openoffice from the command line...

2009-08-06 Thread steve
Any gurus out there who can tell me what commands are used to export an html page to pdf with openoffice 3.0 ( it produces by far the best results... ) It works fine from the GUI, and I've got a solution for 2.4 that uses Cups-PDF as a printer, openoffice.org -norestore -nofirststartwizard

Re: openoffice from the command line...

2009-08-06 Thread Christopher Sawtell
2009/8/6 steve st...@greengecko.co.nz Any gurus out there who can tell me what commands are used to export an html page to pdf with openoffice 3.0 ( it produces by far the best results... ) You might care to investigate:- http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html -- Sincerely etc

OpenOffice calc programming

2008-11-18 Thread Chris Bayley
Hi peoples, I have task to populate a spreadsheet cell in OO.Calc with data scraped from a web page. Has anybody there the experience to point me toward the required reading ?? From a cursory look it appears as though I may be looking toward using PyUNO or OO-Basic, preferably the former.

Re: asian language support in openoffice document

2008-07-02 Thread Roger Searle
Thanks for the replies, they were most useful. Ended up adding quite a few packages. It would appear that the Chinese part of the document remains unreadable because of how the author has saved the document, as opposed to the setup of this machine. I'll go back to the author... Cheers,

asian language support in openoffice document

2008-06-29 Thread Roger Searle
and then in OpenOffice, but am looking for any advice anyone may have in getting this to work. I am told by other viewers (overseas) that they see the characters however they probably have the relevant fonts installed on their local machines and are no doubt running flavours of Windows and using Word

Re: asian language support in openoffice document

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Fisher
perhaps need to address 2 issues, in kubuntu and then in OpenOffice, but am looking for any advice anyone may have in getting this to work. I am told by other viewers (overseas) that they see the characters however they probably have the relevant fonts installed on their local machines

Re: asian language support in openoffice document

2008-06-29 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Mon 30 Jun 2008 06:33:08 NZST +1200, Roger Searle wrote: I am told by other viewers (overseas) that they see the characters however they probably have the relevant fonts installed on their local machines and are no doubt running flavours of Windows and using Word. Any pointers would be

Re: asian language support in openoffice document

2008-06-29 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Monday 30 June 2008 08:30:18 Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Mon 30 Jun 2008 06:33:08 NZST +1200, Roger Searle wrote: I am told by other viewers (overseas) that they see the characters however they probably have the relevant fonts installed on their local machines and are no doubt running

openoffice 2.3 installation

2007-09-20 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, I have the OpenOffice 2.3 deb download but am not sure how to do the install - this is a Mepis 6.5 installation. I have all the deb files extracted in a folder along with the desktop integration file. On a SuSE box yesterday the equivalent was executing rpm -Uvh *.rpm. Cheers, Roger

Re: openoffice 2.3 installation

2007-09-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
.. Steve On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:16:06 +1200 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have the OpenOffice 2.3 deb download but am not sure how to do the install - this is a Mepis 6.5 installation. I have all the deb files extracted in a folder along with the desktop integration file. On a SuSE

Re: openoffice 2.3 installation

2007-09-20 Thread Roger Searle
light OOo user.. Steve On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:16:06 +1200 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have the OpenOffice 2.3 deb download but am not sure how to do the install - this is a Mepis 6.5 installation. I have all the deb files extracted in a folder along with the desktop

Re: openoffice 2.3 installation

2007-09-20 Thread Robert Fisher
On Friday 21 September 2007 9:16 am, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I have the OpenOffice 2.3 deb download but am not sure how to do the install - this is a Mepis 6.5 installation. I have all the deb files extracted in a folder along with the desktop integration file. On a SuSE box yesterday

Openoffice writer pictures

2007-08-13 Thread barry
Hi all, When I save a doc with picture inserted only a marker is saved in the .doc file. Then when the file is sent to another person the picture is missing. How do I embed the picture in the .doc file so that it does not have to be separately loaded by the recipient? Help was no help!

