Re: [libreoffice-users] OT : good cd import software on linux

2013-04-17 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 17/04/13 00:14, Steve Edmonds wrote: snipped If only we could all get music at 24 bit. How fidelity has given way to convenience. Good pressing - itunes. SLR camera - phone camera. Steve I agree wholeheartedly with Steve! The fact that CD's had to fit into the 700 MB Philips (the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-)

2012-11-04 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 04-11-12 13:21, James Knott wrote: Mas wrote: I believe someone else mention this on the thread, its not new and unix/linux has been using it. Yes, there was a 64 bit version of Linux running on the DEC Alpha, followed shortly by the IBM PowerPC around 1994 - 1995. The 64-bit R4000 by

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to crack a PW in LO?

2012-10-30 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 20-10-12 01:47, anne-ology wrote: Yet an employer has the right to hire those employees he feels will fit into his company, benefiting him, his company and its bottom line. IF someone acts like a fool, as placing lewd photos of himself or using abusive and/or blasphemous

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-01 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 01-10-12 11:57, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Dear Wolfgang Jay, A.so in your opinion people - both young and old - not yet knowing anything about computers, perhaps buying their first unit, are - not only IT-illiterate but also morons B.so you agree that among these IT-illiterate morons

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-01 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 01-10-12 16:22, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Hello Joep, Thank you for your reply. I am happy to say I had the privilege to in business visit your very beautiful and interesting country - and especially Amsterdam - some times very, very many years ago. I am also retired since ten years back and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reply settings on this list have changed

2012-08-14 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 14-08-12 19:03, anne-ology wrote: wow, you should be a great attorney; you're very expressive. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Steven Shelton ste...@sheltonlegal.netwrote: On 8/13/2012 7:36 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Not trying to be rude. All of you should be smart

Re: [libreoffice-users] Zotero Integration with LO [Proposition / Feature Request?]

2012-08-14 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 14-08-12 18:57, anne-ology wrote: Thanks for this bit of information; sounds intriguing ... where is the software located?, does it contain all the quotes from Barton's and/or Oxford's Dictionary of Quotations?, how much

Re: [libreoffice-users] convert to pdf - failing

2012-07-30 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 30-07-12 11:04, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm trying to use this command to create a pdf file from an .odt file but its failing for some reason. - libreoffice --headless --invisible --convert-to pdf test.odt - Can

Re: [libreoffice-users] VARIATION ON pdf creation issue on a single file?

2012-07-29 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 29-07-12 22:21, Lynne Stevens wrote: omega The Omega sector America's Last Line of Defense *Can you copy and paste the contents of the PDF file to a text program like office word and save it as such ( doc ) re open the doc and then copy and paste into the file (spreadsheet file)

Re: [libreoffice-users] pdf creation issue on a single file?

2012-07-28 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 28-07-12 19:34, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: Windows users can get free PDF printer drivers, like doPDF. Linux users can use other options like CUPS-PDF. What are you using to print your files to PDF with? large cut For everybody who needs to use for some reason Windows: use VMware (or

Re: [libreoffice-users] pdf creation issue on a single file?

2012-07-28 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 28-07-12 19:49, David B Teague sr wrote: On 7/28/2012 11:40 AM, Lynne Stevens wrote: I really feel sorry for windows users ROFLMAO Don't start that. I used Linux from the earliest days. (0.94 Kernel and SLS Linux). I now use W7 and there is nearly nothing I could do in Linux that I cannot

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO 3.6.0.2 - Calc: date notation

2012-07-26 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 25-07-12 20:49, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2012/7/25 anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com: I resent the US way of ISO 8601. We Dutch and other Europeans use the more logical sequence of day-month-year instead of the illogical year-month-day.(most important first, least important last: very

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO 3.6.0.2 - Calc: date notation

2012-07-25 Thread Joep L. Blom
twice/year or using AM or PM following 12: ... see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/iso8601.html for an explanation of this idea; [it's 'clear as mud' ;-) ] Thanks for your support! Joep On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Joep L. Blom jlb...@neuroweave.nl wrote: On 23

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO 3.6.0.2 - Calc: date notation

2012-07-23 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 23-07-12 21:02, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 23.07.2012 14:44, Guy Voets wrote: Hi folks, A LibO spreadsheet, made in LibO, Dutch version (no Excel or OOo past). - In LibO 3.5.5, I used to give in dates as 20-7 and they were shown as 20 Jul 12. - In LibO 3.6.0.2, if I enter 20-7,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Duplication/replacement of text attributes

2012-07-14 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 14-07-12 10:56, Andrew Brager wrote: Greetings to you all. I'm new to Libre Office. I'm wondering if there's a way to duplicate/replace attributes from one paragraph to another in so that they are formatted identically. A frequent problem for me (typically when I copy paste from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: modifying existing labels/cards

2012-05-27 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 27-05-12 04:04, NoOp wrote: On 05/25/2012 03:48 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: The Business card label templates use frames (instead of a table). If you were lucky you rememeberd to select 'syncronize' when you created it so that you can easily sync the rest of the cards/label. Anyway, to modify

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: modifying existing labels/cards

2012-05-27 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 27-05-12 19:50, NoOp wrote: On 05/27/2012 12:44 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: On 27-05-12 04:04, NoOp wrote: On 05/25/2012 03:48 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: Joep, I fully agree. I just don't have a better answer. Might be a good time to put in a bug report and see if someone has exerience

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: modifying existing labels/cards

2012-05-27 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 27-05-12 19:50, NoOp wrote: On 05/27/2012 12:44 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: On 27-05-12 04:04, NoOp wrote: On 05/25/2012 03:48 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: Joep, I fully agree. I just don't have a better answer. Might be a good time to put in a bug report and see if someone has exerience

Re: [libreoffice-users] modifying existing labels/cards

2012-05-26 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 26-05-12 05:05, Don Myers wrote: Hi Joep, The standard label formats included with LibreOffice and OpenOffice are the same type as Microsoft uses with fixed blocks. These tend to not to be accurate if the card/label is relatively full as you get toward the bottom of the page, even in

[libreoffice-users] modifying existing labels/cards

2012-05-25 Thread Joep L. Blom
I have a simple question: I have a sheet with business cards (made with the correct template, etc.) but as I have a different printer I want to adjust the dimensions as to fit them perfectly. How is that done? I can not find a modify button anywhere and page formatting is not the correct way

Re: [libreoffice-users] modifying existing labels/cards

2012-05-25 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 25-05-12 15:12, Jay Lozier wrote: Joep On 05/25/2012 06:48 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: AFAIK your business cards form should print correctly on any printer that has a large enough printing area. I have found the typical tweaks I need are to adjust the margins of the text slightly so it does

Re: [libreoffice-users] Connecting libreoffice calc to existing sqlite database file

2012-05-25 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 25-05-12 16:16, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I have been attempting to send this posting for a while, and have only recently noticed that the list does not accept attachments. This has (apparently) caused it to be silently rejected. I have appended what had been attached to the end of this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math

2012-05-24 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 24-05-12 07:50, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Doug, Le 2012-05-24 00:50, Doug a écrit : Logo! I haven't heard that word in thirty years, at least! I'm surprised it's still around. Never really got into it, but it seemed like fun, at least from a distance. I started using BASIC, and then learned and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math

2012-05-24 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 24-05-12 16:06, Tony Sumner wrote: On May 24, 2012, Jay Lozier wrote: This trip down memory lane makes one feeil old. Anyone remember teletypes with punched tape? Of course. My favourite paper tape story. At AEE, Winfrith, we did serious computing on the IBM704 at Risley in Lancashire. We

Re: [libreoffice-users] increase testing to improve quality

2012-02-27 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 27-02-12 10:37, e-letter wrote: Readers, For those people that consider high quality software to be of highest priority, more important than new features, please help to perform quality assurance manual software tests. There is a web page which describes manual testing:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find folder for templates

2012-02-16 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 17-02-12 04:06, John Jason Jordan wrote: Over many years with OOo I created 20-30 templates. I can always open a new document based on any of these templates. Today I needed to create a new template in LibreOffice 3.4.5 on Fedora 16, x86_64. This is the version from the Fedora repositories.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base - Phone book ?

2012-02-15 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 16-02-12 04:34, sharon kimble wrote: On Wednesday 15 February 2012 07:19:50 Joep L. Blom wrote: On 14-02-12 19:36, Andreas Säger wrote: That is easy. Open the Base document which connects the TB address database with this office suite. Go to the query section. Let the designer or wizard

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base - Phone book ?

2012-02-14 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 14-02-12 19:36, Andreas Säger wrote: That is easy. Open the Base document which connects the TB address database with this office suite. Go to the query section. Let the designer or wizard create a new query from the table in question. Add only the columns you need. -- View this message in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Opening thunderbird adressbook

2012-01-29 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 29-01-12 21:01, NoOp wrote: On 01/29/2012 06:41 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 29/01/2012 01:24, Joep L. Blom a écrit : Hi, OS Xubuntu 10.04; LO 3.4.5 directly installed from the LO website as Ubuntu 10.04 still has 3.3.2. Known issue with the 3.4.x series, especially on Ubuntu

[libreoffice-users] Opening thunderbird adressbook

2012-01-28 Thread Joep L. Blom
Hi, I tried to connect to my thunderbird address book. When I try to use : File - Wizards - Address Data source and I tag the button Thunderbird I get: The connection to the external database could not be established. NO SDBC driver found for the given URL. And when I click on the button more

Re: [libreoffice-users] problem installing in xubuntu

2012-01-22 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 22-01-12 09:48, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 22/01/12 02:04, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: [cut] ...and next time you might want to use dpkg -iR /DEBS from the immediately superior directory to the DEBS one. From direct experience I know it installs LO correctly with

[libreoffice-users] problem installing in xubuntu

2012-01-21 Thread Joep L. Blom
I got the version LO 3.4.5 from the official Lo site (LibO_3.4.5_Linux_x86-64_helppack-deb_nl.tar.gz). I installed it using sud dpkg -i *.DEB (after unpacking and going to the correct directory. It installed correct in /opt/libreoffice. However no links were placed in Applications/Office. The

Re: [libreoffice-users] problem installing in xubuntu

2012-01-21 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 21-01-12 16:26, drew wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 15:45 +0100, Joep L. Blom wrote: Howdy Joep, In the directory where you installed the *.DEB packages from you will also find the directory 'desktop-integration', switch into this directory and re-issue the same dpkg -i command - the menu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.

2012-01-18 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 18-01-12 00:51, Jay Lozier wrote: Sylvia, On 01/17/2012 06:20 PM, Sylvia Schmidt wrote: True two-sided printing requires a more expensive printer because the paper feed is more complex. In the US the only two-sided printers I have seen are larger office copier/printer combinations; most

[OT]Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: automatic creation of template files

2011-10-10 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 10/10/2011 07:16 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 10.10.2011 18:06, e-letter wrote: Readers, Have recently noticed that each time the computer is started, files 'newdocument.ott' and 'newspreadsheet.ott' are created in the home directory. So far, this is only noticed on a computer using

Re: [libreoffice-users] [LibraOffice-Users] - DONT use Reply to for a new thread

2011-07-04 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 04/07/11 01:23, John B wrote: Ok - I use Thunderbird and found out how to switch threads ON, since I have never used them before. Thunderbird now displays in a tree like fashion I thought - that looks good - I will leave that on Then a few new emails came in - and I had to scan to find out

[libreoffice-users] master document: removing links in Headings

2011-06-14 Thread Joep L. Blom
I have a small problem in a master document. I have written (in various stages of completion) 8 chapters of a book and use a master document to keep it orderly. Now for some reason or other chapter 1 and chapter 3 are miraculously double displayed in the master document regular view in

Re: [libreoffice-users] removing hyperlinks

2011-06-13 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 13/06/11 11:18, Stephan Zietsman wrote: Joep L. Blom wrote: I have a small problem in a master document. I have written (in various stages of completion) 8 chapters of a book and use a master document to keep it orderly. ...SNIP... I cannot delete these texts from the master document

Re: [libreoffice-users] removing hyperlinks

2011-06-12 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 12/06/11 04:17, planas wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 23:19 +0200, Joep L. Blom wrote: I have a small problem in a master document. Sorry for you problem reaching us, on Thursday or Friday all the email addresses were changed to following from destinat...@global.libreoffice.org

[libreoffice-users] removing hyperlinks

2011-06-11 Thread Joep L. Blom
I have a small problem in a master document. I have written (in various stages of completion) 8 chapters of a book and use a master document to keep it orderly. Now for some reason or other chapter 1 and chapter 3 are miraculously double displayed in the master document regular view in

Re: [libreoffice-users] OTRe: Sun Weblog Publisher broken

2011-05-30 Thread Joep L. Blom
of whoever was used. On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 12:05 +0200, Joep L. Blom wrote: On 30/05/11 08:45, Roland Hughes wrote: Neither bottom nor interleaved posting methods are used by professional IT workers. Microsoft developers yes, but not professionals. Sigh! Roland your remark is utter nonsens. Many

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-05 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 05/05/11 11:57, TomW wrote: On 2011-05-05 03:08, Dotan Cohen wrote: snip I was able to open and display the file only on office.live.com. No Linux-based software (LO, OOo, Abiword, Kword) could handle it. Here is the OOo bug, as the LO bugtracker is not working at the moment:

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-04 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 04/05/11 12:51, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 15:24, Joep L. Blomjlb...@neuroweave.nl wrote: Tom, Thanks for your quick reply. Sorry, that I didn't mention my soft- and hardware. AMD Phenom II Ubuntu Lucif (10.4) LO libreoffice-3.3.2.2. The file is not very confidential: an

[libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-02 Thread Joep L. Blom
I recently received a .docx file as an attachment. However, what I tried, LO wouldn't read it. It opened it but gave a blank page. The people who sent the file are complete computer illiterate who follow MS$ like slaves. I assume it is the latest Word or whatever MS$ uses as text application.

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-02 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 02/05/11 12:51, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) DocX normally opens easily in LO and OOo (3.3.0 and after). Which OS; Windows, Ubuntu, other linux, Bsd or Mac? Regards from Tom :) Tom, Thanks for your quick reply. Sorry, that I didn't mention my soft- and hardware. AMD Phenom II Ubuntu Lucif

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-02 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 02/05/11 15:44, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Lol, our systems are identical! So much for trying it on something different just to see if that worked! I got a docX poster to put up on a website and asked the person to please re-send as a doc so that other people could read it. Their reply asked

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-02 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 02/05/11 15:44, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Lol, our systems are identical! So much for trying it on something different just to see if that worked! I got a docX poster to put up on a website and asked the person to please re-send as a doc so that other people could read it. Their reply asked

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: import of postscript files

2011-04-10 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 10/04/11 10:00, dphurst wrote: You can use GIMP to directly import the postscript file and then export to any image format you want. GIMP, of course, would let you edit the image if you want. I use to use ghostscript as you've described to convert postscript to TIFF for publication quality

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: import of postscript files

2011-04-08 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 08/04/11 05:28, NoOp wrote: You may have already explored this, but can you use oolilypond? http://ooolilypond.sourceforge.net/ http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/OOoLilyPondhttp://www.lilypond.org/ Gary, No, I didn't. I looked at it but the big snag is that you must

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: import of postscript files

2011-04-08 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 08/04/11 10:40, Joep L. Blom wrote: On 08/04/11 05:28, NoOp wrote: You may have already explored this, but can you use oolilypond? http://ooolilypond.sourceforge.net/ http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/OOoLilyPondhttp://www.lilypond.org/ Gary, No, I didn't. I looked

[libreoffice-users] import of postscript files

2011-04-07 Thread Joep L. Blom
Hi, I'm rather new to this list (worked before with OO) and would like to know if in LO there is a better way to import postscript files than the route via ps2pdf and then import it using the pdf-import plugin. I need it very much as I have music (in scores) which the notation program can

Re: [libreoffice-users] import of postscript files

2011-04-07 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 07/04/11 12:05, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 7/04/11 8:54 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote: Hi, I'm rather new to this list (worked before with OO) and would like to know if in LO there is a better way to import postscript files than the route via ps2pdf and then import it using the pdf-import plugin. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] import of postscript files

2011-04-07 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 07/04/11 12:28, Joep L. Blom wrote: On 07/04/11 12:05, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 7/04/11 8:54 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote: Hi, I'm rather new to this list (worked before with OO) and would like to know if in LO there is a better way to import postscript files than the route via ps2pdf

Re: [libreoffice-users] import of postscript files

2011-04-07 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 07/04/11 20:05, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 7/04/11 10:36 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote: Hi Joep. One application I use to create my eps files saves them as epsi. I just rename them to eps and they import ok. I have done this a lot to import drawings from our CAD system and don't know if the epsi