[discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-01 Thread Jamie Borg
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Opens_Office_File_Formats/1117692086 Does this new announcement mean anything for OOo.org developers able actually use the microsoft XML documentation to develop a 'lossless' conversion? e Microsoft even called the document type the Microsoft

RE: [discuss] OOO20 beta is still much weaker as ms office

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Barton
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 14:31 +0200, Robert Horvat wrote: > I am sorry if you do not understand my bad English. Your English is fine and I have no difficulty understanding your words. > My native language is Slovene, but i presume you do not speak Slovene, > so... My ability to speak Slovene is no

RE: [discuss] Another MS XML patent

2005-06-01 Thread Mike White
Probably, but you would have to challenge it in court to make it stick. Mike > -Original Message- > From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 7:05 PM > To: discuss@openoffice.org > Subject: Re: [discuss] Another MS XML patent > > > Now having re-read the prop

Re: [discuss] Another MS XML patent

2005-06-01 Thread Alex
Now having re-read the proper patent. I still don't see how they could be awarded a patent on what appears to be nothing more that converting a data structure defined in one file to a serial stream in another file. Sounds like storing a record in a database to me. :-\ I think Borland was doi

Re: [discuss] Another MS XML patent

2005-06-01 Thread Alex
My patent attorney and I had a conversation about claims standing alone recently and apparently if they can be infringed alone they can also be awarded alone and alone prevent you from using what is claimed without license. This I'm fairly sure of. As to communication between computers, I'll

RE: [discuss] OOO20 beta is still much weaker as ms office

2005-06-01 Thread Robert Horvat
I am sorry if you do not understand my bad English. My native language is Slovene, but i presume you do not speak Slovene, so... Please look down Lep pozdrav, Robert Horvat, dr.vet.med. +386-41-558-349 http://www.veterina.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Dave Barton [mai

Re: [discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 15:14 +0200, Peter Reaper wrote: > Jonathon Coombes on 31.05.2005 22:40 wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 15:19 +0200, Peter Reaper wrote: > > > >>Some things that still "bug" me about OpenOffice: > >> > >>1. The page ZOOM toolbar button needs to be a dropdown selection, >

Re: [discuss] Poor choice of macro language (Object Model)

2005-06-01 Thread Ian Laurenson
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 10:06, Mathias Bauer wrote: > Ian Laurenson wrote: > > > * In Writer searching is at a document level thus coding for searching > > within a selection is extremely tedious and the resulting code is slow. > > Interesting, can you provide an example that shows the problem? >

[discuss] Bug in OpenOffice v1.1.x, v1.9.x and StarOffice 7 and 8beta, creating a PDF dokument!

2005-06-01 Thread Georg . Niess
Hallo, I've found bug's in OpenOffice v1.1.x, v1.9.x and StarOffice 7 and 8beta. The first error is: If you use the font 'wingdings' you'll get wrong wingdings signs back. Please have a lock to my files and give me feedback where I can send that. The second error is: If you save your file and type

[discuss] Fill series with the dates

2005-06-01 Thread me
Hello! I have just tried to solve the following situation: I needed to make a simple table having rows like date and value, ending by 24th Apr being the last day of a series of 58 days. I tried to format all the cells like date (English UK, DD/MM/YY) and then pointed to the last cell; Fill. s

Re: [discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread cono
Mathias Bauer wrote: FF *could* be a nice option, but unfortunately the implementation in Mozilla/TB sucks. FF is what? thanks, Cor - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
Peter Reaper wrote: [Customize toolbar TabPage] > I still think the "Add" button creates an unneeded layer. Why should the > toolbar buttons be split up into two windows: one that shows me the > buttons I already see on my toolbar, and another (hidden behind "Add") > with the buttons the user is

Re: [discuss] Re: Thunderbird versus Outlook

2005-06-01 Thread Deric Stowell
Rodney R wrote: First, you must create a text file with the necessary information. Next, in Thunderbird, under Tools, account settings, select the account you want the signature attached to, check "Attach this signature:" and then pick the text file you just created. I hope this is the informa

Re: [discuss] Re: Thunderbird versus Outlook

2005-06-01 Thread Rodney R
First, you must create a text file with the necessary information. Next, in Thunderbird, under Tools, account settings, select the account you want the signature attached to, check "Attach this signature:" and then pick the text file you just created. I hope this is the information you are lookin

Re: [discuss] Re: Thunderbird versus Outlook

2005-06-01 Thread Deric Stowell
Peter Reaper wrote: Jonathan Kaye on 31.05.2005 20:50 wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | | Third, thunderbird has no real support for signatures. this is the only | real "problem" that I have with thunderbird. | I'm not sure what you mean by "no real support for signatures". TBird c

[discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread Peter Reaper
Mathias Bauer on 01.06.2005 15:58 wrote: Peter Reaper wrote: >>3. It is too cumbersome to add toolbar buttons that are not in the >>standard set. The user should be able to just select a category on the >>left (which BTW should mirror the MENU items) and then on the right have >>a list of ALL f

Re: [discuss] MS Office Import/Export

2005-06-01 Thread Robin Laing
Bottom post. A Fuller wrote: Text boxes and embedded JPEG's. They were imported into Open, but lost when saved in Open with MS Office Format. The same type objects when created in Open are saved correctly in MS Office format. But the objects cannot be edited and saved in MS Office lest Open im

Re: [discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
Peter Reaper wrote: > >>3. It is too cumbersome to add toolbar buttons that are not in the > >>standard set. The user should be able to just select a category on the > >>left (which BTW should mirror the MENU items) and then on the right have > >>a list of ALL functions in that category which

[discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread Peter Reaper
I hope this time my post comes through without broken quotes... :-\ Jonathon Coombes on 31.05.2005 22:40 wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 15:19 +0200, Peter Reaper wrote: Some things that still "bug" me about OpenOffice: 1. The page ZOOM toolbar button needs to be a dropdown selection, instead o

[discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread Peter Reaper
Jonathon Coombes on 31.05.2005 22:40 wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 15:19 +0200, Peter Reaper wrote: > >>Some things that still "bug" me about OpenOffice: >> >>1. The page ZOOM toolbar button needs to be a dropdown selection, >>instead of the more cumbersome separate dialog window. > > There is a

Re: [discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
Peter Reaper wrote: > Mathias Bauer on 01.06.2005 13:21 wrote: >> Peter Reaper wrote: >> >> The same argument is given from OE (l)users. ;-) > > So OE users are requesting f=f too? :-P > >> FF *could* be a nice option, but unfortunately the implementation in >> Mozilla/TB sucks. > > It doesn't

[discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread Peter Reaper
Peter Reaper on 01.06.2005 14:03 wrote: http://lairo.com/files/Bad-Text-Wrapping.jpg I moved the file: http://lairo.com/files/temp/Bad-Text-Wrapping.jpg Sorry. :-[ -- Regards, Peter Reaper The browser you can trust: http://www.GetFirefox.com Reclaim Your Inbox: http://www.GetThund

[discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread Peter Reaper
Mathias Bauer on 01.06.2005 13:21 wrote: Peter Reaper wrote: The same argument is given from OE (l)users. ;-) So OE users are requesting f=f too? :-P FF *could* be a nice option, but unfortunately the implementation in Mozilla/TB sucks. It doesn't suck nearly as much as reading posts that

Re: [discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
Peter Reaper wrote: > If all news readers used format=flowed (like Thunderbird does) then this > problem would vanish, and everybody could view their news at their > desired width. The same argument is given from OE (l)users. ;-) FF *could* be a nice option, but unfortunately the implementation

Re: [discuss] Some Ideas reg. Openoffice 2.0

2005-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
M. Lutz wrote: > Saving (automatic) of the current document: > Having several drawings / plots etc. in the current > document the saving process de-activates the screen for > quite a time: up to > 10sec on my (WinXP-)PC. > I'm

Re: [discuss] Filter selection not allowing me to open my file

2005-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
Pam Patton wrote: > I have a spreadsheet in the open office 1.9.7 that I opened this morning and > had > no problems. I saved it and closed it and upon trying to reopen it comes up > with "filter selection" and will not let me open the file. I am attaching > the > file. Do you have any ide

Re: [discuss] [Fwd: Filter selection not allowing to open the file]

2005-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
Pam Patton wrote: > We have had several documents that when we tried to open them they required a > filter selection and we were not able to open them. These documents have > been > on a shared drive and always in the past we have been to open them on someone > elses computer with no "filter

Re: [discuss] Another MS XML patent

2005-06-01 Thread Wesley Parish
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[discuss] Re: Thunderbird versus Outlook

2005-06-01 Thread Peter Reaper
Jonathan Kaye on 31.05.2005 20:50 wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | | Third, thunderbird has no real support for signatures. this is the only | real "problem" that I have with thunderbird. | I'm not sure what you mean by "no real support for signatures". TBird certainly seems to support

[discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread Peter Reaper
Mathias Bauer on 01.06.2005 9:50 wrote: Morgan Olsson wrote: Peter Reaper 18:22 2005-05-31: PS. Why wasn't your text wrapped while I was composing my reply? Because i have no way of telling everybodys mail readers line lengths and character widths and make everyone special mails cut special

[discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread Peter Reaper
Peter Kupfer OOo on 01.06.2005 4:29 wrote: Peter Reaper wrote: Joseph Roth on 31.05.2005 15:54 wrote: Peter Reaper wrote: Some things that still "bug" me about OpenOffice: 1. The page ZOOM toolbar button needs to be a dropdown selection, instead of the more cumbersome separate dialog wind

Re: [discuss] Poor choice of macro language (Object Model)

2005-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
Sander Vesik wrote: > --- Mathias Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Currently we are investigating both ways: we are looking for new, >> simpler APIs and we are thinking about more "smart" capabilities of >> OOoBasic. > > It has bee a while since I have said this (mostly due to mailing list >

Re: [discuss] Re: Ten Things That Still "Bug" Me About OpenOffice

2005-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
Morgan Olsson wrote: > Peter Reaper 18:22 2005-05-31: >> PS. Why wasn't your text wrapped while I was composing my reply? > > Because i have no way of telling everybodys mail readers line lengths > and character widths and make everyone special mails cut special > places. That's not true. The *s