Re: Openoffice writer pictures

2007-08-13 Thread Roy Britten
On 14/08/07, barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I embed the picture in the .doc file so that it does not have to be separately loaded by the recipient? When inserting images ensure the link checkbox in the file selection dialog is UNchecked. Let us know if that doesn't do the trick, Roy.

Re: PDF output from OpenOffice

2007-07-02 Thread Ross Drummond
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:43, Barry wrote: No, I have those, what I need is the option to select output for screen or for printer, there is a vast difference in the file sizes. I believe that it has to do with Adobe Acrobat pdf level output. Higher level versions embed the fonts in the pdf

Re: OpenOffice - replace paragraph marks

2007-03-04 Thread Roy Britten
On 05/03/07, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find myself having to use Word just to find and replace several dozen paragraph marks in several documents - represented by the character ^p in Word. I can't locate an OpenOffice equivalent, Ian Laurenson's FindReplace macro doesn't seem

Re: OpenOffice - replace paragraph marks

2007-03-04 Thread Kerry Mayes
In the help on regular expressions it carefully ignores the $ for paragraph mark but does have: ^$ for empty paragraphs and \n for new line characters (shift enter) The description of \n is a bit confusing too: Represents a line break that was inserted with the Shift+Enter key combination. To

Re: OpenOffice - replace paragraph marks

2007-03-04 Thread Roger Searle
Thank you Roy, and Kerry, My answer, given I wanted to put a few characters immediately before every instance of a paragraph mark and retain the paragraph mark was to search for $, and then replace with characters \n. Agreed with Kerry's comments that some of the help descriptions are somewhat

OpenOffice spreadsheet diff

2007-01-23 Thread Neil Stockbridge
i seek your aid in my quest to compare two OpenOffice spreadsheets. like a fool, i forked the sheet and now i have two versions of the same spreadsheet both containing modifications that i would like to keep. the .sxc files can be unzipped, to yield these files: content.xml META-INF

Re: OpenOffice spreadsheet diff

2007-01-23 Thread Ian Laurenson
In OpenOffice.org with one of the documents open: Edit Compare Documents A revision dialog is then presented so that you can accept and reject changes. Cheers, Ian On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 11:40 +1300, Neil Stockbridge wrote: i seek your aid in my quest to compare two OpenOffice

Re: Auto-convert many wordperfect files to Openoffice?

2007-01-03 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Thu 28 Dec 2006 17:49:03 NZDT +1300, Matthew Gregan wrote: Obviously there must be a functional import filter in OO, but for batch conversion it's necessary to have that as a stand-alone program. Does something like this exist (google doesn't show me)? Are there alternative

Auto-convert many wordperfect files to Openoffice?

2006-12-27 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
How can I best convert a huge pile (1000s) of Wordperfect files to Openoffice? There is the libwpd.sf.net project, which contains a wpd2sxw program to convert wordperfect files to Openoffice files. This program i no good for 2 reasons: 1) It segfaults on 2 of 3 wordperfect files I tried

Re: Auto-convert many wordperfect files to Openoffice?

2006-12-27 Thread Matthew Gregan
At 2006-12-28T16:43:43+1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Obviously there must be a functional import filter in OO, but for batch conversion it's necessary to have that as a stand-alone program. Does something like this exist (google doesn't show me)? Are there alternative solution(s)? First hit on

OpenOffice language settings

2006-11-22 Thread Barry
Hi, I am using OOwriter 1.1.4. When I invoke the spellchecker the language comes up as 'English(USA)' and the dictionary as 'Standard(All)' The drop down options do not work. In language settings I set the language to English(NZ). In writing aids I set the spelling language to English(NZ)

