Re: [libreoffice-users] HTML entities

2011-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Please send a blank email to the address users+h...@libreoffice.org Note that the "users+" part at the beginning is important. It doesn't matter what you put in the subject-line. You should get an email in response that tells you how to unsubscribe. Regards from Tom :)

[libreoffice-users] RTL text in text form controls

2011-04-29 Thread amine amine
Salam, I try to use LibO as a CRUD application and i'm using both languages Arabic and English for my Data. When designing a form in LibO under Linux/Ubuntu, when i choose the control text direction for the text control, it handles pretty well the RTL language. Doing the same form design under

List unsubscribe and commands [WAS]: Re: [libreoffice-users] HTML entities

2011-04-29 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
I had a hard time subscribing, and I see may people have problems using the list commands. It looks like my ISP's smtp didn't let me send emails to the users+subscr...@libreoffice.org address. It silently disappeared (no error email etc.). Eventually I managed to subscribe via their web-mail thing

Re: List unsubscribe and commands [WAS]: Re: [libreoffice-users] HTML entities

2011-04-29 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Original Message Subject: List unsubscribe and commands [WAS]: Re: [libreoffice-users] HTMLentities From: Lorenzo Sutton To: users@libreoffice.org Date: 29/04/11 11:14 > I had a hard time subscribing, and I see may people have problems using > the list commands. > > It looks

Re: List unsubscribe and commands [WAS]: Re: [libreoffice-users] HTML entities

2011-04-29 Thread Roland Schwille
Am 29.04.2011 12:03, schrieb Lorenzo Sutton: Original Message Subject: List unsubscribe and commands [WAS]: Re: [libreoffice-users] HTMLentities From: Lorenzo Sutton To: users@libreoffice.org Date: 29/04/11 11:14 I had a hard time subscribing, and I see may people have prob

Re: List unsubscribe and commands [WAS]: Re: [libreoffice-users] HTML entities

2011-04-29 Thread Roland Schwille
Am 29.04.2011 12:28, schrieb Roland Schwille: Am 29.04.2011 12:03, schrieb Lorenzo Sutton: Original Message Subject: List unsubscribe and commands [WAS]: Re: [libreoffice-users] HTMLentities From: Lorenzo Sutton To: users@libreoffice.org Date: 29/04/11 11:14 I had a hard t

Re: List unsubscribe and commands [WAS]: Re: [libreoffice-users] HTML entities

2011-04-29 Thread Roland Schwille
Am 29.04.2011 12:41, schrieb Roland Schwille: Am 29.04.2011 12:28, schrieb Roland Schwille: Am 29.04.2011 12:03, schrieb Lorenzo Sutton: Original Message Subject: List unsubscribe and commands [WAS]: Re: [libreoffice-users] HTMLentities From: Lorenzo Sutton To: users@libre

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer tutorial ready for upload

2011-04-29 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 04/26/2011 08:58 PM, Ken Springer wrote: My dial up isn't free, I actually have accounts at two places that give me access to the internet. One via dialup, and the other is the satellite connection. My original plan was to cancel the dialup service after I had the satellite service under

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer tutorial ready for upload

2011-04-29 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 04/27/2011 02:47 AM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: On 26/04/2011 15:38, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 04/25/2011 09:54 PM, David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:40, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I would not mind getting this tutorial emaile

[libreoffice-users] Problems: Alphabetical Index

2011-04-29 Thread Benedetto Demaria
Hi everyone, My name is Benedetto Demaria, I'm currently trying to make the switch from Word 2003 to LibreOffice. I'm on XP using LibreOffice 3.3.1 and I'm trying to make index for a document. I have the following problems: 1. I need to get two alphabetical indexes in a Writer document: - Index

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems: Alphabetical Index

2011-04-29 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi Benedetto, Benedetto Demaria wrote: > Hi everyone, > > My name is Benedetto Demaria, I'm currently trying to make the switch from > Word 2003 to LibreOffice. > I'm on XP using LibreOffice 3.3.1 and I'm trying to make index for a > document. I have the following problems: > > 1. I need to get t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Align text to bottom of footer

2011-04-29 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:40 PM, planas wrote: > Todd > > On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 22:54 -0400, todd rme wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Steve Edmonds >> wrote: >> > On 2011-04-28 11:30, todd rme wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Steve Edmonds >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems: Alphabetical Index

2011-04-29 Thread Benedetto Demaria
Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Maybe this can be a good starting point? > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Toc_Indexes_Biblios > > Lorenzo. Thank you very much for your reply, It looks like the same guide I've already read: http://wiki.documentf

[libreoffice-users] new article about Ubuntu 11.4 - has info about LibreOffice

2011-04-29 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
Below is a quote from ZDnet article about Ubuntu 11.4 and Unity. The brief text about LibreOffice is nice and concise about LibreOffice's advantage over OOo. "What you need to know about the new Ubuntu" http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-ubuntu/8760?pg=

[libreoffice-users] Un-subscribe

2011-04-29 Thread timi
This forum is pathetic. 15% of emails are related to "un-subscribe" issues. I do not need my mail box clogged up with such kuk. If un-subscribe doesn't work then what chance is there that bugs in Impress will ever get sorted. Powerpoint 2003 all is forgiven. I only have to convert MP3 back t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Un-subscribe

2011-04-29 Thread Bruce Summitt
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:33 AM, wrote: > This forum is pathetic. Actually, it is a mailing list. And sadly, it is not the list that is pathetic. It is the fact that some people have difficulty following simple instructions. 15% of emails are related to "un-subscribe" issues. I do not need my m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Un-subscribe

2011-04-29 Thread Helmar
Don't apologize Bruce. This list is made of people who understands the meaning of cooperation.. Some of us are here to teach, others to learn, and others like me to do both things. But what it really worths is the wish to help eachother. I'm a brazilian member of the list. We have our own brazilia

Re: [libreoffice-users] Gun fight at the LibO coral

2011-04-29 Thread timi
Bruce (Summit) Maybe you could come out of the woodwork one last time and attack my specific Impress problem... (a) It loses links between "interaction -play sound" and the MP 3 file annoying if you hv over 400 files linked and they all vanish without warning. No skin off your nose but a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Un-subscribe

2011-04-29 Thread timi
Helmar, I have no idea how to un-subscribe (other than I kept a copy of a very informative email I saw a few days ago) it's an issue I may have to deal with in the near future. In the meantime IF so many people have a problem regardless of why then surely ALL un- subscribe queries coul

Re: [libreoffice-users] Un-subscribe

2011-04-29 Thread Luiz
Hi all, To unsubscribe you may send a blank message to: users+unsubscr...@libreoffice.org After that, answer the email sent you..and enjoy...or not!! :D When you send email to user+h...@libreoffice.org instructions are send to your email. Helmar: Your english is beautifull!!! hehehhe Luiz Ol

[libreoffice-users] Re: Un-subscribe

2011-04-29 Thread Ken Springer
On 4/29/11 8:18 AM, Bruce Summitt wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:33 AM, wrote: This forum is pathetic. Actually, it is a mailing list. And sadly, it is not the list that is pathetic. It is the fact that some people have difficulty following simple instructions. Bruce, I have my issues w

Re: [libreoffice-users] users+confunsub... Improvements needed

2011-04-29 Thread Ben McGinnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 28/04/11 4:05 AM, Michel Gagnon wrote: > > I think the proper users-unsubscribe... address should be written in the > signature. Except with this list there are three different versions, so people receiving the digest wouldn't be able to use it.

Re: List unsubscribe and commands [WAS]: Re: [libreoffice-users] HTML entities

2011-04-29 Thread Ben McGinnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29/04/11 8:03 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > > Actually further investigating this it seems it's not the smtp > server or ISP, as sending a mail to that address 'by hand' actually > worked... So maybe the problem is the ail client (in this case > th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Gun fight at the LibO coral

2011-04-29 Thread Bruce Summitt
It was not my intent to start a fight as the term "Gunfight" suggests, though I expected this outcome. I regret having stepped on the toes of proprietary fundamentalists. But I am not the one who threw the first swing. It is my experience that those most willing to fight have never had to take it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Gun fight at the LibO coral

2011-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There is more complexity than is obvious here. Timi has asked for help a number of times and not been helped with getting sound working in Impress. He wants to use LO but is blocked and no-one is helping him. He is afraid that he will have to return to MSO because apparently no-one k

Re: [libreoffice-users] Un-subscribe

2011-04-29 Thread Stan Goodman
On Friday 29 April 2011 at 22:09:26 (GMT+2) t...@iafrica.com wrote: > This forum is pathetic. > > 15% of emails are related to "un-subscribe" issues. I do not need my > mail box clogged up with such kuk. > > If un-subscribe doesn't work then what chance is there that bugs in > Impress will ever

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Outline View in Writer

2011-04-29 Thread Haruka Akiko
Dear Michael 2011/4/25 Michel Gagnon > Le 2011-04-25 11:19, Hedva a écrit : > > Open it with F5. When the Navigator window is opened, slide it to the side > of the main document window and it will become a sidebar. Just like the > style and all other extra windows > This function "sidebar like

Re: [libreoffice-users] Un-subscribe

2011-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi Another unhelpful and unnecessary post. The mailing list is full of them. Please can we attempt to be welcoming and deal with issues that make people angry or upset? It is very easy to lash out in anger but less easy to act with compassion and intelligence to solve problems rather than to

Re: [libreoffice-users] RTL text in text form controls

2011-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it's time to file a bug-report. The Windows version is very different or it could just be a problem with Windows? Either way a bug-report might help find out where the problem is, hopefully. There is a link to help you post a bug-report in this guide somewhere http://wiki.documen

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Outline View in Writer

2011-04-29 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 30/04/11 07:22, Haruka Akiko wrote: > Dear Michael > > 2011/4/25 Michel Gagnon > > >> Le 2011-04-25 11:19, Hedva a écrit : >> >> Open it with F5. When the Navigator window is opened, slide it to the side >> of the main document window and it will become a sidebar. Just like the >> style an

Re: [libreoffice-users] exported PDF file size

2011-04-29 Thread Helmar
I think the only thing that can make an effective difference is ro reduce JPG compression and the image resolution in the PDF Options screen But you should test some different values to find out one setup that fits your needs and keep your images readable. Helmar Fernandes

[libreoffice-users] Re: Outline View in Writer

2011-04-29 Thread Hedva
Well, maybe they could add some placer-lines, just like Adobe has. I made some little screenshots (putted in one image) for example: http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w312/Hedva/Menu-place-lines-adobe.png I don't know if I'm here at the right place to give some suggestions for some better GUI? C

Re: [libreoffice-users] exported PDF file size

2011-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I tend to save pictures in 3 different formats to see which gives the best result for the least size. I would always keep a copy of the original. Gif tends to be about 1/10th the size of jpgs or pngs but it doesn't work well on smoothly changing shades so some of the pictures on pages 15,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Outline View in Writer

2011-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be better to post gui ideas to the Design Team i think? What are place liners? I know that pdf allows something similar to web-links so that lines in the Contents Table are clickable and jump to the relevant section. I don't know what that type of link is called? Regards from T

Re: [libreoffice-users] RTL text in text form controls

2011-04-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 23:19, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I think it's time to file a bug-report.  The Windows version is very different > or it could just be a problem with Windows?  Either way a bug-report might > help > find out where the problem is, hopefully. > > There is a link to help you

[libreoffice-users] Re: Gun fight at the LibO coral

2011-04-29 Thread e-letter
>Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Gun fight at the LibO coral >From: t...@iafrica.com >Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:01:33 +0200 >To: users@libreoffice.org >Bruce (Summit) > >Maybe you could come out of the woodwork one last time and attack my specific >Impress >problem... > >(a) It loses links betwee

Re: [libreoffice-users] Gun fight at the LibO coral

2011-04-29 Thread Bruce Summitt
One other thought: I understand that you are frustrated because "over 400 files linked ... all vanish without warning". Without intending to sound like a smart@$$, here is a suggestion: backup. On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:01 AM, wrote: > Bruce (Summit) > > Maybe you could come out of the woodwor

[libreoffice-users] Re: Un-subscribe

2011-04-29 Thread Twayne
In news:4dbad4ea.13628.c09d...@timi.iafrica.com, t...@iafrica.com typed: > Helmar, > > I have no idea how to un-subscribe (other than I kept a > copy of a very informative email I saw a few days > ago) it's an issue I may have to deal with in the > near future. > ... " Unsubscribe instructions

[libreoffice-users] ON Mac OS X 10.6.6 .autogen failed - Help please

2011-04-29 Thread Peter Teeson
Today I installed git, got the sources and then tried ./autogen. But it failed with missing Perl modules - see log extract below. Where do I go from here? respect... Peter Gandalf:git pteeson$ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/bootstrap libo Cloning into libo... remote: Counti

Re: [libreoffice-users] exported PDF file size

2011-04-29 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
> > I think the only thing that can make an effective difference is ro reduce > JPG compression and the image resolution in the PDF Options screen > But you should test some different values to find out one setup that fits > your needs and keep your images readable. > tried that but snapshots

Re: [libreoffice-users] exported PDF file size

2011-04-29 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
> > Hi :) > I tend to save pictures in 3 different formats to see which gives the best > result for the least size. I would always keep a copy of the original. > > Gif tends to be about 1/10th the size of jpgs or pngs but it doesn't work > well > on smoothly changing shades so some of the pictures

Re: [libreoffice-users] exported PDF file size

2011-04-29 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
> Have made it into a zip file that would decrease the file and should not > affect the file quality. > even using tar.bz2 format compression there's no a significant difference in resulting size --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Escuelas Libres :: Porque la educación es mucho

Re: [libreoffice-users] exported PDF file size

2011-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If the quick test with gifs seems to be fairly good you might be able to clean-up some of the images a bit to remove the wobbly waves that jpg format introduces. Getting back to sharp edges and distinct corners, removing speckling can get file-sizes down a little bit more but the main ch

[libreoffice-users] Installing on win7 and importing documents from old xp hard drive

2011-04-29 Thread newbiewin7
Hi there. I don't know if this has been discussed before but I have one question about this software. I have problems bringing in .doc files from word programs from my old xp system hard drive onto the new computer which is running a 64 bit win7 system. I refuse to pay for a product key to activ

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing on win7 and importing documents from old xp hard drive

2011-04-29 Thread planas
Hi On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 17:29 -0700, newbiewin7 wrote: > Hi there. > > I don't know if this has been discussed before but I have one question about > this software. I have problems bringing in .doc files from word programs > from my old xp system hard drive onto the new computer which is runn

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Un-subscribe

2011-04-29 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Twayne wrote: > ... > " > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > All messages sent to this list will

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 64 bit Impress issues

2011-04-29 Thread Rob Cachia
I have a PowerPoint presentation that runs fine in Libreoffice Impress. If I save it as a odp file it simply will not open. It starts to open then hangs. I was running 3.3.2 If open LibreOffice first and open the odp presentation it runs fine. I have tried downloading and running the latest v