Re: [users] Re: Win/Mac/Linux

[John Kaufmann]

In a message dated 2010.05.24 19:21 -0500, Twayne wrote:


Please remember that if you do not have the same fonts on
the different systems than the documnet may look
different as OOo will find an "appropriate" font to
replace it


Do you know how that font matching works?


No I do not. I tend to use "Bookman Old Style" on my main
system and find that another font is substituted on systems
where this font is not available.

Sorry I can be of no further help on the font matching.
Someone else may be able to contribute


... Many people forget that you can specify a font "family" so if,
say, you like Bookman Old Style, you can still suggest other fonts
that will look OK in your opinion as opposed to letting browsers
decide it or worse, use a system font instead.  After your preferred
font, you simply include the most-general of the set of fonts you
prefer that other machines are likely to have loaded.  For example:
...
 

...


(1) I suspect many people on this list are familiar are familiar with 
HTML font handling, but that's a different matter from OO making an ODF 
(such as ODT) document with such font handling.


(2) The reason I about how OO does its font matching (assuming it does 
so) is that I'm trying to understand it against a reference of how 
another word processor handled font matching.  20 years ago the 
WordPerfect Printer Definition Language (WPDL) included an important 
section on defining fonts - definitions that were used for classifying 
and matching fonts.  IIRC, there were seven major binary attributes [of 
which HTML's serif/san-serif, to take the example you cite, would be 
only one] for classifying fonts, plus a number of non-binary metrics. 
It was a bit challenging to learn the system and apply it to a font - I 
believe every font I ever bought was improperly defined for WPDL, and 
had to be redefined to work properly - but when everything was properly 
set up it worked wonderfully.  I'm hoping to find something similar for OO.


John

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Re: [users] Styles in Impress

[John Kaufmann]

Hi Michele,

In a message dated 2010.05.24 07:18 -0500, Michele Zarri wrote:


Unfortunately there is not an equivalent to character style in
Impress which would be useful for the in-line linux commands that
you mentioned, ...



(a) Do you happen to know why that is?

(b) Trying to understand OO's design philosophy for styles, I have been
stumped by the inclusion of character attributes - without reference to a
character style - in paragraph styles.  I have found nothing in the
documentation discussing why that is, or more generally how OO scopes a
style class.  Do you know of a good discussion of this topic?


I do not have the answers to your questions, Hopefully Christian
Lippka who heads the development of the graphics project and who
sometimes reads this list will be able to shed some light as to why,
given the claim that OOo is built around a common core set of
functionalities, character styles exist in Writer and not in Impress.


Yes. If he does not see this, maybe a personal message would be in order 
- although I suspect that, leading the graphics project, he can only 
provide part of the answers.  I like the way you frame the presumptive 
context, that "OOo is built around a common core set of 
functionalities". In that context, the question is larger than Impress. 
 I would love to see an authoritative paper on these questions, or hear 
a knowledgeable cross-section of OO designers discuss these style issues 
at the most basic and general level of cross-application design philosophy.




BTW, I provided the wrong link before, here's the correct one [1].
[1] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=19340.


Thanks for the correction.


Maybe it would make sense to re-open [2] which was marked as duplicate
of 19340 but that was more "focussed" on this particular issue (and
still has 6 votes :-) ).
[2] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=57296


I agree that [2] is not really a duplicate of [1], but I can see the 
logic of thinking that if [1] is provided, it should serve as a basis 
for [2].  The problem will be whether [1] - and especially its eventual 
solution - is sufficiently general to provide the basis for [2] and 
other issues like it.  Again, I wonder whether there is a general paper 
on how OO style classes are scoped.


John

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Re: [users] Writer RTF/Doc files blocked by IE 7/8

[RA Brown]

Hi Jerry,

Jerry Clancy wrote:

Win XP/Pro, OO 3.1, IE 8 (but happened in IE 7, too)

Our ISAPI apps return three kinds of formatted documents, as HTML, a PDF 
and an RTF, which is a Word format. The first two open fine in a new 
window, which they are designed to do. The .rtf (and .doc) files get 
blocked loading into the just created new window (with a beep), which 
then closes. It's the condition normally associated with a popup block 
-- except the windows blocker is disabled and the google blocker is set 
to allow popups from our domain. In fact, the condition exists even when 
this blocker is turned off. And, just like when a popup would block, 
holding Ctrl down overrides it (ie, then the file opens OO writer in the 
new window).


