Re: Facebook comment: It is time for an advanced product. please meet with me.

[F C. Costero]

I went to https://www.facebook.com/pg/ApacheOO/posts/ and found the post by
Thomas Reid from Feb. 1. The message is fully quoted in the title of this
thread, so there is no more to learn from the post.
Francis

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 10:59 AM Peter Kovacs  wrote:

>
> https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2835088696549989=185963401462545
>
> Strange through my phone I can link. Facebook is a really strange
> application.
> Please have a go.
>
> All the best
> Peter
>
> Am 7. Februar 2020 18:50:08 MEZ schrieb Patricia Shanahan :
> >How about a link to the group or page?
> >
> >Any idea whereabouts in California? I live in San Diego county, at the
> >south end, and there are places in California that are hundreds of
> >miles
> >from my home.
> >
> >On 2/7/2020 9:00 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote:
> >> I am sorry. Facebook does not allow external links. If you have a
> >> Facebook acount you can see it in the vistor section
> >>
> >> I think it is public. Or I invite you to the facebook site. He posted
> >a
> >> message on our Apache OpenOffice board. People
> >>
> >> usually write how much they love / hate our Software or ask for help.
> >>
> >> The message he has placed is in the subject. I have asked him where
> >he
> >> lives, and he answered CA, but he is flexible. That is all
> >communication
> >> right now.
> >>
> >> Since I answer as AOO, I did not further Chitchat.
> >>
> >> He seems to be a older respectable US Citizen. A patriot to his
> >country.
> >> He seem not to use Facebook a lot. So I would not say he writes
> >random
> >> comments.
> >>
> >> I am curious what his Idea is. But in our definition of serious I
> >would
> >> not expect this will be something major. But you never know. People
> >are
> >> awesome and full of surprises. ;)
> >>
> >>
> >> My Ideas are:
> >>
> >> 1) Dave could arrange for the meeting. Is this interesting enough for
> >you?
> >>
> >> 2) I can chitchat try to get more information, what he wants.
> >>
> >> 3) I could guide him to private or dev for introduction. And then we
> >> take next steps.
> >>
> >> all the best
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >>
> >> On 07.02.20 17:32, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
> >>> Can you post a link or something? I have no context.
> >>>
> >>> On 2/7/2020 7:03 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote:
>  Hello all,
> 
>  what should I give for an answer?
> 
>  The person lives in california, in case somebody wants to talk.
> 
> 
>  All the Best
> 
>  Peter
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Letter page size in Writer sidebar

[F C. Costero]

As a native English speaker, I also have no problem with those
abbreviations. In that context, there  are not many other words that could
be there, so it is very easy to understand the meaning.
Francis

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 3:02 PM Michele Denber  wrote:

> On 02-05-2020 4:03 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > While working on the Writer sidebar I discovered that page size "Letter"
> > and "Legal" have no graphic like e.g. "A4".
> > Unfortunately there is not much space, so I would like to abbreviate
> > Letter with Ltr (and Legal with Lgl):
> >
> > https://home.apache.org/~mseidel/Letter%20size.pdf
> >
> > As a non native speaking person I would like to hear some opinions about
> > that.
> As a native English speaking person, I'd have no problem with that. I
> think anyone would understand the intended meaning.
>
>  - Michele
>
>

Reporting broken download link

[C-M Evenson]

Hi!

I have just finished downloaded win 10, when I discovered that I had no 
access to Mic. Excel any more. As I have Open office on another 
computer, I decided to use your Excel-programme instead. I found very 
soon, that your programme could not be downloaded; in fact no page at 
all could be reached. After some seconds the page disappeared and the 
following sign was shown:


Oh no! Some styles failed to load. Please try reloading this page, or 
contact support .


Underneath was a list of clickable headlines.

Some computer dates:

Windows 10 Pro 64 bitar  Version: 18363.592

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570S CPU @ 2.90GHz

L01 v02.71

Kind regards

Carl-Magnus Evenson

Re: Can't download updates

[F C. Costero]

You can go to the web page http://www.openoffice.org/download/, choose the
appropriate operating system and language and then click on Download Full
Installation. You will be redirected to a page on SourceForge where the
download will start automatically. You do not need to click anything on the
SourceForge page.
If you still have problems, it would be best to ask on the users mailing
list or on the forum at https://forum.openoffice.org/en/. This is a list
for developers.
Best regards,
Francis

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 6:38 AM Alvin Armbruster 
wrote:

> I receive a message that download failed for update for open office. How
> do I receive a current update for Open Office?
>
> Thank you.
>

Re: Transferring Openoffice to new computer

[F C. Costero]

This is not he best place to ask user questions. Please use the users
mailing list or the forum (https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/) in the
future.

You can simply download the installation files for Apache OpenOffice from
the web site www.openoffice.org to the new computer and then run the
installation process.  You can transfer your existing files using a USB
drive or by uploading them to a network accessible location like dropbox or
google drive and then downloading them to the new computer. Be sure to
place them on the new computer in a folder intended for user files, such as
the Documents folder or one of its sub folders. If you use a USB drive, be
sure to follow the correct procedure to eject or unload the drive before
physically removing it.
Regards,
Francis

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 3:56 PM Vermillion  wrote:

> How do I transfer existing Apache Openoffice from Windows 7 to new
> Windows 10?
>
> Thank you
>
>
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Re: Time for our first 4.2.0 beta?

[F C. Costero]

I am a moderator on the en forum but I am speaking only for myself here. I
think gathering feedback on the forum would be a good solution. The en
forum has a User Experience area that gets very little traffic and could
perhaps be used to gather beta build input. Feedback in languages other
than English could be gathered on the appropriate forums, though they may
need to make a dedicated area. It would be nice to widen the range of
participants beyond people comfortable in English.

I am not sure what the concern is behind the comment "What I mean is, is
there enough coverage of moderators and power users?". On the en forum we
have close to 24 hour coverage of moderators and volunteers and I don't
think an increase in traffic from a beta build would be a problem. The es
forum is the only other one I have experience with and I think there are
plenty of moderators and volunteers there to handle an increase in traffic,
though I obviously have not asked them about this.

I would be happy to make note on this list of interesting or repeated input
about a beta build appearing on the en or es forums.

Stating the correct way to give feedback on the Splash screen should be
considered.

best regards,
Francis

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:53 PM Marcus  wrote:

> Am 28.01.19 um 19:39 schrieb Jim Jagielski:
> > Perfect, thx.
> >
> > Just so I know, what's the procedure for us doing beta releases? Where
> do they go?
>
> this will be our first beta release here at Apache. So, nobody can tell
> you what to do / where to go and we have to find the way together. ;-)
>
> I would say we should not do things different (at least not too many)
> compared to our normal releases.
>
> After thinking a bit I suggest that we:
>
> - exchange the splash screen with a big and clear hint that it's a beta
> (no production use, no regular support, etc.)
> - prepare the install files as a normal release but with special file names
> - no participation with the update service
> - upload the install files to SourceForge in an own subdir
> - offer them on our download webpage
>
> I don't know how we can to collect the feedback. BZ is not the right
> channel for this. Can we create a special beta area in the forums? What
> I mean is, is there enough coverage of moderators and power users?
>
> Marcus
>
>
>
> >> On Jan 28, 2019, at 12:31 PM, Mechtilde  wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello Jim,
> >>
> >> the beta version should contain the recent translation, so I will start
> >> to prepare an update of the *.sdf files.
> >>
> >> Kind regards
> >>
> >> Am 28.01.19 um 14:20 schrieb Jim Jagielski:
> >>> I think we are at a stage where we should consider doing our
> >>> 1st beta release of 4.2.0... we have successful builds for macOS,
> >>> Linux 32 and 64, and Windows; we have a stable 4.2.0-dev branch,
> >>> and enough changes to warrant a beta release for testing and
> >>> feedback (all IMO ;) ).
> >>>
> >>> Any comments or other thoughts?
>
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Re: Error:: While installing openoffice debian menus

[F C. Costero]

Hi Nikhil,
Try purging LibreOffice with
sudo apt-get purge LibreOffice*
I did this before installing OpenOffice on my Linux Mint system and it
installed with no error. I was then able to download LibreOffice from the
LibreOffice site and install that in parallel with OpenOffice. I believe
the error you are encountering is seen with any OpenOffice installation on
Ubuntu and is not a result of your build process. See
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74=50119#p228095

Best regards,
Francis



On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 5:22 PM Nikhil Gupta 
wrote:

> Hi
> I built openoffice on my Ubuntu(14.04)
> The build successfully run with no error message.
> But when i tried to install openoffice debian menus
> Following error shows:
> dpkg: error processing archive /home/nikhil/help/aoo/main/instsetoo_native/
>
> unxlngx6.pro/Apache_OpenOffice/deb/install/en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/openoffice4.2-debian-menus_4.5-9900_all.deb
> (--install
> 
> ):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package
> libreoffice-common 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.3
> /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache
>
> Please help
>

Re: branch 4.1.7?

[F C. Costero]

One "regression" that merits immediate attention is crashing on Windows
when trying to edit a macro embedded in a Writer or Calc document ( I
haven't checked Impress or Base yet). If  I open a new document and try to
make an embedded macro (menus Tools -> Macros -> Organize Macros ->
OpenOffice Basic) OpenOffice crashes immediately after I accept the default
module name of Module1. Going through the recovery process, I am asked to
Enable or Disable macros, so the module is created but I cannot get at it.
I can edit the Standard library in My Macros but it is unstable. For
example, if I select two lines of code and press backspace, the program
crashes. This problem started after a Windows update last summer. I thought
a  subsequent update fixed it, but I was wrong.  I have checked 4.1.5,
4.1.6 and 4.2.0 and it affects all of them. It is not really a regression,
since 4.1.5 worked fine until the Windows update, but Windows users cannot
use macros. I looked for a bug report and did not find one but my Bugzilla
skills are poor. Are the devs aware of this problem?

best regards,
Francis

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 9:38 AM Patricia Shanahan  wrote:

> I agree that the focus should be on 4.2.0. However, I strongly favor
> having a ready-to-go 4.1.7. Any day, we could encounter a really
> serious, must-fix-immediately, security bug. Having as much as possible
> done ahead of time will reduce the delay from knowing the fix to end
> users having the fix.
>
> On 1/21/2019 8:36 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> > Gotcha. I was just thinking that if we had a 4.1.7 branch in a
> ready-to-go stage, if we needed to do another 4.1.x release it would be
> already there.
> >
> > But agree that the focus should be on 4.2.0
> >
> >> On Jan 21, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Rory O'Farrell  wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:12:12 -0500
> >> Jim Jagielski  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Does it make sense to create a branch of 4.1.7 from 4.1.6...?
> >>
> >> No, unless for some urgent fix.  I think better to continue with 4.2.0,
> then on to 5.0
> >>
> >> 4.2.0 editing OK in Writer (60k word file, book format, no
> illustrations/tables).  A simple spreadsheet working OK; existing Impress
> presentations displaying, apart from two where slide backgrounds cause
> crash. Multimedia in new presentations not yet checked.
> >>
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Re: Re: R: Re: Forum Migration Status

[F C. Costero]

The en forum is responding very slowly. It took about 5 minutes to load the
page when I tried it just now. All of the other languages responded much
more quickly, loading in a few seconds.
Francis

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 3:30 PM ca.salva  wrote:

>
>
> Thank you Dave, for your work and for your patient
> answers.Regards charlieInviato da Tablet Samsung.
>
>  Messaggio originale 
> Da: Dave Fisher 
> Data: 30/11/2018  23:03  (GMT+01:00)
> A: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> Oggetto: Re: R: Re: Forum Migration Status
>
> Hi,Yes, 3.2.4 will come in the future. Hungarian and Japanese are not
> available.I can attempt to do these one language at a time, but I’ll need
> to work with each NL administrator.Regards,DaveSent from my iPhone> On Nov
> 30, 2018, at 1:21 PM, ca.salva  wrote:> > > >
> All good for me too. But I thought I would also find an update to the phpBB
> version 3.2.4. Evidently I misunderstood, will it come in the future?> >
>  Messaggio originale > Da: Hagar Delest <
> delest.ha...@gmail.com> > Data: 30/11/2018  21:56  (GMT+01:00) > A:
> dev@openoffice.apache.org > Oggetto: Re: Forum Migration Status > > +1,
> many thanks, that way much better!Did the daily usual things and everything
> went smoothly.HagarLe 30/11/2018 à 20:37, F C. Costero a écrit :> Hi Dave,>
> Thanks for your efforts! The en forum is significantly faster than it has>
> bee recently> Best regards,> Francis>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:54 AM
> Dave Fisher  wrote:>>> Migration has
> completed.>>>> The IP address has changed and it may take up to 15 minutes
> from now for>> the DNS change to propagate to you.>>>> Regards,>>
> Dave>>>>>>> On Nov 30, 2018, at 9:01 AM, Dave Fisher <
> dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:>>>>>> Hi ->>>>>> Migration is
> started.>>>>>> Regards,>>> Dave>>>>>>> On Nov 29, 2018, at 6:50 PM, Dave
> Fisher  wrote:>>>>>>>> Hi ->>>>>>>> The forums
> will be down from 9AM - 11AM PST (17:00-19:00 UTC) for VM>> switchover.>>>>
> Regards,>>>> Dave>>>>>>>>> On Nov 27, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Dave Fisher <
> dave2w...@comcast.net>>> wrote:>>>>> Hi Hagar and forum
> users/admins,>>>>>>>>>> https://forum-test.openoffice.org/ <
> https://forum-test.openoffice.org/>>>>>>> (1) Attempt to use newest phpBB
> 3.2.4 which works with php 7. I’ve>> examined the code and it looks
> right.>>>>> I dug further and language packs for Hungarian and Japanese are
> not>> available. I think that we need to look into this carefully before
> we>> migrate to 3.2.4.>>>>> Also, new have subsilver2 theme installed. It
> does not look like we>> use it, but it is not offered for 3.2.4. We will
> need to do more careful>> testing of all of the language
> forums.>>>>>>>>>>>> (2) If (1) is difficult then we will downgrade to php
> 5.>>>>> I chose to have Infra downgrade PHP to version 5.6. Thanks Chris>>
> (fluxo)!>>>>>>> (3) Sync up from current forums.>>>>> Synced up files,
> avatars and databases. I will need two hours to do>> this either late
> Thursday or early Friday.>>>>>>> (4) Add warning about migration downtime
> to current production.>>>>> I think you did this
> sufficiently.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (5) Create a blocking httpd configuration
> for during the migration>>>>> I think I will just stop apache
> httpd.>>>>>>>>>> (6) Community Testing.>>>>>>>>>> Please start
> testing!>>>>>>>>>> Regards,>>>>> Dave>>>>>>>>>>> On Nov 27, 2018, at 12:15
> PM, Hagar Delest > <mailto:delest.ha...@gmail.com>>
> wrote:>>>>>> Top posting>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Dave,>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks, that
> sounds a good plan, especially providing a plan B!>>>>>> I've added you as
> admin for both English forums (standard and test>> boards).>>>>>> I've sent
> you by PM (in the regular forum) the list of the native>> language
> admins.>>>>>> I'll try to monitor the list and the forum more closely
> during>> daytime (France ti

