Re: [libreoffice-users] bug in printing?

2011-05-06 Thread planas
Raymond, On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 08:00 +0200, L O wrote: > Hi, > > When I print, very often the printer just doesn't start. Only when I close > LibreOffice, the printing will begin (no print jobs are visible in the > queue until LibreOffice is closed). I tried to figure out why it happens > a

[libreoffice-users] bug in printing?

2011-05-06 Thread L O
Hi, When I print, very often the printer just doesn't start. Only when I close LibreOffice, the printing will begin (no print jobs are visible in the queue until LibreOffice is closed). I tried to figure out why it happens and if I can reproduce this behaviour. However, it only happens in 50%

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help file downloaded does not appear

2011-05-06 Thread Francis Dollarhyde
On 04/05/11 01:45, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) The 9.04 was not an LTS release and might not be supported anymore. That is possibly why you are having trouble accessing the repositories to install programs. There are tricks to upgrading the system to avoid having to re-format the partition. Coul

[libreoffice-users] LO 322 & Image Problems

2011-05-06 Thread Twayne
I thought most of the image problems had been addresses since LO came out, but it seems I jumped to a conclusiong: I have a bunch of reports with only Header Cells containing useful data; these were Outlook generated reports. So I used PaintShop Pro to copy the headers of each page (13 pages)

[libreoffice-users] Re: Change default PDF export directory

2011-05-06 Thread NoOp
On 05/04/2011 04:17 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 05/03/2011 01:02 PM, NoOp wrote: >> On 05/03/2011 11:29 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> Hi all. In Kubuntu 10.10 the default save directory for PDF export is here: >>> ~/.libreoffice/3/user/gallery/ >>> >>> How does one change that directory to simply $HOME? Tha

Re: [libreoffice-users] Softmaker Office for Android soon to enter public beta - ODT read and write support

2011-05-06 Thread Jean Weber
On 07/05/2011, at 5:50, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I am fairly sure that LibreOffice works on all platforms now and most other > OpenSource programs are often available for Mac or have the potential to be > fairly easily ported if a few devs feel it's a good move. Jonathon's question mentione

Re: [libreoffice-users] Softmaker Office for Android soon to enter public beta - ODT read and write support

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am fairly sure that LibreOffice works on all platforms now and most other OpenSource programs are often available for Mac or have the potential to be fairly easily ported if a few devs feel it's a good move. There are such things as google-docs that run regardless of platform. Impress s

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spanish/French Accent Marks

2011-05-06 Thread Ben McGinnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 6/05/11 11:01 AM, nhtrader wrote: > Thanks for the help. > > I installed the ComposeSpecialCharacter extension - no problems. > > Although I have to admit it took me several attempts to set it up so > that I could get it work with this key comb

[libreoffice-users] Re: Opening/converting a Lotus wk4 file for Calc?

2011-05-06 Thread plino
I'm glad you solved your problem ;) That is why Microsoft makes sure that it is easy to get and use irregular copies: when other programs fail you can always go back to MS Office :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Opening-converting-a-Lotus-wk4-file-for-Calc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Opening/converting a Lotus wk4 file for Calc?

2011-05-06 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 06/05/2011 14:34, Alexander Thurgood wrote: There are actually a number of freeware/shareware utilities for converting wk* formatted files into something else on Windows. What I actually did was to temporarily install an err, "irregular" version of Excel 2003 which I have in my possession an

Re: [libreoffice-users] Softmaker Office for Android soon to enter public beta - ODT read and write support

2011-05-06 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/05/2011 20:52, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > Softmaker is about to go public beta with its Softmaker Office for Android, a > comparison sheet of functionality here : Is there anything that can create/edit ODF spreadsheets, and presentations on t

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Feature Request] Calc cell format for bytes

2011-05-06 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/5/6 OBUTEX/Hladůvka > Hi, > according to me this should not be a formatting feature but some extension > for very narrow users constituency. > Otherwise why not to recognize 'b' as 'baud' and 'KB' as Kommerce Bank and > many other unit types used in various professions? > :) > > Regards, > J

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Postscript Type 1 fonts probs on MacOS ?

2011-05-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Alexander Thurgood wrote (06-05-11 16:00) Sorry, it was only on this list, but the problem seems to be with Apple, who dropped support for Type1 fonts when it developed Snow Leopard (10.6.x) : https://discussions.apple.com/message/10207063#10207063 Thanks Alex. I saw the problem on the Dutch l

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with Kerning and fonts using OT kerning feature

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
From: hirwen HARENDAL To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 6 May, 2011 13:44:31 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with Kerning and fonts using OT kerning feature Hi Tom 2011/5/6 Tom Davies : > Hi again :) > > Ahah, the bug-reports do accept attachment

[libreoffice-users] Re: Softmaker Office for Android soon to enter public beta - ODT read and write support

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/05/11 00:19, Steve Edmonds a écrit : >> > Just checked the linux version, 30 euro. Captions above and below > pictures, picture rotation, opens the problem docx ok, not as good on > the odt files. > Not as smart as LO, a bit slow, but hey everything we are discussing works. > steve > Oh

[libreoffice-users] Re: Postscript Type 1 fonts probs on MacOS ?

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/05/11 11:52, Cor Nouws a écrit : Having read through the entire thread on that Apple link I posted, there may, possibly, be a solution which involves resetting the Font manager by starting Mac in safe mode and fiddling with the Font Manager. The last two or three posts in the thread explain

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Postscript Type 1 fonts probs on MacOS ?

2011-05-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Alex, Alexander Thurgood wrote (06-05-11 15:50) Le 05/05/11 11:52, Cor Nouws a écrit : Does anyone know about this problem in LibreOffice that Postscript Type 1 fonts no longer available on MacOS ? OOo bug is https://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116762 Yes, I had an exchange ab

[libreoffice-users] Re: Postscript Type 1 fonts probs on MacOS ?

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/05/11 11:52, Cor Nouws a écrit : Hi Cor, Sorry, it was only on this list, but the problem seems to be with Apple, who dropped support for Type1 fonts when it developed Snow Leopard (10.6.x) : https://discussions.apple.com/message/10207063#10207063 Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-m

[libreoffice-users] Re: Opening/converting a Lotus wk4 file for Calc?

2011-05-06 Thread plino
I use Gnumeric and I couldn't find any information on opening wk4. It does mention that it opens wk1 and wks but I suspect that wk4 is quite different. Yes, there is a Windows version and it is kept up-to-date. TBH if Gnumeric had a Pivot Table/Data Pilot function it would be light years ahead of

[libreoffice-users] Re: Postscript Type 1 fonts probs on MacOS ?

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/05/11 11:52, Cor Nouws a écrit : Hi Cor, > > Does anyone know about this problem in LibreOffice that Postscript Type > 1 fonts no longer available on MacOS ? > > OOo bug is https://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116762 Yes, I had an exchange about this on here with a user, and p

[libreoffice-users] who is involved with the LibrePlanet extension list

2011-05-06 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
When I clicked on "Tools>Language>More Dictionaries Online", I went to the following link http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List?lang=en-US I was wondering who on this list is involved in updating/modifying the list of extensions? Since it is for LibreOffice, why does

[libreoffice-users] Re: Opening/converting a Lotus wk4 file for Calc?

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/05/11 09:57, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit : > Anyone found a way of doing this short of downloading the free Lotus > Symphony suite? (I only have 4 files, so that seems a bit of overkill...) > Gnumeric is purported to be able to open them, but you'd have to be running Linux or Mac (unless

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Field Defaut Disables Save

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/05/11 13:42, John Shabanowitz a écrit : Hi John, >> >> Good Info. > I thought it was a bug because of inconsistent behavior. When you connect > to a MySQL database using Base and Oracle's MySQL connector, you can ALTER, > CREATE, and DROP tables from the GUI in Base. I need to use a referen

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spanish/French Accent Marks

2011-05-06 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:34 AM, nhtrader wrote: > ubuntu 10.04 > libreoffice 3.3.0 > > I'm trying to do spanish and french homework with libreoffice writer. I know > that I can insert special characters, but this is too slow and cumbersome. > In word I can use the ALT Key sequence such as ALT+0153

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with Kerning and fonts using OT kerning feature

2011-05-06 Thread hirwen HARENDAL
Hi Tom 2011/5/6 Tom Davies : > Hi again :) > > Ahah, the bug-reports do accept attachments/uploads so perhaps you could post > your attachments there to "bump" those reports and see if it helps re-kindle > interest.  Sun sat on a lot of bug-reports disallowing developments/fixes so > perhaps those

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spanish/French Accent Marks

2011-05-06 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 05/05/2011 10:43 PM, noelhtay...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I have been following this discussion perhaps it is time for my story. I teach Hebrew and Greek in a Chinese language school and must prepare material for students in those languages. I use Openoffice and now Libreoffice exclusively.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spanish/French Accent Marks

2011-05-06 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 05/05/2011 03:48 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-05-04 22:34, nhtrader a écrit : ubuntu 10.04 libreoffice 3.3.0 I'm trying to do spanish and french homework with libreoffice writer. I know that I can insert special characters, but this is too slow and cumbersome. In word I can use the ALT Ke

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with Kerning and fonts using OT kerning feature

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi again :) Ahah, the bug-reports do accept attachments/uploads so perhaps you could post your attachments there to "bump" those reports and see if it helps re-kindle interest. Sun sat on a lot of bug-reports disallowing developments/fixes so perhaps those reports just need to be bumped a bit.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with Kerning and fonts using OT kerning feature

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sadly attachments don't reach the list. Could you post them on imageshack or something and then give the links to the list? Regards from Tom :) From: hirwen HARENDAL To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 6 May, 2011 12:59:39 Subject: [libreoffice-users]

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with Kerning and fonts using OT kerning feature

2011-05-06 Thread hirwen HARENDAL
With all files attached -- Hirwen HARENDAL -- 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 be publicly arch

[libreoffice-users] Problem with Kerning and fonts using OT kerning feature

2011-05-06 Thread hirwen HARENDAL
Hi to all Kerning doesn't work, even if activated from the character panel. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773207 The font used for capture-1 file is Minion-Pro, kerning pairs "AV"," VA" or "Ty" are inserted in the kerning feature included in the GPOS table only (capture-1) It's possible to compa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Field Defaut Disables Save

2011-05-06 Thread John Shabanowitz
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > Le 03/05/11 00:24, John Shabanowitz a écrit : > > Try the solution suggested in this thread : > > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=26194 > > i.e. Go to the Tools - SQL menu entry > > Enter an ALTER table c

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Opening/converting a Lotus wk4 file for Calc?

2011-05-06 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 06/05/2011 11:01, plino wrote: FYI Symphony doesn't open Lotus spreadsheets (to Lotus users dismay) Ah. Thanks for that According to this page I found, Openoffice 3.2 does? http://www.ehow.com/how_6462332_convert-wk4-xls.html Then LO should do it too... No it doesn't. It "converts"

[libreoffice-users] Re: Opening/converting a Lotus wk4 file for Calc?

2011-05-06 Thread plino
FYI Symphony doesn't open Lotus spreadsheets (to Lotus users dismay) According to this page I found, Openoffice 3.2 does? http://www.ehow.com/how_6462332_convert-wk4-xls.html Then LO should do it too... (Can you link to one of this files?) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documen

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ignore spacing before and/or after paragraph possible for paragraphs of same style?

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry for the delay in replying. Has anyone dealt with this issue yet? Have you been able to post it as a wish-list request in bug-reports? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Good luck and regards from Tom :) From: rdb To: users@libreoffice.o

[libreoffice-users] Opening/converting a Lotus wk4 file for Calc?

2011-05-06 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Anyone found a way of doing this short of downloading the free Lotus Symphony suite? (I only have 4 files, so that seems a bit of overkill...) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive:

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Feature Request] Calc cell format for bytes

2011-05-06 Thread OBUTEX/Hladůvka
Hi, according to me this should not be a formatting feature but some extension for very narrow users constituency. Otherwise why not to recognize 'b' as 'baud' and 'KB' as Kommerce Bank and many other unit types used in various professions? :) Regards, Jiri Dne 5.5.2011 9:17, Yehuda Deutsch n