Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base PostgreSQL Transactions

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/22/2013 02:48 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 19/07/2013 22:31, Don Parris a écrit : Hi Don, One possible way is to set up your form (which after all, is only a Writer or Calc document) as a dummy interface that is not bound to any data fields, and then use Basic to manage the data

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Virgil If I may offer my input here as I have and still use both, with my clients mainly. Apache OOo has deprecated slightly, i.e. it has not caught up to LibreOffice. In the overall basic user features there is not much difference, but OOo stagnated, being firstly involved in the merger

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing problems

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Steve This sounds to me personally that you have a system wide setting somewhere to default document type, or printed type to PDF. This is overriding anything you set in LO, hence you re-opening Calc and find it set back to PDF. What O/S (Gnu Linux/Distro) are you running, as I am using

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4 install deletes 3.6

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Brown
Folks This is a normal function of Windows 7/8 and LO. When installing one version higher or lower, it is coded to use a central store in this hidden by default location C:\Users\user account name\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\config. So installing two versions will use the same default

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to change url for persona settings

2013-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think time to post a bug report! https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Just copy*paste the old settings over the top of the new ones might mean some settings are not quite suitable for the new branch.  It's not very likely imo especially for something like personas/themes that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?

2013-07-24 Thread Steve Edmonds
I just installed AOO4 today and find that this also (as well as LO4) no longer supports the older file formats and crashes a bit so I will probably stick with LO 3.6 for now. steve On 2013-07-24 19:05, Andrew Brown wrote: Hi Virgil If I may offer my input here as I have and still use both,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing problems

2013-07-24 Thread Steve Edmonds
OpenSuse 12.2. Cheers, Steve On 2013-07-24 19:12, Andrew Brown wrote: Hi Steve This sounds to me personally that you have a system wide setting somewhere to default document type, or printed type to PDF. This is overriding anything you set in LO, hence you re-opening Calc and find it set

[libreoffice-users] Help with two issue I am finding in LO

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Everyone Well this is now my turn to ask for some help, and to see if any of you have or are experiencing these issues. This applies to both my Windows version, and Ubuntu Raring versions of LO, so a common occurrence. And it has persisted since I migrated over to LO. Your responses will

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Steve Umm!! I've not experienced this. Yes by default LO4 will load and save the new file formats, but you can change this by File - Save as then choose the format you want from the deopdown Save as type list. You can also permanently set this in Tools - Options - Load/Save - General -

[libreoffice-users] Import PDF As Pages?

2013-07-24 Thread Sajan Parikh
I'm in a situation where I have a few single page PDF documents, that I want to import into an existing Writer document. What I've done right now, is simply convert my PDFs into images, then imported those images into Writer. Easy enough. I was wondering if there was an easier way to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Import PDF As Pages?

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Sajan In Windows you can right click on the PDF, and in the dropdown menu, choose Open with, select LibreOffice Writer (if not there by default then choose Choose default program and browse to Writer), which will be opened from LO Writer to LO Draw (through program linking). In Draw you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Import PDF As Pages?

2013-07-24 Thread Sajan Parikh
On 07/24/2013 04:42 AM, Andrew Brown wrote: Hi Sajan In Windows you can right click on the PDF, and in the dropdown menu, choose Open with, select LibreOffice Writer (if not there by default then choose Choose default program and browse to Writer), which will be opened from LO Writer to LO Draw

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to change url for persona settings

2013-07-24 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
prop oor:name=Persona oor:op=fusevaluedefault/value/prop/item prop oor:name=PersonaSettings oor:op=fusevaluelibreoffice-stone-three-lighter---header.jpg;libreoffice-stone-three-lighter---footer.jpg;#00;#00/value/prop/item So with these lines, all I need to do is manually change

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?

2013-07-24 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 07/24/2013 12:33 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. I have 3.6, 4.1dev. and AOO 4.0 installed together on my mac. Steve On 2013-07-24 12:41, V Stuart Foote wrote: Yes if one or both are fully installed (as opposed to /A administrative installs) they will interfere in subtle ways. Actions to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?

2013-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I have it on for my colleagues to make LO start-up just that bit faster.  They pick on any slightest thing as a blocker and slower start-up drives them up the wall.  They really have no clue about adding Extensions and haven't used LO enough to grumble about any 'missing' functionality. 

[libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans

2013-07-24 Thread John R. Sowden
We have created a floor plan, using LO Draw with a scale of 1/8 = 1'. Now we want to take it to Kinko's (Fed Ex) and have it printed for about $4.00 per page. Problem is they cannot print it. A few questions: 1) What is the standard file format (description and file type) for professional

Calc copypaste Fw: [libreoffice-users] Help with two issue I am finding in LO

2013-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I have had a few issues copypating lately.  Not sure i can pin it down to a single app or single OS.  Seems that nowadays if i copy something and then close the document i copied it from then paste 'forgets' and goes back to the previous thing i copied/cut.  If i keep the document open

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans

2013-07-24 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 07/24/2013 06:41 AM, John R. Sowden wrote: We have created a floor plan, using LO Draw with a scale of 1/8 = 1'. Now we want to take it to Kinko's (Fed Ex) and have it printed for about $4.00 per page. Problem is they cannot print it. A few questions: 1) What is the standard file

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans

2013-07-24 Thread John R. Sowden
On 07/24/2013 04:23 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 07/24/2013 06:41 AM, John R. Sowden wrote: We have created a floor plan, using LO Draw with a scale of 1/8 = 1'. Now we want to take it to Kinko's (Fed Ex) and have it printed for about $4.00 per page. Problem is they cannot print it.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Draw printing of large plans

2013-07-24 Thread Ken Springer
On 7/24/13 5:23 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 07/24/2013 06:41 AM, John R. Sowden wrote: We have created a floor plan, using LO Draw with a scale of 1/8 = 1'. Now we want to take it to Kinko's (Fed Ex) and have it printed for about $4.00 per page. Problem is they cannot print it. A

Re: Calc copypaste Fw: [libreoffice-users] Help with two issue I am finding in LO

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Tom No, no issues elsewhere in Ubuntu Raring or Windows 7 with cut/copying and pasting. I can even cut/copy and paste from a Calc individual cell, see screenshots below (hope we can drop screenshots on emails to the global mailing list) But what used to be as I explained, seems to have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Guys I need to correct one error stated here. Tiling of large format pictures/media is the job of the software on the computer, not the printer. The printer will print, to it's maximum paper format, anything that is sent to it correctly in it's printing language. I have a Brother A3

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4 install deletes 3.6

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Virgil You have observed correctly. I have just done a test of installing two version of AOO under Windows 7, and quite correctly, it installs it's own local cache/store of settings, per version, thus allowing two copies to work side by side, as long as you create two distinct install

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans

2013-07-24 Thread doug
On 07/24/2013 06:41 AM, John R. Sowden wrote: We have created a floor plan, using LO Draw with a scale of 1/8 = 1'. Now we want to take it to Kinko's (Fed Ex) and have it printed for about $4.00 per page. Problem is they cannot print it. A few questions: 1) What is the standard file

[libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to change url for persona settings

2013-07-24 Thread Peter Maunder
I have been trying to summarise the current Personas situation to clarify the situation in my mind. I am documenting it in case it may be of interest to any of you. Does it need to be reported as a bug? Is it just a Linux problem? My environment is UBUNTU 12.04 (x2) and LINUX-MINT MATE 13. I am

[libreoffice-users] LO-4.0.4 Reportwriter crashes

2013-07-24 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hello, I am trying to use LO 4.0.4 on my Linux-Debian-Wheezy system. Most things work o.k., except when I try to run a report based on a view within a MySQL DB, LO crashes momentarily. The same reports run without problems under 3.6.6. Regards Heinrich -- Erstellt mit Operas revolutionärem

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to change url for persona settings

2013-07-24 Thread Scott Castaline
Tom, there's already 2 bug reports open on this as mentioned by Peter in another post in this thread. Although I think one of them has or had been closed as it was a duplicate bug report to the original one. On 07/24/2013 03:59 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think time to post a bug report!

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printing problems - US Letter / A4

2013-07-24 Thread Peter Maunder
The system PAPERSIZE is usually set when installing and updating an Ubuntu system using PAPERCONFIG. If the papersize file does not exist, programs using the paper library default to using letter as a fall-back value. Permitted papersize values include a3 a4 a5 b5 letter legal executive note

[libreoffice-users] LO-Reportwriter crashes

2013-07-24 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hello again, LO crashes with a segfault... soffice.bin[3064]: segfault at 5 ip 0005 sp bfe0af5c error 14 in soffice.bin[8048000+1000] or soffice.bin[3123]: segfault at a3d5df8 ip 0a3d5df8 sp bfab794c error 15 or soffice.bin[3210]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp bf8f264c error 14 in

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO-4.0.4 Reportwriter crashes

2013-07-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/07/13 18:13, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit : Hi Heinrich, Hello, I am trying to use LO 4.0.4 on my Linux-Debian-Wheezy system. Most things work o.k., except when I try to run a report based on a view within a MySQL DB, LO crashes momentarily. The same reports run without problems

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to change url for persona settings

2013-07-24 Thread Scott Castaline
Peter, looks good. That is essentially what I wound up doing in experimenting with it. I have not tried creating my own personas as I'm artistically dysfunctional, in otherwards I am not very creative artistically. For now, when I want to change my persona I just first change my firefox/thunderbid

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO-4.0.4 Reportwriter crashes

2013-07-24 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hi Alex, Thanks for the information! Actually, I use 3.6 on my production Laptop and can therefore produce my reports without problems. On the other hand, deskop integration under 4.1.0-RC4 on my KDE 4.10 system still doesn't work. So I will wait with reports on 4.1 until this aspect is fixed.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans MORE

2013-07-24 Thread doug
On 07/24/2013 11:21 AM, doug wrote: On 07/24/2013 06:41 AM, John R. Sowden wrote: We have created a floor plan, using LO Draw with a scale of 1/8 = 1'. Now we want to take it to Kinko's (Fed Ex) and have it printed for about $4.00 per page. Problem is they cannot print it. A few questions:

[libreoffice-users] couple questions

2013-07-24 Thread Bill Zaffer
I heard about your system on Corbett Report. The reason I would want to join is do not want NSA checking my emails or other forms of communications. Am I protected with your site. Also, if I join your system, do I drop my Cox Internet Connection or still keep it plus with emails do I get to

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4 install deletes 3.6

2013-07-24 Thread Dave Liesse
Thanks, Andrew; I hadn't noticed this before. My LO 3.4 directory is still present, but practically empty. This is NOT good behavior if the user is not notified first. I'll be sure to go back and find your earlier message and save it, for future use. When there's an upgrade (as opposed to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans

2013-07-24 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
If you want it to be clean. Find out your final output size from printer type that will be used. Scale or ratio page size in LibreOffice Draw to match output size. Manipulate drawing so it looks neat or correct in Draw. I strongly suggest that you do not try to re-size objects as it will

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans MORE

2013-07-24 Thread Girvin R. Herr
doug wrote: On 07/24/2013 11:21 AM, doug wrote: On 07/24/2013 06:41 AM, John R. Sowden wrote: We have created a floor plan, using LO Draw with a scale of 1/8 = 1'. Now we want to take it to Kinko's (Fed Ex) and have it printed for about $4.00 per page. Problem is they cannot print it. A

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans

2013-07-24 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 07/24/2013 08:47 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi John, John R. Sowden schrieb: We have created a floor plan, using LO Draw with a scale of 1/8 = 1'. Now we want to take it to Kinko's (Fed Ex) and have it printed for about $4.00 per page. Problem is they cannot print it. A few questions: 1)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans

2013-07-24 Thread John R. Sowden
Well, I have received a lot of support here. Thank you all. It looks like there is a 'to do' in LO Draw to output to at least one of the two AutoCad formats, as this is what most print shops will support. After all concerns are tested and satisfied, I'll drop a note with the results to get

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans

2013-07-24 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi, Kracked_P_P---webmaster schrieb: On 07/24/2013 08:47 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi John, John R. Sowden schrieb: 4) Can I print multiple parts of the drawing onto 8.5 x 11.0 paper, then tape them together for a preliminary draft? (I know I can do the taping part, its the printing that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Brown
Folks You can probably see the screenshot attached in your received email, but I see it is not kept, and stripped when posted back to the us...@global..libreoffice.org. This is the Brother large format printer I own and as you can see from within the software for the Brother (not the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Brown
Ah! you are correct, I've just found it in LO Draw, under Ubuntu Raring too. So I am learning more personally from these emails. Regards Andrew Brown On 24/07/2013 10:17 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi, Kracked_P_P---webmaster schrieb: On 07/24/2013 08:47 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi John,

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4 install deletes 3.6

2013-07-24 Thread Urmas
Thanks, Andrew; I hadn't noticed this before. My LO 3.4 directory is still present, but practically empty. All the modified files such as extensions and dictionaries are not removed, so I cannot see a problem there. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw printing of large plans

2013-07-24 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
Why is this option not part of the rest of the modules? I create large documents in Writer all the time. Not every one will have the wide format printers to use for their Writer docs. On 07/24/2013 04:31 PM, Andrew Brown wrote: Ah! you are correct, I've just found it in LO Draw, under

[libreoffice-users] QA Public Call - Friday July 26th, 2013 @ 1300 UTC

2013-07-24 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, Just a friendly reminder - after a meeting off we are back on and having a meeting this Friday at 1300 UTC. Details: https://plus.google.com/events/cpfi87stf2cdockvniuqao3ag3k?hl=enpartnerid=gplp0 Agenda: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Meetings/2013/July_26 Hope to see