Re: Forum Migration Status

[F C. Costero]

Hi Dave,
Thanks for your efforts! The en forum is significantly faster than it has
bee recently
Best regards,
Francis

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:54 AM Dave Fisher  wrote:

> Migration has completed.
>
> The IP address has changed and it may take up to 15 minutes from now for
> the DNS change to propagate to you.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>
> > On Nov 30, 2018, at 9:01 AM, Dave Fisher  wrote:
> >
> > Hi -
> >
> > Migration is started.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dave
> >
> >> On Nov 29, 2018, at 6:50 PM, Dave Fisher  wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi -
> >>
> >> The forums will be down from 9AM - 11AM PST (17:00-19:00 UTC) for VM
> switchover.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>> On Nov 27, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Dave Fisher 
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Hagar and forum users/admins,
> >>>
> >>> https://forum-test.openoffice.org/  >
> >>>
> > (1) Attempt to use newest phpBB 3.2.4 which works with php 7. I’ve
> examined the code and it looks right.
> >>>
> >>> I dug further and language packs for Hungarian and Japanese are not
> available. I think that we need to look into this carefully before we
> migrate to 3.2.4.
> >>>
> >>> Also, new have subsilver2 theme installed. It does not look like we
> use it, but it is not offered for 3.2.4. We will need to do more careful
> testing of all of the language forums.
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> > (2) If (1) is difficult then we will downgrade to php 5.
> >>>
> >>> I chose to have Infra downgrade PHP to version 5.6. Thanks Chris
> (fluxo)!
> >>>
> >
> > (3) Sync up from current forums.
> >>>
> >>> Synced up files, avatars and databases. I will need two hours to do
> this either late Thursday or early Friday.
> >>>
> >
> > (4) Add warning about migration downtime to current production.
> >>>
> >>> I think you did this sufficiently.
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> > (5) Create a blocking httpd configuration for during the migration
> >>>
> >>> I think I will just stop apache httpd.
> >>>
> >>> (6) Community Testing.
> >>>
> >>> Please start testing!
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Dave
> >>>
>  On Nov 27, 2018, at 12:15 PM, Hagar Delest  > wrote:
> 
>  Top posting
> 
>  Hi Dave,
> 
>  Thanks, that sounds a good plan, especially providing a plan B!
>  I've added you as admin for both English forums (standard and test
> boards).
>  I've sent you by PM (in the regular forum) the list of the native
> language admins.
> 
>  I'll try to monitor the list and the forum more closely during
> daytime (France time) in the next few days, just in case.
>  Note that acknak has also admin rights on the board, he's in the US.
> 
>  Hagar
> 
>  Le 27/11/2018 à 04:12, Dave Fisher a écrit :
> > Hi -
> >
> > Further status and plan.
> >
> > The remaining issues involve phpBB 3.0.9 use of a function
> deprecated in php 5 and absent in php 7.
> >
> > (0) Given information requested in the last email.
> >
> > Tomorrow -
> >
> > (1) Attempt to use newest phpBB 3.2.4 which works with php 7. I’ve
> examined the code and it looks right.
> >
> > (2) If (1) is difficult then we will downgrade to php 5.
> >
> > (3) Sync up from current forums.
> >
> > (4) Add warning about migration downtime to current production.
> >
> > (5) Create a blocking httpd configuration for during the migration
> >
> > Wednesday
> >
> > (6) Request community testing
> >
> > Friday
> >
> > (7) Perform migration.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dave
> >
> >> On Nov 26, 2018, at 4:10 PM, Dave Fisher  >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Hagar / Forum Admins,
> >>
> >> We must do a forum migration to new VMs by Friday, November 30th.
> >>
> >> It turns out that many of the errors we had in June testing are due
> to incompatibilities between PHP 7 and phpBB 3.0.x and 3.1.x. Specifically
> BBCodes use a php method that is no longer supported in PHP 7.
> >>
> >> In order for me to better perform the migration I need you to grant
> my ID (dave2wave) full admin rights on both the current production and also
> forum test.
> >>
> >> Also, please provide to me the email addresses to each forums
> admins so that I can provide any setup instructions.
> >>
> >> I am in the San Francisco area and will be online by 16:00 UTC.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Dave
> >>
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Re: Small website refresh

[F C. Costero]

I like the update. I am puzzled by the three different Download
buttons/links. The one at the top right says Download, there is a central
one for Download For Windows, and a small link under that that says Other
Platforms. All three lead to the standard download page where the OS is
detected automatically. On this Linux Mint system I am using, the Download
For Windows button results in me being offered the Linux 64 bit RPM (RPM is
the wrong choice, but that is a different problem). Why is the button
labeled as a Windows download?
Please keep this effort going!
Francis

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 2:46 AM George Karalis  wrote:

> https://thorbust.github.io/openoffice-website/ <
> https://thorbust.github.io/openoffice-website/>
>
> This is the updated homepage. I ‘d love to hear your feedback and if you
> feel like it
> we can move it to production.
>
> As for the MSVC I will send sometime next week the work I have done in
> the MSVC thread.
>
> Regards,
> George
>
>
>
> > On 22 Nov 2018, at 11:52, Peter Kovacs  wrote:
> >
> > Nice job.
> >
> > I am not sure if I am fully remeber the Page.
> >
> > We used to use a CMS system from Apache that is unmaintained. Infra
> > recommended that we move away from it.
> >
> > This seems a good point to switch the workflow we use? Maybe trying to
> > move towards static Pages created with Hugo?
> >
> > This would be worth a look.
> >
> >
> > About MSVC, where can I see your work?- Is it maybe possible to create a
> > github repository where you upload your changes?
> >
> > I am curious on the nature of changes needed to be done.
> >
> >
> > Please keep up your engagement. This is appreciated.
> >
> >
> > All the best
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > On 20.11.18 17:59, George Karalis wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have redesigned and implemented the new homepage in code. I have also
> setup the
> >> local web development environment and integrated the code. If anyone
> likes to view
> >> the redesigned homepage I can provide a static html, that you can view
> in your browser,
> >> to be reviewed etc.
> >>
> >> If you are up for a refresh, I want to know how could i send the
> updated repository,
> >> or if I could have commit access to the user end portal.
> >>
> >> Also, having worked with the website's build process, it’s a little bit
> counterintuitive,
> >> especially for modern web development, so I propose to build
> openoffice.org using
> >> a static site generator. I recommend Hugo . I can
> take this as a long project, as in a
> >> few weeks I am probably finishing with the MSVC update.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> George
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 19 Nov 2018, at 14:30, Pedro Lino  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> As a user, a Big +1
> >>>
> >>> Very nice layout!
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Pedro
>  On November 19, 2018 at 12:04 PM George Karalis 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>  Hello everyone,
> 
>  Since the 4.1.6 release is out, I was thinking for a small update at
> the openoffice.org  homepage
>  to make the end users onboarding a little bit easier. I ‘ve coded a
> little sample that you can see
>  bellow, so if you are ok with a refresh on the homepage I can
> integrate the code within the
>  current website repository.
> 
>  Regards,
>  George
> 
>  
> >>>
> >>
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Re: License of specific fonts?

[F C. Costero]

Hello Simon,
No one here or on any Apache web site can provide legal advice. See
https://opensource.com/article/17/11/open-source-and-fonts for a layman's
discussion of font licensing. What that article  seems to say is that
whether you can include the font when you distribute a document depends on
the license. For example, this Microsoft site (
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-redistribution-licensing)
says you may not copy or redistribute their fonts, though they can be
embedded for certain uses. It seems you will have to think about just how
your writing will be distributed and then read the font licenses and check
with a lawyer if necessary.

Francis

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 2:35 AM Simon Gottwald
 wrote:

> Hello and sorry to bother you with such a banal question! I couldn't
> find any answer on the web nor in the documentation and none of the
> mailing lists seemed to fit my question.
>
> If I want to create a commercial publication, e.g. a magazine, with
> OpenOffice Writer, do I have to keep anything in mind with regards to
> the fonts contained and their licensing? i.e. do I have to acquire an
> additional license from Microsoft if I want to use Calibri? Or can I
> just use it in OpenOffice Writer as is, even for commercial publications?
>
> Best Regards and sorry again!
>
> Simon
>
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Re: creating a spreadsheet (was: new cool feature)

[F C. Costero]

I changed the LOOKUP() function in columns D and E to be a VLOOKUP() with
the fourth parameter set to 0 so the function looks for an exact match. The
LOOKUP() function requires that the lookup vector be ordered. Since column
A of the Database sheet is not ordered, incorrect results were returned.
I fixed the formulas in column I to have the form
=H4-G4 + (G4 >H4)
This accounts for cases where the end time (H4) has a smaller clock value
(e.g. 07:00) than the start time (e.g. 19:00) but is in the next day. Times
are stored in units of days. The time 07:00 has the value 7/24 and the time
19:00 has the value 19/24. You were subtracting
7/24 - 19/24 = -12/24 = -0.5
If a cell is formatted as time, -0.5 is displayed as12:00, but the value is
still -0.5.
I appended
+ (G4 > H4)
which returns FALSE (equal to zero) when H4 is larger than or equal to G4.
When G4 is larger than H4, it returns TRUE (equal to one) that gives
H4-G4 + (G4 >H4) = 7/24 - 19/24 + (19/24 > 7/24) = -0.5 + (TRUE) = -0.5 + 1
= 0.5
The 0.5, when formatted as time, is 12:00 and it is the desired answer.
This is not a bug. All spreadsheets treat times as fractions of a day.

As Peter says, it is better to get help on the forum or the user list.

Francis


On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:57 PM, Peter Kovacs  wrote:

> Hi Archie,
>
>
> Welcome to OpenOffice. I whish you a lot of fun with the Software.
>
> There are lots of possible ways to make your live easier.
>
> I would recommend to use our forums or users mailing list to ask questions
> on ways what you want to do.
>
> I think there are all the features you do expect, but it is made
> differently then you might think.
>
>
> I have quickly exchanged the Postcode and the Miles with a lookup
> function, I would use. But there is an issue. Can someone else have a look?
> I do not find what I did wrong.
>
>
> I loop in users for better support. Sorry, got to go. I am late for work
> ... :S
>
>
> HTH
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 8/16/18 5:59 AM, Archie Dyno Wizard wrote:
>
> Dear developers! I'm beginning my experience with OpenOffice Calc, and I'm
> finding a few ugly bugs. First I think I'm too stupid, but then I realize
> it is a bug that doesn't depend on my knowledge. I have made one bug report
> about calculating time consumption and using the result in a formula for
> next cell.. But this mail is not about that. I was trying to find how to
> make my spreadsheet to fill cells according to previous cell, and finally
> I've found, that there is no option for that, so I created a long formula
> based on "IF" logic task. So now when I type a Name in "LOCATION" cell, it
> automatically recognizes it, and fills following cells "MILES", "POSTCODE",
> and "PAYRATE". Makes it so much easier, but makes difficult creating
> and maintaining the formula. So for now my 3-customer formula looks like
> this:
>  =IF(C371="global 
> stansted";"CM235PU";IF(C371="Mojito";"CM235PU";IF(C371="grafton
> cambridge";"CM11HE";"-")))
> And it is only beginning of my Self Employment.
>
>  So my suggestion is to create an additional AutoFill form where user can
> make a list of related data in specific columns or rows to fill up multiple
> cells at the same time.
>
> Thank you very much for such a wonderful opportunity to use a free Office
> Sofware!!! You guys rock!!!
>
> Attaching a piece of my Spreadsheet that shows  bug in calculation of a
> "TOTAL INC" column, and the idea about AutoFill...
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Re: open office file and Excel

[F C. Costero]

Hello Ami
The problem is almost certainly that the default program your computer
wants to use is Excel and that the icon displayed for the file is therefore
an Excel icon. The file content is unaffected in this case. There are two
things you can try to open the file. I assume you are using Windows. I am
not on a Windows machine at the moment, so I have to rely on my memory.
Please excuse an errors in my instructions.
Method 1. Start OpenOffice by clicking on the Windows button and searching
through the available programs. Once OpenOffice is running, use the menu
File -> Open to navigate to the file.
Method 2. Right click on the file icon and select Open With. OpenOffice
should be on the list of available programs. Before selecting OpenOffice,
look to see if there is an option something like "Always use this program
for files of this type". Select that option if it is present and then
choose OpenOffice.

If the above does not solve your problem, please ask on the user forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/  You will have to register but that
is the more appropriate place to ask questions like this. If you prefer
mailing lists, there is a users mailing list intended for this type of
support. This mailing list is for developers.
Best regards,
Francis

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Ami Watson  wrote:

> My open office file automatically changed over to Excel.  I don't have
> Excel and am now unable to open it.  Do you know what can be done about
> this.
>
> amiwatso...@gmail.com
>

Re: OPEN OFFICE DRAW - PLEASE CONTACT \ME ASAP

[Patti C.]

We save the cost for a toll free technical support number in order to ship
the Product for free.
May I ask where you got your copy of Open office from?
Which version of Open Office do you use?

I do not understand the Problem you have. I can open Apache Open Office
Draw and set the ruler as I whish.

Why the pressure. ASAP sounds very urgend. Why is that.
A=I am trying to start a business of my own and using Open Office Draw.
I need everything to work properly and effectively
Even the AVG technician(s) were having problems with the ruler measurements.

Why is it that sometimes you click Open-Open Office-Draw and every once in
a while a draw window opens without the side panel, to view the content(s)
on each page in the individual Draw windows?
How do you correct this?
What buttons on the keyboard do you press, to correct this?

ASAP as it is important to me and I want to complete all contents within
the Open Office Draw window(s), so each looks impressive and I can correct
the error(s) being made by
using specific keys on the keyboard, instead of becoming flustered, and/or
frustrated; without any simplistic steps provided to resolve the problem(s)
at hand.

To me it is an urgent matter which needs immediate attention. When I
couldn't get a hold of you, open office by phone I called AVG techs. The
AVG techs were even bewildered as to how to resolve the problem(s)
presented.

Why is Cross Fading, Fields, Links, Object and Hyperlink grayed out in Edit?

Why is crop picture grayed out in Format?

Why is Distribution,Group, Ungroup, Enter Group, Exit Group, Combine,
Split, Connect and Break grayed out in Modify?

Why aren't all option selections made available to be used?

Not all computer users are computer technicians or programmers and need to
know the simplified steps of what keyboard keys are needing to be pressed,
to resolve the issue(s) and, or problem(s) which have occurred at the
present time(s); otherwise the unresolved issue(s) may become very
frustrating and/or blood pressure elevating..

