Re: [users] Re: [OOo Draw] Importing custom shapes
NoOp wrote: I'm not sure that I understand. If you have .sdg files, then you should also have a corresponding .thm and .sdv file - copy all three to the /share/gallery. I did that in making a copy of existing sdg/thm/sdv files. The result is two Themes with the same name and no shapes in them. Apparently the name of the files is quite important. -- Groeten, Bart Friederichs TBWB - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Error handling in OpenOffice BASIC
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Bart Friederichs wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Do you check in an error handler? I assume that you are NOT using something like on error resume next, and also, that you have not used a resume command explicitly. Here is my code: Sub Main [... snip..] On Error Goto ErrorHandler [.. snip, where an error might occur ..] Exit Sub ErrorHandler: MsgBox Error Err at processing sheet (line Erl ): Error$ End Sub Does not look like you reset the error... Do you know what error does occur? Yes. The Error$ is set correctly, as is the Erl. Bart -- Groeten, Bart Friederichs TBWB - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] 4 Questions
Hello Recently I was given the gift of a new old desktop that has open office instead of microsoft word So I noticed it doesn't have some of the features I usually use for my business requiring alot of photo cropping and transfer of documents to jpg Crop? How do I crop in this version of paint ? Once the desired portion of the image is selected, I can't find crop to cut off the excess I usually find in the Image tab JPG ? How do you save a document or image created in paint as a jpg? I used to use publisher But also used to see that as a option in the paint program File save as.. jpg JAVA ? Is it compatible to download the java upgrades ? I think I saw notice of some kind of missing java when trying to use movie maker Flash ? The videoemails I'm not able to view also prompt to download latest version of flash? Woudl that be compatible with open office ? Thank you for your time and for providing this free service God Bless !!! ;-) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [users] OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 - PDF import extension
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:40:28 +0200 Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installed the new 3.0.0 a couple of minutes ago and I finally could try the PDF import extension, that needs OpenOffice.org 3. It's great now being able to import PDF files, but unfortunately my test file didn't look very good, so it's pretty useless for me, at least at the moment. Take a look and see for yourselves. The filehttp://www.konsumentverket.se/Documents/bilar/kopekontrakt_bilar.pdflooks right with Adobe Reader, Evince and probably with most of the PDF readers out there. Try to import it to OpenOffice.org and see the differences. Can anyone be satisfied with this? I'll file a bug report unless someone here tells me not to. J.R. Hello Johnny What does it look like if you follow these steps: 1. Open kopekontrakt_bilar.pdf 2.Make some arbitrary changes just to make sure that the pdf plugin has done something. 3. Export the resulting Draw document to a PDF. 4. Open the resulting PDF in the PDF viewer of your choice. I did exactly the above four steps. I changed one word on the second page. Here is the resulting PDF: http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/kopekontrakt_bilar2.pdf I agree that when your PDF (or any other that I have tried) is opened up using this plugin, that it looks really bad. In fact, Format | Page | Page shows the following information: Format: A4 Margins: Left: 1.18 Right: 0.39 Top: 0.63 Bottom: 0.39 This looked really bad. BUT, the resulting PDF seems to look perfect. The margins are certainly nothing like Draw reported them to be. Steven P. Ulrick P.S.: To all of those that are having issues with this plugin, here is some info about our system: Operating System: Fedora Linux 9 OpenOffice.org Version: DEV300_m33 Build-1 PDF Import Extension: 0.3.2 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Significant bug and system freeze
Hello, I'm running Open Office 3 on my Intel iMac with OSX 10.4.11. My finder and system locks up and requires a reboot under the following circumstances: I first open the Drawing program in Open Office. Next, I go to Insert / Picture / From File. At this point both the Open Office program and the finder locks up. I'm unable to perform a force quit of Open Office and must restart the computer. This bug happens each time I attempt to perform the above procedure in the Open Office drawing program. Sincerely, Gibbs Frazeur - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] 4 Questions
2008/10/19 Tina Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Recently I was given the gift of a new old desktop that has open office instead of microsoft word So I noticed it doesn't have some of the features I usually use for my business requiring alot of photo cropping and transfer of documents to jpg Crop? How do I crop in this version of paint ? Once the desired portion of the image is selected, I can't find crop to cut off the excess I usually find in the Image tab Paint is not an Open Office application. So, it has nothing to do with Open Office. JPG ? How do you save a document or image created in paint as a jpg? I used to use publisher But also used to see that as a option in the paint program File save as.. jpg JAVA ? Is it compatible to download the java upgrades ? I think I saw notice of some kind of missing java when trying to use movie maker Flash ? The videoemails I'm not able to view also prompt to download latest version of flash? Woudl that be compatible with open office ? None of these issues are Open Office related. Open Office is the suite of programs that includes Writer, Calc, and Impress. What you need is an MS Windows mailing list. Try searching Google for it, or try the Microsoft website. All good operating systems have public user's mailing lists. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
Re: [users] Significant bug and system freeze
2008/10/18 Gibbs Frazeur [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I'm running Open Office 3 on my Intel iMac with OSX 10.4.11. My finder and system locks up and requires a reboot under the following circumstances: I first open the Drawing program in Open Office. Next, I go to Insert / Picture / From File. At this point both the Open Office program and the finder locks up. I'm unable to perform a force quit of Open Office and must restart the computer. This bug happens each time I attempt to perform the above procedure in the Open Office drawing program. Thanks, Gibbs. Please provide a link to the issue in the Open Office Issue Tracker so that other Mac OS users could triage and fix the bug. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
Re: [users] Significant bug and system freeze
2008/10/20 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/10/18 Gibbs Frazeur [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I'm running Open Office 3 on my Intel iMac with OSX 10.4.11. My finder and system locks up and requires a reboot under the following circumstances: I first open the Drawing program in Open Office. Next, I go to Insert / Picture / From File. At this point both the Open Office program and the finder locks up. I'm unable to perform a force quit of Open Office and must restart the computer. This bug happens each time I attempt to perform the above procedure in the Open Office drawing program. Thanks, Gibbs. Please provide a link to the issue in the Open Office Issue Tracker so that other Mac OS users could triage and fix the bug. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü Hello, I don't have the OOo 3.0 official release, because there isn't a Dutch version yet. I understand that the RC4 is identical to it (I have m9-build 9358). I can't confirm the issue. The procedure described by OP works normally for me on my iMac Intel with Tiger (10.4.11) -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.0 RC4 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.0.0 RC4 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
Re: [users] I cannot use OOo 3.0
It is a company box, company customed OS I downloaded OOo3 from official website. And just rpm -i *.rpm. Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/10/20 Magicloud [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I used to use 2.4, with external jre. Everything is fine. Now I updated to 3.0. Well, with no matter external or internal jre, I met the same problem: Wherever I hit a key, I mean input, the program hung. The only thing I can do is to kill it. I am using java 1.6.0_07, linux 2.6.9-67 i686 How did you install OOo3? What distro are you using? That is a rather old kernel and for various reasons you should consider upgrading. That may or may not solve this issue, but it will most definitely provide you with other benefits as well. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Problems with bullets in indented text styles in openoffice.org 3.0 writer
Thank you lot! Both workarounds are working and can be easily implemented in text style. Sincerely, Andis Brian Barker wrote: At 07:46 20/10/2008 +0300, Andis Noname wrote: I used to have indented text styles (for example all 'Text body' has 2 cm from the left border). Earlier (in 2.x versions) there was no problems, when I inserted bullets in those indented styles, but in 3.0 version outlined text is not aligned from the left, but disordered (first line has larger indent than further lines) and some changes happens in paragraph styles. There are no problems with text styles, which aren't indented initially. I attached and example, but I don't know will it go through. At the moment I solve this by coping outlined text from older documents created with 2.x and applying styles from the old fashion outlined text to the new one, but I hope that it can be solved somehow directly in 3.0 writer documents. Has anybody solution for that? I can see the problem. Your header line has the margin at 2 cm in from the text boundary, as you would expect. But in the bulleted paragraphs, the margins are left behind at the positions that you would expect without this indent. (You you can see this from the positions of the triangular markers in the horizontal ruler.) The first line of each bulleted item is allowed to land on a default tab stop instead of at a defined position. Subsequent lines work correctly. I can see solutions - or are they workarounds? o Go to right-click | Edit Paragraph Style... . o In your modified Text body paragraph style, as well as setting the 2-cm indent, go to the Tabs tab and set a Left tab at 2 cm. Alternatively, o Go to Format | Bullets and Numbering... | Position (or right-click | Numbering/Bullets... | Position. o Increase the value for Numbering followed by Tab stop at from 1.27cm to 3.27cm - to account for your extra 2-cm indent. I'll leave others to explain (1) if there are better ways of doing this, and (2) whether this is a bug or a feature! I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] I cannot use OOo 3.0
2008/10/20 Magicloud [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It is a company box, company customed OS I downloaded OOo3 from official website. And just rpm -i *.rpm. Then ask your IT department. Let us know how that goes, though, as in many companies they more hinder work than make it possible... -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
Re: [users] I cannot use OOo 3.0
2008/10/20 Magicloud [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I used to use 2.4, with external jre. Everything is fine. Now I updated to 3.0. Well, with no matter external or internal jre, I met the same problem: Wherever I hit a key, I mean input, the program hung. The only thing I can do is to kill it. I am using java 1.6.0_07, linux 2.6.9-67 i686 How did you install OOo3? What distro are you using? That is a rather old kernel and for various reasons you should consider upgrading. That may or may not solve this issue, but it will most definitely provide you with other benefits as well. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
Re: [users] 4 Questions
- Original Message - From: Jan Beranek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 5:03 AM Subject: Re: [users] 4 Questions Hello, Crop? How do I crop in this version of paint ? Once the desired portion of the image is selected, I can't find crop to cut off the excess I usually find in the Image tab In my OOo (version 3.0, in writer) is it working. snip JAVA ? Is it compatible to download the java upgrades ? I think I saw notice of some kind of missing java when trying to use movie maker First - did you download OOo with JRE option? If you did not then you will need to go to Sun's Java site and download/install the latest Java. http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp In Writer go to Tools -- Options -- Java Make sure Use a Java Runtime Environment is checked. Then if there is no Java version shown, then you press ADD and check the Java version that you downloaded. If you see several versions of Java, check the latest version. Flash ? The videoemails I'm not able to view also prompt to download latest version of flash? Here is a link to www.download.com and the search for a Flash Player http://www.download.com/1770-2001_4-0.html?query=Flash+playertag=srchsearchtype=downloads If you use FireFox, you also can find Flash Players add-ons. I do not know what Email client you are using, so I do not know if it has the option to add a Flash Player as an add-on. But you can always look for one. If you are getting the Flash from YouTube link, there is software that can download it from YouTube and then convert it to a different version. I went to www.download.com and did a search and found YouTube Downloader. If you have Vista (or XP), the best video player is GOM Player. It is one of the best free video players for Vista. It is simple to use. I hope that helped a little. -- Tim L. Elmira NY USA (web at work) retired, but working (volunteering) hard for not-for-profit organizations -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Bad Bug in 3.0 windoze
In Calc when I type in a number like a part number, it automatically destroys my entry and makes it a date. I tried changing the format to number and it still ruins the spreadsheet by making the part number a date. It seems to work correctly if I format the part number column as text, but if Calc automatically turns all numbers to a date, it will have no useful value as a program. I never had this problem with 2.4 Floyd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] OTL files - Out Text files?
Here is a question. I have a Bible file in a OTL type of file. It is an Outline Text type of document. Using NoteTab Light, I get a frame that has the Books listed and a frame with the Book's verses. Click on the Book and it brings up its verses, not any other part of the OTL file. In OOo, I read in the OTL file and it becomes one continuous page, no outlines. Has anyone worked with an OTL file? Is there a way to read in an Outlined Text document into OOo and get the correct formated sections? At 58,307 lines in the file, it is much easier to show it in the Outline format, then one continuous page. it uses inline commands in the documents like; = V4 Outline MultiLine NoSorting TabWidth=30 H=King James Bible H= Genesis Personally, I have never see such a document. I wonder if it is a format that began it the DOS days or an early word processing DOS Text format. I can send you directly the file and an image what it looks like. Or I can send you the files plus NoteTab Light. (you can download NoteTab Light from www.downloads.com) Windows NotePad does not show it. Neither does: EmEditor, OpenOffice.org Write, and MS Word. Only NoteTab Light so far. XP does not even associate that file to NoteTab Light. I had to make the association. I always try to read unknow file formats in that text editor as my default option. I use OpenOffice.org for my Office stuff, KompoZer for my HTML stuff, NoteTab Light for my plain text stuff like Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScripts for web sites or just plain TXT files types. SO can anyone help? Anyone used OTL files before? Anyway to get OOo to have one frame show the Outline Headings and another to show the text of that outlined section? Tim L. (web at work) who lost all of my DOS books (and much more references) in my last move.
