[libreoffice-users] Document locked on other system
Trying to open a document which is stored locally and not on a server and I get this? Document file 'Forum%20and%20site%20logins.odt' is locked for editing by yourself on a different system since 18.09.2012 12:32 Open document read-only, or ignore own file locking and open the document for editing. How do I fix this? -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing: http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 I only accept odf or pdf documents by email -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Document locked on other system
On 14/08/13 7:05 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Trying to open a document which is stored locally and not on a server and I get this? Document file 'Forum%20and%20site%20logins.odt' is locked for editing by yourself on a different system since 18.09.2012 12:32 Open document read-only, or ignore own file locking and open the document for editing. How do I fix this? There is probably a lock file in the same directory as the one you are editing. It could be hidden, one I am using now looks like .~lock.heattreating.odt#. With the document closed for editing, try deleting the lock file. Steve -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Document locked on other system
On 14/08/13 08:13, Steve Edmonds wrote: There is probably a lock file in the same directory as the one you are editing. It could be hidden, one I am using now looks like .~lock.heattreating.odt#. With the document closed for editing, try deleting the lock file. Steve I looked for that first and couldn't see it. Re-tried and there it was! (No idea why it didn't appear the first time...) Thanks! -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing: http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 I only accept odf or pdf documents by email -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Document locked on other system
On 14/08/13 7:26 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 14/08/13 08:13, Steve Edmonds wrote: There is probably a lock file in the same directory as the one you are editing. It could be hidden, one I am using now looks like .~lock.heattreating.odt#. With the document closed for editing, try deleting the lock file. Steve I looked for that first and couldn't see it. Re-tried and there it was! (No idea why it didn't appear the first time...) Thanks! I have them scattered all over my system and server. I should probably scratch together a cleanup script. Cheers, steve -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Book-writing with Writer
On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried converting the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then tried doing the same with just the 18 page introduction. Same result. No EPUB output file was generated. I noticed that Writer2epub doesn't like custom styles. It is apparently designed for fairly simple documents, using LO's built-in styles. It can't handle the elaborate formatting of the LO User Guides. That was an ambitious test! Perhaps LaTeX might be better: convert to (x)html using tex4ht and then compile the epub. Personally, would edit the xml using a text editor and compile the epub via the command terminal; compilation is surprisingly easy. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
On 13/08/2013, Rogier F. van Vlissingen vlisc...@gmail.com wrote: Ever since 4.0 I have had increasing problems with file compatibility with MSO... Consider this a blessing is disguise; the primary use of LO is to create and increase the quantity of odf documents, not to be a free m$ clone. Currently I am working on a project with MSO users and when I open a .doc which contains any comments, what happens is the last character BEFORE the comment anchor is reduced in font size, and therefore when you delete the comment, you now have to go into the text to fix the font size. Anyone had the same? I think it's time for a bug report. Why can't you afford to use a legitimate copy of m$? Are you seriously suggesting programmers' time should be spent on a minor proprietary format comment feature instead of improving software QA for LO odf??? Astonishing. The following hyperlink shows high priority bugs already requiring resolution (especially regressions which are indicative of a failure in software QA): https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Useful_Queries Please review. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Alfresco integration
On 06/08/2013, Josh Bitto jbi...@onlineschool.ca wrote: I'm using 4.2.c community of Alfresco and I'm having an issue where viewing a spreadsheet file in preview only shows it in portrait. I'm wondering if it possible to show in landscape. I've touched base in the Alfresco forums and another member suggested that I look at LibreOffice and see how it handles the document. Has anyone had issues similar to mine? Most users are probably individuals and therefore have no need for collaborative document management, whilst corporate users will mostly use m$o/shareoffice. Maybe try apache open office mailing list, where there may be a better chance of document management users within the oracle community. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
Hi :) I think most of us need to use LO for a variety of reasons. Price is just one factor amongst many. I use it because it's better and faster for what i typically need it for and it's cross-platform. However i still need to be able to communicate with colleagues. Oddly they would consider switching only if LO was better at MS formats, and a few other caveats. This idea of switching rather than migrating is odd considering their system has both but MS has been clever at making people think that a new system will wipe out the old one and require a radical switch over. I think we need to encourage the view that it's possible to run both beside each other and if we can do that then people will gradually begin to realise that LibreOffice/OpenOffice (and the rest) are much easier to work with precisely because you can keep using old systems while adapting to the new. Regards from Tom :) From: e-letter inp...@gmail.com To: Rogier F. van Vlissingen vlisc...@gmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 11:09 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc On 13/08/2013, Rogier F. van Vlissingen vlisc...@gmail.com wrote: Ever since 4.0 I have had increasing problems with file compatibility with MSO... Consider this a blessing is disguise; the primary use of LO is to create and increase the quantity of odf documents, not to be a free m$ clone. Currently I am working on a project with MSO users and when I open a .doc which contains any comments, what happens is the last character BEFORE the comment anchor is reduced in font size, and therefore when you delete the comment, you now have to go into the text to fix the font size. Anyone had the same? I think it's time for a bug report. Why can't you afford to use a legitimate copy of m$? Are you seriously suggesting programmers' time should be spent on a minor proprietary format comment feature instead of improving software QA for LO odf??? Astonishing. The following hyperlink shows high priority bugs already requiring resolution (especially regressions which are indicative of a failure in software QA): https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Useful_Queries Please review. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
e-letter wrote Are you seriously suggesting programmers' time should be spent on a minor proprietary format comment feature instead of improving software QA for LO odf??? Astonishing. If LO would ignore compatibility with DOC then it would become an island (which only used the ODF file format). If documents can not move back and forward between people who use MSO and LO then people will stop using LO. It's as simple as that. So, yes, LO programmers have to waste time to make DOC 100% compatible because you can be damn sure that MS will NOT make an effort to be 100% ODF compatible. Just my 2 cents ;) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/MS-file-compatibility-in-4-0-comments-in-doc-tp4069834p4069965.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Book-writing with Writer
Hi :) That sounds like a nightmare! You made it look like a series of stepping stones rather than the single hop we were hoping for. However, when i look again you are really talking about just 1 format in the middle? Then the extra editing is just an optional finesse that Virgil could probably dodge for the test-run? The command-line bit also sounds a bit scary but if you could give a command that Virgil could try out by using copypaste then that might be do-able Regards from Tom :) From: e-letter inp...@gmail.com To: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 10:44 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried converting the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then tried doing the same with just the 18 page introduction. Same result. No EPUB output file was generated. I noticed that Writer2epub doesn't like custom styles. It is apparently designed for fairly simple documents, using LO's built-in styles. It can't handle the elaborate formatting of the LO User Guides. That was an ambitious test! Perhaps LaTeX might be better: convert to (x)html using tex4ht and then compile the epub. Personally, would edit the xml using a text editor and compile the epub via the command terminal; compilation is surprisingly easy. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Document locked on other system
Hi :) In Windows Disk clean up might do it. It does a scan and then shows you a list of different types of things it could get rid of. It's often worth keeping some of the things, such as set-up files. Ubuntu janitor does much the same although there is a better one in Ubuntu Tweaks which you can get onto Ubuntu with these commands sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak I suspect that most distros have some standard tools to do routine decluttering like that and some will have it in some sort of Control Panel type of thing so you can do a whole load of things all at once from some central point. You are not the first one to have that sort of problem so tools are already out there Regards from Tom :) From: Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com To: Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 10:38 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Document locked on other system On 14/08/13 7:26 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 14/08/13 08:13, Steve Edmonds wrote: There is probably a lock file in the same directory as the one you are editing. It could be hidden, one I am using now looks like .~lock.heattreating.odt#. With the document closed for editing, try deleting the lock file. Steve I looked for that first and couldn't see it. Re-tried and there it was! (No idea why it didn't appear the first time...) Thanks! I have them scattered all over my system and server. I should probably scratch together a cleanup script. Cheers, steve -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Book-writing with Writer
