Re: [discuss] Dynamic document switching (was openoffice available as an extension for firefox)

2005-10-06 Thread Daniel Kasak
Rigel wrote: When I read this post, my first thought was "It would be silly to create extensions of OOo for Firefox." Then about 2 seconds later, I had the idea of taking the exact same approach and integrating into OOo itself, so you Open OOo, and you have tabs that you can click, that wil

[discuss] Dynamic document switching (was openoffice available as an extension for firefox)

2005-10-06 Thread Rigel
Nagarjunam Kancharla wrote: I was just thinking, wouldn't it be great if each tool of openoffice (writer, impress, math, draw) are available individually as an extension of firefox and available as one of the tabs. Its like you open the writer tab, impress tab, draw tab etc. When the user cl

Re: [discuss] Writer About Box

2005-10-06 Thread Richard/g
On Thursday 06 October 2005 10:17, James Walker wrote: > Has anyone else noticed the about box for OpenOffice.org > > This product has been created by Sun Microsystems, based on OpenOffice.org > > > I could see this being included in StarOffice, but since this is the > OpenOffice.org progra

[discuss] Write is right, and wrong

2005-10-06 Thread Frank A Hilario
LG (Ladies & Gentlemen): This is my second day with OpenOffice.org (2nd with 1.1.5, 1st with 2.0), and I have been exploring Write as I want to migrate from Word as soon as possible. I am a writer & editor who uses Word also for desktop publishing (I've been using Word for 17 years), so you get th

Re: [discuss] Default page size on Writer

2005-10-06 Thread CPHennessy
On Fri September 30 2005 15:24, + Bernard wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > In 1.1.5, under Windows and Linux, the default page size seems always to > revert to Letter. This will be a major problem to users outside the USA > and Canada. This is logged as a defect, issue #55304. P

Re: [discuss] Writer About Box

2005-10-06 Thread CPHennessy
On Thu October 6 2005 15:17, James Walker wrote: > Has anyone else noticed the about box for OpenOffice.org > > This product has been created by Sun Microsystems, based on OpenOffice.org > > > I could see this being included in StarOffice, but since this is the > OpenOffice.org program it really

Re: [discuss] Envelopes

2005-10-06 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue October 4 2005 13:05, + Pete Sarson wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > Hello there, I have been using Linux for over three years now, I am no > expert but now quite a lot now. I have two pc's exactly the same > specification apart from one has windows xp and the other fedora c

Re: [discuss] A recent crash with oo.o 2

2005-10-06 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue October 4 2005 23:45, + Iain Henshaw wrote: > [ MODERATED ] > Hi there > > I had opened a ppt presentation and tried to export as SWF, it crashed. I > re-opened the ppt doc and saved as OO doc, closed the app and re-opened the > newly saved OO presentation. again tried

Re: [discuss] Publisher

2005-10-06 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue October 4 2005 21:02, + melissa wrote: > I am looking for a open source version of Microsoft's Publisher? Is that > something that is possibly in the works, or do you have any suggestions for > a program that is compatible with that? > > Thank you very much for any help and I love the opport

Re: [discuss] Interface translation corrections

2005-10-06 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon October 3 2005 20:59, Morgan Olsson wrote: > Hi > Where do i post comments/corrections on interface language? > I mean text in menues, dialogs, integrated help. > Specfically swedish. > And where do i search among already posted issues? Issuezilla. Can you please report this in issuezilla ?

Re: [discuss] compatible formats & features

2005-10-06 Thread CPHennessy
Hi Paul, On Wed October 5 2005 15:09, + Paul Yarnall wrote: > Hi, > > A few comments. Open Office is an impressive undertaking, however, I am > greatly disappointed in its ability to deal with other formats, (besides > Microsoft whatever). I have 20 years of WordPerfect and Quattro files. I >

[discuss] Re: Re: Outlook

2005-10-06 Thread Sam Stainsby
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:09:36 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > > It sounds like you are looking for replacements for Exchange Server > more than just outlook. There was a recent discussion on the Fedora > list about this. The clients have to have the features that our users want. Of course the serve

Re: [discuss] openoffice available as an extension for firefox

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Kopischke
on 10/06/05 17:32 'Daniel Kasak' wrote: Nagarjunam Kancharla wrote: I was just thinking, wouldn't it be great if each tool of openoffice (writer, impress, math, draw) are available individually as an extension of firefox and available as one of the tabs. Its like you open the writer tab, im

Re: [discuss] openoffice available as an extension for firefox

2005-10-06 Thread Daniel Kasak
Nagarjunam Kancharla wrote: I was just thinking, wouldn't it be great if each tool of openoffice (writer, impress, math, draw) are available individually as an extension of firefox and available as one of the tabs. Its like you open the writer tab, impress tab, draw tab etc. When the user cl

Re: [discuss] OO 2.0 RC and Release Date

2005-10-06 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed September 28 2005 17:33, + Sigmund Puchacz wrote: > Is there a calendar for the availability of the release candidate and > general release for of Release 2.0? Thanks. The first release candidate is already out and the second was is nearly ready to bake. > Regards, > Sig Puchacz > Progra

Re: [discuss] Re: Outlook

2005-10-06 Thread Robin Laing
Sam Stainsby wrote: On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:19:00 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: As others have mentioned, Mozilla or Thunderbird will handle mail and addressbook functions, calendaring is under development. Evolution will handle maiol, address book and calendaring. You can read more about or

[discuss] Re: Page # from X and up

2005-10-06 Thread Randomthots
Morgan Ohlson wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 08:00:01 + (UTC), Andrew Brown wrote: Morgan Ohlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:8g7t2qqfdnr3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How can I set the first page # of a document to X ? You can only do that to the second page, which means the first has to be

[discuss] Writer About Box

2005-10-06 Thread James Walker
Has anyone else noticed the about box for OpenOffice.org This product has been created by Sun Microsystems, based on OpenOffice.org I could see this being included in StarOffice, but since this is the OpenOffice.org program it really does not make much sense. Or am I just looking at this w

Re: [discuss] openoffice available as an extension for firefox

2005-10-06 Thread David Farning
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 12:27 +0100, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > The approach I am currently taking it to use a XSLT transformation to > > convert the OpenDocument XML to HTML. Then the HTML can be displayed in > > a XUL textarea. > > Have you checked the XSLT included with OOo. You can find help

Re: [discuss] openoffice available as an extension for firefox

2005-10-06 Thread David Farning
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 12:18 +0100, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > I have just started an OpenDocument viewer extension for firefox. I have > > not seen any similar projects out yet. If anyone knows about a existing > > project, drop me a line. > > There is a pygtk viewer called Visiooo-Writer and a

Re: [discuss] openoffice available as an extension for firefox

2005-10-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:39:37 +0100, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have just started an OpenDocument viewer extension for firefox. I have not seen any similar projects out yet. If anyone knows about a existing project, drop me a line. This effort is scratching a personal itch. I us

Re: [discuss] openoffice available as an extension for firefox

2005-10-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:39:37 +0100, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 10:52 -0400, Nagarjunam Kancharla wrote: I was just thinking, wouldn't it be great if each tool of openoffice (writer, impress, math, draw) are available individually as an extension of firefox

[discuss] Re: Page # from X and up

2005-10-06 Thread Morgan Ohlson
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 08:00:01 + (UTC), Andrew Brown wrote: > Morgan Ohlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:8g7t2qqfdnr3 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> >> How can I set the first page # of a document to X ? >> >> > > You can only do that to the second page, which means the first has to be a >

Re: [discuss] Printing Issue with OpenOffice Writer

2005-10-06 Thread Joost Andrae
Hello Erwin, AFAIK this is a known issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=46968 Please have a look at it as there seems to be a workaround for this until this issue get's fixed. Kind regards, Joost We've implemented the OpenOffice.org, thanks for the product. As we use the

Re: [discuss] openoffice available as an extension for firefox

2005-10-06 Thread David Farning
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 10:52 -0400, Nagarjunam Kancharla wrote: > I was just thinking, wouldn't it be great if each tool of openoffice > (writer, impress, math, draw) are available individually as an extension > of firefox and available as one of the tabs. Its like you open the > writer tab, imp

Re: [discuss] openoffice available as an extension for firefox

2005-10-06 Thread Paul
Possible idea, but that would tie users into Firefox... since OOo runs on plenty of platforms the benefit is that of cross platform and for as many people as possible (not just those that use Firefox). As to running a version of OOo on the internet, this could be possible in the future based on th

[discuss] openoffice available as an extension for firefox

2005-10-06 Thread Nagarjunam Kancharla
I was just thinking, wouldn't it be great if each tool of openoffice (writer, impress, math, draw) are available individually as an extension of firefox and available as one of the tabs. Its like you open the writer tab, impress tab, draw tab etc. When the user clicks on the tab, all the tool

[discuss] Printing Issue with OpenOffice Writer

2005-10-06 Thread Erwin Calata
Good Day!!! We've implemented the OpenOffice.org, thanks for the product. As we use the Writer we encounter some printing issues. We are using HP Laserjet 1150. On the screen I encoded like this: 1. Probe 2. Poetry etc... but when I tried to print using HP Laserjet 1150, the printout show

Re: [discuss] Re: Page # from X and up

2005-10-06 Thread cono
Andrew Brown wrote: Morgan Ohlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:8g7t2qqfdnr3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How can I set the first page # of a document to X ? You can only do that to the second page, which means the first has to be a title page, or not printed, or something. INsert -> manual bre

[discuss] Re: Page # from X and up

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew Brown
Morgan Ohlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:8g7t2qqfdnr3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > How can I set the first page # of a document to X ? > > You can only do that to the second page, which means the first has to be a title page, or not printed, or something. INsert -> manual break -> page bre