Re: [libreoffice-users] OT : good cd import software on linux
On 17/04/13 00:14, Steve Edmonds wrote: snipped If only we could all get music at 24 bit. How fidelity has given way to convenience. Good pressing - itunes. SLR camera - phone camera. Steve I agree wholeheartedly with Steve! The fact that CD's had to fit into the 700 MB Philips (the inventor) decided that digitalisation to 16 bit was sufficient as it was then a necessity to record the same volume as a long-play record (analogue) on a standard size disk. Even at that time the analogue reproduction techniques were more that sufficient to reproduce 24-bit but a good D/A converter for 24-bit in real-time was not feasible then. Therefore the marketing advertised most with the fact that you didn't hear the noise of a record that was old but were very silent about the quality loss. And as we all know marketing is much more important than technique! But I'm sorry for this way OT ranting. Joep -- 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] Win64: Scribus too... :-)
On 04-11-12 13:21, James Knott wrote: Mas wrote: I believe someone else mention this on the thread, its not new and unix/linux has been using it. Yes, there was a 64 bit version of Linux running on the DEC Alpha, followed shortly by the IBM PowerPC around 1994 - 1995. The 64-bit R4000 by MIPS technologies came out in 1992 and was first used in Silicon Graphics machines, running IRIX the SGI flavour of UNIX. This processor was 64-bit internally but 32-bit externally so only a 32-bit wide memory-path could be used.Later versions, notably the R8000 (1994) and the R1000 (1996) were 64-bit internally and externally. In 1994 SGI licensed the memory architecture, developed by Cray (which it bought a few years later) and licensed it, I thought in 2002 to AMD for its 64-bit processors. This NUMA architecture is much faster than the standard architecture used in other processors and is much more suitable for multiprocessor systems. Joep -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to crack a PW in LO?
On 20-10-12 01:47, anne-ology wrote: Yet an employer has the right to hire those employees he feels will fit into his company, benefiting him, his company and its bottom line. IF someone acts like a fool, as placing lewd photos of himself or using abusive and/or blasphemous language on line, then that employer should have the right to exclude that interviewer from consideration into his company. In fact, I can name quite a few people who have shut their companies down because federal regulations got too hectic - and many will be shutting their doors by next year, if the socialists continue to prosper in DC instead of restoring the US to that which our forefathers' foresaw. Europe is falling into the hands of these non-thinking ones who must think that money grows on trees rather than stemming from the hard work of the industrious ones; remember Chicken Little. anne-ology, This is not the first time you show your ignorance about the real world in Europe. Your laws let the USA look like a story by George Orwell. Apparently you also have no idea what the word socialist means and repeats only the indoctrination by your ultra-right wing media garbage. Please abstain from these useless slanderous remarks, J.L. Blom, The Netherlands -- 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 problems
On 01-10-12 11:57, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Dear Wolfgang Jay, A.so in your opinion people - both young and old - not yet knowing anything about computers, perhaps buying their first unit, are - not only IT-illiterate but also morons B.so you agree that among these IT-illiterate morons (= idiots) are bosses, persons in chief position (managers). When responsible for their dept's/company's strategic and operative effectiveness and economical result, these IT-illiterate morons decide about the need of an IT-department -- and employ an IT-manager to that department to take care of the company's IT-system, programs and personnel included. Are you not barking at a wrong tree - is it not this your IT-superior you should bark at? I take it obvious that neither of you can be in a manager position. C. Obviously you qualify yourselves as highly IT-literate -- perhaps even non-morons. Some weeks ago LibO invited people to take part to make LibO better. Would it not be an good idea that you - instead of blaming others - took the opportunity to practice your high quality IT-knowledge to the benefit of LibO. Best regards Pertti Rönnberg Pertti, As a Dutch (now retired) manager of a small business in IT I must disagree. Yes, Jay and Wolfgang are not very polite but they surely are right. I won't call them morons or idiots but choosers for safety on false grounds. Don't forget a salesman in a computer-shop will never tell a person that he could use Open Source software when he can sell him buggy Microsoft software with a profit of 30%. He will tell him that on his computer only certified Microsoft software will work correctly. You and I know its complete nonsense but an IT-illiterate layman - especially those that are afraid of everything technical - believes him. The same goes for managers with even less interest in technical matters and a willing ear for equals who sells him there stuff. It is not for nothing that governments (Peru, Germany and many others) demand the use of Open Source software instead of the use of closed source, dangerous and expensive software. Twenty years ago the hard- and software world was completely different and there Microsoft has made his largest impact using unlawful methods to make everybody believe their software was the only one to be used.A small governmental action contrary was when the European Committee forced Microsoft to pay a fine of $ 500,000 and to remove Internet explorer as integral part of their OS. But the main objection against the activities of Microsoft remain valid: the disinformation of managers and decisional people on the fact that they have to pay yearly for service not delivered. Since 1981 when Microsoft began to SELL software the buyer owned the software. Now Microsoft want to steal the ownership from the buyer by stating that the software is not bought but leased. That is wrong. Software running on a remote system not owned by the buyer - and running only there - can be leased just as installed software on a leased system. In all other cases the software is owned. Moreover, when I buy a car and after a day my car is broken in due to an unreliable lock, I get all refunded. Tell that to Microsoft!! Joep -- 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 problems
