RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office

2011-08-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Oops, I forgot a case. When I opened the original ODT document with the drawing-created text box in Microsoft Office Word 2010, the document opened with only one problem. The box was too small for the text so I had to enlarge the frame a little to get all of the text to fit. I could see it

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printing selected sheet from 3.4.0 calc prints all sheets.

2011-08-13 Thread Chris
Steve Edmonds steve.edmonds at ptglobal.com writes: Hi. I found a bug on my mac https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38131 where in calc printing the selected sheet while Print Preview is open fails to honor the selected sheet option. Is anyone else able to verify this.

OT: Multiple desktops in Windows (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office being recommended on Microsoft Answers Forums!)

2011-08-13 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-08-12, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2011/8/12 Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com: On 12/08/2011 00:24, upscope wrote: +5 that's what I did 12 years ago when my Win ME died. I can understand that! Win ME was worse than Vista (if that's possible!(. However, using both Linux and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended onMicrosoftAnswers Forums!

2011-08-13 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-08-12, David H. Lipman wrote: Many of the MS MVPs I know aren't swayed by Microsoft and suggest *best* solutions that may not be a Microsoft solution. Yeah, I'm not surprised to see an MVP giving a good answer. Now if it were an MPM, then I would really be surprised.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels

2011-08-13 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi, On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:16:14 -0700 Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Um, that statement makes no sense. Public domain documents require no license. They are either someone's copyright and licensed under the GPL or there's a quit claim on the copyright and no license

Re: OT: Multiple desktops in Windows (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office being recommended on Microsoft Answers Forums!)

2011-08-13 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/13 Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt: On 2011-08-12, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2011/8/12 Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com: On 12/08/2011 00:24, upscope wrote: +5 that's what I did 12 years ago when my Win ME died. I can understand that! Win ME was worse than Vista (if that's

Re: [libreoffice-users] VOT: WindowsManager Re: OT: Multiple desktops in Windows

2011-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's the older KDE on Vista Win7 isn't it? lol, i am joking but it was clearly inspired by KDE. The Start button menu operates almost exactly the same way and it's quite different from the Xp one. The Windows one in Vista and Win7 is called DWM (=Desktop Window Manager)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels

2011-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks Sigrid. Copy-left agreements such as the Creative Commons used in artworks, video, documentation and elsewhere is a very new concept that can allow people to copy, modify and redistribute. The traditional idea of public domain is merely that you are allowed to read it and if

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printing selected sheet from 3.4.0 calc prints all sheets.

2011-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Please add comments to the main bug-report https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32826 rather than the duplicate. If it's not already in the thread they might want to know which versions of LibreOffice and which Operating Systems you have already noticed the bug on but don't worry

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels

2011-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Oops, ignore my last email about this! Someone at work suggested turning the label sheets the other way around in the printer as there is often a tiny difference in the measurements between topbottom and leftright. I tried measuring it with a ruler but the difference seems negligible

Re: [libreoffice-users] unopkg error

2011-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am not sure i gave this link before but are there useful guides in here? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation#Other_Documentation_and_Resources The Docs Team added a new link to the bottom yday i think. Regards from Tom :) From: planas

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New user to BASE

2011-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi again Sorry for my tone yday. I appeared to be addressing Alex negatively but in fact i do know he has done and continues to do a lot of hard work to help Base users. There are quite a few people that do and quite a lot more, no doubt, that would give more time if they were able to or if

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office

2011-08-13 Thread Rob Harriman
Hi Tom, Thanks to you and the others who responded to my query. It made interesting reading. As suggested below I have installed Libre Office 3.4.2 in parallel with the default version of LO supplied under Ubuntu 11.04. I understand that things aren't always going to be right with .docx files

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels

2011-08-13 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Tom, There was one size label our church was using that wasn't on the World Label list of available labels. Those labels were used to print ingredients for Easter eggs they sell. Also, there wasn't a template for that particular size. I sent them an e-mail. Apparently it was an error that

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office

2011-08-13 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hello Rob, On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:36:39 +0100 Rob Harriman rob.harri...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi Tom, Thanks to you and the others who responded to my query. It made interesting reading. As suggested below I have installed Libre Office 3.4.2 in parallel with the default version of LO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels

2011-08-13 Thread planas
Hi, On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 12:54 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Thanks Sigrid. Copy-left agreements such as the Creative Commons used in artworks, video, documentation and elsewhere is a very new concept that can allow people to copy, modify and redistribute. The traditional idea

[libreoffice-users] installing issues fedora 14

2011-08-13 Thread Lin L
Libre is not signed and won't complete installation.  Theres nothing in the readme files about that issue.  I've read about --gpgcheck on the internet but there isn't enough information pertaining to my situation.  I'm not sure how to run --gpgcheck from the terminal with the sudo -c 'yum

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels

2011-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks Jay :) That is quite different from my assumption. I'm not sure about the laws here but i suspect someone would have ownership of the rights. Regards from Tom :) From: planas jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 13

RE: [libreoffice-users] MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office

2011-08-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I've not seen tables-of-content move between Microsoft Word and ODF documents very well, in either direction. (But I have not dug into it enough to conquer whatever the limitations are, either.) Say more about what you are doing and where you need to end up. Are you attempting to edit a

[libreoffice-users] Opening PDF files in Draw

2011-08-13 Thread R. Derek Pattison
Hello all, Is there a way to open a PDF file in Draw, or another LibreOffice program, without having the program use OCR? I have some PDF files that are basically just pictures of book pages and when LibreOffice tries to parse the mediocrely-scanned text it becomes unreadable. Thanks in

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office

2011-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Many apologies. I had assumed you were sharing much shorter documents with office users in an office type environment. Since you are writing a longer work and can retain control of it then sticking to odt is probably best. I think it might be a good idea to read about using styles

Re: [libreoffice-users] installing issues fedora 14

2011-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) the official download place is here http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ I am not certain about the unsigned issue. There is a guide on how to install LibreOffice in Linux http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_LibreOffice_on_Linux Normally in linux when you want to install

Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening PDF files in Draw

2011-08-13 Thread jorge
Hi Excuse me, but it is important to know what do you need to do with PDF file: Edit, copy something...? It is because you would use other programs specialized for that. OCR program is used for images txt documents for example. If your PDF document haven't image txt datas you don't need

Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening PDF files in Draw

2011-08-13 Thread R. Derek Pattison
Hi Jorge, Basically I want to do some minor editing of the pictures in the PDF. Delete some pages, move some from one document to another, delete parts of pages. The problem is that LibreOffice is trying to interpret the text in the images as text and that makes it unreadable. I just want to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: (help macro base)Open form with a button form another form with filter

2011-08-13 Thread rogerio dandrea
Yes, now is works, but i can't insert new record in filter form. sub pega( oev as variant) Dim Filter As String dim odoc,odoc2,oform2,oform as Object odoc=thiscomponent oform=odoc.drawpage.forms. getbyindex(0) 'pega o dado da primeira linha(=index =campo Cad no meu caso) do registro atual