[libreoffice-users] Re: Checking ODF version
On 09/02/15 19:43, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. Is there a simple way to check a documents ODF version (like FilePropertiesgeneraltype). I am copypasting from one document to another and losing formatting of styles and suspect different ODF versions. Thanks, steve Try the odf validator on: http://odf-validator.rhcloud.com/ Setting it to 'auto-detect' enabled it to identify my odf 1.0 and odf 1.2 files. John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Double sided printing-again
On 21/12/14 16:34, tony mollica wrote: Thanks, Terry, Sorry about that. I got in a rush. But thanks for responding. I'm using Linux, Debian 7amd64, kernel 3.2.63, hplip 3.14.1 with an HP OfficeJet Pro 8100. CUPS is installed, v1.5.3and LibreOffice 4.2.6.3. I have two CUPS printer configs for that printer, one for normal printing and one for duplex. If I try to pick the obvious settings through LO for printing, which I figured would be 'Long Edge (standard) for the 'duplex' setting, then it doesn't work. I found a posting that indicated that the LO 'file/print/properties' selection should use ignore for the duplex settingand that actually appears to work but it's still a problem that no printer settings entered through LO are saved. I should be able to pick my printer (hp8100duplex) and print double sided without needing to make that choice each time. A small extra step, but irritating. But here is an interesting observation. CUPS shows the printers configured with hplip 3.13.11 but the hplip device manager version is3.14.1 . More investigation is warranted. I'm open to suggestions. tony Tony I have an HP Officejet pro 8600, which I believe uses the same driver, on Opensuse 13.1, LO 4.3.5. In the File-Print-General Tab, click on the Properties of your printer, and then on the Device Tab. The Default Printer language Type is set to PDF, but I find this causes me problems with any other printing besides single sided portrait. Switch it to postscript and try that. Postscript always gives me better results than PDF language type with this printer. John If it's any consolation to anyone, OpenOffice operates the same way. On 12/21/2014 02:54 AM, Terry Warby wrote: On 20/12/14 16:40, tony mollica wrote: Hello. I've looked but haven't been able to find the right combination of commands to enable double sided printing and keep the configuration. Has there been any movement in the repair of this feature or are we still stuck with converting our documents to another format (.pdf) for proper handling? Thanks. tm Tony, I have two brother laser printers HL2030 and HL3150CDW and have no problems printing double sided in both windows (win 7) and Linux (manjaro). I find its just a question of setting the print up in printer properties for either manual (HL2030) or automatic (HL3150CDW) printing. In Linux I set up my printer defaults in CUPS. I never have to convert documents to pdf just to print them. You don't tell us what operating system you are using, what printer or what version of Libreoffice you have. Perhaps if you came back to us with a bit more information someone here would be able to give you more specific advice. TerryW -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Double sided printing-again
On 23/12/14 15:05, CVAlkan wrote: John: One thing you didn't mention is that the option you are specifying is only available if the Use LibreOffice Dialogs is chosen under Options (cf my earlier post, and why I think the choice of printing dialogs is an important thing to mention when reporting printing issues). That's odd. In LO 4.3.5 on my Opensuse setup, and earlier ones as I recall, the choice of LO versus OS dialogs doesn't affect whether the PDF or Postscript option appears under the device tab of print properties. I'll have to check on other systems I have access to in order to see there is a difference. One thing I've just noticed is that under Tools-Options-Print, it's possible to deselect PDF and the standard print format, and then the printers default to postscript. Very useful when dealing with oddities of HP drivers. I must say I had never noticed that pdf/postscript option before (probably because I use the O/S printing dialogs just to keep consistent with other apps I regularly use, so that option doesn't appear), and I look forward to seeing whether and how switching to to Postscript changes the behavior I experienced. I notice that there are several options for Postscript (PS Levels 1, 2 3, and PS from Driver). I assume that you are suggesting to use PS from Driver. My HP 6700 is pretty new, but do you have any recommendation or thoughts regarding that choice? Frank I just use postscript from driver. Since it worked for me, I've not felt any urgent need to explore the others, though I certainly would if there were still problems. John -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Double-sided-printing-again-tp415p4133810.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: panel in open and save as dialogues
