[users] building openoffice on linux

2010-03-10 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
What are the default build options for linux rpms. I want to install oo 3.2 on centos 5, but one of the languages i need is built against a newer version of rpm so it doesnt install on centos 5. The maintainer for the language suggested that i build openoffice myself. This is not a problem for me,

Re: [users] building openoffice on linux

2010-03-10 Thread Clayton
On 03/10/2010 09:14 AM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote: What are the default build options for linux rpms. I want to install oo 3.2 on centos 5, but one of the languages i need is built against a newer version of rpm so it doesnt install on centos 5. The maintainer for the language suggested that i build

Re: [users] building openoffice on linux

2010-03-10 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Clayton ccorn...@openoffice.org wrote: On 03/10/2010 09:14 AM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote: What are the default build options for linux rpms. I want to install oo 3.2 on centos 5, but one of the languages i need is built against a newer version of rpm so it

Re: [users] building openoffice on linux

2010-03-10 Thread Clayton
On 03/10/2010 10:05 AM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote: What are the default build options for linux rpms. I want to install oo 3.2 on centos 5, but one of the languages i need is built against a newer version of rpm so it doesnt install on centos 5. The maintainer for the language suggested that i

Re: [users] Top posting

2010-03-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 10:33, netsecur...@sound-by-design.com wrote: Okay, I know it is a sin, but given the length of the post it might be easier to top post.. Nope, not even. You just think you've found a loop hole which justifies it. www.openoffice.org/ml_guidelines.html [quote]

Re: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-10 Thread James Knott
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-03-09 11:58 AM, James Knott wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-03-07 2:50 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: Despite earlier campaigns of disinformation, ODF and OpenOffice.org are separate. OpenOffice.org is a program, with development led by Sun/Oracle. ODF is a

Re: [users] Writer page background colour: feature or bug?

2010-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
Hi there is a work around just take back the default margins to 0 (zero)say yes to the non print warning set your margins on the active page you can try this I dont know how it prints Thanks, Stewart. I knew about the workaround, but I wanted to know if this was intentional behaviour or a

Re: [users] Writer page background colour: feature or bug?

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin Reynolds
I use View Web Layout. I leave my margins alone. It's a nice simple environment. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Stewart stewartha...@cogeco.ca wrote: On 09/03/2010 2:15 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: When setting the Page background colour in Writer, the area in the margins remains white. Is

[users] Database how to

2010-03-10 Thread joe g
Hi, I have a backup of a database in Access which I no longer use. How can I transfer (open) this in OOo database? There is no import facility and in 'Open all files' Access files are not even mentioned. Thanks.

[users] Open Office development issue

2010-03-10 Thread KAPIL KUMAR LALWANI
Sir/Mam, I am Kapil, wroking as a software engineer in a IT company. presently i am wroking for OpenOffice integration with our product. I had done all very well. Now i wish to build RTD(Real Time Data ) like in excel, but as per my RD i cant find RTD for openoffice, so i am moving towards

[users] [moderated]

2010-03-10 Thread G. Regeer
Sometimes I receive messages only to open with support from Open Office. I can't open this messages. Can you tell me how to do. greetings Gerard Regeer

[users] 3.2 toolbars not staying put

2010-03-10 Thread Tim Lungstrom
Well this is another try to get anyone to help me fix the trouble with the toolbars that I am setting to view going away. I did not see this in 3.1.x, but it is happening with 3.2 64-bit deb I open Writer. Set the text object toolbar to be viewed. Then when I do a print preview, and back, the

[users] Openoffice.org ECCN request.