Hi. Has anybody tried to do the exporting with eLAIX? It's in the official LO extensions repository, and I think it works quite well: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/elaix I can give it a try, if someone gives me the link to a specific ODT document. Regards, Joaquín De: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Para: e-letter inp...@gmail.com; Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com CC: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Enviado: Miércoles 14 de agosto de 2013 12:30 Asunto: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi :) That sounds like a nightmare! You made it look like a series of stepping stones rather than the single hop we were hoping for. However, when i look again you are really talking about just 1 format in the middle? Then the extra editing is just an optional finesse that Virgil could probably dodge for the test-run? The command-line bit also sounds a bit scary but if you could give a command that Virgil could try out by using copypaste then that might be do-able Regards from Tom :) From: e-letter inp...@gmail.com To: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 10:44 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried converting the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then tried doing the same with just the 18 page introduction. Same result. No EPUB output file was generated. I noticed that Writer2epub doesn't like custom styles. It is apparently designed for fairly simple documents, using LO's built-in styles. It can't handle the elaborate formatting of the LO User Guides. That was an ambitious test! Perhaps LaTeX might be better: convert to (x)html using tex4ht and then compile the epub. Personally, would edit the xml using a text editor and compile the epub via the command terminal; compilation is surprisingly easy. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
Hi :) I kinda agree with most of what Pedro says except that MS Office already is making an effort to be ODF compatible. We are already beginning to have an impact on MS and need to make sure we push that further by using ODF more and more. MSO 2010 and 2007 use an ancient version of ODF that no-one else has used for new documents for many years but their MSO 2013 and 365 uses the current version that everyone else has been using since way before 2007. Note that if you do have documents that use the older version of ODT then those still work fine in current and probably future versions of LibreOffice, OpenOffice (and the rest). The devs wrote a new patch a few months ago to bring all the older specs together in a much more streamlined way to make sure of that. Also, just like the current spec, the older one is fully documented and was implemented exactly as written-up. So, even in 30 or 40 years or longer it's highly likely to be able to get someone to quickly cobble together some sort of reader. Regards from Tom :) From: Pedro pedl...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 11:25 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc e-letter wrote Are you seriously suggesting programmers' time should be spent on a minor proprietary format comment feature instead of improving software QA for LO odf??? Astonishing. If LO would ignore compatibility with DOC then it would become an island (which only used the ODF file format). If documents can not move back and forward between people who use MSO and LO then people will stop using LO. It's as simple as that. So, yes, LO programmers have to waste time to make DOC 100% compatible because you can be damn sure that MS will NOT make an effort to be 100% ODF compatible. Just my 2 cents ;) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/MS-file-compatibility-in-4-0-comments-in-doc-tp4069834p4069965.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
On 14/08/13 11:51, Tom Davies wrote: MSO 2013 and 365 uses the current version that everyone else has been using since way before 2007. And have they taken out the bug (cough cough) whereby if an ods document is opened in MS Excel all the formulae are stripped out, just leaving the last value instead? -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing: http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 I only accept odf or pdf documents by email -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Alfresco integration
Hi :) Actually it is LibreOffice that is leading the way on this https://www.libreoffice.org/home/Discover The video in the CMIS section might help, or might not but the voice sounds nice and it might give some ideas. But it's still fairly rare to find people that are actually doing it and are on these lists. It would be a good idea to contact Apache OpenOffice forums just in case there are people there. I'm tempted to forwards this question to other list here at LO. The marketing team might have someone that knows. Note that while many of us are indeed individuals we also work in offices, schools/colleges, government departments and other places where we have to collaborate with other colleagues. One of the 5 governments of Spain fairly recently migrated 70,000 desktops to GnuLinux due to the success of a pilot program that put 30,000 in a few years earlier and this sort of thing is on the increase across most of Europe, already happened in Brasil, and other places Regards from Tom :) From: e-letter inp...@gmail.com To: Josh Bitto jbi...@onlineschool.ca Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 11:15 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Alfresco integration On 06/08/2013, Josh Bitto jbi...@onlineschool.ca wrote: I'm using 4.2.c community of Alfresco and I'm having an issue where viewing a spreadsheet file in preview only shows it in portrait. I'm wondering if it possible to show in landscape. I've touched base in the Alfresco forums and another member suggested that I look at LibreOffice and see how it handles the document. Has anyone had issues similar to mine? Most users are probably individuals and therefore have no need for collaborative document management, whilst corporate users will mostly use m$o/shareoffice. Maybe try apache open office mailing list, where there may be a better chance of document management users within the oracle community. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
Hi :) Yes, that problem was only in 2010 and 2007 and was due to their pathetic attempts to use the older ODT (well specifically ods) format that no-one else was using much at that time because we had all moved on to the newer version. Their 2013 and 365 uses the newer format so they don't suffer from that issue (apparently) Regards from Tom :) From: Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 12:07 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc On 14/08/13 11:51, Tom Davies wrote: MSO 2013 and 365 uses the current version that everyone else has been using since way before 2007. And have they taken out the bug (cough cough) whereby if an ods document is opened in MS Excel all the formulae are stripped out, just leaving the last value instead? -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing: http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 I only accept odf or pdf documents by email -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
On 14/08/13 12:16, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Yes, that problem was only in 2010 and 2007 and was due to their pathetic attempts to use the older ODT (well specifically ods) format that no-one else was using much at that time because we had all moved on to the newer version. Their 2013 and 365 uses the newer format so they don't suffer from that issue (apparently) Regards from Tom :) That's good to hear! Cheers! -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing: http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 I only accept odf or pdf documents by email -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Book-writing with Writer
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications From: Joaquín Lameiro juacolame...@yahoo.es To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk; e-letter inp...@gmail.com; Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 11:47 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi. Has anybody tried to do the exporting with eLAIX? It's in the official LO extensions repository, and I think it works quite well: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/elaix I can give it a try, if someone gives me the link to a specific ODT document. Regards, Joaquín De: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Para: e-letter inp...@gmail.com; Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com CC: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Enviado: Miércoles 14 de agosto de 2013 12:30 Asunto: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi :) That sounds like a nightmare! You made it look like a series of stepping stones rather than the single hop we were hoping for. However, when i look again you are really talking about just 1 format in the middle? Then the extra editing is just an optional finesse that Virgil could probably dodge for the test-run? The command-line bit also sounds a bit scary but if you could give a command that Virgil could try out by using copypaste then that might be do-able Regards from Tom :) From: e-letter inp...@gmail.com To: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 10:44 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried converting the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then tried doing the same with just the 18 page introduction. Same result. No EPUB output file was generated. I noticed that Writer2epub doesn't like custom styles. It is apparently designed for fairly simple documents, using LO's built-in styles. It can't handle the elaborate formatting of the LO User Guides. That was an ambitious test! Perhaps LaTeX might be better: convert to (x)html using tex4ht and then compile the epub. Personally, would edit the xml using a text editor and compile the epub via the command terminal; compilation is surprisingly easy. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
On 2013-08-14 7:07 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/08/13 11:51, Tom Davies wrote: MSO 2013 and 365 uses the current version that everyone else has been using since way before 2007. And have they taken out the bug (cough cough) whereby if an ods document is opened in MS Excel all the formulae are stripped out, just leaving the last value instead? Yes, I believe they have... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
On 2013-08-14 6:09 AM, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: the primary use of LO is to create and increase the quantity of odf documents, not to be a free m$ clone. So says e-letter, the creator and primary author of OpenOffice-Now-Libreoffice. all hail e-letter! (not) Why can't you afford to use a legitimate copy of m$? Why can't you bite your tongue rather than post offensive replies to people asking simple questions. Asshat. Are you seriously suggesting programmers' time should be spent on a minor proprietary format comment feature instead of improving software QA for LO odf??? Astonishing. What is astonishing is how you can be so ridiculously obtuse. Are you seriously suggesting that programmers shouldn't spend a little time fixing minor issues that make everyone's use of the software more pleasant. What Libreoffice really needs is a very simple, and *separate*, bug reporting page dedicated to one purpose - allowing users to submit documents that have formatting problems - *both* OpenDoc formats *and* Microsoft formats. Just a simple page where the user can upload the document, and provide a description of the problem. Then any bug triagers who are interested in improving document formatting and compatibility issues could quickly find these submissions, confirm (or deny) them (or request more information from the submitter), then convert the ones that are reproducible to real (confirmed) bugs for tracking by the devs. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Book-writing with Writer
I installed it through LO's extension manager. I also found that I had to change the name of the extension file from a zip file to an oxt file. I just did that through Windows Explorer. Even though LO's extension manager says it recognizes ZIP files, it installed better with an OXT extension. I don't know why. Now that I think about it, maybe that was the key variable rather than uninstalling AOO. Looks like I changed too many variables to be able to say for certain *which* change made the whole thing work. And, I did it all so quickly that I cannot now recall the order of all my changes. Virgil -Original Message- From: jorge Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:43 PM To: Virgil Arrington Cc: Kracked_P_P---webmaster ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi all ! Virgil, How did you try to install the writer2epub ? Did you use the wizzard that have LO or AOO ? Regards, Jorge Rodríguez El mar, 13-08-2013 a las 20:36 -0400, Virgil Arrington escribió: I got mine from http://lukesblog.it/ebooks/ebook-tools/writer2epub/. There's a version that words for LO 3, LO 4 and AOO 3, along with a separate version for AOO 4. My problem wasn't that I had the wrong version. I got the version that was designed for LO. It just wouldn't install as long as I had AOO on my system. Once I uninstalled AOO, the extension worked fine with LO. Of course, I have no idea *why* this behavior occurred. I won't blame AOO or anything else. I can't even scientifically say that LO and AOO had a conflict. I just know that, once I uninstalled AOO, I was able to install the writer2epub extension into my LO. I recalled someone else on the list saying that LO and AOO may conflict by sharing common Windows registry entries. That stuff is beyond my abilities, but I just shared it for others who may be interested. Virgil -Original Message- From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:41 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer There is a version for AOO, several actually written by a guy with an Italian country code. One for version if for 3.x, another for 4.0, and a new Beta one. So you may need to look into which one you are using for which version of LO or AOO. I found this out by Googling odf to epub converter On 08/13/2013 04:15 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Another thing I noticed about the writer2epub extension. When I first downloaded it, it would not properly install into my LO 3.6.7. I then uninstalled my AOO 3.4.1 and AOO 4.0. The writer2epub extension then installed into LO. It appears (as others have alluded) that LO and AOO have some conflicts when installed side by side on the same machine (registry perhaps which is beyond my knowledge). Since I'm finding that LO is progressing better than AOO, I'm happy to commit to just one of the suites. Virgil -Original Message- From: Virgil Arrington Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:58 PM To: Tom Davies Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer I just redid the Writer2epub test with my theology paper after applying default LO styles. It worked a *lot* better. I really liked the way it handled the default Text Body style by not indenting the first paragraph after a heading and then indenting subsequent paragraphs. That is excellent typography (a standard in LaTeX) and often missing in EPUB files. However, it still ignored my attempt to apply outline numbering to the default Heading styles. But, it did recognize the heading styles for my table of contents and navigation keys on my Kindle. As you allude, this is a good tool as long as you understand what it will, and will not, do. Work within its parameters and you'll like the result. Try to make it work *your* way, and it will disappoint. Virgil -Original Message- From: Tom Davies Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:41 PM To: Virgil Arrington Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi :) That sounds a lot like LaTeX being best if you stick with their defaults so it kinda makes sense to me. I think the Docs Team (i think mostly Dan Jean wasn't it?) experimented with a few ways of getting ePubs from the guides and they might have useful ideas about it even though it's years later already. Regards from Tom :) From: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk; e-letter inp...@gmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 19:22 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried converting the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then tried doing the same with just the 18 page introduction. Same
Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
I was just playing around. I'm not so motivated as to do all of what you're suggesting. I've had a Kindle now for a couple years, and I've been fascinated with trying different ways of creating/converting documents for its use. The basic Kindle (as opposed to the Fire), is just a text reader. While it will display graphics, it's not very elegant. I've found that books with anything more than a stream of text create issues for the Kindle. I have to wonder if the LO user guides are simply too complex for elegant translation to e-reader format. Virgil -Original Message- From: e-letter Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 5:44 AM To: Virgil Arrington Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried converting the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then tried doing the same with just the 18 page introduction. Same result. No EPUB output file was generated. I noticed that Writer2epub doesn't like custom styles. It is apparently designed for fairly simple documents, using LO's built-in styles. It can't handle the elaborate formatting of the LO User Guides. That was an ambitious test! Perhaps LaTeX might be better: convert to (x)html using tex4ht and then compile the epub. Personally, would edit the xml using a text editor and compile the epub via the command terminal; compilation is surprisingly easy. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: And have they taken out the bug (cough cough) I thought that was a feature. At least it is if you listen to MS. ;-) BTW, don't forget about them making that year 1900 Excel bug an ISO standard. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
Tom Davies wrote: Yes, that problem was only in 2010 and 2007 and was due to their pathetic attempts to use the older ODT (well specifically ods) format that no-one else was using much at that time because we had all moved on to the newer version. Their 2013 and 365 uses the newer format so they don't suffer from that issue (apparently) Except, other apps using the older spec didn't do that. It was an Excel only feature. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: Book-writing with Writer
e-letter: ...maybe epub for electronic archives. EPUB is an Apple/Adobe proprietary format not supported beyond iF... devices, which is missing critical features needed for books. It's not an option. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
James Knott: BTW, don't forget about them making that year 1900 Excel bug an ISO standard. * Lotus 1900 bug. Microsoft has introduced a 1904-system. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: connecting to oooforum.org
On 08/13/2013 02:32 AM, Dave Barton wrote: 1. http://www.oooforum.org The independent unofficial one Jim was referring to. For reasons nobody has been able to explain, their server is at best unreliable and frequently times out. oooforum was setup and is controlled by a single very busy person with no help from anyone else in any way. So, it uses resources available to this person and is maintained by this person. The other forum is maintained by a group of volunteers so there are more people to fix it. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
On 14/08/13 13:28, James Knott wrote: Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: And have they taken out the bug (cough cough) I thought that was a feature. At least it is if you listen to MS. ;-) BTW, don't forget about them making that year 1900 Excel bug an ISO standard. ROTFLMAO! -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing: http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 I only accept odf or pdf documents by email -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: connecting to oooforum.org
On 08/13/2013 06:38 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) If it is a completely independant forum and one that is owned by the community could we just copy it and host on TDF or LO servers? Alternatively might they be in a better position to ask Apache to host it or donate a better server to them? or could TDF donate a better server to them? There are neutral 3rd parties such as Friends of OpenDocument, ODFAuthors, OASIS. I may be missing something, so, if my answer is non-nonsensical; sorry.. If you are suggesting that oooforum can be hosted by a neutral 3rd party, I don't expect that to happen. The site owner is unwilling to give up control. I assume you could call it a sentimental attachment. He is also unable to provide sufficient rights to others to help maintain it because it is hosted in an area where outside administrative rights cannot be granted. I shot an email to the site owner and asked if he was aware that it is currently down and has been for a while. He is on California time, so no idea if he is even awake at this moment. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: How to change direction of Outline Numbering to RTL in LO Writer?
Hi Sina. When opening your thesis I see the numbers in Arabic numerals (the 0-9 digits common to Westerners), not in Hindu numerals (the digits commonly seen in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu). This is probably due to my locale settings. Note that I could reproduce your issue both in the document that you linked to and in original Hebrew documents. I attribute the problem to the fact that the period . is a non-directional character, so the whole 4.2.1 block is treated as LTR. See here for an explanation: http://dotancohen.com/howto/rtl_right_to_left.html The way to 'force' RTL display of subsections is to put an invisible RTL character after each number. You can get the character at the bottom of the page linked to above, it is called RLM. Another 'fix' would be if there were to exist an RTL period ., however I am unaware of the existence of such a character. Note that the RLM character actually appears on the Lyx Hebrew keyboard (shift-ט). I do not know if it appears on the Persian keyboard. Considering the above, this is not a LibreOffice bug. However, I will add my comments about how to work with this issue in LibreOffice. I am interested in how MS Office handles this corner case. You can always CC me RTL-related issues. I maintain gibberish.co.il and I'm quite versed in RTL issues. I can read Arabic letters, so I can read Persian, but I do not know the meaning of the sounds that I am reading. Best of luck on your thesis. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: Including code example in documents
On 08/11/2013 09:22 PM, aihaike wrote: Hey Miguel, thank you for you reply. This the kind of macro I need but it does not seem to work with LibreOffice 4 unfortunately. I think I'm going to make a snapshot of my codes and include them as a picture. Éric. I use it in LO 4 all the time, what error do you receive? -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
Hi :) And that 1904 thing is also non-standard, almost a bug, isn't it? regards from Tom :) From: Urmas davian...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 13:46 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc James Knott: BTW, don't forget about them making that year 1900 Excel bug an ISO standard. * Lotus 1900 bug. Microsoft has introduced a 1904-system. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: How to change direction of Outline Numbering to RTL in LO Writer?