On 30/09/14 22:30, Steve Edmonds wrote: I just noticed in my dolphin at top right settings I can show tree view. Steve Yes, in dolphin you can, but not in Libreoffice itself; the view there is only of 'Places' John On 2014-09-28 04:38, John King wrote: On 27/09/14 16:00, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Le 27/09/2014 11:19, John King a écrit : Libreoffice 4.2 and 4.3 on opensuse and xubuntu The left hand panel in the 'open' and 'save as' dialogues shows 'Places' This is a LibreOffice dialog, an alternative to the system dialogs. Thanks for the suggestion, but No, this is the system dialogue. The libreoffice dialogue selection in Tools-Options-General is unchecked. My left hand panel is headed 'Places', and underneath is listed Search, Recently used, what looks like various devices, and then places that I've defined. The + and - buttons only operate on the places section. If I select to use libreoffice dialogues, then I only see places I've defined, which are not necessarily the same as the ones defined in the system dialogue. Is it possible to change this to show the folder/directory tree instead, as in dolphin and nautilus? Yes, it is. Go to the Tools Options menu then LibreOffice General. Uncheck the Use LibreOffice dialogs checkbox. See above comment It would make it much easier to navigate through several layers of folders. Yes, perhaps. Note that the LibreOffice dialogs are (IMO) providing a better UI: the Places thingy allows to always have the more often used directories at hand (too bad they are not sorted), which is a PITA when using the native dialogs. Second, the LO dialogs provide a Connect to server button (the three dotted button, top right) which makes very easy to connect to... well... a server :) To add or delete an often used directory to the Places list, just use the + and - buttons at the bottom. HTH, I agree that the libreoffice dialogues are very useful for connecting across the network, and I use them extensively for that. However, I would like the option of being able to move up/down a directory tree rather than having to do multiple clicking to search through one directory layer at a time. John -- 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] panel in open and save as dialogues
Libreoffice 4.2 and 4.3 on opensuse and xubuntu The left hand panel in the 'open' and 'save as' dialogues shows 'Places' Is it possible to change this to show the folder/directory tree instead, as in dolphin and nautilus? It would make it much easier to navigate through several layers of folders. John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice on Linux does not see network shares
On 03/09/14 13:04, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I am having the same problems on some machines (well, 1 Kubuntu machine) but not on others (Ubuntu or Windows). There is an intermittent bug to do with this so it would be great if you and i could do straces and add them to the existing bug-reports. As a temporary work-around i first set the Kubuntu machine to use Calligra instead of LibreOffice. Now i'm trying to edit the; /etc/samba/smb.conf (after creating a copy/backup of it) on the server but so far i've not had any luck with that. Other people tried different versions of LibreOffice. What mystifies me is that on all the Ubuntu machines i double-click on any file anywhere on the network or on a client/local desktop and LibreOffice has no problems. Calligra does have nice features but i just don't like it as much as LibreOffice. So i am kinda hoping the bug gets fixed or that i stumble onto whatever the settings are that makes LO work on Ubuntu. Sorry this hasn't helped much! :( Try searching the archives here too as there were some good links posted last week on a thread i started. Regards from Tom :) Tom I think you may have misunderstood my original question. Using a file manager such as nautilus or dolphin and browsing to the network, I can access any files on network windows shares, whether on Windows machines or on a samba server. Double-clicking on the files will open LO satisfactorily. The shares seem to get mounted by the very act of using the file manager. I realise from looking through the archives that some people have problems with this, but this is not my problem. My problem is entirely within the linux version of LO and the File-Open dialogue. On the Windows version of LO (and MS Office for that matter), there is an icon on the file-open dialogue called either 'network neighbourhood' or 'my network places' that gives access to windows shares on windows or samba machines on the network. Users can simply click on this and follow the requisite path to access files on other machines. However, on the linux version of LO, this does not appear, so users cannot access any files on network shares. It seems that LO (unlike eg Kate on KDE) does not list any network places unless they have been mounted by another application; if I use dolphin or nautilus to establish contact to the network share and **then** use the LO File-Open dialogue, the share is listed. I don't know whether this is a bug in LO or a deliberate policy decision; whichever, it causes us problems and has prevented my switching the old XP machines to Linux. I'm presently experimenting with the alternative file-open-save dialogues as suggested by James Knott to