Re: OpenOffice language settings

2006-11-22 Thread Stephen Irons
Barry wrote: Hi, I am using OOwriter 1.1.4. When I invoke the spellchecker the language comes up as 'English(USA)' and the dictionary as 'Standard(All)' The drop down options do not work. In language settings I set the language to English(NZ). In writing aids I set the spelling language

openoffice colour printing problem

2006-10-16 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
Can anybody give me a clue on this problem? I have a document in OO that includes text and a graphic imported from a file. When I print the document on my colour printer, the graphic comes out greyscal. Coloured text comes out coloured. If I export the doc to PDF and print that, the graphic

Re: openoffice colour printing problem

2006-10-16 Thread Ian Laurenson
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 22:08 +1300, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: I have a document in OO that includes text and a graphic imported from a file. When I print the document on my colour printer, the graphic comes out greyscal. Coloured text comes out coloured. If I export the doc to PDF and

Re: openoffice colour printing problem

2006-10-16 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
Ian Laurenson wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 22:08 +1300, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: I have a document in OO that includes text and a graphic imported from a file. When I print the document on my colour printer, the graphic comes out greyscal. Coloured text comes out coloured. If I export

OpenOffice upgrade humour

2006-07-18 Thread Robert Fisher
I just started upgrading OpenOffice and noticed that someone included some humour into the ebuild. Use gcc33: '' ccache: no icecream: no Checking for source packages in /var/tmp/portage/openoffice-2.0.3/distdir Looking for OOO_2_0_3-core.tar.bz2 ... ok Unpacking OO.o build tree

OpenOffice problems

2006-04-28 Thread Vik Olliver
Here I am, expounding the virtues of OpenOffice on Linux, while having a few problems with it. There are two things I want to turn off that someone turned on in a Microsoft document, and I can't figure it out. Can anyone help me with: 1. Turning off the display of historical modifications

Re: OpenOffice problems

2006-04-28 Thread Vik Olliver
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:59 +1200, Vik Olliver wrote: 1. Turning off the display of historical modifications. Got that one sorted now. Duh. and 2. Removing a URL link from text without destroying the fonts etc. Still working on this one. Vik :v)

Default page size in openoffice 2

2006-03-29 Thread Robert Fisher
Somehow my Default page size in OpenOffice 2 has changed to Letter and I want to change it back to A4 So far OOo help and Google have not given me the answer. Any ideas? -- Regards, Robert -- Robert Fisher (aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie

Re: Default page size in openoffice 2

2006-03-29 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 5:27 pm, Robert Fisher wrote: Somehow my Default page size in OpenOffice 2 has changed to Letter and I want to change it back to A4 So far OOo help and Google have not given me the answer. Further Googling found another post/bug with the same problem. OOo Writer has

Re: Default page size in openoffice 2

2006-03-29 Thread John Williams
On Thursday 30 March 2006 5:27 am, Robert Fisher wrote: Somehow my Default page size in OpenOffice 2 has changed to Letter and I want to change it back to A4 So far OOo help and Google have not given me the answer. Any ideas? Format-Page-Format (choose A4 from spin box)?

Re: Default page size in openoffice 2

2006-03-29 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 5:50 pm, John Williams wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 5:27 am, Robert Fisher wrote: Somehow my Default page size in OpenOffice 2 has changed to Letter and I want to change it back to A4 So far OOo help and Google have not given me the answer. Any ideas? Format

Re: Default page size in openoffice 2

2006-03-29 Thread Olwen Williams
Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 5:50 pm, John Williams wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 5:27 am, Robert Fisher wrote: Somehow my Default page size in OpenOffice 2 has changed to Letter and I want to change it back to A4 So far OOo help and Google have not given me

Re: Default page size in openoffice 2

2006-03-29 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 6:04 pm, Olwen Williams wrote: Modifying Default Templates First, open either an existing OpenOffice.org template and modify it, or open a new document and edit it as necessary to create the desired template. You can define a document template for each OpenOffice.org

