Re: Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Parish
As there seem to be a lot of people interested in this issue and there has been another thread running on expert which is relevant, here is the info posted there. I have tried it this way and it seems to work! Sorry for the duplication for those who lurk on both lists. HTH Brian > 1. Uninstall

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-23 Thread shane
On Thursday 23 May 2002 05:41 am, Tom Brinkman opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > Or you can get a newer 8.2 version here > http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/OpenOffice.org-1.0-3mdk.i >586.rpm while you're there, get the freetype2-2.0.9

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 09:21 pm, shane wrote: > On Wednesday 22 May 2002 06:44 pm, Dick Mazierski opened a general > hailing > > frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > > What I can't understand is, with all the complaints about Star > > Office 6.0, why Sun Microsystems or Mandrake hav

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-23 Thread Miark
Tom, KOrganizer tells me that today is Corpus Christi day. You didn't sneak into my computer and put it there, did you?! ;-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 11:44, Dick Mazierski wrote: > What I can't understand is, with all the complaints about Star Office > 6.0, why Sun Microsystems or Mandrake have not stepped in and offered a > solution to the problem. This attitude will be the downfall of Linux!!! > I can only agree Dick.

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-22 Thread shane
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 06:44 pm, Dick Mazierski opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > What I can't understand is, with all the complaints about Star Office > 6.0, why Sun Microsystems or Mandrake have not stepped in and offered a > solution to the problem.

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-22 Thread Dick Mazierski
Jim Dawson wrote: > I suspect that it may be the security level that LM is configured for. > > -Original Message- > From: Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 22 May 2002 15:29:26 +1000 > Subject: Re: [newbie] Can&#x

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-21 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 03:24, Jim Dawson wrote: > I think I found the problem with StarOffice crashing on saves. It seems that the >default configuration specifies directories that either don't exist or I don't have >rights to. I changed all the directories (particularly the temp and backup >dir

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-21 Thread Jim Dawson
hts to and it seems to work fine now. -Original Message- From: Dimitris Ioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:07:13 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files Brian hello my friend, If you insist on keeping OpenOffice,

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-20 Thread Dimitris Ioannou
Brian hello my friend, If you insist on keeping OpenOffice, that's OK, but if you want to give SO 6 another try,I have and I can send it to you, a small batch file that you put it one level up from the dir where you have new fonts to be installed in X and executes the mkfontdir and assign command

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-20 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 17:45, Dimitris Ioannou wrote: > Brian and Jim > > Please tell us if you have installed any additional > fonts in Staroffice's directory. If not still, go to > the fonts directory of the X-Server and copy fonts.dir > and paste it to the Staroffice directory ovewriting > its

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-20 Thread Dimitris Ioannou
Brian and Jim Please tell us if you have installed any additional fonts in Staroffice's directory. If not still, go to the fonts directory of the X-Server and copy fonts.dir and paste it to the Staroffice directory ovewriting its' own one. Then things should work OK hopefully. Also Jim check the

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-19 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 01:03, Jim Dawson wrote: > > (This is a repost, the first copy apparently didn't get posted to the > list.) > > Help! > > When I try to save StarOffice Writer 6 files, it crashes. > First I get a dialog that states: > > Error saving document Untitled1: > W

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-18 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 18 May 2002 11:03 am, you wrote: > (This is a repost, the first copy apparently didn't get posted to the > list.) > > Help! > > When I try to save StarOffice Writer 6 files, it crashes. > First I get a dialog that states: > > Error saving document Untitled1: > Wrong Par