In the help selections, could all the methods/steps of using the keyboard
buttons for each problem which may arise, be simply stated in the Help
selection.
Such as: Draw-Side Panel window display- press ? key+?key+?key (Shift+ F3,
Ctrl+S, CTRL+Shift+S, etc.)
instead of all the technical jibberish that is unable to be understood by
many.

Thank you for replying, I just got impatient of waiting for reply and
called the AVG techs.
As I said, all problems which I have faced are urgent to correct, as I am
trying to do impressive work in starting a business of my own and Open
Office Draw was the option which suited my needs beat at the time.

Patti C.


Patti C.








Please note this is going over a puplic free for all readable channel.

A copy of every message is released on the Web.

all the best

Peter

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:46 AM, Peter Kovacs <legi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Patti C.,
>
> We save the cost for a toll free technical support number in order to ship
> the Product for free.
> May I ask where you got your copy of Open office from?
> Which version of Open Office do you use?
>
> I do not understand the Problem you have. I can open Apache Open Office
> Draw and set the ruler as I whish.
>
> Why the pressure. ASAP sounds very urgend. Why is that.
>
> Please note this is going over a puplic free for all readable channel.
>
> A copy of every message is released on the Web.
>
> all the best
>
> Peter
>
> On 15.05.2017 02:13, Patti C. wrote:
>
>> Why is there not a toll free number to call for technical Support?
>>
>> Why aren't all the proper tools provided which are needed for rulers? at
>> the top of Draw and on the left hand side of Draw?
>>
>> Where are the normal measure scale(s) for all rulers provided
>> which measures 01-25, 01-50, 01-75 0r 01-100 from the left to the right,
>> for millimeters, centimeters, inches, etc..?!
>>
>> Why does it seem the ruler correction(s) are so impossible to make? Do you
>> want to discourage user(s) so each no longer uses Open Office?
>>
>> Why are *6* *options* grayed out and made unusable in *Edit*?
>>
>> Why is it that in* View*-*Input* *Method* *Status* grayed out and made
>> unusable?
>>
>> Why is *Special* *Character* grayed out and made unusable in *Insert*?
>>
>> *Tools*- Why aren't all *proper* *tools* *provided* to be used, that are
>> *needed* to *correct* any *error*(*s*)? This *needs* to become a
>> *priority*
>> to be *corrected* *immediately*.
>>
>> *Format* - Why is *Default Formatting* grayed out and not made available
>> to
>> be used?
>>  Why is *Position* and *Size* grayed out and made
>> unavailable to be used?
>>  Why is *Crop* *Pictur

Re: Ich werde http://www.openoffice.org/de/dev/ aktualisieren und brauche Infos

[C. Wiebe]

Am 01.11.2017 um 11:10 schrieb Matthias Seidel:

Hallo Jörg,

Am 01.11.2017 um 09:36 schrieb Jörg Schmidt:

Hallo,

nachdem Matthias schrieb das er den dev-Bereich der de-Seite wiederhergestellt 
hat habe ich mir das jetzt angesehen und will mich bemühen die entsprechenden 
Seiten möglichst bald zu bearbeiten, damit meine ich die Seiten:

  Für Mithelfer
  Mitarbeiter-FAQ
  Ansprechpartner
  Das Team
  Fehlerbericht
  Aufgabenliste
  Aktuelle TODO-Liste
  Mailinglisten
  IRC
  Issuezilla Einführung
  Qualitätskontrolle
  Zuwendungen
  Danksagung

rechts im Menp, z.B. auf Seite:
http://www.openoffice.org/de/dev/

Wenn du noch irgendwo etwas findest, was eine 404-Seite aufruft, sag
kurz Bescheid!
Den Download-Link habe ich kurzerhand umgeleitet auf unsere aktuelle
Download-Seite. Das ist einfacher, als überall die Verweise anzupassen...



Meine Bitte an Alle:

Ich werde im Lauf der Bearbeitung einige Fragen haben, wo ich Unterstützung 
brauche z.B. das 'Zurufen' einiger Fakten. Dazu werde ich gesonderte Threads 
eröffnen (und mir Mühe geben mich kurz zu halten ;-)).
Ich wäre sehr dankbar wenn jeder, der etwas zu den dann aufgeworfenen Fragen 
sagen kann, das tut.

Gerne, wobei sich mein "historisches" Wissen auf die letzten 2 Jahre
beschränkt. ;-)

Gruß, Matthias




Gruß
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Und warum ist da kein Openoffice 4.1. ... zu finden?

Gruss

Claudia


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Re: Troubles Loading Files with OpenOffice

[F C. Costero]

Hello Emma,
I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. This mailing list is used by
developers and not intended for user support. I suggest you post your
message on the users mailing list or at the user forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php.
Best regards,
Francis

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:08 PM, QCIT3 MMisonora 
wrote:

>
> Hello there,
>
> Recently the company I am working for has downloaded your program,
> OpenOffice and have tried to open some files we have previously made files
> on Windows Excel with your program. However, it took about twenty minutes
> to load, so I was wondering why is it loading so slow and how can we make
> it load faster. The computers we are using are Windows 7 computers that run
> on a Core 2 Duo with 2 GB of RAM and a 32-bit Operating System.
>
> Please help,
>
> Emma
>
> Sent from Outlook
>

Re: Community in Mexico City

[F C. Costero]

I just copied imacat's message to the Spanish forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/es/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39=13006#p57499

Best regards,
Francis

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Dave Fisher  wrote:

> Hi imacat,
>
> It’s been awhile. I hope you are well.
>
> For Apache wide community questions try this mailing list -
> d...@community.apache.org
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
> > On Jun 21, 2017, at 8:09 PM, imacat  wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> >I'll travel to Mexico from Taiwan on 7/1-10, and stay in Mexico City
> > from 7/5-10.  My main purpose is to attend to WikiWomen Camp 2017 in
> > Mexico City, but I would also like to meet the local OpenOffice/ASF/FOSS
> > community in Mexico City if possible.  Is there any community meetup in
> > Mexico City during 7/5-10?  Is there anyone that I can contact with?
> > Thank you very much in advance.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > imacat ^_*' 
> > PGP Key http://www.imacat.idv.tw/me/pgpkey.asc
> >
> > <> News: http://www.wov.idv.tw/
> > Tavern IMACAT's http://www.imacat.idv.tw/
> > Woman in FOSS in Taiwan http://www.wofoss.org/
> > OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/
> > EducOO/OOo4Kids Taiwan http://www.educoo.tw/
> > Greenfoot Taiwan http://greenfoot.westart.tw/
> >
>
>

OPEN OFFICE DRAW - PLEASE CONTACT \ME ASAP

[Patti C.]

Why is there not a toll free number to call for technical Support?

Why aren't all the proper tools provided which are needed for rulers? at
the top of Draw and on the left hand side of Draw?

Where are the normal measure scale(s) for all rulers provided
which measures 01-25, 01-50, 01-75 0r 01-100 from the left to the right,
for millimeters, centimeters, inches, etc..?!

Why does it seem the ruler correction(s) are so impossible to make? Do you
want to discourage user(s) so each no longer uses Open Office?

Why are *6* *options* grayed out and made unusable in *Edit*?

Why is it that in* View*-*Input* *Method* *Status* grayed out and made
unusable?

Why is *Special* *Character* grayed out and made unusable in *Insert*?

*Tools*- Why aren't all *proper* *tools* *provided* to be used, that are
*needed* to *correct* any *error*(*s*)? This *needs* to become a *priority*
to be *corrected* *immediately*.

*Format* - Why is *Default Formatting* grayed out and not made available to
be used?
Why is *Position* and *Size* grayed out and made
unavailable to be used?
Why is *Crop* *Picture* grayed out and made unavailable to
be used?

*Insert* - Why is Formatting Mark grayed out and made unavailable to be
used?

*Modify* - Why is *Convert* grayed out and made unavailable to be used?
   Why is *Arrange* options grayed out and made unavailable to
be used?
   Why is  *Distribution* grayed out and made unavailable to be
used?
Why is *Name* grayed out and made unavailable to be used?
 Why is *Group* grayed out and made unavailable to be used?
  Why is *Enter* *Group* grayed out and made unavailable to
be used?
   Why is *Exit* *Group* grayed out and made unavailable to
be used?
   Why is *Combine* grayed out and made unavailable to be
used?
Why is *Split* grayed out and made unavailable to be
used?
 Why is *Connect* grayed out and made unavailable to be
used?

These need to be made a priority to be made available to all user(s) to use.

Why isn't there a *download* *bar* on every *Open* *Office* *download* to
let you know when the download(s) have *started*, *downloading* and when
*finished*? This would be greatly *appreciated* by all Open Office users,
I'm sure.

One feature I am appreciative of is the document recovery.

  Time to make a lot of improvements to Open Office so it is much more
effective and simple to use, as well as meeting professional standards.

Do you have a remote screen capability?

Patti C.
902-989-5582 Call Me Please.

Re: AOO und Linux und Abstürz

[C. Wiebe]

Hallo Jan-Christian,

Hast du mal in diesen Überlegungen berücksichtigt, daß ich das 
Absturzproblem bei AOO Writer auch in Windows 10  hatte, wenn ich die 
Korrekturaufzeichnung aktiviert habe. Das ist bis jetzt  nicht gelöst. 
Auch ohne die Aufzeichnung stürzt OO ab und zu ab, aber seltener ;-/.

oder liegt es daran, daß ich die JRE Plattform nicht habe?
Gruß
claudia

Claudia Wiebe clad...@gmail.com
Am 19.03.2017 um 16:21 schrieb Jan-Christian Wienandt:

Moin Detlef,


hin und wieder wird hier von Problemen von AOO in Linux-Umgebungen
berichtet, zuletzt von Dave Penson und mir.

Du erinnerst Dich an unsere Diskussion über die Installation und den Einsatz 
von AOO unter Linux Mint bei mir im Betrieb.
Privat, bei der Installation von OpenSuSe, hatte ich LO zur Installation 
abgewählt, wurde ignoriert und trotzdem installiert.

Vielleicht sollten wir bei der Neuerstellung des Installationshandbuches 
betrachten,
ob wir Hinweise geben, unter welcher Distribution und / oder Desktopumgebung
die Installation von AOO für den normalen Anwender problemlos und einfach 
klappt.

Gruß
Jan


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Re: Unterstützung bei vermutlichem Fehler -Nachtrag-3D-Objekte

[C. Wiebe]

Hallo Regina und Jan,

ich hatte das Problem s. Anhang 3D-Prob-Disk-27-2.odt bei der Beispiel 
Zeichnung von 3D-Objekten.

Als Lösung sollte eine Drehung der Figur um die eigene Achse möglich sein.
Bei meiner Zeichnung kam ich nicht weiter, was ich auch versucht habe.

Gruß Claudia

Claudia Wiebe clad...@gmail.com
Am 27.02.2017 um 13:55 schrieb jan-christ...@wienandt.de:

Moin Regina,

ein kleiner Nachtrag.

Regina schrieb:


Du kannst auch vorab zu Parallelprojektion wechseln, bevor du ein
3D-Objekt erzeugst. Ich habe jedenfalls kein Problem die Projektionsart
zu wechseln, völlig unabhängig von der Art der Flächenfüllung.

Jan schrieb:


Das finde ich nur bei 3D-Objekten und Extrudierten Formen.
Oder ich bin zu blöd.


Nicht blöd, aber blind.
Das steht auch so im Handbuch, ist von mir getestet und übernommen worden.
Ich werde alt.

Gruß
Jan


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Re: Last up-date

[F C. Costero]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Two Rivers Gallery <2rivers...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I just up-dated Open Office and now I am having a number of problems? Is
> everyone having an issue? Is there another correction up-date that cleans
> up the cliches? PLEASE HELP ME
>
> --
>
> *Blessings,*
>
> *Judy Pate, Director*
> Direct Line: 541-783-2428
>
> Chiloquin Two Rivers Art Gallery
> 140 South 1st St. PO Box 382
> Chiloquin OR 97624
> Gallery: 541-783-3326
> www.2riversart.com 
> 2rivers...@gmail.com
>

I'm sorry to hear you are having problems. I am not aware of any general
problem with the latest version, so it is likely we can easily fix your
particular problem. To get help, it is best to post on the user mailing
list or at the user forum (https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/). This is
the developer mailing list. In any case, please describe the details of
your problems.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: email will not send

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 8:03 AM, jackie sudron sanderson <
jackie...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I cant email my letter please can you help me
>

I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. Please provide some details. What
have you tried and what happened? Which email program do you use?
Regards,
Francis

Re: Read-only documents in Calc

[F C. Costero]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:46 AM, shane gulley 
wrote:

>  I recently updated to ver 4.1.3 and am no longer able to edit
> spreadsheets (haven't tried other document formats) I can open them but I
> cannot edit them. I can still edit documents online but sometimes the
> formatting gets changed and they do not print correctly so I would rather
> edit them offline.
>
>- There is no prompt to select read only or not to when the documents
> open.
>- If I attempt to change the properties of the folder the document is
> in or the document itself to make it editable it makes no difference.
>- I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the software but that didn't
> help either.
>
> I have an assignment that is due very soon and don't want to have to
> subscribe to Microsoft's product to finish it, your help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>  Thanks, Shane

 Sorry you are having trouble. I don't have a suggestion to fix the overall
problem but to edit the document you should be able to click the Edit
Document icon on the main tool bar. On my system it is the 5th icon from
the left and looks like a sheet of paper and a pencil.
Regards,
Francis

dictionnary issue

[Julien C.]

Hello

When i try to put (in Calc. /French) the name of the planet Mars, the app
autocorrect to the month mars... (no uppercase...) really disturbing.

Thanks by advance

Julien C.

Re: Eine offene Mail an die deutsche Community und die deutschen PMC-Vertreter

[C. Wiebe]

Meinst Du mich wg. meiner Frage oder die Apachis
Claudia Wiebe clad...@gmail.com
Am 13.10.2016 um 21:06 schrieb Jan-Christian Wienandt:

Moin Jörg,


… denn sie wissen nicht, was sie tun

Gruß
Jan


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Re: Uebersetzung Release Notes fuer 4.1.3 - Freiwillige gesucht

[C. Wiebe]

Hallo,

ich wollte mich beim wiki registirieren, funktioniert aber nicht, weil 
der den Code nicht annimmt.

Wo ist das Problem?
Gruß
Claudia Wiebe clad...@gmail.com
Am 07.10.2016 um 13:41 schrieb Günter Feierabend:

Hallo Jörg,


Am 07.10.2016 um 12:11 schrieb Jörg Schmidt :


From: RA Stehmann [mailto:anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de]
Der Entwurf der Release Notes findet sich hier:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.3
+Release+Notes

Gesucht werden also nun freiwillige Übersetzer. Da es sich um
einen eher
technischen Text handelt, ist ein Anglistikstudium keine
Voraussetzung.

ja, ich mache das wieder. Fertig bis spätestens Sonntag Abend.