Now that I've read the bug I see that you've already discovered the RLM character. I have nothingto add to your assessment, other than the fact that I fully support the notion that it should be fixed! Thanks, Sina. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: Including code example in documents
On 08/12/2013 12:44 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: On 08/12/2013 09:04 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: If none of the suggestions you have received already work for you. You might want to look at Andrew Pitonyak's book [1]. It has syntax highlighted basic code. I don't know if you can tell how he did by looking at the document though. [1] http://www.pitonyak.org/book/ I did it using the referenced plug-in. My macro documents is the reason I wrote the plug-in in the first place. I add new languages as I need to highlight them. I have added some by special request. I am currently using that plug-in in LO 4. I have not used it in the latest version of LO because when I installed the latest version, I was suddenly not able to open any of my password protected files. I do not know if it was related to some other issue (like LO was damaged when I updated from Fedora 18 to Fedora 19), but removing the latest and going back one version allowed me to open my password protected files again -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: connecting to oooforum.org
Hi :) Sounds like someone we should be supporting if it's at all possible. is there anything we can do? Could Friends of OpenDocument Format be approached to see if they could help? Regards from Tom :) From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 13:59 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: connecting to oooforum.org On 08/13/2013 02:32 AM, Dave Barton wrote: 1. http://www.oooforum.org The independent unofficial one Jim was referring to. For reasons nobody has been able to explain, their server is at best unreliable and frequently times out. oooforum was setup and is controlled by a single very busy person with no help from anyone else in any way. So, it uses resources available to this person and is maintained by this person. The other forum is maintained by a group of volunteers so there are more people to fix it. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Book-writing with Writer
Hi :) Yes, it was a good trial run. I was wondering how much further you would have time for or if anyone else would be keen to take the batton and see if they could take it further. Regards from Tom :) From: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: e-letter inp...@gmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 12:45 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer I was just playing around. I'm not so motivated as to do all of what you're suggesting. I've had a Kindle now for a couple years, and I've been fascinated with trying different ways of creating/converting documents for its use. The basic Kindle (as opposed to the Fire), is just a text reader. While it will display graphics, it's not very elegant. I've found that books with anything more than a stream of text create issues for the Kindle. I have to wonder if the LO user guides are simply too complex for elegant translation to e-reader format. Virgil -Original Message- From: e-letter Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 5:44 AM To: Virgil Arrington Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried converting the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then tried doing the same with just the 18 page introduction. Same result. No EPUB output file was generated. I noticed that Writer2epub doesn't like custom styles. It is apparently designed for fairly simple documents, using LO's built-in styles. It can't handle the elaborate formatting of the LO User Guides. That was an ambitious test! Perhaps LaTeX might be better: convert to (x)html using tex4ht and then compile the epub. Personally, would edit the xml using a text editor and compile the epub via the command terminal; compilation is surprisingly easy. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] LibreOffice 4.1 and the Windows taskbar
I've recently had the unenviable task of updating several computers running Windows 7 and Windows 8 as either single or dual boots. One of the odd things I've noticed is that after updating LO 4.0.4.2 to LO 4.1.0.4, I can only fasten the LibO and Writer icons to the Windows taskbar. Previously all the LibO programme icons could be fastened to the taskbar with a simple right-click, but as I said, this seems no longer to be the case. Has anyone else experienced this - admittedly relatively minor, but still irritating - issue and is there any way to rectify it ? I've encountered no such difficulty after updating LibO on either Linux Mint 15 or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but of course, GNU/Linux is GNU/Linux and Windows is Windows Henri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
Well I think for easier migration it would be nicer to have the best compartibility with MS formats because: Many companies may have a HUGE amount of documents so it would cost effective to buy a MS licence instead of spending time to convert all these files into odf and free formats. On 13/08/2013 08:53 μμ, Girvin R. Herr wrote: On 08/13/2013 05:27 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's quite likely. A bug-report is a good idea. An example file might help. Btw i assume your MSO users have stuck with some ancient version of MSO, such as 2007 or something? I think the compatibility with 2013 is better and that is likely to create problems with compatibility with older versions of MSO. This implication concerns me! If LO is going to drop .doc as a standard, then my advice to others to use .doc instead of .docx as a common interchange standard is in jeopardy. I hope LO never drops .doc as a standard. That said, I had to open a .docx form I received the other week and LO opened it fine, with the exception of the usual font size problems that ran text off the right margin. That was easily fixed by changing the font size. Regards. Girvin Herr Are you sure it's .Doc rather than .DocX that is causing the problem? Most MSO users have no idea how to save in anything other than DocX so it's FAR more likely they are sending you DocX files and not even realising it or even believing they are sending Doc because they just don't really know what they are using and just jumping on the last name they vaguely recognise. Windows tries to hide the endings so they really don't know what they are using most of the time. Doc itself is being deprecated in order to push people into using the newer DocX and thus forcing people to buy newer versions of MSO even if it's to do exactly the same work that MSO 2003 and earlier could do. Regards from Tom :) From: Rogier F. van Vlissingen vlisc...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 12:27 Subject: [libreoffice-users] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc Ever since 4.0 I have had increasing problems with file compatibility with MSO... Currently I am working on a project with MSO users and when I open a .doc which contains any comments, what happens is the last character BEFORE the comment anchor is reduced in font size, and therefore when you delete the comment, you now have to go into the text to fix the font size. Anyone had the same? I think it's time for a bug report. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: How to change direction of Outline Numbering to RTL in LO Writer?
Hi :) +1 I can't really vote on this and this isn't really a voting list anyway but if i could vote i would give it +1 Regards from Tom :) From: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com To: Sina Momken digi...@gmail.com Cc: LibreOffice. users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 14:10 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to change direction of Outline Numbering to RTL in LO Writer? Now that I've read the bug I see that you've already discovered the RLM character. I have nothingto add to your assessment, other than the fact that I fully support the notion that it should be fixed! Thanks, Sina. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] LibreOffice 4.1 and the Windows taskbar
Hi :) Good work and well done for getting through it!! I keep putting it off so i tend to stick with x.x.4 releases to avoid needing to support the users any more than i really have to. However the 4.1.0 does add a lot of better compatibility so i probably should do the same as you. Sorry to hear about the problem there! I don't know if anyone else has a good answer for that but i hope they do! Regards from Tom :) From: M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 14:53 Subject: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 4.1 and the Windows taskbar I've recently had the unenviable task of updating several computers running Windows 7 and Windows 8 as either single or dual boots. One of the odd things I've noticed is that after updating LO 4.0.4.2 to LO 4.1.0.4, I can only fasten the LibO and Writer icons to the Windows taskbar. Previously all the LibO programme icons could be fastened to the taskbar with a simple right-click, but as I said, this seems no longer to be the case. Has anyone else experienced this - admittedly relatively minor, but still irritating - issue and is there any way to rectify it ? I've encountered no such difficulty after updating LibO on either Linux Mint 15 or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but of course, GNU/Linux is GNU/Linux and Windows is Windows Henri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: connecting to oooforum.org
Hi :) Ok, so if it is hosted on a single server then maybe we could ask Friends of .. or some similar organisations to contribute towards the costs of a new server? or pay to get it hosted through a dedicated hosting service that hosts a lot of sites rather than however it is being done right now? Regards from Tom :) From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 14:03 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: connecting to oooforum.org On 08/13/2013 06:38 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) If it is a completely independant forum and one that is owned by the community could we just copy it and host on TDF or LO servers? Alternatively might they be in a better position to ask Apache to host it or donate a better server to them? or could TDF donate a better server to them? There are neutral 3rd parties such as Friends of OpenDocument, ODFAuthors, OASIS. I may be missing something, so, if my answer is non-nonsensical; sorry.. If you are suggesting that oooforum can be hosted by a neutral 3rd party, I don't expect that to happen. The site owner is unwilling to give up control. I assume you could call it a sentimental attachment. He is also unable to provide sufficient rights to others to help maintain it because it is hosted in an area where outside administrative rights cannot be granted. I shot an email to the site owner and asked if he was aware that it is currently down and has been for a while. He is on California time, so no idea if he is even awake at this moment. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
Hi :) Quite! Some could view it as a marketing ploy to push people into using their format. i can image the calls telling users they need to avoid 3rd party formats as though 3rd party is somehow dodgy rather than just meaning that MS can't manage to write code to support their own format let alone other organisations. However, now they seem to have been pushed into properly supporting the right format rather than just paying lip service Regards from Tom :) From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: LibreOffice users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 13:30 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc Tom Davies wrote: Yes, that problem was only in 2010 and 2007 and was due to their pathetic attempts to use the older ODT (well specifically ods) format that no-one else was using much at that time because we had all moved on to the newer version. Their 2013 and 365 uses the newer format so they don't suffer from that issue (apparently) Except, other apps using the older spec didn't do that. It was an Excel only feature. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
Tom Davies wrote: Some could view it as a marketing ploy to push people into using their format. i can image the calls telling users they need to avoid 3rd party formats as though 3rd party is somehow dodgy rather than just meaning that MS can't manage to write code to support their own format let alone other organisations. One thing to bear in mind is the ODF formats were derived from the original StarOffice formats and spreadsheets in that format worked fine in StarOffice, and later OpenOffice, for years. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Weblog extension not working in 4.1?
