[newbie] OpenOffice Beta 2 Installation Mandrake 10.1

2005-04-09 Thread SOTL
Hi All HELP! I am attempting to install Open Office Beta 2 m02 on a Mandrake 10.1 system and I have a few questions as I do not understand the installation instructions. A copy of the installation instruction along with my questions follows. Hope some one can help. Thanks Frank _

[newbie] OpenOffice - Database Section

2005-02-15 Thread linuxgirlie
Hi, Some of you may of heard of this via other mailing lists, but we need help raising money for the database section of OpenOffice in version 2.0. This may not be that important for end users, but is a major function needed for UK schools as most will not leave Microsoft Office without it. (Micro

[newbie] OpenOffice builds

2005-02-01 Thread Paul Kaplan
I have MDK10.1 on two different systems. They're set up similarly, but not identically. The X and KDE environments however are the same. OpenOffice 1.1.4 runs fine on both, but I wanted to test 1.9.74 (the current 2.0beta). On one box it runs fine while on the other it constantly crashes and

Re: [newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-22 Thread JR
On Saturday 22 January 2005 11:24 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Saturday 22 January 2005 22:00, JR wrote: > > I downloaded OOo 2.0 beta, and it works fine for me. Thanks to > > all who helped. > > > > Jarlath > > Out of curiosity : did you compile it yourself or install a rpm ? > As far as I can se

Re: [newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-22 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 22 January 2005 22:00, JR wrote: > I downloaded OOo 2.0 beta, and it works fine for me. Thanks to > all who helped. > > Jarlath Out of curiosity : did you compile it yourself or install a rpm ? As far as I can see, there's only rpms for RedHat ? Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Mi

Re: [newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-22 Thread JR
I downloaded OOo 2.0 beta, and it works fine for me. Thanks to all who helped. Jarlath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-21 Thread JR
On Friday 21 January 2005 03:08 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 23:14, Charles Lee Ying wrote: > > >The package urpmi selected was simply called oooqs. However, I remember > > > I also updated kaffeine (and hence xine & libs). So I assume there is > > > a conflict. I have just tri

Re: [newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 23:14, Charles Lee Ying wrote: > >The package urpmi selected was simply called oooqs. However, I remember I > > also updated kaffeine (and hence xine & libs). So I assume there is a > > conflict. I have just tried installing fr

Re: [newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-20 Thread Charles Lee Ying
The package urpmi selected was simply called oooqs. However, I remember I also updated kaffeine (and hence xine & libs). So I assume there is a conflict. I have just tried installing from the generic installer at openoffice.org but the setup program will not run properly. I get the progress ba

Re: [newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-19 Thread JR
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 07:09 pm, Charles Lee Ying wrote: > JR wrote: > >On Monday 17 January 2005 05:59 pm, Charles Lee Ying wrote: > >>JR wrote: > >>>OpenOffice will no longer run since I installed the quickstart program > >>> via urpm. Running any of the OO apps from the command line results

Re: [newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-18 Thread Charles Lee Ying
JR wrote: On Monday 17 January 2005 05:59 pm, Charles Lee Ying wrote: JR wrote: OpenOffice will no longer run since I installed the quickstart program via urpm. Running any of the OO apps from the command line results in a Segfault. Uninstalling it did not help. I removed the entire OO pack

Re: [newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-18 Thread JR
On Monday 17 January 2005 05:59 pm, Charles Lee Ying wrote: > JR wrote: > >OpenOffice will no longer run since I installed the quickstart program via > >urpm. Running any of the OO apps from the command line results in a > > Segfault. > > > >Uninstalling it did not help. I removed the entire OO pac

Re: [newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-17 Thread Charles Lee Ying
JR wrote: OpenOffice will no longer run since I installed the quickstart program via urpm. Running any of the OO apps from the command line results in a Segfault. Uninstalling it did not help. I removed the entire OO package / libs and reinstalled to no effect. Can anyone help? Jarlath

[newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-17 Thread JR
OpenOffice will no longer run since I installed the quickstart program via urpm. Running any of the OO apps from the command line results in a Segfault. Uninstalling it did not help. I removed the entire OO package / libs and reinstalled to no effect. Can anyone help? Jarlath -- Copyrighting

[newbie] OpenOffice question

2005-01-17 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Around Christmas a year ago, someone on this list, I think, said that he was using OOo to generate mailing labels. I'm trying to do the same, but have hit a snag. I've just created an address label setup, to merge in addresses from a database. It

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice language problem {SOLVED}

2004-09-28 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 15:16, Russell W. Behne wrote: > Today at 10:58, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > > > On September 27, 2004 18:53, Russell W. Behne wrote: > > > I just tried to use OpenOffice for the first time in a long time. > > > When I opened a .doc file OpenOffice started up in German. I prefer > > > to u

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice language problem

2004-09-28 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 10:58, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On September 27, 2004 18:53, Russell W. Behne wrote: > > I just tried to use OpenOffice for the first time in a long time. > > When I opened a .doc file OpenOffice started up in German. I prefer > > to use it in English, but can't find how to switch it to

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice language problem

2004-09-28 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On September 27, 2004 18:53, Russell W. Behne wrote: > I just tried to use OpenOffice for the first time in a long time. When I > opened a .doc file OpenOffice started up in German. I prefer to use it > in English, but can't find how to switch it to English. How do I do > this? I just had the same

[newbie] OpenOffice language problem

2004-09-28 Thread Russell W. Behne
I just tried to use OpenOffice for the first time in a long time. When I opened a .doc file OpenOffice started up in German. I prefer to use it in English, but can't find how to switch it to English. How do I do this? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Russ. Visit my nursery:

[newbie] OpenOffice

2004-08-02 Thread BJ Tracy
While trying to register my Open Office to get upgrades, it tells me an "error occured while trying to start the web browser. Please check the OpenOffice.org and web browser settings." I have done that several times and find nothing wrong. Can someone give me an example of how the "OpenOffic

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice and Club mirror Rant

2004-07-04 Thread Justin Grote
m> Justin you might blank your replyto setting, I just sent a reply to m> you instaed of list sorry about that. m> Mike It should be blanked. I checked it again just to be sure. Hopefully this one will come in right :) __ Justin Grote Network Architect, CCNA The Whis

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice and Club mirror Rant

2004-07-04 Thread mike
Justin Grote wrote: > LW> In the four years or so I've been a newbie, I haven't been this > LW> frustrated. What's really a pain is that I don't really like oo but > LW> I'm pretty hardheaded. > > LW> I have added every club mirror, made sure that they were enabled one > LW> at a time, and did

Re[2]: [newbie] OpenOffice and Club mirror Rant

2004-07-04 Thread Justin Grote
m> I added a locale folder with rpms in it and used the graphical m> addmedia to add it and it looks like it created a hdlist.cz m> local_software file://home/mike/tmp/local_software { m> hdlist: hdlist.local_software.cz m> list: list.local_software m> } m> Just wanted to try it, and lists sh

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice and Club mirror Rant

2004-07-04 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 16:45:38 -0400 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it's listed, it should urpmi, and if one mirror doesn't work, > > urpmi should look at my installed list of mirrors and proceed > > without my help. > > > > That way I can spend my time screwing up something else. > > >

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice and Club mirror Rant

2004-07-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 04 July 2004 12:21 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > > > Maybe the hitch is 9.2? I tried every listed mirror and all but one > listed oo as available but wouldn't dl and install. > > I know I could probably dl the .rpm and install without a problem. > That's not what pisses me off. > > If it's

Re[2]: [newbie] OpenOffice and Club mirror Rant

2004-07-04 Thread Justin Grote
LW> >> >> LW> Maybe the hitch is 9.2? I tried every listed mirror and all but one LW> If it's listed, it should urpmi, and if one mirror doesn't work, LW> urpmi should look at my installed list of mirrors and proceed LW> without my help. True, URPMI isn't very good at handling multiple mirrors

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice and Club mirror Rant

2004-07-04 Thread Lee Wiggers
> > Maybe the hitch is 9.2? I tried every listed mirror and all but one listed oo as available but wouldn't dl and install. I know I could probably dl the .rpm and install without a problem. That's not what pisses me off. If it's listed, it should urpmi, and if one mirror doesn't work, urpmi

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice and Club mirror Rant

2004-07-04 Thread Justin Grote
LW> In the four years or so I've been a newbie, I haven't been this LW> frustrated. What's really a pain is that I don't really like oo but LW> I'm pretty hardheaded. LW> I have added every club mirror, made sure that they were enabled one LW> at a time, and did a rpmi.update -a --wget && urpmi -

