[users] Transplanting configs from Mac to Linux OOo
Greetings: I am using Mac OOo 3.2 and wish to transplant its Writer and Draw configurations into Linux (Debian) 3.2 OOo to avoid hundreds of tedious hours of redoing each config on Linux. I can easily grab OOo configs out of my Mac, but finding their counterparts to replace in the unreal labyrinth of Linux's file structure is the pits. Anyone who can direct me as where OOo stores its configs in Linux gets flowers from me! Thanks for any assist! JimWG -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
Re: [users] Re: Can't Embed Movie File In Doc And No Link Menu Lit To Break
On 1/21/11 8:15 PM, Quinn wrote: On 1/14/11 8:47 AM, Lance wrote: On 1/14/11 5:00 AM, James Greenidge wrote: My previous post involved OOo 3.3 under Mac 10.4.11. Now I find I can't even insert a QT mov file in a Write doc under 10.5.8 (just get a question mark frame), much less embed it. However NeoOffice 3.1.2 does insert QT mov files into Writer under 10.5.8 but like OOo doesn't embed and keep mov files. Looks like I'll have to retrogress to a much earlier OOo to do the job it once did. On 1/13/11 12:04 PM, James Greenidge wrote: I'm trying to embed a QuickTime movie file into a Write document, and the Help instructions which claim to insert it then go to Edit menu to reach Link and break the link there doesn't work because Link is not active. Saving the file only results in a small-sized document with a ? in place of the video file in the document. So how can I break a link to a QT mov file that I just inserted so it'll stay embedded (portable self-contained) when the Link menu item isn't highlighted for me to do such? Thanks for any hints! I find this true on my MacBook running Leopard. It leaves a question marked shaded screen when you attempt to paste a video file in. It also happens when you load an old doc with a video insert which was created and played perfectly well in Tiger and Panther. Even MS Office eats it up. This is definitely a OOO 3.0 bug. Bummer multimedia. For Mac users, SOUND and MOVIE Help states that these formats aren't available on some operating systems. All these features work under XP and Vista and 7 and Linux, but MacOS always lacked support for self-contained multimedia documents. Hope this helps. It works in Mint?? Can't believe they overlooked Mac like this! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Can't Embed Movie File In Doc And No Link Menu Lit To Break
Unless it's some kind of OOo folder permissions hang-up, the dysfunctional Link menu item for unlinking inserted mov.s is most likely a bug. You can try animated GIFs and PNGs in its place but forget any sound. Good luck. On 1/17/11 6:34 PM, Lance wrote: On 1/15/11 4:12 PM, James Greenidge wrote: On 1/14/11 8:47 AM, Lance wrote: I find this true on my MacBook running Leopard. It leaves a question marked shaded screen when you attempt to paste a video file in. It also happens when you load an old doc with a video insert which was created and played perfectly well in Tiger and Panther. Even MS Office eats it up. This is definitely a OOO 3.0 bug. Bummer multimedia. Unlike OOo 3.0-3.3, NeoOffice Write 3.1.2 does play QT mov files in 10.5.8 but does not save them as mov embedded documents. I have some ancient OOo 2.2 documents with embedded QT movs created in 10.3.9 and they'll play in OOo 3.0+ under 10.5.8 and 10.4.11 and even duplicate perfectly. The Catch-22 is if you want to use OOo to run (not create) documents with embedded unlinked mov's you have to use OOo 2.4+ but ONLY in 10.4.1-10.4.11 because OOo 2.0+ doesn't run in 10.5.8 since that doesn't do the Linux BSD thing. Apparently NeoOffice avails an earlier version of OOo that does run QT mov's embedded in documents without that issue in 10.5.8, but it'll still only run via Links which the menu bar doesn't feature a de-link option and you (at least I) still can't create QT mov embedded documents in 10.4.11 or 10.5.8. A small industry using movie and TV video clips in documents for narrated films and visual novels is springing up that dispenses with mere captions and so I expect this blend of text and media will become more attractive and demanded by the YouTube generation. This why it pays to partition your HD; you could run 10.5.8 or 10.6.6 and still have 10.3.9 available to create QT embedded documents with OOo 2.0+ while waiting for OOo to fix this issue in OOo 3.0+. Sorry, I really don't need the wait or hassle when MS Office does it no fuss or bother even though I have to mess with the registry some and OpenOffice won't read-play them either but o just chuck it. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Can't Embed Movie File In Doc And No Link Menu Lit To Break
On 1/14/11 8:47 AM, Lance wrote: I find this true on my MacBook running Leopard. It leaves a question marked shaded screen when you attempt to paste a video file in. It also happens when you load an old doc with a video insert which was created and played perfectly well in Tiger and Panther. Even MS Office eats it up. This is definitely a OOO 3.0 bug. Bummer multimedia. Unlike OOo 3.0-3.3, NeoOffice Write 3.1.2 does play QT mov files in 10.5.8 but does not save them as mov embedded documents. I have some ancient OOo 2.2 documents with embedded QT movs created in 10.3.9 and they'll play in OOo 3.0+ under 10.5.8 and 10.4.11 and even duplicate perfectly. The Catch-22 is if you want to use OOo to run (not create) documents with embedded unlinked mov's you have to use OOo 2.4+ but ONLY in 10.4.1-10.4.11 because OOo 2.0+ doesn't run in 10.5.8 since that doesn't do the Linux BSD thing. Apparently NeoOffice avails an earlier version of OOo that does run QT mov's embedded in documents without that issue in 10.5.8, but it'll still only run via Links which the menu bar doesn't feature a de-link option and you (at least I) still can't create QT mov embedded documents in 10.4.11 or 10.5.8. A small industry using movie and TV video clips in documents for narrated films and visual novels is springing up that dispenses with mere captions and so I expect this blend of text and media will become more attractive and demanded by the YouTube generation. This why it pays to partition your HD; you could run 10.5.8 or 10.6.6 and still have 10.3.9 available to create QT embedded documents with OOo 2.0+ while waiting for OOo to fix this issue in OOo 3.0+. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Can't Embed Movie File In Doc And No Link Menu Lit To Break
My previous post involved OOo 3.3 under Mac 10.4.11. Now I find I can't even insert a QT mov file in a Write doc under 10.5.8 (just get a question mark frame), much less embed it. However NeoOffice 3.1.2 does insert QT mov files into Writer under 10.5.8 but like OOo doesn't embed and keep mov files. Looks like I'll have to retrogress to a much earlier OOo to do the job it once did. On 1/13/11 12:04 PM, James Greenidge wrote: I'm trying to embed a QuickTime movie file into a Write document, and the Help instructions which claim to insert it then go to Edit menu to reach Link and break the link there doesn't work because Link is not active. Saving the file only results in a small-sized document with a ? in place of the video file in the document. So how can I break a link to a QT mov file that I just inserted so it'll stay embedded (portable self-contained) when the Link menu item isn't highlighted for me to do such? Thanks for any hints! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Can't Embed Movie File In Doc And No Link Menu Lit To Break
I'm trying to embed a QuickTime movie file into a Write document, and the Help instructions which claim to insert it then go to Edit menu to reach Link and break the link there doesn't work because Link is not active. Saving the file only results in a small-sized document with a ? in place of the video file in the document. So how can I break a link to a QT mov file that I just inserted so it'll stay embedded (portable self-contained) when the Link menu item isn't highlighted for me to do such? Thanks for any hints! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Question
On 12/15/10 5:13 PM, m93s...@aol.com wrote: I am trying to uninstal OpenOffice but everytime I try it says: This administrator has put policies in place that prevent uninstillation Why is that? Sara Seasons Greetings! I THINK this also happens if you're running OOo on a home network and there's a copy running on another machine. Jim in NYC - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Where does Linux/Mint OOo Store RGB Color Codes?
On 12/13/10 7:28 PM, Daniel Lewis wrote: If you are using the version of OOo provided by Mint, the preset parts of OOo are probably located within the /etc/ folder. That is not what you want. You mentioned three locations for the standard.soc file, but you did not mention where the third location was. If you look at my earlier reply, I mentioned a location: /home/.openoffice.org/. What I should have written /home/user/.openoffice.org/3/user/config/ as the folder containing the file you need. The user in the address is the name of the folder which contains all of your personal folders. For example, on my Linux box, my user name is dan. So, this file is located at /home/dan/.openoffice.org/3/user/config/. Another thing: the period in front of openoffice.org is used by Linux to identify a hidden folder or file. I'm not sure how you searched for the standard.soc file. Did you use the command line or something else. This might help some. Dan In the immortal words of Captain J.J. Adams The damned thing's invisible!, I have you to thank for locating the files in question -- only visible in show hidden files mode! Like who'd ever know that, and Why?? Wouldn't it make it a heck of a lot easier (not that mucking around with CLI is anyway!) for the poor green user to transfer their personalized defaults and bio between OOo versions by keeping it out in the open? No wonder Billy isn't all that bothered that OOo exists! Anyway, thanks a mint for your input Dan and Merry Xmas! Jim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Where does Linux/Mint OOo Store RGB Color Codes?
