Some people may remember a discussion a little while ago about a
mysterious problem I had with PDFs made by Openoffice.
> Wherever there is an en rule (the short dash used in a span of
> numbers: Unicode 2013), in the PDF it takes the shape of (or is
> replaced with) a dash (Unicode 2014), though
webmaster @ krackedpress wrote:
> Can you device the work into sections when you need to deal with
> creating the PDF of it, and then use a PDF merge software to merge the
> smaller file together, so that error you described will not be there?
I hope I don’t have to do that. Merging PDF files is
webmaster @ krackedpress wrote:
> I do have a wonder about why you are dealing with such a large document
> in one file. I know from experience that is is much easier to deal with
> dividing it up into parts, like chapters or sections of an outline,
> instead of one large document.
Until recently
Well, I may have found the problem (thanks to Mike’s kind offer to look
at samples), and it’s intriguing (and slightly embarrassing). I think
it’s a memory problem.
I’m using an oldish computer with insufficient memory. I made up a
sample page, using a variety of fonts, including commercial fonts
Thanks, NoOp, but it wasn’t that. My keyboard layout allows me to enter
the characters directly; and I have all autocorrect features disabled.
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Many thanks for your help, krackedpress.
I installed CUPS-PDF, and it works fine, but unfortunately the
particular problem remains.
Anyway, I’m glad I got CUPS-PDF. It’s something I should have, and
should learn more about.
Thanks again, and happy new year from freezing Dublin.
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I have a strange problem with PDFs made with Openoffice on Linux (Ubuntu
10.10). Wherever there is an en rule (the short dash used in a span of
numbers: Unicode 2013), in the PDF it takes the shape of (or is replaced
with) a dash (Unicode 2014), though it retains the spacing of the
narrower charact
leasantness for one day.
And to those (Johnny, Andrew, etc.) who actually helped, and those who
offered encouragement in helping to make Openoffice even better: thank
you very much. I am deeply grateful.
Séamas Ó Brógáin
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enoffice 3,
or otherwise provide this feature, they would remove “the old request”
from the list of grouses and earn the undying gratitude of editors and
others, beginning with the undersigned.
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A feature that could show where styles and formatting begin and end
(similar to that in Wordperfect) would be hugely important to me, and
indeed to many others also to judge by the numerous participants in the
discussion at www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=9696.
I was delighted to learn of
Is there any way to get the “Find and replace” dialogue box (Openoffice
3.2.0, Ubuntu 10.04)) to stay in a selected place after closing and
reopening it, rather than appearing again in the middle of the screen?
I seem to recall that I could do this with earlier versions, but I can’t
find any way o
Harold wrote:
. . . So it seems to me that any problem must be specific to the
Ubuntu version of OOo - are you using that or the non-Ubuntu version?
What happens if you install the one you don't currently use?
In fact I forgot to mention that I’m not using the version of Openoffice
installed w
AG wrote:
I may be misinterpreting what you are asking, but the OOo Writer Word
Count gives two values - 1 for the selected text and one for the
whole document. What you seem to be asking concerns "hidden text".
First off, I have never come across OOo Writer hiding text ...
What I meant was
I have a text that has to be reduced considerably in extent while it is
being edited; I also have to use the change-tracking feature
(Openoffice 3.2, Ubuntu 9.10). I was disheartened to discover that,
after cutting unmercifully, the text seemed to be no shorter.
The thought then occurred that the
I just downloaded all the DejaVu fonts and put them into my own user
fonts folder (/home/sob/.fonts). Only the basic ones show up: no
condensed. I also cleared font caches (fc-cache -rv), but there was no
difference.
Next I opened one of the fonts, DejaVuSansCondensed, in Fontforge, and
now I
Hello, John.
I actually deleted all the condensed versions, so I can’t test this
immediately. (Chacun à son goût!) I’ll download them now and see what
happens (Ubuntu 9.10, Openoffice 3.2).
Bear in mind that Ubuntu (or Kubuntu) won’t see condensed or other
variants as subdivisions of plain D
You may find some fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts; you’ll also find some
in /usr/share/fonts, Be careful about removing fonts that are used by
the operating system. If in doubt, don‘t.
opens___.ttf is the “Open Symbol” font. I think it’s obsolete (it’s a
“hack” font, not encoded according to U
Ken Heard wrote:
Shouldn't it be called an *outdent*?
The traditional printing term (where this practice comes from) has
always been “hanging indent.” “Outdent” is a recently coined term,
introduced, if I’m not mistaken, by Microsoft.
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Format > Paragraph> Indent >
Before text: 5 mm [or whatever indent you want]
After text: 0
First line: -5 mm [i.e. the same amount as “Before text” only minus]
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Gustaf wrote:
I have a question related to fonts. I'm used to work in Indesign where it is
possible to enable the built in ligatures and "true" small caps of an open
type. Can this be done in Open Office?
Unfortunately, no.
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Jomali wrote:
"Significant fault" - I don't think so. Perhaps nice to have, but the lack
of the ability to specify a non-standard word separator does not affect
functionality at all.
The “significant fault” is not that I can’t specify a word separator but
that it should be necessary to conside
I’ve just noticed what seems to be a fault in Openoffice 3.2. Two words
separated by a dash, thus:
then—after
are underlined in red and are picked up as a fault in the spelling check.
In some applications there is (or was) a feature whereby the user chose
what would be the cha
Don’t overlook the most important difference of all: Openoffice now (at
last) reads, displays and prints Opentype fonts.
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Jonathon wrote:
The simpler solution is to use the extension that creates running headers,
That sounds promising, but I couldn’t find this extension. Tell me more!
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John wrote:
... which means that you don't particularly /need/ the frame, because
the header is just a special frame (special in the sense that it (a) has
a default page-anchored position [top of page] and (b) repeats).
That’s true. When I realised this I abandoned my attempts with a frame
a
Troll/Idiot [I’m sure you’re neither] wrote:
Maybe this has been suggested, but I think you can do what you want with
variable fields . . .
Sounds promising (and complicated). I’ll certainly try it.
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Joe wrote:
Did you try a "next" page style for the second and subsequent pages?
I already have two page styles, for left and right pages (mirroring
margins and the position of page numbers). Each style calls the other as
“next” (thus alternating right and left pages).
I can add a text fram
Thanks to all for help and suggestions.
I’ve tried various options, but none of them work. If I’m not mistaken,
to have different text in the same position on each page requires the
use of text frames; to have frames automatically positioned at the top
of each page requires the use of headers
What do you need to have be different in each header?
It’s an alphabetically arranged book, somewhat like a dictionary, in
which a “catchword” (for example the first three letters of the first or
the last headword on the page) appears in the header. This means having
to type these individuall
In a layout for publishing (Openoffice 3.1.1, Debian GNU/Linux) I need
to have page headlines that are different on every page. I have inserted
headers in left-hand and right-hand page styles, and set an appropriate
paragraph style for the content; but when I type a page headline on any
page it
Many thanks for kind and helpful replies, all of which I'll follow up.
Needless to say, Somebody's Law was also operating, so that when I came
back from lunch the document had opened.
I suppose it's all part of the excitement of using open-source software;
though a little less excitement woul
kewise are frozen. All I can do is force quit. Other Openoffice
documents open and save properly.
I'm quite prepared to dig into the XML files if necessary.
Any help gratefully appreciated.
Séamas Ó Brógáin
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Manfred wrote:
. . . That's true - but the way for changing that on Windows is as
follows . . .
And on Linux also! Merci beaucoup!
Yes, it makes editing the hyperlink a bit tricky, but it can de done,
and it’s worth it.
Many thanks to all.
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In Openoffice 3.0.1 (on Debian GNU/Linux) opening a URL in a text file
requires holding down [ctl] while clicking on it, whereas in a
spreadsheet a simple click suffices.
