Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.4 unusable with large document including comments
On 10/31/2017 08:45 AM, Krunose wrote: > > Think Heiko is talking about thous bug two reports he sent earlier: > > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61558 > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38295 > > Placing comment with actual (even partial) solution can help with > fixing this. More people affected, better chance for that particular > bug to be fixed. Will do! Thank you. > > > -- Jack Wallen Author of dark, twisty fiction Tech writer for TechRepublic <http://www.techrepublic.com>, Linux.com <http://www.linux.com>, and more. Get Jack'd at jackwallen.com <http://www.jackwallen.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.4 unusable with large document including comments
On 10/30/2017 04:44 PM, Heiko Tietze wrote: > Would be good when you add a comment to the ticket "me too" and report what > helped. > > On 30.10.2017 21:26, Jack Wallen wrote: I will say this configuration only made the document usable. It's not ideal and still really sluggish scroll through the document. What I did was open up LO, click on Menu > Tools > Options and then configure Memory with the following settings: Use for LibreOffice 512 MB Memory per object 40 MB Even with those numbers, LO Writer is still a bit challenging to use (albeit much improved over the default). >> On 10/30/2017 04:15 PM, jorge Rodríguez wrote: >>> Hi Jack and all: >>> >>> Why not probe increasing memory to LibreOffice Writer: >>> >>> Menu--> Tools --> Options --> Memory >>> >>> I hope this help, >>> >>> Jorge Rodríguez >> Thank you so much, Jorge. That actually helped considerably. >>> >>> El 30/10/2017 a las 07:41, Jack Wallen escribió: >>>> I'm an author. I've been using LO for a very long time. However, >>>> recently I changed editors to one who does all of her editing within >>>> comments. Yesterday I opened the file she'd just edited, to find it >>>> unusable. Trying to scroll through the document was painfully slow. I >>>> saved the file to .docx format, opened in Apple Pages, and it had no >>>> problems. >>>> >>>> I did a bit of searching to find this a common issue with LO (documents >>>> with hundreds or thousands of comments becoming unusable). Thing is, I >>>> could not find a work-around. Is this going to be the deal breaker, or >>>> is there a solution for this issue? >>>> >>>> Thank you so much for any input anyone might have. >>>> >>>> Jack >>>> >>> -- Jack Wallen Author of dark, twisty fiction Tech writer for TechRepublic <http://www.techrepublic.com>, Linux.com <http://www.linux.com>, and more. Get Jack'd at jackwallen.com <http://www.jackwallen.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.4 unusable with large document including comments
On 10/30/2017 04:15 PM, jorge Rodríguez wrote: > Hi Jack and all: > > Why not probe increasing memory to LibreOffice Writer: > > Menu--> Tools --> Options --> Memory > > I hope this help, > > Jorge Rodríguez Thank you so much, Jorge. That actually helped considerably. > > > El 30/10/2017 a las 07:41, Jack Wallen escribió: >> I'm an author. I've been using LO for a very long time. However, >> recently I changed editors to one who does all of her editing within >> comments. Yesterday I opened the file she'd just edited, to find it >> unusable. Trying to scroll through the document was painfully slow. I >> saved the file to .docx format, opened in Apple Pages, and it had no >> problems. >> >> I did a bit of searching to find this a common issue with LO (documents >> with hundreds or thousands of comments becoming unusable). Thing is, I >> could not find a work-around. Is this going to be the deal breaker, or >> is there a solution for this issue? >> >> Thank you so much for any input anyone might have. >> >> Jack >> > > -- Jack Wallen Author of dark, twisty fiction Tech writer for TechRepublic <http://www.techrepublic.com>, Linux.com <http://www.linux.com>, and more. Get Jack'd at jackwallen.com <http://www.jackwallen.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.4 unusable with large document including comments
On 10/30/2017 11:26 AM, Krunose wrote: > On 30.10.2017 14:41, Jack Wallen wrote: >> I'm an author. I've been using LO for a very long time. However, >> recently I changed editors to one who does all of her editing within >> comments. Yesterday I opened the file she'd just edited, to find it >> unusable. Trying to scroll through the document was painfully slow. I >> saved the file to .docx format, opened in Apple Pages, and it had no >> problems. >> >> I did a bit of searching to find this a common issue with LO (documents >> with hundreds or thousands of comments becoming unusable). Thing is, I >> could not find a work-around. Is this going to be the deal breaker, or >> is there a solution for this issue? >> >> Thank you so much for any input anyone might have. >> >> Jack >> > > Well, if you have very long document, you should consider using Master > Document where you write every chapter in separate document and Master > Document acts as container. You don't edit Master Document, you just > print it. > > Having long text splitted in smaller chunks may help you with the > problem. Just remember to send all chapters (as separate documents) to > your editor. > > Consult documentation about this. > > Kruno > > Kruno, thank you for your input. Unfortunately, that isn't really an option. Any editor I've worked with would lose their minds having to manage a separate document for each chapter. On top of that, considering neither Apple Pages or MS Office has no problem with this, I'd like to think the LO developers could resolve such an issue. A work around for a long document with comments shouldn't be necessary. -- Jack Wallen Author of dark, twisty fiction Tech writer for TechRepublic <http://www.techrepublic.com>, Linux.com <http://www.linux.com>, and more. Get Jack'd at jackwallen.com <http://www.jackwallen.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] LO 5.4 unusable with large document including comments
I'm an author. I've been using LO for a very long time. However, recently I changed editors to one who does all of her editing within comments. Yesterday I opened the file she'd just edited, to find it unusable. Trying to scroll through the document was painfully slow. I saved the file to .docx format, opened in Apple Pages, and it had no problems. I did a bit of searching to find this a common issue with LO (documents with hundreds or thousands of comments becoming unusable). Thing is, I could not find a work-around. Is this going to be the deal breaker, or is there a solution for this issue? Thank you so much for any input anyone might have. Jack -- Jack Wallen Author of dark, twisty fiction Tech writer for TechRepublic <http://www.techrepublic.com>, Linux.com <http://www.linux.com>, and more. Get Jack'd at jackwallen.com <http://www.jackwallen.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Digital Signatures
Hello everyone! So I've been trying to work out the whole digital signature mess on LibreOffice. I created a self-signed digital signature using gpg and imported it into both Firefox and Thunderbird. No matter what I do, LibreOffice cannot see the certificate. Is there something I'm missing here? Will LibreOffice not work with self-signed CAs? I've googled this and have yet to come up with a solution. Thank you for any help you can offer. Jack -- *Jack Wallen* Award winning author of dark, twisty fiction, tech writer, podcaster, and audiobook narrator Find out more on Get Jack'd <http://www.jackwallen.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] odd error in 5.0 writer
Has anyone witnessed this strange happening? I was working with the formatting of a book, using a template created by Createspace. This template has worked perfectly until 5.0. However, while working with it, I noticed text started disappearing (see attached image). I could remove the formatting of the text and it would reappear... only to immediately disappear the second I reformat. It seems to be randomly happening. I can't attach the file this is happening to, because the book has yet to be published. I can, however, attach the blank template. I wound up having to install the LibreOffice from the default Elementary OS repo (LO 4.2) which worked just fine. -- /Jack Wallen/ Award winning author of dark, twisty fiction And tech journalist Find out more on Get Jack'd http://www.monkeypantz.net TechRepublic http://www.techrepublic.com and Linux.com. http://www.linux.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux alternative
Thank you for sharing that, Charles (I'm the author). Glad to know it resonated. Jack On 07/17/2015 05:25 PM, charles meyer wrote: For those on the list using or contemplating Linux, this was interesting. http://www.techrepublic.com/article/alternative-is-the-question-linux-is-the-answer/ No one really addressed software only written for Windows - e.g. Dragon Naturally Speaking. There doesn't seem to be a good open source or Linux-based voice recognition software. That can be a deal breaker. But, for those of us not interested in grappling with W10, it's a conundrum. Charles. -- /Jack Wallen/ Award winning author of dark, twisty fiction And tech journalist Find out more on Get Jack'd http://www.monkeypantz.net TechRepublic http://www.techrepublic.com and Linux.com. http://www.linux.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
On 14/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: display graphics, it's not very elegant. I've found that books with anything more than a stream of text create issues for the Kindle. Ultimately, in the end, you have to export (save as) to HTML anyway (to import into Calibre). Once you've done that, you can arrange your graphics as you see fit. But just taking a LibreOffice doc (with images) and getting into a format the meatgrinder of various ebook sites will accept (such as Amazon, BN, Smashwords, Kobo, etc) will be a challenge. Thankfully there are a multitude of other devices available with the better advantage of epub support. I have to wonder if the LO user guides are simply too complex for elegant translation to e-reader format. They should be; if an academic article with maths and graphics (e.g. http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jtc/2013/349870.epub) can be created, the LO user guides should be possible. -- 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 -- jack wallen, jr --- lover of entropy Writer of the I Zombie, Fringe Killer, Shero, and Screampark series as well as the upcoming The Book of Jacob Series. Learn more @ www.monkeypantz.net -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
Wrong! Calibre does a great job of converting .odt to ePub without an intermediate conversion to HTML. That may be the case, but formatting from HTML will render better results when doing the conversion. This is especially true when uploading books to Barnes Nobel. Their meatgrinder doesn't deal well with things like centering and such. You have to manually edit the CSS of the ebook file in order to get objects actually centered. I've done this on a fourteen ebooks so far. Thankfully there are a multitude of other devices available with the better advantage of epub support. I have to wonder if the LO user guides are simply too complex for elegant translation to e-reader format. They should be; if an academic article with maths and graphics (e.g. http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jtc/2013/349870.epub) can be created, the LO user guides should be possible. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.orgjavascript:; 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 -- jack wallen, jr --- lover of entropy Writer of the I Zombie, Fringe Killer, Shero, and Screampark series as well as the upcoming The Book of Jacob Series. Learn more @ www.monkeypantz.net -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.orgjavascript:; 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 -- jack wallen, jr --- lover of entropy Writer of the I Zombie, Fringe Killer, Shero, and Screampark series as well as the upcoming The Book of Jacob Series. Learn more @ www.monkeypantz.net -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
I fully agree. I use outline level styles all the time, and they make a world of difference, especially when used in headings. They make jumping from one heading to the next actually work on my Kindle. Virgil Along those same lines -- when you convert in Calibre -- the ONLY thing that matters (as far as chapters are concerned) is the style you use for said chapter headings. I always use H3 and then make sure to catch this in the Structure Detection section of the conversion window. With this you can define some nice things (such as page breaks). --- From: Fernand Vanrie Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 3:22 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Virgil , the secret of styles for ebook publishing is the OutLineLevel you can uses any style but change your paragraph styles to the correct OutlineLevel TITEL = OutlineLevel 1 Subtitel = OutlineLevel 2 Subsubtitel = OutlineLevel 3 etc...to 9 Wolfgang, I don't believe I've heard of structure markup style concept and I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I used WordPerfect for years and could never quite get the hang of WP's styles, all the while I took to Word's and OO's (now LO's) styles quite easily. When I used WP, everything was very typewriter-like, with commands being inserted in a linear fashion until they were changed by a later command. Hence the reason reveal codes was so essential with WP. Virgil -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Keller Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 12:17 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer For example, several years ago, my 14 year old son challenged himself to type a 50,000 word novel in November, which is National Novel Writers Month. He met his goal, and quickly dropped the project. As a proud papa, I wanted to put his document to paper. He wrote the original in WordPerfect, and it was a formatting mess, with stray tabs, carriage returns, and inconsistent formatting across chapter and section headings. I began the task of reformatting his 127 page novel using WordPerfect, the original program. It didn't take long for me to realize it would take days and days to wade through all of the formatting codes inserted by WP. I have to say that unlike MS Word and its clones OO and LO, Wordperfect *does* allow proper use of styles for structure markup. Among the dozens of different document processing applications I have used over the past 25 years, Wordperfect was one of the best for authoring strongly structured documents, at par with Framemaker. Unfortunately it fell into the hands of an incompentent company (at Corel). Obivously, nothing (besides Indesign with a *competent* typographer in front of it) beats the typographic output of LyX/LaTeX, so if you want to produce a PDF ready for print, there's no other choice. I even use it for letters. Until they get redesigned to implement a proper structure markup style concept and correct typographic features (all line- and page-breaking algorithms from LaTeX are open-source), LO and OO have their value mostly for generating documents from databases. Sincerely, Wolfgang -- 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 -- jack wallen, jr --- lover of entropy Writer of the I Zombie, Fringe Killer, Shero, and Screampark series as well as the upcoming The Book of Jacob Series. Learn more @ www.monkeypantz.net -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
On 07/11/2013 10:00 PM, rost52 wrote: As a proud papa... I would open the document in Writer, select all and set styles to Default. Then create the styles I wanted and reformat the whole document. On 12.07.2013 01:17, Wolfgang Keller wrote: I'll reiterate this again -- if you're self publishing (and you intend on doing so with Amazon, BN, Smashwords, KOBO, etc... you will have to convert whatever file you create into .mobi or .epub format. The best tool for that task is Calibre. And the best way to do that is to save a doc as an .html file (in LO), import it into Calibre, and then covert it. That's what I've done for every novel I've published. -- *Jack Wallen*|The Zombie King Get on the Dark Hayride at Get Jack'd Author of the I Zombie, Fringe Killers, The Nameless, and Shero series of books -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
Sorry, my original reply went off list. On 07/09/2013 12:10 AM, Pablo Dotro wrote: I thank you for your time and effort. I would prefer to stick to using LO... I seriously considered turning to LaTeX, but I truly feel a little overwhelmed with the amount of learning I would need to do in order to reach the same formatting proficiency I have with a standard word processor. Best regards, I've written fourteen books and used LO for every one. Now I write fiction, so I my books don't tend to use complicated layouts. The important thing to understand is that you will need to use a tool like Calibre to covert the LO-generated HTML file to .mobi and .epub. With Calibre you can generate a TOC and the like. Hope that helps. Jack -- *Jack Wallen*|The Zombie King Get on the Dark Hayride at Get Jack'd Author of the I Zombie, Fringe Killers, The Nameless, and Shero series of books -- 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] digital signatures
Hello all. I'm trying to work out how to add digital signatures to LibreOffice documents, but can not seem to see any self-signed certificate I create on my Ubuntu system (created with either gnomint or tinyca2). Does anyone know the trick to this process? How can I make LibreOffice aware of my certificates? Thank you so much. Jack -- jack wallen, jr --- lover of entropy Writer of the I Zombie trilogy, the Fringe Killer series, Shero, and the upcoming The Book of Jacob Series. www.monkeypantz.net -- 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] new to list - and final showing markup question
Hello list! I am a writer using LibreOffice. My new editor uses MS Word and sent me my book back saying to enable Final Showing Markup. That feature doesn't seem to be anywhere on the latest LibreOffice Writer. Anyone have any insight for this issue? Thank you so much. Jack -- Jack Wallen http://www.monkeypantz.net Writer of many things. Purchase my novels on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com,ebookstore.sony.com, smashwords.com, autumnalpress.com View my tech articles on techrepublic.com, linux.com, and ghacks.net -- 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