Re: OpenOffice

2005-02-26 Thread Ken.McAllister
Ian Laurenson wrote: On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 12:56, Ken McAllister wrote: Hopeful Question: The manual line break, shift-enter or otherwise, that appears in View Non Printing Characters as a little box - does anyone know a way of searching for this and replacing it? I answer my own question:

Re: Paradise connection - was OpenOffice 1.0.1

2005-02-17 Thread Ian Laurenson
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:00, goldedge wrote: what type of modem are you using? I have good results with an external 56k dynalink or US Robotics modem on Paradise in the rural setting. Telecom have also put chokes on our phone line. I have tried several modems over the last few years,

Re: OpenOffice 1.0.1

2005-02-16 Thread Wesley Parish
, supply a later and greater OpenOffice which will take me ever nearer to my ideal word-processor (which was WordPerfect 4.2, by the way) If you liked WP 4.2 then you might like my RevealCodes macro also available at the above URL. Thanks, Ian Laurenson -- Clinersterton beademung, with all

Re: OpenOffice 1.0.1

2005-02-16 Thread Steve Holdoway
Wesley Parish wrote: [snip] It's a wonder if I can manage to keep my paradise.net connection going for longer than three minutes. I am getting six to death of the substandard service I'm offered. Who should I complain to? It's not good enough. Not good enough at all. [snip] Happy to post

Re: Paradise connection - was OpenOffice 1.0.1

2005-02-16 Thread Ian Laurenson
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 21:19, Wesley Parish wrote: [snip] It's a wonder if I can manage to keep my paradise.net connection going for longer than three minutes. I am getting six to death of the substandard service I'm offered. Who should I complain to? I too have Paradise as my ISP. The

Re: Paradise connection - was OpenOffice 1.0.1

2005-02-16 Thread goldedge
Hi Ian, what type of modem are you using? I have good results with an external 56k dynalink or US Robotics modem on Paradise in the rural setting. Telecom have also put chokes on our phone line. Our Laptop with an internal wincra* TM modem doesn't fare so well but we run it out over a

Re: Paradise connection - was OpenOffice 1.0.1

2005-02-16 Thread Wesley Parish
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:16, Ian Laurenson wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 21:19, Wesley Parish wrote: [snip] I too have Paradise as my ISP. The reason I can't connect faster than 33k is due to electric fence noise on the line (you can hear the regular clicks through the phone). Originally I had

Re: Paradise connection - was OpenOffice 1.0.1

2005-02-16 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:37, Wesley Parish wrote: I was told to get a new double-adapter - don't know whether that will do anything. ;) Quite possibly, a cheaper alternative is to try cleaning the contacts. -- C. S.

Re: Suse 9.1 OpenOffice problem

2004-10-05 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:10, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: See, Gentoo does it correctly. Feel better now? Not really, it's not of any real consequence. I'm merely stating a fact. I'm fully aware that you can take a horse to water but cannot make it drink. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell

Re: Suse 9.1 OpenOffice problem

2004-10-05 Thread Dale Anderson
Its always nice to start the morning with a bit of humor . Dale. Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:10, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: See, Gentoo does it correctly. Feel better now? Not really, it's not of any real consequence. I'm merely stating a fact. I'm fully aware that

Suse 9.1 OpenOffice problem

2004-10-04 Thread Robert Fisher
I have just installed SuSE 9.1 via the ftp site at JetstreamGames but I cannot get OpenOffice to start. Error: The file /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/instdb.ins can not be read Error: It is needed to run SuSEconfig --module OpenOffice.org Error: Please, contact administrator. I have not been able

Re: Suse 9.1 OpenOffice problem

2004-10-04 Thread David Watson
Robert Fisher wrote: I have just installed SuSE 9.1 via the ftp site at JetstreamGames but I cannot get OpenOffice to start. Error: The file /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/instdb.ins can not be read Error: It is needed to run SuSEconfig --module OpenOffice.org Error: Please, contact administrator. I

Re: Suse 9.1 OpenOffice problem

2004-10-04 Thread Carl Cerecke
Robert Fisher wrote: I have just installed SuSE 9.1 via the ftp site at JetstreamGames but I cannot get OpenOffice to start. Error: The file /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/instdb.ins can not be read Error: It is needed to run SuSEconfig --module OpenOffice.org Error: Please, contact administrator. I

Re: Suse 9.1 OpenOffice problem

2004-10-04 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:51, Robert Fisher wrote: I have just installed SuSE 9.1 via the ftp site at JetstreamGames but I cannot get OpenOffice to start. Error: The file /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/instdb.ins can not be read Error: It is needed to run SuSEconfig --module OpenOffice.org Error

Re: Suse 9.1 OpenOffice problem

2004-10-04 Thread David Watson
Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: That link should read instdb.ins - instdb-en.ins Have you installed an OpenOffice language? Dave [Robert Fisher] Not intentionally. I guess I should huh? The rpm for OpenOffice_org-en has instdb-en.ins in it. I see an ftp copy available at XTRA ftp://ftp2

RE: Suse 9.1 OpenOffice problem

2004-10-04 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Preferably use YaST -- Software -- Install and Remove Software to pull the required package. Dave [Robert Fisher] Yes that is what I did. Thanks Dave.

Re: Suse 9.1 OpenOffice problem

2004-10-04 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
See, Gentoo does it correctly. Feel better now? -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.

Re: Suse 9.1 OpenOffice problem

2004-10-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:10:17 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See, Gentoo does it correctly. Feel better now? don't worry suse normally does it right too, and i have seen the gentoo devs get the OOo ebuild horribly wrong. it is a horribly complex beast to compile and

Re: Suse 9.1 OpenOffice problem

2004-10-04 Thread Nick Rout
Whil Chris's interjection about gentoo was unneccessary and perhaps inappropriate, your response is even more so, as well as being ill-informed. On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:23:28 +1300 Dale Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WOW amazing I guess it had to achieve something ... , first binary

openoffice map = to +

2004-06-25 Thread Paul William
Hi all, I would like to be able to enter formulas into oocalc using the + button on the numpad instead of the = symbol. ie enter +1+2+3+4 instead of =1+2+3+4 . I am told you can do this in excel. Any ideas how to do it in oocalc? Cheers Paul

Re: openoffice map = to +

2004-06-25 Thread Ian Laurenson
The only way that I can think of is to create a key listener in a macro. For an example of this in an OOo BASIC see AltKeyHandler.sxw available from http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/ You would probably get more responses from the OOo forum Macros and API

openoffice text combos

2004-05-20 Thread Paul William
Hi all, I am trying to figure out the openoffice key combo, if there is one, to edit (not write over) text in a cell in a spreadsheet. I can't stand always having to use the mouse every time I want to edit text in a cell. Thanks Paul

Re: openoffice text combos

2004-05-20 Thread wrooney
I am trying to figure out the openoffice key combo, if there is one, to edit (not write over) text in a cell in a spreadsheet. I can't stand always having to use the mouse every time I want to edit text in a cell. Tried pressing the F2 key? Wayne

RE: openoffice text combos

2004-05-20 Thread C. Falconer
When in doubt - use MS Excel-type key commands... Most of them seem to work. F2 for edit current cell. -Original Message- From: Paul William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 20 May 2004 9:30 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: openoffice text combos Hi all, I am trying to figure out

Re: Saving an image from OpenOffice

2003-09-14 Thread Ken McAllister
Vik Olliver wrote: Ctrl-C Ctrl-V doesn't work between The Gimp and OpenOffice. Arrghh! Ken McAllister says: I have found with the Klipper clipboard that multiple repeats of several or more of these techniques twice or three times in any order over and over again usually gets stuff

Re: Saving an image from OpenOffice

2003-09-14 Thread Roy Britten
Hi Vik, On Sunday, 14 September 2003 at 1:37pm, Vik Olliver wrote: I've got an image with a transparent background in an OpenOffice presentation that I want to edit in The Gimp. How can I extract it from OpenOffice and put it into The Gimp? I can't find out how to export the image as a PNG

Saving an image from OpenOffice

2003-09-13 Thread Vik Olliver
I've got an image with a transparent background in an OpenOffice presentation that I want to edit in The Gimp. How can I extract it from OpenOffice and put it into The Gimp? I can't find out how to export the image as a PNG (or anything else with a transparent background) in OpenOffice, and Ctrl

Re: OpenOffice (not a useful reply to Joshua, sorry)

2003-08-21 Thread Chris Noel
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:46, you wrote: Ken McAllister wrote: Joshua Collins wrote: Up until now OpenOffice has been fine, the fonts were all fine. But just now I opened it up and it's all gone to a Teletype font (menus, cell entries, etc), all I've done since I last used it was to install

Re: OpenOffice (not a useful reply to Joshua, sorry)

2003-08-20 Thread Ken McAllister
Joshua Collins wrote: Up until now OpenOffice has been fine, the fonts were all fine. But just now I opened it up and it's all gone to a Teletype font (menus, cell entries, etc), all I've done since I last used it was to install XSPIM. How do I fix this? Ken McAllister says: Something similar

Re: OpenOffice (not a useful reply to Joshua, sorry)

2003-08-20 Thread Michael Pearce
Question 2: What does RC3 mean? RC3 = Release Canidate Number 3 It is basically Beta Software that is almost ready for release to the masses... and must be treated as UNSTABLE until they drop 'RC' as they are still bug fixing. Mike -- Linux Rocks!!

Re: OpenOffice (not a useful reply to Joshua, sorry)

2003-08-20 Thread Timothy Musson
Ken McAllister wrote: Question 3: I'm using Mozilla 1.1 and Mandrake 9.0. The Download Manager screen in Mozilla shows progress in downloading a file. Sometimes there is an interruption. I have tried to read the manual. I have tried left and right clicking on everything intuitive.

OpenOffice

2003-08-15 Thread Joshua Collins
Up until now OpenOffice has been fine, the fonts were all fine. But just now I opened it up and it's all gone to a Teletype font (menus, cell entries, etc), all I've done since I last used it was to install XSPIM. How do I fix this? -- Joshua Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Probs emerging OpenOffice

2003-07-13 Thread Conrad Wolf
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 08:38, you wrote: Hi Gentoo freaks on the list! I've tried to emerge OpenOffice on my Gentoo system from the install fest, but it allways crashed after 2 or 3 hours of compiling. After the 3rd attempt I've outcommented the CFLAGS in my make.conf

Probs emerging OpenOffice

2003-07-12 Thread Conrad Wolf
Hi Gentoo freaks on the list! I've tried to emerge OpenOffice on my Gentoo system from the install fest, but it allways crashed after 2 or 3 hours of compiling. After the 3rd attempt I've outcommented the CFLAGS in my make.conf, because at the begin of the emerge process there is an info

Re: Probs emerging OpenOffice

2003-07-12 Thread Rob Stockley
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 08:38, Conrad Wolf wrote: ERROR: No space left on device Conrad I had problems once where I was strangely running out of space when I knew there was space to burn. Turned out I was actually running out of inodes. Post the output of 'df' and 'df -i' for teh device in

Re: Probs emerging OpenOffice

2003-07-12 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 08:38, you wrote: Hi Gentoo freaks on the list! I've tried to emerge OpenOffice on my Gentoo system from the install fest, but it allways crashed after 2 or 3 hours of compiling. After the 3rd attempt I've outcommented the CFLAGS in my make.conf, because at the begin

Re: Probs emerging OpenOffice

2003-07-12 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:26:15PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: How much free space did you have when you started? My compile failed for the same reason and I had 1.2 Bytes or there abouts. Does anybody know how much free space is needed to compile OOo? I got it to compile with 2 bytes

Re: Probs emerging OpenOffice

2003-07-12 Thread Robert Fisher
I got problems too when I tried to emerge OOo on my second Gentoo box yesterday. In the end I decided to try emerge openoffice-bin and it worked fine. ? Version 1.0.2 though. On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 08:38, Conrad Wolf wrote: Hi Gentoo freaks on the list! I've tried to emerge OpenOffice

Re: OpenOffice Basic

2003-07-10 Thread Warwick Ian
I too am getting to grips with OpenOffice.org BASIC. The best book that I have is: Michael Koch, Special Edition Using StarOffice 6.0 published by Que, ISBN 0-7897-2833-8. I purchased it through Amazon. It contains just under 100 pages about StarOffice BASIC, unfortunately a lot of that is

OpenOffice Basic

2003-07-08 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Jason Greenwood wrote: No, in that case it's urpmi openoffice and bang, it's going. =) Speaking of: What kind of OpenOffice Basic tutorials are there ? I know about the SDK (1.0.2) and there is an older StarOffice tutorial but ... ... it's proving to be a rather tough cookie

Re: OpenOffice Basic

2003-07-08 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Yuri de Groot wrote: Speaking of: What kind of OpenOffice Basic tutorials are there ? I know about the SDK (1.0.2) and there is an older StarOffice tutorial but ... ... it's proving to be a rather tough cookie :-) (Python is still a while away I I feel no compulsion

Re: OpenOffice Basic

2003-07-08 Thread Chad
openoffice and bang, it's going. =) Speaking of: What kind of OpenOffice Basic tutorials are there ? I know about the SDK (1.0.2) and there is an older StarOffice tutorial but ... ... it's proving to be a rather tough cookie :-) (Python is still a while away I I feel no compulsion to learn Java

Re: OpenOffice Basic

2003-07-08 Thread Paul
Why go BASIC? Try ruby or python, but if you really want to use basic use monobasic (go-mono.org) -Paul

[Fwd: OpenOffice Help] Look! No address!

2003-06-08 Thread Ken McAllister
This is an email with no from address and no reply-to address. Original Message Subject: OpenOffice Help Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 11:53:03 -0400 From: John Winter To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there, /helpful message/ Regards, John Winter I cannot see how to eliminate those

Re: OpenOffice Writer, also FileCompare equivalent?

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:02, Ken McAllister wrote: John Williams wrote a couple of weeks ago 2. The OO address book does not seem to me to have flexible address fields. Is there a way to add another address line, for example? Ken McAllister asks: Sorry if this is something I should have seen,

Re: OpenOffice Writer, also FileCompare equivalent?

2003-03-30 Thread Ken McAllister
John Williams wrote a couple of weeks ago 2. The OO address book does not seem to me to have flexible address fields. Is there a way to add another address line, for example? Ken McAllister asks: Sorry if this is something I should have seen, but (1) was there any joy, and (2) if I missed a

Re: OpenOffice Writer, also FileCompare equivalent?

2003-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
diff file1 file2 file3 there are many options man diff On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:02:49 +1200 Ken McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (3) on a completely different topic, is there a Linux command-line equivalent of FC (file compare) filename1 filename2 filename3, which in my previous

Envelopes and Address Book in OpenOffice Writer

2003-03-16 Thread John Williams
Hi, Somewhere I got the impression that Nick Rout runs his legal practice with Linux and uses OpenSource office software, for example OpenOffice suite. I would like to do that but two things about OO writer bug me. 1. It seems impossible to format an envelope on its own and I do not want

Re: Animations in OpenOffice presentations

2002-11-02 Thread Nick Rout
) in an OpenOffice presentation. Now I know Microsoft's presentation software can do it, but I'm beggared if I can find out how to do it in OpenOffice. Can anyone offer any advice? Vik :v)

