Re: [discuss] Is Java the most widespread Internet language?

2005-03-18 Thread =?iso-8859-15?Q?Lars_D=2E_Nood=E9n?=
I would agree with Claus' suggestions and prefer the definition a widespread platform independent language Widespread is just too hard a metric to define, though I think Perl is still probably most common and wide spread, and distracts from the main point which is less controversial. -Lars

[discuss] Re: New stuff

2005-03-18 Thread Andrew Brown
Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:000401c52aa1$2a748df0$6401a8c0 @ronxp1: In word when you do a save as and there is yet no filename part of the first sentence appears. This minor to program and a vary useful feather. Well, the usefulness of this feather may vary, but there is a macro to

[discuss] Release of Open Office 2.0 Stable

2005-03-18 Thread James A Boundey
Hello. I am an absolutely avid user of Open Office 1.1.4. It is just incredible software. I have also downloaded recently the Open Office 2.0 beta. I was wondering if there was some sort of an estimate as to when Open Office 2.0 would likely be completed. I can't wait! Thanks so much for

[discuss] User Manual

2005-03-18 Thread Gene McGuire
Greetings, I would like to prepare a user manual of this outstanding product. This manual could be distributed with the software in printed form or as a PDF. I have tried to figure how to use the help files but that would entail retyping reams of information. If there were a way to get this

[discuss] Google Desktop plugs into OOo!

2005-03-18 Thread Ryan Singer
http://desktop.google.com/plugins/indextheopenoffice.html There is now a plugin for Windows users to extend OOo functionality into Google's Desktop Search software. -- _ Ryan Singer Editor In Chief, The Sentinel http://foothillsentinel.com

Re: [discuss] User Manual

2005-03-18 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello Gene, Yes, actually, we have a team working on a manual, and we need YOUR help. This is the OOoAuthors project. Take a look at our site: http://oooauthors.org Please make a login and take a look around. I strongly encourage you to join our team and work on the suer guide. The

Re: [discuss] Release of Open Office 2.0 Stable

2005-03-18 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello James, I'm glad you like OOo so much. We are hoping to have 2.0 stable somewhere around end of April-ish. Cheers, Daniel. On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:06:06AM -0700, James A Boundey wrote: Hello. I am an absolutely avid user of Open Office 1.1.4. It is just incredible software. I

Re: [discuss] Release of Open Office 2.0 Stable

2005-03-18 Thread Jacqueline McNally
James A Boundey wrote: Hello. I am an absolutely avid user of Open Office 1.1.4. It is just incredible software. I have also downloaded recently the Open Office 2.0 beta. I was wondering if there was some sort of an estimate as to when Open Office 2.0 would likely be completed. I can't wait!

[discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-18 Thread Ian Lynch
I was in a school earlier this week where a Physics teacher had created some really impressive animated presentations in Powerpoint. Unfortunately these depend on the ability to specify arbitrary paths to animate bitmap graphics along. Earlier versions of PPT don't support this. But the feature

Re: [discuss] MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
BTW this doesn't mean I hate the Helix people or something like this. They should try to have their framework used by many more projects if they want it to survive (that it's not the default media framework of any of the two main DE on Linux should ring big alarms at Real - they won't find any

Re: [discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Lynch wrote: I was in a school earlier this week where a Physics teacher had created some really impressive animated presentations in Powerpoint. Unfortunately these depend on the ability to specify arbitrary paths to animate bitmap graphics along. Earlier versions of PPT don't support this.

Re: [discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-18 Thread Sweet Coffee
Hi Ian! I began another thread on the mailing list with the subject MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=discussmsgNo=47747 http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=discussby=threadfrom=786478 You can check out MSN

Re: [discuss] workaround for database bug IZ#41239?

2005-03-18 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 18 March 2005 04:34, Jacob Floyd wrote: I'm searching for a workaround to IZ#41239 ( http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=41239 ) so that I can still use Base without restarting Base every 5 min. Also, please vote or do whatever else will help get this fixed. I've

Re: [discuss] Opening mail attachments

2005-03-18 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 17 March 2005 11:36, David Jamison wrote: Ive noticed that I cannot seem to open .doc. or .ppt attachements received in Thunderbird. I can associate say the .doc with swriter.exe but the OK button remains greyed out. Am I doing something wrong? (Im running OO v2 beta and

Re: [discuss] Fehlermeldung

2005-03-18 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:13, + Thomas Karker wrote: [ MODERATED ] Hallo! Nach dem ersten Testen habe ich folgende Mngel festgestellt: 1. Beim Kopieren von grafischen Elementen ist das kopierte Element beim einfgen nicht an dem Platz, wo das Original war. Bei mir

Re: [discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-18 Thread Sweet Coffee
Hi nicu! i believe you want this kind of animation: http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/02/16/1427218.shtml?tid=130tid=75tid=93 Thank you for this resource. SC - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-18 Thread =?iso-8859-15?Q?Lars_D=2E_Nood=E9n?=
I saw lot of useful animations and presentations using Authorware and similar tools. I suppose Director would be useful as well. But I think either may be way beyond what's within the scope of presentation graphics (Impress). -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software patents kill

Re: [discuss] Open Office web services support ?