see if that gets us any further. regards John On 3 September 2014 12:15, John King johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: LO 4.2 and 4.3 series on Opensuse 13.1 and Xubuntu 12.04 I am presently attempting to move some users from XP to Linux on our peer-to-peer network, but have hit a problem with Libreoffice and access to files on other networked machines. When using LO on Windows XP, the file-open dialogue shows a 'Network places' icon and users can access files on other machines without a problem. I am trying to ensure that they get an equivalent experience when using LO on Linux. However, the file-open dialogues of LO on the different Linux distributions I've tried do not show network shares on either Windows machines or Linux machines running Samba, and so users do not have the same experience that they have been used to on Windows XP. If I use the Kate text editor, which does provide a network icon in the file-open dialogue, there's no problem accessing files on the same shares. I know that if we access the files on the network shares using dolphin/nautilus, then subsequently that network location appears in the LO file-open dialogue. However, I'd rather not require our users to do that before they can use the wordprocessing facilities; I simply want the same file-open dialogue on Linux LO that they had on Windows XP LO and MS Office. Is this possible? John King -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Libreoffice on Linux does not see network shares
LO 4.2 and 4.3 series on Opensuse 13.1 and Xubuntu 12.04 I am presently attempting to move some users from XP to Linux on our peer-to-peer network, but have hit a problem with Libreoffice and access to files on other networked machines. When using LO on Windows XP, the file-open dialogue shows a 'Network places' icon and users can access files on other machines without a problem. I am trying to ensure that they get an equivalent experience when using LO on Linux. However, the file-open dialogues of LO on the different Linux distributions I've tried do not show network shares on either Windows machines or Linux machines running Samba, and so users do not have the same experience that they have been used to on Windows XP. If I use the Kate text editor, which does provide a network icon in the file-open dialogue, there's no problem accessing files on the same shares. I know that if we access the files on the network shares using dolphin/nautilus, then subsequently that network location appears in the LO file-open dialogue. However, I'd rather not require our users to do that before they can use the wordprocessing facilities; I simply want the same file-open dialogue on Linux LO that they had on Windows XP LO and MS Office. Is this possible? John King -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice on Linux does not see network shares
On 03/09/14 13:20, James Knott wrote: On 09/03/2014 07:15 AM, John King wrote: LO 4.2 and 4.3 series on Opensuse 13.1 and Xubuntu 12.04 I am presently attempting to move some users from XP to Linux on our peer-to-peer network, but have hit a problem with Libreoffice and access to files on other networked machines. When using LO on Windows XP, the file-open dialogue shows a 'Network places' icon and users can access files on other machines without a problem. I am trying to ensure that they get an equivalent experience when using LO on Linux. However, the file-open dialogues of LO on the different Linux distributions I've tried do not show network shares on either Windows machines or Linux machines running Samba, and so users do not have the same experience that they have been used to on Windows XP. If I use the Kate text editor, which does provide a network icon in the file-open dialogue, there's no problem accessing files on the same shares. I know that if we access the files on the network shares using dolphin/nautilus, then subsequently that network location appears in the LO file-open dialogue. However, I'd rather not require our users to do that before they can use the wordprocessing facilities; I simply want the same file-open dialogue on Linux LO that they had on Windows XP LO and MS Office. Is this possible? One thing I've noticed is the Servers drop down list (top right corner of file open panel), where you can select Windows shares. I haven't tried it, but that may do what you want. James Thanks for this. I'd not noticed this drop down list before as it only appears when 'Use Libreoffice dialogues' is selected in options, and I'd been using the default system dialogues. This certainly makes it easier to set up persistent links to network shares in the File-Open dialogue, though the 'remember password' option doesn't work and the password has to be re-entered every time I access the share on a windows machine. I'll explore this further to see if it satisfies our needs. John -- 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] UK picks Open Document Format for all government files
Interesting article on The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/30/uk_picks_open_document_format_for_all_government_files/ John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Similar Problem?
