Re: [users] Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:31:15 -1000 Madaan Group Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: How did you wind up with two versions? Installing any 2.x version should remove any previous 2.x version. However, you can manually uninstall either or both older versions, before installing v2.4.1. Then again, you

Re: [users] Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-14 Thread Michele
Do you mean that if I install OOo 3.0 it will delete/overwrite the current 2.4.1? What about my user configuration file? I have hours and hours of configurations in OOo 2.4.1 - everything from hundreds of autocorrect entries to extensions and plugins. If I install 3.0 will all that stuff

Re: [users] problem

2008-10-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
2008/10/11 Lynda Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am unable to open because I can't unzip. I had Winzip for a trial period but never use it and didn't buy it. Will I have to purchase Winzip to use my openoffice? Thank you, Lynda Bishop You shouldn't need Winzip, or any other unzipper to be able

Re: [users] Re: Who is Kaye Evans?

2008-10-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
2008/10/9 Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am 2008-10-05 11:33:16, schrieb Scott Castaline: Who is this Kay Evans? snip Several days ago we had a whole avalanche of spam from two separate users. Kaye Evans was one. Chuck Evans was the other. We believe it's a coincidence that their

Re: [users] OpenOffice Basic class reference

2008-10-14 Thread Cor Nouws
Bart Friederichs wrote (13-10-2008 9:21) Cor Nouws wrote: Best single start point: http://api.openoffice.org This is kind of what I am looking for: http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/module-ix.html I knew, but also that is was linked from the url I gave ;) Regards, Cor

Re: [users] OpenOffice Basic class reference

2008-10-14 Thread Bart Friederichs
Cor Nouws wrote: I knew, but also that is was linked from the url I gave ;) Yes, that's how I fuond it. Thanks. I also found the OpenOffice BASIC help in OOo itself (took some looking around). There is so much documentation and helpfiles, that it is hard to find the right information. --

Re: [users] Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:39:33 +0800 Michele [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Do you mean that if I install OOo 3.0 it will delete/overwrite the current 2.4.1? What about my user configuration file? I have hours and hours of configurations in OOo 2.4.1 - everything from hundreds of autocorrect

Re: [users] OpenOffice Basic class reference

2008-10-14 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Bart, Bart Friederichs wrote (14-10-2008 9:28) Yes, that's how I found it. Thanks. I also found the OpenOffice BASIC help in OOo itself (took some looking around). There is so much documentation and helpfiles, that it is hard to find the right information. Indeed. Tough road ahead of you

Re: [users] Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-14 Thread Michele
The installation should offer you the possibility of porting your customization to the new version. Just in case you may want to backup your current user settings. At the moment I cannot get to the OOo home page. When I go to http://www.openoffice.org I get directly to a download page

Re: [users] Re: Who is Kaye Evans?

2008-10-14 Thread mike scott
On 14 Oct 2008 at 8:06, Harold Fuchs wrote: 2008/10/9 Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am 2008-10-05 11:33:16, schrieb Scott Castaline: Who is this Kay Evans? snip Several days ago we had a whole avalanche of spam from two separate users. Kaye Evans was one. Chuck Evans was the

Re: [graphics-users] Re: Three charting questions

2008-10-14 Thread Ingrid Halama
Hi Robert, OOo 3.0 was released yesterday which causes so much demand for downloads and generates network traffic that the servers seem to struggle. So best is maybe to wait a few days. Kind regards, Ingrid Robert Peirce wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ingrid Halama [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Re: problem

2008-10-14 Thread Spiderman
James Knott schrieb: Lynda Bishop wrote: I am unable to open because I can't unzip. I had Winzip for a trial period but never use it and didn't buy it. Will I have to purchase Winzip to use my openoffice? You don't need any unzip utility. The file you download from www.openoffice.org is

[users] Re: openoffice download server down

2008-10-14 Thread Spiderman
Manfred J. Krause schrieb: Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 13:30, Spiderman wrote: openoffice download server down. just sad. a queue or line to manage it would be a good idea if the server is to lame. Or use mirrors or so. You may contribute to the distribution ;-) - OpenOffice.org P2P

Re: [users] Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-14 Thread James Knott
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:31:15 -1000 Madaan Group Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: How did you wind up with two versions? Installing any 2.x version should remove any previous 2.x version. However, you can manually uninstall either or both older versions, before

