[libreoffice-users] Re: How to abbreviate the first name of the author?

2011-07-18 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 12.07.2011, 10:48 Uhr, schrieb Dietrich Bollmann : Hi, for a paper I have to only render the Initials of the first name in the list of references: At the place of: Anderson, David I have to use:Anderson, D. The only practical way I've found is changing the database. If you do

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Feature request: native BibTeX support

2011-07-12 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 12.07.2011, 01:17 Uhr, schrieb planas : An alternative is to use Base. I have been thinking on these lines so I will look into it more. I am using base for my literature database, but it has serious drawbacks. You can use the built-in LO literature database (which isn't portable), or you

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Has anyone used RapidShare for sharing ISO files?

2011-07-12 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 10.07.2011, 15:49 Uhr, schrieb webmaster for Kracked Press Productions : On 07/09/2011 07:12 PM, Zak McKracken wrote: Am 09.07.2011, 20:40 Uhr, schrieb webmaster for Kracked Press Productions :> My hosting company will not allow files larger than 700+ MB and the two DVD versions [3.

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HELP AND ADVICE

2011-07-09 Thread Zak McKracken
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 12:47 +0100, Robert Richards wrote: HELLO I downloaded your OFFICE PROGRAMME, but the write page is very small and have to have it on 40 or 44 font to use it even so and the page is too small it needs some done about , so i am going to try it on my laptop later

[libreoffice-users] Re: Has anyone used RapidShare for sharing ISO files?

2011-07-09 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 09.07.2011, 20:40 Uhr, schrieb webmaster for Kracked Press Productions :> My hosting company will not allow files larger than 700+ MB and the two DVD versions [3.3.3 and 3.4.1] of LibreOffice are over 3.4 GB in size. The account has not issues of having 100 GB of executable files online

[libreoffice-users] Re: Image problems

2011-07-09 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 07.07.2011, 21:19 Uhr, schrieb Twayne : [...] In case I didn't make it clear, the runaway scrolling occurred when I was moving the pages via the scrollbar so I could watch the page numbers easier. But I could make the same thing happen by scrolling wtih the mouse wheel. Ah, OK. No, I don'

[libreoffice-users] Re: file recovery

2011-07-09 Thread Zak McKracken
Reopening Writer, I followed instructions on a recovery Wizard. An error message flashed on and then a document appeared, but a very old version of the document. Does not sound logic to me... To me, it sounds strangely familiar :( it has happened several times that I edited a (writer or impre

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

2011-07-06 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 03.07.2011, 23:26 Uhr, schrieb Tom Davies : Hi :) Sorry, i didn't notice this because i don't use Nabble or Gmane for the emailing list. I just use my normal email-client and i imagine most new users do too. On that note -- isn't it really uncomfortable to have a threaded discussion vi

[libreoffice-users] Re: Image problems

2011-07-04 Thread Zak McKracken
Oh, boy, sad story! LO (and OO before that, too) have troubles if you go over a certain image density (i.e. the ratio of images to text becomes too low). That will make positioning very difficult. I have alo noticed that sometimes the positioning of images does not seem to work as advertise

[libreoffice-users] Re: Aack! Uninstall removes file types!

2011-07-02 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 01.07.2011, 14:06 Uhr, schrieb Andreas Säger : Hi, If this is a real problem, you must never install more than one program for the same type of file. I think you misunderstood the problem here. My windows at least has a list of applications that are, for example able to handle pngs. Im

[libreoffice-users] Re: prevent line breaks between parentheses and formula object

2011-07-02 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 01.07.2011, 15:17 Uhr, schrieb Brian Barker : An obvious workaround may be to include any such parentheses in the formula itself. Not quite, I'm afraid. Because in the parentheses, I have some regular text behind the formula, and a non-closed parenthesis in a formula object messes it u

[libreoffice-users] Re: prevent linebreaks between parentheses and formula object

2011-07-02 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 01.07.2011, 10:18 Uhr, schrieb Karl-Heinz Bellgardt : This already had been a point of discussion in the OOo mailing list some time ago. I am not sure whether it ended up in a bug report. I thought so too, but could not find it. I'm reading this via news reader, and a search did not giv

[libreoffice-users] prevent linebreaks between parentheses and formula object

2011-07-01 Thread Zak McKracken
Hey there, Within a text in writer, there's a formula (also in text mode) inside parentheses. The formula is properly treated like a character in all aspects, except: Writer will insert a line break between the formula and the opening parenthesis as if that's were the line would usually wr

[libreoffice-users] Re: Impress - How to disable the auto-resize features?

2011-06-20 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 20.06.2011, 02:15 Uhr, schrieb Thomas Jung : Hello, how can I disable all this automatic "rescaling" features in Impress? Right-click on the frame, then "position and size" (German: Position und Größe), then in the "Position and Size" tab uncheck the "fit height to text" checkbox ("H

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't post through gmane

2011-06-20 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 11.06.2011, 16:55 Uhr, schrieb Larry Gusaas : Posting through gmane is broken. Messages sent can't be delivered since the change to @global.libreoffice.org had the same problem, only without any error messages. Should be fixed now, though, if you can read this :) Zak -- Unsubscribe ins

[libreoffice-users] Re: Feature request - Lotus Wordpro tabs

2011-06-19 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 17.06.2011, 16:20 Uhr, schrieb Roland Hughes : If you visit the bug report site, you will see I have filed several bugs on this issue. They cannot implement WordPro tabs until they implement WordPro windows for documents. Right now they have taken the brain dead Microsoft approach of havi

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-19 Thread Zak McKracken
So what is the decision on the svg embedding? For me at lest SVG support is even more important than EPS support. Todd Hi :) I don't think there is a definite final answer yet. It seems that Svg work is scheduled for Googles' Summer of Code (GSoC). The GSoC work is SVG export (not a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-10 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 09.06.2011, 15:15 Uhr, schrieb Tom Davies : Have bug-reports been posted? I think the issues are quite important to get fixed. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport It's better to avoid the 3.4.0 at the moment unless you like bug-testing. I'll gladly do bug-testing on the proper S

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-08 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 08.06.2011, 23:07 Uhr, schrieb Steve Edmonds : OO and LO print EPS correctly for me to non-eps printers (my epson C87), printing the vector graphics cleanly. Mac and Linux, both use CUPS as the print engine. Are you printing from Linux, what printer driver are you using. steve Very

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-08 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 08.06.2011, 22:41 Uhr, schrieb Tom Davies : Hi :) In OpenOffice and LibreOffice the Export to Pdf option allows you to choose "lossless" compression or change the percentage of jpg compression. Yes, but that applies only to raster graphics, not to vector formats. With EPS images, only

[libreoffice-users] Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-08 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 08.06.2011, 19:38 Uhr, schrieb NoOp : On 06/06/2011 04:53 PM, Zak McKracken wrote: Hi everyone, I just realized that OpenOffice 3.4 finally has one of my most wished-for features, which is the embedding of SVG images. As images, including all the really cool features that SVG supports

[libreoffice-users] 2005, not 2003

2011-06-07 Thread Zak McKracken
Small error: The SVG embedding isue has been open since May 2005, not 2003. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette Lis

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-07 Thread Zak McKracken
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Arrows_bend.svg So if I understand you correctly, the blurred shadow is correctly imported in OOo. And here, LibreOffice 3.3.2 OOO330m19 (Build:202) tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2 I get an unblurred arrow as the shadow. Yes, that's it. I t

[libreoffice-users] Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-07 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 07.06.2011, 11:23 Uhr, schrieb Tom Davies : Hi :) I thought Svg was in the 3.3.0 release and has been improved on in subsequent releases? Zak, have you had problems using Svg in LibreOffice? As described further above, these are two different features we're talking about. Just try and

[libreoffice-users] Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-07 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 07.06.2011, 10:32 Uhr, schrieb plino : Actually I am almost sure LibreOffice added that feature first http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/ This is not the feature I was talking about, although it does sound similar. The difference is discussed at length in the OOo

[libreoffice-users] SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-07 Thread Zak McKracken
Hi everyone, I just realized that OpenOffice 3.4 finally has one of my most wished-for features, which is the embedding of SVG images. As images, including all the really cool features that SVG supports. I tried it, and it works fine. now ... is that going to find its way into LibreOffice, t

[libreoffice-users] preventing line breaks

2011-04-01 Thread Zak McKracken
Hi there, I am using formula objects in my text if I'm referring to variables used in "real" formulae. No problem so far, they are embeddd "as characters", so that's fine. With one exeption: If I have a bracketed clause, and the first (or the last) thing in the brackets happens to be a form

[libreoffice-users] Re: Font names

2011-03-21 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 07.03.2011, 13:50 Uhr, schrieb webmaster for Kracked Press Productions : Zak What I know about fonts and the way it SHOULD be displayed in a menu is this: Every font file name should be listed in the "window" showing the font name. If you have Frutiger 45 Light and Frutiger 55 Roman a

[libreoffice-users] Font names

2011-03-06 Thread Zak McKracken
Hi everyone, I'm using a font with more than two "fatness" degrees, namely "light", "roman" and "bold". More precisely: Frutiger. For each of these modes, there's a normal and an italic variant, giving six varieties, instead of the usual four (normal, italic, bold, bold italic) Now in ea

[libreoffice-users] Re: EPS images in ODT documents

2011-02-06 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 29.01.2011, 15:15 Uhr, schrieb Magnus Johansson : Hello! I write books containing a lot of EPS images. When I have tried to use OpenOffice I have not been satisfied with the rendition of the inserted EPS images. Is LibreOffice better, or going to be better, than OpenOffice in this res