Re: [users] OpenOffice.org Grows Up

2008-10-09 Thread Guy Voets
2008/10/8 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/10/8 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have been reading eweek articles for years and haven't seen that web > > buyers mag. > > > > Here is the first page of the two page article: > > When sun microsystems bought the little-known StarOffice pro

Re: [users] Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-09 Thread Harold Fuchs
2008/10/8 Madaan Group Ltd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Good Morning, > I have versions 2.2 and 2.3 on my hard drive. I've just downloaded the > update > version 2.4.1. Is it safe to uninstall the two previous versions before I > install the update? > > I'd like to uninstall them 2.2 especially because

Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:42 09/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: Apart from the scanning bit which isn't practical (one of the forms is bigger than A4 and my scanner is maximum A4) ... Easy! Turn the form sideways and scan each end separately. Trim the two graphics along three sides. Insert both graphics at a

Re: [users] Re: Marketing OOo

2008-10-09 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Obviously the OOo marketing folks that have their gala meetings in Beijing and Paris prepare CD's etc for handouts. If they can do that, then I suspect that they can assist the education project and/or someone like JJJ with his small request. (JJJ I'd send marketing an email and ask - certainly ca

Re: [users] Responding to Unsubscribe Requests

2008-10-09 Thread mike scott
On 9 Oct 2008 at 13:46, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 09 October 2008 13:40:40 mike scott wrote: > > having seen an > > example of how legal ignorance in the UK of normal computer use > > results in reasonable actions becoming prosecutable. > > Could you send us/me (i.e. either on or off list)

Re: [users] Mac > installation support > software license

2008-10-09 Thread Guy Voets
2008/10/9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I see that in order to use the Mac version of OpenOffice I must install > X11. However, when I follow the instructions posted here > > http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/faq/installing/X11.html > > I get a message that clearly says that the software is licensed for

Re: [users] Responding to Unsubscribe Requests

2008-10-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 09 October 2008 13:40:40 mike scott wrote: > having seen an > example of how legal ignorance in the UK of normal computer use > results in reasonable actions becoming prosecutable. Could you send us/me (i.e. either on or off list) a reference? TIA Lisi ---

[users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-09 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, How do you prevent Writer from hyphenating email addresses at the end of a line? For that matter, how can you force it to not hyphenate certain words? Thanks, L -- Get free public speaking and communication tips by registering at http://www.duperval.com Bring out the speaker in you! -

[users] Displaying image depending on output medium

2008-10-09 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I have create a book, and in that book there is document with a page where I display an image. Sometimes I print that document as a standalone document, sometimes I print it within the book. When it is printed standalone, I want the image to be displayed, but when I print it within the boo

Re: [users] Responding to Unsubscribe Requests

2008-10-09 Thread Barbara Duprey
mike scott wrote: On 9 Oct 2008 at 13:46, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2008 13:40:40 mike scott wrote: having seen an example of how legal ignorance in the UK of normal computer use results in reasonable actions becoming prosecutable. Could you send us/me (i.e. eith

Re: [users] Responding to Unsubscribe Requests

2008-10-09 Thread mike scott
On 9 Oct 2008 at 8:54, Barbara Duprey wrote: ... > I'd think the message was pretty hard to misinterpret legally -- the > original request asked to unsubscribe "me" and is included in the > message that unsubscribes "me" (because it's a reply, not an independent > message). But here's an alterna

Re: [users] Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-09 Thread James Knott
Madaan Group Ltd wrote: > Good Morning, > I have versions 2.2 and 2.3 on my hard drive. I've just downloaded the update > version 2.4.1. Is it safe to uninstall the two previous versions before I > install the update? > > I'd like to uninstall them 2.2 especially because it's taking up much desir

Re: [users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-09 Thread James Knott
Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, How do you prevent Writer from hyphenating email addresses at the end of a line? For that matter, how can you force it to not hyphenate certain words? Thanks, L The answer is in the on-line help, under "hyphenation", however: "To quickly exclude a word from