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice and Club mirror Rant

2004-07-04 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 04 July 2004 09:41 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 13:01:37 -0500 > > Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 04 July 2004 07:19 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > > In the four years or so I've been a newbie, I haven't been this > > > frustrated. What's really a pain i

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice and Club mirror Rant

2004-07-04 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia nie 4. lipca 2004 16:41, Lee Wiggers napisał: > On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 13:01:37 -0500 > > Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 04 July 2004 07:19 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > > In the four years or so I've been a newbie, I haven't been this > > > frustrated. What's really a pain is

[newbie] OpenOffice and Club mirror Rant

2004-07-04 Thread Lee Wiggers
In the four years or so I've been a newbie, I haven't been this frustrated. What's really a pain is that I don't really like oo but I'm pretty hardheaded. I have added every club mirror, made sure that they were enabled one at a time, and did a rpmi.update -a --wget && urpmi -v --auto-select --wg

Re: [newbie] openoffice with spanish corrector?

2004-03-23 Thread Marc Lijour
Go to openoffice.org and download the dico installer (it is a OOo file that spawns this nice installer). OOo website has mirror sites for all languages available. Also check out StarOffice if your are educ people (free for us!). > Hi, everybody, I just installed mdk 10...it seems to work very we

[newbie] openoffice with spanish corrector?

2004-03-23 Thread di di
Hi, everybody, I just installed mdk 10...it seems to work very well, I havent tested it very hard yet, though... My problem is that Windows spoiled me very much as an ex-windows user I found spanish corrector in Word as an excellent tool, but I cannot see it in openoffice package..does anyon

Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?

2004-03-19 Thread anton
Anne: You raise a good point. Back when I lived in Dilbert's world, I learned that even moving documents from one installation of MS Office to another -- even within the same version -- is not as simple as the MS advertisements might lead you to believe. We would get templates from A Higher Lev

Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?

2004-03-18 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 18 March 2004 08:23 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 18 March 2004 13:15, Frank Bax wrote: > > I have this problem with OOo 1.1 docs going from one Win98 system > > to another - page breaks are not in the same place. In our case >

Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?

2004-03-18 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:23:44 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 18 March 2004 13:15, Frank Bax wrote: > > > > I have this problem with OOo 1.1 docs going from one Win98 > > system to another - page breaks are not in the s

Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?

2004-03-18 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 13:15, Frank Bax wrote: > > I have this problem with OOo 1.1 docs going from one Win98 system > to another - page breaks are not in the same place. In our case > the original creator of doc had document fit on one page, on ot

Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?

2004-03-18 Thread Frank Bax
At 08:45 AM 3/16/04, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:39:47 + Olivier Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Please excuse me!. I am subscribed to both French and English > list and I have use the wrong address! > > My problem was that a same word document does not o

[newbie] OpenOffice fails=solved sorta

2004-03-17 Thread Dennis Myers
I did a reinstall of 10.0 and chose all of my partitions and then went through the long list and chose all of the packages to go with the install. OO worked on bootup. Then I installed the NVidia drivers from the tar package cause the blank screen was back. So far so good. However, even with ooo

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice fails in 10.0

2004-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 05:35, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: > Dennis Myers wrote: > >Has anyone got openoffice to run in 10.0? It is claimed to be "everything > >installed" but when I try to open it the hourglass flips for a while and to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > yep, OO works fine for me in

[newbie] openoffice zipping

2004-03-16 Thread rhein
Hello, Since I'm using oppenoffice under linux all my files get zipped when I create them. My old files imported from XP are not zipped even if I modify them. I checked in oppenoffice options but could not find a thing. If compressing the files is ok it is not convenient for working with every d

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice fails in 10.0

2004-03-16 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
Dennis Myers wrote: Has anyone got openoffice to run in 10.0? It is claimed to be "everything installed" but when I try to open it the hourglass flips for a while and then goes away, leaving my original desktop. I thought permissions might be messed up but can find nothing like the right file t

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice fails in 10.0

2004-03-16 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 04:58 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Tuesday 16 March 2004 08:52 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Monday 15 March 2004 10:25 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > Has anyone got openoffice to run in 10.0? It is claimed to be > > > "everything installed" but when I try to open it the hour

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice fails in 10.0

2004-03-16 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 08:52 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Monday 15 March 2004 10:25 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > Has anyone got openoffice to run in 10.0? It is claimed to be "everything > > installed" but when I try to open it the hourglass flips for a while and > > then goes away, leaving my orig

RE: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?