2005-03-18 Thread CPHennessy
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:05, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: [snip] I'd like to know if web services/soap support is planned in Open Office proper (not a fork) in the near future, so I can make a case for using it. I think that it is supported, but please ask on dev@api.openoffice.org for a more

Re: [discuss] Open Office web services support ?

2005-03-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Ven 18 mars 2005 13:24, CPHennessy a écrit : On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:05, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: [snip] I'd like to know if web services/soap support is planned in Open Office proper (not a fork) in the near future, so I can make a case for using it. I think that it is supported,

Re: [discuss] Open Office web services support ?

2005-03-18 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: On Ven 18 mars 2005 13:24, CPHennessy a écrit : On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:05, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: [snip] I'd like to know if web services/soap support is planned in Open Office proper (not a fork) in the near future, so I can make a case for using it. I

Re: [discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-18 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:40, Nicu Buculei wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: i believe you want this kind of animation: http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/02/16/1427218.shtml?tid=130tid=75tid=93 Thanks that is useful. Just can't find it now in 2.0 beta. Where is the follow path option? I have

Re: [discuss] Writer Question (Potentially Stupid)

2005-03-18 Thread Mr Rigel Anrndt
Actualy. I think that feature is in Writer :) It's just a little bit different. Now do you mean stick in text as if it were floating ont he page? Or do you mean to start writing anywhere on a line? If you want to start writing anywhere on a line, you can use the tab stops at the top of the

Re: [discuss] Writer Question (Potentially Stupid)

2005-03-18 Thread Justin Clift
Mr Rigel Anrndt wrote: Actualy. I think that feature is in Writer :) It's just a little bit different. Now do you mean stick in text as if it were floating ont he page? Or do you mean to start writing anywhere on a line? If you want to start writing anywhere on a line, you can use the tab stops

Re: [discuss] MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Jonathon Blake
Nicolas wrote: Need I remind you of all the java parts in OO.o that were and probably still are deactivated on lots of Linux systems ? Question: Is the Helix patch Java, or not? _If_ it is Java then: a) Sun may adopt it. b) The linux distributions will exclude it. _If_ it is not Java,

Re: [discuss] MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Alexandro Colorado
And we will all switch to the Debian tree :D -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Mensaje citado por Jonathon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nicolas wrote: Need I remind you of all the java parts in OO.o that were and probably still are deactivated

Re: [discuss] Writer Question (Potentially Stupid)

2005-03-18 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Probably this issue was answered but is this toold sort of exist and is the 'Direct Cursor' is on the vertical tool menu. -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Mensaje citado por [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I am not a frequent poster on this list,

Re: [discuss] MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: On Ven 18 mars 2005 16:16, Nicu Buculei a écrit : Alexandro Colorado wrote: And we will all switch to the Debian tree :D not necessarily, maybe it will be enough to compile OOo with gcc 4.0 and have all this Java stuff working grace to gcj BTW my point was not that this

Re: [discuss] Open Office web services support ?

2005-03-18 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: [...] I think that what you're searching for is here : http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=21153 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=21154 Feature later :( Yes, it seems we lack of resources for this development. May be your big

Re: [discuss] Re: MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Sweet Coffee
Hi everyone! Just want to write about two things: THING 1 I got back a response on Issue Issue 41419 Support for playing back movies in impress with RealPlayer + avmedia. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=41419 Please read the comments and vote on the issue and comment

Re: [discuss] fonts

2005-03-18 Thread Jonathon Blake
Adrian wrote: IN Word it is possible to save fonts along with the document being used What, exactly do you mean here: a) The document includes the entire font. b) The document has the name of the font. c) Something else. xan jonathon -- A Fork requires: Seven systems with: 1+ GHz

Re: [discuss] Release of Open Office 2.0 Stable

2005-03-18 Thread elia martinez
Please tell me from where you download el openoffice 2.0 beta Thanks Elia James A Boundey wrote: Hello. I am an absolutely avid user of Open Office 1.1.4. It is just incredible software. I have also downloaded recently the Open Office 2.0 beta. I was wondering if there was some sort of an

Re: [discuss] Release of Open Office 2.0 Stable

2005-03-18 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Hi elia, you can see openoffice.org download from the homepage http://www.openoffice.org under openoffice.org 2.0 Beta -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Mensaje citado por elia martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please tell me from where you download