[users] OOo with WebDav on Https

2008-10-09 Thread Laurent ROCHE
Hi All, I have set up a webdav folder (on my own Ubuntu Server) which I can access on Window XP (SP3) machines. I can copy and delete files on this folder without any problems. I would like to be able to open files directly with OOo (as it is possible to do with MS Office tools). Unfortunately,

Re: [users] Responding to Unsubscribe Requests

2008-10-09 Thread mike scott
On 8 Oct 2008 at 17:31, Barbara Duprey wrote: ... > If such a request comes in from a subscribed user (say, > [EMAIL PROTECTED]), we can actually get them most of the way there by > replying *with a cc to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], with a message like: I applaud what you're trying to achieve. But, t

[users] Re: Event Tickets

2008-10-09 Thread NoOp
On 10/07/2008 06:30 AM, jmilan wrote: > At 09:13 05/10/2008 +0100, Jeff Milan wrote: >>I would like to create some event tickets, easy enough except is >>there a simple way to print out at say 4 to each A4 sheet with >>sequential ticket numbers? > > Yes: > o Create a table with two columns and

Re: [users] OOo with WebDav on Https

2008-10-09 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Laurent, Laurent ROCHE wrote (9-10-2008 17:08) I have set up a webdav folder (on my own Ubuntu Server) which I can access on Window XP (SP3) machines. I can copy and delete files on this folder without any problems. I would like to be able to open files directly with OOo (as it is possible

[users] Re: Marketing OOo

2008-10-09 Thread NoOp
On 10/08/2008 11:59 AM, NoOp wrote: [snip] > http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/index.html#extmirrors > ftp://openoffice.cs.utah.edu/pub/openoffice/extended/iso/en > Up to higher level directory > File: md5sums 1 KB04/03/2008 12:00:00 AM > File: ooo_240_sol_20080329.iso

Re: [users] Page numbering to exclude 1st page

2008-10-09 Thread Bashar Maree
Your detailed answer was very helpful. I thank you very much for the time and effort that you've put into writing it. Best Regards, On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Footers are a property of page styles. If you want a footer on some parts > of your doc

Re: [users] Responding to Unsubscribe Requests

2008-10-09 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 09/10/2008 16:04, mike scott wrote: On 9 Oct 2008 at 8:54, Barbara Duprey wrote: ... I'd think the message was pretty hard to misinterpret legally -- the original request asked to unsubscribe "me" and is included in the message that unsubscribes "me" (because it's a reply, not an independ

Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 09/10/2008 07:16, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:46 09/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: When I perform marriages I need to fill in about three or four forms [...] At the moment, most of them are filled in by hand because it's easier than making the effort to organise templates etc. to print th

Re: [users] Responding to Unsubscribe Requests

2008-10-09 Thread mike scott
On 9 Oct 2008 at 18:23, Harold Fuchs wrote: ... > Mike Scott: if you are right that the attacker is committing an illegal > act by forwarding [spam] mail to the victim, wouldn't the victim be > justified in taking appropriate action by attempting to unsubscribe that > attacker? The victim can on

Re: [users] Responding to Unsubscribe Requests

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:05:34 +0100 Came this utterance fomulated by mike scott to my mailbox: > On 9 Oct 2008 at 18:23, Harold Fuchs wrote: > ... > > Mike Scott: if you are right that the attacker is committing an > > illegal act by forwarding [spam] mail to the victim, wouldn't the > > victim be

Re: [users] Responding to Unsubscribe Requests

2008-10-09 Thread Barbara Duprey
mike scott wrote: On 9 Oct 2008 at 8:54, Barbara Duprey wrote: How about the unsubscribed user case -- did you see any problem there? I don't understand - if there's no subscription at all, the issue does not arise. This is the case where there is a subscription, but it belongs to a

Re: [users] Mac > installation support > software license

2008-10-09 Thread David Lowe
On Oct 8, 2008, at 16:29 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a message that clearly says that the software is licensed for evaluation use only, and that commercial or "production" use is prohibited. Where can I get the fully-licensed version of X11 for Tiger? You don't tell us where you go

Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Barbara Duprey
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 09/10/2008 07:16, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:46 09/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: When I perform marriages I need to fill in about three or four forms [...] At the moment, most of them are filled in by hand because it's easier than making the effort to organise templ

Re: [users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-09 Thread John W Kennedy
On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Laurent Duperval wrote: How do you prevent Writer from hyphenating email addresses at the end of a line? For that matter, how can you force it to not hyphenate certain words? With Format->Character (or, better yet, with a style), mark it, under Font, as being in

Re: [users] Mac > installation support > software license

2008-10-09 Thread amaloney
X11 is part of the OS X installation. In later versions of OS X, it is at /Applications/Utilities/X11 However, I suggest using the version from here: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ Al Maloney David Lowe wrote: > > On Oct 8, 2008, at 16:29 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I get a message t

Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Keith Bates
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:24:51 -0500 Barbara Duprey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harold Fuchs wrote: > > On 09/10/2008 07:16, Brian Barker wrote: > >> At 12:46 09/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: > >>> When I perform marriages I need to fill in about three or four > >>> forms [...] At the moment

Re: [users] Responding to Unsubscribe Requests

2008-10-09 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 09/10/2008 19:05, mike scott wrote: On 9 Oct 2008 at 18:23, Harold Fuchs wrote: ... Mike Scott: if you are right that the attacker is committing an illegal act by forwarding [spam] mail to the victim, wouldn't the victim be justified in taking appropriate action by attempting to unsubscri

Re: [users] Re: Problems with OOo web pages

2008-10-09 Thread norseman
To Both Harold Fuchs and NoOp; Thanks for the URL's. Steve === NoOp wrote: On 10/08/2008 03:34 PM, norseman wrote: [I'll try to snip a little so as not to repeat Harold's full copy for a one line response] Yes I'm frustrated, but I'm not mad. I like

Re: [users] Mac > installation support > software license

2008-10-09 Thread David Lowe
On Oct 9, 2008, at 14:58 , amaloney wrote: X11 is part of the OS X installation. In later versions of OS X, it is at /Applications/Utilities/X11 However, I suggest using the version from here: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ A word of caution is in order: the XQuartz that is available on

[users] Re: Mac > installation support > software license

2008-10-09 Thread Larry Gusaas
amaloney wrote: X11 is part of the OS X installation. In later versions of OS X, it is at /Applications/Utilities/X11 However, I suggest using the version from here: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ That version is for Leopard. The OP is using Tiger. -- Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskat

[users] Re: Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread NoOp
On 10/09/2008 03:13 PM, Keith Bates wrote: > > After I've completed it and tested it, I will publish it for other > Australian marriage celebrants to use. > > Thanks to Brian, Harold, Barbara and others who offered suggestions to > point me in the right direction. > Does Australia have standa

[users] Re: [openoffice] [users] Re: Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Keith Bates
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:27:47 -0700 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/09/2008 03:13 PM, Keith Bates wrote: > > > > > After I've completed it and tested it, I will publish it for other > > Australian marriage celebrants to use. > > > > Thanks to Brian, Harold, Barbara and others who offered

[users] Re: Responding to Unsubscribe Requests

2008-10-09 Thread NoOp
On 10/09/2008 01:17 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: > mike scott wrote: >> On 9 Oct 2008 at 8:54, Barbara Duprey wrote: >> >>> How about the unsubscribed user case -- did you see any problem there? >>> >> >> I don't understand - if there's no subscription at all, the issue >> does not arise. >>

[users] Re: [openoffice] [users] Re: Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread NoOp
On 10/09/2008 04:54 PM, Keith Bates wrote: > On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:27:47 -0700 > NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 10/09/2008 03:13 PM, Keith Bates wrote: >> >> > >> > After I've completed it and tested it, I will publish it for other >> > Australian marriage celebrants to use. >> > >> >

Re: [users] Re: [openoffice] [users] Re: Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Keith Bates
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:24:11 -0700 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/09/2008 04:54 PM, Keith Bates wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:27:47 -0700 > > NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On 10/09/2008 03:13 PM, Keith Bates wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > After I've completed it and tested it

[users] Re: [openoffice] [users] Re: Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread NoOp
On 10/09/2008 05:50 PM, Keith Bates wrote: > On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:24:11 -0700 > NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 10/09/2008 04:54 PM, Keith Bates wrote: >> > On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:27:47 -0700 >> > NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> On 10/09/2008 03:13 PM, Keith Bates wrote: >> >

Re: [users] Re: Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Adrian Try
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:27 AM, NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does Australia have standard 'electronic' forms of this type already for > Word etc? If so you might import and modify those. Certainly there must > already exist similar templates, as I wouldn't think that all Australian > marriag

[users] Re: [openoffice] Re: [users] Re: Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Keith Bates
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:31:09 +1000 "Adrian Try" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:27 AM, NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does Australia have standard 'electronic' forms of this type > > already for Word etc? If so you might import and modify those. > > Certainly there m

[users] Re: Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-09 Thread Laurent Duperval
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:07:50 -0400, James Knott wrote: > The answer is in the on-line help, under "hyphenation", however: > > "To quickly exclude a word from hyphenation, select the word, choose > Format - Character, click the Font tab, and select "None" in the > Language box." > > To get to the

[users] OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-09 Thread H.S.
Hello, Does anyone have any experience with using openoffice.org with svn (subversion)? In other words, has anyone used svn to collaborate with other people while writing a joint OOo document? For those who are not aware, SVN is a version control software, popular with developers who collaborate

Re: [users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-09 Thread mike scott
On 9 Oct 2008 at 16:28, John W Kennedy wrote: > On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Laurent Duperval wrote: > > How do you prevent Writer from hyphenating email addresses at the > > end of > > a line? For that matter, how can you force it to not hyphenate certain > > words? > > > With Format->Characte

Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:13 10/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: I took up Brian's suggestion of putting sections inside frames and linking the sections as the means of copying information from one frame to another. My first impressions are that this seems to do what I want. To give credit where it's due, I lear

[users] Re: [openoffice] Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Keith Bates
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:20:29 +0100 Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:13 10/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: > >I took up Brian's suggestion of putting sections inside frames and > >linking the sections as the means of copying information from one > >frame to another. My first impr

[users] Latin-1 Ligatures in Open Office

2008-10-09 Thread JC Ahangama
Hi, It is unfortunate that Open Office still does not support ligatures of simple scripts (English etc.) in ISO-8859-1 code space. WorldPad by SIL.org has been supporting ligatures since its inception: http://scripts.sil.org/WorldPadDownload The latest version of Firefox browser and its Thunde

Fwd: [users] Mac > installation support > software license

2008-10-09 Thread jonathan20824
You wrote: You don't tell us where you got the 'evaluation' version of X11 for OS X, but i'd be willing to bet that you downloaded X11 for Panther - this was somewhat of a public beta. Look more closely here: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/faq/installing/ X11.html#tiger . Tiger's X11 is not

[users] No Arial Narrow Font?

2008-10-09 Thread Jim Coffee
Please help.  I tried to open a PDF document today, and it told me "it could not read the arial narrow font".  I thought open office had that font?  I checked the fonts, but it does not appear that I have it on mine.   Can I get this arial narrow font?  If so, how?   Thanks, Jim Coffee

[users] Sobre openoffice 64bits

2008-10-09 Thread Manuel Fernández Panzuela
Raul dice que el openoffice es una puta mierda, pero el i386 no, solo el 64 bits. -- www.mfernandez.es

[users] Mac > installation support > software license

2008-10-09 Thread jonathan20824
You wrote: Hello Jonathan, I didn't know that the licence for X11 was prohibiting commercial or 'productiuon' use. AFAIK X11 is open source, and used as a windowing utility by various open source programs like OOo and the Gimp. Where did you find this restricting licence information? Thank yo

[users] [moderated]

2008-10-09 Thread Eric Brown
In your survey... you mention that your open office is free. It cost me £29.00...then it offers TV download for $1.99...kept on coming back that details incorrectalthough i used exact same password etc to get the open office. Sorry i bought it now. Eric Brown

Re: [users] Visual Basic w/OOo and others

2008-10-09 Thread Lars Noodén
D. Barboza wrote: > Good day, Problem(1) I have an MS-Excel spreadsheet with a Visual-Basic-Macro. Looking ahead, you can write new macros for OOo in Javascript and Python, so there is no need to keep the VB around any longer. -Lars ---