Re: [users] Re: openoffice download server down

2008-10-14 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 14:02, Spiderman wrote: Manfred J. Krause schrieb: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 13:30, Spiderman wrote: openoffice download server down. just sad. a queue or line to manage it would be a good idea if the server is to lame. Or use mirrors or so. You may contribute to

[users] Transfer personal data to 3.0 was Re: [users] Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-14 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Michele, *, Michele wrote (14-10-2008 8:39) The installation should offer you the possibility of porting your customization to the new version. Just in case you may want to backup your current user settings. If you use Windows you can refer to this post:

[users] framemaker to openoffice writer

2008-10-14 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, does anybody have experience in converting framemaker documents into openoffice writer? I did not see an import filter for .fm or .mif files in Openoffice 2.4. StarOffice claims that it has additional commercial filters. Does anybody know if a mif or fm filter is included in this

[users] test

2008-10-14 Thread A Chilco
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Re: [users] openoffice download server down

2008-10-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manfred J. Krause wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 13:30, Spiderman wrote: openoffice download server down. just sad. a queue or line to manage it would be a good idea if the server is to lame. Or use mirrors or so. You may contribute to the distribution ;-) - OpenOffice.org

[users] Re: Someone's version of OpenOffice.org is involved with a Spam Email

2008-10-14 Thread Twayne
Below is a spam email coming from a company in Panama with an IP address (no domain name used) from a hosting company in the USA. They are offering Open Office 2009, which is the same product as Openoffice.org's product. They claim to have some added stuff for it, but you have to create an

Re: [users] Re: Someone's version of OpenOffice.org is involved with a Spam Email

2008-10-14 Thread web at work
Twayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org colostore has been seen inthe parses of several spams here; it's obviously black hat from this end. I haven't seen them pushing OOo in my personal spam but that doesn't mean anything other than I'm not on that list. Haven't heard from them in

Re: [users] Re: Access to OpenOffice.org website

2008-10-14 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 00:52, NoOp wrote: On 10/13/2008 05:18 AM, Rob Clement wrote: Is anyone else getting a problem accessing the openoffice website to get the download of openoffice 3.0? I am getting the following error on the main page the the download page Forbidden You don't

Re: [users] Re: openoffice download server down

2008-10-14 Thread James Knott
Spiderman wrote: Manfred J. Krause schrieb: Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 13:30, Spiderman wrote: openoffice download server down. just sad. a queue or line to manage it would be a good idea if the server is to lame. Or use mirrors or so. You may contribute to the distribution ;-) -

[users] Re: Access to OpenOffice.org website

2008-10-14 Thread NoOp
On 10/14/2008 03:27 AM, Manfred J. Krause wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:05, Manfred J. Krause wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 00:52, NoOp wrote: On 10/13/2008 05:18 AM, Rob Clement wrote: Is anyone else getting a problem accessing the openoffice website to get the download of

Re: [users] Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-14 Thread James Knott
mike scott wrote: On 14 Oct 2008 at 7:17, James Knott wrote: ... Do you mean that if I install OOo 3.0 it will delete/overwrite the current 2.4.1? What about my user configuration file? I have hours and hours of configurations in OOo 2.4.1 - everything from hundreds of autocorrect entries to

[users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
Graham Smith wrote: I am trying to paste graphs produced by the statistics program R, into OOo (v3 and neoOffice). They paste as high quality charts into Pages and Word 2008, but are fuzzy and unusable in OOo. I am not familiar with R. Having said this, what is the format of the charts? --

Re: [users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread Graham Smith
I am trying to paste graphs produced by the statistics program R, into OOo (v3 and neoOffice). They paste as high quality charts into Pages and Word 2008, but are fuzzy and unusable in OOo. I am not familiar with R. Having said this, what is the format of the charts? Paste special only

Re: [users] framemaker to openoffice writer

2008-10-14 Thread James
On Tue, October 14, 2008 9:32 am, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, does anybody have experience in converting framemaker documents into openoffice writer? People on the Framers mailing list do. http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/listinfo/framers

[users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
Graham Smith wrote: I am trying to paste graphs produced by the statistics program R, into OOo (v3 and neoOffice). They paste as high quality charts into Pages and Word 2008, but are fuzzy and unusable in OOo. I am not familiar with R. Having said this, what is the format of the charts?

[users] Re: Someone's version of OpenOffice.org is involved with a Spam Email

2008-10-14 Thread NoOp
On 10/14/2008 08:02 AM, web at work wrote: Twayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org colostore has been seen inthe parses of several spams here; it's obviously black hat from this end. I haven't seen them pushing OOo in my personal spam but that doesn't mean anything other than

Re: [users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread Graham Smith
Looks like R is exporting with a fixed resolution. Can you export the graphic to a png (this is raster format) or an eps (a vector graphic format) file and then import that file in to OOo? See what that resutls in. Ermm, yes, exporting to pdf is easy, but I will have to find the code to export

[users] Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread Graham Smith
I am trying to paste graphs produced by the statistics program R, into OOo (v3 and neoOffice). They paste as high quality charts into Pages and Word 2008, but are fuzzy and unusable in OOo. I can export the graphs as PDFs, but it seems that OOo won't allow me to insert PDFs. I can export the

[users] Re: framemaker to openoffice writer

2008-10-14 Thread NoOp
On 10/14/2008 09:17 AM, NoOp wrote: Correction: There is no mif filter in the _linux_ version of StarOffice; I just checked my SO8 on Windows and there is indeed are MIF filters for FM MIF 3.0, FM MIF 4.0, and FM MIF 5.0. I'll give it a try later today and let you know how it goes.

[users] Re: Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-14 Thread NoOp
On 10/14/2008 12:29 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: At the moment I cannot get to the OOo home page. When I go to http://www.openoffice.org I get directly to a download page instead of the home page of OOo. And the download page lists a Linux version, but does not say if it is the 64-bit or

[users] Re: Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-14 Thread NoOp
On 10/14/2008 09:46 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: I finally got the file from a UK site that was very fast. That is, I think it is the right file - it is: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz But when I untarred it I got deb files with a date of September 30. Furthermore, it

[users] Re: Transfer personal data to 3.0 was Re: [users] Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-14 Thread NoOp
On 10/14/2008 06:28 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Is exactly clear what is transferred from 2.x? (I've not found a full list of it yet.) AFAIK (from WinXP): Transferred : - custom toolbars - customized colors (*) - basic libraries - templates Not transferred : - customizations in main

Re: [users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread Graham Smith
Ermm, yes, exporting to pdf is easy, but I will have to find the code to export to png or EPS, this may take some time, but I will come back. Well, that was interesting, exported PNGs insert just fine, in terms of quality But if I can't copy and paste, then the easiest way for me will be to

[users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread Marc Schwartz
Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks like R is exporting with a fixed resolution. Can you export the graphic to a png (this is raster format) or an eps (a vector graphic format) file and then import that file in to OOo? See what that resutls in. Ermm, yes, exporting to pdf is easy,

Re: [users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread Paul
Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks like R is exporting with a fixed resolution. Can you export the graphic to a png (this is raster format) or an eps (a vector graphic format) file and then import that file in to OOo? See what that resutls in. Ermm, yes, exporting to pdf is

Re: [users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread Graham Smith
Your best bet is to create an EPS graphic file and then import that into OO.org. Bear in mind that if you do this, OO.org will import that EPS file and create a bitmapped preview upon doing so. When you view on a display or print the file, it will (by default) be the bitmapped preview that

Re: [users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread Graham Smith
Here is another way to skin the cat (using WMF graphic format): https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-April/160220.html I suspect that this may not be the best format to use on a Mac :-) Graham - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[users] Re: framemaker to openoffice writer

2008-10-14 Thread NoOp
On 10/14/2008 08:44 AM, NoOp wrote: On 10/14/2008 06:32 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, does anybody have experience in converting framemaker documents into openoffice writer? I did not see an import filter for .fm or .mif files in Openoffice 2.4. StarOffice claims that it has

[users] Re: Re: Someone's version of OpenOffice.org is involved with a Spam Email

2008-10-14 Thread Twayne
Twayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org colostore has been seen inthe parses of several spams here; it's obviously black hat from this end. I haven't seen them pushing OOo in my personal spam but that doesn't mean anything other than I'm not on that list. Haven't heard from them

[users] openoffice download server down

2008-10-14 Thread Spiderman
openoffice download server down. just sad. a queue or line to manage it would be a good idea if the server is to lame. Or use mirrors or so. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [users] Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:39:38 +0800 Michele [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: The installation should offer you the possibility of porting your customization to the new version. Just in case you may want to backup your current user settings. At the moment I cannot get to the OOo home page.

[users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread Marc Schwartz
Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is another way to skin the cat (using WMF graphic format): https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-April/160220.html I suspect that this may not be the best format to use on a Mac :-) Yep...that would be fine on Winders, but not on OSX or Linux.

[users] properties back and forth with .doc

2008-10-14 Thread Rolf Schumacher
Hi, OOo-Professionals I hoped in 3.0 to be able to use DOCPROPERTY user properties from MS-Word in swriter. Everything with user defined properties work fine as long as I store the document as .odt. However, when I store the document as .doc the text is inserted and the link from text to

Re: [users] openoffice download server down

2008-10-14 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 13:30, Spiderman wrote: openoffice download server down. just sad. a queue or line to manage it would be a good idea if the server is to lame. Or use mirrors or so. You may contribute to the distribution ;-) - OpenOffice.org P2P Downloads

Re: [users] Uninstall previous versions

2008-10-14 Thread mike scott
On 14 Oct 2008 at 7:17, James Knott wrote: ... Do you mean that if I install OOo 3.0 it will delete/overwrite the current 2.4.1? What about my user configuration file? I have hours and hours of configurations in OOo 2.4.1 - everything from hundreds of autocorrect entries to extensions and

Re: [users] error when using open office.org

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: M ST*PIERRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mary Jo [EMAIL PROTECTED], users@openoffice.org Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:28:45 -0500 I am using open office.org and twice I have lost my information and the msg says that it does not exist. This is what I am doing.

Re: [users] Re: problem

2008-10-14 Thread James Knott
Spiderman wrote: James Knott schrieb: Lynda Bishop wrote: I am unable to open because I can't unzip. I had Winzip for a trial period but never use it and didn't buy it. Will I have to purchase Winzip to use my openoffice? You don't need any unzip utility. The file you download from

Re: [users] Re: Access to OpenOffice.org website

2008-10-14 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:05, Manfred J. Krause wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 00:52, NoOp wrote: On 10/13/2008 05:18 AM, Rob Clement wrote: Is anyone else getting a problem accessing the openoffice website to get the download of openoffice 3.0? I am getting the following error on the

[users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread Marc Schwartz
Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your best bet is to create an EPS graphic file and then import that into OO.org. Bear in mind that if you do this, OO.org will import that EPS file and create a bitmapped preview upon doing so. When you view on a display or print the file, it will (by

[users] Re: framemaker to openoffice writer

2008-10-14 Thread NoOp
On 10/14/2008 06:32 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, does anybody have experience in converting framemaker documents into openoffice writer? I did not see an import filter for .fm or .mif files in Openoffice 2.4. StarOffice claims that it has additional commercial filters. Does anybody

Re: [users] problem

2008-10-14 Thread James Knott
Lynda Bishop wrote: I am unable to open because I can't unzip. I had Winzip for a trial period but never use it and didn't buy it. Will I have to purchase Winzip to use my openoffice? You don't need any unzip utility. The file you download from www.openoffice.org is self extracting. That

Re: [users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread Graham Smith
Marc I have seen the discussions on producing high quality output on the R forum, but this seemed to be an OOo question as the copy and paste is fine with Word and Pages, its just with OOo that its horrible. True, but the R lists have folks who have done this before (myself included) on

[users] Re: NWF-gtk

2008-10-14 Thread NoOp
On 10/13/2008 12:09 AM, wenfeng �d1�db wrote: can anybody tell me how this NWF do in the gnome environment, is it make the openoffice UI looks like in the gnome widgets WenFeng, perhaps no one on the list responded because they are unclear about what you are asking. By 'NWF' are you

Re: [users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread JOE Conner
Marc Schwartz wrote: Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your best bet is to create an EPS graphic file and then import that into OO.org. Bear in mind that if you do this, OO.org will import that EPS file and create a bitmapped preview upon doing so. When you view on a display or print

[users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread Marc Schwartz
Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marc I have seen the discussions on producing high quality output on the R forum, but this seemed to be an OOo question as the copy and paste is fine with Word and Pages, its just with OOo that its horrible. True, but the R lists have folks who have

Re: [users] OpenOffice Basic class reference

2008-10-14 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Bart Friederichs wrote: Cor Nouws wrote: Best single start point: http://api.openoffice.org This is kind of what I am looking for: http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/module-ix.html If you are using Basic, then I recommend that you also learn to inspect the

Re: [users] Re: Pasted charts from R into Writer are very poor quality (Mac)

2008-10-14 Thread Graham Smith
Jo, You may want to explore http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/R_and_Calc Thanks, I knew this existed, but not sure if I knew where. Grshsm - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: