Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem - resolved in OO

2003-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I submitted a bug report to openoffice.org about this problem and it has now been resolved in the latest build. There was a bug in the code that allowed for/created an empty OLE object on one of the slides and this prevented the export. It has

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 13:25, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 16:15 -0500, et wrote: I would not put bets on where to blame in either case,,, my [gag,,cough, cough, choke] intuition makes me think of some weird kinda file corruption in both cases, but SO is the only common

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 9:15 pm, et wrote: I would not put bets on where to blame in either case,,, my [gag,,cough, cough, choke] intuition makes me think of some weird kinda file corruption in both cases, but SO is the only common thread _that_ _we_ _know_ _of_. FWIW, I abandoned OOo from 8.2

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the other do you happen to have the url. I do use Asian fonts on occasion and have had trouble. Thanks. http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/6.0/patch.html HTH

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the other do you happen to have the url. I do use Asian fonts on occasion and have had trouble. Thanks.

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:43 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the other do you happen to have the url. I do use Asian

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:55, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:43 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:55 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:43 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread et
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 12:55 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:43 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 15:37 -0500, et wrote: one of this thread was the one you offered to test for Preador, the Star office presentation that gave an error when saving to Powerpoint, but could be cut and pasted to a new file, and saved with no problem, and Anne had a I think that one was

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread et
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 03:53 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 15:37 -0500, et wrote: one of this thread was the one you offered to test for Preador, the Star office presentation that gave an error when saving to Powerpoint, but could be cut and pasted to a new file,

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 16:15 -0500, et wrote: I would not put bets on where to blame in either case,,, my [gag,,cough, cough, choke] intuition makes me think of some weird kinda file corruption in both cases, but SO is the only common thread _that_ _we_ _know_ _of_. Yes, that sounds right,

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Brian Schroeder
Out of interest, does anyone know if Staroffice patches can be applied to Openoffice installations? Could it be done? Would it break things? Brian From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and

[expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a starimpress presentation that I must save as a powerpoint presentation. Trying to do so from either staroffice 6.0 or OO 1.0.1 fails with a beep and a General error input/output error. Is there some limitation/issue with these packages

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Thomas Sourmail
with a beep and a General error input/output error. You are not trying to save on a fat32 partition, are you ? Apart from the fact that soffice won't read those, I had weird problems with nfs and MS formats. I could save as staroffice/openoffice own formats on nfs, but got systematic crashes

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 February 2003 08:08 am, Thomas Sourmail wrote: with a beep and a General error input/output error. You are not trying to save on a fat32 partition, are you ? Apart from the fact that soffice won't read those, I had weird problems

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread et
try sending the starimpress presentation to me off list... let's see if the same thing happens here.. I have a starimpress presentation that I must save as a powerpoint presentation. Trying to do so from either staroffice 6.0 or OO 1.0.1 fails with a beep and a General error input/output

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:03 -0500, et wrote: try sending the starimpress presentation to me off list... let's see if the same thing happens here.. Send it to me too, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread James Sparenberg
Pradeor, Had a real PowderPoint file I edited and tried to save about 6 months ago, To get it to save I had to first save it in Star Office's format. Then close the file Open it and then I could save it as a power point, I don't know why it did this. I've never been able to repeat it. It

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:57 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: Pradeor, Had a real PowderPoint file I edited and tried to save about 6 months ago, To get it to save I had to first save it in Star Office's format. Then close the file Open it and then I could save it as a power point, I

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread et
ok, here is the kick in the crotch I could not save it in SO powerpoint, so i created a new presentation, copy and pasted all the slides to the new presentation, and it saved with no problem. On Monday 03 February 2003 01:20 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:57 -0800,

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 February 2003 01:45 pm, et wrote: ok, here is the kick in the crotch I could not save it in SO powerpoint, so i created a new presentation, copy and pasted all the slides to the new presentation, and it saved with no problem. Hell's

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 13:45 -0500, et wrote: ok, here is the kick in the crotch I could not save it in SO powerpoint, so i created a new presentation, copy and pasted all the slides to the new presentation, and it saved with no problem. Just what I expected: On Monday 03 February 2003

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:46 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 February 2003 01:45 pm, et wrote: ok, here is the kick in the crotch I could not save it in SO powerpoint, so i created a new presentation, copy and pasted all the

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread James Sparenberg
Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the other do you happen to have the url. I do use Asian fonts on occasion and have had trouble. Thanks. James On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 10:55, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:46 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote:

[expert] Staroffice/Openoffice problem

2003-01-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone here make much use of either package? I am generating a powerpoint presentation with Staroffice 6.0 and even though it indicates that it can import/understand eps format, if I try to import an eps into a slide or graphic, all it ever

Re: [expert] Staroffice/Openoffice problem

2003-01-26 Thread David Whiting
Praedor, I have had the same problem with OO.o. I have started using the Prosper package with LaTeX to create presentations (that run using Acrobat, not powerpoint of course). It is very nice and of course has no problem with eps files. See, for example: http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~mheil/Prosper/

[expert] Staroffice setup

2003-01-17 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It has been a while since I last had to do this and now I don't recall the procedure for installing staroffice for EVERYONE. What is the command after initial rpm install to install staroffice 6.0 such that everyone can use it? praedor - --

Re: [expert] Staroffice setup

2003-01-17 Thread Ken Thompson
On Friday 17 January 2003 09:57 am, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It has been a while since I last had to do this and now I don't recall the procedure for installing staroffice for EVERYONE. What is the command after initial rpm install to

[expert] StarOffice Quickstart for Gnome2?

2002-11-21 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi Everyone, Just downloaded my copy of StarOffice from MandrakeClub. Does anyone know of a GNOME2 quickstart applet/script for StarOffice or OpenOffice? I have already tried the ooqstart-gnome rpms and also tried to build it from source but was unsuccessfull. Anyone? --Sandeep Today's tip:

[expert] StarOffice 6 printing multiple copies problem

2002-04-13 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi All, I wonder if anyone has this problem.. I use a Epson900 printer, ever since the later releases of the Gimp print drivers I haven't been able to print multiple copies of a document.. I see that Star Office Ver 6 now supports the CUPS printing system.. Anyone know how to fix this

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-11 Thread Thomas Sourmail
Everything I install *out* of my distribution I install on /opt. It's better for 'management'. Am I wrong or I remember that RH (and therfore Mandrake ?) are not touching /usr/local/, in which case you are just as sure everything which is there is out of your distribution ? Thomas.

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-11 Thread Nick Thompson
I think you are right. Although during my day job (Solaris) we use /opt, at home (MDK) I use /usr/local, which had nothing in it apart from top level directories after a fresh install. Most addon packages for Solaris install into /usr/local too. So I really wish we didn't use /opt at work.

RE: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-11 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
5.2 was at least. I haven't used Star Office in quite some time now. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Lee Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 9:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] StarOffice At 07:34 PM

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-10 Thread Lee Roberts
At 07:34 PM 12/9/2001 -0500, Hoyt Duff wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2001 05:20 pm, you wrote: El dom, 09-12-2001 a las 20:22, Lee Roberts escribió: The /net option just made me more frustrated. Screw it! I don't have the time to spend trying to make this stuff work. Why can't it a

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-10 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
Greetings: 1. Install has to be done as root. You can also use -net instead of /net 2. Log out as root and login as _normal_ user and cd to /opt/staroffice/program ( or wherever soffice is). 3. run it According to what you guys told me, the sequence for installing StarOffice for multiple

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-10 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: Just one more word. I have installed SO on many systems since v.5.0 I've always installed it into /opt as root! As user I just start the binary (.../soffice)and SO asks me what kind of installation I

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-09 Thread Oscar
El dom, 09-12-2001 a las 02:16, Lee Roberts escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is the purpose of the /net option? I remember reading something about it in the docs but it said that it might cause a conflict with something. Also, I had to change the permissions of

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-09 Thread Lee Roberts
The /net option just made me more frustrated. Screw it! I don't have the time to spend trying to make this stuff work. Why can't it a straightforward install??? Thanks for everyone's help anyway. At 11:43 AM 12/9/2001 +0100, Oscar wrote: El dom, 09-12-2001 a las 02:16, Lee Roberts escribió:

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-09 Thread Lee Roberts
And not to mention that Mandrake Update keeps screwing up my KDE desktop. UserDrake no longer works and the start menu no longer shows a Networking selection along with items missing from Configuration and so on. Needless to say, I'm a bit ticked off! At 12:22 PM 12/9/2001 -0700, Lee Roberts

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-09 Thread Oscar
El dom, 09-12-2001 a las 20:22, Lee Roberts escribió: The /net option just made me more frustrated. Screw it! I don't have the time to spend trying to make this stuff work. Why can't it a straightforward install??? Thanks for everyone's help anyway. Then, just install it without the /net

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-09 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Sunday 09 December 2001 05:20 pm, you wrote: El dom, 09-12-2001 a las 20:22, Lee Roberts escribió: The /net option just made me more frustrated. Screw it! I don't have the time to spend trying to make this stuff work. Why can't it a straightforward install??? Thanks for everyone's help

[expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just installed SO 5.2 as SU. I can't seem to get it to run by a user, only su. I tried changing the permissions and tried changing ownership but it still says it can't find sofficerc when a user tries to execute it. Anyone have a solution?

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Thomas Sourmail
I just installed SO 5.2 as SU. I can't seem to get it to run by a user, only su. I tried changing the permissions and tried changing ownership but it still says it can't find sofficerc when a user tries to execute it. Anyone have a solution? Did you install with the /net option ? As

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Saturday 08 December 2001 05:00 pm, Thomas Sourmail wrote: I just installed SO 5.2 as SU. I can't seem to get it to run by a user, only su. I tried changing the permissions and tried changing ownership but it still says it can't find sofficerc when a user tries to execute it. Anyone

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BTW, get the SO 6 beta -- much nicer! Unless you need the drawing package, as it is buggy as hell. The word processor and spreadsheet are very nice however (and i havent tried the presentation software). - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is the purpose of the /net option? I remember reading something about it in the docs but it said that it might cause a conflict with something. Also, I had to change the permissions of the bin file in order to run it. I did have the foresight

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 05:28 PM 12/8/2001 -0500, Hoyt Duff wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2001 05:00 pm, Thomas Sourmail wrote: I just installed SO 5.2 as SU. I can't seem to get it to run by a user, only su. I tried changing the permissions and tried changing

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Ken Thompson
On Saturday 08 December 2001 06:28 pm, you wrote: At 05:28 PM 12/8/2001 -0500, Hoyt Duff wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2001 05:00 pm, Thomas Sourmail wrote: I just installed SO 5.2 as SU. I can't seem to get it to run by a user, only su. I tried changing the permissions and tried

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Lee Roberts
At 07:57 PM 12/8/2001 -0700, Ken Thompson wrote: Use SUN's jre 1.3 and it will work with both SO 52 and SO 6b1. If you download the 6.0b1 from SUN the jre is included and there is an option to install it during the SO install. I have 1.3.1_01 installed. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Ken Thompson
On Saturday 08 December 2001 08:48 pm, you wrote: At 07:57 PM 12/8/2001 -0700, Ken Thompson wrote: Use SUN's jre 1.3 and it will work with both SO 52 and SO 6b1. If you download the 6.0b1 from SUN the jre is included and there is an option to install it during the SO install. I have

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Saturday 08 December 2001 08:16 pm, you wrote: What is the purpose of the /net option? I remember reading something about it in the docs but it said that it might cause a conflict with something. Also, I had to change the permissions of the bin file in order to run it. That installs the

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Saturday 08 December 2001 07:00 pm, you wrote: BTW, get the SO 6 beta -- much nicer! Unless you need the drawing package, as it is buggy as hell. The word processor and spreadsheet are very nice however (and i havent tried the presentation software). All I use is the word processor and

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Ken Thompson
On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:48 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2001 08:16 pm, you wrote: What is the purpose of the /net option? I remember reading something about it in the docs but it said that it might cause a conflict with something. Also, I had to change the permissions of

[expert] StarOffice Hangs with S3 Savage Video Card fixed !

2001-11-20 Thread Thorsten Gecks
StarOffice usuallly hangs or generates weird drawings on the desktop when installing or running under XFree86 4.x. I solved this problem by installing a new savage driver found on http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html Maybe this fix could be integrated in future releases of mandrake? ciao

[expert] StarOffice Base

2001-10-02 Thread Norman
Hi, I usually use Star Office and have version 5.2 on my Linux-Mandrake 8 PC I recently read that StarOffice Base is available and that it can handle MS Access database files. I have downloaded a .bin file, changed the permissions and then run it as root. I cannot figure out what I am

Re: [expert] StarOffice Base

2001-10-02 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 October 2001 09:51 pm, Norman wrote: Hi, I usually use Star Office and have version 5.2 on my Linux-Mandrake 8 PC I recently read that StarOffice Base is available and that it can handle MS Access database files. I have

Re: [expert] StarOffice Base

2001-10-02 Thread Praedor
It has been awhile...but, if you installed StarOffice as root and without the /net switch, only root will be able to use it. In /usr/local there should be a StarOffice directory. Within this directory, there should be a program directory. In program, there should be a binary called soffice.

[expert] StarOffice 5.2 Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-04 Thread tateopfr
Hi, I have installed Staroffice 5.2 and it's ok. But video font are very bad. I apply the variation described ( mandrakeuser.org) to /etc/X11/fs/config but no result with staroffice Beste regards Pierfrancesco Tateo

Re: [expert] staroffice and taskbar

2001-04-27 Thread Michael Scottaline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yesterday I sendt a message asking if anyone knew how to switch documents within StarOffice. What I meant is if anyone knows how to switch documents using shoortut keys. The taskbar is rather slow, cumbersome an just plain boring. For example in KDE's destop, you

Re: [expert] staroffice

2001-04-26 Thread Michael Scottaline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to switch documents within staroffice. for example, i need to go how to go from a spreadsheet document to a text document open at the same time in staroffice. Thanks for your help in advance. === Sure. Open all the doc you

Re: [expert] staroffice and taskbar

2001-04-26 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 26 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yesterday I sendt a message asking if anyone knew how to switch documents within StarOffice. What I meant is if anyone knows how to switch documents using shoortut keys. The taskbar is rather slow, cumbersome an just plain boring. For example in KDE's

Re: [expert] staroffice and taskbar

2001-04-26 Thread Arnold Troeger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yesterday I sendt a message asking if anyone knew how to switch documents within StarOffice. What I meant is if anyone knows how to switch documents using shoortut keys. The taskbar is rather slow, cumbersome an just plain boring. For example in KDE's destop, you

[expert] staroffice and taskbar

2001-04-26 Thread aortiz
yesterday I sendt a message asking if anyone knew how to switch documents within StarOffice. What I meant is if anyone knows how to switch documents using shoortut keys. The taskbar is rather slow, cumbersome an just plain boring. For example in KDE's destop, you can use Alt+Tab to switch

[expert] staroffice

2001-04-25 Thread aortiz
Does anyone know how to switch documents within staroffice. for example, i need to go how to go from a spreadsheet document to a text document open at the same time in staroffice. Thanks for your help in advance.

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-04-24 Thread Michael Scottaline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any users of StarOffice out there who can comment on it? I can really use something compatible with MS Word 2000; KWord just cannot cut it at this point and there really is no choice but to be compatible with the MS world from time to time, when I have to bring

Re[2]: [expert] StarOffice

2001-04-24 Thread Rusty Carruth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Scottaline) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any users of StarOffice out there who can comment on it? I can really use something compatible with MS Word 2000; KWord just cannot cut it at this point and there really is no choice but to be compatible with the

[expert] StarOffice

2001-04-23 Thread Neal Lippman
Any users of StarOffice out there who can comment on it? I can really use something compatible with MS Word 2000; KWord just cannot cut it at this point and there really is no choice but to be compatible with the MS world from time to time, when I have to bring work home. Neal

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-04-23 Thread Craig Sprout
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Neal Lippman wrote: Any users of StarOffice out there who can comment on it? I can really use something compatible with MS Word 2000; KWord just cannot cut it at this point and there really is no choice but to be compatible with the MS world from time to time, when I

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-04-23 Thread David Koenig
it. dave - Original Message - From: Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MandrakeExpert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 7:22 PM Subject: [expert] StarOffice Any users of StarOffice out there who can comment on it? I can really use something compatible with MS Word 2000

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-04-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have StarOffice 5.2 and have used it extensively. It is a good package but it is HUGE. It's one fault is simply that it has everything built into it so that when you start staroffice, you aren't simply starting the wordprocessor, but you are also starting the spreadsheet app, the graphics

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-04-23 Thread Al Baker
I use StarOffice at work in a dominant Win2000 domain. To be more specific, I use openoffice (6.9?) whatever was available in cooker @ rpmfind.net. Here are my comments on Star/OpenOffice: - General: Handles most word2000 formats very well - sometimes fubar's on large tables when going from

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-04-23 Thread Tom Snell
I suppose just about anyone will tell you how slow and bloated StarOffice is, but, IMHO, it does do the job. SO5.2 does a fairly good job of importing and exporting MS Word and Excel filessome of the fancier formatting features may not always carry over perfectly, but it does an exemplary

[expert] StarOffice Printing Smudgy -- Solved!

2001-01-12 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Just solved the StarOffice smugdy printing problem with the help of StarOffice tech support ($25 per incident). Well worth it. It took a good half hour to figure it out. You need to use the Printer Setup on the Desktop (NOT the Printer Setup under File), then click on "Match

[expert] StarOffice Printing Smudgy -- Solution?

2001-01-11 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Using LM7.2. I am having no problems printing in Linux. My Linux print test during installation passed with flying colors (actually with flying black and white colors, since I print only in black). Yet, when I try to print in StarOffice 5.2 (any font -- Times New Roman or Courier,

[expert] StarOffice Printing Smudgy -- footnote

2001-01-11 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I should have mentioned that my printer prints with perfect clarity in Abiword and Kword and in Netscape. So, apparently, this is a StarOffice 52 issue. Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

Re: [expert] StarOffice Printing Smudgy -- Solution?

2001-01-11 Thread Joseph Red
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Using LM7.2. I am having no problems printing in Linux. My Linux print test during installation passed with flying colors (actually with flying black and white colors, since I print only in black). Yet, when I try to print in StarOffice 5.2 (any font

Re: [expert] StarOffice Printing Smudgy -- Solution?

2001-01-11 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Joseph: Thanks so much for the info about Okipage 10e. You are probably right. I'll try to find out how to clean the drum (and if necessary replace it). Thanks again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

[expert] StarOffice to Interbase with JDBC : HowTo ?

2000-12-20 Thread cavall_fort
Hello forum ! StarOffice to Interbase with JDBC : HowTo ? Any experiences ? Tx ... Cavall_forT Linux Català http://perso.wanadoo.es/cavall_fort BCN CAT __ Consigue tu cuenta de correo universal y gratuita en

Re: [expert] StarOffice Mailing List?

2000-12-07 Thread Ron Stodden
SoloCDM wrote: If you know of a mailing list for StarOffice, would you send me the URL? Send an email with Subject: 'subscribe' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address. No. Declined. -- Regards, Ron. [AU]

Re: [expert] StarOffice Mailing List?

2000-12-07 Thread Buchan Milne
Yes, that is the idea. Hopefully they will be able to bring the memory footprint down. I have tried the 6.05 beta release, which does away with the Desktop (it starts up in Star Writer) Buchan Larry Marshall wrote: Mike MacCana wrote: That's true [both projects contain some unique code],

[expert] StarOffice Mailing List?

2000-12-06 Thread SoloCDM
If you know of a mailing list for StarOffice, would you send me the URL? Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address. * Signed, SoloCDM Keep in touch with

Re: [expert] StarOffice Mailing List?

2000-12-06 Thread Mike MacCana
StarOffice is now OpenOffice, so feature requests and comments, as well as bug reports should go to one of the lists at openoffice.org. I'm not sure if Sun [www.sun.com] still maintain StarOffice lists, or everythings converted into OpenOffice, butSun definitely do have a support for

Re: [expert] StarOffice Mailing List?

2000-12-06 Thread Ken Thompson
On Wednesday 06 December 2000 04:07 am, you wrote: If you know of a mailing list for StarOffice, would you send me the URL? Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address. There is a support forum (and a good one I might add) listed on the

Re: [expert] StarOffice Mailing List?

2000-12-06 Thread Stephen Bosch
Mike MacCana wrote: StarOffice is now OpenOffice, so feature requests and comments, as well as bug reports should go to one of the lists at openoffice.org. Don't confuse StarOffice with OpenOffice. OpenOffice contains StarOffice code, but they're still different things. -Stephen- Keep

Re: [expert] StarOffice Mailing List?

2000-12-06 Thread Mike MacCana
That's true [both projects contain some unique code], but StarOffice, in terms of future development, is essentially dead. So feature requests [and perhaps also bug reports] should be directed towards openoffice. Mike On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Stephen Bosch wrote: Mike MacCana wrote:

Re: [expert] StarOffice Mailing List?