On 01-10-12 16:22, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Hello Joep, Thank you for your reply. I am happy to say I had the privilege to in business visit your very beautiful and interesting country - and especially Amsterdam - some times very, very many years ago. I am also retired since ten years back and used to work on manager level in some companies mostly in metal industry, planning and delivering plants. But not IT, I am an IT consumer since early 1980 - so you surely know that IT field from 'inside' better than me but I know quite well the decision making in my former environments. I have for years been very well aware of all what you say about MS's behavior and marketing policy - I agree with you completely and do dislike the situation as much as you. In many (most) companies/organizations (other than IT) the managers have quite little own knowledge in IT why they do not have many alternatives: they have to buy the IT from outside (more or less) experts or build up a IT-dept of their own. In both cases they have to rely on other people's knowhow and recommendations. And if all (95% ?) your important contacts, customers, officials, private, etc. use Windows, and all of your own staff know (only) Windows/MSO then the economic calculation says that you must talk the same language -- you can not afford anything else. I strongly disagree with you about Jay's and Wolfgang' s behavior - take a look at my parallel post MS problems some minutes earlier. If these managers concentrate on their own jobs - and buy the IT - it does not qualify them to be called IT-illiteral morons as Jay and Wolfgang did. In 30 years I have had no problems (!) with the Windows' programs (the cost are a relative matter), but from January this year when installing LibO I have had too much problems with Base (and Calc) - and according to this list there are a lot of others having real problems with LibO too. In my opinion there is only one way for LibO: to become in every way better than MSO especially for ordinary private users, user friendly, stable, reliable, free of bugs and problems. These will then make it easier for companies to convert to OpenSource/LibO. Best regards Pertti Rönnberg (Finland) The End! Well Pertti, Endangering myself to go after your End(!) I have never used Microsoft products except when clients needed to have links with WIndows programs but I lived in luxury as we represented Silicon Graphics an the products we sold and supported either specific or Internet related. However I must confess that for administrative tasks we used Windows related applications (WordPerfect and some Borland related spreadsheets programs) as the unix workstations were used either for graphics or network-related tasks. But I remember our technical people all grumbling about the lousy Windows as OS and they preferred to let some whizzkid we had as apprentice to solve Windows problems. Before I had my company (~ '75 - '90) I was head of a neuroscience department where we did real-time signal analysis on EEG-signals and all systems (Intel 286) used DOS as OS for the programs (mostly FORTRAN PASCAL).Further signal analysis was done on a PDP-11's so we're talking about another era where PC's barely existed. There is a nice anecdote about the CEO of DEC who was presented with a PC (the DEC-1) in '79 and he refused to take it into production as he was convinced that nobody would buy such a toy! Little did he know. Joep -- 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] Reply settings on this list have changed
On 14-08-12 19:03, anne-ology wrote: wow, you should be a great attorney; you're very expressive. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Steven Shelton ste...@sheltonlegal.netwrote: On 8/13/2012 7:36 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Not trying to be rude. All of you should be smart enough to run an email tool. After all you're all Linux users who administer at least one Linux installation. And, crap, this stupid change . . . this is the second time I've had to send this because I forgot I have to send it to the list now. What makes you think we are all linux users who administer at least one linux installation? I am a criminal defense attorney running Windows XP. - -- Steven Shelton Sorry, All of you that resent the change are in error. The RFC requires this change moreover it is much more logical. That Windows users don't understand simple logic is their problem (but understandable). Joep -- 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] Zotero Integration with LO [Proposition / Feature Request?]
On 14-08-12 18:57, anne-ology wrote: Thanks for this bit of information; sounds intriguing ... where is the software located?, does it contain all the quotes from Barton's and/or Oxford's Dictionary of Quotations?, how much does it cost?, does it automatically use the proper footnote and bibliographic notations?, numbering accordingly?, and how complicated is it to operate?, if you've had it, yet haven't used it makes me wonder re. this program. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Steven Shelton ste...@sheltonlegal.netwrote: On 8/14/2012 9:20 AM, anne-ology wrote: Could you please explain what is Zotero? It's a research tool that allows you to select quotes and generate citations from them. You can generate bibliographies and reports and do all kinds of stuff. It looks like something that would really help me, and I installed it ages ago, but have never had the time to learn how to use it. Given my profession, I would think it could be tremendously helpful, so I have it on my list of things to master. It probably would be a good tool to try to integrate into LibO. - -- Steven Shelton Anne, As you have shown you're a simple windows-user and apparently not very well in taking initiative. There are 2 possibilities: 1 use Google 2 go to the Zotero-site to educate yourself (http://zoteror.org) Joep -- 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] convert to pdf - failing
On 30-07-12 11:04, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm trying to use this command to create a pdf file from an .odt file but its failing for some reason. - libreoffice --headless --invisible --convert-to pdf test.odt - Can anyone help me in getting it to work please, as its needed for a bash script. Thanks Sharon. Sharon, Print your .odt file to a file (it will need the .ps extrension). Then use ps2pdf to make it into a .pdf file. All if you're on Linux. I don't know anything of Windows. Joep -- 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] VARIATION ON pdf creation issue on a single file?
On 29-07-12 22:21, Lynne Stevens wrote: omega The Omega sector America's Last Line of Defense *Can you copy and paste the contents of the PDF file to a text program like office word and save it as such ( doc ) re open the doc and then copy and paste into the file (spreadsheet file) Lynne, If you use Linux then pdf2ps translates pdf to postscript and that can be manipulated. If you use Windows, I can't help. Joep -- 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] pdf creation issue on a single file?
On 28-07-12 19:34, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: Windows users can get free PDF printer drivers, like doPDF. Linux users can use other options like CUPS-PDF. What are you using to print your files to PDF with? large cut For everybody who needs to use for some reason Windows: use VMware (or VirtualBox) under Linux(ubuntu or whatever version) and run (preferably Windows XP) for your Windows stuff. No need for dual booting. Simply have one desktop with Linux and a second with virtual XP. Switching is as easy as using CTRL-left arrow or CTRL Fn (where n is the desktop number. Most distributions come with 4 desktops. Hope this make life a little easier for you, Joep -- 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] pdf creation issue on a single file?
