Re: [discuss] Re: file converters

2005-11-28 Thread Mathias Bauer
Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:58:02 -, Mathias Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> The filters will not create any "bloat" in memory until you use them >> (because they will not be loaded before this). Of course they eat up >> several MB on your hard disk (7 MB for a

[discuss] Impress - text display problems and animation

2005-11-28 Thread marco tettamanti
Hi all, I have installed OpenOffice2.0.0-2 on a Kanotix Debian Linux distro and use OpenOffice in KDE3.4.2. I have noticed an annoying behavior of Impress, that occurs whenever I want to edit a text box with multiple text lines: when I click on the text box to edit the text, the bottom text line

Re: [discuss] Re: Think free gets ahead of Sun and Google with OOo!

2005-11-28 Thread Mathias Bauer
Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Can you have multiple languages on the UI so for example some computer > will have it in Spanish and the next computer on the network has it in > English all within just 1 OOo network installation. Yes. The selected UI language can be set on a per user base. You ca

[discuss] Font Issue

2005-11-28 Thread Mark G Holdsworth
There appears to be a font problem with v2.0 compared to v1.1. When using special characters for the Spanish language v2.0 corrupts the text.

[discuss] opening MS Excel documents with VB script is broken...

2005-11-28 Thread Alex Weber
Just thought I'd let you guys know (if you don't already) that opening MS Office 2003 documents that contain VB controls and code doesn't work. the controls look like they are there but can't be edited at all and all the code simply vanishes. A lot of people that use spreadsheets on a regular bas

Re: [discuss] opening MS Excel documents with VB script is broken...

2005-11-28 Thread Paul
OOo is known not to support VB. It has its own macro type language (basic) and it supports other languages as well... /paul On 11/29/05, Alex Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just thought I'd let you guys know (if you don't already) that opening MS > Office 2003 documents that contain VB contro

Re: [discuss] Re: Article: OpenDocument vs MS XML

2005-11-28 Thread Wesley Parish
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:40, mark wrote: > Daniel Carrera wrote: > > Wesley Parish wrote: > >> I suspect Microsoft dragged over some of their programming gurus from > >> arcane C/C++-using projects to draft this standard, because it's got > > > "Arcane"? Uh, you mean like OpenOffice.org's codebase?

[discuss] Stockholm to evaluate OOo / Novell's Linux Desktop

2005-11-28 Thread Lars D . Noodén
The city of Stockholm will be doing a technical evaluation of Novell's Linux Desktop which includes OpenOffice. The evaluation should be finished in March. The thought is to phase it (OOo ? or Novell's Linux ?) in on new machines. The article (in Swedish) is a bit unclear about the difference

Re: [discuss] Impress won't print color

2005-11-28 Thread Jeff Noall
I just downloaded the latest version (2.0) directly from the http://openoffice.org site. I still cannot get any color print outs. On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 01:38 +, CPHennessy wrote: > On Wed October 12 2005 12:17, + Jeff Noall wrote: > > Just some feedback. > > > > On a box running Fedora core 4

Re: [discuss] Stockholm to evaluate OOo / Novell's Linux Desktop

2005-11-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2005-11-28, at 05:10 , Lars D. Noodén wrote: The city of Stockholm will be doing a technical evaluation of Novell's Linux Desktop which includes OpenOffice. The evaluation should be finished in March. Fantastic. I wish I had known of these early plans when I was there, in Stock

Re: [discuss] Impress won't print color

2005-11-28 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon November 28 2005 18:02, + Jeff Noall wrote: > [ MODERATED ] > I just downloaded the latest version (2.0) directly from the > http://openoffice.org site. I still cannot get any color print outs. > > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 01:38 +, CPHennessy wrote: > > On Wed October

Re: [discuss] add in or plug in idea

2005-11-28 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon November 28 2005 00:57, Chad Smith wrote: > On 11/27/05, CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chad, > > Not many people have actually expressed what this PIM part of OOo would > > be. > > I have not used MSOffice+Outlook, so I'm not aware of what all the > > integration > > there betwee

Re: [discuss] Please I need some help from you...

2005-11-28 Thread CPHennessy
On Thu November 24 2005 20:54, + Ambassador Palace Hotel wrote: > [ MODERATED ] > Dear Sirs , > Since I have just installed your precious program OpenOffice.org 2.0 I had > some problems to download the attachement file like .doc or .xls. There is > any incompatibility that yo

Re: [discuss] Impress - text display problems and animation

2005-11-28 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:03:36 -, marco tettamanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a second problem, in the Openoffice2 version I am not able to find the "Animation effects" button (or any equivalent tool) that used to exist in former versions. There is a button called "Custom animation" but i