[libreoffice-users] MS Works import
LibreOffice 3.4 is advertised as supporting import of MS Works files, but a search of the archives of this list shows very little about it. I have a colleague who has a rather large (66Mb) .wps file with loads of pictures that he wants to open on his Mac, and I suggested LO as an easy way. A quick play with my own LO (3.4.1) on Windows XP was inconclusive. I found a few sample .wps text documents on the web. Two of them opened OK, but had no formatting. The third opened as a blank document. A .wdb spreadsheet that I had been sent in the past also opened as a blank text document. How much experience of people had of Works import and does it actually work, or is it as I seem to be finding rather buggy? Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] MS Works import
On 11 Aug 2011 at 12:35, Charlie wrote: > > How much experience of people had of Works import and does it actually > > work, or is it as I seem to be finding rather buggy? > > No problem here using V 3.3.3 running on Ubuntu (that's the latest > version for Ubuntu). See samples at > www.writersedgeservice.com/filebrowser/proposalsfiction.asp . Formatting > was fine. > Thanks Charlie for that. I have just updated to 3.4.2 to see if that would change things, but it did not. And yes, I DO have the legacy filters installed, which you need for the old .sxw etc formats but I don't think they are needed for Works. The documents on writersedge were in fact the ones I had found myself. There are three .wps files on there, and these all open fine, complete with formatting, bolding etc in MS Word Viewer. In LO 3.4.2: cad7593009.wps - opens blank, if I look at the properties pane it claims it has 1 page with 0 characters. fot4813409.wps and mot6312910.wps open correctly as plain text but all the bolding, italics, paragraph indents, and other formatting is missing. They look totally different from how they do in Wordview. I wonder if it has changed between v3.3 and v3.4 or maybe it is a Windows issue? Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: MS Works import
On 11 Aug 2011 at 17:55, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > I can confirm your described display of these files on Mac OSX with > LibreOffice 3.4.2, but as far as I knew, WPS import was never perfect > anyway. > > FWIW, in LO 3.3.2, the files display differently, with cad7593009 > opening and showing bold and italic formatting. However, the other two > files do not appear to show paragraph indents, bold or italic either in > LO 3.3.2, so I would say that the import feature is less than perfect, > and that something between 3.3.x and 3.4.x now prevents opening of > certain content stored within WPS files. You'd best open a bug report. > Filed as bug 40032 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40032) This is the first Bugzilla bug I have ever composed, please be free to comment/modify if I have omitted anything. Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: MS Works import
On 12 Aug 2011 at 12:49, Tom Davies wrote: > Annoyingly (& not your fault) the url is not clickable but it is better > practice to copy&paste a url into a web-browser for security reasons. > Adding an attachment was smart but it opened fine for me in Ubuntu 10.04 > using LibreOffice 3.3.2. It is clickable in my email copy (Pegasus Mail)... It is known to work correctly in LO3.3 series and seems to have appeared in v3.4. Somebody has just commented that it works also in GO- OO 3.3. > > So, the report is far better than most people's. The devs might ask for > further detail when they get time to go through the report, as that is a > standard thing for them to do. It's better than having an excessively > long report full of irrelevant details. Even tho LibreOffice has a ton > of devs it could be a few weeks before they get around to it. Thanks. Will wait for the response. Looking over some other bug reports it seems it may take a little while... > > Congrats and nicely done. > > Can you install the LibreOffice 3.3.3 alongside your current version of > LibreOffice just to see if that has more success opening the file or are > you already using the 3.3.x branch? Since others have shown it works in v3.3 I will leave it at that. Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.4.2 Spellcheck Not Working....
On 12 Aug 2011 at 11:38, nicholasdono...@netscape.net wrote: > Any progress on this issue? I've installed it on 4 different systems, > with different operating systems > and have the sme issue, spell-check does not work. > Spell check working fine here, LO3.4.2 Windows XP SP3, English (UK). Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: export sql to odb?
