Re: [discuss] PDF file handling

2005-08-01 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Lynch wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 21:49 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: Consider a transformation that turns a Draw vector graphic into a PNG bitmap. It would be impossible to turn that PNG back into a usable vector graphic. Not entirely true. There is software around that will make a

[discuss] Re: Need a how-to, converting large doc to book/chapters

2005-08-01 Thread Andrew Brown
William W. Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: In adding to this doc (350 or so pages, lots of tables, scatter plots (ole objects), footnotes, etc. - over 9Mb for the .odt file to begin with), including the equations I am afraid that I'm fighting a losing battle,

[discuss] Re: Need a how-to, converting large doc to book/chapters

2005-08-01 Thread Andrew Brown
Andrew Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there any equivalent in OOo? Any pointers, docs, etc. would be greatly appreciated. More sefully: http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/writer/draft_pub/0213WG- WorkingWithMasterDocuments.sxw -- Andrew Brown The

Re: [discuss] Open Office Calc

2005-08-01 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Jonathan, On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:49:17 +0100, Jonathan Spencer wrote: I've been using Open Office Calc for about 3 weeks, I've noticed there's no datedif function (there's one in excel). But only documented in Excel 2000, not in earlier (though around since Excel 5 it seems) and not in

[discuss] Converting Presentation to Flash?

2005-08-01 Thread David Miller
Was recently presented with a problem for which I hope someone on this list can offer a solution. I was given a simple PowerPoint presentation that a minister friend of mine uses in a Bible Study that he presents. The idea was to expand the presentation to outline the various talking points

[discuss] Page numbering

2005-08-01 Thread J. Robert Lennon
Hi there-- Just wanted to drop a suggestion regarding the upcoming version of OpenOffice... I LOVE this program, especially writer, and regard it as superior to MS Word...except in one instance: page numbering. I want to be able to insert page numbers in a document OUTSIDE the margin

RE: [discuss] Page numbering

2005-08-01 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Have you considered writing a macro ? Just use the macro recorder to record a typical page number insert then if needed change the critical values to variables And prompt the user for the value, you can then assign the Macro to a toolbar. e.g. Dim Pageoffset as Integer Pageoffset = InputBox(

Re: [discuss] Page numbering

2005-08-01 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 00:56 +, William W. Austin wrote: SNIP! Anybody know how to change (reset) a page number easily? Oops, I see that Justin Fitzgibbon [EMAIL PROTECTED] just posted the how-to on that. Hi William, This information is also in the OOo Knowledgebase at the link

Re: [discuss] Open Office Calc

2005-08-01 Thread Alex Janssen
Eike Rathke wrote: But only documented in Excel 2000, not in earlier (though around since Excel 5 it seems) and not in later versions. See also http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/odd/odd03.htm Microsoft knowledge base does not know anything about this function. I searched with :