Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with Export as PDF
On 7/16/2014 4:46 AM, Tim Lloyd wrote: I have copied this back to this list for comment. I am afraid I cannot reproduce. Maybe someone with a windows 7 install could help? I have LO 4.1.2.3 (I know, I'm one iteration behind in my updates!); I am running Win7 Home Premium. I have no problem exporting a selection from an odf doc to pdf. When I highlighted a selection and then chose Export as PDF… , the options box opens with the All selection chosen. But I can change to Pages or Selection with no problem. When I choose Selection, it exported just that selection into a pdf document. BTW, one of the quirks of this list is that a simple reply does not copy the list! Either reply all or reply list does this trick :) I agree -- except that I don't think this is a quirk, but a poor decision on the part of the list owners. If this is intended as a discussion list, then setting the default to kill the discussion on the list by sending the reply to the sender of the email is counter to the declared intention. I encourage the owners to change the default. Doug -- 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] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood
My apologies to Kracked, as I didn't pay attention and sent this note directly when I intended to send it to the list. On 3/25/2014 9:33 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: As a person who learned to type on a typewriter and learned programming on a mainframe computer [since the PC did not exist at that time], I have not learned how to do styles. Never really needed it, as far as I was concerned. Yes, yes, I should learn it, but time to learn and play with styles is not an option for me currently. The key is, if people can do what they need, they way they currently do it, then why try to force them to learn how to do it another way - i.e. styles. Within the provenance of this discussion, you are right that it is not the job of the software writers/programmers to force anyone to learn a way other than the one they are using. However, it is also not the job of the software writers/programmers to build into any particular software every method of doing things. That philosophy leads to bloat, and bloat is bad, in my opinion. It also leads to stealing time from the task of adding new features and improving existing features. The writers/programmers have a finite amount of time. If the feature request mentioned earlier in this thread is accepted, then time will be spent on it. That means that time will not be spent on other things. And that, in my opinion, is waste. Doug -- 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] Relationships in Base
On 11/20/2013 4:16 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Sorry for the delay! We seem to be a little slow in the last couple of weeks. No problem. Thanks for the reply. The 2nd table probably needs it's own ID field (yes, it's the right term) even though it's not really going to be used at all. Is each row in the 2nd table unique to a Contact? or do some contacts have more than 1 row in the 2nd table? I suspect that the Event Table needs to be a Query rather than a table. Queries look a lot like tables. It might need to be a Form instead though and i would build Forms by basing them on Queries. The Query would pull the information from both tables together then the Form might be what you need to be able to type a name into in order to get the details of that row of the Query. I'm kinda clutching at straws here but i think you need to check on 3 things 1. Give the 2nd table it's own ID 2. Check the type of relationship linking the Connections table to the 2nd one (ie 1 to 1, 1 to many, or many to 1, (many to many seems unlikely!)) 3. Try using an external back-end to store your data tables rather than the internal one built-in How you do that 3rd thing is still a bit beyond me but there are tools such as Postgresql, MySql/MariaDB, HsqlDB and many others. I don't know which is best but it probably depends on how large the tables are likely to be. For any kind of contacts database it's likely to be reasonably small so you could aim for the small, light and fast ones. And thanks for the info. I'm off to read up on queries. I'm sure I'll have some more questions, and will ask them as they arise. Doug -- 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] Relationships in Base
Good morning. I'm new to this list, and thought it polite to introduce myself before I ask for help. So . . . My professional career is one which has travelled a long and winding road. I began my university career studying aerospace engineering before deciding to become a parish pastor in United Methodist and Presbyterian congregations, where I served for about 27 years. Then I apprenticed and worked as a baker of bread for 6 years. Now, I am the co-Founding Pastor of a new church development (which will combine ministry and baking -- it's a story I'm happy to share, but one which is likely not germane to this email). When I was in parish ministry, my wife and I used Lotus SmartSuite, including its relational database, Approach. I believe I was fairly proficient at it for the needs I had. But it's been 6 years of so, which means my skills are rather rusty -- and we've switched to LibreOffice, which means that some things are done in a slightly different manner. And I've found I need some help. I am creating a relational database of our friends and followers. The first table I created was one called Connections, because it is a master table keeping track of all the folk with whom we make some sort of connection. As you might guess, the fields (is that the terminology used nowadays?) include a CID (connection ID), which is an auto-incremented ID number field and the primary key, first and last name, address and other contact fields, etc. I am now creating a second table to record the information about contacts we had with our connections during a particular fundraising event. My thought on the design of this table is that it would have the connection's CID, name, and the amount they donated. I figured that I'd again make the CID the primary key for this table, and create a relationship between those fields in the two tables. I would also like it set up so that I can enter the name in the event table and the rest of the information will be pulled in from the other table. I created the new table and linked the two CID fields. But when I enter the name in the event table, it doesn't automatically pull up the information from the other table. Any help would be greatly appreciate. Doug -- 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