Re: [discuss] MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Chad Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW my point was not that this stuff uses java (no idea about that), but that it may be shunned like java is today once distributions decide Helix is redundant (which is a distinct possibility, Helix has a definite lack of traction on Linux now) Okay - look, I understand

Re: [discuss] Release of Open Office 2.0 Stable

2005-03-18 Thread elia martinez
But is this free too? Alexandro Colorado wrote: Hi elia, you can see openoffice.org download from the homepage http://www.openoffice.org under openoffice.org 2.0 Beta -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Mensaje citado por elia martinez [EMAIL

Re: [discuss] Release of Open Office 2.0 Stable

2005-03-18 Thread Alexandro Colorado
yeah is free as in beer and free as in freedom. -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Mensaje citado por elia martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But is this free too? Alexandro Colorado wrote: Hi elia, you can see openoffice.org download from the

Re: [discuss] MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Mplayer is not very hard, you can download the front end too and then you have a full player with all the codecs you need to play anything. -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Mensaje citado por Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chad Smith wrote:

[discuss] Re: MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Rod Engelsman
Nicu Buculei wrote: I don't think we should care about anything else beyond free formats - Ogg Vorbis and perhaps uncompressed Wav You know what I care about right now? Producing a 25 to 45 minute presentation in Powerpoint format with voice-over. Personally, I could give a flying fig whether

Re: [discuss] Re: MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Chad Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: I don't think we should care about anything else beyond free formats - Ogg Vorbis and perhaps uncompressed Wav You know what I care about right now? Producing a 25 to 45 minute presentation in Powerpoint format with voice-over. Personally, I could

Re: [discuss] Re: MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Christian Einfeldt
On Friday 18 March 2005 12:25, Rod Engelsman wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: I don't think we should care about anything else beyond free formats - Ogg Vorbis and perhaps uncompressed Wav You know what I care about right now? Producing a 25 to 45 minute presentation in Powerpoint format with

Re: [discuss] Re: MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Christian Einfeldt
On Friday 18 March 2005 13:16, Chad Smith wrote: I understand your political point, but arguing over how to do this and be as pure as possible is just going to slow the whole exercise down to a crawl and force people like me to use Windows even longer. Amen. Well said Rod. Thank you

Re: [discuss] MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Ryan Gammon
Sweet Coffee wrote: Hi Nicu! Are you saying that although Ogg does not play video, it can encode it in a format that the Helix player can play? Ogg is a container format in the same vein as avi, mov, 3gp, mkv, rm, etc. Within that container, one can have different codecs. (RealVideo 10,

Re: [discuss] User Manual

2005-03-18 Thread Chris BONDE
I have done some documentation for Main Frame computers, that is awhile back. I have written some very formal documents, again awhile back. My English is Canadian (the people who translate for the British and Americans) I donot know how I would be able to help but I am planning on checking things

[discuss] page numbering

2005-03-18 Thread Larry Gusaas
I sent this before but it didn't seem to go through On 17 Mar 2005 at 5:54, Daniel Carrera wrote: Open Office CAN NOT do page numbers. With a book project I needed Pages i,ii, ... at the beginning and page 1, 2, ... later!!! Yes it can. If you take a look at the OOoAuthors user

Re: [discuss] HINTS AND IDEAS ABOUT MY converter issue

2005-03-18 Thread =?ISO-8859-2?Q?KamiH=EDr?=
KamiHr rta: Hey! Can Someone help me to locate the problem and provide the patch? Which files I have to check? I will download the source tomorrow..-. Thanks, KAMI - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [discuss] MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Chad Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Need I remind you of all the java parts in OO.o that were and probably still are deactivated on lots of Linux systems ? Do I *care* that the Java stuff is turned off? No. Would I even *notice* if they were? No. The Java stuff is so small, and so limited to such

Re: [discuss] MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Chad Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chad! I'm a bit confused. What contributer are you referrring to?? http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=41419 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The guy who wrote the code for the Helix player add-on to OpenOffice.org. -Chad Smith

Re: [discuss] MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-18 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: That is ludicris! You think every thing Sun adds to OOo involves Java? Which explains why the code base in 2.0 is more dependent on Java than 1.1.5, which is more dependent on Java than 1.1.4. And also why OOo 2.0.1 will be more deependent on Java than 2.0. Or hadn't you noticed

[discuss] REMINDER: IRC Conf this Sunday.

2005-03-18 Thread Daniel Carrera
I'd like to remind everyone that this Sunday we will have the second in a series of bi-weekly IRC talks. The speaker this weekend will be Ian Lynch, OOo for schools lead. Title: Learning through Participation Day: Sunday, March 20. Time: 21:30 UTC URL: