[discuss] Localization of OOo writer in Amharic

2005-07-31 Thread Makeda Solomon
Dear Sir, We were tring to localize OOo writer. But we are a little bit confused can you help us please. We were tring to translate the PO files. But after that we don't know how to compile it with the existing source code. Can you please tell us what procedures we have to use. We are students

[discuss] PDF file handling

2005-07-31 Thread Theodore Raphan
Hi, It would be helpful to be able to read a PDF file, chaange the file and write it back in another file format. This would be important as the odt file format becomes popular. As is there is no way to do this in Open Office. Since Open Office already has the code to write PDF files, why can't th

Re: [discuss] PDF file handling

2005-07-31 Thread Daniel Carrera
Theodore Raphan wrote: Since Open Office already has the code to write PDF files, why can't this be inverted to read them and put it into odt format. You seem to think that it's possible to "invert" a file filter. I would be interested to see you explain how this would be done. Perhaps you'd

Re: [discuss] PDF file handling

2005-07-31 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 20:35 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Theodore Raphan wrote: > > > Since Open > > Office already has the code to write PDF files, why can't this be inverted > > to > > read them and put it into odt format. > > You seem to think that it's possible to "invert" a file filter. I

Re: [discuss] PDF file handling

2005-07-31 Thread William W. Austin
On 2005-07-31 15:16:32, Theodore Raphan wrote: Hi, It would be helpful to be able to read a PDF file, chaange the file and write it back in another file format. This would be important as the odt file format becomes popular. As is there is no way to do this in Open Office. Since Open Office alre

Re: [discuss] PDF file handling

2005-07-31 Thread Daniel Carrera
Ian Lynch wrote: Think of it like this. If I have an equation like Y = Sin(x) it will generate a nice oscillating curve. Now try and take a more complex curve and work out the equation that generated it. Its not at all so easy. So its quite easy to go from equations to curves, its a lot more dif

Re: [discuss] PDF file handling

2005-07-31 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 21:49 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Ian Lynch wrote: > > > Think of it like this. If I have an equation like Y = Sin(x) it will > > generate a nice oscillating curve. Now try and take a more complex curve > > and work out the equation that generated it. Its not at all so eas

RE: [discuss] Community-based computer literacy project

2005-07-31 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Your first point of reference for openoffice should be The documentation website, this has manuals you can download and distribute in acrobat format The address is http://documentation.openoffice.org/ See also http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Using_the_OpenOffice.org_Suite Best wishes for y

Re: [discuss] PDF file handling

2005-07-31 Thread John W. Kennedy
William W. Austin wrote: On 2005-07-31 15:16:32, Theodore Raphan wrote: Hi, It would be helpful to be able to read a PDF file, chaange the file and write it back in another file format. This would be important as the odt file format becomes popular. As is there is no way to do this in Open Off

Re: [discuss] PDF file handling

2005-07-31 Thread Alex Janssen
Theodore Raphan wrote: It would be helpful to be able to read a PDF file, chaange the file and write it back in another file format. This would be important as the odt file format becomes popular. As is there is no way to do this in Open Office. Since Open Office already has the code to write PD