Re: [users] 4 Questions
Hello, Crop? How do I crop in this version of paint ? Once the desired portion of the image is selected, I can't find crop to cut off the excess I usually find in the Image tab In my OOo (version 3.0, in writer) is it working. Select desired picture, right-click, select Picture.../Crop In Draw right click and select Crop Picture... JPG ? How do you save a document or image created in paint as a jpg? I used to use publisher But also used to see that as a option in the paint program File save as.. jpg in Draw : File/Export JAVA ? Is it compatible to download the java upgrades ? I think I saw notice of some kind of missing java when trying to use movie maker Flash ? The videoemails I'm not able to view also prompt to download latest version of flash? Woudl that be compatible with open office ? - sorry I have no experience with flash... btw. there is no paint program in OpenOffice - here is Draw. Regards Jan
Re: [users] Problems with bullets in indented text styles in openoffice.org 3.0 writer
At 07:46 20/10/2008 +0300, Andis Noname wrote: I used to have indented text styles (for example all 'Text body' has 2 cm from the left border). Earlier (in 2.x versions) there was no problems, when I inserted bullets in those indented styles, but in 3.0 version outlined text is not aligned from the left, but disordered (first line has larger indent than further lines) and some changes happens in paragraph styles. There are no problems with text styles, which aren't indented initially. I attached and example, but I don't know will it go through. At the moment I solve this by coping outlined text from older documents created with 2.x and applying styles from the old fashion outlined text to the new one, but I hope that it can be solved somehow directly in 3.0 writer documents. Has anybody solution for that? I can see the problem. Your header line has the margin at 2 cm in from the text boundary, as you would expect. But in the bulleted paragraphs, the margins are left behind at the positions that you would expect without this indent. (You you can see this from the positions of the triangular markers in the horizontal ruler.) The first line of each bulleted item is allowed to land on a default tab stop instead of at a defined position. Subsequent lines work correctly. I can see solutions - or are they workarounds? o Go to right-click | Edit Paragraph Style... . o In your modified Text body paragraph style, as well as setting the 2-cm indent, go to the Tabs tab and set a Left tab at 2 cm. Alternatively, o Go to Format | Bullets and Numbering... | Position (or right-click | Numbering/Bullets... | Position. o Increase the value for Numbering followed by Tab stop at from 1.27cm to 3.27cm - to account for your extra 2-cm indent. I'll leave others to explain (1) if there are better ways of doing this, and (2) whether this is a bug or a feature! I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 - PDF import extension
2008/10/19 Steven P. Ulrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:40:28 +0200 Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installed the new 3.0.0 a couple of minutes ago and I finally could try the PDF import extension, that needs OpenOffice.org 3. It's great now being able to import PDF files, but unfortunately my test file didn't look very good, so it's pretty useless for me, at least at the moment. Take a look and see for yourselves. The file http://www.konsumentverket.se/Documents/bilar/kopekontrakt_bilar.pdflooks right with Adobe Reader, Evince and probably with most of the PDF readers out there. Try to import it to OpenOffice.org and see the differences. Can anyone be satisfied with this? I'll file a bug report unless someone here tells me not to. J.R. Hello Johnny What does it look like if you follow these steps: 1. Open kopekontrakt_bilar.pdf 2.Make some arbitrary changes just to make sure that the pdf plugin has done something. 3. Export the resulting Draw document to a PDF. 4. Open the resulting PDF in the PDF viewer of your choice. I did exactly the above four steps. I changed one word on the second page. Here is the resulting PDF: http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/kopekontrakt_bilar2.pdf I agree that when your PDF (or any other that I have tried) is opened up using this plugin, that it looks really bad. In fact, Format | Page | Page shows the following information: Format: A4 Margins: Left: 1.18 Right: 0.39 Top: 0.63 Bottom: 0.39 This looked really bad. BUT, the resulting PDF seems to look perfect. The margins are certainly nothing like Draw reported them to be. Steven P. Ulrick P.S.: To all of those that are having issues with this plugin, here is some info about our system: Operating System: Fedora Linux 9 OpenOffice.org Version: DEV300_m33 Build-1 PDF Import Extension: 0.3.2 I attached the resulting file now, after I exported it to PDF from Draw. It doesn't look like yours, and none of them are exactly right. *Your PDF:* - Check boxes are gone - I can't input things on the empty lines (it was possible with the original file) - Empty lines are positioned a bit too high, maybe 1 or 2 mm *My PDF:* - Check boxes are replaced by an r with a different font - I can't input things on the empty lines - Some lines are too long (maybe a font issue) So there is still no way to fill in a PDF form and save it properly… (I've tried a few other applications, but no luck so far) J.R. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Bad Bug in 3.0 windoze
At 08:01 20/10/2008 -0600, Floyd Beaver wrote: In Calc when I type in a number like a part number, it automatically destroys my entry and makes it a date. I tried changing the format to number and it still ruins the spreadsheet by making the part number a date. It seems to work correctly if I format the part number column as text, but if Calc automatically turns all numbers to a date, it will have no useful value as a program. I never had this problem with 2.4 It doesn't help to say a number like a part number: if your numbers are indeed plain numbers, Calc will not do what you describe, of course. What format do your part numbers have? If they include such things as points, hyphens, or slashes and your cell format is Number, then - depending on your locale - Calc may indeed interpret your values as dates and convert them appropriately. This is documented, so it is not a bug: it is a feature! (Oh, and Calc does not turn[] all numbers to a date.) You say that you can achieve what you want by formatting the cells as text, and this is indeed what you should do. Another way to achieve the same result is to precede the entered text with an apostrophe: this is a signal to Calc that you want your entry to appear as text and to disable automatic conversion to date format. Note that, if you have custom quotes enabled under AutoCorrect you will need to disable this or else to type Ctrl+Z to undo this correction after typing the apostrophe. It's also worth saying that anyway you really do need to ensure that your values are entered as text in situations like this. Your part number is presumably a string of characters, many of which may be digits. But you do not want this to be represented as a number (any more than a date), as this may be rounded and would be displayed to a chosen number of digits. 12.5 is presumably a different part number from 12.50, but they are the same number. There is also a smallish limit to how many digits you can store in a number; this doesn't apply to strings of digits as text. So your discovered solution - formatting the cells as text - is exactly the one you should be using. (I suspect that millions of OpenOffice users out there may disagree that Calc will have no useful value as a program.) I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: Formatting in Impress 3.0
On 10/19/2008 03:49 AM, Stefan Gradmann wrote: Hi Adrian, thanks for this instant reaction! Hi Stefan To my embarrassment I now feel that there may be a serious bug still present in the recently released version of OOo Impress, since I am loosing parts of the formatting information of any presentation file saved in impress 3.0: basically, numbering and bulleting formats either vanish completely or get partially distorted. Are you saving the documents as odt or doc? I am saving in odt! Perhaps you mean .odp I'm not sure if this is related, but it appears that there was considerable work done with bullets in Impress: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=90113 [Finish user interface changes for bullet core rework in OOo 3.0 for impress/draw] Finding a specific Impress issue isn't the easiest, but you can have a look at: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/reports.cgi?state=Open+issuesshow_issues=oncontaining=Impresstype=x=Milestoney=Priority and to see the issues by milestone you can click the Total number and that will show you the issues. You can then search for 'bullet' etc. Also, can you perhaps post a single page .odp that illustrates the problem? That and a pdf of the same slide? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: Bad Bug in 3.0 windoze
The Beaver wrote: In Calc when I type in a number like a part number, it automatically destroys my entry and makes it a date. I tried changing the format to number and it still ruins the spreadsheet by making the part number a date. It seems to work correctly if I format the part number column as text, but if Calc automatically turns all numbers to a date, it will have no useful value as a program. I never had this problem with 2.4 Floyd I opened Calc version 3.0 in Windows XP. I type some values like 20081018, 20071212, 20070530 into the cells of an empty spreadsheet. They did not change from numeric to date format. I typed the value 00081018 and it changed to 81018. All seems normal. Try it yourself with a blank spreadsheet. Check the formatting applied to the cells which are changing the numeric value to a date value with the formatting applied to cells in a blank sheet. Jim Allan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 - PDF import extension