2004-03-16 Thread Mark Kirschner
Bob Read asked: Could it be that you are not using identical fonts in Win and Linux? Olivier Esser wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Please excuse me!. I am subscribed to both French and English list and > I have use the wrong address! > > My problem was that a same word document does not open exactl

Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?

2004-03-16 Thread Bob Read
Could it be that you are not using identical fonts in Win and Linux? Olivier Esser wrote: Hello everybody, Please excuse me!. I am subscribed to both French and English list and I have use the wrong address! My problem was that a same word document does not open exactly in the same way under

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice fails in 10.0

2004-03-16 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 15 March 2004 10:25 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > Has anyone got openoffice to run in 10.0? It is claimed to be "everything > installed" but when I try to open it the hourglass flips for a while and > then goes away, leaving my original desktop. I thought permissions might be > messed up but

Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?

2004-03-16 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:39:47 + Olivier Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Please excuse me!. I am subscribed to both French and English > list and I have use the wrong address! > > My problem was that a same word document does not open exactly in > the same way under op

Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?

2004-03-16 Thread Olivier Esser
Hello everybody, Please excuse me!. I am subscribed to both French and English list and I have use the wrong address! My problem was that a same word document does not open exactly in the same way under openoffice 1.1 under linux and windows. This concerns essentialy the page breaks. Bonjo

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice fails in 10.0

2004-03-15 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 21:25, Dennis Myers wrote: > Has anyone got openoffice to run in 10.0? It is claimed to be "everything > installed" but when I try to open it the hourglass flips for a while and then > goes away, leaving my original desktop. I thought permissions might be messed > up but ca

[newbie] OpenOffice fails in 10.0

2004-03-15 Thread Dennis Myers
Has anyone got openoffice to run in 10.0? It is claimed to be "everything installed" but when I try to open it the hourglass flips for a while and then goes away, leaving my original desktop. I thought permissions might be messed up but can find nothing like the right file to change. Funny, tux

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice + K3b

2004-03-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 March 2004 12:45, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: > ?? None! > I can't understand how this mail came to you!! > Sorry! > Dobrescu, perhaps the problem was a hijack. What it is, how it happens, and why it's a problem is explained at http://mandra

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice + K3b

2004-03-02 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
?? None! I can't understand how this mail came to you!! Sorry! --- Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 March 2004 02:09 am, Dobrescu Mihai > wrote: > > Can you tell me where sre the latest OpenOffice > and > > K3b packages for MDK 10? > > > What does this have to do with resizing

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice + K3b

2004-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 02:09 am, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: > Can you tell me where sre the latest OpenOffice and > K3b packages for MDK 10? > What does this have to do with resizing a windows partition? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] OpenOffice + K3b

2004-03-01 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
Can you tell me where sre the latest OpenOffice and K3b packages for MDK 10? Thanks! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.

[newbie] OpenOffice & Clipboard

2003-12-11 Thread Lee Wiggers
One of my biggest Linux luxuries is the highlight then middleclick clipboard thingy. It doesn't work all the time with oo between apps, although within oo it seems to be 100%. Anyone know a fix? Or why I'm having trouble? Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy

Re: [newbie] openoffice

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 12:46 am, Chia Der Sheng wrote: > Thank you! > > I am using PowerPack Edition 9,0 > And on the package it stated Sun Staroffice 6.0 but > not to sure which CD to use. Which is why you should use urpmi. It will tell you what disk to use. Do one of the following. 1) S

Re: [newbie] openoffice

2003-11-17 Thread Chia Der Sheng
Thank you! I am using PowerPack Edition 9,0 And on the package it stated Sun Staroffice 6.0 but not to sure which CD to use. I have Installation CD1 Installation CD2 Installation Sources CD Commercial Applications CD1 Commercial Applications CD2 Supplementary Application CD International + Docume

