width), but this mucks up the exported xhtml. The annoying thing is that because the first letter is always a capital there is no need for the bottom line to change. Using the Drop Cap and line feeds also mucks up the exported xhtml. :( -- 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] SOLVED - pdf creation issue on a single file?
My thanks go to Roger Barker and Miguel Angel. On 28/07/12 15:58, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: What is you OS? Windows, Linux, Mac? Which version. What version of LO are you using? Your statement of using 3.3 since 3.4.5 is confusing. Are you using 3.5.5, 3.5.4, 3.5.3? while someone tries to figure out the issue, if you use Windows, please download doPDF - free PDF printer software. Linux - CUPS-PDF. With the PDF printer installed print the document to the PDF printer, like you would a paper printer. Then see if creating a PDF that way works. If it does, then it is the PDF Exporting option. If not it may be in some generic printing option or some other issue. I tend to use a PDF printer more than Exporting to PDF, since I print PDFs from many different packages and forget to use the Export option. I have PDF printing as my default printer. On 07/28/2012 09:42 AM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, I have an rainfall.ods document that has 24 tabs. Two of the tabs contain figures and the balance contain graphs of the figures. I recently experienced a problem, it would seem after my last tab addition, that prevents me from creating a PDF file of the selected sheets(12). The PDF export works fine on other files regarding `Export as PDF', why not on this file? I was using LibreOffice 3.3 and have since updated to LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:1505). Unfortunately the newer version is unable to `Export as PDF' on the selected TABS either!! What could be wrong? There are no special characters in the sheet names bar possibly a space. I will gladly send this file to anyone who can assist as I need to create and post to a public user mailing list a PDF at the end of the month. Help is much appreciated Hylton -- Hylton is a Lions Club member of Lions Club of Fish Hoek (District 410A) http://www.fishhoeklionsclub.org.za being part of the worlds largest NGO -- 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] SOLVED - pdf creation issue on a single file?
Forgive me, but if you're going to post this as solved could you include the solution? I didn't see it On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) hyl...@conacher.co.za wrote: My thanks go to Roger Barker and Miguel Angel. On 28/07/12 15:58, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: What is you OS? Windows, Linux, Mac? Which version. What version of LO are you using? Your statement of using 3.3 since 3.4.5 is confusing. Are you using 3.5.5, 3.5.4, 3.5.3? while someone tries to figure out the issue, if you use Windows, please download doPDF - free PDF printer software. Linux - CUPS-PDF. With the PDF printer installed print the document to the PDF printer, like you would a paper printer. Then see if creating a PDF that way works. If it does, then it is the PDF Exporting option. If not it may be in some generic printing option or some other issue. I tend to use a PDF printer more than Exporting to PDF, since I print PDFs from many different packages and forget to use the Export option. I have PDF printing as my default printer. On 07/28/2012 09:42 AM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, I have an rainfall.ods document that has 24 tabs. Two of the tabs contain figures and the balance contain graphs of the figures. I recently experienced a problem, it would seem after my last tab addition, that prevents me from creating a PDF file of the selected sheets(12). The PDF export works fine on other files regarding `Export as PDF', why not on this file? I was using LibreOffice 3.3 and have since updated to LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:1505). Unfortunately the newer version is unable to `Export as PDF' on the selected TABS either!! What could be wrong? There are no special characters in the sheet names bar possibly a space. I will gladly send this file to anyone who can assist as I need to create and post to a public user mailing list a PDF at the end of the month. Help is much appreciated Hylton -- Hylton is a Lions Club member of Lions Club of Fish Hoek (District 410A) http://www.fishhoeklionsclub.org.za being part of the worlds largest NGO -- 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