On 10/20/2008 08:18 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2008/10/19 Steven P. Ulrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:40:28 +0200 Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installed the new 3.0.0 a couple of minutes ago and I finally could try the PDF import extension, that needs OpenOffice.org 3. It's great now being able to import PDF files, but unfortunately my test file didn't look very good, so it's pretty useless for me, at least at the moment. Take a look and see for yourselves. The file http://www.konsumentverket.se/Documents/bilar/kopekontrakt_bilar.pdflooks right with Adobe Reader, Evince and probably with most of the PDF readers out there. Try to import it to OpenOffice.org and see the differences. Can anyone be satisfied with this? I'll file a bug report unless someone here tells me not to. J.R. Hello Johnny What does it look like if you follow these steps: 1. Open kopekontrakt_bilar.pdf 2.Make some arbitrary changes just to make sure that the pdf plugin has done something. 3. Export the resulting Draw document to a PDF. 4. Open the resulting PDF in the PDF viewer of your choice. I did exactly the above four steps. I changed one word on the second page. Here is the resulting PDF: http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/kopekontrakt_bilar2.pdf I agree that when your PDF (or any other that I have tried) is opened up using this plugin, that it looks really bad. In fact, Format | Page | Page shows the following information: Format: A4 Margins: Left: 1.18 Right: 0.39 Top: 0.63 Bottom: 0.39 This looked really bad. BUT, the resulting PDF seems to look perfect. The margins are certainly nothing like Draw reported them to be. Steven P. Ulrick P.S.: To all of those that are having issues with this plugin, here is some info about our system: Operating System: Fedora Linux 9 OpenOffice.org Version: DEV300_m33 Build-1 PDF Import Extension: 0.3.2 I attached the resulting file now, after I exported it to PDF from Draw. It doesn't look like yours, and none of them are exactly right. *Your PDF:* - Check boxes are gone - I can't input things on the empty lines (it was possible with the original file) - Empty lines are positioned a bit too high, maybe 1 or 2 mm *My PDF:* - Check boxes are replaced by an r with a different font - I can't input things on the empty lines - Some lines are too long (maybe a font issue) So there is still no way to fill in a PDF form and save it properly… (I've tried a few other applications, but no luck so far) J.R. Nor do I think you will be able to with the extension; I don't think it's meant for that. When I have to fill out forms like this (for me US tax forms are a good example), I open the form in Adobe Reader (8), fill out the form, and then print it to a cups-pdf virtual printer. That saves the filled out form in PDF. I've found that to me _much_ easier than trying to use PDFEdit and other such pdf editors (other than actual Adobe Acrobat of course). On Windows you should be able to do the same by printing the filled out form to PDFCreator. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Installation Instructions for 3.0 / Linux
I downloaded the tar.gz file for 64-bit Debian Linux and untarred it. That created a folder OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358 containing 48 .deb files, a license file and a readme file, plus one shell script update. The readme said nothing about how to install it. I ran the shell script, but it flashed a terminal window for half a second and then disappeared. Note that I want to migrate settings from my current 2.4.1, but I want to leave 2.4.1 installed as is. I do know how to install a .deb file, but where do I start? Do I just have to install all 48 files individually? -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Installation Instructions for 3.0 / Linux
2008/10/20 John Jason Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I downloaded the tar.gz file for 64-bit Debian Linux and untarred it. That created a folder OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358 containing 48 .deb files, a license file and a readme file, plus one shell script update. The readme said nothing about how to install it. I ran the shell script, but it flashed a terminal window for half a second and then disappeared. Note that I want to migrate settings from my current 2.4.1, but I want to leave 2.4.1 installed as is. I do know how to install a .deb file, but where do I start? Do I just have to install all 48 files individually? As to your last question, definitely not. In a terminal, just cd into the DEBS directory and then run «sudo dpkg -i *.deb». This procedure worked fine for me with all of the 3.0 builds. Just remember to uninstall earlier versions of OOo 3 beta (*not* 2.4.1) in Synaptic, in the event you have any, prior to carrying out the above Henri
[users] OOo3.0.0: Error in writing sub-document content.xml
I have installed OpenOffice.org version 3.0.0, build 9358, on a Debian amd-64 laptop. I have just written a writer document, but I cannot save it. I have managed to save in MS Office 97/2000 format, though. The error message does not help in any way, it does not point at any particular place in the text, it does not specify the nature of the error, there is no partially written file that I could examine (or I could not find it). My .xsession-errors does not contain anything from OOo, but that could be due to a feature of the display manager (gdm). Whenever I start a browser (unrelated to OOo) the .xsession-errors fills up with repeated messages until gdm writes ...Too much output, ignoring rest To get around this gdm feature, I have tried to attach to the soffice process with strace, to see if it writes anything to stdout or stderr. It does not seem to do. (The output is so voluminous and difficult to navigate, but searching for the regular expression write.*([12], did not find anything, while write.*([0-9]*, did.) I do observe that OOo writes to files in /tmp, like /tmp/svf1p.tmp/svg7f.tmp, but it subsequently deletes the files before I can have a chance to examine their contents for any hints. The document contains parts in different languages, that is the only thing that may be unusual, that I am aware of. (Languages English (UK), French (fr), Norwegian (two variants, Bokmål and Nynorsk). However, I am pretty sure I have saved several times along the way. I have had the application open for several days, and it would be no small amount of work lost if I loose everything. How can I get past this? Should I report a bug? I have found a few messages on the web containing (almost) the same error message, but it applied to 2.4. To report, how do I do? Regards, Enrique - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Mailing labels to Avery 5260
I am trying to print labels from a database table to a template for mailing labels I have followed the instructions from OOo help 1.Choose File - New - Labels to open the Labels dialog. 2.Select the format of the label sheets you want to print on. Remember to mark Synchronize contents on the Options tab. 3.Click New Document. 4.When you see the label document, open the data source view by choosing View - Data Sources. 5.In the data source view, select your address data source table. 6.Drag the data fields needed for the Address individually into the top left label. For example, click on the column header NAME and, keeping the mouse button depressed, drag it into the label. This inserts a field. Put the fields in order to complete the address in the first label at top left. 7.Place the cursor at the last text position (after the last field) in the first label. 8.Choose Insert - Fields - Other, and go to the Database tab. 9.Select the type Next record, click on Insert and then on Close. 10.You can now synchronize the labels. Click on the Synchronize Labels button in the small window. 11.In the data source view, select the records for which you would like address stickers, by clicking on the row headers to the left. Use the Shift or Ctrl key in the usual way to select several records at the same time. 12.On the Table Data bar, click the Data to Fields icon. 13.You can then save and/or print the label document. When you choose to print the document, you will be asked if you want to print a form letter. Answer Yes to open the Mail Merge dialog. When I get to step 10 I get only one page of records with all the same information. I have tried step 11 and 12 but get the same result I have 4,018 more records selected. Is there better information on how to print labels elsewhere. Thanks in advance for any help - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: OOo3.0.0: Error in writing sub-document content.xml
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 23:20 +0200, Enrique Perez-Terron wrote: I have installed OpenOffice.org version 3.0.0, build 9358, on a Debian amd-64 laptop. I have just written a writer document, but I cannot save it. I have managed to save in MS Office 97/2000 format, though. The error message does not help in any way, it does not point at any particular place in the text, it does not specify the nature of the error, there is no partially written file that I could examine (or I could not find it). I found something. Saving as html, there was a stray LI outside any UL../UL pair. In the OOo window (still open) the paragraph has a custom paragraph style ehrc-bullet, which in turn refers to the custom list style in the Numbering page. Applying a different style to that paragraph, it becomes possible to save the document. 1. However, the paragraph shows in the OOo writer window without any bullet. Yes, now I remember. I created the style with the intention of applying it to any paragraph that need a bullet in front of it. I have tried to apply specific styles to all paragraphs in the document, and do all formatting through Modify... in the context menu on the style in the Styles and Formatting window. All my paragraphs have custom styles. I created them by first formatting a paragraph manually, then selecting a word in the paragraph, then dragging the selection to the Paragraph styles selector at the top of the Styles and Formatting window. The paragraph used to create ehrc-bullet *had* a bullet. However, when I applied the ehcr-bullet style to the first paragraph in what I thought should become another list, no bullet appeared. (I had already written a couple of list items as ordinary paragraphs, and wanted to convert them to a list.) I created a custom list style and linked to it in the Numbering tab of the paragraph style, in the Numbering Style field. Yet no bullet. Now I know that some kind of bullets on got set internally, since a) I get this error when saving, and b) there is LI when I save as HTML. (I have to say I find the help in the application lacking, because it never explains the *architecture* of the system of styles. E.g, if I apply a list style, will that remove the paragraph style? In other words, is a list style just another paragraph style that happens to have the bullet and numbering properties set? I did find something about this at openoffice.org. Why has nothing of the stuff on the wiki pages been incorporated in the help? Even the wiki was just a beginning, and I now have problems finding back to it... Perhaps users on this list (myself included) can team up to help here. If we try to generalize from our experiences, and others point out counterexamples, we should arrive at a description that works. Or, does this already exist?) Regards, Enrique - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] OTL files - Out Text files?
Original Message From: web at work [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:17:07 -0400 Here is a question. I have a Bible file in a OTL type of file. It is an Outline Text type of document. Using NoteTab Light, I get a frame that has the Books listed and a frame with the Book's verses. Click on the Book and it brings up its verses, not any other part of the OTL file. In OOo, I read in the OTL file and it becomes one continuous page, no outlines. Has anyone worked with an OTL file? Is there a way to read in an Outlined Text document into OOo and get the correct formated sections? At 58,307 lines in the file, it is much easier to show it in the Outline format, then one continuous page. it uses inline commands in the documents like; = V4 Outline MultiLine NoSorting TabWidth=30 H=King James Bible H= Genesis Personally, I have never see such a document. I wonder if it is a format that began it the DOS days or an early word processing DOS Text format. I can send you directly the file and an image what it looks like. Or I can send you the files plus NoteTab Light. (you can download NoteTab Light from www.downloads.com) Windows NotePad does not show it. Neither does: EmEditor, OpenOffice.org Write, and MS Word. Only NoteTab Light so far. XP does not even associate that file to NoteTab Light. I had to make the association. I always try to read unknow file formats in that text editor as my default option. I use OpenOffice.org for my Office stuff, KompoZer for my HTML stuff, NoteTab Light for my plain text stuff like Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScripts for web sites or just plain TXT files types. SO can anyone help? Anyone used OTL files before? Anyway to get OOo to have one frame show the Outline Headings and another to show the text of that outlined section? Tim L. (web at work) who lost all of my DOS books (and much more references) in my last move. OTL is the file extension that Eric G.V. Fookes (Fookes Software) chose to identify the OuTLine feature he built into the NoteTab software. These are just plain text, with no embedded formatting codes in the true sense. Other than the presence of the first line in an OTL file and the equal sign, used as a tag by the NoteTab software, there is nothing special about these text files. In fact if you open one in any other plain text editor (eg. Windows Notepad), remove just the first line (eg. = V4 Outline MultiLine NoSorting TabWidth=30) and save it, NoteTab will open it as it would any other plain text file, with no side panel. The side panel displaying the headings/Books is hard coded into NoteTab. So there is no reason why OOo, or any other software should display these files as anything other than plain text. Unless, for some reason, that other software is emulating NoteTab. I have a few ideas how something similar might be replicated in Writer and somebody (not me), with the necessary skills, could possibly even write an otl to odt converter. However, I don't see this as an award winning feature for OOo. Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: [OOo Draw] Importing custom shapes
On 10/19/2008 11:46 PM, Bart Friederichs wrote: NoOp wrote: I'm not sure that I understand. If you have .sdg files, then you should also have a corresponding .thm and .sdv file - copy all three to the /share/gallery. I did that in making a copy of existing sdg/thm/sdv files. The result is two Themes with the same name and no shapes in them. Apparently the name of the files is quite important. Ah. You are correct. I just tried with themes of the same name with the same results as you. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Installation Instructions for 3.0 / Linux
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:09:50 +0200 M Henri Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: 2008/10/20 John Jason Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I downloaded the tar.gz file for 64-bit Debian Linux and untarred it. That created a folder OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358 containing 48 .deb files, a license file and a readme file, plus one shell script update. The readme said nothing about how to install it. I ran the shell script, but it flashed a terminal window for half a second and then disappeared. Note that I want to migrate settings from my current 2.4.1, but I want to leave 2.4.1 installed as is. I do know how to install a .deb file, but where do I start? Do I just have to install all 48 files individually? As to your last question, definitely not. In a terminal, just cd into the DEBS directory and then run «sudo dpkg -i *.deb». This procedure worked fine for me with all of the 3.0 builds. Just remember to uninstall earlier versions of OOo 3 beta (*not* 2.4.1) in Synaptic, in the event you have any, prior to carrying out the above Thanks for the response. That is what I was thinking I would have to do, but it just seemed strange to me that there was not a script or mechanism included to do the job for the user who is not familiar with dpkg or apt at the command line. Normally when an application comes in multiple debs there is a core or main deb that is defined as the dummy package which calls the other debs required by the application, and then installs them in whatever order is required, if a special order is necessary. I never installed any of the 3.0 betas, so uninstalling them is not an issue. I have a couple additional questions. The folder is arranged as follows: DEBS 4096 2008-10-20 16:24 desktop-integration -rw-rw-r-- 1 jjj jjj 438754 2008-09-22 07:16 openoffice.org3.0-debian-menus_3.0-9354_all.deb 2775746 2008-09-30 06:43 ooobasis3.0-base_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 9216574 2008-09-30 06:39 ooobasis3.0-binfilter_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 5333956 2008-09-30 06:44 ooobasis3.0-calc_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 1086008 2008-09-30 06:32 ooobasis3.0-core01_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 330438 2008-09-30 06:48 ooobasis3.0-core02_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 7041402 2008-09-30 06:33 ooobasis3.0-core03_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 37402680 2008-09-30 07:03 ooobasis3.0-core04_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 15440282 2008-09-30 06:47 ooobasis3.0-core05_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 12619386 2008-09-30 06:56 ooobasis3.0-core06_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 3260850 2008-09-30 06:49 ooobasis3.0-core07_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 4318 2008-09-30 06:43 ooobasis3.0-draw_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 9069880 2008-09-30 06:41 ooobasis3.0-en-us_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 762580 2008-09-30 06:40 ooobasis3.0-en-us-base_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 30504 2008-09-30 06:39 ooobasis3.0-en-us-binfilter_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 1779814 2008-09-30 06:40 ooobasis3.0-en-us-calc_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 962416 2008-09-30 06:39 ooobasis3.0-en-us-draw_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 3972380 2008-09-30 06:40 ooobasis3.0-en-us-help_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 1236884 2008-09-30 06:39 ooobasis3.0-en-us-impress_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 962310 2008-09-30 06:40 ooobasis3.0-en-us-math_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 352682 2008-09-30 06:42 ooobasis3.0-en-us-res_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 1784786 2008-09-30 06:41 ooobasis3.0-en-us-writer_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 77058 2008-09-30 06:37 ooobasis3.0-gnome-integration_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 166222 2008-09-30 06:37 ooobasis3.0-graphicfilter_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 20127000 2008-09-30 06:39 ooobasis3.0-images_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 98672 2008-09-30 06:42 ooobasis3.0-impress_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 91914 2008-09-30 06:37 ooobasis3.0-javafilter_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 27916 2008-09-30 06:37 ooobasis3.0-kde-integration_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 321916 2008-09-30 06:43 ooobasis3.0-math_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 101570 2008-09-30 06:33 ooobasis3.0-onlineupdate_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 5011844 2008-09-30 06:42 ooobasis3.0-ooofonts_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 169572 2008-09-30 06:39 ooobasis3.0-ooolinguistic_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 3254766 2008-09-30 06:37 ooobasis3.0-pyuno_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 378214 2008-09-30 06:33 ooobasis3.0-testtool_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 2805692 2008-09-30 06:43 ooobasis3.0-writer_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 40830 2008-09-30 06:33 ooobasis3.0-xsltfilter_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 573704 2008-09-30 06:48 openoffice.org3_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 774 2008-09-30 06:43 openoffice.org3-base_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 774 2008-09-30 06:43 openoffice.org3-calc_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 5994564 2008-09-30 06:49 openoffice.org3-dict-en_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 309922 2008-09-30 07:03 openoffice.org3-dict-es_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 2155734 2008-09-30 06:39 openoffice.org3-dict-fr_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 782 2008-09-30 06:43 openoffice.org3-draw_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 76438 2008-09-30 06:41 openoffice.org3-en-us_3.0.0-9_amd64.deb 776
[users] Re: Installation Instructions for 3.0 / Linux
On 10/20/2008 02:09 PM, M Henri Day wrote: 2008/10/20 John Jason Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I downloaded the tar.gz file for 64-bit Debian Linux and untarred it. That created a folder OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358 containing 48 .deb files, a license file and a readme file, plus one shell script update. The readme said nothing about how to install it. I ran the shell script, but it flashed a terminal window for half a second and then disappeared. Note that I want to migrate settings from my current 2.4.1, but I want to leave 2.4.1 installed as is. I do know how to install a .deb file, but where do I start? Do I just have to install all 48 files individually? As to your last question, definitely not. In a terminal, just cd into the DEBS directory and then run «sudo dpkg -i *.deb». This procedure worked fine for me with all of the 3.0 builds. Just remember to uninstall earlier versions of OOo 3 beta (*not* 2.4.1) in Synaptic, in the event you have any, prior to carrying out the above Henri Henri is correct. Also here is a link with graphics that might help: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-openoffice-3.0.0-on-ubuntu-8.04 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Re: Installation Instructions for 3.0 / Linux
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:53:29 -0700 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Henri is correct. Also here is a link with graphics that might help: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-openoffice-3.0.0-on-ubuntu-8.04 Ah, that answers my questions. Thanks! -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Open Office as default to open .doc files
Dear Users, I want Open Office 3.0 to be my default programme to open Power Point and Microsoft .doc files. In 2.4 on installation you had the choice of making it the default programme (program!). No such option with version 3.0 The result is when I double click on a .doc e-mail attachment, instead of opening it with Open Office, it brings up a message with the file path of the attachment then invalid menu handle. I can open Open Office Writer and then trace the file path through to the attachment, and then open it, but is there a way of organising Open Office 3.0 so that it is, as was version 2.4, the automatic default program to open such files? Bob B. D.R.N. (Bob) Burton Unit 3/60 Vahland Avenue Riverton WA 6148 Australia. Prayer Summits WA Pastoral Field Worker. Phone/Fax: 61+(0)8+ 9457 0371 Mobile: 0403 005 374 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: Mailing labels to Avery 5260
On 10/20/2008 03:57 PM, Philipp Giddings wrote: I am trying to print labels from a database table to a template for mailing labels I have followed the instructions from OOo help Philipp, I've just tested a small address database in OOo with 5260's and it prints all 3 pages. Note: I've long learned that it is always wise to print to a virtual pdf printer first when testing label prints (cups-pdf on linux, PDFCreator in Windows) so you don't waste ink lables first. Following are my comments in-line: 1.Choose File - New - Labels to open the Labels dialog. 2.Select the format of the label sheets you want to print on. Remember to mark Synchronize contents on the Options tab. Now check the Address box next to Label text and then the database, table, and database fields. On the database fields, click the left arrow to add them to the Address box. 3.Click New Document. Only after you get all of the database fields the way you like them. [snip] 10.You can now synchronize the labels. Click on the Synchronize Labels button in the small window. [snip] Now, File|Print and at the popup Your document contains address database fields. Do you a want to print a form letter? answer Yes. The next box will open with the Mail Merge dialog, make sure that Records|All is slected and then click OK. Now select the PDF printer just to test first; the result _should_ be a pdf will all of the labels on multiple pages. Again: it is well worth the trouble of setting up a virtual PDF printer _first_ so that you'll be able to test without going through a ton of ink and paper. After you find that it looks correct to the PDF, they print only the first 1-2 pages so that you can check for label alignment etc. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] OTL files - Out Text files?
From: Dave Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: web at work [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:17:07 -0400 Here is a question. I have a Bible file in a OTL type of file. It is an Outline Text type of document. snip SO can anyone help? Anyone used OTL files before? Anyway to get OOo to have one frame show the Outline Headings and another to show the text of that outlined section? Tim L. (web at work) who lost all of my DOS books (and much more references) in my last move. OTL is the file extension that Eric G.V. Fookes (Fookes Software) chose to identify the OuTLine feature he built into the NoteTab software. These are just plain text, with no embedded formatting codes in the true sense. Other than the presence of the first line in an OTL file and the equal sign, used as a tag by the NoteTab software, there is nothing special about these text files. In fact if you open one in any other plain text editor (eg. Windows Notepad), remove just the first line (eg. = V4 Outline MultiLine NoSorting TabWidth=30) and save it, NoteTab will open it as it would any other plain text file, with no side panel. The side panel displaying the headings/Books is hard coded into NoteTab. So there is no reason why OOo, or any other software should display these files as anything other than plain text. Unless, for some reason, that other software is emulating NoteTab. I have a few ideas how something similar might be replicated in Writer and somebody (not me), with the necessary skills, could possibly even write an otl to odt converter. However, I don't see this as an award winning feature for OOo. Dave So I lucked out with reading them in the proper program after all. I do like the Outline Headings displayed in the left site panel. I would love to be able to use some printing software to make a PDF file that includes the Outline Headings. PDF's can have chapter outlines, etc., but I never learned how to make them. That is the feature that I like. over 1500 printed pages and they are indexed/outlined for easier use and/or viewing. Great Idea. The strange thing, since the OTL file was created for NoteTab, was the fact that that file format was not associated with NoteTab [light] and I had to make it associate with it after it was able to be opened by NoteTab. Well I have seen stranger. Thanks for the help. ALSO at least this list email got through. It seems my service is randomly bouncing some of these list-emails back to the list-server system. I get that notice once a week or more. My service puts the blame on the list-server, not their email server that is bouncing the emails back as unwanted or unable to be delivered. Thanks everyone. This is still a great place to get information. Plus Version 3.0 is a great product, and faster to load than 2.x. Slower to get its first screen up vs. Word, but then it takes 2-3 minutes before Word lets me ask it to open a file or type in new stuff. OOo/writer does not make we wait that long to start working. Tim L. retired, but working harder now than ever. plus burning 30-50 OO 3.0 cd this past week and more next week for those dialup users locally. Free of charge or a donation to the cause. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Mailing labels to Avery 5260
At 16:57 20/10/2008 -0600, Philipp Giddings wrote: I am trying to print labels from a database table to a template for mailing labels I have followed the instructions from OOo help [snip] 7.Place the cursor at the last text position (after the last field) in the first label. 8.Choose Insert - Fields - Other, and go to the Database tab. 9.Select the type Next record, click on Insert and then on Close. 10.You can now synchronize the labels. Click on the Synchronize Labels button in the small window. 11.In the data source view, select the records for which you would like address stickers, by clicking on the row headers to the left. Use the Shift or Ctrl key in the usual way to select several records at the same time. 12.On the Table Data bar, click the Data to Fields icon. [snip] When I get to step 10 I get only one page of records with all the same information. I have tried step 11 and 12 but get the same result I have 4,018 more records selected. When you get to step 10, you shouldn't expect to see your data populating the labels, since you don't select the records you need until step 11 or insert them until step 12. The field names you see at step 10 *should* be the same on each label. If, when you get to step 12, you see many copies of one record from your database instead of one copy of each of many records, then you have not properly carried out steps 7, 8, and 9. It is these steps that cause the synchronisation at step 10 to enable different records to appear on each label. Are you perhaps missing clicking on Insert at step 9? I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Open Office as default to open .doc files
James Knott wrote: Bob Burton wrote: Dear Users, I want Open Office 3.0 to be my default programme to open Power Point and Microsoft .doc files. In 2.4 on installation you had the choice of making it the default programme (program!). No such option with version 3.0 The result is when I double click on a .doc e-mail attachment, instead of opening it with Open Office, it brings up a message with the file path of the attachment then invalid menu handle. I can open Open Office Writer and then trace the file path through to the attachment, and then open it, but is there a way of organising Open Office 3.0 so that it is, as was version 2.4, the automatic default program to open such files? You can select the default application for various file types, by following these instructions. You'll choose OpenOffice as the default app. Changing file associations Right click on file icon Select Open With Choose Program... Check Always use the selected program to open this kind of file and choose the desired application. If that method is not available, follow the directions listed here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859 Bob, does your e-mail client have its own path information for opening attachments? If so, it may be trying to get to your old OOo. What happens when you double-click on a .doc file from Windows Explorer? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] OTL files - Out Text files?