I am not sure how, after the last statement, it can be an OO.o issue. 
It would appear that it is an I.E. issue as OO.o is not opened to allow 
by Windows, the control over-ride.


If you have a link that you can pass on for one of the docs maybe 
someone running XP can help with the security setting.



I've fought this for days without a solution and I'm very close to 
tossing OO out and heading back to MS. Thinking it might be an Active-X 
block I reset Internet Option basically to insecure with no effect.


I'm hoping some developer or user of OO has hit this and resolved it. My 
bag of tricks is now empty.


Jerry


Dumping OO.o due to problems with IE or XP is not not helping you or the 
problem.


Just a though.

Andy

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[users] Writer RTF/Doc files blocked by IE 7/8

[Jerry Clancy]

Win XP/Pro, OO 3.1, IE 8 (but happened in IE 7, too)

Our ISAPI apps return three kinds of formatted documents, as HTML, a PDF and 
an RTF, which is a Word format. The first two open fine in a new window, 
which they are designed to do. The .rtf (and .doc) files get blocked loading 
into the just created new window (with a beep), which then closes. It's the 
condition normally associated with a popup block -- except the windows 
blocker is disabled and the google blocker is set to allow popups from our 
domain. In fact, the condition exists even when this blocker is turned off. 
And, just like when a popup would block, holding Ctrl down overrides it (ie, 
then the file opens OO writer in the new window).


I've fought this for days without a solution and I'm very close to tossing 
OO out and heading back to MS. Thinking it might be an Active-X block I 
reset Internet Option basically to insecure with no effect.


I'm hoping some developer or user of OO has hit this and resolved it. My bag 
of tricks is now empty.


Jerry



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Re: [users] Remove outline from textbox

[Pradeep Srinivas]

On Monday 24 May 2010 03:01:32 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
> In the file below, the right-most textbox contains an outline. I
> would prefer to have free text instead of an outline, but I cannot
> figure out how to remove the outline! Here is the file
> http://dotancohen.com/images/examples/bad-title.odp
> 
> Actually, the first bullet point seems to be a separate outline
> from the other two, therefore I can enter free text in the
> position after the first bullet point. However, I have no idea how
> that happened or how to recreate it in other slides.
> 
> Note that a workaround would be to erase the current textbox and to
> add another. I's rather avoid that.
> 
> Thanks.

Dotan,

I do not have an answer to your query (although I do admit I am unable 
to understand the reason for your requirement).  However, on the note 
of the first bullet being on a different outline than the others, I 
find all three bullets on the same "outline" frame, and contiguous.

FWIW, methinks the best way to get bullets is to go the outline way - 
however, this is said without knowing what you want it to do, and why.  
Therefore, YMMV.

If you feel it necessary to discuss this presentation, please come 
back to me off-list.

Cheers
-- 
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Re: [users] Impress: Title of slides being "smudged" in slideshow. PDF export fine.

[Pradeep Srinivas]

On Monday 24 May 2010 02:51:43 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
> In an Impress presentation I am making, the title of the slides
> (the uppermost text box) is appearing smudged or unreadable. The
> file looks fine in Normal View and exports to PDF fine.
> 
> Here is a test file:
> http://dotancohen.com/images/examples/bad-title.odp
> 
> Note that file is 1.1 MB in size! I suppose that is due to the
> embedded font, for that matter I'd like to know if you see the
> title in this font:
> http://www.dafont.com/final-frontier.font
> 
> Thanks!

Dotan,

I downloaded the file, and opened it.  Results:
a.  The title shows "un-smudged" and quite readable.
b.  The font looks more like Arial than like the
"final-frontier" font.  I suspect that OOo has 
substituted an appropriate font in lieu of the
embedded (and, on my system, non-existing) font.
c.  I export to PDF, and viewed - the title is clear,
but it is not the "final-frontier" font.

Methinks the font is causing the issue (although I have zero knowledge 
of fonts and types, and beg to be excused for incorrect conclusions).

Hope that this is of some use to you (and please take it with a 
generous helping [not just a pinch] of salt).

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[users] Re: problem with calc

[Twayne]

In news:31394.7336552248$1274729...@news.gmane.org,
Sue Marino  typed:
> I have been having a problem with my calc (excel like)
> worksheets.
>
> When I click on something the whole screen turns gray and
> locks up.
>
> Sometimes it only lasts 30 seconds but many times it looks
> up permanently
>
> and I have to turn off the computer.

