Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre office

2014-11-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The problem is that not all of those formats are consistent all the time. Where any of those formats have many different implementations in different programs, or different versions of the same programs then LibreOffice (and OpenOffice) tends to be one of the best around. Some LibreOffice us

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre office

2014-11-20 Thread Luuk
On 20-11-2014 21:49, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 20.11.2014 um 21:20 schrieb fred.spurr...@talktalk.net: Can you please tell me which type of documents WRITER will read. e.g. Word, Works,? Open office,PDF etc. Thank you for your help Fred menu:File>Open... see the list of file types The list of

[libreoffice-users] Re: Libre office

2014-11-20 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 20.11.2014 um 21:20 schrieb fred.spurr...@talktalk.net: > Can you please tell me which type of documents WRITER will read. e.g. > Word, Works,? Open office,PDF etc. > Thank you for your help > Fred > > menu:File>Open... see the list of file types The list of types in menu:File>Save As... sho

[libreoffice-users] Libre office

2014-11-20 Thread fred . spurrier
Can you please tell me which type of documents WRITER will read. e.g. Word, Works,? Open office,PDF etc. Thank you for your help Fred -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guid

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: macro to add annotation to selected text range

2014-11-20 Thread Matt Price
Andrew, Thank you for the navigation help. Your book was the first place I looked, but I was too many layers away to really understand how to get the help I needed. Hopefully next time I will be able to do it on my own! Many thanks also for all your work over the last decade!! Matt On Wed, No

Re: [libreoffice-users] rtf files

2014-11-20 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 20/11/2014 12:27, James Wilde wrote: > Can we agree that a) rtf is not an ISO standard and has never been; that b) > most programs with a proprietary text format could once save as rtf and some > still do, but now rarely as the only alternative and that c) it's not worth > fighting any more

[libreoffice-users] Re: How does 4.4 compress PDFs so well? Is there a quality problem?

2014-11-20 Thread Paddy Landau
V Stuart Foote wrote > Hey that was fun to track down. You were spot on... > > Looks like a long present issue of JPEGs being exported to PDF were not > retaining their JPEG compression… Thanks for that, Stuart. I have tested further using GIF, JPG and PNG images, opening PDFs in LibreOffice Dr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-20 Thread Walther Koehler
Hi Tom, I am using intensively shell scripts for example to look up printing dates in a large number of files. With a few lines of code (and with sed an unzip) one can quickly extract the information from .odt files due to the well defined format. Yours W. K. orAm Donnerstag, 20. November 20

Re: [libreoffice-users] rtf files

2014-11-20 Thread James Wilde
Wow! Seems we have a new religion here, added to the conflicts in the Middle East, Northern Ireland (calm at the moment) and Kashmir, not to mention the South China Sea. Can we agree that a) rtf is not an ISO standard and has never been; that b) most programs with a proprietary text format cou

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Interesting lack of links to any documentation there. Also i still think that most people are going to find full words and widely used abbreviations MUCH easier to read than clever 1-4 letter abbreviations that are pretty much unique to the context. We are obviously going to carry on disagr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: macro to add annotation to selected text range

2014-11-20 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Andreas , Am 19.11.2014 um 21:19 schrieb Matt Price: Thank you Andreas. Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to install either version of the MRI tool -- the unreleased 1.1.4 appears not to be a valid zipfile, whiel 1.1.2 throws this error: (com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException) { { Message = ":

[libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-20 Thread Urmas
"Cley Faye": http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-part1.html#__RefHeading__1415854_253892949 So, somehow arbitrary BASE64-encoded data are fine in ODF yet an obstacle in RTF? http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-part1.html#__RefHeading__1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-20 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 20/11/14 06:10, Urmas wrote: > RTF spec is changed according to new product features. Also, it is > extensible, so you can implement any subset you need being able to > safely ignore the rest and following changes. It is not a problem. RTF is not a standard, and as such should be avoided. Ther

[libreoffice-users] Re: macro to add annotation to selected text range

2014-11-20 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 20.11.2014 um 01:29 schrieb Jim Byrnes: > On 11/19/2014 12:30 PM, Matt Price wrote: > Yes, lack of more comprehensive documentation is a real pain. Hopefully > someone with more knowledge than myself will comment on what I am about > to write if I am wrong. With the exception of ThisComponent

[libreoffice-users] Re: macro to add annotation to selected text range

2014-11-20 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 19.11.2014 um 21:19 schrieb Matt Price: > Thank you Andreas. Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to install either > version of the MRI tool -- the unreleased 1.1.4 appears not to be a valid > zipfile, whiel 1.1.2 throws this error: > > (com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException) { { Message = ": >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-20 Thread Cley Faye
2014-11-20 6:02 GMT+01:00 Urmas : > "Cley Faye": > > is in a straightforward XML file which is as "plaintext" as an RTF file. >> In fact, >> it's easier to strip the extra tags out of an XML file >> > > Sure. Now tell us what > {urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0}binary-data > elem