Perhaps drifting off thread a little. I have a DBF database which dates back many years - in fact to Lotus Works in MS DOS days. It works well via LO Base, once one has worked out how to do it, which is far from obvious. I have often wondered whether it is worth converting this to a native LO database, ie on the lines of your mentioned HyperSQL. I guess it is not, and in fact I would guess that most users only use Base as an interface to other database formats. The 'Help' in LO, practically identical to that in OOo, is far from helpful and is pretty short of practical guidance. Every time I look at it it leaves me confused. Maybe an 'idiots guide' to using Base in real life situations, as part of the installation, is long over due. It would reduce all these sorts of threads. Dave On 15 Aug 2011 at 16:24, Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides) wrote: > Base is primarily a translator between various backends and LibreOffice. > > It does however use HyperSQL [1, 2] to create stand alone databases. [1] > http://hsqldb.org/ [2] http://hsqldb.org/web/hsqlUsing.html > > This is a relational database engine written in Java. > http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: can't install 3.4.2 on Windows XP
On 15 Aug 2011 at 13:09, francis.lebou...@algo.be wrote: > I can't install 3.4.2 on Windows XP because the installer asks for the > libreoffice33.msi file that is not present on my PC. > Maybe you have downloaded the wrong version? I have never had any problem installing LO (or Open Office) on Windows XP. Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [RETORT TO FLAMEBAIT; DNFTT]
Yes, with your name you should certainly have no need to remember to crop Many lists now recommend top posting, as that is far better when folks read it on mobile devices. There seem to be a lot of posts on here where the actually reply is a few lines right at the bottom of acres of quoting. Dave On 16 Aug 2011 at 12:22, Simon Cropper wrote: > > And don't forget to trim > > Sorry :) > http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: JRE v7.0 ?
PARTS of Base require Java, ie to link to a new external database or set up new Queries. But it is not required with those databases once they have been configured. I was prompted to enable Java last week when I added a new external DBF database and queries. I have now disabled it (makes loading of LO faster) and can still access that database. When I upgraded from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2 the other week I got an alert to enable Java during the installation process. Not sure what triggered it, and I have never had this before when upgrading either OO or LO. Dave On 25 Aug 2011 at 10:33, Tom Davies wrote: > The 1.6.0_21 seems to be the best java to use with LibreOffice. The > 1.6.0_20 & 1.6.0_22 seem to be in a fairly good 2nd place place. The > 1.6.0_24 was really bad and the 1.6.0_26 was even worse apparently. So, > it's seems to be steadily getting worse. You can have one version for > your web-browsers and a different one for LibreOffice. > > I thought LibreOffice devs were trying to get rid of any dependence on > java anyway. Perhaps moving to python instead? I think it's mostly > only Base that needs java now isn't it? http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Libre "Help" file in Windows 7
On my Windows XP PC help is at c:\Program Files\Libre Office3.4\Basis\Help\en-GB There is a large number of files and folders there. Dave On 29 Aug 2011 at 12:46, planas wrote: > > A friend has installed Libre 3.4.2 on his Windows 7 computer. > > He then installed the Libre Help file and Windows put it in Documents. > > It does not work. Where should it be? > > There is a default location for the help file that is used. I tried to > locate a setting to remap the help files to another location but did not > find one (on Linux). The simplest is to reinstall and accept the > defaults. http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: 3.4.3 released. Stable and functionality combined
http://openjdk.java.net/ opens fine here. But it only has releases for Linux, nothing for Windows that I can see. Dave On 31 Aug 2011 at 8:14, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > n the Release Notes it states the following - quote: "If you run > Linux, the GCJ Java variant has known issues with LibreOffice, we advise > to e.g. use OpenJDK instead." > > Google points to the following URL: "http://openjdk.java.net/"; but the > site is either down or no longer valid. > > SO any ideas where people can get OpenJDK as recommended in the > LibreOffice 3.4.3 Release Notes? For Windows, Linux, and Mac? > http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: spell checking not working in LBO 3.4.3
On 31 Aug 2011 at 23:26, At0mic wrote: > Confirmed, the spellchecking fails on upgrade (Windows XP machine at > work) Spellcheck working fine here, LO3.4.3 Windows XP SP3, upgraded from 3.4.2. Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: 3.4.3 released. Stable and functionality combined
On 1 Sep 2011 at 6:41, Tom wrote: > I keep saying 73Kb but i mean slowness/speed of download rather than > file-size. The file-size is probably around 146Mb. At dial-up speeds, > or even just double that, it's going to take quite a while to download. > > Do you mean 73kbits/sec or 73kBytes/sec? On my 8Mb/s connection I downloaded the windows version (188Mb) in 4 minutes at 800kBytes/sec. On that basis at 73kbits/sec it would take 400 minutes, or at 73kBytes/sec 40 minutes. If you started yesterday you should have finished by now! Dialup speeds are around 36kbits/sec or 3.7kBytes/sec, rather slower. Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: JRE older installs - Windows - nowonline - no need for Oracle account
On 1 Sep 2011 at 13:25, David H. Lipman wrote: > I have analyzed obfuscated Javascripts and viewed deobfuscated > Javascripts that uses a laundry list of vulnerabilities and software > versions in the vulnerability/exploitation attack vector. > What on earth has javascript to do with this issue? This is a JAVA issue. Any vulnerabilities in javascript only affect javascript, which is a totally different kettle of fish and doesn't even form part of LO. I remain puzzled by this thread. I have Java 1.6.0.26 installed and that works just fine with LO 3.4.3 on Windows XP SP3. The suggestion to deliberately install old potentially insecure versions of Java is very bad advice, not to mention the copyright infringements of hosting it on personal web space. Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?