On 25/01/14 20:00, Vince Radice wrote: Hi, From my first post - I am running Fedora FC19-64 bit. Libreoffice Version: 4.1.4.2 Build ID: 4.1.4.2-2.fc19 My Desktop is KDE 4.11.4 The problem is that if I don't keep deleting these empty files, they will build up. I first noticed this when looking through the log for my backup program. There were over 250,000 files. I assume that the overhead involved in a loist this size would be enourmous. I have also had problems where the hdd activity was so great that I could not get much response and started closing thing to try to figure out what the problem was. Since I have been keeping the empty files deleted, I have not had the problem. This goes back to my question - is anyone else seeing the same situation? Also, how do I fix the problem of empty files? Thanks, Vince Radice Vince This looks very similar to an issue I reported earlier. See: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46635 My cure for it was to deselect Tools-Options-Load/Save-General 'Automatically save the document too' I noticed on your screen print that that option is selected. Try deselecting it and see what happens. John On 01/17/2014 03:28 AM, Alex McMurchy wrote: Vince In respect of the empty files - * Which version of LibreOffice are you using? * Which distro are you using? * Which desktop? * Is it causing you any hardship? Alex On Thursday 16 Jan 2014 10:10:31 Vince Radice wrote: It is Thursday morning. I looked and there were 10 empty files in the backup directory from 10:49 pm to 10:50 pm. When I tried to bring the database down this morning, it would not come down - Starter was not responding. I waited several times to see if it would clear up and end. Nothing. I finally terminated the application. Started Calc to cause the recovery procedure to work. Recovery was successful and no data was lost. I still cannot figure out what is causing the problem. I had thought that leaving it up overnight would create the files. Any suggestions as to what to do next? Any options that might need to be changed. Here is a link to a screen print of my LO Load/Save options. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw7LR6zNWsAKRHY2dS1BdTNYQW8/edit?usp=sharing As for the change to a different backend, I am open to suggestions. The size of my database now is about 900k. I make a few additions each week. So a small and fast is appropriate. I am open to suggestions. Thanks, Vince On 01/16/2014 06:17 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) This mailing list might be able to help you migrate your existing tables to an external back-end. There was a looong thread about this a few years ago when Ian (err can't remember his surname [hangs head in shame]). It is roughly what i hope to do = start with the internal back-end and then migrate it. To be fair it's not Hsql that is the problem. It's the ancient version that got twisted and squeezed into being the internal back-end in Base and then didn't get enough further developments. As an external back-end, if you grab any of their newer versions straight from their website, then it apparently works like a dream (errr as in super fast and smooth, not as in imaginary). On the other hand it might be good to choose a different back-end and there are plenty to choose from. When choosing a back-end it might be worth considering what sort of size are you talking about. MySql/MariaDb, Postgresql and other big names are meant for huge amounts of data. I mean really vast and quite complex. For an address book for a small-medium sized business it's over kill and you might find them comparatively sluggish when handling that little data. What i need is something small and fast but that often points to java-based ones such as Hsql and java makes me shudder. Regards from Tom :) On 16 January 2014 01:19, Vince Radice vhrad...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know what causes the problem and, thus, I can't recreate it. I am trying something now. I brought it up, updated a record but did not save it (I have a saved copy someplace else). I intend to let it be up overnight and check in the morning for the files. I had already cleared out all of the empty ones. I noted the time I brought is up and made the change. I want to see if it reoccurs. if so, then when. I also intend to save it and close it in the morning. If the files are there, see if the creation stops. Hopefully, this will lead to why it is happening. On another tangent, I had lost data and had to recreate the db. During that process, I read a few things indicating that using HSQL could lead to losing data. The recommendation was to use an external db. I spent several weeks last year trying to get Mysql to work. I followed the conversion guidelines that I had
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: libreoffice untitled docs constantly autosaving
On 12/01/14 20:30, Luuk wrote: On 12-01-2014 20:38, Cley Faye wrote: Additionnaly, how did you install LibreOffice on your system? Did you use some distribution-specific repositories, or got it from the Libreoffice website ? Maybe there is something opensuse-specific that cause this. If it doesn't happen with the version downloaded from the website, you'll have to report this issue to the Opensuse folks. I have an OpenSUSE 12.3 system too, here's some version info. (last patches/updates are installed) I could not reproduce the bug. luuk@opensuse:~/temp cat /etc/os-release NAME=openSUSE VERSION=12.3 (Dartmouth) VERSION_ID=12.3 PRETTY_NAME=openSUSE 12.3 (Dartmouth) (x86_64) ID=opensuse ANSI_COLOR=0;32 CPE_NAME=cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3 luuk@opensuse:~/temp ooffice --version LibreOffice 3.6 luuk@opensuse:~/temp zypper info libreoffice | grep -i version Version: 3.6.3.2.4-2.4.1 Thanks for trying. I notice you are using LO 3.6.3.2. I didn't have a problem with the 3.6 series either, nor with the 4.0 series. The problem started after the updates to the 4.1. series from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Stable/openSUSE_12.3/ John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice untitled docs constantly autosaving
On 12/01/14 19:38, Cley Faye wrote: Additionnaly, how did you install LibreOffice on your system? Did you use some distribution-specific repositories, or got it from the Libreoffice website ? Maybe there is something opensuse-specific that cause this. If it doesn't happen with the version downloaded from the website, you'll have to report this issue to the Opensuse folks. I've now done further tests with the distributions I have easy access to. First of all, a correction. When I originally reported this, I thought it was restricted to opensuse. I have since found the same problem arises on Kubuntu and Xubuntu with the 4.1 series of Libreoffice, as I have documented in the bug report on: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46635 In the case of both the ubuntu-based distributions and opensuse KDE and Gnome, Libreoffice was installed from the distribution repositories (as recommended on the Libreoffice web site). In all these cases, ticking Tools-Option-Load/Save-General-Automatically save the document too results in the constant saving. However, in Kubuntu and Opensuse 12.3 - Gnome, I deinstalled the repository provided version and installed the versions from the Libreoffice website to see if there was any difference. Libreoffice was run with completely new profiles, and on first run worked fine, not showing any constant saving. However, after logging out and logging in and rerunning the test, the same constant saving occurred on every subsequent occasion, so it doesn't seem to be repository version specific. John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice untitled docs constantly autosaving
On 09/01/14 15:36, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It might be worth contacting the openSuSE forums to ask in there, http://forums.opensuse.org/ errr, right now their forums are down for maintenance but will probably be up by the time you read this. Jic it isn't this wiki might be more help http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels I guess you probably already asked the same question there somewhere. Also it might be worth posting a bug-report in the oepnSuSE bug-tracker regardless of whether you get any replies or not. Regards from Tom :) I have now located a bug report on this issue: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46635 It applies to other distributions besides opensuse. Essentially, if the option in Tools-Option-Load/Save-General is set to 'Automatically save the document too', then untitled/unnamed files will go into a save loop every few seconds. I have submitted a confirmation of the bug report, but cannot at the moment test it out on any version of Windows. Could anyone else check this and update the bug report? John On 9 January 2014 15:26, John King johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Opensuse 12,3 both KDE 4.12 (but also occurred with 4.11) and Gnome 3.6.2 Libreoffice 4.1.4.2 (also occured with 4.1.3) This problem does not occur in Kubuntu 13.1, Xubuntu 12.04 , or Windows XP with the same version of Libreoffice. It seems to be specific to Opensuse. If a file is created in writer or calc, but not saved and thereby given a file name, then at the end of the period set in Tools-Option-Load/Save-General for saving autorecovery information (and optionally the document itself), libreoffice saves, and then keeps on saving every 5-10 seconds, with the result that the ~/.config/libreoffice/4-suse/user/backup/ directory builds up a series of untitled -n.odt files. Sometimes, and in particular when both calc and writer are open with untitled files, the saving becomes so frequent that the program is unmanageable and has to be killed. I have tested this with libreoffice on opensuse 12.3 in both KDE and Gnome (separate machines) and confirmed that it happens consistently with both. However, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Windows XP do not have this problem. Can anyone else confirm this behaviour? John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] booklet printing problem
On 28/03/13 12:53, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Jeff, Jeff Shrowder schrieb: Another problem I have with LO (ver. 4.0.1.2) is that when I try to print a booklet - let's say a 4 page A5 booklet - on A4 it prints pages 1 and 4 in landscape across the portrait-oriented A4 page rather than along it. Pages 2 and 3 are similarly affected. The settings I use are the same as for LO 3.5. The layout image in the Print dialogue box is the same as in 3.5 so, everything being equal, I should get the right result. But I don't. Same setting does not help us, because we do not know your setting. Booklet printing works for me, so perhaps I describe my way and you can compare it to your way. Precondition: You document is written in A5. Your printer can duplex printing. That's interesting. I've always prepared my documents in A4 (since some of my collaborators want an A4 rather than a A5 booklet) and then printed in brochure format, which gives me 2 A5 on a landscape A4. 1. In normal view use LO print dialog via File Print. 2. Click on printer properties to get the dialog of your printer driver. Set your printer to use DIN A4 paper. In finishing set the orientation to landscape, and enable duplex printing on printer. OK. There's also a setting in my printer properties to choose short-edge' or 'long-edge' binding for duplex. Short edge works for me. 3. In LO print dialog click on tab 'Page Layout' and there on option 'brochure'. 4. OK to print If your printer cannot duplex printing you need to turn the sheets manually. The printer manual should have a guide for that. For me it would be in addition to the settings above: Step 1: Set 'front page' in drop down 'Includes' on the tab 'Page Layout'. Print. Step 2: Put the sheets back into the tray. Step 3: Set 'back page' in drop down 'Includes' on the tab 'Page Layout' and mark 'In reverse page order' on tab 'General'. Print. Kind regards Regina Other than the above A4 difference, this has worked in LO 3.6 and LO 4 John -- 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] cropped images in docx file not formatted correctly
On 26/11/12 18:28, Dan Lewis wrote: This is not necessarily a problem with .docx files. What John mentioned is how cropped images have been handled going back prior to when OOo was donated to Apache. Neither AOO nor LO truly crop images. They only limit what is seen to the cropped area. To crop a picture, I have to use another program, mostly gimp. --Dan I think it is a problem with docx files. If the sample file I have put in the bug report is saved in Word97-2003 .doc format, LO imports it correctly, with the same cropping as in the original Word2007 document. It's only when LO tries to import the docx version that the 'squashed' image effect occurrs. John On 11/26/2012 12:14 PM, Joel Madero wrote: I'd suggest looking at bugs.freedesktop.org and search for similar problems. I know that image placement has been reported before and .docx is a nightmare to work with (Microsoft isn't very open about sharing their standards.if you didn't know that :) ). Regards, Joel P.S. If you don't see similar bug reports I suggest you report the bug and attach a test document so that we can look into it On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:11 AM, John King johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: LO 3.5.4 on opensuse 12.2 LO 3.6.3 on Windows XP Most of my colleagues are now using recent versions of Word, where docx is the default format. Exchanging pure text documents is not a huge problem, but I've run into difficulties with docx files containing cropped images, of which there are many. When read into LO, the cropped images are not formatted correctly. Instead of being cropped, the image is 'squashed' to the dimensions of the cropped image, but no cropping has taken place. I've submitted a bug report as: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=57378https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57378 with sample files illustrating the problem. I can't find any setting in the LO options to overcome this, but I may be missing something as I couldn't find any previous bug reports of this phenomenon, so perhaps other people are not experiencing it. Can anyone else confirm it happening? John King -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.** org users%2bh...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** unsubscribe/http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** Netiquette http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] cropped images in docx file not formatted correctly
LO 3.5.4 on opensuse 12.2 LO 3.6.3 on Windows XP Most of my colleagues are now using recent versions of Word, where docx is the default format. Exchanging pure text documents is not a huge problem, but I've run into difficulties with docx files containing cropped images, of which there are many. When read into LO, the cropped images are not formatted correctly. Instead of being cropped, the image is 'squashed' to the dimensions of the cropped image, but no cropping has taken place. I've submitted a bug report as: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57378 with sample files illustrating the problem. I can't find any setting in the LO options to overcome this, but I may be missing something as I couldn't find any previous bug reports of this phenomenon, so perhaps other people are not experiencing it. Can anyone else confirm it happening? John King -- 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] cropped images in docx file not formatted correctly
On 26/11/12 17:14, Joel Madero wrote: I'd suggest looking at bugs.freedesktop.org and search for similar problems. I know that image placement has been reported before and .docx is a nightmare to work with (Microsoft isn't very open about sharing their standards.if you didn't know that :) ). Regards, Joel P.S. If you don't see similar bug reports I suggest you report the bug and attach a test document so that we can look into it The bug report and sample files are at: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57378 John On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:11 AM, John King johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: LO 3.5.4 on opensuse 12.2 LO 3.6.3 on Windows XP Most of my colleagues are now using recent versions of Word, where docx is the default format. Exchanging pure text documents is not a huge problem, but I've run into difficulties with docx files containing cropped images, of which there are many. When read into LO, the cropped images are not formatted correctly. Instead of being cropped, the image is 'squashed' to the dimensions of the cropped image, but no cropping has taken place. I've submitted a bug report as: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=57378https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57378 with sample files illustrating the problem. I can't find any setting in the LO options to overcome this, but I may be missing something as I couldn't find any previous bug reports of this phenomenon, so perhaps other people are not experiencing it. Can anyone else confirm it happening? John King -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.** org users%2bh...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** unsubscribe/http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** Netiquette http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Missing Create folder option in KDE Save file dialogue
Harald Bregel wrote: I have come from OpenOffice under SUSE Linux 11.3 and KDE 4, and am now using libreOffice in the same environment. The OpenOffice Save file dialogue in KDE-style showed an icon to create a new folder if needed. This icon is now gone under libreOffice. I have found that I can configure libreOffice to display its own Save file dialogue which includes the Create new folder option BUT this menu does not have the seamlessly integrated look-and-feel of KDE. It sticks out like a sore thumb. How come the option Create new folder is now gone from the KDE-style menu in libreOffice? It is something everybody needs. Can it be restored in one of the next libreOffice releases? +1 I see that creating new folders is still possible in the Windows and Gnome versions. It's only kde that's affected John johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk -- 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] Re: Re: Missing Create folder option in KDE Save file dialogue
webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 05/28/2011 06:08 AM, John King wrote: Harald Bregel wrote: I have come from OpenOffice under SUSE Linux 11.3 and KDE 4, and am now using libreOffice in the same environment. The OpenOffice Save file dialogue in KDE-style showed an icon to create a new folder if needed. This icon is now gone under libreOffice. I have found that I can configure libreOffice to display its own Save file dialogue which includes the Create new folder option BUT this menu does not have the seamlessly integrated look-and-feel of KDE. It sticks out like a sore thumb. How come the option Create new folder is now gone from the KDE-style menu in libreOffice? It is something everybody needs. Can it be restored in one of the next libreOffice releases? +1 I see that creating new folders is still possible in the Windows and Gnome versions. It's only kde that's affected John johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk I wonder if it is a problem with LibreOffice or a problem with SUSE Linux 11.3 and KDE 4? As reported, it seems not to be a problem with Windows [Vista for me] and GNOME [Ubuntu 10.04LTS 64-bit for me]. Do anyone with Kubuntu or other Linux install with KDE as the default desktop have the same problem? I wonder if you can use the Save As function with a Live version of Kubuntu to test it out? I've just tried this with Kubuntu 11.04 running in virtualbox. There is no icon for creating a new folder on the save-as box, though it is possible to right-click in the save-as box and create a new folder that way. So it seems as if it's a general problem with kde rather than one specific to opensuse. John johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk -- 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: Open docx with emf images under Linux
On Tuesday 5 April 2011 11:17:07 Rainer M Krug wrote: On 31/03/11 16:17, Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi I have a docx which contains several embedded emf files. The docx opens fine, but does not show the emf images. If I uncompress the docx, I can open the emf with irfanview, as I do not have n emf viewer under linux, and can convert them to e.g. png to put them (under tremendous quality loss) back into the imported docx - but isn't there a way to o[pen a docx *including* the embedded emf images? Sorry to re-iterate - but I would like to have confirmation on this issue here: 1) is it only me who has this problem? 2) is it a trivial problem and am I missing something (if yes, what)? 3) is it non-trivial and not possible? I do not want to offend anybody for not answering, I was just wondering. Thanks, Rainer Thanks, Rainer I just tried opening a file created in Word2007 with some sample emf images and it opened fine in libreoffice 3.3.2 on opensuse 11.2. Could you provide a sample file and I'll see what my results are with that? John johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk -- 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 table lines do not show
Libreoffice 3.3 on both Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows XP . I have received several docx files containing tables which do not display correctly in Libreoffice. The outline of the table cells is visible on the page, but the lines themselves do not appear in print preview or when printed. The border style is displayed as 'none', even though there is a border in the original word2007 document. The same thing happens in openoffice.org 3.2.1, but the lines display correctly in openoffice 3.3. John johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