2000-12-06 Thread Larry Marshall
Mike MacCana wrote: That's true [both projects contain some unique code], but StarOffice, in terms of future development, is essentially dead. So feature requests [and perhaps also bug reports] should be directed towards openoffice. Mike...is the OpenOffice group planning on separating the

Re: [expert] StarOffice Mailing List?

2000-12-06 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wednesday 06 December 2000 06:07, you wrote: If you know of a mailing list for StarOffice, would you send me the URL? There are several on egroups, take a look at http://www.egroups.com/group/star-linux http://www.egroups.com/group/starofficeusers http://www.egroups.com/group/SO-L Sun

[expert] Staroffice over nfs network

2000-11-16 Thread Alain
Hi, I have a NIS/NFS network running Mdk 7.1. I tried to install StarOffice 5.2 for my users, so I installed SO (with /net option) in /opt/office52 and chmod -R a+rx this folder, both on the server machine and the client.. I can use it without any problem with users whose home folder reside on

Re: [expert] StarOffice 5.2 won't print under Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_973483165-6208-366 Hi, Has anyone noticed that StarOffice no longer prints after upgrading to Mandrake 7.2? All my other apps can print, but StarOffice only acts like it - nothing comes out.

Re: [expert] StarOffice 5.2 won't print under Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-06 Thread Stew Benedict
Doesn't 7.2 use a different print setup than lpr? If so, you need to run spadmin as root, and change the lines that specify how StarOffice prints for your various printers. Stew Benedict On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Dennis Robertson wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:01:08AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] StarOffice 5.2 won't print under Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-06 Thread Dennis Robertson
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:33:12AM +, Nathan wrote: I assume you guys are using the CUPS printing service. I managed to work out how to get Star Office to print eventually, by changing the que to "lp", rather than "lpr", the page size to A4, and the resolution to 360dpi so it matched

Re: [expert] StarOffice 5.2 won't print under Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-06 Thread Nathan
I assume you guys are using the CUPS printing service. I managed to work out how to get Star Office to print eventually, by changing the que to "lp", rather than "lpr", the page size to A4, and the resolution to 360dpi so it matched the printer settings (may differ for your printer). You

Re: [expert] StarOffice 5.2 won't print under Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-06 Thread alann
On Monday 06 November 2000 03:02, Dennis Robertson wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:01:08AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has anyone noticed that StarOffice no longer prints after upgrading to Mandrake 7.2? All my other apps can print, but StarOffice only acts like it -

Re: [expert] StarOffice 5.2 won't print under Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-06 Thread alann
On Sunday 05 November 2000 23:01, you wrote: much deleted. I just printed a document from SO 5.2 last night under Mdk 7.2.. No problems here.. Alan -- +++ Coming to you from Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and/or BeOS. No windows involved

[expert] StarOffice 5.2 won't print under Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-05 Thread Mandrake-Expert_www
Hi, Has anyone noticed that StarOffice no longer prints after upgrading to Mandrake 7.2? All my other apps can print, but StarOffice only acts like it - nothing comes out. How can this be fixed? Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL

Re: [expert] StarOffice 5.2 won't print under Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-05 Thread Dennis Robertson
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:01:08AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has anyone noticed that StarOffice no longer prints after upgrading to Mandrake 7.2? All my other apps can print, but StarOffice only acts like it - nothing comes out. How can this be fixed? Wish I knew. I hope

Re: [expert] StarOffice - Serial Number

2000-06-26 Thread Bug Hunter
If you have downloaded the latest star office from their web site, click on the "I have already registered" button. It won't bother you any more. If you havent' downloaed the latest, there are some guidelines on the www.sun.com site to tell you how to get around this. I've seen them, but don't

[expert] StarOffice - Serial Number

2000-06-25 Thread Pedro Cardoso
Hi! Anyone can help me with Star Office Serial Number ? I have star office, and I have registered my package at the Sun site. But I don't have received the Registration key. Can you help me ? -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: PGPfreeware 6.0.2i

Re: [expert] StarOffice - Serial Number

2000-06-25 Thread LinuxGeek
serial for star office ?!?!?! which version are you using ? i got 5.1 and no registration was required anytime during installation or use of So. maybe you got some kind of a beta or something ? Pedro Cardoso wrote: Hi! Anyone can help me with Star Office Serial Number ? I have star

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