Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to another]

2018-04-17 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 17/04/2018 19:41, Virgil Arrington wrote: > The functionality has not changed. The only change is that it has been > moved from "Insert > File..." to "Slides > Insert Slides from File..." Maybe, trusting people is not a bad idea, especially when they try to solve your problem providing the

Re: [libreoffice-users] passing filter options with the --convert-to CLI switch to soffice?

2018-04-17 Thread Bill Janssen
anne-ology wrote: >Maybe I understand what you're attempting; I'm confused about > whatever CLI switch is though. A "CLI switch" is an sub-command or option that can be specified on the command line as part of the command-line interface (CLI). >I've only

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to another]

2018-04-17 Thread anne-ology
Thank you for responding; maybe you've figured this out for me. I'll be attempting this soon, From: Virgil Arrington Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to another] To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] passing filter options with the --convert-to CLI switch to soffice?

2018-04-17 Thread anne-ology
Maybe I understand what you're attempting; I'm confused about whatever CLI switch is though. I've only converted PDFs to Word and all appears fine, so unless there's a bug in your program version, I don't see why reversing the process should be a problem. Have you

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to another]

2018-04-17 Thread jorge Rodríguez
Hi Anne and all:     Well, if you are using GNU / Linux and open each Presentation From the file browser I'm almost sure that you can keep both open and then select the slides from one Presentation to the other (Selecting all that you want to into the other with copy-paste). I know that it is

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to another]

2018-04-17 Thread Virgil Arrington
Anne, In my curiosity to understand what Italo has been saying, I installed LO 6.0.3 to my Puppy Linux partition, and I now understand it. All the LO developers have done is move the function from the "Insert > File..." menu selection to the "Slide > Insert Slides from File..." menu

[libreoffice-users] passing filter options with the --convert-to CLI switch to soffice?

2018-04-17 Thread Bill Janssen
I'd like to be able to use the convenient --convert-to CLI switch on soffice to convert from Word to PDF. However, I'd like that conversion to create tagged PDFs, and the default for UseTaggedPDF is false. A number of PDF export options are listed at

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to another]

2018-04-17 Thread Italo Vignoli
So, what I tried to explain is that the feature has not changed, it has just been moved from one menu to another menu, and that there is an alternative to that feature. Il 17 aprile 2018 17:11:44 CEST, anne-ology ha scritto: > Curiously wondering why it's easier to

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to another]

2018-04-17 Thread anne-ology
Thanks for responding. But I have my data & programs on this computer; these clouds are dangerous if one wishes to retain ones data, what if someone, managing these clouds, thinks he has the right to delete everything for some reason. From: jorge Rodríguez

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to another]

2018-04-17 Thread anne-ology
Curiously wondering why it's easier to open - if that's even possible - more than 1 version of LO then going through all these steps ... when previously all could be done within 1 opened LO with a mere click from the Menu line ... ... ... Reminds me of "If it ain't broke,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Graphic Editing

2018-04-17 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
The down and dirty methods. It depends on the pdf type, object or image based when imported into Draw. If there are actual individual objects in the file. Type and ungroup until there are no more groups left. Select and Delete objects. If an image type file. Place a rectangular

Re: [libreoffice-users] What jar files and environment variables to use for Java LibreOffice programs?

2018-04-17 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 16/04/18 18:51, Bill Janssen wrote: I've written a Java program using the Java bindings to the LibreOffice 5 UNO API. But I can't find documented anywhere the specific runtime environment that needs to be used to run it. Specifically, what jar files from the LibreOffice distribution need to