Anyone can contribute - you don't need to be an expert to help out.
Even if the doc is something you may know nothing about, proof reading
is an essential part of the document development process. When someone
spends a lot of time looking at one document, they tend to become "word
blind" and will
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> It is an "Open Standard" with open flexibility written in. Anyone can
> write an incompatible format but why would you unless the intention was
> to create anarchy?
>
With the assumption that Microsoft's motives are to create anarchy,
what should OOo do? Deliberately force incompatibility issues
>>> You might start here:
>>> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html
>>>
For which I counter, right there in the comments:
http://blogs.gnome.org/mortenw/2005/06/16/opendocument-for-spreadsheets/
>> Here's another link:
>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090
2009/5/8 Manfred J. Krause
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 06:05, Rob Clement wrote:
> > Manfred J. Krause wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 16:42, Rob Clement wrote:
> >>> Rob Clement wrote:
>
> I am running Ooo 3.1.0 under Vista. I onstalled the program earlier
> today
> a
Hi Harold,
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:24, Harold Fuchs wrote:
> 2009/5/8 Manfred J. Krause wrote:
>> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 06:05, Rob Clement wrote:
>> > Manfred J. Krause wrote:
>> >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 16:42, Rob Clement wrote:
>> >>> Rob Clement wrote:
>>
>> I am running Ooo 3.1.0
Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> It is an "Open Standard" with open flexibility written in. Anyone can
>> write an incompatible format but why would you unless the intention was
>> to create anarchy?
>>
>>
>
>
They're not trying for anarchy. They're trying to kill any hope of
competition, as is shown
Dotan Cohen wrote:
OT: Could you please explain this quote? I've seen it several times,
yet I fail to see how the third part differs from the first two, or
how the first two differ from each other. Thanks.
All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall
Be Well: A N
ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote:
I guess I'd like to volunteer. I'm not a programmer, but I'm
comfortable with a computer. I currently have VISTA on a Dell
machine. Something like proof reading is my speed these days.
Frank
The easiest place to start is here:
http://wiki.services.openof
James Knott wrote:
> They're not trying for anarchy. They're trying to kill any hope of
> competition, as is shown by their track record. Destroy ODF, so that
> their own proprietary formats become the only choice.
Also, the "inevitability" of MS is a talking point used since the 1990's
to troll
The behavior in Impress should be improved.
Everyone hopes a natural and flowing style of writing. In Writer, a math
formula is always located at the first place where you activate the formula
editor. It looks like the natural part of a sentence. But in Impress, a just
inputted formula is always p
I am a heavy user of the PDF Import extension, as I save critical
files in hybrid ODF-PDF format:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport
What other extensions are OOo users using? Which tools can you recommend?
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Just a comment here.
If you save it to ppt and open it with PowerPoint, it works.
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Xiang Liu wrote:
> see the attachment. or download it from
> http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/359105/blink.odp
>
> I animated square object with emphasis--blink effect and set the repeat
> They're not trying for anarchy. They're trying to kill any hope of
> competition, as is shown by their track record. Destroy ODF, so that
> their own proprietary formats become the only choice.
>
Having ODF render differently in MSO and OOo will certainly help to
destroy ODF. That is why I arg
> All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be
> Well: A Novel by Tod Wodicka (Author)
>
But why state it three times? Does the repetition provide anything new?
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> The whole market has chosen standard ODF, MS has not.
>
As MS is over 95% of the market, that is quite a loaded statement.
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On Fri, May 08, 2009 19:24:25 PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Dotan,
I'm a bit confused. Isn't what you say here:
> Having ODF render differently in MSO and OOo will certainly help to
> destroy ODF. That is why I argue that OOo should render as MSO does.
just what you label as unwise a few lines b
On Fri, 8 May 2009 22:51:59 +0800
Xiang Liu dijo:
> The behavior in Impress should be improved.
>
> Everyone hopes a natural and flowing style of writing. In Writer, a math
> formula is always located at the first place where you activate the formula
> editor. It looks like the natural part of a
Dotan Cohen wrote:
Having ODF render differently in MSO and OOo will certainly help to
destroy ODF. That is why I argue that OOo should render as MSO does.
