Re: Java Runtime Environment

2012-11-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: > Reportedly, the language tool extension does not work with Java 7. > Under Linux all Java databases including the embedded ones do not run > properly with Java 7. > Could you please point me to bug reports at bugs.sun.com or OpenJDK ? I hav

Re: Java Runtime Environment

2012-11-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: > scroll down to the latest "Java SE 6 Update", click the download button > in the second column (below "JRE"), confirm the license blah and then > you download the full package > Java 6 is also on the way out. Oracle extended the life of Java

Re: Catch 22 for Users of Remailers who Need to Unsubscribe [was: Re: PLEASE REMOVE ME]

2012-11-02 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Tom Panfil wrote: > The Catch-22 part of this is that they cannot send from those re-mailer > addresses, like my Reply-To address on this message. Why not? It seems like a problem with those remailers, then, not this list. I have used remailers before (a long, lo

Re: aoo for android

2012-10-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Hagar Delest wrote: > I think that documents need a format for the published status, something > not editable. What's wrong with PDF? PDF only stores the visual representation of a "page" (a printed page), in other words, can render text, and graphics, and tables

Re: WP refinement

2012-10-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:16 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: > You should be able to set this yourself, through the Tools > Customize > > Keyboard dialog. Select the down-arrow key, then assign the Navigate > to > End of Line function. > > HTH, > I must be missing something, but on every word processor I´

Re: Can I download Open Office on to my iPad?????

2012-10-10 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > So what office software (compatible with ODF) do you run on an iPad? There is a company offering a remote openoffice session on the cloud, as a service. Haven´t used them, can´t vouch for them. https://www.rollapp.com/OpenOffice FC --

Re: OpenOffice Support

2012-10-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > Follow this link, it has the answer to your problem > http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=39277 Basically (to sabe you reading time) my suggestion is for you to try this Windows Installer Cleanup

Re: OpenOffice Support

2012-10-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:11 AM, roy wrote: > Thank you for your prompt reply. > Basically I cannot down-load the Open office programme at all. > I was using the calc section before the pc crashed > I have reinstalled Windows XP Proffessional.plus service pack3 > Previously I had a large file of

Re: Rewrite AOO in JAVA

2012-08-31 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: > I know Java is not a slow as other interpreted languages, but still... Several misconceptions. 1. Java is not "an interpreted language". Java bytecode is compiled to native code on the fly by the JIT. Heard of the JIT? "JIT builds upon two

Re: Rewrite AOO in JAVA

2012-08-31 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Niall Martin wrote: > See e.g. > http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/30/how-turn-off-java-browser/ and > other pages on > that site. Bill Pitlovany of Win Patrol was also offering similar advice. > Best wishes For a bug that has been already fixed yesterday

Re: Rewrite AOO in JAVA

2012-08-31 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:48 AM, suhail ansari wrote: > and hopefully AOO 5 > or 6 will run entirely on JVM. Bring 50 _experienced_ java programmers with you and I´m sure the project admins will welcome the effort. Having just a ´proposal´ or ´good idea´ won´t fly, IMHO. Until then, AOO is open

Re: Rewrite AOO in JAVA

2012-08-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > and worthless tripe to ever show its disgusting face on the 'net. > > I completely disagree with this statement. Java is wonderful on the > server-side it is possible to write webapps that truly work on all types of > servers. Agree. And

Re: Rewrite AOO in JAVA

2012-08-24 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > There´s a good Office suite written in Java, it´s ThinkFree Office. > But it´s not open source. www.thinkfree.com Sorry I included the wrong URL. FWIW the Java-based desktop version of Thinkfree can be downloaded from

Re: Rewrite AOO in JAVA

2012-08-24 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Heh wrote: > You're speaking for me also. Besides...java and flash are the most useless > and worthless tripe to ever show its disgusting face on the 'net. No, I disagree with the last part. I like Java very much, now even more thanks to GPL Java aka OpenJDK.

Re: Rewrite AOO in JAVA

2012-08-24 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:14 PM, suhail ansari wrote: > Myself Suhail. I hope that Apache will consider rewriting OpenOffice in > JavaFX and Jython. Once again, you with this idea?. You got plenty of replies last time. AOO is a complex enough C++ code base that abandoning it to "rewrite it" in a

Re: Help us brainstorm ideas for Apache OpenOffice 4.0

2012-08-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > I incline to the view that we should have some sort of intelligence test > before subscr Back in the old days, you had to learn to configure a COM (RS232) port for your dial-up modem, set up the dial-up modem "log-in script", and then inst

Re: PrintEco - Does it work with OpenOffice/LibreOffice?

2012-08-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote: > It is the same as I have written before! It intercept printer commands > because "printing of empty pages" can be un/set in the printer command. No it is not. It´s quite handy, actually, and it had a better print preview than windows´ o

Re: PrintEco - Does it work with OpenOffice/LibreOffice?

2012-08-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Jeffrey Deutsch wrote: > I just heard of PrintEco - http://printecosoftware.com/ - a nifty* > utility that effectively compresses printouts so you can save paper. Really old old old concept. 12 years ago I used to use Fine Print (still available, and now supports

Re: PrintEco - Does it work with OpenOffice/LibreOffice?

2012-08-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Jeffrey Deutsch wrote: > > It's made for the Microsoft Office Suite** - Does it also work with > OpenOffice/LibreOffice? If it´s a tool that intercepts print jobs and modifies them BEFORE the print jobs are sent to the Windows print spooler, then YES; it shuold wo

Re: Java Run Time

2012-08-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Gerry Wittenberg wrote: > Hi You not only need to download Java but to INSTALL it. Did you double-click on the downloaded file and run the Java installer? FC - To unsubscribe, e-mail: ooo-users-u

Re: Oo on iPad

2012-07-31 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Jon B wrote: > Is it possible to use oo on iPad. > If so where do I go to download? > I use oo on my pc and now I've upgraded to an iPad (yes,upgraded) I would > like to stay with oo. > Thanks Jon There is no version of OpenOffice for iPad. However there are clo

Re: Does OpenOffice.og not provide templates for the Avery/Zweckform labels?

2012-07-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote: > , why there are no templates in OpenOffice.org (or > even LibreOffice). I remember creating Avery labels in StarOffice 6.0... Commercial templates and add-ons were one of the selling points of StarOffice. Let´s thank the LibreOffice f

Re: Macros are a pain to use

2012-07-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: > It took me quite a while to figure out how to make the assignment, but I > finally did it, and it's working great. It is called "learning". The first time I used MS WinWord 2.5 it also "took me quite a while" to undersand how to align paragraph

Re: Establish some rules of conduct

2012-07-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Scooter C wrote: > I agree this IS getting ridiculous! Just ignore the thread and it'll die off on its own. Instead, complaining about it only helps the snowball to keep rolling. FC - To unsubscr

Re: I need your help

2012-07-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:51 PM, James Knott wrote: > If you don't want my comments, then keep the religious crap out. Religion is > a delusion that's an insult to human intelligence and reason. Let's try to be civil and respect each other, even if the beliefs of the other party seem ludicrous :)

Re: I need your help

2012-07-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:51 AM, James Knott wrote: > BTW, "God" will not help you. Religion is a delusion. +1 ROFL- Yet, if we get from programming language religion arguments to so-called theological arguments on this list, I guess this will be the futureo of the AOO mailing list. ;) http://im

Re: Apache OOo Does Not Open MS EXCEL 2007

2012-07-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 7:52 PM, hw huyler wrote: > OOo, > > I cannot open a MS Excel .xls file. > I ha an updated JRE. > I can open it on my iMac with OOo. > See attached In screen #2, you select OpenOffice org 1.0 spreadsheet as the filter to use. How do you exect it not to fail?. You should s

Re: AOO como padrão no Ubuntu

2012-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I' d like to see that too, but given the different licenses, I' d say the > LO license fits the rest of the GNU system more than the AOO one. > > Having said that, nothing prevents Linux distros from packaging non-

Re: AOO como padrão no Ubuntu

2012-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Eduardo Alexandre wrote: > Is there any possibility of OpenOffice become the standard office suite for > Linux distributions like Ubuntu, for example? > > What would it take for this? > > Greats, > Eduardo Alexandre > I' d like to see that too, but given the diff

Re: downloading Open Office Incubator version 3.4

2012-06-15 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:57 AM, bob hake wrote: > I couldn't download it either: tried twice; Thanks Phyllis Hake. Hope it > works soon. wget -c "http://url-here"; is your friend. wget comes pre-installed in most Linux distributions, and you can find Windows versions here: http://users.ugent.

Re: Apache - Open Office 3

2012-06-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Dan wrote: > The quick-loader loads in RAM and runs parts of AOO in the background. > This is the way it is designed. The standard Windows install or standard > uninstall programs may not be designed to do this. It would be nice for the > uninstall program to d

Re: Apache - Open Office 3

2012-06-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Dan wrote: > Because of its design, you can not remove AOO from your computer until you > close it. O This sounds like a bug. Can't the uninstall routine first kill the quick-loader process? FC

Re: Importing back improvements from LibreOffice

2012-06-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > In fact, I'm from .uy ;-) But there's no yahoo.com.uy. :-D > > Regards from Montevideo > > Sylvia > Greetings from across the pond, then. :) FC

Re: OpenOffice #12, LibreOffice #5

2012-06-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:20 PM, "Marra Åsheim" wrote: > This is just sad: http://office-software-suite.pikimal.com/top/10/pikirank > > OOo isn't even on the front page. > Defeatism. I never heard of that pikimal.com page before ;). FC

Re: Importing back improvements from LibreOffice

2012-06-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > Respectfully, > Sylvia > /Con cariño desde Fedora 17/ > Good to see someone else from .AR here too. :) FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verd

Re: Importing back improvements from LibreOffice

2012-06-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Mikkel Bang wrote: > . The main goal has always been to create the best Office suite > possible - so let's unite around that. The LO guys should have thought about that before forking OpenOffice following Novell's siren's call. (remember the first major fork of Ope

Re: Is there a windows 7 64 bit version.

2012-06-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > Try explaining to users the logic of having to install a 32bit JRE when > they have a 64bit system You don't explain it at all. 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the JRE can co-exist on 64-bit windows. It won't interfere with your ability to

Re: Total User confusion

2012-05-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Niall Martin wrote: > I have experimented with Open Office Base, but found it difficult to > find my way > into its facilities and vocabulary, to work out what it can do for me. > Here is a tutorial, FWIW. http://inpics.net/base.html By the way, I remember Lot

Re: Total User confusion

2012-05-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Scooter C wrote: > A Search brought up LibreOffice, so I thought I found it and installed it. > Later I tripped over an article that mentioned Apache's take over of MY OOo > and installed it. I also found this User group. I felt at home and bristle > at negative c

Re: Please remove me from the mailing list

2012-05-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Mike Noddin wrote: > Hi, please remove from the techy mailing list You can do it yourself. Check out the footer of every e-mail from the list: To unsubscribe, e-mail: ooo-users-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org Hope this helps. FC

Re: Question...

2012-05-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Gil Blais wrote: > How to stop Open Office from loading as a SERVICE ? > > Windows 7, 64 bit > Maybe this is part of the "quick loading" feature?. Just guessing FC

Re: AOO as wiki editor?

2012-05-15 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Kevin Grignon wrote: > Can you share your thoughts on what success looks like in terms of the user > experience? What are the steps you would expect to perform in the editor to > share your content on a wiki? > > Thoughts? > Something as basic as "File->Export->

Re: Open Office 3.4 problems

2012-05-15 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:03 PM, John Boyle wrote: > : And you did NOT bother to read what was said, Yes, I read what you said, and the whole thread. My point was that at some point you highlighted that AOO was "not worth the trouble" and that your option was moving to LibreOffice. That, on a AOO

AOO as wiki editor?

2012-05-15 Thread Fernando Cassia
Once upon a time, Sun Microsystems created a wiki editor extension for OpenOffice.org. I remember reading it worked, and also I remember reading comments about it stopping working with recent versions of wiki software. I wonder what is the current status of that extension http://extensions.openoff

Re: Open Office 3.4 problems

2012-05-15 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:32 PM, John Boyle wrote: > !:-( :-( =-O =-O You are angry and use lots of caps and want to vent your frustration using lots of exclamation marks. Fine. But that doesn´t mean you have right to spread lies ("AOO is a total rewrite"). If you want to use LibreOffice, fine,

Re: Whats UX ? What we talk?

2012-05-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Hugo Costa wrote: > > What's UX? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience FC - To unsubscribe, e-mail: ooo-users-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: ooo-users-h

Re: Hello all, I'm Xin Li, the UX designer of Symphony

2012-05-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Kevin Grignon wrote: > > Product development requires a balance of exploitation and incremental > enhancement of the existing code base, while exploring new and innovative > implementations. Together we can define such balance. Sounds reasonable, Kevin. My comment

Re: Hello all, I'm Xin Li, the UX designer of Symphony

2012-05-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > however I wonder if > the FOSS resources are being spread too thin. The LO jihad should have thought about that before hearing the call of sirens from Novell to fork. Sun refused Novell' s Go-OO OOXML patches for a reason: you can't advance OD

Re: Hello all, I'm Xin Li, the UX designer of Symphony

2012-05-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:21 AM, l x wrote: > I'm Xin Li, I have been an UX designer for Symphony and I'm very glad to > join ooo-users mailing list. I'd love to focus on AOO user experience work > in the future. As long as you don't want to turn AOO into Symphony, it's fine with me. In other word

Re: [ooo-users] Dealing with unfamiliar emails - was Re: New Guy, Suggestion

2012-05-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > +1 > > Almost every list I'm subscribed to includes a short [Listname] i Oh-oh. I replied to the OP without checking. I've just realized OO-users is included in the subject line. So I don't get what the OP was

Re: [ooo-users] Dealing with unfamiliar emails - was Re: New Guy, Suggestion

2012-05-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Jeffrey Deutsch wrote: > > I respectfully suggest the list owners/managers consider doing this - > maybe after taking a membership poll? +1 Almost every list I'm subscribed to includes a short [Listname] in the subject line. Makes messages easier to spot on the i