Using LO 4.1 on Ubuntu 13.04 Installed the Sun Weblog extension, configured my Blog in it. Everything seems to work EXCEPT it won't post to the Blog! Doesn't matter whether I do File-Send-To Weblog or click on the To Weblog icon, nothing happens. Any one got a solution or should I report a bug? -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing: http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 I only accept odf or pdf documents by email -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Fixing Printing Paper Defaults
On 14/08/13 01:32, Brian Barker wrote: At 22:53 13/08/2013 +0100, Alastair Noname wrote: I note I can modify the First Page style but what I think I need to do is create a new first page style called say Home Address Letter style. I don't know how the style properties for the first page are created but I presume I can modify the First Page style and save it as Home Address Letter Is that right? o Open the Styles Formatting window. o Click on the Page Styles icon. o Double-click on First Page. (This applies First Page page style to the page containing the cursor.) o Click on New Style from Selection and then New Style from Selection. o Give your new style a name. You now have a copy of the First Page page style with your new name. o Right-click on the new style in the list and select Modify... . o Modify your new page style as required. In fact I need two letter first pages, one for office and one for home so further help would be appreciated. It would be easier to create one first page style in each of two separate templates, wouldn't it? You'd never want two first pages in one document. The second question concerns fonts. I am used to having the font included within the style definition. Is this possible with LO? Yes, but fonts are hardly page properties - so they are not a property of page styles. Fonts are a property of paragraph styles (and of character styles). Your templates will have default paragraph styles (perhaps Default or Text body?), and you can select a preferred font in each of those - or, indeed, in multiple paragraph styles. Brian Barker Hi Brian, All clear and yes I agree two templates for two first pages. Many thanks again. Budge -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] LibreOffice 4.1 and the Windows taskbar
2013/8/14 Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Hi :) Good work and well done for getting through it!! I keep putting it off so i tend to stick with x.x.4 releases to avoid needing to support the users any more than i really have to. However the 4.1.0 does add a lot of better compatibility so i probably should do the same as you. Sorry to hear about the problem there! I don't know if anyone else has a good answer for that but i hope they do! Regards from Tom :) -- *From:* M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com *To:* users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org *Sent:* Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 14:53 *Subject:* [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 4.1 and the Windows taskbar I've recently had the unenviable task of updating several computers running Windows 7 and Windows 8 as either single or dual boots. One of the odd things I've noticed is that after updating LO 4.0.4.2 to LO 4.1.0.4, I can only fasten the LibO and Writer icons to the Windows taskbar. Previously all the LibO programme icons could be fastened to the taskbar with a simple right-click, but as I said, this seems no longer to be the case. Has anyone else experienced this - admittedly relatively minor, but still irritating - issue and is there any way to rectify it ? I've encountered no such difficulty after updating LibO on either Linux Mint 15 or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but of course, GNU/Linux is GNU/Linux and Windows is Windows Henri As I've mentioned previously, Tom, I very much appreciate the work that the developers have done on the latest version of LibO ; among other things, it certainly seems to load more quickly, which is a great plus. As a matter of fact, I had noticed the taskbar issue when updating some other machines earlier, but hadn't thought to report it. Since, as I say, I've seen it on several machines and not yet found one on which pinning other icons than the LibO icon and that for writer works in 4.1.0.4, I must assume that I'm not the only one to have encountered the problem. But it would be interesting to hear if others can confirm it Henri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: LibreOffice 4.1 and the Windows taskbar
Issues with Windows 7 and 8, Taskbar Startmenu and Jump List implementation has been cleaned up on the 4.1.1 and master builds. Should have better results with the upcomming 4.1.1 release. See FDO#35785 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35785 for details. Stuart -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-4-1-and-the-Windows-taskbar-tp4070007p4070025.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: Book-writing with Writer
http://idpf.org/epub On Aug 14, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: e-letter: ...maybe epub for electronic archives. EPUB is an Apple/Adobe proprietary format not supported beyond iF... devices, which is missing critical features needed for books. It's not an option. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
Hi :) Better compatibility with the formats sometimes means using a branch early in it's life-cycle and that sometimes means it might not be 100% as stable as the x.x.4 of the earlier branch. So it's a balancing act for which we each need to find our own comfort-zone. Usually whichever you choose is good enough to open almost anything. It's increasingly rare to manage to find something that doesn't open at all. It's more a question of how perfect you want it to look. Usually it looks better in LO than just a different version of MSO from whichever one created it but that's not always true either. It's all a bit unpredictable with MSO formats. To some extent that is also true with any format and any program but i tend to find it's mostly MSO formats that suffer most. The best bet, right now, is to use Doc as an intermediary format. MS have stopped developing new features for it but might still be doing bug-fixes, maybe. So it's less likely to create surprises. DocX keeps popping up with surprises. Odt is stable because it's developed by a committee and LO complies with that although by default it adds a little extra but again that little extra is well documented. So, Odt is likely to become the best choice and i tend to use it like that already because all machines in this office already have LibreOffice. In any other place or for outsiders i might use Doc still and i still encourage outsiders to give me Docs (and sometimes that means teaching them where the Save As... option is). However, like i said we all need to find our own sweet-spots and see how that changes as ODF becomes more widely accepted. Regards from Tom :) From: Katanohporos katanopho...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 15:08 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc Well I think for easier migration it would be nicer to have the best compatibility with MS formats because: Many companies may have a HUGE amount of documents so it would cost effective to buy a MS licence instead of spending time to convert all these files into odf and free formats. On 13/08/2013 08:53 μμ, Girvin R. Herr wrote: On 08/13/2013 05:27 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's quite likely. A bug-report is a good idea. An example file might help. Btw i assume your MSO users have stuck with some ancient version of MSO, such as 2007 or something? I think the compatibility with 2013 is better and that is likely to create problems with compatibility with older versions of MSO. This implication concerns me! If LO is going to drop .doc as a standard, then my advice to others to use .doc instead of .docx as a common interchange standard is in jeopardy. I hope LO never drops .doc as a standard. That said, I had to open a .docx form I received the other week and LO opened it fine, with the exception of the usual font size problems that ran text off the right margin. That was easily fixed by changing the font size. Regards. Girvin Herr Are you sure it's .Doc rather than .DocX that is causing the problem? Most MSO users have no idea how to save in anything other than DocX so it's FAR more likely they are sending you DocX files and not even realising it or even believing they are sending Doc because they just don't really know what they are using and just jumping on the last name they vaguely recognise. Windows tries to hide the endings so they really don't know what they are using most of the time. Doc itself is being deprecated in order to push people into using the newer DocX and thus forcing people to buy newer versions of MSO even if it's to do exactly the same work that MSO 2003 and earlier could do. Regards from Tom :) From: Rogier F. van Vlissingen vlisc...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 12:27 Subject: [libreoffice-users] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc Ever since 4.0 I have had increasing problems with file compatibility with MSO... Currently I am working on a project with MSO users and when I open a .doc which contains any comments, what happens is the last character BEFORE the comment anchor is reduced in font size, and therefore when you delete the comment, you now have to go into the text to fix the font size. Anyone had the same? I think it's time for a bug report. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?
[libreoffice-users] Alfresco and libreoffice
Hello All, I'm having an issue with how spreadsheets are being handled in alfresco and I'm trying to track the source down. Here's the issueWhen I upload any document into alfresco I can go to that document and it gives a preview of it in portrait form. That's wonderful if all documents were portrait rather than landscape. This creates a conflict when uploading spreadsheets. For whatever reason it previews in portrait instead of landscape. Looking at the document details they are in landscape. When downloading the document it is still in landscape. So I've ruled those out. I've got it down to either how libreoffice handles the document OR it might be pdf2swf when converting it to a flash preview. I know I'm probably shooting blindly at this, but I'm wondering if anyone else has come across this issue. I've asked in alfresco forums and no one seems to have an answer there. Joshua Bitto Information Technologist KCC -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: Book-writing with Writer
Hi :) Does that mean it is an ISO standard? It's a bit unclear who international Digital Publishing Forum are. Are they widely known and accepted or are they just a branch of Adobe or Apple or someone? Regards from Tom :) From: Ginterak m...@interak.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 16:27 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Book-writing with Writer http://idpf.org/epub On Aug 14, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: e-letter: ...maybe epub for electronic archives. EPUB is an Apple/Adobe proprietary format not supported beyond iF... devices, which is missing critical features needed for books. It's not an option. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Alfresco integration
Thank you both for your response on this matter. I will look into the suggestion that you advised and go from there. Have a great week! Best Regards, Josh From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:13 AM To: e-letter; Josh Bitto Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Alfresco integration Hi :) Actually it is LibreOffice that is leading the way on this https://www.libreoffice.org/home/Discover The video in the CMIS section might help, or might not but the voice sounds nice and it might give some ideas. But it's still fairly rare to find people that are actually doing it and are on these lists. It would be a good idea to contact Apache OpenOffice forums just in case there are people there. I'm tempted to forwards this question to other list here at LO. The marketing team might have someone that knows. Note that while many of us are indeed individuals we also work in offices, schools/colleges, government departments and other places where we have to collaborate with other colleagues. One of the 5 governments of Spain fairly recently migrated 70,000 desktops to GnuLinux due to the success of a pilot program that put 30,000 in a few years earlier and this sort of thing is on the increase across most of Europe, already happened in Brasil, and other places Regards from Tom :) From: e-letter inp...@gmail.commailto:inp...@gmail.com To: Josh Bitto jbi...@onlineschool.camailto:jbi...@onlineschool.ca Cc: users@global.libreoffice.orgmailto:users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.orgmailto:users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 11:15 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Alfresco integration On 06/08/2013, Josh Bitto jbi...@onlineschool.camailto:jbi...@onlineschool.ca wrote: I'm using 4.2.c community of Alfresco and I'm having an issue where viewing a spreadsheet file in preview only shows it in portrait. I'm wondering if it possible to show in landscape. I've touched base in the Alfresco forums and another member suggested that I look at LibreOffice and see how it handles the document. Has anyone had issues similar to mine? Most users are probably individuals and therefore have no need for collaborative document management, whilst corporate users will mostly use m$o/shareoffice. Maybe try apache open office mailing list, where there may be a better chance of document management users within the oracle community. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.orgmailto:unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: connecting to oooforum.org
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 08/13/2013 02:32 AM, Dave Barton wrote: 1. http://www.oooforum.org The independent unofficial one Jim was referring to. For reasons nobody has been able to explain, their server is at best unreliable and frequently times out. oooforum was setup and is controlled by a single very busy person with no help from anyone else in any way. So, it uses resources available to this person and is maintained by this person. The other forum is maintained by a group of volunteers so there are more people to fix it. Yes Andrew, I am fully aware of the history behind oooforum.org and the number of times in 10+ years the owner has refused outside help. You I both remember in the early days of OOo it was proposed to merge the two forums and Ed would not even join in the discussion. He may well be a very busy person and as you observe in another post you could call it a sentimental attachment, but over the years users have contributed a vast amount of useful material, which is all too frequently locked away from other users because of his personal workload and/or sentimentality. My original reply was not intended as a criticism, it was just note to indicate that one of the two longest established forums was not always accessible. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: Book-writing with Writer
It is an ISO standard (or at least in the way to be): http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=53255 Also, there's some useful information on Wikipedia. I didn't went to it thoroughly, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB Maybe Urmas confused EPUB with the Digital Rights Management system (DRM) which is basically proprietary anticopy software, and is supported by EPUB (as a way to avoid piracy and, I guess, to control the market of books). But EPUB is open source, standardized and is the format used by most e-readers (by all, I will say, with the exception of Kindle, which of course has a proprietary file format). And there's no need to use DMR on it. De: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Para: Ginterak m...@interak.com; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Enviado: Miércoles 14 de agosto de 2013 17:47 Asunto: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Book-writing with Writer Hi :) Does that mean it is an ISO standard? It's a bit unclear who international Digital Publishing Forum are. Are they widely known and accepted or are they just a branch of Adobe or Apple or someone? Regards from Tom :) From: Ginterak m...@interak.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 16:27 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Book-writing with Writer http://idpf.org/epub On Aug 14, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: e-letter: ...maybe epub for electronic archives. EPUB is an Apple/Adobe proprietary format not supported beyond iF... devices, which is missing critical features needed for books. It's not an option. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: Book-writing with Writer
Hi :) Perhaps :) I think there are a lot of us who still haven't checked out these fancy new gizmos. I'm still calling LiveUsb a LiveCd and then having to correct myself. Regards from Tom :) From: Joaquín Lameiro juacolame...@yahoo.es To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk; Ginterak m...@interak.com; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 18:20 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Book-writing with Writer It is an ISO standard (or at least in the way to be): http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=53255 Also, there's some useful information on Wikipedia. I didn't went to it thoroughly, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB Maybe Urmas confused EPUB with the Digital Rights Management system (DRM) which is basically proprietary anticopy software, and is supported by EPUB (as a way to avoid piracy and, I guess, to control the market of books). But EPUB is open source, standardized and is the format used by most e-readers (by all, I will say, with the exception of Kindle, which of course has a proprietary file format). And there's no need to use DMR on it. De: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Para: Ginterak m...@interak.com; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Enviado: Miércoles 14 de agosto de 2013 17:47 Asunto: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Book-writing with Writer Hi :) Does that mean it is an ISO standard? It's a bit unclear who international Digital Publishing Forum are. Are they widely known and accepted or are they just a branch of Adobe or Apple or someone? Regards from Tom :) From: Ginterak m...@interak.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 16:27 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Book-writing with Writer http://idpf.org/epub On Aug 14, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: e-letter: ...maybe epub for electronic archives. EPUB is an Apple/Adobe proprietary format not supported beyond iF... devices, which is missing critical features needed for books. It's not an option. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] More mail merge help needed
I'm trying to create mail merge documents that contain merge fields for a document that can't connect directly to the data source. That source (Salesforce) can read the documents if the field names are correctly entered. I can type the field names in manually, but I can't figure out how to generate a label merge document that will work. The mail merge wizard doesn't seemingly allow users to generate label merges (options are letter and email). And I can't find a way to generate a merge document manually without using the wizard. I see no menu items for mail merge steps (I can find the insert field tool, but that's it - no tool to allow me to switch between merge fields and merged data without going into the wizard). I've tried starting with New-Labels, then choosing the correct label type and clicking New Document (I can't connect to the database, so can't enter the merge fields in the dialog). I can then type in merge fields as Salesforce wants to see them, but I can't figure out how to make it a merge document with the next record and next page items. In Insert-Fields there is a Next Record option but it's only available when there's a database connected. Finally, I've been through a lot of documentation so if there's a good mail merge document online, that might be enough. -- Carl Paulsen Dover, NH 03820 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Converting Access 2003 DB w/Security
LO 4.o.2.2 on Windows XP Pro SP3 I am converting a 2003 Access DB that has different security settings for different users contained in a .mdw file. I set it up in Base by connecting to an existing ADO database and everything works fine as far as the security settings go. The problem arises when I have to add or delete a new user or change an existing user's rights. It seems that the only way I can modify the workgroup settings is by opening the DB up in Access, changing the security settings there and then saving the file. Then once I open the DB back up in Base, it will honor the new security settings. If this is the only way to do things, I can never get rid of Access! If anyone knows how I can change my security settings in Base without having to use Access, I would really appreciate the help. Thanks, Dave -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Converting-Access-2003-DB-w-Security-tp4070068.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Weblog extension not working in 4.1?