On 8 Sep 2011 at 8:45, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > For long threads, scrolling down to the bottom to read the new stuff is > a pain. But if you want to top post, or bottom post, to each his own. > This list seems to suffer from long sections of quoted text with sometimes just a single line of new stuff right at the bottom (eg. 'I agree'). Provided people cut out all but what is relevant to their reply I personally don't mind whether it is top, bottom or interspersed. But as one with a casual interest in most of the posts, the ability to quickly see the gist without having to scroll down several page worths is vital. I am told by the way that top posting is far preferable to disabled people using reading aids, as they hardly want all the old stuff spoken by their machine before they get to the new stuff. Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Subject lines - another gripe...
I use Pegasus Mail and view the posts threaded, which by and large works excellently. No need to quote lots in mails as it is very easy to locate the original mails. But Pegasus Mail truncates subject lines, as displayed in folder views, to 35 characters, something that will be changed in a later version of Pegasus but not for a while yet. Each email on this list is prefixed with [libreoffice-users] together with various [re:], [fwd:] and other things. Net result is that there are very few characters left out of the 35 to accurately thread on, and I get all sorts of totally different things threaded together. If the list admin changed this to something like [lo-users] or even [lou] it would make threading far more reliable. Moan over... Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Subject lines - another gripe...
On 8 Sep 2011 at 17:42, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Wait, how is pegasus doing threading? Threading should not need the > subject for anything, and just rely on the References and In-reply-to > headers. > > Check if there's somehow a way to enable that kind of threading in your > client (although one wonders why would such option be disabled...). > Yes, there are two ways of threading. Pegasus chooses to do it purely from the subject line, and is unlikely to change. Pegasus is an excellent email program (would recommend it to those looking at an alternative to Outlook, but it doesn't do scheduling/calendar) but is a mature product. David Harris the writer is unlikely to do changes just to keep libreoffice users happy... (although it is rumoured that the 35 character clipping will go when v5 is released, probably still a year away). Thanks for the suggestions Tom, I will persue the steering discuss list. (whoops, seem to have bottom posted...) Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?
On 8 Sep 2011 at 14:31, Ken Springer wrote: > With all due respect Tom, the problem is you and the tools you've chosen > to use for replying to newsgroups. Yahoo Mail just plain sucks and > doesn't properly do anything right for places like this. > I think that single paragraph explains why this thread has become so heated. YOU are reading this list on a NEWSGROUP. But the list is also available as a EMAIL LIST and an archive of that same EMAIL LIST on Nabble. I would hazard a guess that the vast majority are subscribed to the email list or view it on Nabble, and as such consider it as an email list and not a newsgroup. Newsgroup people have shown over the years to have different practices than emailers. Bottom posters probably predominate, also the practice of long quotes seems far more prevalent there. And noting the comments about threading, most newsgroup readers do it via the header information. Email clients do it in various ways and I suspect Pegasus is far from unique in doing if from the subject line - and many email programs have never heard of threading... I do receive a number of lists via newsgroups, using Gravity. But I by far prefer email so this is my chosen option for this list. We are never going to agree on these issues due the huge differences in opinion between the newsgroup, email and forum people. So let us close these threads immediately and accept our differences. Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Digital Signature cannot validate (linux)
On 12 Sep 2011 at 10:52, Ferry Toth wrote: > Since years we use digital signatures to sign our documents and protect > them from inadvertent modifications. > > The CA certificate is one generated internally. > > Now on linux (ubuntu natty) the certificates are stored by firefox and > since a recent upgrade to firefox 6.0.2 LO complains that the > certificate cannot be validated. This happen even right after adding the > signature. > > Apparently the root certificate cannot be found by LO. > > However, in firefox both personal and CA certificate validate fine. > > Switching to windows LO does validate the certificate fine (but there > the certificates are stored elsewhere). > > It look like something changed in FF that broke the digital signing in > LO. Or is it a configuration issue on my side? > This one is easy to answer. Due to an issue with fraudulent certificates from the Dutch company Diginotar, Firefox has removed the Diginotar root certificate from its certificate store. Other browsers have acted similarly, ie there was a Windows update to achieve the same on IE. Since you are based in the Netherlands I guess your documents are validated against Diginotar certificates. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar For many of us not in your country we have never encountered a Diginotar certificate and it was not even in my certificate store in Opera. Not sure what the answer is, but this seems to be a case of unexpected consequences of a fairy radical update to Firefox. Your internal certificates are clearly properly issued, and to block them because of a few fraudulent ones you are only going to encounter on dodgey sites seems a bit OTT. Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
