Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-11-03 Thread Tom Davies
der or back-up versions! So, if you CAN reliably re-create a set of conditions where images have the "read error" then please post a bug-report! Regards from Tom :) On 3 November 2014 00:54, Steve Edmonds wrote: > Hi. > On 2014-02-27 16:43, Dale Rebgetz wrote: > >> T

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ppt, appending file error ( korean user)

2014-11-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) kk, thanks Urmas :) I didn't recognise the name so i thought it was worth giving them a fair shot. It's good to hear that posting to them might not result in getting tons of spam tough! Thanks and regards from Tom :) On 3 November 2014 04:20, Urmas wrote: > "Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-11-02 Thread Tom Davies
ll be useful to have it easier to find imo. Regards from Tom :) On 5 March 2014 11:44, Cley Faye wrote: > 2014-03-05 6:57 GMT+01:00 Thomas : > > > (2014/03/05 12:23), Cley Faye wrote: > > > >> 2014-02-28 2:16 GMT+01:00 Cley Faye : > >> > >> If any

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-11-02 Thread Tom Davies
er. Scaling reduces image's byte-size far more. Regards from Tom :) On 2 November 2014 21:56, Cley Faye wrote: > > > > The odt file is a compressed zip archive. Compressing the contained > > pictures would hardly reduce the file size. > > > That's not true.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-11-02 Thread Tom Davies
igra, Gnome Office and others can share tools without having to duplicate the tools? Also GitHub looks a lot more elegant and professional than i expected. I was expecting it to look bad but have tons of power "under the bonnet". Regards from Tom :) On 2 November 2014 22:18, Tom Davies wr

Re: [libreoffice-users] ppt, appending file error ( korean user)

2014-11-02 Thread Tom Davies
out of the html coding to make it easier to read, hopefully! Do my messages contain a lot of coding tags too? " Hello! . Libre User to open the ppt does not open an attachment in MS, torn, Makes sense to the computer down! Is there any plan will solve? Okay, thank you! " Regards from Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] Gliffy- and Tango-inspired palette - https://github.com/sentientmeatnet/glyphic-tang

2014-11-02 Thread Tom Davies
bsite or to the SourceForge page for the NA DVD Project (North American DVD Project). Regards from Tom :) On 2 November 2014 01:57, DC Elzinga wrote: > Hi, I spent a couple days obsessing and built an alternative palette to > the default color palette in LibreOffice Writer and Draw. > > I u

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Estimating size of page with Calc

2014-11-02 Thread Tom Davies
even happen anyway. It sounds well worth experimenting with as it could make things even easier. Regards from Tom :) On 2 November 2014 20:46, Marc Paré wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Le 2014-11-02 15:27, Andreas Säger a écrit : > >> Am 02.11.2014 um 15:51 schrieb Marc Paré: >>

[Solved] Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] LO Calc question...

2014-11-01 Thread Tom Davies
e other hand Andrew seems happy to do what most of us do and just move the chart so this thread is really closed now isn't it? ;) Regards from Tom :) On 1 November 2014 12:04, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Thanks for that - I'll just move the chart! > > On 31 October 2014 21:16, Mark

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tab defaults change when pasting into Writer from some other applications

2014-11-01 Thread Tom Davies
hings that almost all of them do. Regards from Tom :) On 1 November 2014 13:33, anne-ology wrote: >I agree with your method ... & congratulate you on obviously being a > bright teacher. > >Now ... >I'm curiously wondering how using 'style

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Recommended version of Java?

2014-11-01 Thread Tom Davies
de of this mailing list was abysmal. Regards from Tom :) On 1 November 2014 09:07, Alex Thurgood wrote: > Le 31/10/2014 21:12, Andreas Säger a écrit : > > > Huh? Really? Which issue number was that? I can't believe that any LO > > version had been released with such

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Tab defaults change when pasting into Writer from some other applications

2014-10-31 Thread Tom Davies
erent documents. It was quite amazing that there were so many different ways, and interesting to see how those suited different circumstances. Regards from Tom :) On 31 October 2014 16:02, Andreas Säger wrote: > Hi, > > Follow Dan's advice. Pasting unformatted text only

Re: [libreoffice-users] Macro to abandon edits

2014-10-31 Thread Tom Davies
so i'm just wondering. I tend to stay as far away from the command-line as possible but occasionally find myself doing odd things there. Regards from Tom :) On 31 October 2014 14:05, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: > You might have to run a logout script from some type of ".rc" fi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Recommended version of Java?

2014-10-30 Thread Tom Davies
is an "openJDK" project. It's also owned by Oracle but has had quite a big community to iron-out some of the problems that mainstream Java has Regards from Tom :) On 30 October 2014 15:11, Tanstaafl wrote: > I really hate it when people try to tell me something 'for my

Re: [libreoffice-users] request

2014-10-30 Thread Tom Davies
and 1 back-up person ready to step-in to take over such things and a steady turn-over of people. Sadly it rarely works that way. So it might be possible for you to join the marketing team and get involved in taking on that task. Regards from Tom :) On 30 October 2014 11:15, Tomáš Matýs wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Recommended version of Java?

2014-10-30 Thread Tom Davies
ebird It might be possible to use; Tools - Options - Advanced to switch off java. Hopefully no data-loss occurs and it just grumbles when something does need Java. If you do get such an error message then it should be reasonably easy to switch java back on and re-try the task. Good luck! R

Re: [libreoffice-users] «Escape from Wicrosoft Word»

2014-10-27 Thread Tom Davies
he overwhelming majority of people to understand instead of getting bogged down in the usual sort of things that articles go on about. Regards from Tom :) On 27 October 2014 10:34, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > If > Weltanschauung = world view, ideology, philosophy of life > then >

Re: [libreoffice-users] «Escape from Wicrosoft Word»

2014-10-27 Thread Tom Davies
f he finds that as easy as Wordperfect for writing using direct formatting - and then easy to apply consistent styles to the whole thing later on. Regards from Tom :) On 27 October 2014 07:30, M Henri Day wrote: > ​I take the liberty of forwarding the URL of an article, entitled *Escape &

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with Conditional Macro Please

2014-10-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think you can add extra characters in speech-marks can't you? Something like; =CONCATENATE(C2," ",D2," ",TEXT(E2,"dd/mm/yy")," ",TEXT(F2,"dd/mm/yy)) Regards from Tom :) On 26 October 2014 19:44, Budgie wrote: > On 26/10/14 18:3

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about upcoming 4.3.3 release

2014-10-25 Thread Tom Williams
On 10/25/2014 09:50 AM, Sophie wrote: > Hi Tom, all, > Le 25/10/2014 18:28, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : >> Hello Tom, >> >> Le Sat, 25 Oct 2014 08:59:35 -0700, >> Tom Williams a écrit : >> >>> Hi! I was looking at the "fixed bugs" secti

[libreoffice-users] Question about upcoming 4.3.3 release

2014-10-25 Thread Tom Williams
hen I look at bug #66701, it's still in "New" status and is targeted for release 4.4.0. Who can I notify to see about getting the release notes corrected? Thanks! Peace... "The Other" Tom -- /When we dance, you have a way with me, Stay with me... Sway with me.../

Re: [libreoffice-users] Another spreadsheet destroyed.

2014-10-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, have you tried creating a new file / work-book and copy&paste the coding from there in the old one into the new one? Regards from Tom :) On 24 October 2014 21:26, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > 2014-10-24 11:57 GMT+02:00 James E Lang : > > > Pardon my ignorance. What do y

Re: [libreoffice-users] Emailing documents...

2014-10-23 Thread Tom Davies
read maybe try our Nabble interface. Alternatively just copy&paste the most helpful answer into the thread that didn't quite get there in time. Regards from Tom :) On 23 October 2014 10:02, Sigrid Carrera wrote: > Hi, > > > On 23 October 2014 06:12, David Love wrote: >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Emailing documents...

2014-10-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Does Chapter 10 in the "Getting Started" guide help at all? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Hopefully someone else can give a more tailored answer or maybe just ask the right questions in order to incover the answer. Good luck and regards from Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] Connectors in draw.

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Davies
Most people seem to default to Thunderbird but the choice is yours and you can change your mind and use something else later, or on a different machine. Regards from Tom :) On 22 October 2014 18:48, Sophie wrote: > Hi Sreeraj > Le 22/10/2014 19:42, sreeraj c a écrit : > > Hi, How can I b

Re: [libreoffice-users] Another spreadsheet destroyed.

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Davies
orth posting a bug-report but you'd probably need an example spreadsheet showing how it goes wrong. Also it's a fairly rare use-case, to expect a spreadsheet to last so long without major revamps. Congrats on keeping it going! Regards from Tom :) On 22 October 2014 20:00, Johnny Rosenber

Re: [libreoffice-users] 10 ways to help users move from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice - TechRepublic

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Davies
onal versions) and LibreOffice for everything else. Regards from Tom :) On 21 October 2014 20:12, James Knott wrote: > This could be useful to users of both LibreOffice and OpenOffice. > > > http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-ways-to-help-users-move-from-microsoft-office-to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Missing feature at LibreOffice Writer.

2014-10-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, i only noticed that the usual icons vanished from the icon-tool-bar. I haven't tried Regina's suggestions yet but i'm fairly sure they will work. Regards from Tom :) On 20 October 2014 18:58, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Rafael, > > Rafael Senties Martin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Missing feature at LibreOffice Writer.

2014-10-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It seems to be missing in LO 3.5.7 on Ubuntu 12.04 too. Regards from Tom :) On 20 October 2014 17:22, Rafael Senties Martinelli wrote: > > Hi, > I'm writing this because there is a *missing feature on LibreOffice Writer > (4.3.2.2) *. I wanted to post online on ask.libreo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fatal error when exporting a dialogue.

2014-10-20 Thread Tom Davies
. It might be easier to understand their answers where the devs answers might need a bit of translating into normal English. ;) Regards from Tom :) On 19 October 2014 12:12, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > I tried this with the same file in both Apache OpenOffice Calc and > LibreOffice Cal

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: [libreoffice-users] MySQL/MariaDB Native Linux connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (32 and 64 bit)

2014-10-19 Thread Tom Davies
iving the connector! Regards from Tom :) On 19 October 2014 01:32, shelagh.man...@gmail.com wrote: > Ok, > > so I have mariabdb installed which is meant to work like a drop in > replacement for mysql. In other stuff I have done, there has been no > problem using mariadb instead of m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: MySQL/MariaDB Native Linux connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (32 and 64 bit)

2014-10-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think this sort of feedback is (hopefully) useful, even if it's not what we had hoped for. Hopefully someone might be able to help with the problems unless it's a problem with the connector. Regards from Tom :) On 18 October 2014 23:05, Stefan Gruber wrote: > Stefan Grub

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Calc] image in spreadsheet not the correct size once printed

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Davies
hole thing a bit or kinda crop the edges a bit. Regards from Tom :) On 17 October 2014 09:09, Rafnews wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on an invoice template with 2 images included. > both images are 6cm x 2,3cm but once printed images are around 5 cm length > only. > > w

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, nice bit of comedy there! Thanks for making me laugh :) Regards from Tom :) On 17 October 2014 04:20, Urmas wrote: > "Tom Davies": > > Of course Star Office is still floating around somewhere but it doesn't >> bear much resemblance to LibreOffice or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Davies
ms because similar processes have happened since the first cell division occurred. But with computers, as with biology, we have a concept that is outside of normal experience and one that is difficult to explain. Lets call a spade a spade. If it's not a spade than don't call it one [shrugs]

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Davies
me of them) That's the 'new' one right? Someone sent me and my boss a new image to use as a wallpaper. He started using it first. Then i used it. Then he deleted his and started using something else. So my wallpaper is the 'new' one right? Regards from Tom :) On 17 Oct

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: MySQL/MariaDB Native Linux connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (32 and 64 bit)

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Davies
positively! Many thanks all!! :))) Regards from Tom :) On 17 October 2014 12:44, Dan Lewis wrote: > On 10/17/2014 03:00 AM, Stefan Gruber wrote: > >> Dan Lewis schrieb: >> >>> Do you use the opensuse repositories for LibreOffice >>> >> Yes, op

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

2014-10-16 Thread Tom Davies
he files should open and be very usable. Regards from Tom :) On 16 October 2014 18:17, anne-ology wrote: >and then there's ... > > The Road Not Taken > by Robert Frost (1874–1963) > > TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, > And sorry I could not travel both > An

Re: [libreoffice-users] parallel text in side by side pages

2014-10-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 That seems the most sensible. Regards from Tom :) On 15 October 2014 20:59, Kevin O'Brien wrote: > I think using Frames that are linked would do what Marc wants. > > Regards, > > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) &

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

2014-10-16 Thread Tom Davies
enOffice.org it took away sooo much that OpenOffice.org was barely recognisable as the entity it once was. It was only the name staying the same that kept it afloat, that and the amazing hard-work of the few remaining people. Regards from Tom :) On 16 October 2014 03:42, Bruce Byfield wrote: > O

Re: [libreoffice-users] MySQL/MariaDB Native Linux connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (32 and 64 bit)

2014-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Has anyone been able to test this out yet? Is it possible to test-drive these connectors without breaking an existing database? Errr, i'm not going to be able to test them myself so i was just mildly curious. Regards from Tom :) On 11 October 2014 16:49, Dan Lewis wrote: >

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

2014-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
rapper. Regards from Tom :) On 15 October 2014 20:23, Bruce Byfield wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2014 02:46:50 PM Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster > wrote: > > On 10/15/2014 01:05 PM, Stefan Weigel wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Am 15.10.2014 um 02:45 schrieb Br

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

2014-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) A big +1 to that!! Regards from Tom :) On 15 October 2014 18:05, Stefan Weigel wrote: > Hi, > > Am 15.10.2014 um 02:45 schrieb Bruce Byfield: > > > For example, LibreOffice is a fork > > of OpenOffice.org. > > Not exactly. > > https://twitter.com/web

Re: [libreoffice-users] SQLite on OS X

2014-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You might need a newer "connector". I'm not sure how to get one. It might be that you'll need to compile one yourself but again i have no idea how to do that either. Apols and regards from Tom :) On 15 October 2014 16:42, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I fo

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

2014-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
devs moved from MySql to MariaDb and the others mostly left. Oracle had to re-staff. Most of the community also moved. So really what was left behind didn't bear much resemblance to MySql at all. Most of what people think of as MySql had really just had a name-change. Regards from Tom :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] parallel text in side by side pages

2014-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Actually i kinda like the idea of using Calc as Joe Conner suggested. My idea was to use Draw or Writer. Regards from Tom :) On 15 October 2014 16:24, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I think text-boxes linked together might do the trick. Text boxes on > odd-numbered pages or to

Re: [libreoffice-users] parallel text in side by side pages

2014-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
gured this out for myself and only have a very minor quarterly case where it might be useful. Regards from Tom :) On 15 October 2014 16:23, Joe Conner wrote: > Have you considered using Calc for this, you can adjust the formatting to > have text roll into a new line automatically. Then y

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: tutorials of how to use it for creating Multiple Choice questions

2014-10-14 Thread Tom Davies
ood too; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq Also there was somewhere we were trying to write a "tip/hint of the day" but i lost the link for that. Regards from Tom :) On 14 October 2014 20:15, Kevin O'Brien wrote: > I am not clear on exactly what you are looking for. If it is a prin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer 4.6.2.3 Failure With Word Document

2014-10-14 Thread Tom Davies
ack on the same way. Another possibility is the memory settings Tools - Options - Memory and just ramp everything up quite a lot. Maybe not the number of steps you can take back but the amount of ram per object and the total ram allowed for the whole document seem like good ones to increase! Regard

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: date acceptance patterns not sticking

2014-10-14 Thread Tom Davies
arted Guide" is about styles. Regards from Tom :) On 14 October 2014 21:50, Jim Byrnes wrote: > On 10/14/2014 03:20 PM, bunk3m wrote: > >> Libreoffice is driving me nuts. >> >> I am in Canada. UI is set to English US; Locale settings to English >> Canada an

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

2014-10-14 Thread Tom Davies
It'd be easier to get a list of those programs & office-suites. Regards from Tom :) On 14 October 2014 22:36, Bruce Byfield wrote: > Can anyone point me to a list of LibreOffice and OOo forks? > > Thanks, > -- > Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem importing xls files

2014-10-14 Thread Tom Davies
ual! Just hope the ods files help Regards from Tom :) On 14 October 2014 20:45, "Leonardo M. Ramé" wrote: > El 14/10/14 a las 16:41, Tom Davies escibió: > >> Hi :) >> Weird! Both open fine in LibreOffice 3.5.7 on Ubuntu 12.04 (at least i >> think

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem importing xls files

2014-10-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Weird! Both open fine in LibreOffice 3.5.7 on Ubuntu 12.04 (at least i think i'm on 12.04, might be 14.04 but that's doubtful) Errr, anyone able to open on Windows? Regards from Tom :) On 14 October 2014 20:23, "Leonardo M. Ramé" wrote: > El 14/10/14 a las 1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: How to clear fields off data in template?

2014-10-14 Thread Tom Davies
know. Good luck and regards from Tom :) On 13 October 2014 16:03, Annette wrote: > Dear libreofficials, > > first of all thank you for that wonderful program! > > My question concerns fields for serial printing. Accidently I managed > to save an .ott file with a data-record writt

Re: [libreoffice-users] profiles

2014-10-14 Thread Tom Davies
files = that a new install picks up all your configurations and settings. So, i don't know what has gone wrong. It might be worth exploring the path to your user-profile to see if you have somehow been given a new one. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile Regards from Tom :) On

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
maybe getting involved with helping fix it. I don't see what other choice they have. Regards from Tom :) On 10 October 2014 22:42, Cor Nouws wrote: > Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 10-10-14 23:38: > > > > At no point in time do we recommend the use of this repository. > &g

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-10 Thread Tom Davies
does inevitably point them in the right direction. It's also possible to find out from the archives or by searching the site. Regards from Tom :) On 10 October 2014 18:36, alphacrash wrote: > > > > Please can we move on... Charles S. (aka Tanstaafl) was given > > instructio

[libreoffice-users] Re: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB 5.5.40 now available

2014-10-10 Thread Tom Davies
ros. I know it's in Slackware but haven't confirmed for the others yet. So web-hosting companies might already be using MariaDb and just calling it MySql in their marketing. Regards from Tom :) On 9 October 2014 20:03, MariaDB Announce List wrote: > The MariaDB project is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Path to python macros in LO 4.2.6.3[SOLVED]

2014-10-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Phew!! Nicely found! Congrats on finding and fixing that. I wonder where the Paths option has gone then? It's probably mentioned in the release notes and documentation somewhere. Is there an "Advanced" section or option? I guess i'll check it out later. Good luck

[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open .accdb in--or convert to--.odb in LibreOffice Base?

2014-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
it was the "everyone else" that really earned it. :) I just did a typical rant and then bits&bobs about work-flow Anyway, congrats and regards from Tom :) On 8 October 2014 20:50, m. nease wrote: > Thanks Tom (and everyone), > > I'll keep that in mind for future replies.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open .accdb in--or convert to--.odb in LibreOffice Base?

2014-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You can include comments to various different people in a single email. I like the DistroWatch method of saying something to the whole mailing-list in general and then various paragraphs such as @ Tom, Alex, Werner, Peter, Janoslaw, Dan, etc. Thanks! :) @ Dan. ... @ Peter. Not had

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open .accdb in--or convert to--.odb in LibreOffice Base?

2014-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
ere is some documentation at; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Base_Handbook and on the Faq https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq Also it might well be worth poking around on the Apache OpenOffice forums because they have to deal with the same issue t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open .accdb in--or convert to--.odb in LibreOffice Base?

2014-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
owever people have been able to migrate their databases out of Access and into Base. Regards from Tom :) On 8 October 2014 10:48, Alex Thurgood wrote: > Le 07/10/2014 20:46, m. nease a écrit : > > > > > I'd like to do some work on Access databases (.accdb files) but haven&#

Re: [libreoffice-users] Path to python macros in LO 4.2.6.3

2014-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Something like Tools - Options - Paths is probably too obvious but it's often the obvious things that get missed so it's worth getting that out of the way before looking for something more complicated. Regards from Tom :) On 8 October 2014 02:44, Jim Byrnes wrote: >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ver. 4.2.6-secfix

2014-10-07 Thread Tom Davies
ation.org/UserProfile Regards from Tom :) On 7 October 2014 12:10, edo1 wrote: > Thanks to Luuk and Foote for the pointers, I've got everything I need now > to update. Should I update from ver 4.2.5 to ver 4.2.6.3 first, or can I > update directly to the secfix? I'm inclin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-10-06 Thread Tom Davies
e, in much the way you describe. When i go to the download page it tries to give me "xx_Linux_deb_xx" when i ask it to give me the Windows version the name changes to "xx_Win_xx". So it's a good idea and one that is already done. Regards from Tom :) On 6 October 2014

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with conditions in fields

2014-10-04 Thread Tom Davies
uot;. The more obvious choices are chapters 14 and 15 about Fields and Forms. Apols and regards from Tom :) On 4 October 2014 20:35, Karl Hans Käse-Kaßbaum wrote: > Hello, > I am having problems with conditions in fields, which I already desribed > by the bug report #84290. > In short

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-03 Thread Tom Davies
users! Regards from Tom :) On 3 October 2014 17:35, Florian Reisinger wrote: > Hi, > > So beside of what was written I want to explain something. I do not know > if I say it marketing-wise... But still... > > Q: Why do not get bugs fixed at the moment they are reported? > A:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-03 Thread Tom Davies
o get stumped by the slightest issue. Many of us wait until much later in the cycle but tbh even the beta-releases are stable. It's a good idea to test-drive releases, in your own daily work, from as early as possible so that you can see if anything obvious is broken. Regards from Tom :) On 3 Oc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-03 Thread Tom Davies
as Thunderbird is then it'd cut a lot of detractors off at the knees. Sorry! I do agree with your main points! Regards from Tom :) On 3 October 2014 13:16, Tanstaafl wrote: > Fair enough. I guess that belief was a remnant from the Sun/Openoffice > days. > > My apologies

Re: [libreoffice-users] fixing as a service ...

2014-10-03 Thread Tom Davies
me Michael unfortunately hit a nerve that's been rubbed raw by other people. Regards form Tom :) On 3 October 2014 13:20, Tanstaafl wrote: > Tom, > > I didn't read Michael's email in any way shape or form the way you did. > > I thought it was very on point and productive

Re: [libreoffice-users] fixing as a service ...

2014-10-03 Thread Tom Davies
m do since then is to try to defend himself and attemtp to explain his situation to a hostile audience. A couple of us have attempted to stand by him but either been ignored or also attacked. Any chance of answering Paul's last post? Regards from Tom :) On 3 October 2014 13:08, Micha

[libreoffice-users] Many apologies to the devs generally and the individual one in question

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
Without their amazing work we wouldn't be here, arguing about relatively tiny issues. Great job all!! :))) Many regards from Tom :) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting gui

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Base Database] How to open a particular form at startup ?

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is this something to do with somehow saving the Form outside of the database so that people can just double-click on the Form itself without opening the database or am i barking up the wrong tree? Regards from Tom :) On 2 October 2014 21:00, Rafnews wrote: > Hi, > > i have a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
that they might actually listen. Regards from Tom :) On 2 October 2014 16:16, Sophie wrote: > Le 02/10/2014 17:04, Tom Davies a écrit : > > Hi :) > > I don't think that bullying users is particularly clever or productive. > > > > Lets take a completely different s

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
users. Regard from Tom :) On 2 October 2014 16:22, Charles-H. Schulz < charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Le 02.10.2014 17:04, Tom Davies a écrit : > >> Hi :) >> I don't think that bullying users is particularly clever or productive. >> > > bul

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
asily missed in some cases. Regards from Tom :) On 2 October 2014 13:58, Werner wrote: > On 10/2/2014 14:28, Tanstaafl wrote: > > ... > >> Suggesting that users should have to pay large sums of money to fix >> major REGRESSIVE bugs is tantamount to EXTORTION. >> >

Re: [libreoffice-users] MySQL native connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (Linux versions)

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh right :) same reason i'm still on 3.5.7 on some machines then :) Regards from Tom :) On 2 October 2014 13:17, Harvey Nimmo wrote: > The current OpenSuse 13.1 distro version of LibreOffice is still 4.1. So > I continue to use it for consistency with Opensuse 13.1. >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
work. The person takes the opener back to the shop and gets told that they should have paid a few thousand on the research&development of the new one and that it's the users fault for the can-opener being broken. Ridiculous right? Regards form Tom :) On 2 October 2014 15:39, Sophie w

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Question about table icon

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I guess my answer boils down to No but i really like this feature! :)) Regards from Tom :) On 2 October 2014 12:52, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > Le 02/10/2014 10:54, Sophie a écrit : > > Hi Sophie, > > > Small question to new users, who is aware of the table icon beh

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Post Building MySQL connectors for 32 and 64 bit versions for LibreOffice 4.3 in Linux

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, nice work Dan!! Both links work this time :)) Thanks and regards from Tom :) On 2 October 2014 12:51, Dan Lewis wrote: > > > > Forwarded Message > Subject:Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Post Building MySQL connectors for 32 > and 64 bit versions f

Re: [libreoffice-users] MySQL native connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (Linux versions)

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
you'll not be as unlucky as Tasnstaafl as that's pretty rare. Regards from Tom :) On 2 October 2014 12:46, Harvey Nimmo wrote: > aha...so what do I learn from this? => I should read the title of the > thread and check my own installation before taking action and/or > replyi

Re: [libreoffice-users] MySQL native connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (Linux versions)

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Aaargh, Nabble seems to be playing up and won't let me click on that new link that Dan gave. Nabble hasn't gone wrong before afaik so it was a bit unexpected. Hopefully Dan might fix the problem when time-zones allow. Apols and regards from Tom :) On 2 October 2014 08:13, Ha

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
when a patch was released and again when the patch got into a main-branch. Regards from Tom :) On 2 October 2014 09:34, Charles-H. Schulz < charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Le 01.10.2014 22:21, Tanstaafl a écrit : > >> On 10/1/2014 12:54 PM, Florian Reisinger

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Form and JRE

2014-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
al loss of tooo much data. Thanks and regards from Tom :) On 2 October 2014 11:08, Dave Barton wrote: > Rafnews wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i want to use Base database for first time and i got the following > > error: "no java installation was found"

[libreoffice-users] Impress: Example presentations showing off our feature set?

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
s and regards from Tom :) On 30 September 2014 23:36, Robinson Tryon wrote: > Hiya, > > I'm giving a talk on Thursday, and just got an invitation to *also* > give a mini-presentation showing off some of the neat features we have > available in Impress. > > Does anyone

[libreoffice-users] Base Forms - and subforms

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
n.org/Documentation/Publications Regards from Tom :) On 29 September 2014 18:09, Peter Goggin <*hidden*> wrote: > On 30/09/14 01:11, Mark Stanton wrote: > >> Have you checked the contacts table directly? I wouldn't mind betting >> that you *have* been able to add contacts,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
could say that x.x.2 is our Sp1 and x.x.4 is Sp2. It is not quite the same thing and the models are different but it would give people something more familiar that they could understand more easily Regards from Tom :) On 1 October 2014 15:01, Cor Nouws wrote: > It&#

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to handle regressions

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
a lot of respect from your boss and maybe from the other workers too. Regards from Tom :) On 1 October 2014 13:04, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi Werner, > > This regression has already been discussed here, with essentially the > same result (fix it yourself, pay someone else to fix

Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempt merging spreadsheet data between two files leads to blank screen in libre office? Help please?

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
modern machines the amount of Ram tends to be wy more than is anticipated in the default settings. Regards from Tom :) On 1 October 2014 17:46, Brian Barker wrote: > At 09:20 01/10/2014 -0700, Nobody Noname wrote: > >> Spreadsheet being used as a database. Simply of name, ... >&g

Re: [libreoffice-users] Creating Envelope Forms

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) yw :) I hope something useful is in there. I'm fairly sure it is but haven't checked for certain. There is also an Faq in the wiki but it's the guides that are most likely to help; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq Regards from Tom :) On 1 October 2014 15:38,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, we should re-educate the entire world before trying to get LibreOffice "out there"! It'd be better than trying to doing something that makes immediate sense to everyone intuitively! Regards from Tom :) On 1 October 2014 16:02, Cor Nouws wrote: > Tom Davies wrote

Re: [libreoffice-users] Creating Envelope Forms

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
need; http://templates.libreoffice.org/ or on the OpenOffice templates site but it might be easier to just try to re-do them yourself to a) learn about how to do templates and b) to save time from distractions while searching around On the other hand it can't hurt to have a quick look! ;) Regards from Tom :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
ggs" and change "Fresh" to "Omelette". Both have advantages. trying to say that "Omelette" is really unbroken eggs seems daft to me. Anyone else lost yet? Regards from Tom :) On 1 October 2014 14:16, V Stuart Foote wrote: > @Charles, *, > > Tan

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to handle regressions

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
even just months you have positioned the company to be ahead of the competition AND saved it x (and delayed on spending x again). Regard from Tom :) On 1 October 2014 14:03, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I think probably the best way to handle it is to arrange a meeting with > your bo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: problems with the spell checker

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
gards from Tom :) On 1 October 2014 11:37, Uwe Brauer wrote: > >> "Tim" == Tim Lloyd writes: > >> Hi, >> This list does not accept attachments. However, if you nip over to > the nabble interface: > >> Http://nabble.documentfoundatio

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
x is just to go back to "Still" and then magically everything works just fine for them again. Regards from Tom :) On 1 October 2014 03:01, alphacrash wrote: > Hi, > > Paul-6 wrote > > So far I have heard a lot of defense of the current terminology, butmost > > of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: panel in open and save as dialogues

2014-09-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks! That might be useful so i'll try to have a look tomorrow. I also like the sort-of-bookmarks idea someone mentioned in another post. Regards from Tom :) On 30 September 2014 22:30, Steve Edmonds wrote: > I just noticed in my dolphin at top right settings I can show t

Re: [libreoffice-users] NA-DVD 4.3.2 ISO file is now online

2014-09-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Congrats and many thanks Tim! :)) Great work there and really interesting to see some of the stats there. Many, many thanks and regards from Tom :) On 30 September 2014 11:04, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster < webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote: > > I would like to annou

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-09-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think i didn't state it clearly enough and something got lost in translation Errr, the single installer installs both "Still" and "Fresh" at the same time as each other? One installer gets both versions at the same time? Regards from Tom :) On 30 September

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