I seem to recall having previously had the latter behaviour (which is
the one I want). Is it possible to change it?
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Joe wrote:
> Convert them to endnotes?
I just noticed that they are in fact endnotes––330 of them, at the end
of the text. I want to copy them all at once (rather than one at a
time), and paste them together into a separate file.
I’m inclined to think (after searching help and elsewhere, and
Is there any way to select all the footnotes in a document, then copy
them together into a separate file?
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mer, but I don’t mind getting my hands dirty.
Séamas Ó Brógáin
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If I’m not mistaken, “Prior” and “Next” are the keys usually
called “Page up” and “Page down,” respectively.
Séamas Ó Brógáin
another directory; otherwise you can safely delete them,
(I have nothing in mine.)
Séamas Ó Brógáin
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Jonathan:
Thank you very much for your reply.
I was using a font I customised myself (with Fontforge). An old document
with these ligatures in it showed spaces where the ligatures used to
be. Also, at “Insert special characters” the character set of this font
was shown without these characters
I notice that Openoffice 3 beta (on Open SUSE 11) does not display
characters from the private-use area of fonts (all characters in the
region E000–F8FF). Is there any possibility that this fault will be
fixed before the release of Openoffice 3?
Séamas Ó Brógáin
You don't need to run that "find and replace" function several times. If
you select "More options" and then "Regular expressions" you can type
two spaces followed by + under "Find" (which means "two or more
spaces") and one space under
Bob wrote:
> . . . Now I read a series of posts trying to help "c-radrun' out of
> his serious loss-of-data problem and I will have to commend all the
> members here, for trying to help a comrade.
Hear, hear!
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ot;unimportant"?)
Capitalise all words except definite and indefinite articles (the, a,
an) and unstressed prepositions and conjunctions.
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Harold wrote:
> I think what you are seeing is simply a side effect of the way the
> particular sort has been implemented. The algorithm is regarding the
> two spellings as equal so which is output first is irrelevant and
> depends on which was read first.
Ah, yes, I see that now.
> Try putting
t again without
changing anything, the positions are reversed. If I sort it again,
they're reversed again . . . and so on.
Any enlightenment gratefull received.
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Many thanks, Jonathan. I've found the thread and I'm studying it, and
following up the Unicode collation algorithm and DUCET. Not easy, but
fun.
Thanks again and best wishes from rain-drenched Dublin.
S.
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Found it! Thanks to all who replied.
S.
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kind souls who contributed information be able to dig
up a copy, or direct me to where I can find it?
Many thanks.
Séamas Ó Brógáin
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anke schön!
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one widely known one, but I feel sure I
would have encountered it, and remembered it.
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Am I right in thinking that there is no way to suppress the bottom edge
of a paragraph border that is broken over two pages, and the top edge
of the border on the following page?
Séamas Ó Brógáin
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NoOp wrote:
> You might find this of interest:
> http://www.vromans.org/johan/OOo/oofonts02.html
Very interesting, and very useful. Thank you kindly.
Séamas Ó Brógáin
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CPH wrote:
> There is no way that I know of. Can you please report this in
issuezilla ? . . .
Many thanks for your response. I'll do that.
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installed they can be selected separately in (for example)
Indesign, but in Openoffice only the family name appears, with the
option then of selecting italic and bold. I would be very happy to
learn of any option other than having to rename the relevant fonts with
Fontforge.
Séamas Ó Brógáin
Keith:
Would you keep your offensive religious propaganda out of this
mailing-list, please?
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"Formula" is an English word (borrowed from Latin). The plural is
"formulas."
Saying "formulae" in English is pedantic nonsense.
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Please excuse me if this question has been discussed before.
When I make a PDF file with Openoffice (on Kubuntu 6.10) the background
colour is fine but text colours all revert to black. Is there a way
around this?
Seamas Ó Brógáin
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