Re: Animations in OpenOffice presentations

2002-11-02 Thread Vik Olliver
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 21:56, Nick Rout wrote: hmmm mi can see how to insert an animated gif? I supose its impossible to convert to a gif? Well, I could I suppose, but it'd be an absolutely enormous GIF file! I'm using some animated GIFs, including one of IBM's 12x17 nanometre 3-input

Re: Animations in OpenOffice presentations

2002-11-02 Thread Nick Rout
I had a lok at the help file for the presentation package in staroffice. it refers to inserting a video by Insert|Object|Video, but mine doesn't have that option. Perhaps its some sort of compile-in option that the binary download doesn't have?? On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 07:12:56 +1300 Vik Olliver

Animations in OpenOffice presentations

2002-11-01 Thread Vik Olliver
I'd like to include an animation (currently RealPlayer but I think it could become MPEG with a little help from ffmpeg) in an OpenOffice presentation. Now I know Microsoft's presentation software can do it, but I'm beggared if I can find out how to do it in OpenOffice. Can anyone offer any advice

Re: Openoffice network installation

2002-05-27 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi-ho, Looks like for openoffice they may have removed that command line option in favor of the seperate binaries.. Setup dosn't appear to have any command line options, and install has the following: [root@chris install]# ./install --help Usage: install [options] Options: [defaults

Re: Openoffice network installation

2002-05-27 Thread Paul Wilkins
From: Chris Hellyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks like for openoffice they may have removed that command line option in favor of the seperate binaries.. Setup dosn't appear to have any command line options, and install has the following: [root@chris install]# ./install --help Usage: install

Openoffice network installation

2002-05-26 Thread Carl Cerecke
I'm trying to install openoffice so multiple users can use it. It is proving to be a very frustrating exercise. vent [deleted after re-reading it] /vent I can't get it to work. Not even google is helping me this time. Has anyone done this? Cheers, -- Carl Cerecke, Assistant Lecturer|email

RE: Openoffice network installation

2002-05-26 Thread Chris Hellyar
This message has not been inspected by the Chief Censors office -Original Message- From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 27 May 2002 12:25 p.m. To: linux Subject: Openoffice network installation I'm trying to install openoffice so multiple users can use

RE: Openoffice network installation

2002-05-26 Thread Chris Hellyar
Forgot to add. If you're putting this onto distributed headless X servers, put the shared install of Openoffice on a nfs mount, so you can have a single install point. Much more tidy like for upgrades/patches. Cheers, Chris Hellyar. Selwyn District Council Phones: X 831 (03)324 5831 (021

Re: Openoffice network installation

2002-05-26 Thread Paul Wilkins
From: Carl Cerecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to install openoffice so multiple users can use it. It is proving to be a very frustrating exercise. I can't get it to work. Not even google is helping me this time. Googling for openoffice multiple users gave a top link of the below. Just

Re: Openoffice network installation

2002-05-26 Thread Carl Cerecke
Chris Hellyar wrote: In the tar there are two installers.. one is called setup, the other install. setup does a single user install, and the default path is ~/Openoffice.org install does the shared install into /usr/local/Openoffice.org (I think that's where it went).. At the end of

Re: Openoffice network installation

2002-05-26 Thread Carl Cerecke
Carl Cerecke wrote: Chris Hellyar wrote: In the tar there are two installers.. one is called setup, the other install. setup does a single user install, and the default path is ~/Openoffice.org install does the shared install into /usr/local/Openoffice.org (I think that's where

Re: Openoffice network installation

2002-05-26 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Carl Cerecke wrote: [...] For system-wide install you have to use the '/net' CLI switch. Then run the setup again for each user individually. Unfortunately AFAIK it is currently undocumented, it was IIRC in the StarOffice 5.2 Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL

OpenOffice 1.0 and other goodies at ftp.phys

2002-05-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Hello, Just downloaded OpenOffice 1.0 Available now at ftp://ftp.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/ I've also uploaded many other goodies (been too lazy till now :-) so it may pay to check the other directories as well. Enjoy! Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems