Don't know how *that* happened. My apologies.
On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:37:34 -0400
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On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:41:42 +
Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi :)
Nicely handled. Thanks for the apology! It hadn't bothered me but
thanks again :)
You're welcome. Figured it might cause a bit of What the...?
[snip]
I guess best advice to anyone else finding they appear to
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:43:20 -0700 (MST)
V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu wrote:
Jim Seymour wrote
[snip]
Question: Do recent (i.e. 4.3.x.x and later) versions of LO
*capably* allow the opening/editing/saving of PDF files that are
writable and not encrypted or otherwise protected
Hi All,
End-users are asking for the ability to edit PDFs. Spotted this:
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:57:44 -0500
charles meyer reachmepl...@gmail.com wrote:
I've discovered, at least with my new Libre Office 4.3.5.2, that I can
open a PDF or .jpg in Writer and not have to open Draw.
I can also
(Kind of wandering off the mailing list's topic, but...)
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:25:17 -0500
Eric S. Johansson e...@esjworks.com wrote:
[snip]
No problem, I appreciate the input. Unfortunately, my experience
with SQL over the past 30 years has taught me to stay away from SQL
as far as
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:31:39 -0500
Eric e...@esjworks.com wrote:
[snip]
not yet, I just detest sql and am campaigning to relegate it to
COBOL status. (something you never admit to knowing or using :)
Good luck with that. Probably has less chance of success than my
Quixotic campaigns to get
On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:52:59 +0100
Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote:
At 15:53 07/09/2014 -0700, Jerry Noname wrote:
Is there a way to get Writer to preserve the tab indenting from
the previous line on which I was typing?
I hope not. If you indent the first line of a paragraph
On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:23:40 +0100
Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote:
At 08:46 13/09/2014 -0400, Jim Seymour wrote:
On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:52:59 +0100 Brian Barker wrote:
At 15:53 07/09/2014 -0700, Jerry Noname wrote:
Is there a way to get Writer to preserve the tab indenting from
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:44:49 +0200
hdv@gmail hdv.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2014-08-29 13:59, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Hm, but Ubuntu has no troubles with network files. I thought i
was on LO 3.5.7 but i might have upgraded. I'm out of the office
for a few hours again but could check
On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 06:41:44 +1200
Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com wrote:
[snip]
Did you notice the permissions and owner on the server of the older
files and newer ones. Did the permissions change when you copied
the files. There is also a tick box in optionsGeneral to use LO
On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:10:50 +0200
Errol Goetsch er...@xe4.org wrote:
[snip]
Thank you to the developers who have given so much to so many for
so little.
[snip]
Hear, hear!
Regards,
Jim
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On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:39:37 +0100
Jon Harringdon jonathan.harring...@virgin.net wrote:
The LO users mailing list is the only one I've ever encountered
where people are MUCH more interested in debating Office politics
and Administrivia than actual product features, bugs, workarounds
etc.
At the risk of adding to the political noise...
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 09:46:12 -0400
Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote:
[snip]
For MS Office, the formats ending with
x is a problem even for their older version. MSO 2007 might have
trouble reading DOCX files created from
On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 09:51:02 -0500
anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote:
... this is an example of the inanity;
rather than responding, as 1 thoughtful soul did do,
this person decides to ridicule me.
[snip]
Do you mean Charles' Are you asking this question because..
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 12:01:27 -0400
Pikov Andropov piko...@gmail.com wrote:
Jim Seymour wrote on 8/9/2014 10:48 AM:
At the risk of adding to the political noise...
As for home: I solved the entire problem once-and-for-all by
replacing my wife's MS-Win install with Linux Mint. (MS-Win8
On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 12:55:48 +0200
Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote:
[snip]
I never understood why anyone halfway sane in their minds would use an
embedded database anyway or why the developers of StarOffice/LO/OO
even considered it.
Convenience, with a dash of necessity.