You are talking about empty concepts here. Too much philosophy about
market leaders and no real example. Too much talking about rendering,
Dotan Cohen wrote:
All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be
Well: A Novel by Tod Wodicka (Author)
But why state it three times? Does the repetition provide anything new?
It is the name of the book. You'll have to ask the author why.
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Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> They're not trying for anarchy. They're trying to kill any hope of
>> competition, as is shown by their track record. Destroy ODF, so that
>> their own proprietary formats become the only choice.
>>
>>
>
> Having ODF render differently in MSO and OOo will certainly help
Dotan Cohen wrote:
I am a heavy user of the PDF Import extension, as I save critical
files in hybrid ODF-PDF format:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport
What other extensions are OOo users using? Which tools can you recommend?
Depends on what you do a lot of I guess
> Color2Rows-2.0.5oxt comes in handy to ease display.
>
This is nice, thanks!
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On 08/05/2009 18:20, Gene Young wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things
Shall Be
Well: A Novel by Tod Wodicka (Author)
But why state it three times? Does the repetition provide anything new?
It is the name of the book. You'll have to as
2009/5/8 M. Fioretti :
> On Fri, May 08, 2009 19:24:25 PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> Dotan,
>
> I'm a bit confused. Isn't what you say here:
>
>> Having ODF render differently in MSO and OOo will certainly help to
>> destroy ODF. That is why I argue that OOo should render as MSO does.
>
> just w
> If we found a place where the actual standard or the proposed one is
> lacking, and MS has implemented it in some different way than OO, then yes,
> as long as the standard (or a draft) is not defined, copying MS will be the
> wiser thing to do. But when MS and the standard (even standard
> recom
> Following MS is a moving target.
If you want to be the market leader, you have to work for it. If not,
then OOo will continue to be the "alternative" office suite used by
FOSS fanatics and the rare person who's morals prevent pirating but
who's checkbook cannot handle MSO.
> Problem is the "le
I installed Sun Report Writer in Base 3.0 under Ubuntu 9.04 and it works
just fine, except when I try to close the Report Writer. It crashes all
Open Office applications.
Is this a bug that should be reported, or is there some solution?
Thanks,
Keith
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On Fri, May 08, 2009 21:21:57 PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > If we found a place where the actual standard or the proposed one
> > is lacking, and MS has implemented it in some different way than
> > OO, then yes, as long as the standard (or a draft) is not defined,
> > copying MS will be the wi
McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
Alternatively, does anybody know of a substitute for MS Project?
Naturally, in this list I'm asking about a "free" version (as in source
code available), but "free-as-in-beer" would also be nice... just not an
absolute requirement.
Haven't used it myself, just a quick l
On Fri, May 08, 2009 21:18:55 PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2009/5/8 M. Fioretti :
> Exactly. I do not expect MS to code the ambiguous parts of ODF to be
> compatible with OOo. I expect them to make it different.
and why users, especially governments, should ever allow this really
escapes me, so
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> If you want to be the market leader, you have to work for it. ...
Interesting cognitive dissonance. Following MS won't make anyone a
leader except MS, but that seems to be the point of such arguments.
Smoke and mirrors to hide some trouble else where?
Even at face value, it
On Fri, May 08, 2009 21:28:52 PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Following MS is a moving target.
>
> If you want to be the market leader, you have to work for it.
couldn't agree more if all players had equal opportunities. If
competition among software programs happened only around features,
usab
>> > If we found a place where the actual standard or the proposed one
>> > is lacking, and MS has implemented it in some different way than
>> > OO, then yes, as long as the standard (or a draft) is not defined,
>> > copying MS will be the wiser thing to do.
>
> To whoever wrote this (Dotan, can y
2009/5/8 M. Fioretti :
> On Fri, May 08, 2009 21:18:55 PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> 2009/5/8 M. Fioretti :
>
>> Exactly. I do not expect MS to code the ambiguous parts of ODF to be
>> compatible with OOo. I expect them to make it different.
>
> and why users, especially governments, should ever
On 2009/05/06 3:38 PM Harold Fuchs wrote:
Thought this might be of interest even if OT.
This thread, which has nothing to do with giving support to users is now 57
posts long. No wonder people complain about the number of emails they receive
from this list.