Re: [newbie] openoffice

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 17 November 2003 10:49 pm, Chia Der Sheng wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Can I install openoffice in mandrake Linux? > What version of Mandrake are you running? > Is it very difficult? No > How can I go about doing it? > Mandrake builds openoffice packages specifically for the Mandrake distr

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice upgrade

2003-10-28 Thread robin
Russ wrote: How would I go about uninstalling Open Office? I don't even know where it is at. Thanks Russ Dan Gordon wrote: The recomended way is to first uninstall the version you have and then install the new version from the tarball, this is what I did on 9.1 and it works fine. Seems stable en

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice upgrade

2003-10-27 Thread Dan Gordon
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:01:16 -0800 Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Should I replace my existing installation or install it in another > directory (which is what I think it is trying to do)? > > Where is the existing directory? > > If I install it into another directory, should I then uninst

[newbie] OpenOffice upgrade

2003-10-26 Thread Russ
Hi All, I was wanting to upgrade Open Office to 1.1 (I currently have 1.0.2 - on MD 9.1) I dl the tar ball and untarred it. Now I have some questions about the instillation. Should I replace my existing installation or install it in another directory (which is what I think it is trying to do)

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-15 Thread Miark
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:44:08 -0400, Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to get OpenOffice 1.1 via urpmi? If so, what is the > repository? No, but you can use the one from their site. It's not a typical tarball that you have to compile and install. It's got its own installer

[newbie] OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-15 Thread Trey Sizemore
Is there a way to get OpenOffice 1.1 via urpmi? If so, what is the repository? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice: hyperlinks

2003-02-26 Thread bones
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 19:48, Paul wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone point me to the setting where I can tell OpenOffice NOT to > hyperlink every abbreviation I type? > When I type 'e.e.a.' (for instance) it is turned into a hyperlink to > http://e.e.a./ automatically, while I don't want that

[newbie] OpenOffice: hyperlinks

2003-02-26 Thread Paul
Hi all, Can someone point me to the setting where I can tell OpenOffice NOT to hyperlink every abbreviation I type? When I type 'e.e.a.' (for instance) it is turned into a hyperlink to http://e.e.a./ automatically, while I don't want that. Thanks! Paul -- I have already told you more than I know

Re: [newbie] Openoffice printing with Lexmark Z25

2003-01-23 Thread Poogle
On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 H:43 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 21:25, Poogle wrote: > > I have set up a friend with MD 9.0 and a Lexmark Z25 printer, the printer > > needs Lexmark drivers and is not compatible with CUPS and requires the > > use of LPR, I managed to get this set up

Re: [newbie] Openoffice printing with Lexmark Z25

2003-01-23 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 21:25, Poogle wrote: > I have set up a friend with MD 9.0 and a Lexmark Z25 printer, the printer > needs Lexmark drivers and is not compatible with CUPS and requires the use of > LPR, I managed to get this set up and printing both B&W & Colour form other > apps but I canno

[newbie] Openoffice printing with Lexmark Z25

2003-01-23 Thread Poogle
I have set up a friend with MD 9.0 and a Lexmark Z25 printer, the printer needs Lexmark drivers and is not compatible with CUPS and requires the use of LPR, I managed to get this set up and printing both B&W & Colour form other apps but I cannot get it to print using OpenOffice. A print job app

[newbie] OpenOffice 1.0.1 vignette simbols gone

2003-01-11 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
After recover the menu text, I have seen that the vignettes symbols (not the images one) have dissapeared. Everything is runing fine but not this. Does anyone know how to solve this? Thanks so much in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice 1.0.1 menu items gone

2003-01-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday January 9 2003 10:02 pm, Chad wrote: > On my parents stock LM 9.0 install, OpenOffice installed just fine > and ran great for a while. Now, when any user logs in at the > desktop and starts up any OO application, the "File", "Edit", > "Format", etc. menus are all gone. There is a spac

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice 1.0.1 menu items gone

2003-01-09 Thread Joeb
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 23:02:16 -0500 "Chad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've searched with Google and through the Newbie/Expert archives for this, > but to no avail. > > On my parents stock LM 9.0 install, OpenOffice installed just fine and ran > great for a while. Now, when any user logs in at th

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice 1.0.1 menu items gone

2003-01-09 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Friday 10 January 2003 04:02, Chad wrote: > I've searched with Google and through the Newbie/Expert archives for this, > but to no avail. OK this is seemingly starting to be a FAQ. this problem appears whenever you update your QT/XFT/Freetype libs. OO cannot work properly with the newer versio

[newbie] OpenOffice 1.0.1 menu items gone

2003-01-09 Thread Chad
I've searched with Google and through the Newbie/Expert archives for this, but to no avail. On my parents stock LM 9.0 install, OpenOffice installed just fine and ran great for a while. Now, when any user logs in at the desktop and starts up any OO application, the "File", "Edit", "Format", etc.

Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem

2002-12-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 1:43 pm, Stefano Pogliani wrote: > Anne, > > I am using 9.0. OO was installed from the distro CDs. > But I installed also the textar packages Could it be that it is seeing something of both and getting confused? I think it would be wise to uninstall and start agai

Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem

2002-12-31 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Anne,     I am using 9.0. OO was installed from the distro CDs. But I installed also the textar packages /stefano Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 12:24 pm, Michael Biddulph wrote: Stefano I have had the same problem. The only way I could find was to: Uninstall Op

Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem

2002-12-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 12:24 pm, Michael Biddulph wrote: > Stefano > > I have had the same problem. The only way I could find was to: > Uninstall OpenOffice.org and libraries. > I then installed the OpenOffice.org tar.gz file from their site. > > Yeah...I know it is a 70MB download, I had a copy on

Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem

2002-12-31 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Michael,     thanks for the tip. Do you have the exact names of the RPMs to remove ? I will give a try Thanks /stefano Michael Biddulph wrote: Stefano I have had the same problem. The only way I could find was to: Uninstall OpenOffice.org and libraries. I then installed the OpenOffice.or

Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem

2002-12-31 Thread Michael Biddulph
Stefano I have had the same problem. The only way I could find was to: Uninstall OpenOffice.org and libraries. I then installed the OpenOffice.org tar.gz file from their site. Yeah...I know it is a 70MB download, I had a copy on a pc mag cover cd, so I was lucky. It now runs fine and everything

Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem

2002-12-31 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Ralph,     abiword is not installed on my system. Thanks anyway. /stefano Ralph Slooten wrote: I had this same problem with LM 8.2 with the tarball off openoffice.org... the solution was to uninstall abiword... Abiword installs certain fonts that seem to conflict with OpenOffice. I suggest

Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem

2002-12-31 Thread Ralph Slooten
I had this same problem with LM 8.2 with the tarball off openoffice.org... the solution was to uninstall abiword... Abiword installs certain fonts that seem to conflict with OpenOffice. I suggest trying that . Greetings Ralph On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:24:35 +0100 Stefano Pogliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem

2002-12-31 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Anne,     none of the two works for me, unfortunately. I **STILL** have no menu labels in OO. /Stefano Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 4:35 am, Mohammed Sameer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all

[newbie] Openoffice fonts problem

2002-12-30 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have a small problem with openoffice "mandrake 9.0 RPM" When i run openoffice i don't see any menu labels, the menubar is empty, no fonts are available in the whole app. the fonts preview drop

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice opens with no menues (no fonts) ?!

2002-12-15 Thread Dimitris Ioannou
&Sgr;&tgr;&igr;&sfgr; &Kgr;&ugr;&rgr; 15 &Dgr;&egr;&kgr; 2002 13:30, &ogr;/&eegr; Joan Tur &eacgr;&ggr;&rgr;&agr;&psgr;&egr;: Go to /etc/openoffice. Edit with vim or whichother editor you like openoffice.conf and in the place UI_FONT="AUTO" replace it with "Arial" or whichother font you think is

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice opens with no menues (no fonts) ?!

2002-12-15 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Diumenge 15 Desembre 2002 11:30, en Michel Clasquin va escriure: > On Sunday 15 December 2002 13:30, Joan Tur wrote: > > I've installed kde3.1rc from cooker and now OpenOffice is no longer > > showing its menues, but some "-" instead 8-? > > > > Sh

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice opens with no menues (no fonts) ?!

2002-12-15 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Sunday 15 December 2002 13:30, Joan Tur wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hallo! > > I've installed kde3.1rc from cooker and now OpenOffice is no longer > showing its menues, but some "-" instead 8-? > > Should I go back to kde3.03? I'd prefer not... O8-) Saw that

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice opens with no menues (no fonts) ?!