Leider kann ich auch nicht vor Samstag daran mitarbeiten und Dir übersetzte 
Teile als persönliche mail an Dich senden. Der Mac OS X-Text scheint der 
gleiche zu sein wie zuvor. Dies wirst Du wahrscheinlich schon selbst gemerkt 
haben.

Gruß
Günter


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Re: OpenOffice Guide

[F C. Costero]

Hello Svjariwala!
The documents at the following site are a little old but should still be
very helpful:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/OOo3.3_User_Guide_Chapters

Regards,
Francis

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:35 AM, sagar jariwala 
wrote:

> Dear Sir/Madam
>
> Kindly give me the link of guide books for openoffice calc(Excel) tips
>
> Thanking you
> Regards
> Svjariwala
>

Re: Ошибки в версии 4.1.2

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Marcus  wrote:

> Am 07/27/2016 06:08 AM, schrieb ИКЦ "Просвет":
>
>> Добрый день
>> Рассматриваю ваш продукт как замену Microsoft Ofiice. Но есть ошибки
>> 1. в шаблоне документа (от MS Office) стоит поле сегодняшней даты. При
>> открытии пишется "июль", вместо "июля". "август" вместо "августа". И с
>> большой буквы пишется. Это неправильно. Исправьте пожалуйста
>>
>> Good day
>> Consider your product as a replacement for Microsoft Ofiice. But there
>> are errors
>> 1. in the template document (MS Office) field is today's date. When
>> opening a written "July" is "Jul". "August" instead of "Aug". And
>> written with a capital letter. This is wrong. Please
>>
>
> it's not really clear what you mean by "When opening a written "July" is
> "Jul"". Can you please describe this part in more details? What are you
> doing exactly and when? Is there a chance to rebuild the document to see
> the problem? What has to be done?
>
> PS:
> Your question is best handled in the users@ mailing list. There are much
> more users on the way to help.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Marcus
>

I can't help here other than provide a translation by a Russian speaking
friend of the original message. She also provided a little extra
explanation.

"I am considering your product as a replacement for Microsoft Office.  I
found the following errors:
In the MS Office template document, there is a "Today's Date" field.  When
I open it up, it shows the wrong Russian spelling (the ending of the name
for month in Russian is different if it is used in a date format).  Also,
the month in Russian is not capitalized (July is july), but it is in this
case.  Please correct."

Best regards,
Francis


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Re: Problem with OpenOffice

[F C. Costero]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Shelagh and Nick Richardson <
richardson...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a problem with Openoffice. It is effectively frozen with this
> message:
>
> *The last time you opened OpenOffice, it unexpectedly quit while reopening
> windows. Do you want to try to reopen its windows again?*
>
> There are two buttons marked Reopen and Don't Reopen, but neither of them
> will respond to my click.
>
>
> It prevents me from shutting down or restarting my computer.
>
> I cannot print any documents either.
>
> I cannot create a new OpenOffice file
>
> I have done a 'Force quit' , but as soon as I try to shut down or restart
> my laptop the same message returns.
>
>
> When I open any of my OpenOffice files the same message pops up again.
>
>
> My computer is an Apple Macbook Air.
>
> Are you able to advise me what to do?
>
> Nick Richardson
>
Hello. Please take a look at this thread in the support forum. It should
solve your problem. You do not need to register on the forum to read the
thread.
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17=55755#p244931
Francis

Use of OpenOffice logo.

[J C]

Dear Sir:
My name is James Matt Cox and I am an independent author. I am preparing to 
publish a book on open source tools for authors. May I use the OpenOffice logo 
on my cover? The book covers OpenOffice, The GIMP, Scribus, Artha, Golden Dict, 
Calibre and Trelby and will be distributed free of charge.
Thank you for your time;-mattJames Matt Cox

Recovering from broken password (bug 125431)

[F C. Costero]

We get questions on the forum about how to access a document that no longer
accepts the encryption password. I assume some of these are due to the
broken NSS issue #125431. I skimmed through the comments on bugzilla and
did not see a definitive way to fix the problem. I"m sorry if I missed it.
What should we tell users to do if we conclude they have this problem?
Thank you!
Francis

Re: installing open office

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 7:42 AM, jjpurlieu  wrote:

> to open office
>
> I have had open office for years and am very pleased with it ecept that
> occasionally it disappears off the laptop.  I have always reinstalled it
> till today when I just cannot get the instillation to work
> I get so far when a message pops up ans tells me to turn off quickstart
> for 4.1.2 and I do not know what this is   I do not have any part of the
> open office on the laptop that works and till I sort this out I can access
> none of my files.
> I cannot find any other way of contacting you.
> I am like many others and have a limited knowledge of the workings of the
> computer so hope you can advise me.
> Yours
> Jean Jones
>
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> Hello Jean,
  I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. It should not be necessary to
reinstall OpenOffice. The Quickstarter is a feature of OpenOffice that
starts automatically when you start your computer so that launching
OpenOffice will appear to happen more quickly. Since it is running,
OpenOffice is still on your computer. What leads you to think that
OpenOffice has disappeared?

You do not say what operating system you are using, so I will guess it is
Windows. If you have a Windows Start button (typically at the lower left of
your screen), click that and select All Programs. Scroll down the list that
appears until you see a folder called OpenOffice 4.1.2. Click on that and
then click on the component of OpenOffice you want to start.

I hope that helps. A better place to get user support than this mailing
list is the user forum. The English forum is at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php
Best regards,
Francis

Re: errors in writer (formula)

[F C. Costero]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) <
howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Gang,
> I have been using the formula in writer lately. For ‘cdot’, a command
> to put a dot between two symbols to indicate multiplication, the dot is not
> showing up in the document. The other multiplication binary operator
> ‘times’ that puts an x between two symbols to indicate multiplication is
> working fine. I have used this before and think it is a new error
> Another minor problem, I am not sure if it is new, is for the plus (+)
> and minus (-) operators there appears to be  a (half?) space after the
> operator, but nor space before the operator. Yes I can force the (half)
> space using the (`) or (~) character. Another words “1 + 2” should be the
> default, not “1+ 2”.
>
> Howard
> 
>
> 
>
> 

 The formula
a cdot b
produces the expected result for me on Windows 7 with AOO 4.1.2. I also
don't see any spacing problem with +.
Francis

Re: New release - problems

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton <orc...@apache.org>
wrote:

> Thanks for undertaking this, Francis.
>
> Please open an issue on the bugzilla that links to the user forum thread
> (and vice versa) so that we have a marker for the developers and QA folk to
> track with also.
>
>  - Dennis
>
> > -----Original Message-
> > From: F C. Costero [mailto:fjcc.apa...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 20:53
> > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: New release - problems
> [ ... ]
> > Hi Patricia,
> >My fonts are set just as yours are but your odt file looks normal
> > when I
> > open it, not at all like your bmp. When I click on the Pi in the formula
> > editor it is centered both vertically and horizontally in the dotted
> > box.
> > That was all on Windows 7. I also looked at a similar formula in Linux
> > and
> > had no problem. The fonts there are Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans
> > and
> > DejaVu Sans Mono.  If no one has a suggestion here in the next several
> > hours, I'll open a thread on the user forum to see if anyone there has
> > an
> > idea.
> >
> > Francis
>
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> I opened a Bugzilla issue:
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12
and a forum thread:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12=80398

Re: New release - problems

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:

> On 11/16/2015 7:38 PM, F C. Costero wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) <
>> howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I went to open a new document.
>>> I saw the note there was new version available, so I downloaded it.
>>>
>>> First thing I noticed was the spell check is still not working, let’s fix
>>> it before people stop using Writer.
>>>
>>> Next thing I noticed was a small change to the formula generator (math
>>> calc?) in Writer.
>>> The symbol for product seems to have changed. It should look like the
>>> large capital letter pi, P.
>>> Also the ‘from’ and ‘to’ blocks should be centered above and below the P.
>>> This is relatively minor, but thought you should know.
>>>
>>> Howard
>>>
>>
>>
>> I haven't had any problem with the spell check in the latest version. I
>> suggest you reset your user profile. There is a tutorial on the English
>> forum:
>> https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74=12426
>> I also did a quick check of the product symbol in Math and I didn't see
>> any
>> problem. What font are you using for the formula. You can see that under
>> the menu Format -> Fonts when the formula editor is active.
>>
>>
> I am seeing similar problems with the product formula symbol. Exported as
> PDF, it looks fine. Viewed in Writer, the capital Pi lacks serifs, making
> it look very strange. When I click on it in the formula editor, it is at
> the bottom left of a dotted box, and the limits are aligned relative to the
> box. Not WYSIWYG.
>
> The fonts are:
>
> Variables: Times New roman, Italic
> Functions, Numbers, Text, and Serif: Times New Roman
> Sans: Arial
> Fixed: Courier New
>
> I have uploaded the files to http://www.patriciashanahan.com/OpenOffice.
> product.bmp is a screen shot of the formula editor. product.odt is the
> actual file. product.pdf is the PDF export.
>
> Patricia
>
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Hi Patricia,
   My fonts are set just as yours are but your odt file looks normal when I
open it, not at all like your bmp. When I click on the Pi in the formula
editor it is centered both vertically and horizontally in the dotted box.
That was all on Windows 7. I also looked at a similar formula in Linux and
had no problem. The fonts there are Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans and
DejaVu Sans Mono.  If no one has a suggestion here in the next several
hours, I'll open a thread on the user forum to see if anyone there has an
idea.

Francis

Re: New release - problems

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) <
howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
>
> > On 11/16/2015 7:38 PM, F C. Costero wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) <
> >> howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I went to open a new document.
> >>> I saw the note there was new version available, so I downloaded it.
> >>>
> >>> First thing I noticed was the spell check is still not working, let’s
> fix
> >>> it before people stop using Writer.
> >>>
> >>> Next thing I noticed was a small change to the formula generator (math
> >>> calc?) in Writer.
> >>> The symbol for product seems to have changed. It should look like the
> >>> large capital letter pi, P.
> >>> Also the ‘from’ and ‘to’ blocks should be centered above and below the
> P.
> >>> This is relatively minor, but thought you should know.
> >>>
> >>> Howard
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> I haven't had any problem with the spell check in the latest version. I
> >> suggest you reset your user profile. There is a tutorial on the English
> >> forum:
> >> https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74=12426
> >> I also did a quick check of the product symbol in Math and I didn't see
> >> any
> >> problem. What font are you using for the formula. You can see that under
> >> the menu Format -> Fonts when the formula editor is active.
> >>
> >>
> > I am seeing similar problems with the product formula symbol. Exported as
> > PDF, it looks fine. Viewed in Writer, the capital Pi lacks serifs, making
> > it look very strange. When I click on it in the formula editor, it is at
> > the bottom left of a dotted box, and the limits are aligned relative to
> the
> > box. Not WYSIWYG.
> >
> > The fonts are:
> >
> > Variables: Times New roman, Italic
> > Functions, Numbers, Text, and Serif: Times New Roman
> > Sans: Arial
> > Fixed: Courier New
> >
> > I have uploaded the files to http://www.patriciashanahan.com/OpenOffice.
> > product.bmp is a screen shot of the formula editor. product.odt is the
> > actual file. product.pdf is the PDF export.
> >
> > Patricia
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> Hi Patricia,
>My fonts are set just as yours are but your odt file looks normal when I
> open it, not at all like your bmp. When I click on the Pi in the formula
> editor it is centered both vertically and horizontally in the dotted box.
> That was all on Windows 7. I also looked at a similar formula in Linux and
> had no problem. The fonts there are Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans and
> DejaVu Sans Mono.  If no one has a suggestion here in the next several
> hours, I'll open a thread on the user forum to see if anyone there has an
> idea.
>
> Francis
> --
>
> I did not see anywhere in profile to change spell check options.
> If it makes a difference, I am on Windows 10 now.
> All my formula fonts point to Times New Roman.
> I put in spelling errors on purpose and clicked the Spelling and grammar
> icon – no errors found.
>
> Howard


Sorry I was unclear. I meant that you should rename (or delete) the user
folder that contains the profile. This will trigger the creation of a new
folder. OpenOffice has to be shut down to rename the folder.

Regards,
Francis

Re: New release - problems

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) <
howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I went to open a new document.
> I saw the note there was new version available, so I downloaded it.
>
> First thing I noticed was the spell check is still not working, let’s fix
> it before people stop using Writer.
>
> Next thing I noticed was a small change to the formula generator (math
> calc?) in Writer.
> The symbol for product seems to have changed. It should look like the
> large capital letter pi, P.
> Also the ‘from’ and ‘to’ blocks should be centered above and below the P.
> This is relatively minor, but thought you should know.
>
> Howard


I haven't had any problem with the spell check in the latest version. I
suggest you reset your user profile. There is a tutorial on the English
forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74=12426
I also did a quick check of the product symbol in Math and I didn't see any
problem. What font are you using for the formula. You can see that under
the menu Format -> Fonts when the formula editor is active.

Re: Proposed Calc "Find & Replace" dialog enhancements

[F C. Costero]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Damjan Jovanovic  wrote:

> Hi
>
> Recently I fixed a bad 9 year old bug #60307 with at least 6 duplicates
> [and still broken in at least LO 4.2.8.2 :-)], now allowing searching for
> cells by the value displayed after formatting (eg. 30/11/2015 formatted
> into "30 November 2015" can be found when you search for "November" with
> "Search in" set to "Values"). Also through repeated failures until I copied
> how Writer already does it, today also fixed #35093, an infamous 11 year
> old 15 vote issue in Calc ("Current selection only" should automatically be
> checked if the "Find & Replace" dialog is opened with cells already
> selected; since users expect this from other spreadsheets and the option is
> invisible by default, it can cause wrong cells to change when doing
> "Replace").
>
> Now I am wondering what other enhancements to that dialog would be good to
> make while it's fresh in my mind. Some ideas from Bugzilla:
>
> Visibility of options. In a comment on #87032 it is suggested the dialog
> should always be expanded so all options are visible, but #39453 is all
> about trying to shrink it as it hides cells under it. #39453 was filed in
> 2004 when monitors were smaller and had lower resolutions, so dialog size
> mattered more, but small devices are becoming ubiquitous today too. If the
> dialog should remain expandable, which options should be visible with it
> contracted? Comments in #35093 propose including "Current selection only"
> and "Regular expressions", although I think the "Search in" is far more
> commonly used than "Regular expressions".
>
> Search in what? #106857 wants the default to be "Values" instead of the
> current "Formulas", but Excel (2007) uses "Formulas", so it might surprise
> users even though it is more natural.
>
> Columns or rows? #106857 again wants "Columns" as default even though Excel
> (2007) has rows.
>
> Use the value of the cell under the cursor as the find text? #73544 asks
> for this. Calc currently uses the last value searched for instead, as does
> Excel (2007). Instead of the cell under the cursor, we could use a single
> selected cell instead: it is rather hard to select only 1 cell by accident
> (with the cursor on it, you have to Ctrl+Click it or Shift+Right+Left), and
> you wouldn't need to search just 1 cell, so I think it's safe to treat a
> single selected cell as the find text. Another AOO innovation?
>
> Selection during the dialog? If cells are selected during the dialog,
> should we automatically check the "Current selection only" box? We
> currently uncheck it and gray it out if cells are deselected during the
> dialog, but only enable it without checking it if cells are selected again.
> Excel (2007) doesn't even have this option: if cells are selected only they
> will be searched/replaced, if no cells are selected all will be. If we want
> to copy Excel's behaviour then we should check it on reselection. But
> Writer doesn't do that for multi-line text selections either, so it should
> probably be changed too (and other apps?).
>
> Any other proposals? Should we ask our current users what they want (how?)?
>
> Thank you
> Damjan
>

Thank you for posting this question. I started a thread on the en user
forum: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=106=80312
Regards,
Franics

Re: Possible Mac problem 4.1.2

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:02 AM, FR web forum  wrote:

> >Possible cross problem with mailmerge function.
> Issue reported: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126623
> Maybe Mac users could be confirm or not?
>
>
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> Here is a report from a user of a problem using 4.1.2 Base on a Mac. I
suggested he go back to 4.1.1 for the time being.

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13=80192

Francis

Re: Is AOO 4.1.2 notably faster?

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Pedro Giffuni  wrote:

> Just wondering …
>
> Are people noticing a faster startup in AOO 4.1.2? In the BSDs we generally
> prefer to use calloc over malloc + memset when it makes sense. A relatively
> small change that I did, and was safe enough to be merged to the release,
> might have had an effect there.
>
> It’s too easy to be biased when you make such changes so it would be
> interesting to get confirmation ;).
>
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> Hi Pedro,
  It is funny you mention this. Just today I installed 4.1.2 on a Linux
machine. I had not previously used AOO on Linux. I was amazed at the speed
of the start up. MUCH faster than 4.1.2 on Windows. Not having used a Linux
machine in the past, I can't say it is faster than it used to be but it was
impressive.
Francis

Re: Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
>
> > I am a very experienced programmer and computer architect, now retired.
> My
> > current strongest language is Java, but I have programmed in many
> languages
> > and can learn them as needed. My last professional C++ work was in the
> > 1980's.
> >
> > Although I am Chair of the Apache River PMC, the types of work it
> > currently needs, other than the facilitation and reporting I do as Chair,
> > are outside my areas of expertise. I have time to do some programming
> > elsewhere.
> >
> > I have been an OpenOffice user - I started using StarOffice at Sun around
> > 2000 - but more recently I've switched to LibreOffice because of lack of
> > OpenOffice releases. I am now downloading OpenOffice 4.1.2.
> >
> > I have become aware that OpenOffice needs more developers. Despite the
> > rustiness of my C++, I hope I can help. If so, how should I get started?
> >
> >
> ​You have wonderful experience, Patricia! ​Thank you for your interest.
> Stay tuned. We'll be discussing plans and tasks  for the future very soon.
> Meanwhile, we could certainly use some "architect" eyes on our code. Please
> weigh in as you see fit.
>
> --
> --
> MzK
>
> “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
>   --Lao Tzu
>
Hello Patricia,
   You might be interested in the comments in favor of Java use in AOO made
on this list by Damjan Jovanovic on Oct 15. I'm sorry I can't link to them
at the moment.
Francis

Re: Please test updates with OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC2

[F C. Costero]

I verified the Check for Updates in the Extension Manager on Windows 7 64
bit and it correctly flagged my downlevel extensions.
Clicking the Install button doesn't seem to do anything useful. A progress
window makes it look like a download is underway but afterwards I can't
find any extension files and restarting AOO shows that the old extensions
are still in place. Am I being stupid?
Francis

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Larry Gusaas 
wrote:

> On 2015-10-20, 4:12 PM Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>
>> It would be good to have confirmation with all supported platforms (one
>> confirmation is OK), so:
>>
>> - Windows
>> - Mac OS X
>> - Linux 32
>> - Linux 64 (confirmed OK)
>>
> Works on Mac OS X ver. 10.10.5
>
> --
> _
>
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> Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
> Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
> "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind
> theirs." - Edgard Varese
>
>
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Re: DATE ISSUE in OpenOffice Spreadsheet

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Oliver Brinzing 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > There seems to be an issue of how some1900 dates are being stored in the
> OpenOffice spreadsheet.
>
>> It is my understanding that dates are stored with spreadsheet as a serial
>> number starting with 01/01/1900
>> being stored as a '1'.
>> When 01/01/1900 is looked at as a general number format in OpenOffice it
>> appears as '2' versus a '1'.
>>
>
> The default starting date is 30 December 1899 = 0
> please see
> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_Date_%26_Time_functions
>
> Regards
> Oliver
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> Part of the confusion is that 1900 was not a leap year. Years that are
multiples of 100 are not leap years unless they are also multiples of 400.
That is to account for the actual year being slightly less than 365.25 days
and is the difference between the Gregorian calendar and the earlier Julian
calendar.. Not all spreadsheets get that right.
Best regards,
Francis

ODF Explorer

[Ian C]

Hi All,

this is something of a self promotion but I have a tool that is
intended to be of use to ODF developers and testers.

It is available via GitHub see http://hammyau.github.io/ODFExplorer/
for some details.

Thanks for you time.

Any and all feedback welcome.

Ian C

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[EXT] Dialog doesn't show up for Filter Extension

[Mani N C]

Hi,

I am writing a C++ filter extension for DOCX file format. I need to get
some information from user before opening the document, After that default
DOCX filter will be used.
I was able to create a filter which can open DOCX files. Also created XDL
file using Basic Dialog editor.
Now when I try to use this XDL file, I don't see any dialog opening up.

I tried to follow the directions in
http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/help-with-dialog-boxes-td3026585.html
But I couldn't get it working yet.

sal_Int16 SAL_CALL SimpleDialog::execute() throw ( RuntimeException )
{
Reference XDialogProvider  xDialogProvider(
mxServiceFactory-createInstanceWithContext(
C2U(com.sun.star.awt.DialogProvider2), mxContext), UNO_QUERY_THROW );

OUString sXDLPath = getFilterInstallPath();
sXDLPath += C2U(xdl/SimpleDialog.xdl);

mxDialog = Reference XDialog
(xDialogProvider-createDialog(sXDLPath), UNO_QUERY_THROW);
Reference XControl  xControl(mxDialog, UNO_QUERY_THROW);

short nRet = mxDialog-execute();
return mRet;
}


I get a valid xdl file path in sXDLPath, File path starts with file://
instead of vnd.sun.star.extension:// Is this OK ?
Is there any mistake in the code snippet above?

Because, If I create dialog programatically, it works fine. Problem happens
only when I use XDL file.

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Mani Chandrasekar

Re: How can I get a hot key?

[F C. Costero]

2015-06-01 0:34 GMT-06:00 Денис Нилов radomir_1...@mail.ru:

  1) How can I get a hot key of uppercase?
 2) How can I change of my hot key?



 Для здоровья,
 Нилов (РАДОМИР) Денис

 Добавить в друзья вКОНтакте
 нажать + https://vk.com/denisnilov + нажать

 radomir_1...@mail.ru


Hello! Select the menu Tools - Customize and then the Keyboard tab. From
the Category list select Format and from the Function list select
Uppercase. From the list of Shortcut Keys, choose one that is not assigned
and then click Modify. I hope that helps.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: ODF Explorer

[Ian C]

Thanks Jan,

yeah, I think since it is user of the ODF Toolkit it is probably more
suitable there.
I hang around there but it is very quiet. Not sure how to progress it but
will wait and see.

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 4:23 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote:

 Hi.

 I have had the chance of testing your tool earlier, and I see it as a handy
 tool.

 With my AOO hat on, I do not think it fits in the project. I do think it is
 a nice add-on for odf toolkit (which I am not involved in)
 and Corinthia.

 I will respond further on the corinthia dev list.
 rgds
 jan i.


 On 24 May 2015 at 06:53, Ian C i...@amham.net wrote:

  Hi All (cross posting to AOO and ODF Toolkit)
 
  I have, as part of a research project, created a tool named the ODF
  Explorer which is available for initial feedback. The thing is aimed at
  projects like Corinthia or any other ODF consumer/producer.
 
  It allows a user to see what is in an ODF document in terms of its
  structure. And it looks at a form of coverage analysis called production
  coverage. In short it ticks of which elements and attributes of the ODF
  schema have been used. It also shows the changes between documents as
  things are added.
 
  An example graph is attached. It is a filtered view of the headers.odt
  that Gabriela created.
 
  It processes text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents.
 
  It should be available via my dropbox account here
  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5407897/odfe.zip
 
  I intend to make the thing available as an open source once I get some
  feedback to confirm it at least does not go hugely wrong. Not quite sure
  how to go about that though.
 
  It is built around the Java Apache ODF Toolkit, and will require a 64 bit
  Java. I've not tried on 32 I'm just assuming it won't work ??
 
  It is a Java program wrapped in Javascript to provide a user interface
 and
  so runs on both Linux (where it was developed) and Windows. If anyone
 picks
  it up and tries it on a Mac let me know.
 
  Before you can run it however, you need a couple of external things.
 
  Graphiz available via http://www.graphviz.org/Download.php this is used
  to draw graphs.
  It needs to be available on your command line.
  Confirm it is via dot -V (note the capital)
 
  And Node.JS available via https://nodejs.org/download/
  It too needs to be available on your command line.
  npm -v to confirm.
 
  I have seen on Windows installs that you may need to create an npm
  directory in your AppData/Roaming  directory before node.js works. And on
  other machines it installs just fine.
  I have a Linux system here.
 
  Once you have the two externals then unzip the odfe.zip to a directory of
  your choice.
  Open a command line and change to your selected odfe install directory
  (should see a package.json and an odfe.jar file there)
  And type npm start - it should say an http server has started on port
 3000.
 
  Then open Firefox or Chrome - I tend to use Chrome. Not IE, it doesn't
  handle things well. And the url http://localhost:3000/app/index.html;
   should do the business for you.
 
  Each page has a green box in the top left hand corner to open a help
 page.
  Open the one on the first page and it should explain the beast. If it
 does
  not I have failed.
 
  And since I have been working on this beast for so long now there are
  probably so many things I am taking for granted.
 
  This initial release is pretty much to check it can be run outside of my
  little world and to get whatever comments I can.
 
  Let me know how it goes and hopefully you can see the use/relevance of
  such a tool.
 
  I will try to figure out how make it (and the source) more generally
  available to a wider audience once I am happy users can get it up and
  running. And if there is any interest in it.
 
  If you can think of others who would be able to comment then feel free to
  forward it to them.
 
  Many thanks for any and all feedback, which is gratefully accepted.
  --
  Cheers,
 
  Ian C
 
 
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Cheers,

Ian C

ODF Explorer

[Ian C]

Hi All (cross posting to AOO and ODF Toolkit)

I have, as part of a research project, created a tool named the ODF
Explorer which is available for initial feedback. The thing is aimed at
projects like Corinthia or any other ODF consumer/producer.

It allows a user to see what is in an ODF document in terms of its
structure. And it looks at a form of coverage analysis called production
coverage. In short it ticks of which elements and attributes of the ODF
schema have been used. It also shows the changes between documents as
things are added.

An example graph is attached. It is a filtered view of the headers.odt that
Gabriela created.

It processes text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents.

It should be available via my dropbox account here
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5407897/odfe.zip

I intend to make the thing available as an open source once I get some
feedback to confirm it at least does not go hugely wrong. Not quite sure
how to go about that though.

It is built around the Java Apache ODF Toolkit, and will require a 64 bit
Java. I've not tried on 32 I'm just assuming it won't work ??

It is a Java program wrapped in Javascript to provide a user interface and
so runs on both Linux (where it was developed) and Windows. If anyone picks
it up and tries it on a Mac let me know.

Before you can run it however, you need a couple of external things.

Graphiz available via http://www.graphviz.org/Download.php this is used to
draw graphs.
It needs to be available on your command line.
Confirm it is via dot -V (note the capital)

And Node.JS available via https://nodejs.org/download/
It too needs to be available on your command line.
npm -v to confirm.

I have seen on Windows installs that you may need to create an npm
directory in your AppData/Roaming  directory before node.js works. And on
other machines it installs just fine.
I have a Linux system here.

Once you have the two externals then unzip the odfe.zip to a directory of
your choice.
Open a command line and change to your selected odfe install directory
(should see a package.json and an odfe.jar file there)
And type npm start - it should say an http server has started on port 3000.

Then open Firefox or Chrome - I tend to use Chrome. Not IE, it doesn't
handle things well. And the url http://localhost:3000/app/index.html;
 should do the business for you.

Each page has a green box in the top left hand corner to open a help page.
Open the one on the first page and it should explain the beast. If it does
not I have failed.

And since I have been working on this beast for so long now there are
probably so many things I am taking for granted.

This initial release is pretty much to check it can be run outside of my
little world and to get whatever comments I can.

Let me know how it goes and hopefully you can see the use/relevance of such
a tool.

I will try to figure out how make it (and the source) more generally
available to a wider audience once I am happy users can get it up and
running. And if there is any interest in it.

If you can think of others who would be able to comment then feel free to
forward it to them.

Many thanks for any and all feedback, which is gratefully accepted.
-- 
Cheers,

Ian C

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Re: database problem

[F C. Costero]

Can you please ask this question on the user forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/? There are more people available for
user support there. You will need to register to post your question.
Best regards,
Francis

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Mary Lou Trice maryl...@flash.net wrote:

 Hi Folks,

 I have created 2 tables in design view:  *Basic Table  *and  *Dues Table.*

 Please read the attachment to see the tables.  My previous e-mail was not
 so easy to read.

 There is a relationship between Basic.ID and Dues.ID


  I can enter data into the Basic table but cannot enter data into the
 Dues table.


  Can anyone help me?

 Mary Lou




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Re: Design change for side bar

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de
wrote:

 Hi all,

 the pending review request https://issues.apache.org/ooo/
 show_bug.cgi?id=125989 is about a change in the visual style of the side
 bar. We do not have a special Design group and I do not want to decide
 alone. So please have a look at screenshots in that issue.

 Is this a problem, I should forward to the users mailing list?

 Kind regards
 Regina

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 Hi Regina,
   Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention. I'm no UI expert but I
do like the patched version. It feels calmer, if that makes sense. I'll
post a notice on the English forum in an attempt to get more people to
express an opinion.
Best regards,
Francis.

Re: Re-verifying some old translation issues

[Juan C. Sanz]

All of them are solved
Regard
Juan Carlos
El 23/12/2014 a las 0:01, Kay Schenk escribió:

Hello localization list --

Can someone help with verifying if the following old reported issues are
still outstanding --

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=86709
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=86713
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=86714

If not, we can close them.

Please copy dev@openoffice.apache.org

on your response.

Thanks.



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Re: Creating Chart com.sun.star.chart.XYDiagram

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Semen Gubarev mnog...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello Everyone!
 I read a lot of documentation about creation charts using macro BASIC
 And I still can't create chart in Writer (almost all documentation describe
 how to create chart in Calc). The problem with inserting series XY data
 into chart (separate X values and separate Y values)

 First of all I create a chart object like this:

 'Prepare embedded object
 Dim oEmbeddedObject
 oEmbeddedObject =
 oDoc.CreateInstance(com.sun.star.text.TextEmbeddedObject)
 oEmbeddedObject.SetPropertyValue(CLSID,
 12dcae26-281f-416f-a234-c3086127382e)
 oEmbeddedObject.Name = ChartID

 'Insert chart in document
 oCursor.GetText().InsertTextContent(oCursor, oEmbeddedObject, False)

 'The first approach inserting data like this:
 oDocChart.Diagram.DataRowSource =
 com.sun.star.chart.ChartDataRowSource.ROWS
 Dim aData(1, 3)
 aData(0, 0) = 10
 aData(0, 1) = 20
 aData(0, 2) = 30
 aData(1, 0) = 10
 aData(1, 1) = 40
 aData(1, 2) = 90
 Dim oData as Object
 oData = oDocChart.Data
 oData.Data = aData
 for this case I get 2 series Y data, but I need 1 series with data X-Y

 'The second approach inserting data using Writer table as datasource
 'I'will miss a lot of code

 Dim oChartType
 oChartType =
 oDocChart.FirstDiagram.GetCoordinateSystems()(0).GetChartTypes()(0)

 Dim oDataProv
 oDataProv = oDoc.createInstance( com.sun.star.chart2.data.DataProvider )

 Dim oDataSeries
 oDataSeries = CreateDataSeries_XYDiagram(oDataProv, table1.A1:A10,
 table1.B1:B10)

 Dim oNewDataSeriesList(0) as Object 'new data series
 oNewDataSeriesList(0) = oDataSeries

 'Correspond with last approach I get good chart, but after reopening the
 document Y values become to X values

 The question is, how to right create a X-Y chart?



Hello Semen,
  I find that the code below, a slight modification of yours, works for me.

oDoc = ThisComponent
oCursor = oDoc.Text.createTextCursor()
oTextObject = oDoc.CreateInstance(com.sun.star.text.TextEmbeddedObject)
oTextObject.SetPropertyValue(CLSID,
12dcae26-281f-416f-a234-c3086127382e)
oTextObject.Name = ChartID

'Insert chart in document
oCursor.GetText().InsertTextContent(oCursor, oTextObject, False)

oDocChart = oTextObject.EmbeddedObject.Component
'The first approach inserting data like this:

oDocChart.Diagram = oDocChart.createInstance(com.sun.star.chart.XYDiagram)
oDocChart.Diagram.DataRowSource = com.sun.star.chart.ChartDataRowSource.ROWS

Dim aData(1, 2)
aData(0, 0) = 10
aData(0, 1) = 20
aData(0, 2) = 30
aData(1, 0) = 10
aData(1, 1) = 40
aData(1, 2) = 90

oDocChart.Data.Data = aData

oDocChart.DataSourceLabelsInFirstRow = False

I hope that helps.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: Another Basic Function that doesn't Work!!

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Darren Myers myers_dar...@hotmail.com
wrote:

 Didn't take me long, found another basic function that does not work in OO

 Who on earth built this program! Seriously... needs to find another
 career, maybe hairdressing or something!

 So when you Find  Replace select a value , and then replace it with
 another value you get the following error message..

 Search key Not Found

 So I can clearly see on my finance sheet I have January 2014 to
 December 2014  very clear, however the Find  replace function !!! THAT
 WORKS IN Microsoft Easily Doesn't work in OO.  Does this mean I have to
 spend more money or a team of Developers to find more code issues with OO ??


Hello,
   If you can post a small example document on the user forum (
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php), we can take a look at why
you are not getting the expected result.  Find  Replace in OpenOffice and
MS Office are not identical and you probably just have to change a setting.
Francis

Re: Spell check

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Frank frank1...@comcast.net wrote:

 How do I get my spell check to work? I misspell a word, hit the abc and a
 box comes up that says
 nothing is misspelled.



There is an extensive tutorial about troubleshooting the spell check
function on the user forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=16512
You do not have to register to view the topics. I hope that helps.
Best regards,
Francis

NOT OKAY

[C L]

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing a school paper for a very important college and I am not happy. 
Your program underlined in red that the word vaginas is incorrect and penises 
is correct. I do not like this and it is very sexist. Please fix it!
  

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Campbell Bryan cbr...@talktalk.net wrote:

 I have open office 4.1 but can't obtain either access to word or
 publisher. Is this possible? If so how?

 C J Bryan

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 Hello Cambell,
OpenOffice will open Word documents but not those from Publisher. Do you
find you can't open any Word documents at all or just a particular
document? What steps are you taking to open the document(s)?
Francis

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Steve Johnson steve.spoth...@comcast.net
wrote:

 Hi

 I downloaded openoffice a few years ago and only use it occasionally.
 Each time I use it I am prompted to register it. But when I try, it says it
 needs to be done in a JRE environment.  I have not a clue what that means.
 Would you please explain that for me?

 Thanks
 Steve

Hi Steve,
   The registration process is no longer active, so you can just ignore
that. A JRE is a Java Runtime Environment, which is available from
Java.com. It is needed to run a few of the features of OpenOffice. However,
if you haven't run into any other problems, you don't seem to need it. Your
older version of OpenOffice requires and old version of the JRE and I don't
recommend going through the trouble without a reason.
You should consider  getting a more recent version of OpenOffice from
www.openoffice.org. That download process will redirect you to SourceForge
and the download will start automatically. There is no need to click on
anything at SourceForge.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:30 PM, John Jay john.ku...@frontier.com wrote:

 Both my ABC with a check mark and my ABC with a squigly line do not work.
   I CAN NOT use them to check a word spelling.  When using ABC check mark
 it goes to the beginning, I must take one word at a time to be corrected.
  ABC squigly line put a line under every thing.  Would you please help me
 correct the problem so I can agin enjoy their use.
 John


Hello John,
  Please try resetting your user profile as explained here:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=12426
and if spell check still does not work, work through the troubleshooting
tutorial here:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=12426

If you need more help, try asking on the user mailing list or on the user
forum that hosts the links above. Those are better places to get support
than this developers mailing list.
Best regards.
Franics

doing my little bit

[C Brooks]

Hello,

 

First off, I’d like to thank you for making your product available for PC 
users. 

 

I would like to contribute to what you are doing in my own odd way. I use gift 
cards (Visa  MasterCard) to make online purchases, and usually there’s a 
nominal amount left, which I discard. Instead of throwing the card away with 
this amount remaining, I’d like to donate it to Open Office (as if making a 
purchase?). This amount is usually anywhere from just under $1 to $3, and I use 
at least one card per month. I don’t want to offend anyone, which is why I am 
asking first.

 

Thanks again for what you do.

 

CB


Sent from Windows Mail

Re: [DOWNLOAD] New download webpage

[F C. Costero]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote:

 Hi all,

 http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html

 As promized in a previous mail, I've now put the new webpage as default.

 If you find some errors please report them by mail or Bugzilla issue.
 If you think the design could be improved please make a (graphical)
 suggestion.

 I'll watch for errors and reports and will be available today and tomorrow
 for any short-term fixes.

 A big thank you to all who helped me with opinions  suggestions.

 Marcus

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I'm probably being stupid but I get empty drop down lists from which to
select the OS, language and version. I tried with both FIrefox and IE.
Francis

Re: [DOWNLOAD] New download webpage

[F C. Costero]

The cache is why I tried IE because I very rarely use it and I didn't think
I had used it at all since I rebuilt my hard drive a while ago. But indeed,
clearing the cache fixed it. Sorry to bother you.
Best regards,
Francis


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote:

 Am 06/06/2014 08:12 PM, schrieb F C. Costero:

 On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de
  wrote:

  http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html

 As promized in a previous mail, I've now put the new webpage as default.

 If you find some errors please report them by mail or Bugzilla issue.
 If you think the design could be improved please make a (graphical)
 suggestion.

 I'll watch for errors and reports and will be available today and
 tomorrow
 for any short-term fixes.

 A big thank you to all who helped me with opinions  suggestions.

  I'm probably being stupid but I get empty drop down lists from which to
 select the OS, language and version. I tried with both FIrefox and IE.


 Please delete the browser cache. Or reload the webpage with pressed and
 hold [Shift] key (hopefully working also in browsers other than Firefox).
 Or restart it.

 HTH


 Marcus

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Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Roberta Yule Owen ryo...@nc.rr.com wrote:

 well, sort of -

 I have been using OpenOffice for some time and now have version 3.0.  I
 did not know that Apache has taken over OpenOffice, and I have a few
 questions:

 Is Apache 4.1.0 the latest version of what I already have?

 If I install Apache 4.1.0, will it upgrade my present 3.0 or will it
 install a completely different system, so that I would have to delete the
 3.0 myself?

 I normally save my documents as .doc - is that still possible with 4.1.0?

 Is a .doc usable (edit, etc) with 4.1.0?

 My OpenOffice documents are .odt - does 4.1.0 still use that extension?
  If not, is it still usable with 4.1.0?



 In addition, I have a problem with printing envelopes: they print barcodes
 across (up and down) the envelope face.  I have worked with a printer
 technician, and we cannot find any way that the printer could be adding the
 barcodes.  He suggested that I call OpenOffice; that is why I have
 discovered Apache OpenOffice!  If the answers to all my above questions are
 positive, I will download the 4.1.0 and hope that the barcode problem will
 no longer be present.

 If the barcodes persist, I will go to Support, but before that happens, I
 need to know the answers to these questions.

 Thank you very much.

 Sincerely,
 Roberta Yule Owen

Hello Roberta,
   Yes. 4.1.0 is the latest version of Apache OpenOffice.
   The 4.1.0 version should install in parallel to your 3.0 version. I
suggest keeping both versions active for a little while until you are sure
that 4.1.0 works well for you. There have been many improvements since 3.0
but it only takes one bug sometimes to cause a big problem.
   The latest version can still save in the .doc format and its native
format is .odt.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: Code snippets from oooforum in AOO website?

[F C. Costero]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 7:42 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote:

 On 1 June 2014 14:21, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote:

  Le 01/06/2014 13:12, jan i a écrit :
 
   I have noticed the traffic level, but seen from a monitoring POW, there
  are
  no problems with forum.
 
 
  Ah, indeed, I let my browser and after about 5 min, it reached the
  homepage. So not dead at all.
 
 
 
   My guess is that forum have been attacked in the same way our wiki was a
  year ago.
 
  To fight that, you need to close for creating accounts, clean the db,
  update php2bb, and cross fingers before you open again.
 
 
  Problem is that there is no admin anymore. So I fear there is no one to
 do
  that.
 
 ?? I thought at least you, imacat was admins. At vm level, pescetti, imacat
 have full admin (sudo) rights.

 rgds
 jan I.


 
  If the forum is not dead at all, should we anyway take the initiative and
  upload the code snippets here or wait for an action from the owner (with
 no
  guaranty on the lead time)?
 
 
  Hagar
 
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We have some confusion here. The forum that is dead is not the official AOO
forum but the older unofficial forum at www.oooforum.org. As Hagar says, it
is not completely dead, in the sense that it can be reached sometimes with
sufficient patience, but all of the new posts are spam. I checked in mid
April and there was not a single non-spam post over the previous two weeks.
That situation seems to have continued.
Francis

Re: Which SQL commands support OpenOffice Base?

[F C. Costero]

Hello!
If you create a Base file using the menu File - New - Database - Create
a New Database, you will get a Base file that runs HSQLDB version 1.8 as an
embedded database. The SQL documentation for that is here:
http://www.hsqldb.org/doc/1.8/guide/ch09.html. I would not recommend using
the embedded mode for critical work because of the possibility of data
loss. The data loss is not due to instability of HSQLDB but to the nature
of the embedded mode.
If you create a Base file using the menu File - New - Database - Connect
to an Existing Database, you can connect to an external database through
JDBC, ODBC or any of the other listed methods. This means you can connect
to any database engine of your choosing and use its version of SQL.
More detailed answers are best provided on the user mailing list or on the
forums at https://forum.openoffice.org/
Best regards,
Francis


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Dima Sidorenko
dimasidorenko...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hello!.

 Which SQL commands support OpenOffice Base?, What server database used in
 OpenOffice Base?, Dialects which are supported in OpenOffice Base?

 Sincerely,

 Sidorenko Dmitriy.

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:17 AM, brwbuildersand...@gmail.com wrote:

 my spell check doesn't work, am I supposed to download a dictionary?






 Sent from Windows Mail

Please try the steps in the spell check troubleshooting tutorial on the
user forum
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=16512
You do not need to register to view the tutorial.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: Draft OpenOffice Writer Usability Survey

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

 I while ago we were contacted by some academic researchers in Spain
 who wanted to do a usability study about OpenOffice Writer.   The
 wanted to interview Writer users, both new and experienced.

 You can read about the study here:
 https://sites.google.com/site/silviateresitaacunna/Home/usability-in-oss

 Since data privacy would not allow us to give them our mailing list to
 contact the users directly, we came up with the idea of using an
 opt-in survey to collect the names of those who would be interested.
 You can see the draft survey here:

 http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/396365/lang/en/

 It collects basic info about the users and their experience level, and
 then at the end asks if they agree to participate in the follow-up
 study.  If they agree then we collect their email address.

 If you get a chance, please review the survey and let me know of any
 concerns.

 Regards,

 -Rob

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 In the question Which of these applications do you know how to use? I'm
not sure what the Other answer is intended to capture. I use several
applications besides word processors, spreadsheets, databases and email.
And leaving out a presentation application as an explicit option seems odd.
Francis

willing to donate openoffice Base template

[John C. Pratt]

Hello, I would like to donate
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/family-address-book-birthday-remindersto
Open Office, and I am willing to remove all branding.

My problem is this: I can't continue to host the download of this any more;
I need a new way to offer it. Can you host it? (The problem is that there
is no category for Base for templates, and you require that non -oxc
extensions be hosting offsite. What can I do?

I am willing to donate it but I understand that there may not be enough
interest to maintain it.

--John

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

I'm sorry to hear you are having a stability problem. Please try resetting
your user profile as explained in this tutorial on the user forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=12426
You don't need to register on the forum to read it.
Best regards,
Francis


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Richard Tomlinson rich...@tomlinson.netwrote:

 I have been using OpenOffice for a few years, originally the Sun
 Microsystems official version.

 Since installing 4.0.1 I have been unable to get any work done as
 OpenOffice crashes almost immediately no matter what file I open. Proceeds
 to file recovery than crashes again.  I have read everything I can
 understand in the user help section and can not fix the issue. I
 uninstalled 4.0.1 and installed the previous version 3.4.? but now it
 crashes also.

 I must abandon use of this product as it prevents me from accomplishing
 useful work.  This is a very large and complex product and would be
 wonderful if it worked.  For future users perhaps you should concentrate on
 the fundamentals, stability and ease of updating.

 Richard Tomlinson

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Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

[F C. Costero]

Hello Amy,
   If you are interested in helping users, one of the options is to
volunteer on the forum. The English forum is at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php
All you have to do is register and start answering questions. I'm a
moderator there (user FJCC) and would be happy to answer any questions you
have. Of course, there are many ways to help and I encourage you to look
around the whole project to see what interests you.
Best regards,
Francis


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Amy Jo Perreault wolf_1...@yahoo.comwrote:

 Good afternoon,

 My name is Amy Jo Perreault and I live in Pleasant Prairie WI. I would
 like to help with the Openoffice program. I will admit that my computer
 tech skills are not really high. but I do use the office program often and
 I would like to help less technical savvy users understand the system more
 if I can. I am not sure if this will be helpful but I thought I would at
 least try to help this way as much as I want to contribute money I just
 don't have it at the time. But I do have time to volunteer.

Re: OpenOffice passwords: What are we telling users on the forums?

[F C. Costero]

Your description of the available password protection options is what is
typically said on the en forum. I don't recall anyone ever suggesting that
users avoid password protection, though I don't read every post.
Best regards,
Francis


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

 I noticed this note, which I thought was odd:

 http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg35699.html

 I'm hoping this is just a confusion, but we do need to be careful to
 avoid confusion in this area, since it can cause users to panic.

 The facts, as I understand them:

 There are two features in OpenOffice (and in LibreOffice and Microsoft
 Office) that users refer to when they talk about passwords:

 1) Password protected encrypted documents

 2) Password protected sections, cells, read-only files, etc.

 An encrypted document is as good as your password.  We use good, high
 quality encryption in ODF documents by default.  And we use MS Office
 compatible encryption, which is also good, with Office files.

 But in practice most users have far weaker passwords than they should.
  The context of a password protected file is much more vulnerable than
 a website password.  A typical website will allow you to attempt a log
 in 3 or 5 times before locking you out for an hour or more.  But
 someone who has your encrypted document can attempt to guess the
 password without any such restriction.  They can run sophisticated
 programs, standalone password crackers, with GPU hardware acceleration
 to attempt billions of passwords.  So a casual password of 6
 alphanumeric characters will be quickly broken. So given the context
 users should be using longer, more complex passwords.  Of course, that
 makes it more likely that they will forget the password and show up on
 the forums when they forget.  However you look at it, document-based
 passwords are a 1985 solution to a problem that is better solved today
 in other ways.

 As for the protected sections, we should all know that these are
 honor system protection mechanisms, essentially child safety locks,
 and offer no real cryptographic protection.  This is true in MS Office
 is well.  The feature is there to help the user define sections that
 they don't want accidentally deleted, but the password protection can
 be trivially defeated in 30 seconds with a text editor and a copy of
 unzip.  This is not a flaw in OpenOffice.  This is not a bug.  This is
 how the feature was designed and has been used in Microsoft Office and
 even 1-2-3 before then.

 Hopefully we're telling users something that is consistent with what I
 outlined above.  Of course, it is quite possible that many users will
 not understand this and all they hear is My password can be broken so
 OpenOffice is bad.

 Regards,

 -Rob

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Re: Printing a database

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:34 AM, dmcghee m...@dmcghee.plus.com wrote:

 Hi

 I have created a database of my DVD collection. The creation of it was
 fine, but there does not seem to be an option to print.

 If it can be done, can you tell me how. I am running Windows 8


 Regards
 David McGhee

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 Hello David,
  If you want to print the entire contents of a database table, it is
easiest to import the table into Calc or Writer. If you registered your
database when you created it, the process is simple.
1. Open a new Calc or Writer document.
2. Press F4, which will open a pane near the top of the screen showing all
of your registered data sources.
3. Click the + next to the name of your database to show the tables and
queries.
4. Expand the list of tables using the +.
5. Click and drag the name of your table into the new document.
6. Print that document.
I hope that helps.
Best Regards,
Francis

Re: Printing a database

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:34 AM, dmcghee m...@dmcghee.plus.com wrote:

 Hi

 I have created a database of my DVD collection. The creation of it was
 fine, but there does not seem to be an option to print.

 If it can be done, can you tell me how. I am running Windows 8


 Regards
 David McGhee

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 Another copy in case David isn't registered.
Hello David,
  If you want to print the entire contents of a database table, it is
easiest to import the table into Calc or Writer. If you registered your
database when you created it, the process is simple.
1. Open a new Calc or Writer document.
2. Press F4, which will open a pane near the top of the screen showing all
of your registered data sources.
3. Click the + next to the name of your database to show the tables and
queries.
4. Expand the list of tables using the +.
5. Click and drag the name of your table into the new document.
6. Print that document.
I hope that helps.
Best Regards,
Francis

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

There are people who would be happy to help on the user mailing list or on
one of the forums (https://forum.openoffice.org/). Your message was sent to
the developer mailing list. You might get help here, but that is not the
primary purpose of the list. Please describe your problem in detail when
you do post on one of the user support sites.
Best regards,
Francis


On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Hitesh kamat kalutobok...@icloud.comwrote:

 Hi i have problem with my mac after i update my iOS . can u help me so i
 don’t have to use microsoft
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Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

I'm sorry you are having trouble with Calc. Can you give a specific example
of what is happening? I use Calc all the time and don't encounter such
problems but we may have different uses.
Best regards,
Francis


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Robert ry...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Your Excel Spreadsheet software needs serious work.

 It is constantly changing the format of each box, even when default
 settings were put in place for that particular file and basically chooses
 whatever it wants without any regard to what information it is given.

 Even Microsoft is not so stupid to have done a major mistake like that.
 and they are well know for their mistakes

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Re: IMPORTANT

[Juan C. Sanz]

El 19/11/2013 19:39, Partnership Programosy escribió:

Hello!


*IMPORTANT: **
**All your correspondence is visible here*:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/

*Are you aware of this?

*http://prntscr.com/25aga2
http://prntscr.com/25agje


Yes, we should be it. We are warned in the note in the page [1]:
Note: These are public mailing lists and anything posted to these lists 
is archived and is visible to the the public, indexed by search engines, 
etc. Posts can only be removed ...


[1] http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html


Regards
Juan Carlos

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Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Brian Moore
bwmoore4173...@btinternet.comwrote:

 Good afternoon, I have recently downloaded Mac’s OS X Mavericks and it
 refused to open  ‘OpenOffice.!

 I went into System Preferences Security  Privacy and instructed it to
 open ‘OpenOffice’ which it now does!

 However it now comes up with the following window :-

 The last time you opened OpenOffice, it unexpectedly quit while reopening
 windows. Do you want to try and reopen its windows again?

 Having told the computer to accept ‘OpenOffice’ it has reopened it by
 pressing the Reopen button.

 The problem is that I cannot delete the little window that comes up and
 can only remove it by shutting the computer off! Any ideas on how to get
 rid of this annoying little window?

 Any help would be gratefully received

 Thank you

 Regards,

 Brian Moore
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 There are several threads on the user forum about this problem. One
example is: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17t=63965.
You do not need to register on the forum to read the contents.
Regards,
Francis

Log in glitch on en forum

[F C. Costero]

I and another moderator have both gotten a message claiming maximum number
of log in attempts exceeded when we tried to log into the en forum. I did
not get that message when logging into the es forum. We could log in
successfully after properly entering a Captcha. Perhaps this a a result of
the recent software changes.
Regards,
Francis

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

I understand the problem to be that OpenOffice will not start on your
computer. If you are getting no error, this can happen because
 an OpenOffice process is stuck. Not knowing what operating system you are
using, the simplest solution is probably to reboot your computer.
Francis


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote:

 Site is up and running here, maybe he went to a different domain, please go
 to
 http://openoffice.org


 On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:47 PM, prettybutch...@aol.com wrote:

  Hello
  I am unable to access my open office.
  Can you please assist me?
  Thanks for your reply,
  Ms. Phyllis




 --
 Alexandro Colorado
 Apache OpenOffice Contributor
 http://www.openoffice.org
 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9  5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614

Re: Open Office 4.01

[F C. Costero]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Jerry Slivka jerrysli...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi,

 I've been a loyal user of Open Office for the past several years.  The
 spreadsheet does a nice job of replacing the basics of Excel.

 Two things though that I really would like to see be improved or added for
 future releases:

 1) In a large spreadsheet I block several cells and only want to print
 those cells.  Print Preview and Print wants to print the whole spreadsheet,
 which could be several pages.  But, maybe I only need a half page or about
 one page only.  Maybe there is a way of doing it, but try as I do I can't
 seem to get to print only what I've blocked or highlighted.

 2) Excel has a very nice block and move feature.  You can block or
 highlight  a group of cells and just drag them to a different location and
 keep the formatting of the moved cells.  This is slick and you don't have
 to go thru a copy and paste procedure which is much more cumbersome.

 Keep up the good work!

 Jerry [?]

Hello Jerry,
   If I understand you correctly, the equivalent actions in Calc are:
1. Highlight the cells you want to print. Select the menu Format - Print
Ranges - Define. Selecting File - Page Preview will then show only the
selected cells.
2. Highlight the cells you want to move. Left click and hold the mouse
button down inside the selected range (not at the edge of the range as in
Excel) and drag to the new location.

I hope that helps.
Francis

Re: Reopening the Vietnamese Forum

[F C. Costero]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.orgwrote:

 We have a Vietnamese volunteer, Mr. Phan Anh (in CC), who recently
 completed the Vietnamese translation and would be interested in reopening
 and moderating the Vietnamese forum at
 http://forum.openoffice.org/**vi/ http://forum.openoffice.org/vi/

 So, a couple of questions for the forum administrators:
 - What are the steps needed to reopen the forum? Are you able to do it?
 (pending consensus of course)
 - And, more important, was the site closed just because of accumulated
 spam due to insufficient moderation, or other reasons that need to be
 addressed before reopening?

 Regards,
   Andrea.

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 Addressing the second question, the Vietnamese forum was closed only
because it was full of spam and the original moderators could not be
contacted.
 I'll post a message on the forum advising people of this thread.
Regards,
Francis

Re: [WWW]Forum not delivering e-mails

[F C. Costero]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Ricardo Berlasso rgb.m...@gmail.comwrote:

 There is a problem with the automated emails on the forums:

 http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=102t=64264

 I checked on the ES forum by sending a PM from a test account to my main
 account and can confirm the problem: no notification arrived. This problem
 seems quite urgent because accounts are activated through confirmation
 email, so no email no new account.

 Something changed today, because until yesterday notifications worked
 without problems.

 Regards
 Ricardo

I note that on the thread Mails from iss...@openoffice.apache.org Rob
mentions he turned off email notification in bugzilla. A curious
coincidence though it doesn't seem that should affect the forums.
Francis

Password protected Word Documents

[c . grefkens]

Dear all,
We are/were using MS Office2003. We are currently changing some
workstations to OpenOffice.
Our integration to OpenOffice is going very well but we are experiencing
some problems.
Word Documents that are password protected can only be read, not changed.
It is possible to save it to an .ODT and then we can work with it but since
Word can't read .ODT files, it's a bit of a problem for us since not all of
of our colleagues are working with OpenOffice.
I have read on the internet that there are many people with the same
problem and for some time also.
WIll there be an update for it???




Met vriendelijke groet / Yours sincerely,

Cornee Grefkens
Systeembeheerder

Plieger B.V.
Koxkampseweg 6
5301 KK Zaltbommel

T  +31 (0)418 682608
M +31 (0)6 38829681

http://www.plieger.nl

Re: Updated table: Downloads by Country

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

 I just updated the page showing downloads by country.  The last update
 was back in May.

 http://www.openoffice.org/stats/countries.html

 The ordering at the top has not changed much, except that Poland has
 overtaken the Netherlands for the #10 spot.

 Same number of countries listed as before.  I think we have them all,
 except North Korea, so barring political changes that count will stay
 at 237.

 Regards,

 -Rob

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 Rob,
  Thanks for the interesting data. I did notice that country 179 is Ã…land
Islands.  Any idea what the is supposed to be?
Best regards,
Francis

Re: [REVIEW] draft blog.

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

 On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@apache.org
 wrote:
  On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:59 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote:
 
  Hi
 
  A while ago we discussed to get more bloggers.
 
  Since I have 1 years birthday in a couple of days, I have made a blog.
 
  I am not a native speaker, so I assume there are some mistakes in there,
  feel free to correct them.
 
  But more importantly, is this a post we as community would like to make
  public ?
 
 
 
 https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=developer_in_aoo_1year_celebration
 
  Please be gentle this is my first blog.
 
  rgds
  jan I.
 
 
  Sometimes, when I'm proofing material from an EFL speaker, I find myself
  inclined to not try to fix certain things because they look naturally
  authentic and sincere.  Excessive proofing runs the risk of editing out
  some of the raw passion and enthusiasm being expressed.  Especially in
  cases like this, where passion and enthusiasm are sort of the point of
 the
  blog post.
 

 +1.  A personal-perspective post should not read like a marketing brochure.

 I thought the post was great.  I'd recommend only simple corrections,
 e.g., standardize capitalization.

 I think personal posts are enhanced with a photograph, if Jan has a
 suitable one.  But it is fine either way.

 Regards,

 -Rob

  But I can give it a shot, if you like...?
 
  Don

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 This is an excellent blog post. I agree that only a very few changes are
needed for clarity. The imperfections are minor and make it authentic.

[Website] - Typo?

[S. C. Gardner]

Hi,

I'm a web administrator... so I *KNOW* you want to know this:

at:
http://www.openoffice.org/why/why_new_computers.html
find:
You are not required to spent $100, $200 more for a copy

I believe it should be *spend*... not Spent  I think you may want
to add the word or too.  So:

*You are not required to spend $100, $200, or more for a copy of Microsoft
Office*.


Thanks for all the wonderful work being accomplished by the amazing Open
Office team.

Respectfully,

Conrad

s.c.g.
:-)
= + = + = + = + = + =   
 + = + =

Re: Three possible issues in AOO 4.0 en_UK

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Marco A.G.Pinto 
marcoagpi...@mail.telepac.pt wrote:

  Yes, I tried to register in the forum but I keep getting that my
 signature is invalid, even with only: OpenOffice 4.0 on Windows 8

 Meanwhile the file is attached here and I hope it will get through the ML.

 Thanks!

 Kind regards,
  Marco A.G.Pinto
---



 On 24/07/2013 01:34, F C. Costero wrote:

 The volunteers at the user forum (
 http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php for support in English)
 would be happy to help. You can upload the file there if it is under 128 KB.
 Best regards,
 Francis



 --


Hello Marco,
   I downloaded your document and I see two lines in blue and 13 lines in
red, the remainder are black. Is that right? I am using version 4.0.

For the signature problem on the forum, you might try saying you use
version 3.4.1. I have reported the problem but I'm not sure how long it
will take to fix if it is indeed a general problem.

Finally, there is a tutorial on the forum about fixing spell check
problems. You do not have to be registered to view it. The link is
http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=16512

Best regards,
Francis

Re: Question about message on wiki archived pages...???

[C]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:52 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote:
 On 11 July 2013 21:47, janI j...@apache.org wrote:
  On 11 July 2013 18:47, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:
  I have a question about the archived message on this page:
 
  http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Porting_to_x86-64_%28AMD64,_EM64T%29
 
  *This page is archived for historical reasons only
 
  *I think this showed up due to the
  {{historical}}
  tag added, and dropping the category tags.
 
   I'd like to change the wording on this tag a little. Can someone point
  me
  in the right direction for doing this?
 
 
  I can for now tell where you cannot find it :-(
 
  It is NOT in
  - the code (message tables).
  - special::system messages
  - Interface messages
 
  In short I cannot find the text, but maybe clayton has an idea.
 

 I suggest you outdated instead of historical, that gives a better
 wording.


 i would be happy to if I could find where to change this. I would not only
 say it is outdated but also that  the links supplied  may be outdated or not
 directing to their original source. And,  that it is unlikely that the page
 will be reinstated.  Finally, I would say that the page exists ONLY for
 historical purposes.

Hi guys.

Sorry for the late reply.  I didn't check my email last night.

What you're looking for is this page:
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Template:Historical

It is a simple template page that was added in 2012.  Editing it
should be easy enough.

Clayton

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Re: Continuous crashing of documents and then having to go through the cycle of Document Recovery 2 or 3 times per letter.

[F C. Costero]

Hello! I suggest you try resetting your user profile as explained in this
tutorial:http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=12426
Best regards,
Francis


On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 4:06 PM, ian.m...@talktalk.net ian.m...@talktalk.net
 wrote:

 Dear Open Office,

 Can you please guide me as to how the above problem can be removed ?
 I never had this problem with earlier Open Office versions.

 Thank you,


 Ian Max.

Re: help me open my files please

[F C. Costero]

Hi! It might be easier to get support from the user forum (
http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/). Please describe further what
happens when you try to open a file and what operating system you are
using.
I have seen such problems caused by a hung OpenOffice process. The easiest
fix, not knowing your level of expertise, is to shutdown the computer and
restart it.


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:06 PM, kate christmas
kate.christ...@hotmail.comwrote:

 Hello, I don't know what has happened but I cant open my ODT files.I am so
 worried as I have all my work in there and I can't print or  access them in
 any way.Why has this happened? I have very important work in them that I
 need to send and its imperative that I can get into them ASAP.Please
 help.Thanks Kate Christmas

Re: Incomplete Answer (from Dr Katherine Phelps)

[F C. Costero]

Hello!! One possible solution - you can hold the shift key while rotating
to limit the movement to 15 degree increments. Also, you can probably get
better support for user questions on the user mailing list or the user
forum (http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/)
Best regards,
Francis


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Dr Katherine Phelps
m...@glasswings.com.auwrote:

 On this page:


 http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Writer/GraphicsFramesObjects/How_can_I_rotate_a_graphic_with_a_given_angle

 You answer by telling the person how to rotate a graphic. You do not tell
 them how to achieve a specific angle of rotation. If I want to rotate my
 object exactly ninety degrees, the software does not seem to make it
 possible to achieve that level of exactitude. I will carefully move the
 mouse and get 89.95 or 91.20, but never quite ninety on the dot.

 So, how can I get ninety?

 Thank you.

 Kind regards,

 Dr Katherine Phelps

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BootstrapException: no office executable found!

[Juan C. Sanz]

Hello.
I've just start to learn with the OpenOffice Developer's Guide.
Following the Getting Started chapter I've installed:

 * a 32-bit version of JDK (jdk-7u25-nb-7_3_1-linux-i586.sh and
   jdk-6u45-linux-i586.bin)
 * a Java IDE (Netbeans 7.3 - I installed 7.3.1 but I uninstalled it
   due some problems)
 * OpenOffice SDK
   (Apache_OpenOffice_incubating-SDK_3.4.1_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz)
 * OpenOffice
   (Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.1_Linux_x86_install-deb_es.tar.gz)
 * OpenOffice plugging for Netbeans
   (org-openoffice-extensions-3.0.2.nbm, from
   http://people.apache.org/~cmarcum/devtools/)

All it is running in a VirtualBox machine with Linux Mint 15 32-bit 
(linux 3.8.0-19 and MATE 1.6.0)
My problem is that when I try to run any sample of the Developer's Guide 
I always get the same error:

/com.sun.star.comp.helper.BootstrapException: no office executable found!//
//at 
com.sun.star.comp.helper.Bootstrap.bootstrap(Bootstrap.java:239)//
//at 
com.example.OfficeUNOClientApp.main(OfficeUNOClientApp.java:49)/
Also if I create a new empty Apache OpenOffice Client Application 
project, running the frame created, I get the same error.
I've tried to change the java platform (that's why I have jdk-7 and 
jdk-6 installed), following the (very old) advises from some forums I've 
tried to add everything to the CLASSPATH, I've tried soffice 
-accept=socket,host=0,port=2002;urp;, I execute the setsdkenv_unix...

I think I've done everything, but I get always the same error.
What am I doing wrong? Some more advises?
Regards
Juan C. Sanz

Re: Openoffice 4 crashes when copying table in text document

[F C. Costero]

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Max Merbald max.merb...@gmx.de wrote:

 Edit: It doesn't only happen when you try to copy a table but always when
 you try to copy by mouse.

 Am 22.06.2013 21:00, schrieb Max Merbald:

  Hi there,

 I've got an error to report, I don't know if you're already working on it.

 1.) Open a writer document (.odt) with a table in it.
 2.) Select a table in the document, right-click on it to get the the
 context menu
 3.) Click copy.

 Whenever I got through this routine the result was a message telling me
 the the programm had a problem and needed to be closed. And closed it was.

 Build is 9701.

 Max


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 Hello and thanks for taking the time to report a problem. It would be
helpful to report this in Bugzilla: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/
Also, I just tried it myself and did not reproduce the problem, so please
be sure to mention your operating system. I'm on XP.
Francis

Re: Find a better name for sidebar?

[F C. Costero]

On 5/23/2013 5:29 PM, Andrew Rist wrote:


On 5/23/2013 3:52 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote:

I don't if it's really to late for finding a handy name for the
biggest new feature in AOO. This has to be defined by others. :-)

However, if we have some time, I have to say that SuperPanel or
SmartPanel are good proposals

and possibly SmartBar   (or is that a snack food?)

what can be done by this UI element:

Use the panel to do you work in a super smart and super fast way. It's
better to discover your tools and styles in a single location than to
poke for them in every toolbox and dialog.

My 2 ct.

Marcus



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I understand people thinking it is too late to make a change but I also 
think Jörg has made an excellent point. I see the purpose of the side 
bar as allowing one to work faster by gathering many common functions. I 
haven't been able to think of a name I like that communicates the speed 
aspect. Perhaps Favorites Bar, with its allusion to a browser feature, 
might incline people to try the new tool.

Best regards,
Francis

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Re: Need QA (test) volunteers on Mac

[Vanita C. Washington]

I will work on my build this weekend because I am interesting in doing QA
and development on the Mac.
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

 It looks like the QA team is making great progress with testing Apache
 OpenOffice 4.0 on Windows.  But they need more help on Mac.  Another
 few volunteers would make a big difference here.

 We're looking for people who can spend a few hours over the next week
 or two to run specific, pre-defined test cases their Mac, and to enter
 Bugzilla issues for any failed test cases.  This is a nice, gentle
 introduction to formal QA.

 No previous experience with QA is necessary, though good familiarity
 with OpenOffice from a user perspective is recommended.

 If you can help, please send a note to the QA mailing list at:
 q...@openoffice.apache.org

 Thanks!

 -Rob

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Re: Update on logo survey

[F C. Costero]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

 On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 
  On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
   A quick update.  We've been running for 18 hours, enough time to get
   around the globe.
  
   So far we have 1712 responses.
  
 
  3072 responses now.
 
  I'd like to run the survey at least through the weekend, so we don't
  bias against home users who might only have time to do the survey on
  weekends.  But I think we can wrap this up early next week.
 
  I've started to prototype the analysis scripts, using R, so when the
  final data comes in I should be able quickly put out a report.  So far
  it looks like there will be around 5 logos that are bunched together
  at the top.
 
  -Rob
 
 
  I would think running it for at least a week would be good.
 
 
 
 
   It is probably worth thinking about what we want to do with all the
   data.  I did an analysis of the results so far, and some quick
   thoughts:
  
   1) The question asking for person's age appears to be useless.  Unless
   we have an unusual number of users in their 70's , 80's and 90's, a
   large number of users are entering their birth year rather than their
   age.  So I'm planning on just ignoring that field.   (This is probably
   why you often see this done as a drop down list of years in other
   surveys, less error prone).
  
   2) I will be able to produce a list of logos, sorted by average score
   and given the %  breakdown of 1's, 2's, 3's, etc.  Maybe even a
   histogram chart for each.
  
   3) We're receiving a lot of comments on the individual logos, many
   more than I expected.  So we can expect that for each logo there will
   be 200 or more text comments.  I'm not sure what we want to do with
   these.   Since this is an anonymous survey the users are quite blunt
   with their comments on the logos they did not prefer, using coarse
   language, etc., stuff that would be inappropriate if a list subscriber
   posted.  It is not all constructive criticism.  Some of it is quite
   harsh.  On the other hand, there is a tremendous amount of valuable
   feedback as well, that we and the designers specifically might find
   useful.   So what to do?
  
   a) Post it all, the good the bad and the ugly?
  
   b) Remove or censor only profanity and post the rest?
  
   c) Make feedback available only to the individual designers via email
  
   d) Publicly post the feedback only for the top 5 logos, share the rest
   privately with the individual designers.
 
 
  I think probably c) and only if the designers request it.
 
  But, if we're looking to narrow down choices to 5, those who are more
  intimately involved in this process (marketing folks?), would probably
 like
  to see the constructive comments for those.
 

 Another approach would be to have some volunteers read through the
 comments and summarize in a paragraph, giving something like:

 12 people thought that the font was too old-fashioned and suggested a
 bolder font.   Two people said that the number 4 was unlucky in
 Chinese culture and should not be featured so predominately in the
 logo.  Four people wondered whether the logo would render well at
 smaller image scales.

 In other words, take the raw comments and figure out the prominent
 trends, like someone might do to summarize feedback raised in a
 meeting or focus group.  (Or those in the US might be reminded of
 Zagat restaurant reviews)

 Since each logo has 200+ comments we might want to do this only for
 the top 5 or so logos,  I could probably volunteer to do this for one
 of the logos, but not all of the top ones.  But with enough help this
 would be possible.

 -Rob

I'd be willing to summarize comments and note the main trends. I think that
strikes a good balance between accepting all the input but not asking busy
people to wade through a lot of material.

Francis

Re: draft blog post: With Special Guest Star... Apache OpenOffice

[F C. Costero]

Very good! I have a couple of editing suggestions, if it is not too late.
The line
Those with access (and this may has geo-based access restrictions) can see
scene starting at the 8:50 mark on ABC's online version of the
episodehttp://abc.go.com/watch/suburgatory/SH55126593/VDKA0_2durzflg/apocalypse-meow.
Should be
Those with access (and this may have geo-based access restrictions) can
see the scene starting at the 8:50 mark on ABC's online version of the
episodehttp://abc.go.com/watch/suburgatory/SH55126593/VDKA0_2durzflg/apocalypse-meow
.
Francis


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

 
 
 https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=with_special_guest_star_apache
 
  This is time-sensitive, so I'd like to get this out this afternoon.
 
  Thanks!
 
  -Rob
 

 Go Tessa! Go AOO! and dang, sorry I missed this episode! :/
 Yep, good to go!


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Re: [CODE][PROPOSAL]: AOO 4.0 getting rid of the 3 layer office, part 1

[Ian C]

Hi Jürgen,

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 the so called 3layer office is not really useful anymore (it was never)
 and makes more problems than it helps.

 I thought that AOO 4.0 would be the best time to start at least with the
 necessary rework. The main idea is to use a new simplified directory
 layout and tweak the necessary config file (*rc, *.ini), rpath or
 similar linker flags where necessary etc. Eliminate the URE completely
 because we don't really want support it as a standalone product.

 I did some initial work so far and I am now able to build an office for
 Windows, MacOS and Linux with a new simplified directory layout.

 Windows and MacOS have already one main directory whereas on Linux we
 have openoffice (basis layer + URE) and openoffice4 (brand layer).

 I removed all this base-link, ure-link, URE, urelib stuff and
 reorganized the directories.

 Example layout on Linux:
 openoffice4
 openoffice4/help
 openoffice4/presets
 openoffice4/program  - contains basis-link/program + URE/bin + URE/lib
 openoffice4/program/misc  - former URE/share/misc - will be removed
 openoffice4/README
 openoffice4/README.html
 openoffice4/readmes
 openoffice4/share

 In general the layout becomes more equal on all platforms.

 The good news is that the office work on all 3 platforms, I am able to
 select Java, extensions seems to work as well. Python is not yet tested,
 language packs are not yet tested and built but in general I am thinking
 it will be no problem.

 Advantage of this move would be a simplified structure, long term a
 simplified configuration when the *rc/*.ini files are consolidated.
 Easier deployment on Linux, no conflicts with an URE from LO or the
 distro at all.

 My idea is to continue this basic work, do further cleanup in the office
 as well as the build system, do further testing including the SDK...
 Still some work to do but from my point of view a useful move forward to
 get rid of this complex and unnecessary 3layer stuff.

 What do you think?

 On demand I can provide test builds if there are people interested to
 help with testing.

is the code available on a branch? If so I can make some time to help
check the build on Fedora and do some smoke testing.
Or if you can get the code to me in some other way let me know.

I have limited time but happy to try these things if that helps.


 Juergen








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Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040])

[F C. Costero]

The English forum is back up. I haven't checked any others.
Francis


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:31 AM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote:

 2013/3/19 FR web forum ooofo...@free.fr

  Nagios monitore forums with HTML and SSL services.
  But it's the MySQL deamon that must be watched.
 

 Indeed: Forums are green on the status page now, but they do not work.

 Regards
 Ricardo



 
 
 
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Project planning

[Ian C]

Hi,

after reading Rob's post on website strategic planning I went to
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Project+Planning

It still refers to graduating out of incubation.

Not sure how to fix that or what it should be changed too. Simply
remove the Graduate row?

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