On 28-07-12 19:49, David B Teague sr wrote: On 7/28/2012 11:40 AM, Lynne Stevens wrote: I really feel sorry for windows users ROFLMAO Don't start that. I used Linux from the earliest days. (0.94 Kernel and SLS Linux). I now use W7 and there is nearly nothing I could do in Linux that I cannot do in Windows easier. I do use Firefox and Thunderbird, and OpenOffice, not MS' tools. I don't do servers. The big problem with Linux is drivers. Drivers are less of a problem with Windows unless you are trying to make new hardware work with old Windows versions, or conversely. What I can't do in Windows is certain kinds of maintenance without resorting to outside tools. Note that I was a RABID Linux user. Nevertheless I am certain you have your excellent reasons for liking Linux. There is a huge amount in Linux to like. It's more work than I want to do. So please, don't poke fun at Windows users. Help them. David Teague Emeritus Professor Mathematics and Computer Science Western Carolina University David, As I said the few tasks you need to have done for which developers didn't make Open Source (Linux) versions can easily accomplished in in a virtual Windows XP using VMware or VirtualBox. Nuch more stable and no virus nightmares. Dr. J.L. Blom retired Neuroscientist TNO the Netherlands -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO 3.6.0.2 - Calc: date notation
On 25-07-12 20:49, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2012/7/25 anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com: I resent the US way of ISO 8601. We Dutch and other Europeans use the more logical sequence of day-month-year instead of the illogical year-month-day.(most important first, least important last: very often the year can be missed). Joep Exactly what is strange with ISO 8601? Jonny, As I said before it's illogic. In my view in a date the least significant (fastest changing) part is the day so it's logical to put it in front. In the over 2000 years date notation systems are used all logical and illogical combinations have been used. The reason I find that the current European (Dutch, Swedish) notation is more logical than the ISO 8601 is that in many cases the year notation is omitted which is in the European notation self-explaining but in the ISO 8601 less intuitive. However, it's my personal feeling and don't forget: international rules aren't always right! :) Joep -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO 3.6.0.2 - Calc: date notation
On 25-07-12 10:40, anne-ology wrote: The ISO is not U.S.; the U.S. uses the confusing month-day-year rather than the European day-month-year; as an historian-genealogist, I've been pushing the European method. This ISO is as strange as changing the time twice/year or using AM or PM following 12: ... see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/iso8601.html for an explanation of this idea; [it's 'clear as mud' ;-) ] Thanks for your support! Joep On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Joep L. Blom jlb...@neuroweave.nl wrote: On 23-07-12 21:02, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 23.07.2012 14:44, Guy Voets wrote: Hi folks, A LibO spreadsheet, made in LibO, Dutch version (no Excel or OOo past). - In LibO 3.5.5, I used to give in dates as 20-7 and they were shown as 20 Jul 12. - In LibO 3.6.0.2, if I enter 20-7, 20-7 is shown in the cell. If I enter 20-7-12, the date is inverted into 12 Jul 2020. So instead of entering 20-7, I now need to enter 12-7-20 to get the desired notation 20 Jul 12. Is this a new feature, or a bug? This is just another anti-feature that has been added to Calc against all reason simply because too many inexperienced users who never really used any spreadsheets insisted loudly enough. I will upgrade my LibreOffice 3.5 to ApacheOpenOffice 3.4.1. I resent the US way of ISO 8601. We Dutch and other Europeans use the more logical sequence of day-month-year instead of the illogical year-month-day.(most important first, least important last: very often the year can be missed). Joep -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO 3.6.0.2 - Calc: date notation
On 23-07-12 21:02, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 23.07.2012 14:44, Guy Voets wrote: Hi folks, A LibO spreadsheet, made in LibO, Dutch version (no Excel or OOo past). - In LibO 3.5.5, I used to give in dates as 20-7 and they were shown as 20 Jul 12. - In LibO 3.6.0.2, if I enter 20-7, 20-7 is shown in the cell. If I enter 20-7-12, the date is inverted into 12 Jul 2020. So instead of entering 20-7, I now need to enter 12-7-20 to get the desired notation 20 Jul 12. Is this a new feature, or a bug? This is just another anti-feature that has been added to Calc against all reason simply because too many inexperienced users who never really used any spreadsheets insisted loudly enough. I will upgrade my LibreOffice 3.5 to ApacheOpenOffice 3.4.1. I resent the US way of ISO 8601. We Dutch and other Europeans use the more logical sequence of day-month-year instead of the illogical year-month-day.(most important first, least important last: very often the year can be missed). Joep -- 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] Duplication/replacement of text attributes
On 14-07-12 10:56, Andrew Brager wrote: Greetings to you all. I'm new to Libre Office. I'm wondering if there's a way to duplicate/replace attributes from one paragraph to another in so that they are formatted identically. A frequent problem for me (typically when I copy paste from elsewhere) is that two sentences/paragraphs just won't line up properly (perhaps even in a numbered list), I assume due to various formatting reasons including different fonts, sizes, tabs, margins, alignment, and/or anything else that might affect placement and display on the page. They seem to be the same in the original source as far as I can tell, but once copied and pasted to a document in Libre some of the paragraphs seem to get out of wack. Trying to apply the exact same attributes to the paragraph or sentence that's out of wack just doesn't seem to work - probably because I don't know what attributes have been applied and/or simply don't know how to get the same effect in a consistent way. Perhaps there is an attribute tree mode so that I can see what set of attributes has been applied? Either just plain text or perhaps through a graphical representation maybe? I guess I don't need to see it if I can simply apply from one to another - sort of like the eye dropper from a paint program copies the color from one spot so you can apply the same color to another spot only here instead of color, it would be text placement display attributes. Thank you in advance. Please don't hijack a subject.The possibility of a meaningful answer is much diminished. Make a new E-mail with the correct subject header. Joep -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: modifying existing labels/cards
On 27-05-12 04:04, NoOp wrote: On 05/25/2012 03:48 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: The Business card label templates use frames (instead of a table). If you were lucky you rememeberd to select 'syncronize' when you created it so that you can easily sync the rest of the cards/label. Anyway, to modify, I highly recommend that you keep a backup of your original, and then: 'View|Text boundries'. You'll then be able to see the frame outlines. Right-click on the frame boarder and select 'Frame|Options' untick the Protect items 'Position' and 'Size'. You can then modify the frame as you wish by using the 'Type' tab, or exiting the Frame function and then move/resize the frame with the mouse. When finished, don't forget to go back and retick the Protect items 'Position' and 'Size' so that you lock the frames back down. However, IMO it's easier just to create a new one, adjust the sizes that you need, and then copy the data from the first frame over to the new one. Gerry, Of course I synchronize as otherwise a sheet of 10 cards is difficult to produce. My problem is actually that the - often difficult - process of aligning the sheet with the pre-formatted paper in the printer is not easy with LO. I only want to use the original view where the dimensions are given. I cannot imagine that's so difficult.I have View|Text boundaries always on as I want to see the boundaries but if you want to adapt that and examine the result it takes a lot of paper and ink: I would like to see only the outline to edit as in many label programs is customary. But it is only a minor nuisance and I have it solved. Thanks anyway for the input, Joep -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: modifying existing labels/cards
On 27-05-12 19:50, NoOp wrote: On 05/27/2012 12:44 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: On 27-05-12 04:04, NoOp wrote: On 05/25/2012 03:48 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: Joep, I fully agree. I just don't have a better answer. Might be a good time to put in a bug report and see if someone has exerience with the UI and that wizard. I seem to recall discussion regarding this over on the old OOo list(s). I'll look them up later to see if I can find any added info. Gary Webmaster, I constructed this template myself as the companies templates are only for MSW but they give the exact dimensions so it is not difficult to do. Gerry, When I find the time I will make a bug report. It may be not so trivial to apply: I don't know the program flow that led to the template formation and it may well be - as we called it in the old school - spaghetti organised ():). Joep -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: modifying existing labels/cards