I sent his to the list this afternoon - for some reason it didn't seem to get there, so I apologize if it's gone twice! Using LO 4.1 on Ubuntu 13.04 Installed the Sun Weblog extension, configured my Blog in it. Everything seems to work EXCEPT it won't post to the Blog! Doesn't matter whether I do File-Send-To Weblog or click on the To Weblog icon, nothing happens. Any one got a solution or should I report a bug? -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing: http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 I only accept odf or pdf documents by email -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: trying to integrate oracle forms with libreoffice
Hi :) If this is a patch then perhaps you could make it into an Extension? Extensions can be licensed any way you like. there is a suggestion to use a copy-left license such as MPL or LGPL but really i think the choice is yours. However if you did make it from code from Oracle then you will need their permission and i can't imagine them being happy about doing something that would help LibreOffice. If the Extension works with Apache OpenOffice they might be happy with that as long as you didn't mention LibreOffice in the process. Regards from Tom :) From: pasqual milvaques pons milvaques_...@gva.es To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 11:54 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: trying to integrate oracle forms with libreoffice Hi at the end I could made this work, the integration between libreoffice and webutil fails for two reasons: -there was no an adequate procedure for passing arrays as call arguments -the version of the jacob java library which comes with oracle forms 10gR2 was very old and doesn't support passing a arrays as arguments I made a small component similar to webutil which uses a newer jacob library and implements the call for passing arrays as arguments. I have done some basic testing (open a new document a save it with some text) and it works. I can't make the code public as the code is derived from Oracle code which comes with the Oracle Forms server but if anybody needs it I can send it in a private message best regards -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/trying-to-integrate-oracle-forms-with-libreoffice-tp4068433p4069830.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: LibreOffice 4.1 and the Windows taskbar
2013/8/14 V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu Issues with Windows 7 and 8, Taskbar Startmenu and Jump List implementation has been cleaned up on the 4.1.1 and master builds. Should have better results with the upcomming 4.1.1 release. See FDO#35785 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35785 for details. Stuart Thanks, Stuart ! I was a bit surprised to see this regression, given that, as noted above. I didn't experience the problem using 4.0.4.2. In any event I'm glad to hear that it's been resolved in 4.1.1, which given that an RC has been released, can't be too far away Henri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Weblog extension not working in 4.1?
On 2013-08-14 3:40 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: I sent his to the list this afternoon - for some reason it didn't seem to get there, so I apologize if it's gone twice! As always with gmail accounts, you will *never* see our own posts, because gmail considers the sent message as a duplicate, and discards the new one that would otherwise show in your inbox. Gmail has *always* been like this, nothing new... complain to them if you don't like it. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] how to save a file with security passward
Hello Sirs/Madam,I really appreciate your efforts to introduce the free libre office.It is a wonderful and complete program .I have downloaded this masterpiece few days ago and some of its features are still to be recovered.I am feeling difficulty to130 in the tool bar but I could not find the way to put a password to my created document for security purpose.Will you please guide me as to how I can solve this problem?ONCE AGAIN I CONGRADULATE YOU ON GIVING SUCH A GOOD AND COMPLETE PROGRAMME. FARRUKH A MUNIR,farrukhamunir@hotmail.com14Th,August,2013 farrukhamunir -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: connecting to oooforum.org
On 08/14/2013 12:39 PM, Dave Barton wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 08/13/2013 02:32 AM, Dave Barton wrote: 1. http://www.oooforum.org The independent unofficial one Jim was referring to. For reasons nobody has been able to explain, their server is at best unreliable and frequently times out. oooforum was setup and is controlled by a single very busy person with no help from anyone else in any way. So, it uses resources available to this person and is maintained by this person. The other forum is maintained by a group of volunteers so there are more people to fix it. Yes Andrew, I am fully aware of the history behind oooforum.org and the number of times in 10+ years the owner has refused outside help. You I both remember in the early days of OOo it was proposed to merge the two forums and Ed would not even join in the discussion. He may well be a very busy person and as you observe in another post you could call it a sentimental attachment, but over the years users have contributed a vast amount of useful material, which is all too frequently locked away from other users because of his personal workload and/or sentimentality. My original reply was not intended as a criticism, it was just note to indicate that one of the two longest established forums was not always accessible. I did not take it as a criticism I just assumed you were not aware. I would prefer if an external host were found so that others could help with the administration. I expect that it is just a question of how to do it so that the current owner would not lose their personal attachment to it and thus be willing to do it. My guess is that he does not visit it often because he was not aware that it was down. He told me that /var had run out of space. When I just checked, I could connect, but could get nothing to display. I am not aware of any way to scrape the content, perhaps someone more talented than I would know how to do that. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: Book-writing with Writer
Joaquín Lameiro: Please name me any 3rd-party reader which supports HTML5 and CSS3 sufficiently enough to provide all the features one can expect from a book. That so-called standard is too expensive for independent implementation and cannot guarantee acceptable results. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: how to save a file with security passward
Hi FARRUKH MUNIR wrote Hello Sirs/Madam,I really appreciate your efforts to introduce the free libre office.It is a wonderful and complete program .I have downloaded this masterpiece few days ago and some of its features are still to be recovered.I am feeling difficulty to130 in the tool bar but I could not find the way to put a password to my created document for security purpose.Will you please guide me as to how I can solve this problem?ONCE AGAIN I CONGRADULATE YOU ON GIVING SUCH A GOOD AND COMPLETE PROGRAMME. FARRUKH A MUNIR,farrukhamunir@hotmail.com14Th,August,2013 When you Save the document for the first time you must check the Save with password box under Automatic file name extension. If you already created the document then you need to choose Save As and then select the Save with password option and overwrite the original file. From now on the document is always saved with the password you selected unless you deliberately uncheck the Save with password option. http://www.liberiangeek.net/2013/07/password-protect-your-documents-when-using-libreoffice/ Hope this helps. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/how-to-save-a-file-with-security-passward-tp4070083p4070087.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: connecting to oooforum.org
On 14/08/2013 at 23:48, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: I am not aware of any way to scrape the content, perhaps someone more talented than I would know how to do that. Unfortunately, under some jurisdictions, creating backup copy of remote server might be considered an attack attempt and even penalized. Anyone willing to take a risk might want to get himself familiar with httrack (http://www.httrack.com/). Since legal status of all material posted there might be questionable, one should consider all options before making any copies publicly available. Personally I think that entire copyright law is just obstacle here and public read-only copy of site in question would not hurt anyone. But then, I have better things to do than proving my point before court. -- Best regards Mirosław Zalewski -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] LO vs. another ...
... https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/2580-help-change-the-mobile-world?locale=en I'm curious to know how they might compare, are you? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] how to save a file with security password
At 20:24 14/08/2013 +, Farrukh Munir wrote: ... I could not find the way to put a password to my created document for security purpose. Will you please guide me as to how I can solve this problem? As has already been explained, when you use File | Save As..., tick the Save with password box at the bottom of the Save As dialogue. Note that it is possible to save with a password only if you are saving in LibreOffice's native Open Document Format formats, such as .odt. .ods, .odp, and so on. This won't work if you are using, say, Microsoft Office file formats. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Fixing Printing Paper Defaults
At 21:29 14/08/2013 +0100, Alastair Noname wrote: Sorry to be so thick ... For what it's worth, I don't recognise that. ... but all the above went well until I revisited the page styles having shut down LO and started again later. Sadly the new style I had created following your steps above was not there! I have looked for a save option but cannot find one. How do I fix the newly created page style so it is available in the menu in future? Styles are saved in documents. If you saved the document you were working in when you created the styles, the styles will still exist in that document. (If you didn't, they won't!) If you want to use them in another document, you can import them using the Load Styles... facility in the Styles Formatting window. But in your case, you appeared to want these styles in documents in the form of letters, so the sensible way forward would be to create an otherwise empty document with any headings you wanted and your new styles. Then save that document as a template (File | Save as Template). When you want to create a new letter, instead of starting with a default blank document, start from your new template and then save the document so created as the new letter. You'll probably want two new templates, one for each of your letter types and each containing just one set of new styles appropriate to that letter type. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Book-writing with Writer
The strange thing was I didn’t extract the oxt from the zip. I simply renamed the zip to an oxt. There was no oxt file inside the zip. Virgil From: Tom Davies Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:36 PM To: Virgil Arrington ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi :) I think extracting the Oxt from the Zip file makes it work better but i haven't really dabbled with Extensions much at all so i really don't know either Regards from Tom :) -- From: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 12:34 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer I installed it through LO's extension manager. I also found that I had to change the name of the extension file from a zip file to an oxt file. I just did that through Windows Explorer. Even though LO's extension manager says it recognizes ZIP files, it installed better with an OXT extension. I don't know why. Now that I think about it, maybe that was the key variable rather than uninstalling AOO. Looks like I changed too many variables to be able to say for certain *which* change made the whole thing work. And, I did it all so quickly that I cannot now recall the order of all my changes. Virgil -Original Message- From: jorge Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:43 PM To: Virgil Arrington Cc: Kracked_P_P---webmaster ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Hi all ! Virgil, How did you try to install the writer2epub ? Did you use the wizzard that have LO or AOO ? Regards, Jorge Rodríguez El mar, 13-08-2013 a las 20:36 -0400, Virgil Arrington escribió: I got mine from http://lukesblog.it/ebooks/ebook-tools/writer2epub/. There's a version that words for LO 3, LO 4 and AOO 3, along with a separate version for AOO 4. My problem wasn't that I had the wrong version. I got the version that was designed for LO. It just wouldn't install as long as I had AOO on my system. Once I uninstalled AOO, the extension worked fine with LO. Of course, I have no idea *why* this behavior occurred. I won't blame AOO or anything else. I can't even scientifically say that LO and AOO had a conflict. I just know that, once I uninstalled AOO, I was able to install the writer2epub extension into my LO. I recalled someone else on the list saying that LO and AOO may conflict by sharing common Windows registry entries. That stuff is beyond my abilities, but I just shared it for others who may be interested. Virgil -Original Message- From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:41 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer There is a version for AOO, several actually written by a guy with an Italian country code. One for version if for 3.x, another for 4.0, and a new Beta one. So you may need to look into which one you are using for which version of LO or AOO. I found this out by Googling odf to epub converter On 08/13/2013 04:15 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Another thing I noticed about the writer2epub extension. When I first downloaded it, it would not properly install into my LO 3.6.7. I then uninstalled my AOO 3.4.1 and AOO 4.0. The writer2epub extension then installed into LO. It appears (as others have alluded) that LO and AOO have some conflicts when installed side by side on the same machine (registry perhaps which is beyond my knowledge). Since I'm finding that LO is progressing better than AOO, I'm happy to commit to just one of the suites. Virgil -Original Message- From: Virgil Arrington Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:58 PM To: Tom Davies Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer I just redid the Writer2epub test with my theology paper after applying default LO styles. It worked a *lot* better. I really liked the way it handled the default Text Body style by not indenting the first paragraph after a heading and then indenting subsequent paragraphs. That is excellent typography (a standard in LaTeX) and often missing in EPUB files. However, it still ignored my attempt to apply outline numbering to the default Heading styles. But, it did recognize the heading styles for my table of contents and navigation keys on my Kindle. As you allude, this is a good tool as long as you understand what it will, and will not, do. Work within its parameters and you'll like the result. Try to make it work *your* way, and it will disappoint. Virgil
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
On 15/08/13 2:24 AM, James Knott wrote: Tom Davies wrote: Some could view it as a marketing ploy to push people into using their format. i can image the calls telling users they need to avoid 3rd party formats as though 3rd party is somehow dodgy rather than just meaning that MS can't manage to write code to support their own format let alone other organisations. One thing to bear in mind is the ODF formats were derived from the original StarOffice formats and spreadsheets in that format worked fine in StarOffice, and later OpenOffice, for years. In fact until LO 4+ when they were dropped. steve -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
Steve Edmonds wrote: One thing to bear in mind is the ODF formats were derived from the original StarOffice formats and spreadsheets in that format worked fine in StarOffice, and later OpenOffice, for years. In fact until LO 4+ when they were dropped. Can they still be read? IIRC, OO 1.3 was the last version that couldn't write ODF, but it could read them. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Can't find setting
At 21:23 14/08/2013 -0500, Michael Morse wrote: For some reason, I am no longer able to make a series of spaces using the space bar. After one space, pressing the space bar will not advance the cursor. Rejoice! This is how all word processors should work. Countable spaces exist only in Typewriterland. With proper type faces, the space between words is anything from a minimum value up to whatever is required to range across a line. The spacebar no longer represents an actual amount of space but merely indicates a word break in the text. If you need to space material differently, you do it properly - using tabs, tables, frames, or whatever. I don't remember changing anything so I have no idea where to even begin to look for whatever setting I assume I must have changed to cause this behavior. Can someone help me how please? Yes: forget about multiple spaces and set up proper spacing using the correct facilities of your word processor, whichever that is. (Oh, but if you really want to fossilize in Typewriterland in the previous millennium, go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Options and remove the tick from Ignore double spaces. And hang your head in shame.) ;^) I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
Say No to OOOXML, was: [libreoffice-users] Weblog extension not working...
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 20:40:52 PM +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing: http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 Hi Gordon, and list. First of all, I'm obviously happy that you liked my Say No to OOXML enough to put it in your signature. I'm writing to let you and everybody else interested know that, thanks to the signature, I realized that the link isn't correct anymore. It was originally, because it is the same I refer to in my home page. Now, instead is: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart7 (maybe Linux Journal changed something in their formatting later on, thus updating the link...) Kind regards, Marco Fioretti -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Book-writing with Writer
At 21:02 14/08/2013 -0400, Virgil Arrington wrote: The strange thing was I didn't extract the oxt from the zip. I simply renamed the zip to an oxt. There was no oxt file inside the zip. You didn't need to. An .oxt file, like other ODF formats, is itself a zip archive. What has happened is that the process of downloading the file has incorrectly modified its .odt extension to .zip - which is not unusual, in fact. (Don't ask me why or in what circumstances this occurs, but it does: it appears to be a quirk of Internet Explorer.) In such cases, you need merely to rename the file back to have its correct original extension - as you did. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] how to save a file with security password
On 08/14/2013 08:12 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 20:24 14/08/2013 +, Farrukh Munir wrote: ... I could not find the way to put a password to my created document for security purpose. Will you please guide me as to how I can solve this problem? As has already been explained, when you use File | Save As..., tick the Save with password box at the bottom of the Save As dialogue. Note that it is possible to save with a password only if you are saving in LibreOffice's native Open Document Format formats, such as .odt. .ods, .odp, and so on. This won't work if you are using, say, Microsoft Office file formats. I trust this helps. Brian Barker I thought that passwords were broken in the current release I was unable to open my existing password protected documents with the latest release. Removed it and installed a previous version. So, if you cannot make it work, try a previous version. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] how to save a file with security password
At 00:58 15/08/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I thought that passwords were broken in the current release I was unable to open my existing password protected documents with the latest release. Removed it and installed a previous version. So, if you cannot make it work, try a previous version. Aaargh! Apologies if I missed that. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
