FWIW.
JC Helary
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I wrote myself a script to convert Open Document files to Markdow
Reciprocally, such an embedded table created from scratch in OOo is
not properly exported to Word.
JC Helary
On 2006/03/23, at 21:29, JC Helary wrote:
I have a simple structure in Word:
a table with just one cell,
inside which is one word and a table with just one cell
inside which is one
I have a simple structure in Word:
a table with just one cell,
inside which is one word and a table with just one cell
inside which is one word:
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I don't think the problem can be blamed on OpenOffice.
I am not saying the problem has to be blamed on OpenOffice. Only that
in the current state of affairs there are not enough information
available in the OOo world to cover a certain spectrum of the reality
some users face everyday.
I
Peter,
You'll be surprised to know that I can't seem to type French with my
Japanese qwerty keyboard, whatever localized version of OOo I try, in
whatever local I launch X11 (I am on MacOSX).
I am sorry I can't help you. But be sure that you are not alone. The
worst is that you don't have
Do I need to buy any license? If so, what kind of license should I
have and how do I pay for it? FYI, this is a small size company
with only a computer.
The license is provided in the package and it basically says that
OpenOffice is free and that you are free to use it for any purposes
(c
On 2006/03/19, at 23:52, Andrew Fisk wrote:
CP--
Chad might be a little more direct than I would have been -- I am
not sure that a suggestion that somebody dump their hardware and
preferred OS was very useful either -- and given the loyalty that
most Apple users have to the Mac, I could s
like
commands? We are forced to use control...
Not specifically "Windows" like commands, but rather X11 like commands.
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I have left and right accent (à, é), umlaut (ö), carat (î), and
tilde (ñ) marks available.
I looked at the HOW_TO document and found keycodes and keymaps at /
etc/x11/xkb. I did not change anything to get the characters above
in OO2/X11.
Lynn
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 22:17 +0900, JC He
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Good luck
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On Mar 9, 2006, at 9:13 AM, JC Helary wrote:
Thanks for your link.
I have been checking where X11 gets its preferences on OSX an
ently.
Besides I am not really a Linux geek and I am not sure I understand
most of what is written in the document :) If you have other ideas go
ahead. I can try...
JC
On 2006/03/09, at 22:29, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 22:17 +0900, JC Helary wrote:
Well, the title says i
Well, the title says it all~
I use a qwerty kb to type French, English (and Japanese with Kotoeri)
and I've decided to give OOo a serious try... (No comment about
NeoOffice, I know it and use it everyday).
My first problem is character input: I can't use the opt+
combinations with X11/OOo
As for the files, you must have a faster computer. Mine takes
about 3 minutes.
Joe,
I wrote earlier that in my case, I modify a 7mb Word and save it to
sxw/odt in NO/OOo with a G4 powerbook with 700+mb ram and 667mhz, all
this in about 30secs.
Since you seem to have superior specs, the p
I had a 7mb Word file, I opened it in both OOo and NO, added the
same sentence on the firts line, saved as ODT for OOo and SXW for
NO and my impressions are:
I used OOo 2.0.2RC4 and NeoOffice 1.2 patch4 btw.
JC
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On 2006/03/07, at 10:22, JC Helary wrote:
Joe,
As Ross wrote, you need more RAM than CPU clock here.
As for OOo vs NeoOffice, I use both and I don't find much
difference. And as I wrote earlier, I work with very big, quite
heavily formatted files.
My machine is an old PowerBook G4 wi
Joe,
As Ross wrote, you need more RAM than CPU clock here.
As for OOo vs NeoOffice, I use both and I don't find much difference.
And as I wrote earlier, I work with very big, quite heavily formatted
files.
My machine is an old PowerBook G4 with 768MB RAM and a 667MHz CPU.
So, if you think
Joseph Hogan wrote:
Hello,
I decided to take the plunge, and start using Neo Office.
I have the latest version. I am using an upgraded Mac (G4 350MHz
to a 1.6GHz).
I have a file that I use to keep track of prices for my little
company. It is a 388k file. I saved it as an NeoOffice file a
modifications (implemented in OOo) and accepted by a
standard body so that it remains independant, and "open".
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So, what about ^(.+)$ in search ? And (<&>)=(<&>) in replace ?
I stand corrected regarding back references,
Well, I'm cheating. We were discussing the exact same topic a while
ago here and on other lists where Samuel is also a member. :)
and indeed using "*+" in the find and "(<&>)=(<&>)" w
Cyrille, il ne faut pas être désolé ! ;)
Samuel,
As Cyrille says there are not _subtle_ back references in OOo, but I
am pretty sure that you can refer to the _whole_ searched string in
the replace field. Actually I think that's the only thing you can
refer to there. And I don't think I am
It looks like it's been decided but I don't seem to see any mailing
lists discussing the event and its organization.
Am I missing something ?
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The intel mac version of OOo is not yet released. There is an alpha
version but unless you want to use it for testing purposes I suggest
you don't install it.
Jean-Christophe Helary
On 2006/02/26, at 14:08, David Gist wrote:
Hello,
I just got a new iMac with intel processor and have been u
But, I did exactly all that, and once I click on the DMG file, it
does not
work.
But it did work in the past at least once right ?
Did you look for files that were left by the previous installation ?
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Joe,
Like i also said in my message, after downloading the file from the
website, I click on the file to download it.
?? After downloading it you click on it to download it ?
Do you mean to start it ?
Did you manage to download anything ? Do you have a file on your hard
disk ?
JC
After
Pavel wrote:
Maybe it will come as a surprise to you, but I completely agree
with you on
this paragraph. Unfortunately X11 is not that native as Java/Cocoa
framework on Mac OS X, so Neo can sometimes be much better choice
for pure
Mac OS X users. This is fact and I never said a word against
Which is exactly what is occuring now and I can assure you that
developers on either side could make without people like you who
make a useless fuss on open lists. Your claim that OOo and
NeoOffice are different is just as ridiculous as if somebody
claimed that StarOffice and OOo are differ
Could you give more details ?
How do you launch OpenOffice ? What do you see ?
Jean-Christophe
On 2006/02/20, at 7:25, Esther Aizcorbe wrote:
Hello
When i launch openoffice. there's a message "command timed out".
Can you tell me why and how to fixed the problem.
Thank you very much.
MDO
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This happens after trying to run the install program that we
download off of the OO website.
Could you describe what happens when you try to install ?
(sorry if you already did, I don't have all the mails in the thread).
I do not even get it to install.
What do you see that makes you think
JC Helary wrote:
Well, maybe I can say it then. OOo 1.1.5 is the same as NeoOffice
1.1.5 as far as the office suite is concerned.
The version of NeoOffice that is based on OOO 1.1.5 is designated
NeoOffice 1.2.
Sorry for the typo. That is what I meant.
> And as far as OSX users
NeoOffice is OpenOffice.org.
No.
??? NeoOffice1.2=OOo 1.1.5 on OSX what are you trying to say by "no" ?
But they are not the same! If they are the same, they can share the
code
mutually. This is not the case.
This is the case. NeoOffice uses the OOo1.1.5 code, removes the X11
dependenc
Samuel,
You want me to test a modified file ?
JC
On 2006/02/13, at 23:46, Samuel Murray wrote:
Samuel Murray wrote on 13/02/2006 12:51 PM:
I have heard that it is possible to save an MS Word document in
OOo format even if it contains a VB macro, and that the macro will
remain intact, and t
Indeed, it looks like X11 OpenOffice has an alpha version working on
IntelMacs :)
JC
On 2006/02/03, at 4:12, CPHennessy wrote:
On Fri January 20 2006 22:52, + David Bost wrote:
[ MODERATED ] ***
I have just purchased a new iMac Intel Duo. I was looking forward to
runni
Ross wrote:
unzip -p File.odp content.xml | perl -p -e "s/<[^>]*>//g;s/ +//;"
There is some textual file in style.xml as well (headers/footers) and
meta information that my need to be extracted in the other xml files.
In some cases, the PPT will need to be imported with all the embedded
I am on OSX and I do sometimes unix based tricks but I am not super
familiar with them.