On 12/15/10 7:45 AM, Daniel Lewis wrote: James Greenidge wrote: In the immortal words of Captain J.J. Adams The damned thing's invisible!, I have you to thank for locating the files in question -- only visible in show hidden files mode! Like who'd ever know that, and Why?? Wouldn't it make it a heck of a lot easier (not that mucking around with CLI is anyway!) for the poor green user to transfer their personalized defaults and bio between OOo versions by keeping it out in the open? No wonder Billy isn't all that bothered that OOo exists! Anyway, thanks a mint for your input Dan and Merry Xmas! Jim I'm sending this off list directly to you. Back around OOo version 2.0.0, (I think this was the first one), OOo made its folder hidden in the /home/user/ folder hiddenfor Linux. I wondered why at the time. But as I have used Linux more and more, I realized that this was how Linux distributions did it. Selecting Show hidden files will show many hidden folders for programs used by the user. So, its a matter of understanding the structure of Linux more than OOo. The location of the preset file folder follows the Linux tradition: using the /etc/ and /init/ folders. The Linux version from the OOo website uses the /opt/ folder to place its preset files. This too follows the Linux tradition. But this is no different than Windows versions nor Mac OS X. Each one has a specific location that if very different from other operating systems. I still have problems finding what I want because the location is in the .../user/Library/Application Support/. This did not make sense to me as a Linux user for several years. When I want to delete a program for some reason, I have learned to drag it to the Trash. But I have no idea of how many folders I have in the Application Support folder containing files that I no longer need. But this is a Mac thing. It can be as frustrating as you are finding Mint Linux. Suggestion: Learn the quirks of Mint Linux, and the frustration level will drop tremendously. Hang in there, things will get better. Dan Thanks Dan. The only thing is that one shouldn't be a jedi geek to do something this elementary! For me, the larger OOo marketing/public relations/customer service question is -- doesn't it behoove OpenOffice (or whatever it's cloned into now) to make things easier for novices and the totally clueless lay-user to transfer their personal configs and defaults between OOo versions? Lay non-geek/techie people using OOo Windows with lengthy bio user data and several hundred custom colors who want to move on to OOo Mac or OOo Mint or visa versa will think twice and head back to Word and MS Office if they can't easily transfer their OOo configs to other OOo versions. People on http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=130 and https://answers.launchpad.net/ claim that it should take a good OOo programmer less than fifteen minutes to whip up such a cross-platform OOo config transfer script. It seems to this callow guy that'd be a good way for OOo to reap more users who would otherwise be put off trying to stay in the OOo fold -- at least you'd do so if you were really out to make a profit. Merry Xmas All! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Where does Linux/Mint OOo Store RGB Color Codes?
Bruce, thank you for your suggestions and we'll take it under serious consideration. It's just a shame that users and beta testers have to go it alone with complicated ad hoc remedies like this on issues which are basic programming knowledge to OOo programmers and writers. But by God, isn't there a member of the OOo crew here who can suggest less jump-thru-hoops suggestions than this when laypeople and schools and companies are changing platforms and wish to take OOo along with them? Surely a method to semi-painlessly transfer configs and defaults between OOo variants would better grease the way to attract more users! Exasperated JIm in NYC On 12/12/10 9:00 PM, Bruce_Martin wrote: Dear James and all: My experience is that Oo stores color codes, hatches and gradients all in the same place relative to itself. This alone does not give you the exact path, as that can vary in relation to the different platforms. However there is a simple procedure I use to load, store and migrate this data between Fedora, Win XP etc on my network, and carry it physically to friend's machines (as I have created a number of custom colours and gradients.) *_Procedure:_* In whatever installation of Oo you are using... 1)Open a blank Oo Draw file. 2)Draw a rectangle (size is minimally important, as long as it fits the page and is big enough to see the fill colour.) 3 ) Right click (PC) on the fill. 4)From the menu that appears, choose area. 5)Then choose the colours tab. 6)Close to the right side of the colour choice window, look for 2 icons, One usually a blue floppy, (to save as the colour palette), the other one above it to load a colour palette. 7)Open either one of these, and you will get the contents of the default folder that holds the color palette (usual extension: .SOC) The default file name is Standard.SOC, and the size will depend on the number of colours it contains at the time. (Mine, with added colours is only about 12 Kb.) 8)In the usual manner for navigating, start to navigate - more to see where the default folder is located than to actually do anything. 9)If you want to export a colour palette, load it into Oo, then save it with the other icon, navigating to your desired new location. Then you will end up saving a copy of it in that location, which can be a USB stick, and external or network drive or whatever you have. 10)Likewise, using the load icon, you can load a file from any other location, then save it as the Standard.SOC file, overwriting the one in the default folder and, providing the new file is a legitimate SOC, it will be the default colour palette once you close and restart Open office - no need to reboot as a rule. 11)All the preceding stuff repeats for Gradients (Default Standard.SOG) and Hatches - Default Standard.SOG 12)If the installation were on a MAC, either the HFS or HFS+ file system would likely generate the usual mac fork, or that might be done by the underlying Java runtime used with the MAC (Tiger and up.) 12a)When exporting from a MAC to a PC environment, it is normal to end up with 3 files for each part of the MAC fork: The Data Resource is the one you need for the PC, the Resource and other forks should be saved aside, so that when you need to re-import the file back from the PC world to the MAC world, you simply copy the modified PC file back into the folder where the other 2 files were kept, making sure the filenames (aside from the extensions) are identical, then, in the MAC environment, the re-integration of the 3 files back into the MAC fork is normally done automatically when you copy the file back into the MAC environment. On the older MACS, this was done with a PC formatted floppy used in the MAC floppy drive, as on either the 1.44Mb PC floppy and the same physical floppy, formatted as HFS (MAC) 900 Kb. were actually encoded MFM. On USB Sticks, the file system should be FAT16, but Likely could work with ext2 or ext3, providing the MAC OS is capable of reading those systems currently. In the case of an External HD (USB of IEEE1394/Firewire) the likely system would be FAT32. NAS drives are more complex, as they generally have a firmware OS which is network transparent. Personally here my NAS box is the D-Link DNS-323 which is a UNIX box. Since the latest major firmware upgrade flashes the obligatory initial initialise and format the box does on anew drive can be ext2 or ext3 (latter preferred) but other machines will see this as if it were NTFS, or, alternatively this box has built-in SFTP and Torrent servers as well as the more normal Windows network protocol. In Linux (Fedora 14 x_64) I access this via Samba. The box also has firmware RAID capability and scheduled automated download capability. This box can go well with D-Link's DIR-825, as it likes a Gb. Wired connection (CAT 6 cable required). Happy computing and
Re: [users] Where does Linux/Mint OOo Store RGB Color Codes?
On 12/13/10 10:53 AM, Daniel Lewis wrote: Perhaps this will help: The color table is stored in /home/.openoffice.org/3/user/config/ in the standard .soc file. This is using the OOo version downloaded from the OOo website. The Mac version is home/Library/Application Support/openoffice.org/3/user/config. Again it is the standard .soc file. Before copying the standard.soc file from another location, you might consider renaming the standard.soc file you want to replace. Then copy the desired standard.soc file into the same folder. Close OOo if it is running. Open it to see if you now have the color table that you want. NOTICE: The locations are accurate. The suggestions are what I think, but I have never tried to do this. They may not work even if I think they should. Dan Seasons Greetings Dan and thanks, however as far I could find, the directory structure of Mint is a morass of branches and duplicated folders. A file search for OpenOffice and standard.soc came up readily enough in Mac, but in Mint a file search popped up nothing less than three separate OpenOffice folders in threads raging from /etc/ to /init/ and some were alias dead-ends or plain empty. I'm no hacker and I really don't want to play Indiana Jones delving our hard drives just to transfer color and address and default info from Mac OOo into Mint OOo. I wonder how many perspective users OOo lost because people couldn't transfer their personal Mac or PC or Linux Ooo defaults between another. Surely there's a simple script that can swing this, and I'd really be nice if the brains in the know could lend a hint. Jim in NYC - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: animated PNG format used in OpenOffice?
On 12/12/10 4:47 PM, David H. Lipman wrote: Is there such a thing as an animated PNG file ? Animated GIF, yes... PNG ? I previously mentioned uncovering a file like this while salvaging and unzipping a corrupted Write doc with an embedded animation, and you can't tell what format such a image file in the Picture folder is because image viewers won't render it since there's no file type suffix there, which was the crux of my unanswered query. After long trial and error on my own trying various file name type suffixes on this particularly large animated file, the suffix that allowed Mac image viewers to show it was PNG, so I presume animated PNG files are rare but do exist -- much larger than animated GIFS -- but exist. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Where does Linux/Mint OOo Store RGB Color Codes?
Seasons Greetings: I'd be happy enough just being pointed to where Linux/Mint OOo stores its color code files so I can figure out how to replace it with the one from Mac OOo to save my home school the time and tedium of inputting over eighty custom non-Sun color codes. Thanks. Jim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Transferring Mac OOo Writer Configs to Mint OOo
Seasons Greetings! I wish to transfer my Mac OOo Writer configuration files into Linux OOo Writer (for Mint). The main Writer files in question would be toolbar.xml and standard.soc, but despite hours of poking and shoving through Mint's arcane OOo file folders, I can't find the Linux OOo files which are the same or renamed ones to their opposite numbers on Mac OOo. Any assist would be appreciated! Jim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
On 11/28/10 4:37 PM, RA Brown wrote: That is strange as here it does. I opened a jpg in gimp, cut and pasted it into a new Writer document. Saved the doc then closed Writer open the ODT with Archive Manager and the directory is there with the picture, in PNG format. This all done under Ubuntu and Go-oo v 3.2 will test with OOo 3.3RC6. Andy Is what I get from this that OOo indeed converts JPGs (and GIFs and PICTs?) into PNG as its native image state? That I should rename these mystery Picture folder image files with long number filenames with PNG extensions to render them right in viewers or re-pasting? On Sun Nov 28 2010 13:28:16 GMT-0800 (PST) Guy Voets wrote: Hello, Did a quick test: - a cut and pasted picture doesn't seem to trigger a folder 'Pictures' in the odt folder - an inserted picture (Insert Picture From File) appears in the 'Pictures' folder in the odt zip This would explain a lot with one of my frustrating hangups, like maybe why I can't get imbedded MOVs to cut their links and be standalone image files, no matter whether I use the insert menu or direct cut-paste. Might this be related to why images in RTF documents created in other WPs won't be rendered in OOo a'la No QT decompressor available? A image/mov insertion bug perhaps? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] How does OOo store Writer images?
A Write document is corrupt but I can use Stuffit to open it and get at the files but I can't find the very important images. Does OOo store then as PNG or PICT or JPG? Also, does OOo convert image files pasted into a Write doc? Thanks! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
On 11/28/10 10:04 AM, Daniel Lewis wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-11-28 15:03:15 skrev James Greenidge ji...@mac.com: A Write document is corrupt but I can use Stuffit to open it and get at the files but I can't find the very important images. Does OOo store then as PNG or PICT or JPG? Also, does OOo convert image files pasted into a Write doc? Thanks! Are your images in your writer document or are they linked to from writer? If the latter, there are no images in the ODF. Otherwise I guess OpenOffice.org Writer stores them in their original format in a separate folder (”Images”?), but I'm not 100 % sure about that. The images are stored in their own folder within the odf file. This folder is named Picture. As mentioned by the previous poster, the images are stored in the odf file only if they have been embedded into the writer document. If you had chosen to only link the images, the ODF file will only contain a link to where the images were located when you made the link to the images. Dan Thanks for the swift answer! I found several files in Pictures folder which have several files with long random numbers as filenames which my Mac image readers won't even list. Are they real image files and are they PNG or PICT or JPG and MOV like my image readers are expecting? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
On 11/28/10 2:20 PM, Daniel Lewis wrote: James Greenidge wrote: On 11/28/10 10:04 AM, Daniel Lewis wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-11-28 15:03:15 skrev James Greenidge ji...@mac.com: A Write document is corrupt but I can use Stuffit to open it and get at the files but I can't find the very important images. Does OOo store then as PNG or PICT or JPG? Also, does OOo convert image files pasted into a Write doc? Thanks! Are your images in your writer document or are they linked to from writer? If the latter, there are no images in the ODF. Otherwise I guess OpenOffice.org Writer stores them in their original format in a separate folder (”Images”?), but I'm not 100 % sure about that. The images are stored in their own folder within the odf file. This folder is named Picture. As mentioned by the previous poster, the images are stored in the odf file only if they have been embedded into the writer document. If you had chosen to only link the images, the ODF file will only contain a link to where the images were located when you made the link to the images. Dan Thanks for the swift answer! I found several files in Pictures folder which have several files with long random numbers as filenames which my Mac image readers won't even list. Are they real image files and are they PNG or PICT or JPG and MOV like my image readers are expecting? They are real images. I save an embedded picture (JPEG file) in a Writer document. When I unzipped the document, the file in the Picture folder contained a JPEG file. When I did the same thing when embedding a PNG picture in a Writer document, the Picture folder contained a PNG file. My conclusion: the image files in the Picture folder are the image formats as the image format of the image embedded in the Writer document. Dan O.K, now that you state that things might get more complex, so please bear with this non-techie and that this all on Mac OOo. Firstly, I learned that the Writer images were not file imported into the Writer document but directly cut-and-pasted from Graphic Converter (a fine Photoshop workalike) after being resized from both JPG and GIF and PNG originals (we found only BMP can be directly imported as a file without the Sections menu appearing). So, would these images be cut and pasted into Writer in their original format or converted by OOo into a native OOo image format? That said, how can we tell what image formats these files in the Picture folder are to do anything with them, and more, how do you make image viewers (and future re-pasting) see them with their odd long all numbers non-image format file names? Hope I spelled it out coherently! Thanks! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Unlinking Movs and Gifs to work alone in Writer docs
This problem hasn't cropped up for years for me because only recently have I had to embed animated GIFS and Mov files within Write documents. Back then with OOo 2.4 I simply used Insert Movie Sound, and the Mov or animated GIF stuck in a document without any links, but now when I use OOo 3+, when I reload the doc I just embedded mov files in, all I get that frustrating question mark of a broken video link I never intended nor arranged. I did exactly what Help prescribed, but no dice. What's trick without hauling out OOo. 2.4 again? Also, how to get embedded Mov files to infinitely loop? Thanks! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] How Do You UN-Link Mov Files Embedded In Documents?
This problem hasn't cropped up for years for me because only recently have I had to embed animated GIFS and Mov files within Write documents. Back then with OOo 2.4 I simply used Insert Movie Sound, and the Mov or animated GIF stuck in a document without any links, but now when I use OOo 3+, when I reload the doc I just embedded mov files in, all I get that frustrating question mark of a broken video link I never intended nor arranged. I did exactly what Help prescribed, but no dice. What's trick without hauling out OOo. 2.4 again? Also, how to get embedded Mov files to infinitely loop? Thanks! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Re: Removing line breaks in Open Office writer, etc.
Twayne wrote: In news:op.vl58celmxqd...@pb-laptop, Johnny Rosenberggurus.knu...@gmail.com typed: Yes, but I think there was some serious problem with that, if I recall correctly. The problem was that \n in the search field is Shift+b5 and in the replace field it is b5, but there is no way to replace the other way around, at least not easily. That rings a bell somehow, but IIRC I fixed it by using the $ expression. Take a look in Help for replacing;tab stops (regular expressions) and see if that table doesn't help. I'm using 3.2.1 on an XP Pro SP3 Dell T3400 workstation. Yes, I know it doesn't sound like the right place in Help, but that chart is where I found it, again IIRC. IT'll only operate on the last character in a line. Don't know why it's under tabs - but that's OO's Help, good or bad.Nothin surprises me in Help anymore. HTH, Twayne For a newbie to have to jump hoops to do all that is quite daunting and can't help OOo's user friendliness any, especially when lesser word processors make it easy. I hope there's a short cut to features like this in the works. Jim in NYC - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Antiquated Portable Mac OOo
Greetings! Despite Googling and Yahoo'ing, the most advanced version of portable OOo for Macs I've found is 2.0.1rc. Are there any more recent ones? Some unscrupulous sites claim they have portable Mac OOo 2.4 but bait-and-switch you with 2.0.1 instead. Much appreciate any help! Thanks - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Are There Any Recent Portable OOo For Mac?