Shouldn't this type of discussion
On Fri, May 08, 2009 22:07:15 PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > and why users, especially governments, should ever allow this
> > really escapes me, sorry.
> >
> Because they are already MSO users. You are starting in the middle,
> not the idealogical beginning.
No, I was referring (not clearly en
On Fri, May 08, 2009 13:46:49 PM -0600, Larry Gusaas wrote:
> On 2009/05/06 3:38 PM Harold Fuchs wrote:
>> Thought this might be of interest even if OT.
> This thread, which has nothing to do with giving support to users is
> now 57 posts long.
this thread is about the real, main reason to use OO
Larry Gusaas wrote:
This thread, which has nothing to do with giving support to users is
now 57 posts long. No wonder people complain about the number of
emails they receive from this list.
Shouldn't this type of discussion take place on the discuss list
or even on the social list
?
+1
On 2009/05/08 1:52 PM M. Fioretti wrote:
this thread is about the real, main reason to use OOo (=ODF) and
advocate its adoption by public administrations. Explaining it may
very well be the best support we could give to new users.
And that discussion should be on the discuss list. See
http://w
Did you write to volunteer to help me with my problem? Last night I
downloaded and installed OpenOffice 3.1. Now I have a mess! I can't
open it, I can't repair it, and I can't uninstall it! Please Help Me!!
Bob King
Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2009/05/08 1:52 PM M. Fioretti wrote:
this thread
On May 8, 2009, at 6:01 PM, bobalethak...@gmail.com wrote:
Did you write to volunteer to help me with my problem? Last night I
downloaded and installed OpenOffice 3.1. Now I have a mess! I
can't open it, I can't repair it, and I can't uninstall it! Please
Help Me!!
Bob King
I have no
NoOp wrote:
On 05/07/2009 11:52 AM, Bev wrote:
Well, here it is a year later and there's still no solution to my problem:
when I open OO the main screen opens in BIGGER than full screen mode, requiring
me to manually resize the screen to a reasonable size. It thinks it opens in
non-full-scre
Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> Yes, what we are all missing. An unambiguous FOSS document file format.
>
hmm .. sorry for jumping in to this thread. Have been following the
ambiguity in ODF 1.0 and 1.1 and how MSO exploited to do their own
"extending".
I think what others are trying to argue about is,
On 05/08/2009 04:17 PM, Bev wrote:
> Do any of the developers read these groups, or is it strictly blind leading
> the
> blind?
>
File a friggin bug report.
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Did you write to volunteer to help me with my problem? Last night I
downloaded and installed OpenOffice 3.1. Now I have a mess! I can't
open it, I can't repair it, and I can't uninstall it! Please Help Me!!
Bob King
Bob I noticed you added a comment in a very long thread of e-mails about
Mi
NoOp wrote:
On 05/08/2009 04:17 PM, Bev wrote:
Do any of the developers read these groups, or is it strictly blind leading the
blind?
File a friggin bug report.
Glad to. Got a URL? The OO website seems to regard THIS as the support
function. Besides, is it a bug if I seem to be the onl
Well, Anchor. But the Impress really different. I could not find the anchor
option.
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:06 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> The problem is that Impress is not automatically anchoring the formula
> as a character. Right click on a formula and look at the options under
> Anchor.
the transition of animation is not smooth. It is really a long way to keep
pace with PowerPoint.
the Writer is good.
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Xiang Liu wrote:
the transition of animation is not smooth. It is really a long way to
keep pace with PowerPoint.
the Writer is good.
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I found that some work better than others.
Then the same transition works well one time
then re-run it later, and it did not work as well.
Then it
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 16:26, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> As MS is over 95% of the market, that is quite a loaded statement.
Only for those who have swallowed the myth, hook, line, and sinker,
that FLOSS is not software.
jonathon
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Bev wrote:
NoOp wrote:
On 05/08/2009 04:17 PM, Bev wrote:
Do any of the developers read these groups, or is it strictly blind
leading the blind?
File a friggin bug report.
Glad to. Got a URL? The OO website seems to regard THIS as the
support function. Besides, is it a bug if I seem
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 08:12, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> They did not change the format.
That is the most generous interpretation of their failure to adhere to
the ODF 1.1 specifications.
>> All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be
>> well
> OT: Could you please ex
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