2010-03-10 Thread Christian X Dickerson
Hello, One of my clients is exporting a computer with your software on the computer. I was wondering if your openoffice.org software has been reviewed for export control reasons, and if so, what is the corresponding ECCN? If not, are there any specific information security features (other than

Re: Fw: [users] Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-10 Thread dennie williams
Thank you so much! Sincerely, Dennie Williams -- From: Paul paul.m...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 1:57 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: Fw: [users] Bracketing List Items Together On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:23 AM, dennie

[users] Re: [discuss] Open Office development issue

2010-03-10 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Hi Kapil, first of all please use the appropriate mailing list. In your case it is d...@api.openoffice.org or d...@extensions.openoffice.org and please ensure that you are subscribed correctly. It doesn't make sense to post on n different mailing lists. Please don't do that!!! Now related

Re: [users] Database how to

2010-03-10 Thread Troll/Idiot
On 10-Mar-10 08:46, joe g wrote: Hi, I have a backup of a database in Access which I no longer use. How can I transfer (open) this in OOo database? There is no import facility and in 'Open all files' Access files are not even mentioned. Thanks. Open an OOo Base database or create a new

Re: [users] Openoffice.org ECCN request.

2010-03-10 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/3/9 Christian X Dickerson christian.x.dicker...@jpmchase.com: Hello, One of my clients is exporting a computer with your software on the computer. I was wondering if your openoffice.org software has been reviewed for export control reasons, and if so, what is the corresponding ECCN? If

Re: [users] 3.2 toolbars not staying put

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin Reynolds
It happens to me too in Windows XP SP3. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Tim Lungstrom timo...@lungstrom.com wrote: Well this is another try to get anyone to help me fix the trouble with the toolbars that I am setting to view going away. I did not see this in 3.1.x, but it is happening with

Re: [users] Openoffice.org ECCN request.

2010-03-10 Thread James Knott
Christian X Dickerson wrote: Hello, One of my clients is exporting a computer with your software on the computer. I was wondering if your openoffice.org software has been reviewed for export control reasons, and if so, what is the corresponding ECCN? If not, are there any specific

Re: [users] 3.2 toolbars not staying put

2010-03-10 Thread webmas...@krackedpress.com
Kevin Reynolds wrote: It happens to me too in Windows XP SP3. It did not do this with 3.1.1 It just is a real pain. There has to be a way to tell the system that these toolbars are needed when you open the Writer or to keep them when you go to print preview mode then back to editing

Re: [users] 3.2 toolbars not staying put

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin Reynolds
You know what though? After looking at it further, I see that every single one of the commands in the text object toolbar is in my formatting tool bar that I always display. Maybe the program knows the text object toolbar is redundant? On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:01 PM,

Re: [users] Database how to

2010-03-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
joe g wrote: Hi, I have a backup of a database in Access which I no longer use. How can I transfer (open) this in OOo database? There is no import facility and in 'Open all files' Access files are not even mentioned. Thanks. Base doesn't really have an import type capability; instead, it

[users] Regex Find Replace

2010-03-10 Thread NoOp
Sorting through a flat data file (GEDCOM genealogy database file) in Writer (3.2 - linux) and I am attempting to find and replace the following: lowercase m preceded by a space and followed by uppercase A-Z. Example: (space)mAnderson replace as (space)Anderson I found that I can easily _find_

Re: [users] 3.2 toolbars not staying put

2010-03-10 Thread webmas...@krackedpress.com
I use the font name and size, plus the font coloring the most. But those things are not started with Writer as it is currently setup. Kevin Reynolds wrote: You know what though? After looking at it further, I see that every single one of the commands in the text object toolbar is in my

Re: [users] [moderated] Opening ODF files

2010-03-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
G. Regeer wrote: Sometimes I receive messages only to open with support from Open Office. I can't open this messages. Can you tell me how to do. greetings Gerard Regeer Hi, Gerard. It sounds as if you are receiving files of Open Document Format (ODF) ISO standard types, like .odt, .ods,

Re: [users] 3.2 toolbars not staying put

2010-03-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
Tim Lungstrom wrote: Well this is another try to get anyone to help me fix the trouble with the toolbars that I am setting to view going away. I did not see this in 3.1.x, but it is happening with 3.2 64-bit deb I open Writer. Set the text object toolbar to be viewed. Then when I do a print

[users] Does file-locking work over sshfs?

2010-03-10 Thread chombee
How does open office 3.1's file locking work? Or, what I really want to know is, if one user mounts the filesystem using sshfs and other users just access the file system directly, while file-locking still work with the sshfs user? Thanks

Re: [users] Title Text Spectrum Morphing

2010-03-10 Thread James Greenidge
jonathon wrote: James Greenidge wrote:y my problem! The crux of my problem is figuring out what intermediate pallet colors transitioning from navy blue to salmon to use for each letter in the title heading. It sounds like a color matching puzzle a child would enjoy, but I lost talent

Re: [users] Regex Find Replace

2010-03-10 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:47 10/03/2010 -0800, Gary Noop wrote: Sorting through a flat data file (GEDCOM genealogy database file) in Writer (3.2 - linux) and I am attempting to find and replace the following: lowercase m preceded by a space and followed by uppercase A-Z. Example: (space)mAnderson replace as

[users] Re: Regex Find Replace

2010-03-10 Thread NoOp
On 03/10/2010 04:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 13:47 10/03/2010 -0800, Gary Noop wrote: Sorting through a flat data file (GEDCOM genealogy database file) in Writer (3.2 - linux) and I am attempting to find and replace the following: lowercase m preceded by a space and followed by uppercase A-Z.

[users] mail merge instructions for version 3?

2010-03-10 Thread Dave Stevens
I've been trying to read through the instructions for mail merge and can only find docs for version 2. Is there a source for version 3? I'm using 3.1.1. Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For

Re: [users] mail merge instructions for version 3?

2010-03-10 Thread RA Brown
Dave Stevens wrote: I've been trying to read through the instructions for mail merge and can only find docs for version 2. Is there a source for version 3? I'm using 3.1.1. Dave Hi Dave, Have you tried the OOoAuthors site, www.oooauthors.org ? The file your looking for can be found at

[users] Re: Openoffice.org ECCN request.

2010-03-10 Thread NoOp
On 03/09/2010 01:41 PM, Christian X Dickerson wrote: Hello, One of my clients is exporting a computer with your software on the computer. I was wondering if your openoffice.org software has been reviewed for export control reasons, and if so, what is the corresponding ECCN? If not, are

[users] Changing Page Orientation in Draw

2010-03-10 Thread WANG, Xiaoyun
Hi, all, I have a Draw file with several pages of landscape orientation. Now I want to insert a page of portrait orientation, but so far I'm not able to do so. If I insert a blank page and change the orientation to portrait, then all other pages will be changed to portrait as well. I was trying

Re: [users] 3.2 toolbars not staying put

2010-03-10 Thread webmas...@krackedpress.com
Barbara Duprey wrote: Tim, part of the problem may be that you are not subscribed to the list, and not everybody will specifically include your address in their response. There are other ways to see the responses -- I can help (off-list) if you'd like. I've had similar problems with

Re: [users] Changing Page Orientation in Draw

2010-03-10 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:28 11/03/2010 +0800, WANG, Xiaoyun wrote: I have a Draw file with several pages of landscape orientation. Now I want to insert a page of portrait orientation, but so far I'm not able to do so. If I insert a blank page and change the orientation to portrait, then all other pages will be

Re: [users] Re: odt table bug?

2010-03-10 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
I wrote:   Today the doctor told me that it is possible that he produced the table in Excel. --- NoOp wrote: Still looks to be a bug. I even tried a copy paste to a new document with the same results. As mentioned, OOo 3.1.1 Ubuntu/Novell/go-oo version preserves the table (albeit with

Re: [users] 3.2 toolbars not staying put

2010-03-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Tim, Tim Lungstrom wrote (10-03-10 03:30) Well this is another try to get anyone to help me fix the trouble with the toolbars that I am setting to view going away. I did not see this in 3.1.x, but it is happening with 3.2 64-bit deb I open Writer. Set the text object toolbar to be