web at work wrote: From: Dave Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: web at work [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:17:07 -0400 Here is a question. I have a Bible file in a OTL type of file. It is an Outline Text type of document. snip SO can anyone help? Anyone used OTL files before? Anyway to get OOo to have one frame show the Outline Headings and another to show the text of that outlined section? Tim L. (web at work) who lost all of my DOS books (and much more references) in my last move. OTL is the file extension that Eric G.V. Fookes (Fookes Software) chose to identify the OuTLine feature he built into the NoteTab software. These are just plain text, with no embedded formatting codes in the true sense. Other than the presence of the first line in an OTL file and the equal sign, used as a tag by the NoteTab software, there is nothing special about these text files. In fact if you open one in any other plain text editor (eg. Windows Notepad), remove just the first line (eg. = V4 Outline MultiLine NoSorting TabWidth=30) and save it, NoteTab will open it as it would any other plain text file, with no side panel. The side panel displaying the headings/Books is hard coded into NoteTab. So there is no reason why OOo, or any other software should display these files as anything other than plain text. Unless, for some reason, that other software is emulating NoteTab. I have a few ideas how something similar might be replicated in Writer and somebody (not me), with the necessary skills, could possibly even write an otl to odt converter. However, I don't see this as an award winning feature for OOo. Dave So I lucked out with reading them in the proper program after all. I do like the Outline Headings displayed in the left site panel. I would love to be able to use some printing software to make a PDF file that includes the Outline Headings. PDF's can have chapter outlines, etc., but I never learned how to make them. That is the feature that I like. over 1500 printed pages and they are indexed/outlined for easier use and/or viewing. Great Idea. The strange thing, since the OTL file was created for NoteTab, was the fact that that file format was not associated with NoteTab [light] and I had to make it associate with it after it was able to be opened by NoteTab. Well I have seen stranger. Thanks for the help. ALSO at least this list email got through. It seems my service is randomly bouncing some of these list-emails back to the list-server system. I get that notice once a week or more. My service puts the blame on the list-server, not their email server that is bouncing the emails back as unwanted or unable to be delivered. Thanks everyone. This is still a great place to get information. Plus Version 3.0 is a great product, and faster to load than 2.x. Slower to get its first screen up vs. Word, but then it takes 2-3 minutes before Word lets me ask it to open a file or type in new stuff. OOo/writer does not make we wait that long to start working. Tim L. retired, but working harder now than ever. plus burning 30-50 OO 3.0 cd this past week and more next week for those dialup users locally. Free of charge or a donation to the cause. GREAT! Keep up the good work! Fred -- Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly -- and for the same reason. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Bad Bug in 3.0 windoze
The Beaver wrote: In Calc when I type in a number like a part number, it automatically destroys my entry and makes it a date. I tried changing the format to number and it still ruins the spreadsheet by making the part number a date. It seems to work correctly if I format the part number column as text, but if Calc automatically turns all numbers to a date, it will have no useful value as a program. I never had this problem with 2.4 Floyd Floyd -- As Brian said, it would help greatly in understanding what is going on if you could give examples of the part number being changed to a date. Calc certainly doesn't turn all numbers into dates, like you claimed. If your version really does do that, there is clearly something amiss. And as was stated, it sounds like you've identified the solution -- format the part number column as text. Part numbers should be treated as text anyway. It wouldn't make any sense to perform numerical computations on them (like adding up a column of part numbers, or multiplying the part number by 2, etc.). Kind of like phone numbers -- other than being composed of numbers, there is no real numerical meaning to them. You wouldn't multiply two of them together, divide one by the other, add 10 to one of them, etc. and expect them to have any meaning as a phone number any more. So it would help if you replied to the list and gave examples of the part numbers that are being changed. Although it sounds like your problem is solved (format as text), so assuming that continues to prevent your problem, there may be no more need to give any specifics. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Open Office as default to open .doc files
Thank you, James. Your first option worked. Thanks also to Barbara for her input. Bob. At 08:43 PM 20/10/2008 -0400, you wrote: Bob Burton wrote: Dear Users, I want Open Office 3.0 to be my default programme to open Power Point and Microsoft .doc files. In 2.4 on installation you had the choice of making it the default programme (program!). No such option with version 3.0 The result is when I double click on a .doc e-mail attachment, instead of opening it with Open Office, it brings up a message with the file path of the attachment then invalid menu handle. I can open Open Office Writer and then trace the file path through to the attachment, and then open it, but is there a way of organising Open Office 3.0 so that it is, as was version 2.4, the automatic default program to open such files? You can select the default application for various file types, by following these instructions. You'll choose OpenOffice as the default app. Changing file associations Right click on file icon Select Open With Choose Program... Check Always use the selected program to open this kind of file and choose the desired application. If that method is not available, follow the directions listed here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Re: Mailing labels to Avery 5260
NoOp wrote: On 10/20/2008 03:57 PM, Philipp Giddings wrote: I am trying to print labels from a database table to a template for mailing labels I have followed the instructions from OOo help Philipp, I've just tested a small address database in OOo with 5260's and it prints all 3 pages. Note: I've long learned that it is always wise to print to a virtual pdf printer first when testing label prints (cups-pdf on linux, PDFCreator in Windows) so you don't waste ink lables first. ...(snip) follow NoOp's lead in making the labels. Again: it is well worth the trouble of setting up a virtual PDF printer _first_ so that you'll be able to test without going through a ton of ink and paper. After you find that it looks correct to the PDF, they print only the first 1-2 pages so that you can check for label alignment etc. YES, YES, YES and more so. ANY output that needs definitive alignment and/or special attention to layout should be printed to PostScript in Linux and PDF in Windows and viewed (with a critical eye) as many times as needed before going to 'paper'. Use gv in Linux and Acro(whatever) in Microsoft to view results. Zoom and pan are available for assessing critical areas. I print to desktop labels and 36 x 500' and 54 x 250' (yep! inches wide by feet long) rasters and without NoOp's suggestion the price tag quickly gets well out of hand. Label type alignment test page is printed in gray scale to save color ink. (Replacing the ink in the plotters can run $600.00 to over $1000.00 per reload. And the shelf life for those cartridges isn't that great. So skip the stock up on sale idea.) NoOp definitely has the right suggestion. I would add a hint: For label work, put three periods in each corner of the master (top left) label and replicate per sheet and print that to regular cheep paper and use an outside window in the daytime as the light table and place the printed '...'s over the label sheet on first try. When they fall right, proceed to check a page of actual output as NoOp has said. Won't hurt to have a ruler handy. Any distance corrections are those to move the printed sheet TO THE correct alignment (LEFT IS NEGATIVE AS IS UP) and are applied to margins, offsets, etc. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Bad Bug in 3.0 windoze
I thought that you could turn that off... (that is when Calc converts an entered number into a date) All that I could find, however, was that you can precede the number with a single quote so that it is entered as text. very sad... If it is indeed a number, what happens if you then change the format from date back to a normal number? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Re: OOo3.0.0: Error in writing sub-document content.xml
You appear to be an advanced user, so I will make this assumption while answering... You discuss styles. If you have a document, and a series of steps that will reproduce the problem, please file a bug report and attache the document in question that is used for those steps. They really do fix these problems. There is a learning curve on how to do this, but take a look here and see how it goes http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi Enrique Perez-Terron wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 23:20 +0200, Enrique Perez-Terron wrote: I found something. Saving as html, there was a stray LI outside any UL../UL pair. In the OOo window (still open) the paragraph has a custom paragraph style ehrc-bullet, which in turn refers to the custom list style in the Numbering page. Applying a different style to that paragraph, it becomes possible to save the document. 1. However, the paragraph shows in the OOo writer window without any bullet. Yes, now I remember. I created the style with the intention of applying it to any paragraph that need a bullet in front of it. I have tried to apply specific styles to all paragraphs in the document, and do all formatting through Modify... in the context menu on the style in the Styles and Formatting window. All my paragraphs have custom styles. I created them by first formatting a paragraph manually, then selecting a word in the paragraph, then dragging the selection to the Paragraph styles selector at the top of the Styles and Formatting window. The paragraph used to create ehrc-bullet *had* a bullet. However, when I applied the ehcr-bullet style to the first paragraph in what I thought should become another list, no bullet appeared. (I had already written a couple of list items as ordinary paragraphs, and wanted to convert them to a list.) I created a custom list style and linked to it in the Numbering tab of the paragraph style, in the Numbering Style field. Yet no bullet. Now I know that some kind of bullets on got set internally, since a) I get this error when saving, and b) there is LI when I save as HTML. (I have to say I find the help in the application lacking, because it never explains the *architecture* of the system of styles. E.g, if I apply a list style, will that remove the paragraph style? No, applying a list style will not change the paragraph style. I can set many things in a paragraph style, including character formatting, and list styles. I can then manually change formatting, or apply other styles on top of the paragraph style without affecting the paragraph style. I can also select text and choose to set it back to default formatting... In other words, is a list style just another paragraph style that happens to have the bullet and numbering properties set? I can set a list style inside a paragraph style, but that is different than applying a list style manually. I have never bothered to do that, but I understand why you would want to. I create paragraph styles, character styles, frame styles, numbering styles, etc I then apply them individually. Why? 1. I create a table of contents using paragraph styles. 2. I have reasons for wanting to use their standard outline styles (heading 1, heading 2, etc...), but wanting to set my own numbering so that I have sections such as 1. hello 1.1 hello sub thingy 1.2 another sub thing... . . . 2. Hello again . . . Appendix A. Explaining hello I do this by manually applying a _chapters numbering style for regular chapters, and _appendix to the appendix headings. Works great. I did find something about this at openoffice.org. Why has nothing of the stuff on the wiki pages been incorporated in the help? Even the wiki was just a beginning, and I now have problems finding back to it... Perhaps users on this list (myself included) can team up to help here. If we try to generalize from our experiences, and others point out counterexamples, we should arrive at a description that works. Or, does this already exist? Start here: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] copying from one sheet to another, skipping 2
bill wrote: My spreadsheet has blood pressure values in sets of 3. I average each them and then use the average of each set, which works fine. But, I now have 2 rows that have the original data and nothing else, and distract from the presentation. So, I need to either copy every 3rd row to a new sheet or automagically make the other 2 rows disappear from the original sheet. I could do it manually, but I get new data frequently and would prefer not to do all the work by hand. Is there a way to tell calc to copy just every 3rd row from one sheet to another, or to hide 2 of 3 rows ? Perhaps if you put your raw data on one sheet and your averaged data on a second sheet? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Adapting to 3.0
OK, took the plunge and installed 3.0 on Ubuntu Hardy x86_64. There are a few issues I can't figure out. First, when I launch OOo I get a splash screen asking me what kind of document I want. I use Calc, Impress, Draw and Base about one time out of a thousand and 999 times out of a thousand I want Writer. How do I disable this so that when I launch Writer it just automatically launches Writer? Second, when I close OOo Writer it does not save the size and position of the window. Every time I launch OOo I have to drag the window to the correct size for my display and personal taste. OOo 2.4.1 automatically saved the last window size and position when I exited the program. Is there a button to fix this so it saves the window size and position? If so, where did they hide it? Or is this a bug? Third, although I told it to migrate my settings from 2.4.1, it failed to migrate a lot of things. For example, I had to go in and recreate the default document template. Also none of my toolbar settings were saved. This is not too big a deal - both are easily recreated, but I can't get rid of the right-to-left and left-to-right icons on the formatting toolbar. In the customizing window they are deselected, but the icons are still on the toolbar. I got rid of all the other unwanted icons, but these two persist. Is this a bug? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Adapting to 3.0
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:46:41 -0700 John Jason Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: OK, took the plunge and installed 3.0 on Ubuntu Hardy x86_64. There are a few issues I can't figure out. First, when I launch OOo I get a splash screen asking me what kind of document I want. I use Calc, Impress, Draw and Base about one time out of a thousand and 999 times out of a thousand I want Writer. How do I disable this so that when I launch Writer it just automatically launches Writer? Second, when I close OOo Writer it does not save the size and position of the window. Every time I launch OOo I have to drag the window to the correct size for my display and personal taste. OOo 2.4.1 automatically saved the last window size and position when I exited the program. Is there a button to fix this so it saves the window size and position? If so, where did they hide it? Or is this a bug? Third, although I told it to migrate my settings from 2.4.1, it failed to migrate a lot of things. For example, I had to go in and recreate the default document template. Also none of my toolbar settings were saved. This is not too big a deal - both are easily recreated, but I can't get rid of the right-to-left and left-to-right icons on the formatting toolbar. In the customizing window they are deselected, but the icons are still on the toolbar. I got rid of all the other unwanted icons, but these two persist. Is this a bug? Add one more problem, this one a show-stopper. It failed to migrate any of my macros. I have a lot of them and they took me a very long time and lots of work to create. How can I get my macros from OOo 2.4.1 into OOo 3.0? -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