Hmm, you can't even end the task or program with Task Manager? If so, I 
suspect something isn't playing nice with your OS.  Perhaps an 
uninstall/reinstall of OO.o would help the most quiickly if you actually 
must kill power to get out of it; that can create myriad problems in and of 
itself, in fact, and done multiple things can cause a lot of damage you're 
not aware of until later on when you hit the right code. Save any files you 
created that are in the OO.o file structure because to uninstall/reinstall 
you really should also delete the folders it used so they can be created 
again from scratch.

Is this something new that just started to happen and originally it worked 
OK?  If it was a sudden appearance, what hardware/software have you 
installed, removed or tweaked at the time the problem happened? Did you 
remove or displace any malware at that time?
   If it never worked, then perhaps you want to put your backup of the OS 
onto DVD for safety before you crunch it too much. Also back up the problem 
OS date too. Lets you get back to either one that way.
   Are you certain you are free of malware? Firewall?
   Updated and ran AV? Spyware scanners? Etc.? Long shot, but it eliminates 
a lot of possibilities.
   Tried chkdsk /f?

You really need to provide many more details. You never even mentioned your 
OS, version, Calc version, and so on and on. Details, man, details.

HTH,

Twayne`


t doesn't seem to
> matter whether it
>
> is a small or large worksheet. Any suggestions?
>
>
>
> Sue Marino





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[users] Re: Win/Mac/Linux

[Twayne]

In news:4bfad1ca.50...@robbev.com,
Rob Clement  typed:
> On 24/05/2010 11:52, John Kaufmann wrote:
>> In a message dated 2010.05.23 13:28 -0500, Rob Clement
>> wrote:
>>> Please remember that if you do not have the same fonts on
>>> the different systems than the documnet may look
>>> different as OOo will find an "appropriate" font to
>>> replace it
>>
>> Do you know how that font matching works?
>>
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> John
>
> No I do not. I tend to use "Bookman Old Style" on my main
> system and find that another font is substituted on systems
> where this font is not available.
>
> Sorry I can be of no further help on the font matching.
> Someone else may be able to contribute
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob

I can add a small detail at least; probably not of much import:
Many people forget that you can specify a font "family" so if, say, you like 
Bookman Old Style, you can still suggest other fonts that will look OK in 
your opinion as opposed to letting browsers decide it or worse, use a system 
font instead.  After your preferred font, you simply include the 
most-general of the set of fonts you prefer that other machines are likely 
to have loaded.  For example:

...
 
...

I made up that code off the top of my head, but those fonts will be tried 
before it defaults to some unknown font on the unknown user's machine with 
his unknown OS and unknown font load. I don't -really- know how much good it 
does; I really only do it because it's customary.
  I tend to use Verdana in reality, because it's the oldest and most 
wide-spread font amongst it seems all operatiing systems. And for some 
reason, at the same time it's one of the most unknown font-facts that people 
know unless they've been around fonts for a few years.

HTH,

Twayne`




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Re: [users] macros in OO 3.2

[a...@exemail.com.au]

Problem solved:
->Tools/Customize/Menus/Menu -> Tools | Macros | Record Macro -> Add -> 
Menu/BASIC/Record Macro

-> close the Add box
-> Click OK in the Customize/Menus box
-> Voila: Record Macro is now an option.
Cheers
Alan Kerns

On 23/05/10 08:34, a...@exemail.com.au wrote:

Thanks Andrew.
Neither Write nor Calc allow recording macros.
I've been able to copy and paste my old macros from a backup into 
my_home_directory/.ooo3/user/basic/Standard/Module1.xba.

And now I can use them readily with keyboard shortcuts.
But recording new macros is still unavailable.
Maybe I can teach myself to write new routines by studying the old ones.
Cheers
Alan Kerns

On 22/05/10 13:17, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:



On 05/21/2010 05:47 AM, a...@exemail.com.au wrote:

I recently installed OO 3.2 into PCLinux OS 2010.
Everything seems to be working fine except the Tools/Macros/Record 
Macro option is missing.


I believe that you cannot record macros from all products, only some. 
Are you able to record a macro from Write or Calc?

Re: [users] macros in OO 3.2

[a...@exemail.com.au]

Thanks very much, Johnny.
Cheers
Alan Kerns

On 23/05/10 17:02, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

2010/5/21 a...@exemail.com.au:

   

Thanks Dave.
 
   

I went to Tools->Customize->Menus/Menu/Tools/Macros/Modify/Add Submenu, I
 
   

typed in Record Macro, and it now appears in the menu - but in faded type;
 
   

so nothing happens when I click the Record Macro option.
 
   

Does that mean the Record Macro program is just not there?
 
   

Cheers
 
   

Alan Kerns
 





Andrew, who replied earlier to this thread, made a terrific document
about this. I learned most of what I know from it plus asked questions
about it on the d...@api.openoffice.org mailing list. If you install
something called Xray things will get a little easier too.



Sorry for not having any links right now. I am sure Andrew can tell
you exactly where to get what you need, or I will look for it
tomorrow. Need to sleep now, working early tomorrow.



Johnny Rosenberg



   
 
   

On 20/05/10 18:37, Dave Barton wrote:
 
   
   
   

 Original Message  
   
   

From: a...@exemail.com.au
   
   

To: users@openoffice.org
   
   

Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 04:47:50 -0500
   
   
   
   
 
   

I recently installed OO 3.2 into PCLinux OS 2010.
 
   

Everything seems to be working fine except the Tools/Macros/Record
 
   

Macro option is missing.
 
   

I did an uninstall and reinstall, with the same outcome.
 
   

Is there a way I can insert the Record Macro option?
 
   

Thanks
 
   

Alan Kerns
 
   
 
   
 
   
   
   

I don't know why "Record Macro" does not appear in the PCLOS edition,
   
   

but you can restore it via the "Tools ->Customize... ->Menu" option.
   
   
   
   

HTH
   
   
   
   

Dave
   

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[users] problem with calc

[Sue Marino]

I have been having a problem with my calc (excel like) worksheets.

When I click on something the whole screen turns gray and locks up.

Sometimes it only lasts 30 seconds but many times it looks up permanently 

and I have to turn off the computer. It doesn't seem to matter whether it

is a small or large worksheet. Any suggestions?

 

Sue Marino

 

Re: [users] Win/Mac/Linux

[Rob Clement]

On 24/05/2010 11:52, John Kaufmann wrote:

In a message dated 2010.05.23 13:28 -0500, Rob Clement wrote:


Please remember that if you do not have the same fonts on the
different systems than the documnet may look different as OOo will
find an "appropriate" font to replace it


Do you know how that font matching works?

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John

No I do not. I tend to use "Bookman Old Style" on my main system and 
find that another font is substituted on systems where this font is not 
available.


Sorry I can be of no further help on the font matching. Someone else may 
be able to contribute


Thanks

Rob

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Re: [users] Remove outline from textbox

[Harold Fuchs]

On 24 May 2010 10:31, Dotan Cohen  wrote:

> In the file below, the right-most textbox contains an outline. I would
> prefer to have free text instead of an outline, but I cannot figure
> out how to remove the outline! Here is the file
> http://dotancohen.com/images/examples/bad-title.odp
>
> Actually, the first bullet point seems to be a separate outline from
> the other two, therefore I can enter free text in the position after
> the first bullet point. However, I have no idea how that happened or
> how to recreate it in other slides.
>
> Note that a workaround would be to erase the current textbox and to
> add another. I's rather avoid that.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen
>
>

Errm. When I look at your slide in OOo 3.1.1 on Win XP Pro I see *no*
"outlines". By "outline" I assume you mean a box around the text. If that's
not what you meant, please explain further.

What I do see, which I don't like, is a thin horizontal line running the
full width of the slide about half way down the "earth/hills" near the
borrom of the slide. I *only* see this line in slide-show mode, *not* in any
other mode. I don't know what it is or how it got there; therefore I don't
know how to remove it :-(

-- 
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London, England
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Re: [users] Re: Impress: list all objects on slide

[Christoph Noack]

Hi Dotan!

Am Samstag, den 22.05.2010, 23:36 +0300 schrieb Dotan Cohen:
> 
> 2) Navigator. However, this simply calls all objects "shapes" and does
> not describe what they are, where they are, or what they contain.
> Furthermore, clicking on a "shape" does not highlight/focus the
> objects in the slide. 

To list items in the Navigator it is required to "name" them. Therefore
only certain objects are listed there. However, double-clicking on the
"shape" entries in the Navigator should select them.

Bye,
Christoph


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Re: [users] Styles in Impress

[Dotan Cohen]

On 24 May 2010 13:20, Michele Zarri  wrote:
> Hello Dotan,
>
> Just a couple more words on this problem.
>
> Rather than linuxtopia.org you may go straight at the source of the
> (volunteers maintained) Impress documentation here [1] which is
> normally more up to date (the new version of the Impress guide based
> on OOo3.2 should be available at the end of June).
>

Actually, after getting frustrated at the OOo site, I went to Google.
Google took me to Linuxtopia. But I understand the term "volunteers
maintained" and I will see what I can contribute.


> Unfortunately there is not an equivalent to character style in Impress
> which would be useful for the in-line linux commands that you
> mentioned, so the only workaround at present is to use one of the
> outline paragraph styles, however you may want to vote for this
> enhancement here [2].
>

Thank you, voted!


> [1] http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/impress3/published
> [2] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/showvotes.cgi?issue_id=19340
>

Are there any more of these little "papercut" bugs that one should be
aware of? What I mean to ask, is there any more reasonably expected
functionality that is missing, or any gotchas?

Thanks.

-- 
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Re: [users] Impress: Custom Animation "style" for all slides?

[Dotan Cohen]

On 24 May 2010 13:41, Michele Zarri  wrote:
> This is the one! The other is probably a consequence of the first
> (though it is older).
>

Thanks, Michele, I've voted.

Open Office is great for 95% of my use cases, really, I love it.
But it's these "little details" that add up so fast that make me wish
MS Office were available for Ubuntu. Of course, I'd be lost without
the terrific OOo community and that is enough to keep me loyal for
life!


-- 
Dotan Cohen

http://gibberish.co.il
http://what-is-what.com

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Re: [users] Styles in Impress

[Michele Zarri]

On 24 May 2010 11:50, John Kaufmann  wrote:
> In a message dated 2010.05.24 06:20 -0500, Michele Zarri wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately there is not an equivalent to character style in
>> Impress which would be useful for the in-line linux commands that you
>> mentioned, ...
>
> (a) Do you happen to know why that is?
>
> (b) Trying to understand OO's design philosophy for styles, I have been
> stumped by the inclusion of character attributes - without reference to a
> character style - in paragraph styles.  I have found nothing in the
> documentation discussing why that is, or more generally how OO scopes a
> style class.  Do you know of a good discussion of this topic?
>
> John
>

Hello John,

I do not have the answers to your questions, Hopefully Christian
Lippka who heads the development of the graphics project and who
sometimes reads this list will be able to shed some light as to why,
given the claim that OOo is built around a common core set of
functionalities, character styles exist in Writer and not in Impress.

BTW, I provided the wrong link before, here's the correct one [1].

Maybe it would make sense to re-open [2] which was marked as duplicate
of 19340 but that was more "focussed" on this particular issue (and
still has 6 votes :-) ).

[1] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=19340.
[2] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=57296

Cheers,

Michele

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Re: [users] Win/Mac/Linux

[John Kaufmann]

In a message dated 2010.05.23 13:28 -0500, Rob Clement wrote:


Please remember that if you do not have the same fonts on the
different systems than the documnet may look different as OOo will
find an "appropriate" font to replace it


Do you know how that font matching works?

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Re: [users] Styles in Impress

[John Kaufmann]

In a message dated 2010.05.24 06:20 -0500, Michele Zarri wrote:


Unfortunately there is not an equivalent to character style in
Impress which would be useful for the in-line linux commands that 
you mentioned, ...


(a) Do you happen to know why that is?

(b) Trying to understand OO's design philosophy for styles, I have been 
stumped by the inclusion of character attributes - without reference to 
a character style - in paragraph styles.  I have found nothing in the 
documentation discussing why that is, or more generally how OO scopes a 
style class.  Do you know of a good discussion of this topic?


John

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Re: [users] Impress: Custom Animation "style" for all slides?

[Michele Zarri]

Hello Dotan,

>
> Thanks, this seems to be the issue:
> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73090

This is the one! The other is probably a consequence of the first
(though it is older).


Cheers,

Michele

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[users] Reset path when saving .doc in .odt

[fred juan diaz]

Hi

when I save a .doc, I browse to the concerned directory then I press save
OOo proposes me to save it in .odt. Good idea, i accept
at this moment, path is reset to initial path and I have to browse again to the 
wished directory.

This behavior isn't very ergonomic and I don't remember it was the same in 
previous OOo versions.

is there an explanation to this behaviour ?

thanks
Fred Juan Diaz




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Re: [users] Styles in Impress

[Michele Zarri]

Hello Dotan,

Just a couple more words on this problem.

Rather than linuxtopia.org you may go straight at the source of the
(volunteers maintained) Impress documentation here [1] which is
normally more up to date (the new version of the Impress guide based
on OOo3.2 should be available at the end of June).

Unfortunately there is not an equivalent to character style in Impress
which would be useful for the in-line linux commands that you
mentioned, so the only workaround at present is to use one of the
outline paragraph styles, however you may want to vote for this
enhancement here [2].

[1] http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/impress3/published
[2] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/showvotes.cgi?issue_id=19340

Cheers,

Michele

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Re: [users] Impress: Custom Animation "style" for all slides?

[Dotan Cohen]

On 24 May 2010 12:42, Michele Zarri  wrote:
> The ability of adding custom animations to a slide master is a sorely
> missed feature, but a request for enhancement is already open, so you
> can save some time and vote for it. Regrettably I do not have time now
> to look for the link, but if you use as key words "animations"
> "master" you may find it.
>

Thanks, this seems to be the issue:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73090

Or maybe this, too:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30596

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Re: [users] Impress: Custom Animation "style" for all slides?

[Michele Zarri]

[snip]
>
> Thanks, Dan. Copying the textbox is a pain as they all have different
> content. Had I known in the beginning...
>
> I will file a feature request. Thanks.
>
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen

Hello Dotan,

The ability of adding custom animations to a slide master is a sorely
missed feature, but a request for enhancement is already open, so you
can save some time and vote for it. Regrettably I do not have time now
to look for the link, but if you use as key words "animations"
"master" you may find it.

Cheers,

Michele

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[users] OpenOffice printing with custom page size?

[listofx]

I recently found the big missing in open office under Linux. It seems
that one has no way to print out a paper with custom page size, for
example, 8K.

Since cups understands PS and PDF, this fact give us a workaround:
1. openoffice --> pdf
2. print with a pdf reader
3. or via command line, for example, quoted from the help of cups
quote begin---
When Custom is listed for the PageSize option, you can specify custom
media sizes using one of the following forms:

lp -o media=Custom.WIDTHxLENGTH filename
lp -o media=Custom.WIDTHxLENGTHin filename
lp -o media=Custom.WIDTHxLENGTHcm filename
lp -o media=Custom.WIDTHxLENGTHmm filename
-quote end--

I just could not understand the current options in print dialogue in
OpenOffice on Linux. From above, it should not be such a difficult
thing to add a custom page size option.

How do you think about this. Does it have been issued as a bug or
requested as a feature?

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[users] Remove outline from textbox

[Dotan Cohen]

In the file below, the right-most textbox contains an outline. I would
prefer to have free text instead of an outline, but I cannot figure
out how to remove the outline! Here is the file
http://dotancohen.com/images/examples/bad-title.odp

Actually, the first bullet point seems to be a separate outline from
the other two, therefore I can enter free text in the position after
the first bullet point. However, I have no idea how that happened or
how to recreate it in other slides.

Note that a workaround would be to erase the current textbox and to
add another. I's rather avoid that.

Thanks.

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[users] Impress: Title of slides being "smudged" in slideshow. PDF export fine.

[Dotan Cohen]

In an Impress presentation I am making, the title of the slides (the
uppermost text box) is appearing smudged or unreadable. The file looks
fine in Normal View and exports to PDF fine.

Here is a test file:
http://dotancohen.com/images/examples/bad-title.odp

Note that file is 1.1 MB in size! I suppose that is due to the
embedded font, for that matter I'd like to know if you see the title
in this font:
http://www.dafont.com/final-frontier.font

Thanks!

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Re: [users] problème avec openoffice calc

[Harold Fuchs]

2010/5/21 andré gigon 

> Bonjour,
> Après avoir utilisé openoffice sur un PC, et séduit par ses possibilités,
> je l'ai installé sur mon mac et la problème, impossible de faire une
> addition.
> Le résultat est toujours le même
>
> J'ai tout essayé, ou est l'erreur, merci de me dépanner. Cordialement.
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