Average
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:54:14 +0200
Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:33:24 +0700
Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote:
A lout known as Charles-H. Schulz:
making note of this...
[snip]
Best thing you can do, IMO, is what I did after somebody recently
chided me for
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:21:36 +1000
Tim Lloyd tim.ll...@gmx.com wrote:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs
the link says it all. Let's hope this trend continues
Two governments in less than a week's time. Very good news! :)
Regards,
Jim
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:44:39 +0700
Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote:
Jim Seymour:
How do you get embezzlement of funds out of a story about a
government body switching to open standards?
By buying new computers from the suppliers giving the best kickbacks
and dumping the astronomic sums
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:07:56 +0700
Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote:
Charles-H. Schulz:
The migration process is implimented with the support of Zyxware
Technologies[2]
Another story of embezzling of funds veiled as 'free software
migration.'
How do you get embezzlement of funds out
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:16:24 +0200
Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote:
Pay no attention to Urmas, he's a known troll / MS shill, he's always
coming out with antagonistic, and usually easily seen through,
statements.
[snip]
Been here since February. I know what Urmas is :)
Regards,
Jim
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On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:16:49 +0100
Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
Oddly i still see a LOT of job adverts for programmers who can
write Java. I'm hoping that is to help companies migrate away or to
re-write existing java packages!
[snip]
How sad :(
Java had such great promise.
On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 08:37:46 +0100
Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
* Some distros have already moved from MySql to MariaDb
[snip]
How does a distro move from one dbms to another? Admittedly: I
don't keep track of all the latest greatest stuff on the FOSS world
(I presume MariaDb is
On Wed, 28 May 2014 21:32:17 +1000
Keith Bates ke...@new-life.org.au wrote:
Hi,
I'm in unfamiliar territory, searching a QIF file for a single badly
formatted transaction. I've exported the original moneydance file to
a tab limited file with the thought of searching for a non-numeric
I think I see the problem. Unfortunately: There are no other paper
sizes with which to test my theory. No other paper sizes that have
different designations in Format - Page - Page - Format and in the
printer dialogues.
I *suspect* the problem is that LO has a paper size named Tabloid and
the
On Wed, 21 May 2014 18:49:15 -0600
Denis Navas denis.na...@gmail.com wrote:
El 2014-05-21 07:27, Jim Seymour escribió:
[snip]
I usually print to pdf and use it later, to print phisically.
[snip]
And that turned out to be the work-around: Print to PDF, then, when
printing the PDF, set
On Tue, 20 May 2014 23:13:11 +0100
Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote:
[snip]
Scenario: Just yesterday our Canon copier/printers were swapped out
for newer models. (It didn't go as smoothly as was promised.) Now
one of my users cannot print to 11x17 paper. That's on a Win7 box.
On Wed, 21 May 2014 14:42:44 +0100
Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi :)
Is there some way of rolling out the paper size to all documents or
is it now fixed in them all and needs changing for each and every
document?
As to the first part: I've no clue. I've never heard of a way to do
Hi All,
I'm not much of an office suite guy, so please forgive me if I'm trying
to do something utterly stupid :)
Scenario: Just yesterday our Canon copier/printers were swapped out for
newer models. (It didn't go as smoothly as was promised.) Now one of
my users cannot print to 11x17 paper.
On Sun, 18 May 2014 16:30:24 +0700
Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote:
Jiergir Ogoerg:
Is there any option in LibreOffice to make it generate _formatted_
underlying XML files?
The XML files by LO are consisting of one long line deliberately to
hamper interoperation with a certain
On Sun, 11 May 2014 11:52:18 +0100
Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
On a side-issue ...
The ones where Urmas does help are often highly technical. That
raises the question of whether Urmas is a dev and just socially
clumsy as so many are. Apparently Microsoft have recognised that
On Fri, 09 May 2014 11:05:01 -0600
Tom Cloyd tomcloydm...@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings.
I disagree, Tom, in the strongest possible terms.
I've been extremely busy this week, doing what I do - taking care
of victims of interpersonal abuse of all sorts.
This Urmas matter is far from
On Sat, 03 May 2014 13:12:47 -0600
Tom Cloyd tomcloydm...@gmail.com wrote:
Re: status of forum participant Urmas -
I've examined the past 3 months' posts by this individual -
approximately 25% of them are slams of LO software or insults to
some individual participating in this forum.
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:47:03 -0400
charles meyer reachmepl...@gmail.com wrote:
Might anyone on the list be using a Samsung Galaxy Tablet 2?
I've been enjoying a Dickens of a time trying to get it to sync
with my PC so I can transfer a video file *from* the tablet to the
PC.
[snip]
This
On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:57:48 -0400
James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote:
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
On 04/04/2014 05:56 PM, CVAlkan wrote:
Not sure if my recollections are correct, but I don't believe
either DOS (before 2.x) or the DOS version of Word were written
by Microsoft. I
On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 16:43:46 -0400
Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote:
[snip]
I hated CP/M
[snip]
It was nearly indistinguishable from DOS, or DOS was nearly
indistinguishable from it, depending upon ones perspective.
The other rooms had old Apple [before Macs] and they
On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:04:42 +0200
Jean-Louis Oneto jl.on...@free.fr wrote:
The
DRI CP/M80 then CP/M86 were nothing but vaporware,
I think you must have CP/M and CP/M-86 conflated with something
else. CP/M-80 was anything *but* vapourware. In the mid-70's to
early 80's, 8080- and Z-80
I have to correct myself...
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 17:14:12 -0400
Jim Seymour jseym...@linxnet.com wrote:
[snip]
No, they didn't. Early Apple PCs ran the MOS Technologies (later:
Mostek) 6502. CP/M never ran on anything but the Intel 8080 and
Zilog Z80. (And only on the latter because
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 14:20:24 -0700 (PDT)
CVAlkan fobe...@enteract.com wrote:
Thanks for all the comments -
By the way, are you the same Jim Seymour who used to have a column
in PC-Mag (I think that was it - along with Dvorak and others)?
Somebody *just* asked me that question, here, a couple
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 20:49:32 -0700 (PDT)
Owen Genat owen.ge...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
There is a statement on the OASIS website (which
unfortunately I cannot find at present) which indicates that in
order for a new feature to be included in ODF-Next by OASIS, it
must first be implemented in a
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 01:01:38 -0700 (PDT)
Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
In fact it is impossible that any other office suite produces 100%
compatible ODF documents since by definition LO is one of the
products defining the ODF characteristics...
[snip]
Once again: Putting the cart
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:43:09 +
e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
The original question asked whether LO is compatible with m$, hence
the reciprocal question as the answer.
It is not known why the original poster (HB) asked this (silly)
question: ...
[snip]
I don't think the
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 03:25:43 -0700 (PDT)
Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote:
nabbler wrote
Please go to m$ and ask if m$office is compatible with the ODF
standard of LO
THAT is exactly the problem! There should never be an ODF standard
of LO.
[snip]
I read that as compatible with the ODF
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 08:32:27 -0700 (PDT)
Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Jim, all
Jim Seymour wrote
I read that as compatible with the ODF standard, as implemented
in LO. I.e.: LO uses the ODF standard. Does MS Office?
Did I read that wrong? Or does LO not properly implement
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:12:51 +0100
Werner werner...@gmx.ch wrote:
Hi Jim,
[snip]
My understanding as a normal/basic user of LO is that it supports
the different ODF standards which exist, some of them approved by
OASIS and others not yet approved.
E.g. in writer you can select the ODF
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:24:17 -0700 (PDT)
Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote:
Jim Seymour wrote
No offense intended, but that's weasel-word way of saying LO is
non-standard.
I can't figure out how calling someone a weasel can be *not*
offensive...
[snip]
My apologies. Bad choice of terms
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:31:06 +0700
Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote:
Tom Davies:
Do you think ODF stands a chance with its incompatible changes
between 1.0 and 1.1, or formulas fiasco?
Or the lack of documentation and a heap of undocumented extensions
AOO/LO uses?
Do you think .doc[x]
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 11:46:00 +
Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi :)
[sighs deeply] So some people on this mailing-list demand that we all
change which email-client we use to the one that they use and then set
it to a non-default way.
[snip]
I only recall seeing one suggestion that
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:42:20 -0500
Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote:
Jim,
I just have to ask.
Are you the same Jim Seymour who used to do battle with John Dvorak
in the PC magazines?
[snip]
Been quite a few years since I got this question.
That could be only if I was emailing
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 21:14:04 +0100
yahoo-pier_andreit pier_andr...@yahoo.it wrote:
[snip]
dear jim, I'm using thunderbird, and I have the same problem, if I
press
ctrlR the reply is to the sender non to the list, and I would like
ctrlto
reply to the list not to the sender, so I have to
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 07:25:36 -0500
Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 3/2/2014 1:53 PM, Jim Seymour jseym...@linxnet.com wrote:
In fact: Because some people, for some reason, feel the need to set
Reply-to to their own email address: I've a procmail rule that
resets those
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 15:34:59 +
Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi :)
Please use Reply to all when replying to mails from this mailing
list. That way everyone gets to see what is going on so far and
might be able to add the next bit to build up the complete answer
or provide a
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:12:13 +0100
Walther Koehler w.koeh...@onlinemed.de wrote:
[snip]
As our English is a free and open standard independent of company
interests so it should be on the technical level of communication.
[snip]
Brilliantly-put, Walther!
May I have your permission to use
As an aside: The following is why things are they way they are in
business, any more.
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:54:35 -0500
Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote:
Since the IT department was
under the authority of the finance department, ...
[snip]
We've avoided IT falling under control of
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:27:58 -0500
Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com wrote:
Pedro
I stand corrected. Thanks,
I in the US where I am and the US tech press rarely mentions Europe
is moving towards ODF. (Snide comments about faux journalists being
MS lap dogs).
[snip]
More a case of the U.S.
On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:36:51 +
Gordon Burgess-Parker gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk wrote:
[snip]
The IT dept refused to install it, saying they hadn't been
consulted. One example of the organisation existing for the IT
dept's benefit, rather than the other way round! ;-)
I guess I was being
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:21:29 -0500
Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote:
[snip]
I often have to write documents that are sent to colleagues who are
using M$. What I write *must* be readable by their chosen program.
They are not going to listen to an LO evangelist proclaiming the
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:00:45 +0100
Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote:
Le 22/02/2014 19:11, Jim Seymour a écrit :
Hi Jim,
For starters: LibréOffice 3.5.7.2, Build ID: 350m1 (Build: 2)
Before anybody suggests a newer version: I'm currently on Ubuntu
10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:16:50 -0500
Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2014-02-24 1:10 PM, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote:
You are unaware of the numbers of m$ fans that pollute this list
demanding that the priority of LO is not to produce high quality
native odf output,
filter assets according to their status i.e. deployed or
in stock; from the results given select a specific asset which
presents the result, of that one asset, in a sub form from which
the asset can be amended?
Alex
On Saturday 22 Feb 2014 13:11:52 Jim Seymour wrote:
Hi There,
I've
[N.B.: Switching to in-line reply format to eliminate the cruft and
because the question stands on its own.]
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:42:44
+ Alex Kempshall alexkempsh...@btinternet.com wrote:
Jim
You stated that you could generate a query to do what you require.
Have you based your form
Hi There,
I've researched and experimented with this, and I'm out of ideas.
For starters: LibréOffice 3.5.7.2, Build ID: 350m1 (Build: 2)
Before anybody suggests a newer version: I'm currently on Ubuntu
10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), so I'm stuck with it. (Even my much newer
Linux Mint desktop
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