On 27-05-12 19:50, NoOp wrote: On 05/27/2012 12:44 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: On 27-05-12 04:04, NoOp wrote: On 05/25/2012 03:48 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: Joep, I fully agree. I just don't have a better answer. Might be a good time to put in a bug report and see if someone has exerience with the UI and that wizard. I seem to recall discussion regarding this over on the old OOo list(s). I'll look them up later to see if I can find any added info. Gary Webmaster, I constructed this template myself as the companies templates are only for MSW but they give the exact dimensions so it is not difficult to do. Gerry, When I find the time I will make a bug report. It may be not so trivial to apply: I don't know the program flow that led to the template formation and it may well be - as we called it in the old school - spaghetti organised Joep -- 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] modifying existing labels/cards
On 26-05-12 05:05, Don Myers wrote: Hi Joep, The standard label formats included with LibreOffice and OpenOffice are the same type as Microsoft uses with fixed blocks. These tend to not to be accurate if the card/label is relatively full as you get toward the bottom of the page, even in Microsoft. There are also table style templates available (or at least used to be available) as an extension for OpenOffice. I have found them very easy to adjust, and they print perfectly for both business cards and labels for me. They are available at: http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm or probably as an extension for OpenOffice. Don Don, Thanks for the information. I'll look into it. However, I think it's an omission - or an oversight - of the developers to not give the opportunity to adjust the dimensions of a once made buseness-card template. Joep -- 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] modifying existing labels/cards
I have a simple question: I have a sheet with business cards (made with the correct template, etc.) but as I have a different printer I want to adjust the dimensions as to fit them perfectly. How is that done? I can not find a modify button anywhere and page formatting is not the correct way (it completely changes all dimensions). I'm still working with 3.4 (but will only change to 3.5 when it is reasonably bug-free. Thanks in advance, Joep -- 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] modifying existing labels/cards
On 25-05-12 15:12, Jay Lozier wrote: Joep On 05/25/2012 06:48 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: AFAIK your business cards form should print correctly on any printer that has a large enough printing area. I have found the typical tweaks I need are to adjust the margins of the text slightly so it does not print on the edge. I would print a set on plain paper and visually inspect to see if the output looks correct. Then I would make any changes and repeat the test page. Finally, when I think I have it correct I would print 1 set out and see if there are any small problems. Planas, Thanks for your reply. However, the problem is you cannot make any changes. You cannot change the layout, only when you make a new business card sheet. How would you make the changes? Joep -- 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] Connecting libreoffice calc to existing sqlite database file
On 25-05-12 16:16, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I have been attempting to send this posting for a while, and have only recently noticed that the list does not accept attachments. This has (apparently) caused it to be silently rejected. I have appended what had been attached to the end of this posting. Sorry for the delay. On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 14:40 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: ... the database doesn't look like what I had expected it to: sqlite databases contain within themselves the names and data types of all the entries, but when libreOffice opens the database, there is no such data visible. Am I missing something. A dump of the database using $ sqlite3archive.sdb .dump looks fine. Is this what I should expect, or is something wrong, or am I missing something? On Tue, 2012-05-22 Jonathan, Your table looks suspiciously like the table I use getting the data from WeatherDisplay, using their wdmysql-exe program (in windows). I have this table in a mysql database and that is perfectly well to handle using Mysql Query Browser (a Linux program) but I assume there are several Windows programs doing the same I assume you use Windows).. Joep -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math
On 24-05-12 07:50, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Doug, Le 2012-05-24 00:50, Doug a écrit : Logo! I haven't heard that word in thirty years, at least! I'm surprised it's still around. Never really got into it, but it seemed like fun, at least from a distance. I started using BASIC, and then learned and used Pascal. Not being (professionally) a programmer, I never learned C. --doug OK, I'm dating myself here, but, I was taught at the very last year at my university where punch cards were still being used, and I used to chat on beasts that spewed paper instead of drawing on monitors, way back in 1976. I studied FORTRAN in 1980 so that I could be with the up-and-coming in-crowd on campus ... only to find out that they all switched that year to COBOL, DOH! Yup, Logo is still cool to play with. I used FMSLogo because it played nicely with my computer lab of Mandriva Linux boxes. I even taught Logo on ICON computers by Unisys Corp. that used QNX as its operating system. QNX is what powers the new Blackberries from RIM! Finally, when the ICONs were being replaced, I installed AtariGEM on them and used the Atari version of Logo. It was a lot of fun! I was always accused of having more fun than the kids! Cheers, Marc And Marc, QNX was developed by Gordon Brown the genius engineer of DEC who developed the real-time systems (QNX is a real-time OS) like DEC-Lab etc! Oh, the good old times when programmers new what real-time programming meant and rotating buffers were necessary to get speed and be really efficient with memory! Current programmers have no idea how to use a computer efficiently!! (The rantings of an old man!) Joep -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math
On 24-05-12 16:06, Tony Sumner wrote: On May 24, 2012, Jay Lozier wrote: This trip down memory lane makes one feeil old. Anyone remember teletypes with punched tape? Of course. My favourite paper tape story. At AEE, Winfrith, we did serious computing on the IBM704 at Risley in Lancashire. We would type the program onto paper tape and run it though a teletype to send it by phone to Risley. At their end they would punch it out and to check that it was ok they would send it back. At the Winfrith end we then had the original tape and a copy and we would hold these up to the light to check for errors. If there were none we'd phone Risley and say yes ok go ahead. This was a communication protocol, yes? Later we installed a punched card system so we could put the program on cards and fly them to Risley by plane. Tony I assume you never worked with the folded papertape used with the DEC PDP-8! coded in ASCII. Years before we used an Electrologica X-1 with papertape coded in EBSDIC!You could edit the tapes with a manual punch and nontransparent sellotape. We thought punched cards were old-fashioned!. Joep -- 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] increase testing to improve quality
On 27-02-12 10:37, e-letter wrote: Readers, For those people that consider high quality software to be of highest priority, more important than new features, please help to perform quality assurance manual software tests. There is a web page which describes manual testing: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Manual_Tests. Clearly, there are insufficient testers... Please also subscribe to the quality assurance mailing list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa. There are many bugs that seem to occur after so-called upgrade. People who make the effort to report bugs: please consider how important each bug is. If it is of major importance, the ability to remove the bug must become part of the quality assurance manual test, i.e. the software version is not passed as good quality until that bug is removed. Testing for the success in solving the bug needs to be approved by using 'litmus' (https://tcm.documentfoundation.org). So, the behaviour that caused the bug needs to be recorded and entered into litmus. This should prevent regression bugs and improve software quality in the long-term. I support this wholeheartedly. Before I retired I worked some time as consultant in the capacity as QA-officer and found it one of the most important tasks to prevent customer problems.Alongsides QA of applications, QA of manuals,an often neglected aspect, is even important as is updating manuals with the update of applications. If I had the time I would surely participate in it, however, in my innocence I have, after retirement, in a completely different field, got so much work that I have not sufficient time left to seriously participate in QA of applications I use (and which are essential for my work). Therefore, I can only support the plea for more QA on Open Source applications (and of course OS'es). Joep -- 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] Can't find folder for templates
On 17-02-12 04:06, John Jason Jordan wrote: Over many years with OOo I created 20-30 templates. I can always open a new document based on any of these templates. Today I needed to create a new template in LibreOffice 3.4.5 on Fedora 16, x86_64. This is the version from the Fedora repositories. I successfully created the template and saved it, but it does not appear when I try to create a new document based on it. I suspect it is in the wrong folder, but I can't figure out where the correct folder is, or why it wasn't saved automatically to the correct folder. I specifically saved it as a template with the extension .ott. If you're using linux try; 'locate .ott' without the quotes, For Windows I don't know (maybe find *.ott in an explorer windw?). Joep -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base - Phone book ?
On 16-02-12 04:34, sharon kimble wrote: On Wednesday 15 February 2012 07:19:50 Joep L. Blom wrote: On 14-02-12 19:36, Andreas Säger wrote: That is easy. Open the Base document which connects the TB address database with this office suite. Go to the query section. Let the designer or wizard create a new query from the table in question. Add only the columns you need. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Base-Phone-book-tp3744152p3744554.h tml Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. All, I would like to do the same however, as I wrote on 29-12-2012 in LO 3.4.5 on Ubuntu 10.04 it is impossible to link with the TB address-book although the choice is given (see the referenced mail). Or is this feature finally implemented in 3.5. Joep Wow, time travel! Soon be 2013 for you then! Here in the UK its just 16-02-2012. Sharon. Sorry, Slippery fingers! Joep -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base - Phone book ?
On 14-02-12 19:36, Andreas Säger wrote: That is easy. Open the Base document which connects the TB address database with this office suite. Go to the query section. Let the designer or wizard create a new query from the table in question. Add only the columns you need. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Base-Phone-book-tp3744152p3744554.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. All, I would like to do the same however, as I wrote on 29-12-2012 in LO 3.4.5 on Ubuntu 10.04 it is impossible to link with the TB address-book although the choice is given (see the referenced mail). Or is this feature finally implemented in 3.5. Joep -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Opening thunderbird adressbook
On 29-01-12 21:01, NoOp wrote: On 01/29/2012 06:41 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 29/01/2012 01:24, Joep L. Blom a écrit : Hi, OS Xubuntu 10.04; LO 3.4.5 directly installed from the LO website as Ubuntu 10.04 still has 3.3.2. Known issue with the 3.4.x series, especially on Ubuntu. Hopefully somebody has succeeded in accessing the Thunderbird address book or is this solved in 3.5? Well it is supposed to be fixed in the future 3.5, at least in RC2 the addressbook wizard works again, on all platforms as far as I can tell, BUT, the mozab (mozilla address book support) doesn't seem to be able to be built on Ubuntu at the moment, which means that unless the Ubuntu people sort it out, the distrib versions still won't work with the TB addressbook. The wizard still doesn't work on LibreOffice 3.5.0rc2 Build ID: e371a95-bf68a13-5a1aa2b-d3c1ae9-b938258 .deb from LO. It's nothing to do with the distrib - but this is running on Ubuntu 10.10. However, opening Base selecting connect to existing database does show (for me) 'SeaMonkey Address Book' and 'Thunderbird/IceDove Address Book' - those do work - partially[1]. However, Edit|Database|Properties is greyed out on SeaMonkey, I can only select 'Connection type'. On Thunderbird I can select the profile. [1] I ran a test by adding test addressbooks on Thundrbird and SeaMonkey (both are Mozilla versions, not distro related) in additionto the regular exising address books: In SeaMonkey: TestingSeaMonkey w/1 address In Thunderbird: ThunderbirdTest w/1 address I then opened 3.5RC2 opened Base|Connect to existing database|Thunderbird/IceDove Address Book|Finish|Yes Register|Open for editing| Base opens the SeaMonkey address book (SeaMonkey version 2.7b5) instead of the Thunderbird (version 9.0.1) address book. I can tell this because it included the 'TestingSeaMonkey' address book in the tables. If I repeat the above opening the SeaMonkey address book, Base opens the correct address book (the SeaMonkey one which includes 'TestingSeaMonkey'. So something is still screwed up. Profiles/address books for both are exactly where they should be: Thunderbird: ~/.thunderbird/profile/ SeaMonkey: ~/.mozilla/seamonkey/profile/ Alex and Gerry, Thanks for clarifying the issue. I will wait for the official 3.5 release and than try again. At the moment I'm too busy to delve further in this problem but I need it urgently in March as I have to do a mailing. If it's not solved, I will import the Address Book in a spreadsheet after exporting it as a .csv file. Thanks again for the clarification and the testing (Gerry). Joep -- 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] Opening thunderbird adressbook
Hi, I tried to connect to my thunderbird address book. When I try to use : File - Wizards - Address Data source and I tag the button Thunderbird I get: The connection to the external database could not be established. NO SDBC driver found for the given URL. And when I click on the button more I get under information: A connection for the following URL was requested sdbc:address:evolution:local. This is complete lunacy as I didn't ask for evolution and I don't know where it would get the URL from. OK, I don't give up. I do: File - New - database and click on the button 'connect to an existing database. When I expand that button I can choose: Thunderbird Address Book. Well, that looks promising. Alas, when I click on the button it brings me to a directory where I store documents and want to open an ODF Database. Well, that's completely wrong as Thunderbird adressbooks has as extension .mab. Well now I'm baffled. My settings: OS Xubuntu 10.04; LO 3.4.5 directly installed from the LO website as Ubuntu 10.04 still has 3.3.2. Hopefully somebody has succeeded in accessing the Thunderbird address book or is this solved in 3.5? Thanks in advance, Joep -- 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] problem installing in xubuntu
On 22-01-12 09:48, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 22/01/12 02:04, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: [cut] ...and next time you might want to use dpkg -iR /DEBS from the immediately superior directory to the DEBS one. From direct experience I know it installs LO correctly with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and my personal preference, Lubuntu. ;-) Peter HB I never used the -iR It is not listed that way in the Linux install documentation, or it did not the last time I copied the instructions from LO's site. info dpkg was my source. I always like to know how tools work before following READMEs. ;-) Peter HB Well, everybody thanks for all the advice. Tom, I only ventilated my mindlessness to question the list before thinking. Gerry, as dpkg -iR is a correct option and if you would make it safer, you can uses --recursive but in my opinion dpkg -ir does nothing as it is an impossible combination (but I haven't tried!). Peter, yes, man and/or info is always your friend (and too often forgotten).Many questions wouldn't be asked on this list if this was a golden rule in everybody's mind. Thanks, Joep -- 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] problem installing in xubuntu
I got the version LO 3.4.5 from the official Lo site (LibO_3.4.5_Linux_x86-64_helppack-deb_nl.tar.gz). I installed it using sud dpkg -i *.DEB (after unpacking and going to the correct directory. It installed correct in /opt/libreoffice. However no links were placed in Applications/Office. The only method to run soffice or writer is to go into the /opt/libreoffice/program directory and start from there. How do I get the Applications/Office tab populated? and why doesn't it work automatically. OS: Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) with xfce windowmanager; CPU: AMD-PhenomII (4-core 64-bit) 4GB mem. I didn't install from the official Ubuntu repository as that is retarded ((3.3.2). I assume that Ubuntu 11.10 has a more recent version but A: I don't like Unity and B: I always stick to LTS for a production machine. Hope anybody can clarify. Joep -- 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] problem installing in xubuntu
On 21-01-12 16:26, drew wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 15:45 +0100, Joep L. Blom wrote: Howdy Joep, In the directory where you installed the *.DEB packages from you will also find the directory 'desktop-integration', switch into this directory and re-issue the same dpkg -i command - the menu shortcuts will be all setup for you. HTH and best wishes, //Drew snip Drew,Peter Tom, Thanks for indicating my clumsiness. I of course had to think of it myself but I was lazy. My only - lame - excuse is that I followed slavishly the instructions in the README file and switched off my brain (but it would be a good idea perhaps to put Peters suggestion (dpkg -iR) in that README file. Thanks again it now works. Joep -- 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] Question about Writer - pages and page count.
On 18-01-12 00:51, Jay Lozier wrote: Sylvia, On 01/17/2012 06:20 PM, Sylvia Schmidt wrote: True two-sided printing requires a more expensive printer because the paper feed is more complex. In the US the only two-sided printers I have seen are larger office copier/printer combinations; most of the desktop printers print one-sided. Many people do not have a printer capable of true two-sided printing because most home and office printers are designed for one-sided printing. They print one sheet straight through and can not reverse feed to print automatically on the reverse side. The paper feed is much simpler, hence less expensive and should be more reliable. Jay, OT: I use The Samsung ML2855ND laser printer - which costs here (The Netherlands) ~ 150 euro - to print sheet music double sided, which I think is not expensive. Joep -- 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
[OT]Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: automatic creation of template files
On 10/10/2011 07:16 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 10.10.2011 18:06, e-letter wrote: Readers, Have recently noticed that each time the computer is started, files 'newdocument.ott' and 'newspreadsheet.ott' are created in the home directory. So far, this is only noticed on a computer using opensuse114 with the LO331 installed via the opensuse repository, so presumably this is a feature specific to this distribution. Please, anyone know how to disable this behaviour, i.e. that no files are created? Thanks. Download the rpm package LO 3.3.4 or 3.4.3 from http://libreoffice.org and install the real thing. SUSE, Debian and the other distributors have a bad tradition messing up LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org for no good reason. Andreas, Off topic but I get consequently 2 copies of your messages. Is there a problem with your mail client? Joep -- 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] [LibraOffice-Users] - DONT use Reply to for a new thread
On 04/07/11 01:23, John B wrote: Ok - I use Thunderbird and found out how to switch threads ON, since I have never used them before. Thunderbird now displays in a tree like fashion I thought - that looks good - I will leave that on Then a few new emails came in - and I had to scan to find out where they were posted, because they attach to the bottom of an email tread (maybe even from weeks ago). and not at the very top. Ahh - That is no good for me I need to see them in date order so OFF its gone again. Now, whilst I can see the advantage viewing by thread posting if that's the right term, I doubt that I will ever use it myself. regards John B --- John, In Thunderbird, sort your threaded messages by date. Then you have the thread with the most recent additions fist (I sort with most recent up) and the you have exactly what you want. If your thread is collapsed you see the addition to the thread as the starting mail of the thread is underlined. I use that for over 3 years and never wanted it otherwise. The best way is first to collapse all threads and then sort them on date, most recent first. Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org 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] master document: removing links in Headings
I have a small problem in a master document. I have written (in various stages of completion) 8 chapters of a book and use a master document to keep it orderly. Now for some reason or other chapter 1 and chapter 3 are miraculously double displayed in the master document regular view in navigator under Headings. In master view I can see the normal 8 documents (i.e. the separate files with the texts of the chapters). How can I get rid if the superfluous displays as they are displayed in the master document. To make it clear: I see chapter 8 (correct) and after the end of this chapter I see chapter 1 again (incorrect) and chapter 3 (incorrect). I cannot delete these texts from the master document as they are read-only. I hope there is a solution. OS: Ubuntu Lucid LO: 3.2.2.2. Joep P.S I sent this mail last week but with an incorrect header. Maybe somebody can help me out. Of course I can remove the hyperlinks to the documents but I don't think that's the solution. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org 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] removing hyperlinks
On 13/06/11 11:18, Stephan Zietsman wrote: Joep L. Blom wrote: I have a small problem in a master document. I have written (in various stages of completion) 8 chapters of a book and use a master document to keep it orderly. ...SNIP... I cannot delete these texts from the master document as they are read-only. Just a quick question: what file formats are you using? Odt, doc, docx etc? Regards Stephan Stephan, Thanks for the reply. The chapters are all .odt files. I use LO 3.3.2 in Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org 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] removing hyperlinks
On 12/06/11 04:17, planas wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 23:19 +0200, Joep L. Blom wrote: I have a small problem in a master document. Sorry for you problem reaching us, on Thursday or Friday all the email addresses were changed to following from destinat...@global.libreoffice.org. (the link is dead). I believe the host was changed. On to the question of removing hyperlinks, you can remove them either deleting them or right clicking on the hyperlink and selecting delete link. The second method leaves the text and might need to reformat it. Jay, Thanks for your reply. I think I haven't been clear. Using the Navigator in a master-document, there are 2 modes. A. The master mode where I can remove and insert links (clicking right on a link gives the choice to delete). B. The text mode - the normal mode of the navigator in standard files - where I under Headings find the names of the chapters as displayed in the master-document. The error is, however, that it also displays 2 extra instances of 2 chapters (1 and 3) which I want to remove ( as well from the master-document as from the navigator) as they are erroneously entered there. When I click right on the erroneous heading I can only choose: 1 outline level, 2 drag mode, 3 display (all three with submenus) but not a choice like delete or remove and I don't want them displayed in the master-document. Is it a solution to remove - in master mode - the hyperlink of the 2 chapters and later reload them? Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org 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] removing hyperlinks
I have a small problem in a master document. I have written (in various stages of completion) 8 chapters of a book and use a master document to keep it orderly. Now for some reason or other chapter 1 and chapter 3 are miraculously double displayed in the master document regular view in navigator under Headings. In master view I can see the normal 8 documents (i.e. the separate files with the texts of the chapters). How can I get rid if the superfluous displays as they are displayed in the master document. To make it clear: I see chapter 8 (correct) and after the end of this chapter I see chapter 1 again (incorrect) and chapter 3 (incorrect). I cannot delete these texts from the master document as they are read-only. I hope there is a solution. OS: Ubuntu Lucid LO: 3.2.2.2. Joep P.S I sent this to us...@libreoffice.org but it never reached the list -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org 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] OTRe: Sun Weblog Publisher broken
On 30/05/11 15:58, Roland Hughes wrote: Joep, Professional IT workers never remove any portion of the post because when you go through a SOX audit, and then through court, you get in a whole lot of trouble for doing it. Now, people who once got paid for writing a program or use Microsoft products may well have different opinions since their not the ones working on multi-million dollar projects for Fortunate 500 companies. There is a long drawn out history of people deleting what they didn't read then denying things were said. Bottom posting wastes vast quantities of developers time scrolling to the end. Full quoting is a policy mandated by most major corporations and IT organizations because it allows management (and the legal team) to jump into the conversation at any point. I wouldn't even be on this list had the Web site been designed by software professionals instead of whoever was used. On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 12:05 +0200, Joep L. Blom wrote: On 30/05/11 08:45, Roland Hughes wrote: Neither bottom nor interleaved posting methods are used by professional IT workers. Microsoft developers yes, but not professionals. Sigh! Roland your remark is utter nonsens. Many lists courteously request to bottom post but also request clipping. Professional IT workers remove unnecessary wording from replies and adhere to courteously requested rules. Joep Roland, Permit me to disagree. If you need E-mails for court representation it is best to furnish the original E-mails not the parts of text in answers to E-mails. You answer the relevant portions of an E-mail as the originator has the original text. I don't think a court will accept the umptieth repeat of an original E-mail. But I live in the Netherlands and I have no idea how convoluted American lawyers and justices actually reason. Well, that goes for Dutch members of that kind also. It is a breed that I, as a simple scientist, not understand so therefore your reasoning might be right. Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read
On 05/05/11 11:57, TomW wrote: On 2011-05-05 03:08, Dotan Cohen wrote: snip I was able to open and display the file only on office.live.com. No Linux-based software (LO, OOo, Abiword, Kword) could handle it. Here is the OOo bug, as the LO bugtracker is not working at the moment: http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117980 Dotan: Using LibreOffice 3.3.1 OOO330m19 (Build:8) tag libreoffice-3.3.1.2 on Vista Home premium. If I try to open file from Libo, I get the blank docx as described. If I open the file by double clicking from windows explorer, the file will open as a read-only document with a name: Wd004.doc in my temp folder. This scenario seems familiar from the OOo lists. TomW I'm impressed by all the comment on a not very important file. I don't know if the originators (my acquaintances) did what some thought namely putting all information within a text-box but I doubt it as they are not very computer literate. Dotan, its interesting that you could read it with office.live.com. I tried the site but I have to do something very scary: to get a windows id and give my credentials to MS$! That is too much for me. If a commercial robber gives you something for free than you're sure you'll get screwed. I admire your courage but as a private person I will stay on the safe side. The only MS$ products I use(d) are those that were sold together with afew laptops as it was practically impossible to buy one without the MS$ OS. To be honest I use it in a virtual environment as I have 2 professional programs that only will run in that environment. Tom and Gordon, from your comment I get the impression that it is a bug in LO as LO will not display images and text placed in a text box I will look into it as I agree with others that it is not important how weird people construct their documents. If some construction is not allowed, the user should be warned. A remain very interested in the discussion. Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read
On 04/05/11 12:51, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 15:24, Joep L. Blomjlb...@neuroweave.nl wrote: Tom, Thanks for your quick reply. Sorry, that I didn't mention my soft- and hardware. AMD Phenom II Ubuntu Lucif (10.4) LO libreoffice-3.3.2.2. The file is not very confidential: an invitation for a party. I will mail it to your personal E-mail address with the attachment in a moment. Joep Please send te document to me as well. I will file bugs on the applicable portions of the document. I would also appreciate if you comment on this very relevant Ubuntu bug regarding LO/MSO compatibility: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/773243 Thanks. Dotan, Thanks. I don't think it helps to add a me too to the claim of ubuntu which is not correct. I don't think it is a fault of ubuntu but of MS$ who tries to monopolize the office field. I can send you the file to your private mail-address but see the mail of Tom Davies who suspect -as I do also - it is a MS$ trick which of course is extremely stupid as older MSO versions cannot read the file as well. Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read
I recently received a .docx file as an attachment. However, what I tried, LO wouldn't read it. It opened it but gave a blank page. The people who sent the file are complete computer illiterate who follow MS$ like slaves. I assume it is the latest Word or whatever MS$ uses as text application. It can well be that the file is composed of pictures. When I open the file with Hexedit I see content and the first 2 bytes are hex 50 4B (PK) and byte 31 till 49 contains [Content_Types] xml, the byte beween ] and x is hex 2E. Can anybody explain why LO can't read this file? Help is much appreciated. Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read
On 02/05/11 12:51, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) DocX normally opens easily in LO and OOo (3.3.0 and after). Which OS; Windows, Ubuntu, other linux, Bsd or Mac? Regards from Tom :) Tom, Thanks for your quick reply. Sorry, that I didn't mention my soft- and hardware. AMD Phenom II Ubuntu Lucif (10.4) LO libreoffice-3.3.2.2. The file is not very confidential: an invitation for a party. I will mail it to your personal E-mail address with the attachment in a moment. Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read
On 02/05/11 15:44, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Lol, our systems are identical! So much for trying it on something different just to see if that worked! I got a docX poster to put up on a website and asked the person to please re-send as a doc so that other people could read it. Their reply asked how to do Save As ...!! I even ended up sending screen-shots from a Windows machine using MSO 2010. A month or so later they sent another poster for the website, as DocX of course. I just quietly edited it, made a pdf and then a gif and put it up on the website for them. Regards from Tom :) Thanks Tom for the tip to open it with the archive manager and I could indeed see and read the image-files. I cannot read the .xml files as firefox and chrome display it as an .xml file without substitution and LO does actually the same. Do you know which application reads these .xml files with substitution? Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read
On 02/05/11 15:44, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Lol, our systems are identical! So much for trying it on something different just to see if that worked! I got a docX poster to put up on a website and asked the person to please re-send as a doc so that other people could read it. Their reply asked how to do Save As ...!! I even ended up sending screen-shots from a Windows machine using MSO 2010. A month or so later they sent another poster for the website, as DocX of course. I just quietly edited it, made a pdf and then a gif and put it up on the website for them. Regards from Tom :) Tom, Sorry, forgot that our systems are identical definitively shows we have some knowledge of IT and economy!! I supplemented it 5 days ago with a 24-inch 1920x1080 monitor, that is a difference in real estate when you have worked for years with a 17 1440x900 monitor. I had a good excuse: I needed new glasses!! Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: import of postscript files
On 10/04/11 10:00, dphurst wrote: You can use GIMP to directly import the postscript file and then export to any image format you want. GIMP, of course, would let you edit the image if you want. I use to use ghostscript as you've described to convert postscript to TIFF for publication quality images. However, since I would crop using GIMP eventually, I played with and found that the import of postscript is actually very good. Just set the resolution in the initial dialog after opening up the postscript file. Also, select to anti-alias at high quality the text and graphics. Best wishes, Dow Dow, Thanks for the interesting suggestion. However, I am a musician and graphics simply doesn't like me. I have often tackled the Gimp and always ended by tearing on the few hairs I've left as the logic of the program escapes me completely. I would love to grasp it so I can enhance pictures etc. but it's simply not given. For my application the route via gs suites me fine. it gives a good resolution for printing and it is reasonably fast. I think I will make a simple script in LO to import .ps directly. But thanks again for the suggestion. Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: import of postscript files
On 08/04/11 05:28, NoOp wrote: You may have already explored this, but can you use oolilypond? http://ooolilypond.sourceforge.net/ http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/OOoLilyPondhttp://www.lilypond.org/ Gary, No, I didn't. I looked at it but the big snag is that you must translate first to Lilypond format.The music I write is much too cumbersome for writing directly in Lilypond format (I write arrangements for 2 piano's and big bands) and in my book there will be many examples. However, I can try the route: Finale (Windows) - .mxml - Musescore (Linux notation program that reads .mxml and can give Lilypond output) - Lilypond output - oolilypond in libreoffice. I need to use Finale as the Linux programs don't have the opportunities I need to write efficiently. However, it's - as usual - a very good suggestion and I sure will explore it. Maybe someone will make a oomxml plugin! Thanks, Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: import of postscript files
On 08/04/11 10:40, Joep L. Blom wrote: On 08/04/11 05:28, NoOp wrote: You may have already explored this, but can you use oolilypond? http://ooolilypond.sourceforge.net/ http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/OOoLilyPondhttp://www.lilypond.org/ Gary, No, I didn't. I looked at it but the big snag is that you must translate first to Lilypond format.The music I write is much too cumbersome for writing directly in Lilypond format (I write arrangements for 2 piano's and big bands) and in my book there will be many examples. However, I can try the route: Finale (Windows) - .mxml - Musescore (Linux notation program that reads .mxml and can give Lilypond output) - Lilypond output - oolilypond in libreoffice. I need to use Finale as the Linux programs don't have the opportunities I need to write efficiently. However, it's - as usual - a very good suggestion and I sure will explore it. Maybe someone will make a oomxml plugin! Thanks, Joep I momentarily gave up on direct import but instead explored how to import as a picture. I found 2 routes to convert .ps to .jpg. The most simple is to use convert: convert sample.ps sample.jpg. This gives rather small files but the resolution is not really optimal despite the use of several options to enhance the quality. Another route is via gs. There a better control of the resolution can be achieved using: gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -r300 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=testpage-a4.jpg testpage-a4.ps Here r300 is the resolution (I have found that r 150 is also acceptable and the file is 75 % smaller), dBATCH makes that gs finishes automatically and dNOPAUSE makes it process all pages without prompt. It is not exactly what I wanted but this is very usable. I publish it here so that it may be of some help to others. Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] import of postscript files
Hi, I'm rather new to this list (worked before with OO) and would like to know if in LO there is a better way to import postscript files than the route via ps2pdf and then import it using the pdf-import plugin. I need it very much as I have music (in scores) which the notation program can export as .ps (well, it is simply actually writing to a file in .ps format). I want to import it in a frame in LO so I can shape it Ideal would be of course if LO could import musicxml (mxml) directly, a sort of lingua franca in music notation but there are more urgent matters that must be solved first. Hope anybody has a suggestion. Thanks in advance, Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] import of postscript files
On 07/04/11 12:05, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 7/04/11 8:54 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote: Hi, I'm rather new to this list (worked before with OO) and would like to know if in LO there is a better way to import postscript files than the route via ps2pdf and then import it using the pdf-import plugin. I need it very much as I have music (in scores) which the notation program can export as .ps (well, it is simply actually writing to a file in .ps format). I want to import it in a frame in LO so I can shape it Ideal would be of course if LO could import musicxml (mxml) directly, a sort of lingua franca in music notation but there are more urgent matters that must be solved first. Hope anybody has a suggestion. Thanks in advance, Joep Hi. I convert the postscript files to eps files with Karbon14 and then import the epsfiles. steve Steve, Thanks for your reply. However, how do you import eps-files? I haven't found a filter for .eps files. Is there e plugin to do that? Thanks in advance Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] import of postscript files
On 07/04/11 12:28, Joep L. Blom wrote: On 07/04/11 12:05, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 7/04/11 8:54 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote: Hi, I'm rather new to this list (worked before with OO) and would like to know if in LO there is a better way to import postscript files than the route via ps2pdf and then import it using the pdf-import plugin. I need it very much as I have music (in scores) which the notation program can export as .ps (well, it is simply actually writing to a file in .ps format). I want to import it in a frame in LO so I can shape it Ideal would be of course if LO could import musicxml (mxml) directly, a sort of lingua franca in music notation but there are more urgent matters that must be solved first. Hope anybody has a suggestion. Thanks in advance, Joep Hi. I convert the postscript files to eps files with Karbon14 and then import the epsfiles. steve Steve, Thanks for your reply. However, how do you import eps-files? I haven't found a filter for .eps files. Is there e plugin to do that? Thanks in advance Joep Steven, Followup: I could read a .eps file but when I made a .epsi file, ot couldn't be read (I did that with ps2epsi). But I am looking further. Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] import of postscript files
On 07/04/11 20:05, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 7/04/11 10:36 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote: Hi Joep. One application I use to create my eps files saves them as epsi. I just rename them to eps and they import ok. I have done this a lot to import drawings from our CAD system and don't know if the epsi from the program I use to adjust the line thicknesses and add text are actually eps but it works for those drawings. Sometimes I use both Karbon14 and Inkscape. One edits attributes easier and one saves a better preview. Steve, Thanks for your reply. I did that and LO read the file and produced output that was vaguely recognizable for what is was meant to be. To clarify: Originally the text is a music score that is produces as output of a music notation program as a .ps file (which normally is sent to a postscript printer). Normally I translate it to .pdf with ps2pdf to sent to others. However, when I import the .eps file the resolution is far too low and when I import the .pdf file it uses apparently an own font and not the font of the .pdf file and of course that is also not usable. I have still no reliable way to import music scores in LO. Joep -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