Greetings! Despite Googling and Yahoo'ing, the most advanced version of portable OOo for Macs I've found is 2.0.1rc. Are there any more recent ones? Some unscrupulous sites claim they have portable Mac OOo 2.4 but bait-and-switch you with 2.0.1 instead. Much appreciate any help! Thanks - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Need To Copy OOo Configs from Tiger to Mint
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Hello James, On Friday 15 October 2010, 16:21, James Greenidge wrote: Greetings: I want to spare myself the tedium of re-doing the configurations of my Tiger eMac's OOo 3.2 to an older iBook running OOo 3.2 in MintPPC since OOo doesn't import config files. I can grab the Open Office standard.soc file out of Tiger readily enough, but where does Mint OOo store it? I see where it is there but it acts like a dummy file that doesn't change even time after I set up all kinds of test configs in OOo MintPPC to get it to show itself, especially with Writer's toolbar settings. Does OOo in MintPPC actually store its real configs someplace else? I'd much appreciate any hope! Thanks! I have no idea about Tiger nor Mint. but I guess OpenOffice.org behaves the same as in other OSs like Linux and Win. The user settings are stored in the user directory, and you can find where it is going to Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Paths See for example the AutoText entry, its path is * on Linux: /home/ariel/.openoffice.org/3/user/autotext this means all user configuration is stored in /home/ariel/.openoffice.org/3/user/ * on Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\ariel\Datos de programa\OpenOffice.org\3\user\autotext this means all my user settings are on C:\Documents and Settings\ariel\Datos de programa\OpenOffice.org\3\user\ Notice that both /home/ariel/.openoffice.org C:\Documents and Settings\ariel\Datos de programa are hidden folders, in Mac it may be the same. Writer's toolbar settings are under /home/ariel/.openoffice.org/3/user/config/soffice.cfg/modules/swriter/toolbar/ path-to\OpenOffice.org\3\user\config\soffice.cfg\modules\swriter\toolbar\ Regards Thanks for that detailed heads-up, Ariel! Much appreciated! I'll report in on how it went! JimWG (James Greenidge) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Need To Copy OOo Configs from Tiger to Mint
Greetings: I want to spare myself the tedium of re-doing the configurations of my Tiger eMac's OOo 3.2 to an older iBook running OOo 3.2 in MintPPC since OOo doesn't import config files. I can grab the Open Office standard.soc file out of Tiger readily enough, but where does Mint OOo store it? I see where it is there but it acts like a dummy file that doesn't change even time after I set up all kinds of test configs in OOo MintPPC to get it to show itself, especially with Writer's toolbar settings. Does OOo in MintPPC actually store its real configs someplace else? I'd much appreciate any hope! Thanks! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Forcing OOo To See Fonts and Importing RTG Images
Greetings: I am using a 1.25Hz eMac running 10.4.11 and OOo 3.2. I find when I import RTF files from another OOo machine that often OOo substitutes a font that it seems it can't find, even though if I go into OOo's font menu it's there ready to be installed. I'm wondering whether this might have to do with how some public domain fonts are recognized by OOo, and whether the same font but which were downloaded from different web locations (and creator?) are recognized as being different fonts by OOo. Secondly, (at least with Macs) I found that OOo can import RTF documents with images provided it's a cut-and-pasted uncompressed PICT or TIFF file. For some reason simply inserting image files into the RTF doc alters it (and maybe compresses?) it such that OOo won't pick it up. Sadly though, OOo can't export images along with OOo RTF documents. JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Minimum Requirements (Smallest System Possible?)
Hal Vaughan wrote: Doesn't anyone here have any experience or background on using OOo with as small a system as possible or with small systems? Hal On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: When OpenOffice states that 512 MB is a minimum requirement for operation and that 1 GB is preferable, just what does that mean? For example, if I'm running Linux and have a 512 MB system, a certain amount will be taken up by the desktop environment and other background tasks. So does it mean OOo needs 512 MB to itself, or that it should find enough of what it needs on a 512 MB system? I have a system with 512 MB and I'm running OOo from the command line (with Java, so it can receive documents, convert to a PDF, then send them back), and there's no desktop environment, that I'd be okay if, at the same time, I had several Perl programs running? How about if I used a 1 GB SD RAM card as a hard drive and created a swap file on it? Would that slow it down too much? The reason I'm asking is that I'm going to have to change my entire setup with my clients and, instead of doing all the processing on a server in my home office, I'm going to have to put embedded systems in my clients' offices. So far I've found something that runs Debian Linux (meaning I can get all the packages I need for it), but it only has 512 Flash RAM and 512 RAM, but I could add a 1 GB SD RAM card, save some files I need on that and create a swap file. I don't need this to run at lightning speed, but it'd be nice if a headless version of OOo, without the X Server running, could be given a document, open it, and save it as a PDF in a few seconds. Am I looking at something utterly impossible here, or is it possible I could do this with several Perl scripts and MySQl running on the same system at the same time? You might try that OOo For Kids. Almost exactly like OOo but runs on smaller systems like G3 iMacs like a pro.
Re: [users] Regarding Open Office Impress
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: OpenOffice.org is not like MS Office with separate programs for separate tasks. Since much of the code for one applications have very much in common with code for other tasks the whole suite can be much smaller by reusing the same code where ever possible. This means that even if you manage to install Impress only, the total size will be almost as big as the whole suite, but less functional. I've always wondered this in thinking of a stand-alone OOo Writer. Can a OOo engineer suggest how small Writer would be (in%) if all the other unnecessary parts of the suite were whittled out? Thanks JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Forcing OOo to load a RTF import's font
Greetings: Is there any way to config OOo to be forced to load any font in a RTF imported doc? Some fonts in such RTF docs don't show up upon importing, only showing a blank font label in the toolbar's font window although if you scroll you can find the font to re-load it. Is this a RTF import bug? Jim in Queens NY 10.4.11 G4 eMac - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] OOo Imported RTF Font and Image Rendering
Greetings: I have (Mac) Mariner Write RTF documents which contain the fonts Balzac, Aristocrat LET, English 111 Vivace among others, and when I import or open these MW documents into OOo these fonts aren't only not rendered in OOo but show up blank in the font window of the Formatting toolbar. Oddly enough, I can find them if I scroll the window and resurrect the fonts in the documents, and if I save this document as OOo RTF and reload it the fonts remain intact and properly appear in the window too as normal. As a check I loaded the original MW doc into Apple's basic text editor, Text Edit, and all the fonts normally appear. So I assume that OOo somehow filters out or kills how some fonts are rendered from imported non-OOo RTF docs but faithfully retains them in its own RTF versions. This would seem an RTF import flaw to me. Also, by lots of trial and error, I found that OOo will keep images embedded in RTF documents that are imported or opened from other word processors, provided the image in the RTF document is BMP with a 1:1 or zero compression. Jim in Queens New York - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Stand-alone OOo Writer
Re: Myself, I'd love to see a stand-alone OOo Writer that'd both run quicker and use less memory, especially in older Macs. The closest Macs have to such is the moribund AbiWord, which did a fair job handling OOo docs before it went belly-up. I hope OOo code is open source enough to allow an enterprising guy to take a whack at a stand-alone OOo Writer. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] More RTF problems
Jerry Clancy wrote: We generate a lot of .rtf files. As it is a native format, MS Word handles them fine. However, on our main development system we have used OO Writer instead of Word. Today I noticed that Writer loads and interprets the rtf file OK but then screws it up if saved to it's original RTF format. Reloading the saved file doubles up the links, loses the 'target=dynamic' (which forces a new window for the link) and screws up the fonts. See the before and after raw RTF results in the attachment. The before line is as we originally generate it and the after line is what it looks like after saving to .rtf and reloading the file. It seems odd to us that with no changes to the file if would be modified by Writer on saving to the same format. Fortunately, if we save the original rtf file to a XP .doc format, OO preserves the correct formatting and on reloading it looks the same. Jerry Sounds a lot like OOo Bug Issue #82520 from way back in '07! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] My be loved programer
Khalil Nazary: My mother is legally blind and uses Dragon software to read e-mail and letters and compose stories on her old IBM Thinkpad via Word on MS Office, It was a frustrating learning curve for her to get used to it (need patience to train it to understand you) but it's quite functional. Don't know if it'll hitch to Open Office. Good luck! Jim in New York - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] BatchConv3.2 with OOo4Kids 0.9?
Greetings: Can BatchConv3.2 be used or modified for OOo4Kids 0.9? Thanks keep up the great work Jim in Queens NY - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] How can OOo4Kids use BatchConv3.2?
BatchConv3.2. Fabulous macro, but now the whole home school wants to use it on OOo4Kids on their G3 iMacs but it won't work! Since OOo4Kids runs much faster and smoother and appears much nicer than OOo 2.1 ()plus they like it better), is there a solution? Thanks for any tips! Jim Greenidge
Re: [users] Title Text Spectrum Morphing
jonathon wrote: James Greenidge wrote:y my problem! The crux of my problem is figuring out what intermediate pallet colors transitioning from navy blue to salmon to use for each letter in the title heading. It sounds like a color matching puzzle a child would enjoy, but I lost talent long long ago! Would a script that created a palette that would contain the first colour, last colour, and intermediate colours be useful. You'd have to manually move it into your OOo config file. jonathon My God that'd be incredible help if you can swing that! Please donate such a super cool thingie to OOo as Jon's RainbowWrite or such! :) JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Title Text Spectrum Morphing
Daniel Lewis wrote: James Greenidge wrote: Guy Voets wrote: 2010/3/8 James Greenidgeji...@mac.com: Greetings: I've a 18-letter document title that I'd like to color morph from navy blue with the first letter to deep salmon to the last, but choosing apt interval colors from the palette by eye seems too imprecise to exact a smooth properly hued transition. Is there anyway to imbue a line of text with a spectrum phase of colors? Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks! JimWG I suppose the GIMP can help you do this, see the Logo function (File Create Logo) or some such... but it may take some time to use it. (www.gimp.org - open source) FontWork maybe, but I don't see such a spectrum phase as you call it... I see what you mean. That gets rather complicated, like maybe explaining my problem! The crux of my problem is figuring out what intermediate pallet colors transitioning from navy blue to salmon to use for each letter in the title heading. It sounds like a color matching puzzle a child would enjoy, but I lost talent long long ago! Thanks for your response! JimWG Perhaps this will help, but a bit time consuming. (You could use Calc to do the calculations.) You will need the Red, Green, Blue components for both the navy blue and the deep salmon. Calculate the difference between these three values for these two colors. (Some of these differences might be negative.) Then divide the three RGB components differences by 16 to the difference in RGB components between adjacent letters. For example: RGB for Blue is (0,0,128) and RGB for Light Magenta is (255,0,255). The difference Blue - Light Magenta = (255,0,127). Dividing this by 16 = (15.9375,0,7.9375). Since the RGB values must be whole numbers, I suggest multiplying the RGB result by 1 through 16 and rounding to the nearest whole number. In my case, the second letter would have a RGB of (0+16,0+0, 128+8). Each of these colors can now be created. For the Mac, Preferences OpenOffice.org Color (Colour). Dan Ingenious solution, Dan! I'll take a crack at it! Thanks! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Locking OOo Window Size
Greetings: I'd like to lock the size of my OOo windows (both Mail and Browser) so that they won't always cover the entire screen edge to edge to allow a tiny sliver of the desktop on the left side to be exposed where I can drag items off the OOo browser screen onto the desktop without constantly having to resize it so after booting it up or resize the Mail window blocking it off beneath. Thanks for any hint. JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Resizing OOo screen - Ignore last message. Wrong mail list
Pardons! Please ignore my last message. Was intended for Mozilla mail list! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Title Text Spectrum Morphing
Greetings: I've a 18-letter document title that I'd like to color morph from navy blue with the first letter to deep salmon to the last, but choosing apt interval colors from the palette by eye seems too imprecise to exact a smooth properly hued transition. Is there anyway to imbue a line of text with a spectrum phase of colors? Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Title Text Spectrum Morphing
Guy Voets wrote: 2010/3/8 James Greenidgeji...@mac.com: Greetings: I've a 18-letter document title that I'd like to color morph from navy blue with the first letter to deep salmon to the last, but choosing apt interval colors from the palette by eye seems too imprecise to exact a smooth properly hued transition. Is there anyway to imbue a line of text with a spectrum phase of colors? Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks! JimWG I suppose the GIMP can help you do this, see the Logo function (File Create Logo) or some such... but it may take some time to use it. (www.gimp.org - open source) FontWork maybe, but I don't see such a spectrum phase as you call it... I see what you mean. That gets rather complicated, like maybe explaining my problem! The crux of my problem is figuring out what intermediate pallet colors transitioning from navy blue to salmon to use for each letter in the title heading. It sounds like a color matching puzzle a child would enjoy, but I lost talent long long ago! Thanks for your response! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Colour Palettes:
jonathon wrote: All: For those who like colour palettes that are too large to be useful, I've uploaded the most recent one I've created to http://rapidshare.com/files/359406571/color_palette_30.tar.gz.html If rapidshare isn't to your liking, I'll upload it elsewhere, provided doing so is gratis. jonathon I like this idea, especially those in our local home school using OOo4Kids. It'd be cool if there was a jumbo Crayola Crayon box palette (128 named classic pop colors) one can install too! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Recommended Best Batch .odt to .doc Converter
Laurent Godard wrote: Hi all sorry for that problem. It works for me :( btw, i did a quick hack that will avoid this error and i updated the pages http://oooconv.free.fr/batchconv/batchconv_en.html the download link is ok direct access : http://oooconv.free.fr/batchconv/download/BatchConv3.2-1.odt Sorry no time now to do more HTH laurent -- :D Works perfectly! :D You're a genius! Don't know why on earth OOo didn't implement this feature in Writer long ago! Trillion thanks! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Recommended Best Batch .odt to .doc Converter
Greetings; I've come across several batch odt to doc converter macros, all very old and only do sxw and are cranky to get started. I'd like your recommendations on any that actually work. Thanks! Jim . - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Recommended Best Batch .odt to .doc Converter
Andreas Saeger wrote: James Greenidge wrote: Greetings; I've come across several batch odt to doc converter macros, all very old and only do sxw and are cranky to get started. I'd like your recommendations on any that actually work. Thanks! Jim .. http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter I'm floored by your ultra-swift response! However I'm no techie and I can't make heads or tails how to put this program on my Mac. Hopefully there's an easier way to install it or another converter that is more user friendly to do the job. I'm slightly surprised batch converting wasn't part of OOo export/save anyway, and hope will be a plug-in to consider. Thanks for the assist! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Recommended Best Batch .odt to .doc Converter
Lars Nooden wrote: Jim, the best recommendation is to not waste your time with any of the old, undocumented, proprietary binary formats. That era is over. What problem are you trying to solve? Regards, /Lars It's not like I have a choice. If higher-up clients sniff on OOo and demand .doc files of several hundred of your .odt formatted SOHO files you jump their hoop unless you win the lottery. :D So if anyone out there has any ready batch .odt to .doc conversion solutions I'd really appreciate the assist! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Recommended Best Batch .odt to .doc Converter
M. Fioretti wrote: Jim, I understand your pain! May I ask a general question, since I've covered these things recently (see signature)? What kind of clients are asking this to you? Public Administrations or private businesses? I ask because sometimes the first ones _may_ have to comply with some law that promotes open formats. Thanks, Marco Thanks for the response, Marco. These are all New York City metro area private businesses, all shackled to Windows. I wish I'd public clients(!), but I do know that NYC if not all the municipalities around here drive Billmobiles, so there'd be no relief on this issue anyway! :( Lars Nooden wrote: Please don't confuse OOo and ODF. One is a program, the other is a format. Can you quote or paraphrase the specific problems, real or perceive, they tell you they have with ODF? the questions above remain. Regards, /Lars - Most businesses I deal with don't discriminate. If they say WINDOWS format ONLY!, they ALL seem to eat anything .doc and have no problem with it. Laurent Godard wrote: Hi seems my old batchconv will one more time be of help ;) description : http://oooconv.free.fr/batchconv/batchconv_en.html last version: http://oooconv.free.fr/batchconv/BatchConv3.2.odt (sorry i had no time to transform it as an extension) good luck Laurent Your site is cool! Only thing is both 1.7 3.2 macros don't respond when I hit the Start BatchConv button. :( . I'm using a 10.4.11 PPC Mac with OOo 3.2 if that helps. It looks very well done though. Thanks for that unsung community effort! Thanks all for all your help! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Recommended Best Batch .odt to .doc Converter
Laurent Godard wrote: Hi Your site is cool! Only thing is both 1.7 3.2 macros don't respond when I hit the Start BatchConv button. :( . I'm using a 10.4.11 PPC Mac with OOo 3.2 if that helps. It looks very well done though. Thanks for that unsung community effort! maybe macro protection have a look at Tools options security macro security and choose the option that ask everytime when opening a document contianing macro restart OOo HTH Laurent Thanks, the menu pops up now, but unfortunately so does a requestor box stating: BASIC runtime error. Sub-procedure or function procedure not defined. Am I doing something wrong is my system missing something? Super thanks for the assist! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Batch Convert .ODT Files Into .DOC?
Greetings: Need to convert several hundred .odt document files into .doc for the unwashed. Is there a batch conversion program or plug-in that could swing this? Thanks for any hint! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Keeping RTF doc images in OOo imports
Greetings! What photo format should I use in a RTF document which OOo will keep and render in the document when importing it? JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Unable to embed video files in OOo Writer documents
On 1/13/10 11:27 AM, NoOp wrote: On 01/12/2010 05:58 AM, James Greenidge wrote: Happy New Year I have PPC OOo 3.1 on MacOS 10.4.11 and despite the OOo Writers Forum and others, I just can't find a way to embed .mov files (1.5 meg) by breaking the link, which always remains ghosted on the Edit: Link menu. A step by step on truly embedding videos would be most appreciated! Thank you. JimWG Currently it is not possible. Please see: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.openoffice.questions/202583 [Embedding Audio/Video in Impress documents] Christian Lippka is working on this issue. In the interim, you'll need to follow the instructions in the link from that post: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Impress_Guide/Inserting_other_objects Thanks for the info. Would you know whether a previous (Mac) version was able to do this, or is this non-function exclusive to Macs? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Unable to embed video files in OOo Writer documents
On 1/12/10 4:19 PM, jordan force wrote: It doesn't seem to work on my imac either On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:09 PM, James Greenidgeji...@mac.com wrote: On 1/12/10 11:17 AM, jordan force wrote: I am assuming that you are trying to embed the video in a text document, is that correct? On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:58 AM, James Greenidgeji...@mac.com wrote: These are stand-alone .mov files that I wish to embed in Writer documents without links so they can be emailed to clients with all info intact and self-contained. I've been doing such with animated GIFs for a long whole, but I really need the much more crisp and smoother .mov files instead. I just don't know why inserting and embedding .mov files would be any different. I understand that you need to activate the LINK function so you can break it to allow embedding, but for me the LINK feature in the EDIT menu remains ghosted and unusable. BTW, you can print a document with an animated GIF, but only one frame of that document's GIF file prints out of course. I wonder if the same is true of .mov's. JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org It must be different for Windows people who can do it. OOo Writers forum is blank on this. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Unable to embed video files in OOo Writer documents
Is there no solution? Only MS Office can do such? On 1/11/10 9:25 AM, James Greenidge wrote: Happy New Year I have PPC OOo 3.1 on MacOS 10.4.11 and despite the OOo Writers Forum and others, I just can't find a way to embed .mov files (1.5 meg) by breaking the link, which always remains ghosted on the Edit: Link menu. A step by step on truly embedding videos would be most appreciated! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Unable to embed video files in OOo Writer documents
Happy New Year I have PPC OOo 3.1 on MacOS 10.4.11 and despite the OOo Writers Forum and others, I just can't find a way to embed .mov files (1.5 meg) by breaking the link, which always remains ghosted on the Edit: Link menu. A step by step on truly embedding videos would be most appreciated! Thank you. JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Unable to embed video files in OOo Writer documents
On 1/12/10 11:17 AM, jordan force wrote: I am assuming that you are trying to embed the video in a text document, is that correct? On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:58 AM, James Greenidgeji...@mac.com wrote: These are stand-alone .mov files that I wish to embed in Writer documents without links so they can be emailed to clients with all info intact and self-contained. I've been doing such with animated GIFs for a long whole, but I really need the much more crisp and smoother .mov files instead. I just don't know why inserting and embedding .mov files would be any different. I understand that you need to activate the LINK function so you can break it to allow embedding, but for me the LINK feature in the EDIT menu remains ghosted and unusable. BTW, you can print a document with an animated GIF, but only one frame of that document's GIF file prints out of course. I wonder if the same is true of .mov's. JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Unable to embed video files in OOo Writer documents
Happy New Year I have PPC OOo 3.1 on MacOS 10.4.11 and despite the OOo Writers Forum and others, I just can't find a way to embed .mov files (1.5 meg) by breaking the link, which always remains ghosted on the Edit: Link menu. A step by step on truly embedding videos would be most appreciated! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Can mov. inserts in docs be speeded up?
Greetings: I'm using OOo 3.1.1 on a 10.4.11 Mac. I noticed that the animation in document files with mov. clips on a Mac moves somewhat more sluggishly than OOo 3.1 on a PC. Is there anyway to tweak the speed of a mov. in a document on a Mac? Thanks, JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Can mov. inserts in docs be speeded up?
newroz suer wrote: WHY THE HELL ARE U ASKING ME??? Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:33:05 -0500 From: ji...@mac.com To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Can mov. inserts in docs be speeded up? Greetings: I'm using OOo 3.1.1 on a 10.4.11 Mac. I noticed that the animation in document files with mov. clips on a Mac moves somewhat more sluggishly than OOo 3.1 on a PC. Is there anyway to tweak the speed of a mov. in a document on a Mac? Thanks, JimWG My post wasn't addressed to you but everyone, and a bit of mature netiquette is due here, don't you think? Jim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Replacing Tabs.?
Lars Nooden wrote: Each line of the list starts with a tab - I want to get rid of the tabs. How can I use Search Replace to do this? One way to do that would be using regular expressions: Edit- FindReplace-More Options-Regular Expressions: Search for: \t Replace with: Note, that is a backslash (\) directly before the t and not a forward slash (/) More on regular expression pattern matching: http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/regex.htm http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/regular_expressions.html http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/ regards, -Lars Isn't there a plain English short-cut add-on out there that will do these kinds of things via a menu of options and operations? JimWG
[users] How do you turn a single spaced Doc into double-spaced?
Greetings! How do you turn a single-spaced Write document into double-spaced? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Double-space between paragraphs in single-spaced doc
Greetings! I have a single spaced document and now wish to double-space between paragraphs. How do I do this? Thanks for any assist. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Most Advanced OOo for G3 Panther iBook?
Greetings! I'm resurrecting a G3 iBook with Panther 10.3.9 installed. I know it'll be long in the tooth, but what's the most advanced OOo version I can put on it? Thanks, Jim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] downloading Writer only
M Henri Day wrote: 2009/8/4 Greg mrgj...@yahoo.com Dear Open Office, I am interested in downloading Open Office but I only need Writer. Is it possible to download Writer only? Thank you Greg, unless I am much misinformed, it is not possible to download only Writer - the OOo suite must be downloaded and installed as a whole Henri But Boy, wouldn't that be NICE??? :)
[users] Re: Uwe: Want Full Color Page Without Affecting Text Margins
James Greenidge wrote: Uwe Fischer wrote: In Format/Page, after you have set you margins to zero, go to Borders and turn Borders on. Set border colour to same as your background colour. Then set Spacing to contents to 1 inch or whatever width you desire for margins. Right. You can see an illustrated example in the OpenOffice.org Help Tips 'n' Tricks blog: http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/creating_screen_optimized_pdf_documents Good tip -- only it also changes the background of other documents I load thereafter! Is there a way to have a document to uniquely hold that setting without affecting others as a new default background setting? Thanks all for the rapid reply! James Greenidge Queens New York - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Want Full Color Page Without Affecting Text Margins
Greetings: In Write, is there anyway to have a fully colored background edge to edge without affecting the text margins? For example, if I set the page margins in Page Style Default to 0.00 left and right margins, I can have a colored page from edge to edge but also so are the text margins going edge to edge instead of 1 inch left and right as I want them. Any hints? Thanks, Jim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Can't Embed Media Files in Writer Docs Anymore
Greetings: I haven't done so for years, but recently I tried to insert an animated GIF into my Writer documents (Mac 3.00 and up under 10.4.11) and found out that it doesn't actually embed self-contained media files in the document anymore like the old versions did, but instead relies on media links which really don't do the job if you're e-mailing a media-embedded doc off to someone else, naturally breaking off the link to the original media files in your machine. Neither have I ever had to insert a media file as an Object to embed it -- which is moot since it still doesn't work for me and all I get is a big Plug-in icon pasted in my doc. The easiest way to check out whether your document's mov. or animated GIF is embedded or not is to check out the file size; on the Mac, check the Info of a document's icon. It should _at least_ be as large as the original mov. or GIF you inserted. I have a 4meg document with an 4meg animated GIF I made three years ago (when it was easy using Insert Movie and Sound, and before you could embed mov. formats) in Mac OOos). I tried to insert/embed the same mov. that I've on file in a a new doc made in OOo 3.1 under Tiger (same happens with 2.0 under Panther too) and the resultant doc file size is a puny 8kb -- obviously a linked media file. You email such to someone and they open it and they get no show. I'd go back to my earlier OOo to do all this if I only recalled specifically which OOo version I used back then because non of the 2.0 versions are doing it under 10.3.9 for me anymore. It's crazy. I don't know whether newer versions of Java are inhibiting embedding or not, but its sure not like the old days! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Can't embed animated GIFs or mov.'s in Writer anymore
I never had to insert a media file as an Object to embed it before -- which is moot since it still doesn't work for me and all I get is a big Plug-in icon pasted in my doc. The easiest way to check out whether your document's mov. or animated GIF is embedded or not is to check out the file size; on the Mac, check the Info of a document's icon. It should _at least_ be as large as the original mov. or GIF you inserted. I have a 4meg document with an 4meg animated GIF I made three years ago (when it was easy using Insert Movie and Sound, and before you could embed mov. formats) in Mac OOos). I tried to insert/embed the same mov. that I've on file in a a new doc made in OOo 3.1 under Tiger (same happens with 2.0 under Panther too) and the resultant doc file size is a puny 8kb -- obviously a linked media file. You email it to someone and they open it and they get no show. I'd go back to my earlier OOo to do all this if I only recalled which OOo version I used back then. It's crazy. I don't know whether newer versions of Java are inhibiting embedding or not, but its sure not like the old days! Jim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Can't embed animated GIFs or mov.'s in Writer anymore
I never had to insert a media file as an Object to embed it before -- which is moot since it still doesn't work for me and all I get is a big Plug-in icon pasted in my doc. The easiest way to check out whether your document's mov. or animated GIF is embedded or not is to check out the file size; on the Mac, check the Info of a document's icon. It should _at least_ be as large as the original mov. or GIF you inserted. I have a 4meg document with an 4meg animated GIF I made three years ago (when it was easy using Insert Movie and Sound, and before you could embed mov. formats) in Mac OOos). I tried to insert/embed the same mov. that I've on file in a new doc made in OOo 3.1 under Tiger (same happens with 2.0 under Panther too) and the resultant doc file size is a puny 8kb -- obviously a linked media file. You email it to someone and they open it and they get no show. I'd go back to my earlier OOo to do all this if I only recalled which OOo version I used back then. It's crazy. I don't know whether newer versions of Java are inhibiting embedding or not, but its sure not like the old days! Jim , - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Can't embed animated GIFs or mov.'s in Writer anymore
Greetings: I haven't done so for years, but recently I tried to inert an animated GIF into my Writer documents (Mac 3.00 and up under 10.4.11) and found out that it doesn't actually embed self-contained media files in the document anymore like the old versions did, but instead relies on media links which really don't do the job if you're e-mailing a media-embedded doc off to someone else, naturally breaking off the link to the original media files in your machine. Inserting animated GIFs (if not mov.) files worked just fine under 10.3.9 with the older OOo 2.0 and such back when, so I tried using OOo 2.00 on my Panther partition to resurrect the capability, but now for some reason it balks, stating that it can't take the file formats when long ago it happily ate animated GIFs embedded them in the docs as one. I don't know if it's a Java thing or what. It's really frustrating to play my old docs with self-contained embedded animated GIFs in the OOo but can't create the same anymore. Any hints would be much appreciated! JimWG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Finding spaces before/after paragraph returns plus
Greetings: I often have to use another WP for some issues because OOo currently isn't too non-techie user-friendly in searching out things like spaces before or after paragraph or line returns or using wildcards. (Mariner Write nicely offers buttons that inserts the apt codes into your search criteria) so something to shoot for in OOo. Meanwhile, can anyone explain, non-techie style, just how I can find spaces before or after paragraph or line returns? Thanks! James Greenidge Queens NY - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Media Player won't do video
Greetings: I'm using Mac OOo 2.0.4 on OS 10.4.8 and wish to insert a video clip into a Write document other than a soundless animated GIF which it does well. Right now I can get Media Player to play the sound of video files I have but no video. Tried all kinds of formats as BMP, TGA, Cinepack, Motion JPEG-A but no show video. OOo Help states that it Player does play several formats but which? And which can be inserted a doc? Any help most appreciated! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Media Player won't do video
Greetings: I'm using Mac OOo 2.0.4 on OS 10.4.8 and wish to insert a video clip into a Write document other than a soundless animated GIF which it does well. Right now I can get Media Player to play the sound of video files I have but no video. Tried all kinds of formats as BMP, TGA, Cinepack, Motion JPEG-A but no show video. OOo Help states that it Player does play several formats but which? And which can be inserted a doc? Any help most appreciated! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] How To Search For A Space Followed By Return?
Greetings: How does one search/find a space followed by a return in OOo? I can't make sense on doing this (if possible) in either the help menus or docs. Thanks for any assist. James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] On Stable Vs. Beta Versions
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: Now after all this, you should consider upgrading when you get your problem solved. because the current release is 2.0.3 and the latest stable 1.x.x versioin is 1.1.5 Greetings: This has always puzzled me and can you clarify it some? Mac OOo 2.3r3 has functioned perfectly for me despite my abuse and twisting it into a pretzel and it's always come through, no trips. The only complaint I have is its somewhat shackled Mac feature sets (which hopefully Aqua OOo will be able to address), but otherwise I'm a happy camper. So from my perspective it's a stable product, but how do OOo engineers and programmers define stable? A point-one bug rate? When there are zero bugs? (is this even possible??). Just like to know how and where the line is drawn between stable and beta. Thanks unsung OOo engineers keep up the great work! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Open Office for mac os 8.6 ??
Re: Running OOo on OS-9 via Linux I am EXTREMELY interested in how to run any version of OOo on a retired workhorse G3 as a backup and to spread OOo around a community center! I'm not a techie! What's the simplest sources and procedure to install the absolute bare minimum no-frills Linus on a G3 and basic OOo? Thanks for any tips! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Importing NeoOffice color palette to Mac OOo?
Greetings! Subject line says it all. Is there any way to import NeoOffice's color palette table to Mac OOo's directly without having to go through retyping all those RGB codes of your dozens of custom colors? Thanks! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Odd Courier Behavior
Greetings! This must've occurred after my installation of OOo 2.03 r4 because I didn't notice this in either Mac OOo or NeoOffice. My Courier 12 documents display non-proportional fonts as Courier's designed, but I noticed that any words with fi in it (like finished or final that the two characters are crunched up against another almost like in proportional fonts. In fact f and i are actually touching almost to being a single character. Courier Final Draft doesn't exhibit this and neither does Courier New. I don't know if there are any other character combinations that display the same way. Does OOo install a new different Courier font that overrides the basic Mac Courier font or is this just a behavior of OOo with these peculiar characters? Thanks keep up the great work! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Applying Background Colors To Specific Documents
Greetings: I've been using the Appearance panel in Mac OOo to try to change a document's background color without affecting those of other or new documents. Does OOo permit independent document background colorization or is it a one size for all situation? Thanks keep up the great work! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Fonts
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 23:45 -0500, Linda L. Hull wrote: a row of makes a single black line all across the page. a row of makes a double black line across my page. I used these as a subject separator, but did not want a line there. Trying to remove it makes it clone the line many times. HOW DO I GET RID OF IT? Turn off the feature via Tools AutoCorrect. Can't there be a way for OOo to accept asterisks as separators or partitions while keeping active the useful features of OOo? Thanks for all hard work you and OOo folks do! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Recommended OOo Cursive Font
Greetings: I'm using Mac OOo and would like to know if anyone has any workable cursive fonts installed in OOo Write to recommend. Even after using Fondu, the closest font resembling a true cursive font I can find is CochinItalic. Any suggestions would be much appreciated! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] resizing an image, keeping the proportions?
Joseph Hogan wrote: I am making a document right now. I have had to adjust the image to fit beter into a certain part of the page. But, when I do this, it goes out of proportion. Is there a way to set OO to force proportional size changes to an image? Thanks Joe Joe: I think when you switch off Relative sizing in the Graphics menu that pops up when you click the graphic concerned. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Animated GIF speed differences in OOo/Neo Write
Greetings: Why are animated GIFs more sluggish/slower in NeoOffice Write than OOo Write, regardless how fast you set the speed/interframe delay in a program such as GIFBuilder? Does NeoO split the speed with the blinking cursor or what? Anyway to speed this up? Are there such things as animated JPEGs to insert OOo Write? (need better color rendering). Thanks, James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Animated GIFs/JPEGs In OOo Write
Greetings: Subject line says it all. I'd like to know the best choice of programs (Mac) to render the best and smoothest animated GIFs or animated JPEGs for insertion in OOo Write. I use GIFBuilder but the images are too washed out and jerky. There must be better options. Any hints much appreciated! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Is A OOo Screenwriting Template Possible?
Greetings: I''m just asking, but is it theoretically possible at all to create a (third party) screenwriting format template for OOo (i.e. hold together at least three adjoining paragraphs even through next pages and adjust everything else throughout the whole document?) A free demo example of what I mean can be had at http://www.screenplay.com/products/mmscreenwriter/index.html. Just want to know whether such an OOo add-on is only whistling in the wind. James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Data loss when saving file in rich text format
Hi Peter, Can you please report this in issuezilla ? ( http://openoffice.org - My Pages - Register, then when you receive a confirmation email, Login and File an issue ) In this way the relevant developers will see your bug report and you will also see the progress of this bug report if it is accepted. Well, if this is a bug and not just an omitted feature, then I'm utterly floored how on earth it's passed notice for so long, unless others thought as I did that was just an intrinsic inability of OOo! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: Data loss when saving file in rich text format
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:05:41 +0100, Peter Schramm wrote: Hello everybody, I created a file with Writer including a picture. When I save this in rtf, in the same directory a picture-file with extension xxx.png is created. I don't get this with ooo2. It used to happen with ooo1.1.* On the Mac, when you use Nisus or Mariner Write and save a document with images to RTF they create a single RTF file containing the image, not split them. So this image separation from a RTF OOo file would appear to be a OOo bug. James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Data loss when saving file in rich text format
Hello everybody, I created a file with Writer including a picture. When I save this in rtf, in the same directory a picture-file with extension xxx.png is created. When I open the file again with Writer the picture is not there anymore. It does not work even with OO 2.0. In Word the picture is kept when the file is saved in rtf-format. Is there a work around ? Or does RTF regularly not save included graphic information ? Thanks Peter Schramm I've noticed similar separation of text and images with Mac OOo and NeoOffice. Took it for an intrinsic inability, not a bug. James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Need Help Installing Libfreetype
Greetings: Can someone walk me through the command line sequence for installing libfreetype-2.1.9-davidchesterpatch to help smooth out my Mac OOo 2.0 fonts? If anyone can it'd be greatly appreciated! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Need MacOOo Courier 12 Screenshots
Greetings: I'm trying to resolve a Fondu installation/font issue with Mac OOo 2.0 and would appreciate any screen shots of Courier 12 on Mac OOo to compare with my Fondu results. Thanks a million for any assist! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Three Asterisks plus Return = Unwanted double line
Greetings: A supplementary feature request to OOo and NeoO: Since three asterisks plus return creates a double bar line in AutoCorrect mode -- and is the ONLY way to create such a line to boot, I suggest OOo to make it an asterisk + option key (or such) activated feature. It derails trains of thought to unwittingly see three asterisks turn into double lines then have to go into AutoCorrect to deal with it. Otherwise keep the great work! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Three Asterisks plus Return = Unwanted double line
If you think that your suggestion has merit for others, I recommend you log into OOo website (create a user and password, if not already done) and create an enhancement request. Request issued. You can, of course, turn off auto correct as well. Then I didn't even know it was on, so assumed it a bug! The software should lightly flag the user who unwittingly activates a feature they know beans about that such a feature was activated to avoid confusion and misunderstandings and worst false bug alerts. Thanks for your quickie response! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Test MacOOo/NeoO Font-Line Spacing Differences!
Greetings All! I need a solution. Since doing shows better than explaining; On Mac OOo 2.0r3 create a three-page+ Courier 12 document 57 lines deep with a header with a blank line underneath, a top margin of .3 inches and bottom margin of .8 inches. All pages should maintain a 57 line deep format (Movie Magic Screenwriter's gold standard format -- they've a great free demo!). Save as .sxw and load into NeoO 1.1. Note now the document is 56 lines deep and the only way to maintain 57 lines is to alter margins to .24 in. top and .72 in bottom. The same document printout from MMS and Word when held tight overlaid together against a strong light exactly match font pixel-per font pixel, space per space, margin per margin, but said isn't true of NeoO 1.1 or OOo output. There must be some font and line proportion ratio that could shoehorn NeoO fonts and lines to comply with a consistent Courier 12, 57 line, .3 top .8 bottom margin format. Any assist would be greatly appreciated! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Re: [discuss] Re: [users] Manual available for OpenOffice.org 2.0
No I have an objection to users being misled. THere is a manual that put profits back into OOo and I would prefer to think that there are many who do not know that the printed guide from OOo is available. I also object to publishing companies and their authors using this list for UCE. You seem to have a problem with helping OpenOffice.org generate a cash flow. Why is this? I'm STILL trying to figure out what the heck OOo and Sun gets out of giving away a MS Office beater absolutely totally free! You guys should move into the lux car industry next!! :-D James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Mystery Missing F13
Why doesn't OOo or NeoO use or even mention the F13 key? They're superstitious? PC keyboards only go up to F12, so that would be why. Got it. Shame. Would've loved to've programmed my F13 thru F16 keys for NeoWrite without using key combinations, especially since F1, F6, and F10 are reserved. James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Mystery Missing F13
Greetings: Why doesn't OOo or NeoO use or even mention the F13 key? James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Public Domain Font Resources For Mac OOo
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 21:45 -0400, James Greenidge wrote: Greetings! Super-kudos to the Mac OOo 2.0 team! Keep up the great work! I'd like to know of any reliable public domain font sources for Mac OOo 2.0 (if it can't use Billmobile versions). I'm particularly seeking another version of Courier font and some elegant cursive type fonts. Do you mean beyond the ones you can install using File Wizard Install fonts from the web ... ? Thanks, I didn't see that! As a Mac user I guess I'm instinctively blind to Wizards! That's a cool feature! A feature request is it enabling you to browse and hook-in to other font sources on the web. James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Public Domain Font Resources For Mac OOo
I'd like to know of any reliable public domain font sources for Mac OOo 2.0 (if it can't use Billmobile versions). I'm particularly seeking another version of Courier font and some elegant cursive type fonts. Lemme go snooping around in my moz links, I think I have a good site you can leach a few from, brb. http://fonts.goldenweb.it/index_file/l/en/d2/True_Type_Fonts/ They have several thousand ttf fonts there, most of quite decent quality, particularly the cursive styles. You can dl them one at a time, or feed the kitty by ordering a cd with all of them on it. Thanks for the heads up! I'll check it out! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Any Mac OOo Forums?
Greetings: I've Googled, but to be sure, are there any dedicated Mac OOo forums anywhere? (don't mean NeoO). I'd like to check out some minor Mac OOo issues like it appears that Courier 12 font antialiasing doesn't seem to work or not as overtly smooth and fuzzy as it does in NeoO. I'm also seeking OOo friendly versions of Edwardian, Aristocrat, and Stencil fonts used in Mac applications but don't show up. Thanks, and good work to the Mac OOo team! James Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Public Domain Font Resources For Mac OOo
Greetings! Super-kudos to the Mac OOo 2.0 team! Keep up the great work! I'd like to know of any reliable public domain font sources for Mac OOo 2.0 (if it can't use Billmobile versions). I'm particularly seeking another version of Courier font and some elegant cursive type fonts. Thanks. James (I happily feed OOo's kitty) Greenidge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Writer Video Clip Recommendations
Greetings: I've created a seven-second animated GIF video clip off my VCR via GifBuilder to insert a NeoWrite document. It runs, but the colors, reduced in conversion from thousands to only 250(?) look awful and smeared. I'd prefer color to grey tones (which is a Gif clip 5x larger sized than color!) which is visually much better but I'd rather have color for effect. Can anyone recommend a better rendering for an animated clip in NeoWrite? Thanks! James Greenidge