2002-12-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 22:30, Joan Tur wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hallo! > > I've installed kde3.1rc from cooker and now OpenOffice is no longer showing > its menues, but some "-" instead 8-? > > Should I go back to kde3.03? I'd prefer not... O8-) > > TIA >

[newbie] OpenOffice opens with no menues (no fonts) ?!

2002-12-15 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I've installed kde3.1rc from cooker and now OpenOffice is no longer showing its menues, but some "-" instead 8-? Should I go back to kde3.03? I'd prefer not... O8-) TIA - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.C

Re: [newbie] openoffice

2002-12-05 Thread hgm
Thank you very much for your hint. In fact I had just recently installed a new version of freetype2. Reinstalling the version from the mandrake 9 disk solved the problem Thanks to all who helped. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] openoffice

2002-12-05 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Thursday 05 December 2002 21:28, hgm wrote: > Can somebody please help me. > > I can't see any text in the openoffice toolbar any more. there are > just some underline signs. I really don't know what happened > because the software was running perfect up until now. The same thing happened to me

Re: [newbie] openoffice

2002-12-05 Thread hgm
You are right. Indeed I changed from XFree 3.x to 4.x with 3D acceleration. On the other hand openoffice seems to be the only programm which is affected. do yopu know the reason and how to repair it? Am Don, 2002-12-05 um 20.46 schrieb Paul: > In reply to hgm's mail, d.d. 05 Dec 2002 20:28:04 +01

RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-12-04 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 21:26, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > Michel, > > I also use myspell-en_GB, but for my spell checker to work I had to > also load myspell-en the U.S language component. > > This seemed necessary for me, so please try it and let me know if > it works. To get it, go to the Ma

RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-12-04 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Michel, I also use myspell-en_GB, but for my spell checker to work I had to also load myspell-en the U.S language component. This seemed necessary for me, so please try it and let me know if it works. To get it, go to the Mandrake Control Centre and proceed as before. Best wishes, Malcolm Candl

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice dies upon opening - SOLVED

2002-12-04 Thread Warren Post
El dom, 01-12-2002 a las 21:21, Warren Post escribió: > OpenOffice.org 1.0 worked fine on my Mandrake 8.1 installation. But now > that I have moved to 8.2 (clean install), OO usually dies while opening. > OO is open for perhaps a second and shuts itself down... Thanks to everyone who offered ideas

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice dies upon opening

2002-12-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 02 Dec 2002 7:04 am, Meliton wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 04:21, Warren Post wrote: > > OpenOffice.org 1.0 worked fine on my Mandrake 8.1 installation. But now > > that I have moved to 8.2 (clean install), OO usually dies while opening. > > OO is open for perhaps a second and shuts itse

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice dies upon opening

2002-12-01 Thread Meliton
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 04:21, Warren Post wrote: > OpenOffice.org 1.0 worked fine on my Mandrake 8.1 installation. But now > that I have moved to 8.2 (clean install), OO usually dies while opening. > OO is open for perhaps a second and shuts itself down. I have the same problem. It always works t

[newbie] OpenOffice dies upon opening

2002-12-01 Thread Warren Post
OpenOffice.org 1.0 worked fine on my Mandrake 8.1 installation. But now that I have moved to 8.2 (clean install), OO usually dies while opening. OO is open for perhaps a second and shuts itself down. No message of any kind appears in the terminal window I launch it from, I am simply returned to the

RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-29 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Friday 29 November 2002 20:06, Ken Walker wrote: > tools/options/language settings/writing aides/available language > modules /highlight oo myspell spellchecker and hit the edit button > on the right, when in there tick what you want to be active. > > Mr Smiley Tried that several times, but as

RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-29 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Friday 29 November 2002 19:59, Michel Clasquin wrote: > > I have myspell and several languages loaded, but no amount of > tinkering with the options will get the spellcheck to work - it > just flashes through the document and gives me a dialog box saying > that all is OK. Oh well, one more reaso

RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-29 Thread Ken Walker
November 2002 6:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. On Friday 22 November 2002 22:05, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > I think we have cracked it! On the Mandrake 9.0 installation disk > are some 'myspell' files which when installed enable the Spell >

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