Doug Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Volunteers [...] have a God-given right [[asumption 1]] to be just a
bit disgruntled when someone lifts their work [[assumption 2]] in
order to make a personal profit [[assumption 3]] without returning
anything to the community [[assumption 4]] that
Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Microsoft has said that they will support OpenDocument in MS Office if
there is customer demand for it.
I must say that I really don't know whether this would be a good or a
bad thing.
I can easily imagine Microsoft supporting OpenDocument to the
Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are enough knowledgeable people out there to make this too risky
for MS to even contemplate. If their apps don't produce pure and clean
ODF rest assured it will be all over the Internet within hours.
Severe bugs in Windows and IE frequently hit the
Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* People don't trust Microsoft now. They are under the radar of a lot
of world governments, and people expect them to try dirty tricks.
I'm afraid 99% of the PC users just use Microsoft software, and don't
think about it.
* OOo is the reference
Carl Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does OOo make its own copies of the fonts? Where can I find this?
If so, you can find them in the OpenOffice.org/user/fonts directory
(where OpenOffice.org is you user dir).
If you don't know what your user dir is, take a look at
$HOME/.sversionrc
HTH,
M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8616
A good read! Thanks.
-- Johan
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mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was finally getting back to thinking about trying to install 2.0,
RC2, and what someone here (thanks!) had mentioned about giving rpm a
relocation location... and realized the problem. It's *still* going to
run any final scripts, and it's going to set links.
Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is far more serious, as Wikipedia is free???
What does that mean? When was the last time Google charged you for search
results? Since when does a lack of cost increase its seriousness?
Free as in speech.
-- Johan
mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Morgan Olsson wrote:
No answer to your question, but...
Where did you find RC2? I thought RC1 or RC for short is the latest?
I assume RC means the current RC, which currently is RC2.
When I downloaded the RC, I got RC2.
-- Johan
Chris BONDE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have very briefly looked at LilyPond. What I saw I liked, but, I was
intimidated.
I know what you mean. LilyPond is quite impressive ;-).
Will it fit into some MIDI so that it will play?
Last time I looked, it could generate MIDI data.
-- Johan
Theodore Raphan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there any way to read PDF files directly with OpenOffice 2.0. Since
it has such nice PDF writing capability, should it not have reading
capabilities as well.
If you mean that reading the PDF would result in the source document
(or something alike):
Alex Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now, this issue has 1 vote. I'm surprised. I guess there's not very
many people trying to use fractional sizes of fonts or that care.
The voting system depends on the ability to mobilize people to vote
for something, and not on sound reasoning whether a
Lawrence Millwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Typical of many notebook PCs I have a Synaptics touch-pad. I can use this in
a number of applications to scroll up and down a page. However, in
OpenOffice I find that the scroll feature becomes blocked. Have other users
met this problem?
Not on my
Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's too many corporate types that believe that
price and quality of software are directly proportional.
FLOSS is not about price and quality. FLOSS is about freedom. So the
quote should probably read: There's too many corporate types that
believe that
John William Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am going to be writing a White Paper about Openoffice and how it
compares to the standard Microsoft Office for my professional
writing class.
This puzzles me. I'd have thought a professional writing class is
about content and the tools to make
cono [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I train people in groups of 4 to 6 persons. That takes them 4 hours.
After that, they not only know where the differences between MsO and
OOo are, they also have learnt:
a - how to use an editor as it has to be done; (know how many time
people lose day after
Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 10:15 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
So the question remains: will OOo be released 'built correctly' (not
requiring _any_ Java), in multiple forms (with/without Java), or just
with Java leaving the 'built correctly' version
Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 17:41 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
Does that mean that 2.0 will be shipped as a standalone binary, not
requiring anything but the more or less standard libraries?
If it is built correctly, I understand the answer to be yes. Obviously
Hi Joerg,
Joerg Barfurth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does that mean that 2.0 will be shipped as a standalone binary, not
requiring anything but the more or less standard libraries?
It is shipped that way even now.
Yes, since 1.x only uses Java for some optional features.
Since 2.x requires
Carl William Spitzer IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 04:00, Johan Vromans wrote:
Profession font design tools can usually produce a font using Type 1,
TTF or OTF, all of equal quality.
Any of these tools for linux?
You may wish to check out fontforge @ sourceforge
Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. now and then i have a need to write documents that consist roughly
half text, hals spreadsheet. i usually end up with two documents,
because it's a lot easier to manage them separately. if we had such a
(let's call it .odm, as some poster already suggested -
Enrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The name is OpenOffice.org. Let me stress *Open* and *org*
The FLOSS community is not just another target.
and that possible losses in the FLOSS community will be reverted when,
in some later stage, OOos requirement for Java can be fulfilled by GCJ.
Christian Einfeldt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the other hand, I also see that one person commented that Apache
uses Java, or can use Java, and so I'm not sure whether the concerns
are overstated.
There's a significant distinction between using Java for added
features (e.g., to drive Java
Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.ultimatejudgment.com/Bill-Gates
I don't think OOo will benefit from this.
-- Johan
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Eric Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
4. Parsing textual delimited files no matter the extension still
opens in Writer instead of auto-parsing into Calc. Quattro and Excel
do this and only Calc can't do this smoothly.
A textual file is a textual file, meaning text.
One of the biggest problems
Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wrote:
Text files will be opened in writer. A CSV file is a text file.
Correction: it turns out that when I rename the file to .csv
extension, it _is_ opened in calc (well, the calc CSV importer).
Additionally soffice -Calc foo.bar will try to open
Manolis Christodoulou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Imagine the situation whenI run a Firefox window with a java applet
inside, an OOo Writer, and a GIMP instance at the same time under
Windows XP. This is very common to people like me who prefere to use
free software. How many graphics libraries
Peter Kupfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...in a grander sense, if MS does open its format and keeps it that
way,
... which I do not believe until I've seen it.
-- Johan
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