date:20110920

Hi :)
Thanks :)  So Building neatly avoids the packagiong issues of .rpm versus 
.deb?  We just need 1 for 32bit Gnu&Linux and 1 for 64bit, not 1 for each of 
the main families (Arch? Slackware, Debian, RedHat, errr)?  So, Heinrich's 
build might be good to upload to your page?

Doing a build sounds quite technical to me.  I need to look at the guide as i 
have never done it before (well twice doing copy&paste from guides and not 
having a clue what i was doing).  Anyway, thanks for the link to the guide :)  
Heinrich, has it helped?
Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Tue, 20/9/11, Alexander Thurgood  wrote:

From: Alexander Thurgood 
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 16:25

Le 20/09/11 12:25, Tom Davies a écrit :

Hi Tom,

> After 1 person has built it for their system can the built package be 
> uploaded somewhere for other people to use?  If so could it be uploaded to 
> the new LO Extensions&templates site?  

This is precisely what I have done for Mac OSX.

> 
> How generic are builds?  Would it cover the entire family (Ubuntu, Mint, 
> Trisquel etc), just Debian, one particular release of Debian, or just the 
> specific machine?

I really don't know, but I'm hasarding a guess that they are fairly
generic - however, each distrib currently packages its own version of
the connector extension to accompany any given release of their own
version of LibO. What is certain is that if you want a 32bit connector,
you have to build with the 32bit mysql connector C library, and if you
want 64bit, well...the corresponding bit library for that.

If you look at the OOo extension site, the MySQL native connector
extension was provided in the following flavours :

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/mysql_connector

Linux (32bit)
Linux x86_64
Mac OS X (32bit only)
Solaris Sparc
Solaris x86
Windows (I assume only 32bit, but who knows ?)

So, one would need to build for these arch/OSes and also Win64.

Alex

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Lo 3.4.3 Recovery mode

Hi :)
I would go back to the 3.3.4 because 
1.  it was better for you
2.  it was released only a few days before the 3.4.3
The different branches seem to have different objectives and 3.3.x seems to 
match what you need better than the 3.4.x branch.  

Why not have both?
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
Just set the 3.3.x branch one as being the main/default one that gets used.  

Happy "World Peace Day" everyone :)
Regards from
Tom :)

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From: Simon Johnson-Bégin 
Subject: [libreoffice-users]  Lo 3.4.3 Recovery mode
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 16:28


Hi,



I just installed LO 3.4.3 on Linux Mint 11 Lxde.  I then opened my 
thesis file in writer, closed it and then reopened it and never made any
 change to the document.  Even so, when I reopen the document, Lo recovery mode 
ask me if I want to launch the file recovery process.

Was this reported before as a bug?  Can I continue to work on my thesis with 
3.4.3 in a safe way or should I go back to 3.3.4, in which I never had any 
problem at all?

Thank you all for your help!

Simon

               
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Contribute to 'Copy only visible cells' extension project

2011-09-20 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions

Hi :)
Miguel, you might have more luck on the localisation lists.  Perhaps just let 
the main one know which extensions you think it would be good to translate?
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/localizers/

Alfresco might be a good place to store the documents that need translating.  
The Documentation Team uses Alfresco a lot.  It has been upgraded so that some 
non-English characters can be used in folder names now :)

I don't know if that's helpful but hopefully it might help a bit
Regards from
Tom :)


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From: Gustavo Pacheco 
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Contribute to 'Copy only visible cells' 
extension project
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 21 September, 2011, 1:21

Hi Miguel!

 The purpose of the extension is just copy the non hidden rows or columns.

 In other words, suppose two ways to copy a cell range with hidden columns
or rows: with the simple Copy command or with the Edit > 'Copy only visible
cells' command provided by the extension.

 In the simple Copy case, If you need to copy the cell range to other sheet,
you select the range, go to Edit > Copy command, go to the destination sheet
and Paste the cell range.

 The result is: all cells of the original range are copied, including the
hidden columns or rows.

 With the 'Copy only visible cells' extension, you can use the Edit > Copy
only visible cells command instead of Edit > Copy command on the range.
Then, go to the destination sheet and Paste the cell range.

 The result is: only the visible cells are copied, not including the hidden
columns or rows.

 Please, do the tests and check if your results are the same. If you have an
unexpected result, send me an e-mail with details of your tests!

 Thanks,
 Gustavo Pacheco.




2011/9/20 MiguelAngel 

> I'm
>        sorry, but in Libo 3.3 or
>    OOo 3.3, only non hidden rows and columns are copied.I think the problem
> is paste on the non hidden cells.Miguelngel.El 21/09/11 0:39, Gustavo
> Pacheco escribi:Hi people!
>
>
>  I would invite you to collaborate with the development of "Copy only
> visible cells" extension. In many cases, "Copy only visible cells" provides
> an alternative to the 'Select Visible Cells' command in Microsoft Excel.
> Its useful to use with subtotals or ranges with hidden columns or rows.
>
>
>  At moment, the extension supports only English, Portuguese, French,
> German,
> Italian and Spanish languages. My goal is to add more languages with the
> help of the community.
>
>
>  If you want to contribute, just send me a private email (to: gbpacheco AT
> gmail.com) with a translation of the phrase "Copy only visible cells",
> your
> language, your country and your name (for the credits).
>
>
>  Its simple and you can help other people who speak your language. You can
> try 'Copy only visible cells' extension at the new extension repository:
> http://extensions-test.libreoffice.org/extension-center/copy-only-visible-cellsThanks
> ,
>  Gustavo Pacheco.
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[libreoffice-users] Strange table of contents problem (bug ?)

2011-09-20 Thread Fabián Rodríguez

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Hi

I am having this same problem with a huge document I got:
http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/860

Is there a way to mass-change the affected text so it becomes Body text
again (as described in comment #2) ? That method works for single
paragraphs but having 350+ pages I can't imagine going through it again.

Thanks for any hints.

Fabian Rodriguez
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:MagicFab

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[libreoffice-users] LO Navigator and MS .doc files containing Section Breaks

2011-09-20 Thread Jonathon Waterman

Hi all,

I need to review a .doc document that was created in MS Word 2007.

This document contains both Page breaks and Section breaks.

While I can get the Navigator in LO to GOTO the next page - how can I get it
to GOTO where section breaks were used? I want to be able to jump from one
section to the next - in this case, each section is a different chapter.

So far, and maybe I'm not doing it wrong - but LO Navigator does not seem to
recognized the MS Word created Section Breaks.

What I have tried was, I clicked on Navigator - then the icon to browse
Sections, and then hit the down arrow.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Slow Opening of LibreOffice in Ubuntu

2011-09-20 Thread soumalya ray

thanks

On 21 September 2011 03:49, Don C. Myers  wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Tom has mentioned several times about disabling Java so LibreOffice would
> open faster. I started using LibreOffice when it first became available. It
> opened very slowly compared to OpenOffice. I ran across the following when I
> researched the issue. It was due to LibreOffice calling home when it was
> initially opened. I don't know if this still happens or not, but the
> following fixed this issue for me (running Ubuntu 11.04) and others who were
> having the issue back then:
>
> /*Change hosts setting in hosts file for LibreOffice on Ubuntu 11.04:*/
>
> /In terminal, do gksudo gedit /etc/hosts/
>
> /Add line as shown below: For instance, *127.0.0.1 don localhost don.(none)
> Originally it looks like this
> *127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1 galaxy
> *Add a line so it looks like this:*
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1 galaxy
> 127.0.0.1 galaxy localhost galaxy.(none)
> *save*
> *Now OpenOffice.org Writer and Calc open fast when the network connection
> is attached.*
>
> For anyone new reading this, replace "galaxy" with whatever you have named
> your computer./
>
> /
> /Don
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Contribute to 'Copy only visible cells' extension project

2011-09-20 Thread Gustavo Pacheco

Hi Miguel!

 The purpose of the extension is just copy the non hidden rows or columns.

 In other words, suppose two ways to copy a cell range with hidden columns
or rows: with the simple Copy command or with the Edit > 'Copy only visible
cells' command provided by the extension.

 In the simple Copy case, If you need to copy the cell range to other sheet,
you select the range, go to Edit > Copy command, go to the destination sheet
and Paste the cell range.

 The result is: all cells of the original range are copied, including the
hidden columns or rows.

 With the 'Copy only visible cells' extension, you can use the Edit > Copy
only visible cells command instead of Edit > Copy command on the range.
Then, go to the destination sheet and Paste the cell range.

 The result is: only the visible cells are copied, not including the hidden
columns or rows.

 Please, do the tests and check if your results are the same. If you have an
unexpected result, send me an e-mail with details of your tests!

 Thanks,
 Gustavo Pacheco.




2011/9/20 MiguelAngel 

> I'm
>sorry, but in Libo 3.3 or
>OOo 3.3, only non hidden rows and columns are copied.I think the problem
> is paste on the non hidden cells.Miguelngel.El 21/09/11 0:39, Gustavo
> Pacheco escribi:Hi people!
>
>
>  I would invite you to collaborate with the development of "Copy only
> visible cells" extension. In many cases, "Copy only visible cells" provides
> an alternative to the 'Select Visible Cells' command in Microsoft Excel.
> Its useful to use with subtotals or ranges with hidden columns or rows.
>
>
>  At moment, the extension supports only English, Portuguese, French,
> German,
> Italian and Spanish languages. My goal is to add more languages with the
> help of the community.
>
>
>  If you want to contribute, just send me a private email (to: gbpacheco AT
> gmail.com) with a translation of the phrase "Copy only visible cells",
> your
> language, your country and your name (for the credits).
>
>
>  Its simple and you can help other people who speak your language. You can
> try 'Copy only visible cells' extension at the new extension repository:
> http://extensions-test.libreoffice.org/extension-center/copy-only-visible-cellsThanks
> ,
>  Gustavo Pacheco.
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[libreoffice-users] email merge across sessions

2011-09-20 Thread Brian Katzung

After doing some research into both the interface and the documentation, 
I have not found any way to process an email merge to the point of 
customizing the individual email content, saving the customizations and 
then emailing the merge in a subsequent session of LibreOffice.


Is there a way to do this that I have not found, or is one limited to 
performing the individual customizations and emailing the results in the 
same session? If it is possible, can you tell me where is the process 
documented so I know where else to check next time?


Many thanks,

  - Brian

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Contribute to 'Copy only visible cells' extension project

2011-09-20 Thread MiguelAngel

I'm
sorry, but in Libo 3.3 or
OOo 3.3, only non hidden rows and columns are copied.I think the problem is
paste on the non hidden cells.Miguelngel.El 21/09/11 0:39, Gustavo Pacheco
escribi:Hi people!

I would invite you to collaborate with the development of "Copy only
visible cells" extension. In many cases, "Copy only visible cells" provides
an alternative to the 'Select Visible Cells' command in Microsoft Excel.
Its useful to use with subtotals or ranges with hidden columns or rows.

At moment, the extension supports only English, Portuguese, French, German,
Italian and Spanish languages. My goal is to add more languages with the
help of the community.

If you want to contribute, just send me a private email (to: gbpacheco AT
gmail.com) with a translation of the phrase "Copy only visible cells", your
language, your country and your name (for the credits).

Its simple and you can help other people who speak your language. You can
try 'Copy only visible cells' extension at the new extension
repository:http://extensions-test.libreoffice.org/extension-center/copy-only-visible-cellsThanks,
Gustavo Pacheco.
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Re: [libreoffice-users] writer; automatic page breaks to maintain heading with first paragraph

2011-09-20 Thread Brian Barker


At 11:24 20/09/2011 +0100, Nobody Noname wrote:
It seems that the text flow functions 'orphan' and 'widow' controls 
are applicable only for paragraphs. Is there a way to specify that a 
page break is _not_ inserted between a heading style and a 
subsequent text body paragraph?


Yes.  In the heading (paragraph) style, go to Text Flow | Options and 
tick "Keep with next paragraph".


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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[libreoffice-users] Contribute to 'Copy only visible cells' extension project

2011-09-20 Thread Gustavo Pacheco

 Hi people!

 I would invite you to collaborate with the development of "Copy only
visible cells" extension. In many cases, "Copy only visible cells" provides
an alternative to the 'Select Visible Cells' command in Microsoft Excel.
It´s useful to use with subtotals or ranges with hidden columns or rows.

 At moment, the extension supports only English, Portuguese, French, German,
Italian and Spanish languages. My goal is to add more languages with the
help of the community.

 If you want to contribute, just send me a private email (to: gbpacheco AT
gmail.com) with a translation of the phrase "Copy only visible cells", your
language, your country and your name (for the credits).

 It´s simple and you can help other people who speak your language. You can
try 'Copy only visible cells' extension at the new extension repository:


http://extensions-test.libreoffice.org/extension-center/copy-only-visible-cells

 Thanks,
 Gustavo Pacheco.

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[libreoffice-users] Slow Opening of LibreOffice in Ubuntu

2011-09-20 Thread Don C. Myers


Hi All,

Tom has mentioned several times about disabling Java so LibreOffice 
would open faster. I started using LibreOffice when it first became 
available. It opened very slowly compared to OpenOffice. I ran across 
the following when I researched the issue. It was due to LibreOffice 
calling home when it was initially opened. I don't know if this still 
happens or not, but the following fixed this issue for me (running 
Ubuntu 11.04) and others who were having the issue back then:


/*Change hosts setting in hosts file for LibreOffice on Ubuntu 11.04:*/

/In terminal, do gksudo gedit /etc/hosts/

/Add line as shown below: For instance, *127.0.0.1 don localhost don.(none)
Originally it looks like this
*127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 galaxy
*Add a line so it looks like this:*
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 galaxy
127.0.0.1 galaxy localhost galaxy.(none)
*save*
*Now OpenOffice.org Writer and Calc open fast when the network 
connection is attached.*


For anyone new reading this, replace "galaxy" with whatever you have 
named your computer./


/
/Don
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RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Dead End or Evolution?

2011-09-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton

I suppose it is prudent to delete one app before installing the other,
just to be safe in the case of production operation.

It appears because of version differences, there is no conflict of
profiles.  And I keep the unpack locations separated on a shared server.

Also, LibreOffice uses locations separate from any OO.o version I have
on the same machine, including for user profiles and other application
data, so I think I got lucky.  OOo-dev gets its own setup, by design
I think, so it will not conflict with a production OpenOffice.org 
install.

The shell information on launching from the document is limited, as I
already mentioned.  That seems to be the only registry information 
problem that I have encountered.  There may be more, but they don't
seem to be a problem.  (Well, I see strange file-locked-by-another-app
messages, but if I close and attempt to open the file again, it always
works just fine.)

I'm willing to believe I have just been lucky.  And in my case, these
shared configurations in Virtual Machines are all disposable.  My
production system never has more than the one copy of LibreOffice
and no OpenOffice.org or Symphony, or any other native ODF app.

 - Dennis

-Original Message-
From: NoOp [mailto:gl...@sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 14:42
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Dead End or Evolution?

On 09/20/2011 01:06 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> Oops, I lied.
> 
> It is OO.o 2.4.1, OOo-dev 3.4, and LibreOffice 3.3.3 all
> running side-by-side in a single configuration of Windows
> XP.  (Microsoft Office 2003 and the ODF Converters are
> also running there.)
> 
> LibreOffice 3.4.3 is running on a Vista configuration [;<).
> 
>  - Dennis

I would not recommend doing that on Windows (fine in linux if you change
bootstraprc to point to different profiles) as you'll experience
registry issues. I highly recommend that you install using the parallel
installation method:

particularly for comparison testing to avoid the registry issues. I have
to admit that I sometimes do this as well (non-parallel install method),
but expect the registry conflicts, and ensure that each version is not
using the same profile.

> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:51
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?
> 
> I keep multiple versions running in order to provide QA and 
> interoperability testing.
> 
> These are all on Windows, but I notice that I have OO.o 2.4.1, 
> OOo-dev 3.4, and LibreOffice 3.4.3 all installed on the same 
> Virtual PC running Windows XP.  That is not where I do all of 
> my work (I am still on LibreOffice 3.3.2 for a serious writing 
> deliverable right now), so I may simply have not seen the problems.
> 
> The one annoying limitation is that (1) I can only have one 
> default application that launches when I double-click on a file, 
> and it is the OO.o 2.4.1 that was installed first in the 3-install 
> case (which is fine), and (2) I can't add the other versions to 
> the context menu for alternate ways to open the files because the 
> programs all have the same file name.  So to use documents in the 
> other two versions, I must open the version first, then open the 
> documents from within the version I am running.  (This is 
> apparently a Windows limitation.)
> 
> There may be other "conflicts" but, in my forensic work, this is 
> what I notice most.
> 
>  - Dennis
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Re: [libreoffice-users] LO on Lucid...

2011-09-20 Thread Don C. Myers

Hi Barry,

What has worked very well for me from back in the days when Ubuntu
didn't update things like OpenOffice until a new version of Ubuntu came
out has been the following. Someone had posted these instructions
several years ago for OpenOffice. I've used it since probably Ubuntu
9.04 through 11.04, just modifying it for the proper version and file
location for the menus for each new version of OpenOffice, and now
LibreOffice:

Upgrading to LibreOffice 3.4.3:

For LibreOffice, download the 32 bit or 64 bit debian version from
LibreOffice.org to the desktop, or move it to the desktop. Then right
click on it and choose extract to extract it to the desktop.

Then do the following commands in the terminal: (For 32 bit version
below – for 64 bit modify the lines below for the correct version:

Remove OpenOffice or LibreOffice with:
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.* or sudo apt-get remove
openoffice*.*

sudo dpkg -i
~/Desktop/LibO_3.4.3rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/*.deb

sudo dpkg -i
~/Desktop/LibO_3.4.3rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.4-debian-menus_3.4-302_all.deb

gksu add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

I've always used the direct download from LibreOffice. This method has
never failed me on many computers, many versions of Ubuntu, and many
upgrades originally in OpenOffice and now LibreOffice.

Don

On 09/20/2011 05:22 PM, Barry Smith wrote:

Hi, gang!

Summary (before I get wildly off-topic) --
Thank you for a great app in LO... Keep up the great work...

Okay... keep reading at your own peril. ;) You were warned. :)
I have had an interesting month.

For a while now, I have been cron'ing a backup of ~ to my 2T USB
drive, as well as forcing myself to remember to do most of my work on
the USB.

I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 maverick to Ubuntu 11.04 natty (I was
surprised one night by Update Manager, so I let it upgrade to natty),
and things quickly started going completely _batty_! (I chose a word
that rhymed with natty... although a few curse words were what
originally came to mind). I almost freaked when the upgrade started
deleting all of my apps, and only replacing some of them apps in
natty, and I really was nervous when it replace OoO with LO. LO is
now my standard suite on Linux and Windows, and I'm still "converting"
others from M$ to OoO and now LO in Windoze.

So I went to natty Gnome2 and LO... tried to install Gnome3 for
Evolution... very bad idea.
Gnome3 would not display so I had to install natty Xfce.
natty Xfce just wouldn't do some things that I was used to in Gnome2
(like mount my darn 2T USB), and I lost all of my Evolution email
archives, so I installed KDE and swiched to kdm... hoping to magically
"find" my evolution email structure somewhere.

I somehow ended up booting Xubuntu, and using kdm/KDE... I'm not sure
how I did it.
Apparently, all of my Gnome2 programs were still there, but I had to
find them and run them from
the commandline... until I started figuring out how to add items to the menu...
yet I just wasn't satisfied with KDE.
One or two massive updates, and long unstable boots watching Xbuntu . . . . ...
I said time to go back to LTE plus PPAs.
KDE was still was not as strong as Gnome2... so I punted and called it a wash!

I re-installed the last LTE which was Lucid 10.04.3.
Found out that you have to amputate and donate your left forearm to
science in order to install LO on Lucid, especially when Lucid is
fresh.
I added the LO PPA, and compiled one "sudo apt-get install" for LO
including all of the "Suggested" packages (sort of as an exercise to
see how many packages I had to install. The only meta package (LO)
didn't include msttcore-whatever or Java-anything... I know that my
final all-in-one install for LO and all that it needed was more that a
single 23x80 Terminal screen could display... not to mention the
research for "no candidate for this package" that I had to research.
During the install of LO, dpkg couldn't find some script files or
something, and dpkg was wonky on a couple of installs of Firefox 6 or
Thunderbird 6... It eventually cleared up again and is working
right...

I say ALL of that to say -- Ubuntu is probably the most flexible
platform for installing things... from synaptic apt-get aptitude dpkg
to yum rfm packages. I'm just glad that I was able to get back up and
running... and install LO into lucid (along with other apps)... all in
less than a week. :)

I've given up on evolution, when I can to what I need in
TB-enig-Sunbird. Oh, you might have figured out, encryption is an
important thing to me, by my last statement.

Thank you for a great app in LO... Keep up the great work... so people
will stop asking me to download an illegal copy of MS Office for them.
;(

--
Barry Smith
e bnsmith...@gmail.com
w http://bit.ly/l8QJup

*~~*
Don C. Myers
e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Real

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO on Lucid...



Get the best of both worlds - On Ubuntu 10.04, use GNOME but in the 
Synaptic Program Manager, install KDE 4.  That way GNOME is still your 
default desktop package, but you get the good stuff from KDE as well.


ALSO - IMPORTANT
When you update OS, make sure you save your hidden "dot" folders for 
your email package to some other name.  That way you can then save the 
folder back to the proper hidden dot folder after the upgrade of OS.  
PLUS if you do this, you can save your weekly email use so you always 
have a backup or two JUST IN CASE you have a major 
problem/crash/melt-down, etc., etc..  I found out this the hard way.


I have not gone to 11.xx due to the fact it want the default boot 
resolution to be one that my monitor cannot do.  I will be getting a 
bigger and better monitor sometime soon.


ALSO, I prefer to install LO from the ones put out by the LO site 
instead from a PPA.  I know you have to install it on Ubuntu with the 
Terminal, but it is worth the simple steps.


"msttcore-whatever or Java-anything" - If you do not have MS core fonts 
installed, you can easily find it by searching the Synaptic Program 
Manager.  search for "ttf-mscorefonts-installer - Installer for 
Microsoft TrueType core fonts".  Actually you should add the MS core 
fonts, since a large amount of people use them on their documents and as 
the default font[s] for their emails.


As for Java, you get OpenJDK and OpenJRE with Ubuntu, so you will not 
need the non-open-source version.  Make sure you have the JRE installed, 
but add JDK as well for good measure.


On 09/20/2011 05:22 PM, Barry Smith wrote:

Hi, gang!

Summary (before I get wildly off-topic) --
Thank you for a great app in LO... Keep up the great work...

Okay... keep reading at your own peril. ;)  You were warned. :)
I have had an interesting month.

For a while now, I have been cron'ing a backup of ~ to my 2T USB
drive, as well as forcing myself to remember to do most of my work on
the USB.

I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 maverick to Ubuntu 11.04 natty (I was
surprised one night by Update Manager, so I let it upgrade to natty),
and things quickly started going completely _batty_!  (I chose a word
that rhymed with natty... although a few curse words were what
originally came to mind).  I almost freaked when the upgrade started
deleting all of my apps, and only replacing some of them apps in
natty, and I really was nervous when it replace OoO with LO.  LO is
now my standard suite on Linux and Windows, and I'm still "converting"
others from M$ to OoO and now LO in Windoze.

So I went to natty Gnome2 and LO... tried to install Gnome3 for
Evolution... very bad idea.
Gnome3 would not display so I had to install natty Xfce.
natty Xfce just wouldn't do some things that I was used to in Gnome2
(like mount my darn 2T USB), and I lost all of my Evolution email
archives, so I installed KDE and swiched to kdm... hoping to magically
"find" my evolution email structure somewhere.

I somehow ended up booting Xubuntu, and using kdm/KDE... I'm not sure
how I did it.
Apparently, all of my Gnome2 programs were still there, but I had to
find them and run them from
the commandline... until I started figuring out how to add items to the menu...
yet I just wasn't satisfied with KDE.
One or two massive updates, and long unstable boots watching Xbuntu . . . . ...
I said time to go back to LTE plus PPAs.
KDE was still was not as strong as Gnome2... so I punted and called it a wash!

I re-installed the last LTE which was Lucid 10.04.3.
Found out that you have to amputate and donate your left forearm to
science in order to install LO on Lucid, especially when Lucid is
fresh.
I added the LO PPA, and compiled one "sudo apt-get install" for LO
including all of the "Suggested" packages (sort of as an exercise to
see how many packages I had to install.  The only meta package (LO)
didn't include msttcore-whatever or Java-anything... I know that my
final all-in-one install for LO and all that it needed was more that a
single 23x80 Terminal screen could display... not to mention the
research for "no candidate for this package" that I had to research.
During the install of LO, dpkg couldn't find some script files or
something, and dpkg was wonky on a couple of installs of Firefox 6 or
Thunderbird 6...  It eventually cleared up again and is working
right...

I say ALL of that to say -- Ubuntu is probably the most flexible
platform for installing things... from synaptic apt-get aptitude dpkg
to yum rfm packages.  I'm just glad that I was able to get back up and
running... and install LO into lucid (along with other apps)... all in
less than a week. :)

I've given up on evolution, when I can to what I need in
TB-enig-Sunbird. Oh, you might have figured out, encryption is an
important thing to me, by my last statement.

Thank you for a great app in LO... Keep up the great work... so people
will stop asking me to download an illegal copy of MS Office for them.
;(

--
Barry Smith
e bnsmith...@gm

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO on Lucid...

On 09/20/2011 02:22 PM, Barry Smith wrote:
...
> I re-installed the last LTE which was Lucid 10.04.3.
> Found out that you have to amputate and donate your left forearm to
> science in order to install LO on Lucid, especially when Lucid is
> fresh.

Actually it's rather simple to install LO on lucid; download the .deb(s)
(main package & help package), extract, got to the DEBS folder(s) and '$
sudo dpkg -i *.deb). Don't forget to do the same in the
/LibO_3.4.3rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration
folder so that it installs the menus in Applications|Office.

> I added the LO PPA, and compiled one "sudo apt-get install" for LO
> including all of the "Suggested" packages (sort of as an exercise to
> see how many packages I had to install.  The only meta package (LO)
> didn't include msttcore-whatever or Java-anything... I know that my
> final all-in-one install for LO and all that it needed was more that a
> single 23x80 Terminal screen could display... not to mention the
> research for "no candidate for this package" that I had to research.
> During the install of LO, dpkg couldn't find some script files or
> something, and dpkg was wonky on a couple of installs of Firefox 6 or
> Thunderbird 6...  It eventually cleared up again and is working
> right...

Actually it's quite handy to keep the original OOo version, both for
comparison against LO, and in order to be able to print properly etc (if
using 3.4.x). Should you want to that you'll find that removing the LO
ppa can leave quite a mess.

I know that pretty much as fact as we just had a rather interesting
thread & test over on the Ubuntu users list last week:

[Lucid office trap]

My recommendation is to follow these instructions:

(part of the thread, but expanded so you can see all the text)
...

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Dead End or Evolution?

On 09/20/2011 01:06 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> Oops, I lied.
> 
> It is OO.o 2.4.1, OOo-dev 3.4, and LibreOffice 3.3.3 all
> running side-by-side in a single configuration of Windows
> XP.  (Microsoft Office 2003 and the ODF Converters are
> also running there.)
> 
> LibreOffice 3.4.3 is running on a Vista configuration [;<).
> 
>  - Dennis

I would not recommend doing that on Windows (fine in linux if you change
bootstraprc to point to different profiles) as you'll experience
registry issues. I highly recommend that you install using the parallel
installation method:



particularly for comparison testing to avoid the registry issues. I have
to admit that I sometimes do this as well (non-parallel install method),
but expect the registry conflicts, and ensure that each version is not
using the same profile.

> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:51
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?
> 
> I keep multiple versions running in order to provide QA and 
> interoperability testing.
> 
> These are all on Windows, but I notice that I have OO.o 2.4.1, 
> OOo-dev 3.4, and LibreOffice 3.4.3 all installed on the same 
> Virtual PC running Windows XP.  That is not where I do all of 
> my work (I am still on LibreOffice 3.3.2 for a serious writing 
> deliverable right now), so I may simply have not seen the problems.
> 
> The one annoying limitation is that (1) I can only have one 
> default application that launches when I double-click on a file, 
> and it is the OO.o 2.4.1 that was installed first in the 3-install 
> case (which is fine), and (2) I can't add the other versions to 
> the context menu for alternate ways to open the files because the 
> programs all have the same file name.  So to use documents in the 
> other two versions, I must open the version first, then open the 
> documents from within the version I am running.  (This is 
> apparently a Windows limitation.)
> 
> There may be other "conflicts" but, in my forensic work, this is 
> what I notice most.
> 
>  - Dennis
...


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Bulk converting docx to odt?

2011-09-20 Thread Steve Edmonds

Just this week I used zamzar to convert my sons docx homework to doc so
I could open it in LO.

Didn't work. Created .docs that had broken formatting in LO. Had to go
and find someone with office10 to save as .doc then it was ok.
Interesting thing is that the .docs that zamzar created and were screwed
in LO opened fine in office10.

steve

On 2011-09-21 04:08, thomasjk wrote:
> You might try www.zamzar.com.
>
> -
> Tom K.
> --
> View this message in context: 
> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Bulk-converting-docx-to-odt-tp3351438p3352539.html
> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>   

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[libreoffice-users] LO on Lucid...

2011-09-20 Thread Barry Smith

Hi, gang!

Summary (before I get wildly off-topic) --
Thank you for a great app in LO... Keep up the great work...

Okay... keep reading at your own peril. ;)  You were warned. :)
I have had an interesting month.

For a while now, I have been cron'ing a backup of ~ to my 2T USB
drive, as well as forcing myself to remember to do most of my work on
the USB.

I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 maverick to Ubuntu 11.04 natty (I was
surprised one night by Update Manager, so I let it upgrade to natty),
and things quickly started going completely _batty_!  (I chose a word
that rhymed with natty... although a few curse words were what
originally came to mind).  I almost freaked when the upgrade started
deleting all of my apps, and only replacing some of them apps in
natty, and I really was nervous when it replace OoO with LO.  LO is
now my standard suite on Linux and Windows, and I'm still "converting"
others from M$ to OoO and now LO in Windoze.

So I went to natty Gnome2 and LO... tried to install Gnome3 for
Evolution... very bad idea.
Gnome3 would not display so I had to install natty Xfce.
natty Xfce just wouldn't do some things that I was used to in Gnome2
(like mount my darn 2T USB), and I lost all of my Evolution email
archives, so I installed KDE and swiched to kdm... hoping to magically
"find" my evolution email structure somewhere.

I somehow ended up booting Xubuntu, and using kdm/KDE... I'm not sure
how I did it.
Apparently, all of my Gnome2 programs were still there, but I had to
find them and run them from
the commandline... until I started figuring out how to add items to the menu...
yet I just wasn't satisfied with KDE.
One or two massive updates, and long unstable boots watching Xbuntu . . . . ...
I said time to go back to LTE plus PPAs.
KDE was still was not as strong as Gnome2... so I punted and called it a wash!

I re-installed the last LTE which was Lucid 10.04.3.
Found out that you have to amputate and donate your left forearm to
science in order to install LO on Lucid, especially when Lucid is
fresh.
I added the LO PPA, and compiled one "sudo apt-get install" for LO
including all of the "Suggested" packages (sort of as an exercise to
see how many packages I had to install.  The only meta package (LO)
didn't include msttcore-whatever or Java-anything... I know that my
final all-in-one install for LO and all that it needed was more that a
single 23x80 Terminal screen could display... not to mention the
research for "no candidate for this package" that I had to research.
During the install of LO, dpkg couldn't find some script files or
something, and dpkg was wonky on a couple of installs of Firefox 6 or
Thunderbird 6...  It eventually cleared up again and is working
right...

I say ALL of that to say -- Ubuntu is probably the most flexible
platform for installing things... from synaptic apt-get aptitude dpkg
to yum rfm packages.  I'm just glad that I was able to get back up and
running... and install LO into lucid (along with other apps)... all in
less than a week. :)

I've given up on evolution, when I can to what I need in
TB-enig-Sunbird. Oh, you might have figured out, encryption is an
important thing to me, by my last statement.

Thank you for a great app in LO... Keep up the great work... so people
will stop asking me to download an illegal copy of MS Office for them.
;(

--
Barry Smith
e bnsmith...@gmail.com
w http://bit.ly/l8QJup

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: docx format troubles

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 16:07 +0200, Marcello Romani wrote: 

> Il 17/09/2011 14:30, David B Teague sr ha scritto:
> > On 9/16/2011 6:56 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> >> If you were able to ring-fence about 20% of the features of MS Office
> >> then about 80% of users never stray outside that. From what i see it's
> >> more like about 100% of users. Most users don't even use all of that 20%.
> > I hope this isn't hijacking the thread, and if so, /please /say so, and
> > I'll repost this in a new thread.
> >
> > The fact that 20% of the features of MS Office (and by implication, LO
> > and OO.o) used almost exclusively by some 80% of the users suggests to
> > me that OO.o should identify that 20% of features and modularize OO.o or
> > LO or what have you to include that 20% and make the other 80% of the
> > features available as extensions.
> >
> > I'd like comments on this idea.
> >
> > David Teague
> >
> 
> That sounds good in theory, but IMHO it's not as simple as it seems once 
> you start to debate how to implement it.
> I think it's not worth the trouble, given the presence of Gnumeric + 
> Abiword + google docs for those who need only a 20% of what OOo can 
> offer (not that I think gnumeric is only 20% of Calc, btw).
> 
> -- 
> Marcello Romani
> 

The problem is that a user may only use a fraction of LO but each user
uses a different fraction. So for office use you end up needing almost
all the features to cover what most users actually use. 

The "light" programs you mentioned can be frustrating to use when you
have used a program with many more features.

-- 
Jay Lozier
jsloz...@gmail.com

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RE: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?

2011-09-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton

Oops, I lied.

It is OO.o 2.4.1, OOo-dev 3.4, and LibreOffice 3.3.3 all
running side-by-side in a single configuration of Windows
XP.  (Microsoft Office 2003 and the ODF Converters are
also running there.)

LibreOffice 3.4.3 is running on a Vista configuration [;<).

 - Dennis

-Original Message-
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:51
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?

I keep multiple versions running in order to provide QA and 
interoperability testing.

These are all on Windows, but I notice that I have OO.o 2.4.1, 
OOo-dev 3.4, and LibreOffice 3.4.3 all installed on the same 
Virtual PC running Windows XP.  That is not where I do all of 
my work (I am still on LibreOffice 3.3.2 for a serious writing 
deliverable right now), so I may simply have not seen the problems.

The one annoying limitation is that (1) I can only have one 
default application that launches when I double-click on a file, 
and it is the OO.o 2.4.1 that was installed first in the 3-install 
case (which is fine), and (2) I can't add the other versions to 
the context menu for alternate ways to open the files because the 
programs all have the same file name.  So to use documents in the 
other two versions, I must open the version first, then open the 
documents from within the version I am running.  (This is 
apparently a Windows limitation.)

There may be other "conflicts" but, in my forensic work, this is 
what I notice most.

 - Dennis

-Original Message-
From: planas [mailto:jsloz...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:05
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?

Owen,

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 05:39 -0700, owen wrote: 

> I'm behind on the issue of the demise of Open Office and the emergence 
> of Libreoffice.
>   Will the installation of Libreoffice recognize all my OpenOfffice files.
>Will utalizing Libreoffice end up with both OpenOffice and 
> Libreoffice being installed on my computer. I don't want both systems so 
> should I uninstall or remove OpenOffice?
>   What will happen to the OpenOffice custom templates I how have? Also 
> the dictionary I have added many words too?
>Will anyone continue to support the free version of OpenOffice?
> 

LO will read all the OOo files and use the templates because both use
the Open Document Format. LO is a fork of OOo and maintaining
compatibility is one of the project goals. People have reported problems
with having both installed so the recommendation for most users is
uninstall OOo and install LO. Make sure you save all your templates, and
dictionary, and extensions. LO is able to use all your templates and all
the OOo extensions I have tried work in LO. 

OOo is still free and will remain free as one of the Apache foundation's
projects.

Please advise your OS so we can better advise you on the proper steps to
"install" your templates and dictionary.
-- 
Jay Lozier
jsloz...@gmail.com

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RE: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?

2011-09-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton

I keep multiple versions running in order to provide QA and 
interoperability testing.

These are all on Windows, but I notice that I have OO.o 2.4.1, 
OOo-dev 3.4, and LibreOffice 3.4.3 all installed on the same 
Virtual PC running Windows XP.  That is not where I do all of 
my work (I am still on LibreOffice 3.3.2 for a serious writing 
deliverable right now), so I may simply have not seen the problems.

The one annoying limitation is that (1) I can only have one 
default application that launches when I double-click on a file, 
and it is the OO.o 2.4.1 that was installed first in the 3-install 
case (which is fine), and (2) I can't add the other versions to 
the context menu for alternate ways to open the files because the 
programs all have the same file name.  So to use documents in the 
other two versions, I must open the version first, then open the 
documents from within the version I am running.  (This is 
apparently a Windows limitation.)

There may be other "conflicts" but, in my forensic work, this is 
what I notice most.

 - Dennis

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Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?

Owen,

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 05:39 -0700, owen wrote: 

> I'm behind on the issue of the demise of Open Office and the emergence 
> of Libreoffice.
>   Will the installation of Libreoffice recognize all my OpenOfffice files.
>Will utalizing Libreoffice end up with both OpenOffice and 
> Libreoffice being installed on my computer. I don't want both systems so 
> should I uninstall or remove OpenOffice?
>   What will happen to the OpenOffice custom templates I how have? Also 
> the dictionary I have added many words too?
>Will anyone continue to support the free version of OpenOffice?
> 

LO will read all the OOo files and use the templates because both use
the Open Document Format. LO is a fork of OOo and maintaining
compatibility is one of the project goals. People have reported problems
with having both installed so the recommendation for most users is
uninstall OOo and install LO. Make sure you save all your templates, and
dictionary, and extensions. LO is able to use all your templates and all
the OOo extensions I have tried work in LO. 

OOo is still free and will remain free as one of the Apache foundation's
projects.

Please advise your OS so we can better advise you on the proper steps to
"install" your templates and dictionary.
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Lo 3.4.3 Recovery mode

Simon

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 11:28 -0400, Simon Johnson-Bégin wrote: 

> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> I just installed LO 3.4.3 on Linux Mint 11 Lxde.  I then opened my 
> thesis file in writer, closed it and then reopened it and never made any
>  change to the document.  Even so, when I reopen the document, Lo recovery 
> mode ask me if I want to launch the file recovery process.
> 
> Was this reported before as a bug?  Can I continue to work on my thesis with 
> 3.4.3 in a safe way or should I go back to 3.3.4, in which I never had any 
> problem at all?
> 
> Thank you all for your help!
> 
> Simon
> 
> 

Did the thesis open "recover" correctly or were errors reported? Some
have reported problems with recovery starting every time LO opens and it
is usually a corrupted file in the user folder

I believe the path is /home//Documents/.libreoffice/3/user.
The .libreoffice is a hidden folder so you must enable "show hidden
files". The most common recommendation is to rename the "3" folder with
another name. Then open LO, the default 3 folder will be created and you
can move you extensions, etc into the 3 folder from your saved folder.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?

Owen,

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 05:39 -0700, owen wrote: 

> I'm behind on the issue of the demise of Open Office and the emergence 
> of Libreoffice.
>   Will the installation of Libreoffice recognize all my OpenOfffice files.
>Will utalizing Libreoffice end up with both OpenOffice and 
> Libreoffice being installed on my computer. I don't want both systems so 
> should I uninstall or remove OpenOffice?
>   What will happen to the OpenOffice custom templates I how have? Also 
> the dictionary I have added many words too?
>Will anyone continue to support the free version of OpenOffice?
> 

LO will read all the OOo files and use the templates because both use
the Open Document Format. LO is a fork of OOo and maintaining
compatibility is one of the project goals. People have reported problems
with having both installed so the recommendation for most users is
uninstall OOo and install LO. Make sure you save all your templates, and
dictionary, and extensions. LO is able to use all your templates and all
the OOo extensions I have tried work in LO. 

OOo is still free and will remain free as one of the Apache foundation's
projects.

Please advise your OS so we can better advise you on the proper steps to
"install" your templates and dictionary.
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector


On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 11:25 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: 

> Hi :)
> After 1 person has built it for their system can the built package be 
> uploaded somewhere for other people to use?  If so could it be uploaded to 
> the new LO Extensions&templates site?  
> 
> How generic are builds?  Would it cover the entire family (Ubuntu, Mint, 
> Trisquel etc), just Debian, one particular release of Debian, or just the 
> specific machine?
> Regards from
> Tom :)
> 

In theory, the builds should be very generic. The problem is when a
downtsream distro tweaks the package to "make it better or more
suitable" for some reason. It is possible, then, for the build to have
new dependencies that are not in the upstream version. For example
Ubuntu is derived from Debian but it has some tweaks that do not allow
for total compatibility with Debian upstream repositories. 

> 
> --- On Tue, 20/9/11, Alexander Thurgood  wrote:
> 
> From: Alexander Thurgood 
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 10:42
> 
> Le 20/09/11 08:10, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit :
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> > Hi Snip,
> > I suppose the fact that I use Debian-Wheezy (next after Squeeze) on a
> > 32-bit system might be the reason. Seeing as I don't really have the
> > time to do more research I suppose I will just have to live with
> > ODBC (or even JDBC  :() till somebody comes up with a solution.
> > Regards

Try the OOo extension, it seems to work will with 3.3.x and 3.4.x in
Ubuntu without any modifications. I have both versions downloaded for
Linux. I can email them to you off list. 

> The solution is to rebuild the connector for all combinations of OS/arch
> from source. That is how I got my Mac OSX version of the connector
> running. None of the devs at LO are building the connector, it is an
> option in the configure switch that must be activated specifically.
> Possibly, and I say just possibly, the Linux distribs will rebuild it
> with their next updates to LO, but I have no idea who deals with that on
> each distrib. Same goes for Windows (32/64). If no one complains about
> that to the Linux port distrib maintainers, then nothing will get done,
> that's for sure.
> 
> Additionally, if no one complains about it on the developer list here,
> or opens a bug report for it, then nothing will happen either. Even if
> someone complains about it, you might well get an answer back of the ilk
> "the source is available, build it yourself", which granted, is not
> particularly useful/helpful when one is a mere "consumer" of the product.
> 
> 
> 
> Alex
> 
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[libreoffice-users] Re: Formating

2011-09-20 Thread 20rdj04

Sections are a  new concept to me, but I'm beginning to understand the idea. 
Templates are even more remote.  My idea of template is like an art stencil,
with holes to allow (paint) to form the desired shape.  When I first read
your answer, you might have been speaking Greek.  

After posting my reply to Onyeibo Oku-2, I realized that Inserting a break,
is the same as Inserting a section.  Chapters (of a book) are sections; or
looking at the Christian Bible, each book is a section; each chapter and
each verse are sections of the next larger Section.  To say that a page is a
section is, to me, like saying that tomorrow is separate from today.  On the
other hand, every (fractional part of a) second is a section of time and
history.

Thanks.

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[libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector

On 09/20/2011 08:20 AM, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote:
> Hi,
> Could somebody please give me info about where to get the appropriate 
> source-code
> and a bit of "how-to" regarding building the connector for 3.4.3? I will give 
> it
> a try.
> Regards
> Heinrich
...
According to:



the source is here:

[MySQL Connector/C++ Download]
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/cpp/


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Bulk converting docx to odt?

On 09/20/2011 09:04 AM, NoOp wrote:
> Bulk converting docx to odt?
> On 09/20/2011 01:43 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>> I've searched for a method to do this but can't find anything.
>> Is there something I've missed?
>> 
> 
> Perhaps this is what you're looking for:
> http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/
> Note: I've not tried it (yet).
Sorry, forgot the link to the command line utility:




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[libreoffice-users] Re: Bulk converting docx to odt?

2011-09-20 Thread thomasjk

You might try www.zamzar.com.

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Formating

2011-09-20 Thread 20rdj04

I did a Shift-Enter.  The results appeared to be the same as Enter.  I knew
that Ctrl-Enter SHOULD be the short cut for Insert Page, but perhaps you
mis-typed.  At the end of the last line of the body, I put in Ctrl-Enter,
and it did insert a page (break).  But I was then able to format as I
wished, including the removal of the (Break).  Thank you.

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Bulk converting docx to odt?

Bulk converting docx to odt?
On 09/20/2011 01:43 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> I've searched for a method to do this but can't find anything.
> Is there something I've missed?
> 

Perhaps this is what you're looking for:
http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/
Note: I've not tried it (yet).




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[libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector

2011-09-20 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions

Le 20/09/11 17:20, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit :

Hi Heinrich,


> Hi,
> Could somebody please give me info about where to get the appropriate
> source-code
> and a bit of "how-to" regarding building the connector for 3.4.3? I will
> give it
> a try.

The general build instructions for building LibO are here :

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build

if you get stuck, ask on the freenode irc libreoffice developer's channel.

You have to start with a complete build environment, and most of the
suite will probably need to be built anyway before the build can proceed
to compile the connector code.


Alex





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Re: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?



Yes, it has had many releases since Oracle stopped developing OOo.

Now Lo has two lines.  3.3.x for the most-stable versions, and 3.4.x the 
more "cutting-edge version.
Actually 3.4.x line will soon be ready for business use, and seems to 
have better read/write abilities for files like .docx and .xltx.  Soon 
the last 3.3.x version will be out and the new 3.5.x line will be 
started as the new "cutting-edge" line and 3.4.x will be the most-stable 
versions.  This way, there will be one line for ready for business users 
and one line for those who want to try the most "cutting-edge" version 
of all the newest features.


Right now, the release schedule is listed with dates of each release 
through the end of 2012.  I doubt that OOo has/had anything like that.  
These dates were so far correct, within a day or two depending on 
problems that delayed them in the past.  No other software package I 
have used has been able to keep to such a schedule with their products 
and still keep producing the best possible products within these time 
constraints.  Sometimes there are issues with some features on some 
systems, but for the most part, they are always better that the last 
release.


On 09/20/2011 11:05 AM, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi again :)
Sorry for the double posting!  LibreOffice is the free version of OpenOffice.  OpenOffice may or may not remain free or split into 2 parts so that there is a trial version and a 'full' version that might cost. 

Oracle have started a process of giving OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation.  If Apache do run OpenOffice then it will probably continue to be free and will probably develop faster than it did under Sun or Oracle.  It's still very unclear what is happening with it or where it will be in 2 years time.  By contrast LibreOffice is firmly established. 


Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Tue, 20/9/11, owen  wrote:

From: owen
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 13:39

I'm behind on the issue of the demise of Open Office and the emergence of 
Libreoffice.
  Will the installation of Libreoffice recognize all my OpenOfffice files.
   Will utalizing Libreoffice end up with both OpenOffice and Libreoffice being 
installed on my computer. I don't want both systems so should I uninstall or 
remove OpenOffice?
  What will happen to the OpenOffice custom templates I how have? Also the 
dictionary I have added many words too?
   Will anyone continue to support the free version of OpenOffice?





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[libreoffice-users] Lo 3.4.3 Recovery mode

2011-09-20 Thread Simon Johnson-Bégin


Hi,



I just installed LO 3.4.3 on Linux Mint 11 Lxde.  I then opened my 
thesis file in writer, closed it and then reopened it and never made any
 change to the document.  Even so, when I reopen the document, Lo recovery mode 
ask me if I want to launch the file recovery process.

Was this reported before as a bug?  Can I continue to work on my thesis with 
3.4.3 in a safe way or should I go back to 3.3.4, in which I never had any 
problem at all?

Thank you all for your help!

Simon

  
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[libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector

Le 20/09/11 12:25, Tom Davies a écrit :

Hi Tom,

> After 1 person has built it for their system can the built package be 
> uploaded somewhere for other people to use?  If so could it be uploaded to 
> the new LO Extensions&templates site?  

This is precisely what I have done for Mac OSX.

> 
> How generic are builds?  Would it cover the entire family (Ubuntu, Mint, 
> Trisquel etc), just Debian, one particular release of Debian, or just the 
> specific machine?

I really don't know, but I'm hasarding a guess that they are fairly
generic - however, each distrib currently packages its own version of
the connector extension to accompany any given release of their own
version of LibO. What is certain is that if you want a 32bit connector,
you have to build with the 32bit mysql connector C library, and if you
want 64bit, well...the corresponding bit library for that.

If you look at the OOo extension site, the MySQL native connector
extension was provided in the following flavours :

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/mysql_connector

Linux (32bit)
Linux x86_64
Mac OS X (32bit only)
Solaris Sparc
Solaris x86
Windows (I assume only 32bit, but who knows ?)

So, one would need to build for these arch/OSes and also Win64.


Alex



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector

2011-09-20 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger


Hi,
Could somebody please give me info about where to get the appropriate 
source-code
and a bit of "how-to" regarding building the connector for 3.4.3? I will give it
a try.
Regards
Heinrich

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:25:40 +0200, Tom Davies  wrote:


Hi :)
After 1 person has built it for their system can the built package be uploaded 
somewhere for other people to use?  If so could it be uploaded to the new LO 
Extensions&templates site?
How generic are builds?  Would it cover the entire family (Ubuntu, Mint, 
Trisquel etc), just Debian, one particular release of Debian, or just the 
specific machine?
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Tue, 20/9/11, Alexander Thurgood  wrote:

From: Alexander Thurgood 
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 10:42

Le 20/09/11 08:10, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit :

Hi all,



Hi Snip,
I suppose the fact that I use Debian-Wheezy (next after Squeeze) on a
32-bit system might be the reason. Seeing as I don't really have the
time to do more research I suppose I will just have to live with
ODBC (or even JDBC  :() till somebody comes up with a solution.
Regards


The solution is to rebuild the connector for all combinations of OS/arch
from source. That is how I got my Mac OSX version of the connector
running. None of the devs at LO are building the connector, it is an
option in the configure switch that must be activated specifically.
Possibly, and I say just possibly, the Linux distribs will rebuild it
with their next updates to LO, but I have no idea who deals with that on
each distrib. Same goes for Windows (32/64). If no one complains about
that to the Linux port distrib maintainers, then nothing will get done,
that's for sure.

Additionally, if no one complains about it on the developer list here,
or opens a bug report for it, then nothing will happen either. Even if
someone complains about it, you might well get an answer back of the ilk
"the source is available, build it yourself", which granted, is not
particularly useful/helpful when one is a mere "consumer" of the product.



Alex





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Re: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?

Hi again :)
Sorry for the double posting!  LibreOffice is the free version of OpenOffice.  
OpenOffice may or may not remain free or split into 2 parts so that there is a 
trial version and a 'full' version that might cost.  

Oracle have started a process of giving OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation.  
If Apache do run OpenOffice then it will probably continue to be free and will 
probably develop faster than it did under Sun or Oracle.  It's still very 
unclear what is happening with it or where it will be in 2 years time.  By 
contrast LibreOffice is firmly established.  

Regards from
Tom :)


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From: owen 
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 13:39

I'm behind on the issue of the demise of Open Office and the emergence of 
Libreoffice.
 Will the installation of Libreoffice recognize all my OpenOfffice files.
  Will utalizing Libreoffice end up with both OpenOffice and Libreoffice being 
installed on my computer. I don't want both systems so should I uninstall or 
remove OpenOffice?
 What will happen to the OpenOffice custom templates I how have? Also the 
dictionary I have added many words too?
  Will anyone continue to support the free version of OpenOffice?

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?

2011-09-20 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions

Hi :)
LibreOffice can read/write all the same files as OpenOffice.  It's the
same program just a different name and has been developed a lot lately.  


It is best to back-up your entire config folder before un-installing or 
installing different versions of LibreOffice / OpenOffice.  Just make a copy of 
it.  

This guide might help
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426
For example on Vista the path is usually
C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\OpenOffice.org\3\user\
But it might be better to open up OpenOffice and click on
Tools - Options - General/OpenOffice - Paths
to check to see where your galleries and things really are.  

Hopefully when you install LibreOffice it will straight away just use the same 
templates and galleries and stuff.  All those things are stored in your config 
folder.  If LibreOffice does not spot them then you can copy&paste your
C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\OpenOffice.org\3\user\
to
C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\LibreOffice\3\user\
Then when you re-open LibreOffice it will use those old settings.  Actually i 
think i would be tempted to create that new folder-name first and then install 
LibreOffice.  

Unfortunately it is difficult to have both OpenOffice and LibreOffice on the 
same machine as they tend to have conflicts if both are open at the same time.  
Usually that can be solved by switching off the QuickLauncher in OpenOffice.  
If you do want to have both on your system for a while just so that you can get 
used to LibreOffice but still have access to OpenOffice then this guide might 
help
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
It is really made to help people have a fwe different releases of LibreOffice 
installed at the same time but can be used as inspiration for how to get 
LibreOffice alongside OpenOffice.  

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Tue, 20/9/11, owen  wrote:

From: owen 
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 13:39

I'm behind on the issue of the demise of Open Office and the emergence of 
Libreoffice.
 Will the installation of Libreoffice recognize all my OpenOfffice files.
  Will utalizing Libreoffice end up with both OpenOffice and Libreoffice being 
installed on my computer. I don't want both systems so should I uninstall or 
remove OpenOffice?
 What will happen to the OpenOffice custom templates I how have? Also the 
dictionary I have added many words too?
  Will anyone continue to support the free version of OpenOffice?

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?



One of the differences between LO and OOo, is that LO is slowly moving 
away from Java for internal use.


As for OOo templates, I have not found any templates that worked with 
OOo 3.x to not work with LO 3.3.x and 3.4.x.  As for the added words to 
your local dictionary, some one here must know where they are stored and 
will be able to tell you how you can move it over to LO from OOo.  I 
know that all of the .oxt dictionaries for OOo seems to work for LO, 
except for one or two exceptions that I know of and fixed one of these 
myself.


OOo is not dead, but in a state of flux with it being given to Apache 
and currently not on their main track of products being worked on.  
While on the other hand, LO is being actively being improved.  If you 
check published articles, when LO's original 3.3.0 came out, it was 
better than OOo's 3.3.0 version.  LO seems to have been better than OOo 
in every article since its first release.


So, there are ways for Lo and OOo to be on the same computer, but it is 
better to choose just one.  I have chosen LO over OOo since it came out.



On 09/20/2011 08:39 AM, owen wrote:
I'm behind on the issue of the demise of Open Office and the emergence 
of Libreoffice.

 Will the installation of Libreoffice recognize all my OpenOfffice files.
  Will utalizing Libreoffice end up with both OpenOffice and 
Libreoffice being installed on my computer. I don't want both systems 
so should I uninstall or remove OpenOffice?
 What will happen to the OpenOffice custom templates I how have? Also 
the dictionary I have added many words too?

  Will anyone continue to support the free version of OpenOffice?




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Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] (...) OOo's site is down most times

2011-09-20 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions



I created the LibreOffice-NA.US  site as the 
online testing platform for the North American Community Distribution 
DVD.  On this site, there are all the dictionaries for OOo and LO as I 
could find, more than is on the OOo site.  Also there are selected 
Extensions, Templates, Artwork, and sample files.  This was done to make 
a "well rounded" DVD.  This was started before individual projects were 
invited to be hosted on the CMS system.  This was created as a regional 
solution for regional needs.  Already there has been interest in 
creating other regional DVDs based on the work done for this English 
version.


Drew is working on making a version of this DVD for the CMS system at 
"http://dvd.north-america.libreofficebox.org/en/installation/";


Since before Oracle gave OOo to Apache, the site has been flaky, for 
whatever reasons.


As for "helping out", I have offered all my work to TDF/LO.  Also I do 
my best to help those on this list that has issues I have had before or 
issues that are similar to ones I have seen.  I have edited a Bulgarian 
dictionary so it no longer crashes LO when a user uses it.  I also 
created an English dictionary with the most up-to-date word list 
available, which was more than a year newer than any other word list in 
the various English dictionaries.  I have done this while dealing with 
the results of 3 strokes and debilitating back, leg, and neck, injuries 
that forced me to stop working in the computer field.


I have done all I could do to help the LibreOffice cause.  I have 
printed and distributed at least 100 DVD to local users and businesses, 
including the local governments.


I sit at my computer doing what I can for my local work and LO stuff 
until the pain wants me to scream.


SO tell me, WHAT ELSE can I do to help the LO cause?



On 09/19/2011 10:43 AM, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
Tim at KrackedPress does many other things for the LibreOffice project.  He is currently hosting a lot of templates, dictionaries and extensions on his own servers partly for the North American Dvd project (which he is the lead person for). 


He is not really complaining about OOo's sites, just trying to find out if 
other people also have problems with them.  We do. [shrugs]  Not a big surprise.
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Mon, 19/9/11, ErnstTremel  wrote:

From: ErnstTremel
Subject: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] (...) OOo's site is down most times
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Monday, 19 September, 2011, 14:59

This Mail is infected by a virus

 Original-Nachricht 
Betreff: Re: [libreoffice-users] (...) OOo's site is down most times
Datum: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:06:29 +0300
Von: Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Antwort an: users@global.libreoffice.org
An: users@global.libreoffice.org



On 09/19/2011 02:17 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:

   Hopefully, LO's sites will be fully populated in the next few months
   with the same type of stuff that the OOo sites have.

What about joining the LO www team in order to give hands to help?
Instead of doing it your side, I mean... May be this will make it takes
much less than "a few months".

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Bulk converting docx to odt?

2011-09-20 Thread Marcello Romani


Il 20/09/2011 10:43, Gordon Burgess-Parker ha scritto:

I've searched for a method to do this but can't find anything.
Is there something I've missed?



I hope this thread can help you:

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=7242

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: docx format troubles

2011-09-20 Thread Marcello Romani


Il 17/09/2011 14:30, David B Teague sr ha scritto:

On 9/16/2011 6:56 AM, Tom Davies wrote:

If you were able to ring-fence about 20% of the features of MS Office
then about 80% of users never stray outside that. From what i see it's
more like about 100% of users. Most users don't even use all of that 20%.

I hope this isn't hijacking the thread, and if so, /please /say so, and
I'll repost this in a new thread.

The fact that 20% of the features of MS Office (and by implication, LO
and OO.o) used almost exclusively by some 80% of the users suggests to
me that OO.o should identify that 20% of features and modularize OO.o or
LO or what have you to include that 20% and make the other 80% of the
features available as extensions.

I'd like comments on this idea.

David Teague



That sounds good in theory, but IMHO it's not as simple as it seems once 
you start to debate how to implement it.
I think it's not worth the trouble, given the presence of Gnumeric + 
Abiword + google docs for those who need only a 20% of what OOo can 
offer (not that I think gnumeric is only 20% of Calc, btw).


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?

2011-09-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby


On 09/20/2011 03:39 PM, owen wrote:

  Will the installation of Libreoffice recognize all my OpenOfffice files.


Yes.
I had a bunch of Oo files, my Linux distribution switched to LO, nothing 
was visualy changed.

Just upgrade following the normal path...

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[libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?

2011-09-20 Thread owen

I'm behind on the issue of the demise of Open Office and the emergence 
of Libreoffice.

 Will the installation of Libreoffice recognize all my OpenOfffice files.
  Will utalizing Libreoffice end up with both OpenOffice and 
Libreoffice being installed on my computer. I don't want both systems so 
should I uninstall or remove OpenOffice?
 What will happen to the OpenOffice custom templates I how have? Also 
the dictionary I have added many words too?

  Will anyone continue to support the free version of OpenOffice?

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Formating

2011-09-20 Thread Tom

Hi :)
is this something to do with sections or styles&templates?  I don't know if
there is something in documentation about this.  
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation
Enter or shift&Enter seem good work-arounds.
Regards from
Tom :)

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector

Hi :)
After 1 person has built it for their system can the built package be uploaded 
somewhere for other people to use?  If so could it be uploaded to the new LO 
Extensions&templates site?  

How generic are builds?  Would it cover the entire family (Ubuntu, Mint, 
Trisquel etc), just Debian, one particular release of Debian, or just the 
specific machine?
Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Tue, 20/9/11, Alexander Thurgood  wrote:

From: Alexander Thurgood 
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 10:42

Le 20/09/11 08:10, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit :

Hi all,

> Hi Snip,
> I suppose the fact that I use Debian-Wheezy (next after Squeeze) on a
> 32-bit system might be the reason. Seeing as I don't really have the
> time to do more research I suppose I will just have to live with
> ODBC (or even JDBC  :() till somebody comes up with a solution.
> Regards

The solution is to rebuild the connector for all combinations of OS/arch
from source. That is how I got my Mac OSX version of the connector
running. None of the devs at LO are building the connector, it is an
option in the configure switch that must be activated specifically.
Possibly, and I say just possibly, the Linux distribs will rebuild it
with their next updates to LO, but I have no idea who deals with that on
each distrib. Same goes for Windows (32/64). If no one complains about
that to the Linux port distrib maintainers, then nothing will get done,
that's for sure.

Additionally, if no one complains about it on the developer list here,
or opens a bug report for it, then nothing will happen either. Even if
someone complains about it, you might well get an answer back of the ilk
"the source is available, build it yourself", which granted, is not
particularly useful/helpful when one is a mere "consumer" of the product.

Alex

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[libreoffice-users] writer; automatic page breaks to maintain heading with first paragraph

2011-09-20 Thread e-letter

Readers,

It seems that the text flow functions 'orphan' and 'widow' controls
are applicable only for paragraphs.

Is there a way to specify that a page break is _not_ inserted between
a heading style and a subsequent text body paragraph?

Thanks.

LO341

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Hyperlinks

Le 19/09/11 22:05, Mike Alksninis a écrit :

Hi Mike,

> In Libre Base, is there a way to convert text to hyperlink when running 
> reports?  I input text data into a table that is a weblink 
> (Http:\\www.etc.com), but I am only able to format it into text.  When I run 
> a report that displays the data, I would like to have clickable links in 
> those columns.  Is this possible?  Thanks.

You would probably need to run a Basic macro on the text string with the
cURL function.

See also this entry on the OOo forum that gives a pointer to how it can
be done.

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=60865


Alex


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[libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector

Le 20/09/11 08:10, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit :

Hi all,


> Hi Snip,
> I suppose the fact that I use Debian-Wheezy (next after Squeeze) on a
> 32-bit system might be the reason. Seeing as I don't really have the
> time to do more research I suppose I will just have to live with
> ODBC (or even JDBC  :() till somebody comes up with a solution.
> Regards

The solution is to rebuild the connector for all combinations of OS/arch
from source. That is how I got my Mac OSX version of the connector
running. None of the devs at LO are building the connector, it is an
option in the configure switch that must be activated specifically.
Possibly, and I say just possibly, the Linux distribs will rebuild it
with their next updates to LO, but I have no idea who deals with that on
each distrib. Same goes for Windows (32/64). If no one complains about
that to the Linux port distrib maintainers, then nothing will get done,
that's for sure.

Additionally, if no one complains about it on the developer list here,
or opens a bug report for it, then nothing will happen either. Even if
someone complains about it, you might well get an answer back of the ilk
"the source is available, build it yourself", which granted, is not
particularly useful/helpful when one is a mere "consumer" of the product.



Alex


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Bulk converting docx to odt?