Re: [users] OT: MS Support for ODF [Fwd: OpenOffice.org Ninja]

2009-05-09 Thread Lars Nooden
Dotan (channeling deIcaza or Enderle) Cohen wrote: Yes, what we are all missing. An unambiguous FOSS document file format. (Ok, taking the bait and feeding the trolls by assuming that the two separate sentences above were intended to be one.) Yes. But, a FOSS file format is not needed. An

Re: [users] OT: MS Support for ODF [Fwd: OpenOffice.org Ninja]

2009-05-09 Thread Lars Nooden
Dotan Cohen wrote: In the absence of OASIS doing so, it _is_ in ODF's best interest to have a reference implementation. Actually, there should be two independent reference implementations. Obviously, OASIS would not be the one to work with *applications* for its formats, but would just as

Re: [users] OT: MS Support for ODF [Fwd: OpenOffice.org Ninja]

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 08 May 2009 19:26:38 +0300 Came this utterance formulated by Dotan Cohen to my mailbox: The whole market has chosen standard ODF, MS has not. As MS is over 95% of the market, that is quite a loaded statement. Of the millions of existing ODF V1.0-1.1 documents, less than 1% of

Re: [users] documents with linked http images embedded

2009-05-09 Thread David B Teague
Tom H wrote: Hi Oo Collective, I have a bunch of documents that have been created with images that appear to be still linked to the original image on the web. This causes a problem that any editing is _dreadfully_ slow, similarly anything that causes the document to be re-rendered. (I am

Re: [users] Animation in Impress is really bad

2009-05-09 Thread Xiang Liu
I create presentations for my students to introduce the evolution process of some technical details. Animations can make some ideas more intuitive and accessible. I disliked the animation at first. But soon later, I changed my opinion quickly. [?]Apart from this, a well-animated presentation may

Re: [users] documents with linked http images embedded

2009-05-09 Thread Brian Barker
At 08:18 09/05/2009 -0400, David B Teague wrote: OO.o 3.0.1 exhibited a similar problem to this. A slide show created by the photo album add-on links to images rather than copying them. It appears to open on my machine and looks fine, but when emailed, the copy there has the framework for the

[users] DOWNLOAD

2009-05-09 Thread Anastasia Thomas
I have the CD for the OpenOffice,but I can not get it to download and my Mac Desktop.Can you help me Thanks Anastasia - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [users] OT: MS Support for ODF [Fwd: OpenOffice.org Ninja]

2009-05-09 Thread S P Arif Sahari Wibowo
On Thu, 7 May 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: MS supports the standard perfectly here. The problem is that the standard is not well defined. Wrong. Standard is guideline. Supporting standard does not mean just did minimum implementation to follow the letter of the standard. To actually *support* it

Re: [users] OT: MS Support for ODF [Fwd: OpenOffice.org Ninja]

2009-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
MS supports the standard perfectly here. The problem is that the standard is not well defined. Wrong. Standard is guideline. Supporting standard does not mean just did minimum implementation to follow the letter of the standard. To actually *support* it is to make sure the standard work, to

[users] OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 speed improvements.

2009-05-09 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
I just installed OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 on my Ubuntu 8.10 system. Before I did that I read about what's new and things like that. It was interesting to see that they finally did something about at least some speed issues, so I was looking forward to install it and see if it feels faster. However,

Re: [users] DOWNLOAD

2009-05-09 Thread James Knott
Anastasia Thomas wrote: I have the CD for the OpenOffice,but I can not get it to download and my Mac Desktop.Can you help me Do you have the proper version? There are two Mac versions, Intel and PPC. Also, your CD might be for Windows. If you have the Intel based Mac, you can download the

[users] Cannot open hybrid PDF files anymore

2009-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have Open Office 3.0 as installed by Ubuntu 9.04. I have the Hybrid ODF-PDF extension installed: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport With the same OOo version and the same extension version in Ubuntu 8.04 I could create and open Hybrid PDF files in OOo. However, since

Re: [users] documents with linked http images embedded

2009-05-09 Thread Web Kracked
David B Teague wrote: Tom H wrote: Hi Oo Collective, I have a bunch of documents that have been created with images that appear to be still linked to the original image on the web. This causes a problem that any editing is _dreadfully_ slow, similarly anything that causes the document to be

Re: [users] Animation in Impress is really bad

2009-05-09 Thread Web Kracked
Xiang Liu wrote: I create presentations for my students to introduce the evolution process of some technical details. Animations can make some ideas more intuitive and accessible. I disliked the animation at first. But soon later, I changed my opinion quickly. Apart from this, a

Re: [users] Cannot open hybrid PDF files anymore

2009-05-09 Thread James Knott
Dotan Cohen wrote: I have Open Office 3.0 as installed by Ubuntu 9.04. I have the Hybrid ODF-PDF extension installed: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport With the same OOo version and the same extension version in Ubuntu 8.04 I could create and open Hybrid PDF files

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 speed improvements.

2009-05-09 Thread Web Kracked
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I just installed OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 on my Ubuntu 8.10 system. Before I did that I read about what's new and things like that. It was interesting to see that they finally did something about at least some speed issues, so I was looking forward to install it and see if it

[users] Re: Planning and scheduling

2009-05-09 Thread NoOp
On 05/07/2009 07:49 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: I tried OpenProj and it imports and displays MS Proj files, but it lacks a really nifty feature. It displays resources as either blue (normal) or red (critical), no other colors. In MS Proj, we produce huge GANTT charts for groups of people

Re: [users] DOWNLOAD

2009-05-09 Thread Dave Post
On May 9, 2009, at 5:17 PM, James Knott wrote: If you have the Intel based Mac, you can download the latest from www.openoffice.org , but the PPC version is only 2.4.x. If you're interested only in an official, production release, it's true that 2.4.0 is the latest for PPC. However,

[users] Re: OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 speed improvements.

2009-05-09 Thread NoOp
On 05/09/2009 01:48 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: ... Test what? Ok, I'll come to the point. First download this test document: http://hem.bredband.net/guraknugen/TestfileAutofilter.ods It's about 500 kB so it will take some time to download with a slow connection. Don't worry about

[users] Re: OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 speed improvements.

2009-05-09 Thread NoOp
On 05/09/2009 03:22 PM, NoOp wrote: On 05/09/2009 01:48 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: ... Test what? Ok, I'll come to the point. First download this test document: http://hem.bredband.net/guraknugen/TestfileAutofilter.ods It's about 500 kB so it will take some time to download with a slow

[users] Re: Cannot open hybrid PDF files anymore

2009-05-09 Thread NoOp
On 05/09/2009 02:31 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have Open Office 3.0 as installed by Ubuntu 9.04. I have the Hybrid ODF-PDF extension installed: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport With the same OOo version and the same extension version in Ubuntu 8.04 I could create

[users] What OOo comes with Jaunty?

2009-05-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 09 May 2009 16:03:43 -0700 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: Interestingly enough, I can open PDF's in both OOo 3.1.0 and (U)OOo 3.1.0 (that's the one that comes with Jaunty 9.04) in 9.04. I did a dist-upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty, and it installed 3.0.1, not 3.1.0. Worse, it

[users] Re: What OOo comes with Jaunty?

2009-05-09 Thread NoOp
On 05/09/2009 05:39 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 09 May 2009 16:03:43 -0700 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: Interestingly enough, I can open PDF's in both OOo 3.1.0 and (U)OOo 3.1.0 (that's the one that comes with Jaunty 9.04) in 9.04. I did a dist-upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty,

Re: [users] Re: What OOo comes with Jaunty?

2009-05-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 09 May 2009 18:20:32 -0700 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: On 05/09/2009 05:39 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 09 May 2009 16:03:43 -0700 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: I did a dist-upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty, and it installed 3.0.1, not 3.1.0. Worse, it installed

[users] Re: [openoffice] [users] Re: What OOo comes with Jaunty?

2009-05-09 Thread Keith Bates
On Sat, 09 May 2009 18:20:32 -0700 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 05/09/2009 05:39 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 09 May 2009 16:03:43 -0700 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: Interestingly enough, I can open PDF's in both OOo 3.1.0 and (U)OOo 3.1.0 (that's the one that comes

Re: [users] Re: [openoffice] [users] Re: What OOo comes with Jaunty?

2009-05-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 10 May 2009 11:58:29 +1000 Keith Bates ke...@new-life.org.au dijo: I uninstalled the official Ubuntu 9.04 version because it has a bug that prevents it from accessing OO databases. Other distros that ship with the non-standard version have the same issue. I'm back to the standard

[users] Re: What OOo comes with Jaunty?

2009-05-09 Thread NoOp
On 05/09/2009 06:56 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 09 May 2009 18:20:32 -0700 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: ... You can, as previously, install both the PPA *and* standard OOo 3.1.0 and run them in paralell if you wish. I might install 3.1.0 PPA eventually, but I won't do a parallel

Re: [users] Re: [openoffice] [users] Re: What OOo comes with Jaunty?

2009-05-09 Thread Keith Bates
On Sat, 9 May 2009 20:05:50 -0700 John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 11:58:29 +1000 Keith Bates ke...@new-life.org.au dijo: I uninstalled the official Ubuntu 9.04 version because it has a bug that prevents it from accessing OO databases. Other distros that