Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking

2005-01-16 Thread et
On Sunday 16 January 2005 09:52 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:59:40 +0100 Martin Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve I tried it with MCC but I only have the one partition set up (eg swap home and /) so I think I need to resize it with the boot disk to start with

Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking

2005-01-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 15:16, et wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 09:52 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: my kword request was I downloaded it and installed it but it wont open Sorry about this one Martin, use Sylpheed-Claws myself. Little to no

Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking

2005-01-16 Thread Martin Hardie
On Sunday 16 January 2005 16:32, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 15:16, et wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 09:52 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: my kword request was I downloaded it and installed it but it wont open Sorry about this one Martin, use Sylpheed-Claws myself.

Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking

2005-01-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 15:36, Martin Hardie wrote: what happens if you in a console, as user type (without the quotes) kword And - when you say it won't open - is there any error message, or just an apparent attempt to open, which

Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking

2005-01-16 Thread Martin Hardie
On Sunday 16 January 2005 17:04, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 15:36, Martin Hardie wrote: what happens if you in a console, as user type (without the quotes) kword And - when you say it won't open - is there any error message, or just an apparent attempt to open,

Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking

2005-01-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 17:08, Martin Hardie wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 17:04, Anne Wilson wrote: i used urpmi and got all the dependencies it wanted. But i suppose i could just uninstall and try again No, not yet. Part of the problem with

Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking

2005-01-16 Thread Dan Gordon
On January 16, 2005 12:08 pm, Martin Hardie wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 17:04, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 15:36, Martin Hardie wrote: what happens if you in a console, as user type (without the quotes) kword And - when you say it won't open - is there any

Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking

2005-01-16 Thread Martin Hardie
On Sunday 16 January 2005 06:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 17:08, Martin Hardie wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 17:04, Anne Wilson wrote: i used urpmi and got all the dependencies it wanted. But i suppose i could just uninstall and try again No, not yet. Part of the

Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking

2005-01-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 18:20, Dan Gordon wrote: On January 16, 2005 12:08 pm, Martin Hardie wrote: What you can do with Mandrake control center is open the software install program and do a search. In the drop down menu select in file name then

[newbie] kword

2005-01-14 Thread Martin Hardie
Hi I urpmied koffice in my quest for a pdf translation method. it installed ok so it seems but when i try to start it via the icon i see it staring up on the task bar and nothing more happens. if I try from the shell this is the result (ie it doesnt work either.) I have tried the various

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-15 Thread Keith Powell
On Saturday 13 Mar 2004 2:35 pm, Charlie wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:11 am, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have just tried running aspell in a terminal and manually checking a text file. It works correctly, so it would appear that there is nothing wrong with the Aspell

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-12 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-12 Thread Keith Powell
On Friday 12 Mar 2004 8:26 am, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-12 Thread Keith Powell
On Friday 12 Mar 2004 7:37 pm, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-12 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:46 am, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- On Friday 12 Mar 2004 8:26 am, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-12 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:11 am, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have just tried running aspell in a terminal and manually checking a text file. It works correctly, so it would appear that there is nothing wrong with the Aspell installation. I'll carry on trying to find what's causing

[newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Thread Keith Powell
I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:27, Keith Powell wrote: I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Thread Keith Powell
On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:27, Keith Powell wrote: I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 13:54, Keith Powell wrote: On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? My settings

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Thread Keith Powell
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2004 13:54, Keith Powell wrote: On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? My settings are: Dictionary ASpell Default

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-08 Thread Alan Dunford
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 4:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 12:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wro I live in Yorkshire, so kde-i18-en_GB-3.1.3-1mdk is installed. One thing I have noticed. All your packages are earlier than mine (for example, your

Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check.

2003-12-08 Thread Keith Powell
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 8:03 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 07 December 2003 12:04 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Has anyone managed to get KWord spell checking working in Mandrake9.2? Whenever I try to spell check, KWord just crashes. I just

Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check. (Explained)

2003-12-08 Thread Keith Powell
Hoping to reach a wider audience, I have asked on the KDE list if anyone has had problems with KWord spell checking. I have received this reply from Dik Takken: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Keith Powell wrote: Is there a problem with spell checking in KWord1.2.92, please? Yes, there are serious

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-08 Thread Keith Powell
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 3:34 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 4:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 12:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wro I live in Yorkshire, so kde-i18-en_GB-3.1.3-1mdk is installed. One thing I have noticed. All your

Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check.

2003-12-08 Thread Keith Powell
In my last post, I said that I had got spell checking to work with KWord, but it wouldn't differentiate between British and American spellings. I have found a work-around which appears to work. When starting spell checking and the spell checking box with the alternative spellings/words first

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-07 Thread Keith Powell
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:45 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wrote: Hello Charlie. Sorry, but your suggestion does not work. KWord ignores the Control Center/Components/Spell Checker settings, and just starts each time with the English Dictionary, US-ASCII Encoding, and

[newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check.

2003-12-07 Thread Keith Powell
Has anyone managed to get KWord spell checking working in Mandrake9.2? Whenever I try to spell check, KWord just crashes. a) If so, which dictionary do you use? b) Can anyone please confirm if English-GB spell checking works I have tried using ASpell and ISpell as the dictionaries, and

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-06 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 11:45 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wrote: Hello Charlie. Sorry, but your suggestion does not work. KWord ignores the Control Center/Components/Spell Checker settings, and just starts each time with the English Dictionary, US-ASCII

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-06 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 11:06 pm, many eyes noted that Keith Powell wrote: Hello Charlie. Sorry, but your suggestion does not work. I am the one that is sorry Keith, because I know how frustrating something not working can be. I also can't think of anything more that might work at the moment.

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-05 Thread Keith Powell
On Friday 05 Dec 2003 2:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Dec 2003 1:56 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Has anyone got the spell checker to work in KWord, please? I have experimented with various settings in Settings-Configure KWord-Spellings. When it has spell checked the first word, it

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-05 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 01:43 am, many eyes noted that Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Dec 2003 1:56 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Has anyone got the spell checker to work in KWord, please? I have experimented with various settings in Settings-Configure KWord-Spellings. When it has spell checked

Re: [newbie] kword crash help sought

2003-07-21 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi, I could start konqueror without any problems. Then I tried kword and exactly the same thing happened. I then tried something else. Clicking on a *.kwd file from konqueror. No associated application was found and I was given the dialog box to choose application to open the file with. Does

Re: [newbie] kword crash help sought

2003-07-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 23:16, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I could start konqueror without any problems. Then I tried kword and exactly the same thing happened. I then tried something else. Clicking on a *.kwd file from konqueror. No associated application was found and I was given the

[newbie] kword crash help sought

2003-07-20 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi, When I try to load kword from the command line I get this: QUOTE $ kword Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in kword's desktop file. Check your installation ! Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource

Re: [newbie] kword crash help sought

2003-07-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 10:58, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, When I try to load kword from the command line I get this: QUOTE $ kword Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in kword's desktop file. Check your

Re: [newbie] KWord files to PDF files with print to PLF

2002-12-10 Thread John Richard Smith
Pilagá wrote: El Lun 09 Dic 2002 15:32, John Richard Smith escribió: Something very odd has occured. Everything I told you above is precisely true, but when I came back to have another look at the same 3 previously created PDF files , this time they were all there with some Mb's each of

Re: [newbie] KWord files to PDF files with print to PLF

2002-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 09 Dec 2002 4:36 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Someone told me a little time ago that my kword colour montages can be converted to pdf with Print to File (PDF/Acrobat) in the printer option list. Mine just seem to contain 0 bytes. I wonder what I haven't

Re: [newbie] KWord files to PDF files with print to PLF

2002-12-09 Thread Pilagá
El Lun 09 Dic 2002 15:32, John Richard Smith escribió: Something very odd has occured. Everything I told you above is precisely true, but when I came back to have another look at the same 3 previously created PDF files , this time they were all there with some Mb's each of data in each and

[newbie] Kword font lists are not the same

2002-05-12 Thread Roger
I have used the font manager to add my Windows fonts. Now Kword shows a list of about 40 fonts in the drop down box on the tool bar, but the Format Font dialog box shows a list of around 144 fonts. If I choose a font from the dialog box to format some text using a font not available in the

[newbie] Kword Print Preview does not work; and inserted graphics do not print

2002-05-01 Thread Josef Lowder
Thought I sent this previously, but it hasn't shown up. Hope this is not a duplicate. Q1: How do I get the Kword Print Preview to work? It only displays a blank window; although printing the same document works fine. Q2: When I insert a .jpg graphic into a Kword document, the graphic

Re: [newbie] kword on printing

2001-11-21 Thread antoine rivoire
yep, i installed star office last night and it works shame but, i really like kword... On Wednesday 21 November 2001 4:27 am, you wrote: My son had a similar problem with a report for school. I just tried it now and had the same problem. Maybe it's a new feature, but for now, I'll

Re: [newbie] kword on printing

2001-11-21 Thread Steven Spears
I don't know what is causing it, but I messed around with the fonts and found some that worked. I can't remember which ones, but from limited use, It looks like a font problem. Try some others and see what you get. Hope this helps, even if it's a little. Steve On Tuesday 20 November 2001

Re: [newbie] kword on printing

2001-11-21 Thread Dave
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 07:29 am, you wrote: I don't know what is causing it, but I messed around with the fonts and found some that worked. I can't remember which ones, but from limited use, It looks like a font problem. Try some others and see what you get. Hope this helps, even if

[newbie] kword on printing

2001-11-20 Thread antoine rivoire
hi, i got my printing to work, woohoo!! you dont know how joyous that makes me. i printed the test page: perfect. printed a coupla slides i did with kpresenter: irreprochable. tried a kword document my girlfriend is working on: ek, the fonts are all squished

Re: [newbie] kword on printing

2001-11-20 Thread Joseph Braddock
My son had a similar problem with a report for school. I just tried it now and had the same problem. Maybe it's a new feature, but for now, I'll stick with StarOffice 6.0 beta. Joe On Tuesday 20 November 2001 02:59 pm, you wrote: hi, i got my printing to work, woohoo!! you

[newbie] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Just taking an informal survey as I consider switching from StarOffice to Kword (the current Kword 1.0 version in LM 8.0, NOT the latest Koffice 1.1 beta). What's your verdict? Is Kword 1.0 reliable? Solid? feature-rich? Are you happy with it? If so, did you switch from

Re: [newbie] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread Randy Kramer
Benjamin, I've never used Kword, but before you pick a word processor, spend a little time with AbiWord. It's at version 0.7.14 now, it's cross platform, multilanguage (including Russian) and has an active development community. Randy Kramer Benjamin Sher wrote: Just taking an informal

Re: [newbie] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:17:14 -0700 (PDT) when David E. Fox wrote: I find that true of Abiword as well. It imports some stuff OK, but there's no option to save it _back_ to Word format once I'm done editing. At least with Star Office, I can keep the document as a Word doc throughout the

Re: [newbie] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread tazmun
7:26 AM Subject: [newbie] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich? Dear friends: Just taking an informal survey as I consider switching from StarOffice to Kword (the current Kword 1.0 version in LM 8.0, NOT the latest Koffice 1.1 beta). What's your verdict? Is Kword 1.0 reliable

Re: [newbie] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread bpremeaux
I spend more time in Staroffice5.2 simply because I take my documents back to Word. Kwork imports just fine and works quite well. But, the limited 'Save As' options leaves me hanging when I want to take a document back to the office. Barry On Mon, 25 June 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote:

[newbie] KWord

2001-03-22 Thread Eric
Greetings! Goal: use TimesNewRoman font in Kword and printing documents in that font. I have been able to import the TimesNewRoman font using the mandrake font utitily (kudos to Mandrake for DrakConf). I am able to use this font to compose a Kword document. However, I am not able to print

[newbie] KWord fonts disappear! (Mandrake 7.2 KDE 2.0)

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Maynord
Dear Mandrake Folks: I recently installed KWord/Office (Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.0). All works fine - except for one problem with KWord. The fonts all show up in the font list, but only one font will display on the screen, or print : times 12. Previously I was using a beta version of KDE on