As for unpacking etc, I used the scripts on:
http://books.evc-cit.info/odbook/ch01.html#pack-unpack-files-section
I'd love to see your script and if you agree, post it on the
following group:
http://grou
ding upon what I wanted to do next, I could
redirect to a file, append to an existing file, etc.
This works very nicely for OO documents. I just tried
SXIs and it *seems* to work okay. Test it to see if
it works as is, or have fun to tweak to suit your
specific needs.
regards,
farmerdude
--- J
Having tried various combinations of 'strings' and 'sed', I have
concluded that the text cannot be reliably extracted without some
more intelligent parsing of the PPT format. OO obviously performs
this parsing since all the PPT files open flawlessly in
OpenOffice.org Impress.
Is there an
ppear as white spaces in the
original cell. I can click on them but I don't have access to their
contents in Word.
When my "client" opens the files in Word 2003 there is [Frame nb]
link instead of the frames themselves.
Any idea what is g
Brendan,
I use MS produced Japanese files in OOo on a daily basis and I have
never had incompatibility problems with them.
There are "aesthetic" problems since font rendering is not the best
in OOo and you may want to take a look at the OOo related Japanese
pages, or even ask directly on
There was a post on the NeoOffice fora that announced NeoOffice would
_not_ run on the Intel machines right now for technical reasons:
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?
name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2230
You should subscribe to the NeoOffice updates messages to get such
info directl
While I have not found any problems with NeoOffice/J-1.2 (beta) in
my limited use of it so far, I would be hesitant to recommend it to
others for normal use. It is still a beta at this point. Use at
your own risk.
The "beta" part is not really about NeoOffice the application, since
NeoOff
I would like to have OOo export Excel with specific parameters, namely:
a line break in a text shape should always be interpreted as an
inline line break in OOo and never as a paragraph.
Is there a relatively non tricky way to force that behavior ?
Jean-Christophe Helary
On 2006/01/05, at 5:22, Anthony Chilco wrote:
AFAIK, csv has no format information. How can it be wrong? It could
be that your default format in 1.4 matched the format of the file
you're exporting. In 2.0 the default is not set the same.
If the extension is csv then one can expect the appli
So I either use the older version OOo or NeoOffice/J on my Mac.
There is full file
compatibility between OOo and NeoOffice/J across Mac/Linux/Unix/
Windows. The
older versions of OOo for Mac and NeoOffice/J do not at this time
handle the new
Open Document Format that OOo 2 handles as its defa
Hi Jean-Christophe,
I do not think that this has come up previously here. However
maybe you
should ask on dev@sc.openoffice.org and ask to be CC:ed as you may
not see
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urer.
The irony of being an "IT Lecturer"... I suppose you are more
persuasive when you actually charge money. Maybe you should stick to
that way of doing things. Only lecture people when they ask you to do
so.
JC Helary
And some other lists don't behave like that and let writers write
the way they want and answerers answer to the people they want.
And in real life too, that's pretty much how things happen. Can
we move on ?
JC Helary
A: Yes.
to "can we move on" ?
Q: Are you su
Hello,
When I want to use and if I click on Tables The window open with
incide
this message "Impossible to connecting with data source ...
java/sql/savepoint". I need to help me for begin a data base.
Is there someone here who can help Michel with this..I don't
speak French.
Looks lik
I noticed a considerable difference in size between the "links
updated" and "links not updated" version of an imported Excel
spreadsheet.
After checking the content.xml file I noticed that in one case the
whole linked tables were not displayed but present in the xml, while
in the other th
th the issue and how they provide support regardless of what format
has adopted the new poster.
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cases they are generated by people
who don't seem to either need or know how to subscribe. Besides, they
are properly handled by the moderator in charge.
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ey want. And in
real life too, that's pretty much how things happen. Can we move on ?
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In Writer, I'd like to Search & Replace all occurrences of data
enclosed in
parentheses. I'm able to do so in MS Word by using "\(*\)" as a
regular
expression, without the double-quotes of course. I have read the
regular
expression section in the OO help, but nothing I try is successful.
I would take a look at www.neooffice.org, they do not have the 2.0
version ready yet, but the current version is stable and functional
and it is much easier to install and use (particularly if you want
to print).
The 1.2 (alpha) version they have is based on OOo 1.1.5 and thus
supports th
Which is what I meant, sorry if that was not clear.
JCH
On 2005/12/25, at 3:54, David Chapman wrote:
That would likely be a "free" upgrade for their older versions of
Office -
not a free
upgrade to Office 12 :)
On 12/23/05, JC Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is
This is also a question for MS, will Office XP and 2000 be
compatible? Will there be patches? Who knows. Microsoft may not
provide patches/upgrades to increase their revenue.
Office12 files will be supported on older versions of Office thanks
to a "free" upgrade. Says MS.
I have a big sheet and I want to find all the cells with a yellow
background.
When that is done I want to insert the word "yellow" or some other
string in the cell (not overwrite).
Is there a simple way to do that ?
Use conditionals. These are described in the User GUides. See
http://document
Terry,
Thank you for the links. Eventually, someone on OOo for translators
wrote a marco that could be used in that case, but I had already done
that from the content.xml file with a few regex search/replace, a
pain in the butt it goes without saying :)
"A simple way" may be asking too m
I have a big sheet and I want to find all the cells with a yellow
background.
When that is done I want to insert the word "yellow" or some other
string in the cell (not overwrite).
Is there a simple way to do that ?
Jean-Christophe Helary
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Following my preceeding mail, I noticed that the Search function does
not give access to formatting data in Calc when it does in Writer.
Why is that so ?
Is there a way to look for "cells with a yellow background" in OOo ?
I have a big sheet and I want to find all the cells with a yellow
background.
I mean the yellow background has not been inserted by way of a style.
So there is no way I can _look for_ this specific style.
Another way to ask would be: is there a way to create a style out of
a characteristi
I have a big sheet and I want to find all the cells with a yellow
background.
When that is done I want to insert the word "yellow" or some other
string in the cell (not overwrite).
Is there a simple way to do that ?
Jean-Christophe Helary
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How do I stop the NEO Office/J 1.1 patch 2 from trying
to update itself?
everytime I open NEO office, my web browser comes up
and goes to the "download patch" page.
Download the patch and do not install it. That should do the trick.
But as far as patches are concerned, you'd better install all
://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html
/paul
On 12/12/05, JC Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I need to test a file with the latest (...) beta build on OSX but I
can't seem to remember where I found my 2.0.138...
Any body could send a pointer ?
Thanks in advance.
Jean-Christ
I need to test a file with the latest (...) beta build on OSX but I
can't seem to remember where I found my 2.0.138...
Any body could send a pointer ?
Thanks in advance.
Jean-Christophe Helary
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irectly to the developers so
that it was not released.
In either case, you should remove as much as possible and still
cause the problem.
JC Helary wrote:
Andrew, CP,
Thank you for you reply. The problem with my file is that it is
"confidential", it is a file I received for
Christophe
On 2005/12/09, at 10:40, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
CPHennessy wrote:
On Thu December 8 2005 15:42, JC Helary wrote:
After the problem I described in an earlier mail I did some testing
with the file:
1) the file is in Japanese, has 75 sheets and a number of the sheets
have comp
After the problem I described in an earlier mail I did some testing
with the file:
1) the file is in Japanese, has 75 sheets and a number of the sheets
have complex text boxes systems
2) when I open the file in excel all the text boxes groups appear
without any problem
3) I have another si
I found a solution I think.
First of all, the fact is that none of the versions of OOo I use seem
to have access to text boxes in Excel. I seem to remember a PPT file
with embedded Excel I had to work with and OOo did not mind as much
as with the file today.
So, I had to copy/paste the box
I am working on a big excel file with plenty of grouped text boxes
and I can't have them appear in OOo.
The only solution I have is copy the group, past it in Word, open the
Word file in OOo save it in .sxw and parse it later.
Similarly, when I am done with working on the files, either in O
I am working on a big excel file with plenty of grouped text boxes
and I can't have them appear in OOo.
The only solution I have is copy the group, past it in Word, open the
Word file in OOo save it in .sxw and parse it later.
Similarly, when I am done with working on the files, either in O
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