Questions
None of the free support sites tell you how to ask a question. My questions are: 1. How do I ask a question about Open Office; and 2. When one has two workbooks open does Open Office have a commend such as the Excel arrange so that you can view both simultaneously? Kind regards DAVE BRIDGES
Re: Questions
I recomend using forum.openoffice.org For your other question each workbook is indeendent from each other, your desktop environment might take care of that. On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Dave Bridges i...@polka.co.za wrote: None of the free support sites tell you how to ask a question. My questions are: 1. How do I ask a question about Open Office; and 2. When one has two workbooks open does Open Office have a commend such as the Excel arrange so that you can view both simultaneously? Kind regards DAVE BRIDGES -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
Re: Questions
Original Message From: Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org To: Apache OpenOffice Developer dev@openoffice.apache.org Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 01:52:30 -0500 On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Dave Bridges i...@polka.co.za wrote: None of the free support sites tell you how to ask a question. My questions are: 1. How do I ask a question about Open Office; and 2. When one has two workbooks open does Open Office have a commend such as the Excel arrange so that you can view both simultaneously? Kind regards DAVE BRIDGES I recomend using forum.openoffice.org For your other question each workbook is indeendent from each other, your desktop environment might take care of that. Hi Dave, Expanding a little on Alexandro's answer. 1. The Community Support page http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html#community-support is linked from the home page. That page displays links to four of the main support options, each of which has advice about posting questions and/or reports about the software. 2. Assuming MS Windows, although other OS (Operating Systems - eg. Linux, Mac, Solaris, etc.) probably offer a similar function: * Minimize all open windows *_except_* the two workbooks. * Right click in a vacant area of the OS Task Bar. * From the context (pop-up) menu that opens select Show windows side by side. You are not subscribed to this. If you wish to reply, please post only to dev@openoffice.apache.org not to me directly. Regards Dave
ODF Explorer
Hi All (cross posting to AOO and ODF Toolkit) I have, as part of a research project, created a tool named the ODF Explorer which is available for initial feedback. The thing is aimed at projects like Corinthia or any other ODF consumer/producer. It allows a user to see what is in an ODF document in terms of its structure. And it looks at a form of coverage analysis called production coverage. In short it ticks of which elements and attributes of the ODF schema have been used. It also shows the changes between documents as things are added. An example graph is attached. It is a filtered view of the headers.odt that Gabriela created. It processes text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. It should be available via my dropbox account here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5407897/odfe.zip I intend to make the thing available as an open source once I get some feedback to confirm it at least does not go hugely wrong. Not quite sure how to go about that though. It is built around the Java Apache ODF Toolkit, and will require a 64 bit Java. I've not tried on 32 I'm just assuming it won't work ?? It is a Java program wrapped in Javascript to provide a user interface and so runs on both Linux (where it was developed) and Windows. If anyone picks it up and tries it on a Mac let me know. Before you can run it however, you need a couple of external things. Graphiz available via http://www.graphviz.org/Download.php this is used to draw graphs. It needs to be available on your command line. Confirm it is via dot -V (note the capital) And Node.JS available via https://nodejs.org/download/ It too needs to be available on your command line. npm -v to confirm. I have seen on Windows installs that you may need to create an npm directory in your AppData/Roaming directory before node.js works. And on other machines it installs just fine. I have a Linux system here. Once you have the two externals then unzip the odfe.zip to a directory of your choice. Open a command line and change to your selected odfe install directory (should see a package.json and an odfe.jar file there) And type npm start - it should say an http server has started on port 3000. Then open Firefox or Chrome - I tend to use Chrome. Not IE, it doesn't handle things well. And the url http://localhost:3000/app/index.html; should do the business for you. Each page has a green box in the top left hand corner to open a help page. Open the one on the first page and it should explain the beast. If it does not I have failed. And since I have been working on this beast for so long now there are probably so many things I am taking for granted. This initial release is pretty much to check it can be run outside of my little world and to get whatever comments I can. Let me know how it goes and hopefully you can see the use/relevance of such a tool. I will try to figure out how make it (and the source) more generally available to a wider audience once I am happy users can get it up and running. And if there is any interest in it. If you can think of others who would be able to comment then feel free to forward it to them. Many thanks for any and all feedback, which is gratefully accepted. -- Cheers, Ian C - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
