Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...
Yup, same here. I found nice manuals, but all just basic ones (not Basic), and no macros. The forum post looks like it's got some useful ones, but no conditional pictures, unless I missed that. Regards, and thanks Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...
drew wrote (08-02-12 17:41) There was also a fellow in Germany a couple years back who put together a Base system for managing a Dance School - this included a nice set of tools for doing mail merge IIRC - I'll root around a bit and see if I can come up with that link, in addition to what Fernand is referring to. Always good to see! On the other hand: without macro's I'm able already to do all kind of mass mailings, including conditional texts etc. Proper mastering the available features, so that you do not have to write macro's, can save a lot of time :-) Cheers, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Default path for templates
Thanks, Dan. I have done that, a folder under /common, and puted there my templates. And the solution is fine for me. El 8 de febrero de 2012 20:42, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com escribió: On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 18:49 +0100, Eduardo Maldonado wrote: Hi all. I have created two templates, one for impress, one for writer. I have put the impress template in $LO_INST/Basis/share/template/es/presnt, and when I say new press from template I see my template, with every user. Well, thats good. I don't find where put the writer template for have the same efect: new writer document, from a template... and I don't have my template. Yes, the same question all world do. But I don't find the response. The $user_directory//template is not good for me, because it's for a masive installation, and I need do default modifications. Thanks. I think you may have placed your Impress template in the wrong folder even though it is visible. Open LO. Use Tools Options LibreOffice Paths to find the correct path for yourfor templates that should only be visible in LO for the computer where L templates. Click Templates to highlight it, and then click the Edit button. The top path is where your templates should be placed for all the computers to see. The bottom path is the one you noticed will not do what you want. For my installation of LO 3.4.5, the correct path for what you would want is libreoffice3.4/basis3.4/share/template/common. For your computer setup, there should only be one folder in the common folder: layout. You could place your Impress template in the layout folder inside the common folder. It would appear in the Presentations Backgrounds folder. My suggestion: create two folders in the common folder: writer, and Impress. Place the writer template in the writer folder and the Impress template in the impress folder. Then when you have the Templates and Documents - Templates dialog open, you will see several folders listed including My Templates, writer, and Impress. Inside the writer folder will be your writer template; inside the impress folder will be your impress template.d --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...
The thing that started this thread though was my need for conditional pictures. Can that be done without macros? Regards Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Default path for templates
On 02/09/2012 06:13 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: [snip] The path he needs to use ends in .../template/common because his LO installation is on a server. This permits people from other computers to use LO and the same templates. If templates are placed in the common folder, they will not be seen. A folder must first be created in the common folder and the templates placed in the created folder. (See my earlier post.) There is another path for templates which is in the user's LO folder. This path ends in .../user/template. Templates placed in the template folder of this path will be seen. Templates in this path are only visible on one computer which is why this path would not work for him. What I'm perceiving is that LO doesn't follow the standard Unix search hierarchy of first looking locally (~/.libreoffice/3/user/template) and then in /usr/share (the hypothetical /usr/share/libreoffice/3/user/template). ISTM that such a process would also be of assist to large Windows installations. -- How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I have? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Put on shelf] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB
OK Guys Don't we need a Known Problems List here somewhere???!!! This is something you come across on many Software Sites as new versions come out. I think it would help a lot of people who are investigating moving TO the new Software OR moving UP TO the latest version. I can start off by suggesting... 1) LibreOffice Base DOES NOT connect to older OpenOffice Databases. (SDBC Driver error) 2) (From what I'm reading) LibreOffice Base DOES NOT work with SQL Connector under Linux. (I hope somebody can correct me on this as this is the way I want to go but reading about it seems to suggest this is a No Go at the moment.) 3) Use ONLY Java 1.6.0_21 with LibreOffice Base to get best performance. 4) .. (I'm sure others can add to this list.) Let's park this somewhere and have it updated as things get fixed or change??? Ian Whitfield Pretoria./ / -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Put on shelf] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB
Hi :) The French team made a very nice FAQ (=Frequently Asked Questions) and that 'is' being translated into English but Documentation is a very tiny team and needs a lot more people if we want things like that to get done. People would rather show-off on a list like this than put the work in to something like documentation (err i am one of those that i am criticising btw). Some people do both of course ... Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 9/2/12, Ian Whitfield whitfi...@telkomsa.net wrote: From: Ian Whitfield whitfi...@telkomsa.net Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Put on shelf] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 9 February, 2012, 13:24 OK Guys Don't we need a Known Problems List here somewhere???!!! This is something you come across on many Software Sites as new versions come out. I think it would help a lot of people who are investigating moving TO the new Software OR moving UP TO the latest version. I can start off by suggesting... 1) LibreOffice Base DOES NOT connect to older OpenOffice Databases. (SDBC Driver error) 2) (From what I'm reading) LibreOffice Base DOES NOT work with SQL Connector under Linux. (I hope somebody can correct me on this as this is the way I want to go but reading about it seems to suggest this is a No Go at the moment.) 3) Use ONLY Java 1.6.0_21 with LibreOffice Base to get best performance. 4) .. (I'm sure others can add to this list.) Let's park this somewhere and have it updated as things get fixed or change??? Ian Whitfield Pretoria./ / -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] experiences with Impress and KDE and/or nvidia and/or presenter console ?
Hi all, I see some issues in BugZilla around these things. Issues that I cannot (or seldom) reproduce. But I've no idea how that works for others .. So: would be great if people here can give their experiences. Even better would be to add useful comments to bugzilla, that help the devs to find the ware where the problem(s) must be located. e.g.: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45697 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40570 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34531 Thanks a lot for your attention and input :-) - it really helps making LibreOffice better! -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Put on shelf] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB
Ian, On Thursday 09 February 2012, Ian Whitfield wrote: Don't we need a Known Problems List here somewhere???!!! you've seen this one: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5#Most_annoying_bugs Nino -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Default path for templates
Comments inline On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 06:32 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/09/2012 06:13 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: [snip] The path he needs to use ends in .../template/common because his LO installation is on a server. This permits people from other computers to use LO and the same templates. If templates are placed in the common folder, they will not be seen. A folder must first be created in the common folder and the templates placed in the created folder. (See my earlier post.) There is another path for templates which is in the user's LO folder. This path ends in .../user/template. Templates placed in the template folder of this path will be seen. Templates in this path are only visible on one computer which is why this path would not work for him. What I'm perceiving is that LO doesn't follow the standard Unix search hierarchy of first looking locally (~/.libreoffice/3/user/template) and then in /usr/share (the hypothetical /usr/share/libreoffice/3/user/template). For whatever reason, when Sun first made OpenOffice.org open source and perhaps before then, /opt/ was used as the location of the installed OOo software for Linux. The path for templates were set then, and they have not been changed for OOo nor LO. (I don't know if any of the Linux distributions for LO have a different path.) So, for most if not all of the Linux computers, the LO 3.4.5 paths are ~/.libreoffice/3/user/template /opt/libreoffice3.4/basis3.4/share/template/common. (For earlier version of LO 3.4.x, I think basis-link was used in place of basis3.4.) ISTM that such a process would also be of assist to large Windows installations. ISTM ?? What does this mean? (Suggestion: sometimes using an anagram causes no problems, but sometimes others may not know what it means.) --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Default path for templates
On 02/09/2012 08:15 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: Comments inline On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 06:32 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] What I'm perceiving is that LO doesn't follow the standard Unix search hierarchy of first looking locally (~/.libreoffice/3/user/template) and then in /usr/share (the hypothetical /usr/share/libreoffice/3/user/template). For whatever reason, when Sun first made OpenOffice.org open source and perhaps before then, /opt/ was used as the location of the installed A Solaris-ism? ISTM ?? What does this mean? (Suggestion: sometimes using an anagram causes no problems, but sometimes others may not know what it means.) http://www.netlingo.com/word/istm.php It Seems To Me -- How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I have? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem impression choice of source of paper
On 02/09/2012 08:17 AM, Jean Milot wrote: Hi, With all the software, i can choose the source of paper and it works. But when i want to impress and choose the source of paper on LO, it doesn't work : the source of paper don't change. I don't know if the problem appears with all the printers What is your printer? I assume the printer has multiple trays with different sizes/types of paper in each. Please verify that the problem is only in LO/Impress, I think it is implied. Also, what are you trying to do while printing, paper size, document page size, color, etc. System to impress : CUPS LO version 3.4 (the latest) OS : Ubuntu LTS 10.04 Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Jean -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Base question - report exception on faultless query
On 02/09/2012 09:33 AM, Mark Stanton wrote: Thanks for that Fernand (yes, I know this is a while back, but I never said :-) ). And, nearly thirty years of software development has convinced me that upper case is good for built in keywords, in this case SELECT tc, camelcase is good for everything else, it helps me use longer, more descriptive names for things without getting too incomprehensible. I would add using descriptive names is much better particularly for maintenance and training. Personally I prefer variable names like first_name (if allowed) rather than firstName or FirstName. However, any of the three work well. I use single quotation markes ( ' ) whenever I can for strings because it creates less visual clutter than doubles, although I agree it's marginal. Some language constructs require doubles too, of course. Just my two cents :-) Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Put on shelf] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB
On 09/02/2012 15:48, Nino Novak wrote: Don't we need a Known Problems List here somewhere???!!! you've seen this one: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5#Most_annoying_bugs No I had not - Thanks Nino. But why NEVER any mention of Base problems!!!??? I still think a User Based site for this would be a help! Ian Whitfield Pretoria -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base questions
On 07/02/2012 20:08, drew wrote: Periodically you should perform the following. When finished using the database, open the SQL window. Menu [FileSQL] In the command window enter: SHUTDOWN COMPACT You should, after a short while receive in the status field the message: 1: Command successfully executed. At that point close the file. [you must do so as the database engine is indeed shutdown at this point] This will reduce the size of the file on disk and the memory used at run-time, and will increase performance on startup and shutdown. Depending on how actively you edit that table this period can be once a week or once every two weeks..can't say what is right for your specific usage. Thanks Drew!! This worked a treat for me and I can see a marked improvement in my close-down times of the main DB and also closing Queries, A real Gem!! (Is there any way of automating this do you know??) Ian Whitfield Pretoria -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5
Tinkerer: No, it's not just you, at least regarding the Writer module. The Export to PDF function has been broken for some time, but seems to be related to the size of the output pdf document (it seems to work just fine for me on smaller files), but I can't confirm that. I have experienced the identical problem on several machines with disparate OSs (Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu Linux), and with various versions of Libre Office (including the latest Windows version 3.4.5), although the symptoms sometimes vary: every now and then it will politely inform me that Writer crashed, and then die, but other times Writer just disappears immediately after a certain point. The bug number for this seems to be 32771, but I haven't been able to locate any indication that it is recognized by the developers as an actual bug or that they have confirmed it. The problem might be exacerbated by the fact that there is another bug - when restarting Writer (or Office) after an export to pdf crash, a message box appears to say that the file needs to be recovered (which, thankfully, has always been successful), and then instructs you that the error report tool will automatically start, which it never does. As far as I can determine from poking around, there is no way to start this tool and thus I'm not sure it even exists, although there are descriptions of how to use it available on line. Without being able to use the data supplied by the error reporting tool, it is likely that there may not be enough information about the pdf generation failure for the developers to identify what's going wrong. I've probably used every version of every word processor since Telewriter-64 and the standalone IBM models in the late 1970s, including all the personal computer biggies, and finally decided that I was just plain tired of putting up with Word's constant changes in interface (while maintaining the same bugs and annoyances) - and paying significant bucks for the privilege. So I decided that my current book would be done entirely with open-source stuff - hence Libre. I sure hope these issues can be addressed. Frank -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Export-as-PDF-in-LO-3-5-tp3727436p3729780.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Put on shelf] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB
On Thursday 09 February 2012, Ian Whitfield wrote: On 09/02/2012 15:48, Nino Novak wrote: Don't we need a Known Problems List here somewhere???!!! you've seen this one: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5#Most_annoying_bugs No I had not - Thanks Nino. But why NEVER any mention of Base problems!!!??? I still think a User Based site for this would be a help! As for me, I don't use base extensively at the moment, so I have no distinct opinion on that. Nino -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] PUNO - Building on CentOS6 Fails
I have PUNO 0.9 / php-5.3.3-3.el6_2.6.x86_64 / openoffice.org-sdk-3.2.1-19.6.el6_0.5.x86_64 http://www.wstech2.net/?do=0a,01,05 Building make all fails with - /tmp/PUNO/puno.cpp: At global scope: /tmp/PUNO/puno.cpp:52: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ /tmp/PUNO/puno.cpp: In function ‘int zm_startup_puno(int, int)’: /tmp/PUNO/puno.cpp:101: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ /tmp/PUNO/puno.cpp:102: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ /tmp/PUNO/puno.cpp:103: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ /tmp/PUNO/puno.cpp:104: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ /bin/sh /tmp/PUNO/libtool --mode=link g++ -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/tmp/PUNO/include -I/tmp/PUNO/main -I/tmp/PUNO -I/usr/include/php -I/usr/include/php/main -I/usr/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/include/php/Zend -I/usr/include/php/ext -I/usr/include/php/ext/date/lib -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -o puno.la -export-dynamic -avoid-version -prefer-pic -module -rpath /tmp/PUNO/modules -L/tmp/PUNO/.libs/puno_automatic_generated/lib -L/usr/lib64/openoffice.org/basis3.2/sdk/lib -L -luno_cppuhelpergcc3 -luno_cppu -luno_salhelpergcc3 -luno_sal puno.lo -lstdc++ libtool: link: require no space between `-L' and `-luno_cppuhelpergcc3' make: *** [puno.la] Error 1 Build procedure is - tar xf puno-0.9.0.tar.gz cd PUNO phpize export OO_SDK_NAME=openoffice.org3.2_sdk export OO_SDK_HOME=/usr/lib64/openoffice.org/basis3.2/sdk export OFFICE_HOME=/usr/lib64/openoffice.org export OFFICE_BASE_HOME=$OFFICE_HOME/basis3.2 export OO_SDK_URE_HOME=/usr/lib64/openoffice.org/ure export OO_PROGRAM_OFFAPI_RDB_PATH= $OFFICE_HOME/basis3.2/program/offapi.rdb export OO_URE_TYPES_RDB_PATH=$OO_SDK_URE_HOME/share/misc/types.rdb phpize ./configure --with-puno=/usr/lib64/openoffice.org/basis3.2/sdk make cppumaker make all -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5
Hi, CVAlkan wrote (09-02-12 16:25) No, it's not just you, at least regarding the Writer module. The Export to PDF function has been broken for some time, but seems to be related to the size of the output pdf document (it seems to work just fine for me on smaller files), but I can't confirm that. I have experienced the Well, there will be some limit yes. How large or small documents do you guys talk about? Sometimes I make a PDF of 2000 + pages, but with simple contents (sort of few thousands envelopes with text and image) Currently I test Andrews Macro document http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php Is a tough job, but still running ... How far can you go, where do you experience the limits? Cheers, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5
Cor Nouws wrote (09-02-12 16:49) Currently I test Andrews Macro document http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php Is a tough job, but still running ... Got a stiff neck from the van running ;-) but after 28 minutes the 609 kB ODT-file is exported to a 2.0 MB PDF. The four Calc files that I had opened, are still there. Lucky me ;-) -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base questions
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 17:12 +0200, Ian Whitfield wrote: On 07/02/2012 20:08, drew wrote: Periodically you should perform the following. When finished using the database, open the SQL window. Menu [FileSQL] In the command window enter: SHUTDOWN COMPACT You should, after a short while receive in the status field the message: 1: Command successfully executed. At that point close the file. [you must do so as the database engine is indeed shutdown at this point] This will reduce the size of the file on disk and the memory used at run-time, and will increase performance on startup and shutdown. Depending on how actively you edit that table this period can be once a week or once every two weeks..can't say what is right for your specific usage. Thanks Drew!! This worked a treat for me and I can see a marked improvement in my close-down times of the main DB and also closing Queries, A real Gem!! (Is there any way of automating this do you know??) Howdy Ian Glad it helped. Automating? As in a custom menu item for 'Close after Compact' _or_ Every Friday compact the database? Thanks //drew -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...
hallo Mark , The thing that started this thread though was my need for conditional pictures. Can that be done without macros? In theory we can use a WRITER DOC a FORM and a IMAGECONTROL, but even after i resolved the problem to store image-data in a database field, and pointed the imagecontrol to this databasefields, the imagecontrol do not show the image. Others tried also find there views here http://sheepdogguides.com/fdb/fdb1imag.htm using macro's to control is pretty simple, when needed i can post the code here ! greetz Fernand Regards Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 07:25 -0800, CVAlkan wrote: The Export to PDF function has been broken for some time, but seems to be related to the size of the output pdf document (it seems to work just fine for me on smaller files), but I can't confirm that. Hey, This is my first mail and I am hopping not doing something wrong... Think PDF-function is related to the size of the document. I have always use that function on smaller documents, recently I had to convert file of 1200 pages - it breaks. I manage my probem diferently, pasted text to Geditn, add html and /html and now I am using that as a web-page. It is fast and easy. But I am not finding that as a problem, who does 1200 pages on every day basis? Although never tried on a document with 200 pages - I think LO must be able to convert kind of file to PDF. Kruno -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 18:39 +0100, Krunoslav Šebetić wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 07:25 -0800, CVAlkan wrote: The Export to PDF function has been broken for some time, but seems to be related to the size of the output pdf document (it seems to work just fine for me on smaller files), but I can't confirm that. Hey, This is my first mail and I am hopping not doing something wrong... Think PDF-function is related to the size of the document. I have always use that function on smaller documents, recently I had to convert file of 1200 pages - it breaks. I manage my probem diferently, pasted text to Geditn, add html and /html and now I am using that as a web-page. It is fast and easy. But I am not finding that as a problem, who does 1200 pages on every day basis? Although never tried on a document with 200 pages - I think LO must be able to convert kind of file to PDF. Kruno The Writer Guide for LO is 536 pages long. LO converted this from a Master Document in .odt format to PDF. So, this size is possible. I'm wondering if the amount of RAM on the system has something to do with the problem. Seems like the larger the number of pages to be converted, the more RAM it would require. Perhaps someone else would know more about this. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...
Mark, me again, I did a bit more testing, now i can store en review a image in a database, using a Form and a image control, but there is still the problem that there is nothing like a imagefield to recall and show the stored image date when running a merge operation. Fernand hallo Mark , The thing that started this thread though was my need for conditional pictures. Can that be done without macros? In theory we can use a WRITER DOC a FORM and a IMAGECONTROL, but even after i resolved the problem to store image-data in a database field, and pointed the imagecontrol to this databasefields, the imagecontrol do not show the image. Others tried also find there views here http://sheepdogguides.com/fdb/fdb1imag.htm using macro's to control is pretty simple, when needed i can post the code here ! greetz Fernand Regards Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Basic Addon Builder
Has anyone recently used or edited the BasicAddonBuilter macro? I recently used it and ran into a problem with an addon I built. The labels on my new macro are not showing up . Drew suggested it might be a language file missing? http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3730282/labels.png Beth -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Basic-Addon-Builder-tp3730282p3730282.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Addon Builder
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 10:14 -0800, blesko wrote: Has anyone recently used or edited the BasicAddonBuilter macro? I recently used it and ran into a problem with an addon I built. The labels on my new macro are not showing up . Drew suggested it might be a language file missing? Didn't forget - it is not a missing language file in the builder, it is that it isn't picking it up from the basic library - I put some time into it yesterday, but no fix yet.. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3730282/labels.png Beth -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Basic-Addon-Builder-tp3730282p3730282.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5
On 2012-02-10 04:25, CVAlkan wrote:
Tinkerer:
No, it's not just you, at least regarding the Writer module.
The Export to PDF function has been broken for some time, but seems to be
related to the size of the output pdf document (it seems to work just fine
for me on smaller files), but I can't confirm that. I have experienced the
identical problem on several machines with disparate OSs (Windows XP,
Windows Vista, and Ubuntu Linux), and with various versions of Libre Office
(including the latest Windows version 3.4.5), although the symptoms
sometimes vary: every now and then it will politely inform me that Writer
crashed, and then die, but other times Writer just disappears immediately
after a certain point. The bug number for this seems to be 32771, but I
haven't been able to locate any indication that it is recognized by the
developers as an actual bug or that they have confirmed it.
The problem might be exacerbated by the fact that there is another bug -
when restarting Writer (or Office) after an export to pdf crash, a message
box appears to say that the file needs to be recovered (which, thankfully,
has always been successful), and then instructs you that the error report
tool will automatically start, which it never does. As far as I can
determine from poking around, there is no way to start this tool and thus
I'm not sure it even exists, although there are descriptions of how to use
it available on line.
Without being able to use the data supplied by the error reporting tool, it
is likely that there may not be enough information about the pdf generation
failure for the developers to identify what's going wrong.
I've probably used every version of every word processor since Telewriter-64
and the standalone IBM models in the late 1970s, including all the personal
computer biggies, and finally decided that I was just plain tired of putting
up with Word's constant changes in interface (while maintaining the same
bugs and annoyances) - and paying significant bucks for the privilege. So I
decided that my current book would be done entirely with open-source stuff -
hence Libre. I sure hope these issues can be addressed.
Will the book print to file (ps).
Then will it convert with ps2pdf.
I do this with may be 50% of my PDF generation where LO just doesn't get
it right. Unfortunately lose linking from the index.
I have a little script in my menu so I just click on the ps file to convert.
#! /bin/bash
# convert ps to pdf
path=`dirname $1`
base=`basename $1`
pdffile=${base%.*}.pdf
outfile=$path/$pdffile
echo infile $1
echo outfile $outfile
/usr/bin/ps2pdf -r600 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress
-dEmbedAllFonts=true $1 $outfile
steve
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Addon Builder
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 13:16 -0500, drew wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 10:14 -0800, blesko wrote: Has anyone recently used or edited the BasicAddonBuilter macro? I recently used it and ran into a problem with an addon I built. The labels on my new macro are not showing up . Drew suggested it might be a language file missing? Didn't forget - it is not a missing language file in the builder, it is that it isn't picking it up from the basic library - I put some time into it yesterday, but no fix yet.. Just to elaborate in case anyone else can help. Using the BasicAddonBuilder under Libo3.4.x seems to not pick up the language string tables for dialogs in the basic library being packaged into an OXT - so after install on the new machine the dialog comes up with those place holder item_tag names for strings..pretty ugly. //drew http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3730282/labels.png Beth -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Basic-Addon-Builder-tp3730282p3730282.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Addon Builder
I just reviewed my installation of 3.4.4 and decided I need to download and install 3.4.5. I'm on Ubuntu and pieced together an install and I jsut realized that was none too smart... As soon as I've installed it, I will attempt to build it again and run a test with windows to see if it fixed it. Didn't think this would make a difference til now - On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:16 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 10:14 -0800, blesko wrote: Has anyone recently used or edited the BasicAddonBuilter macro? I recently used it and ran into a problem with an addon I built. The labels on my new macro are not showing up . Drew suggested it might be a language file missing? Didn't forget - it is not a missing language file in the builder, it is that it isn't picking it up from the basic library - I put some time into it yesterday, but no fix yet.. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3730282/labels.png Beth -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Basic-Addon-Builder-tp3730282p3730282.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Addon Builder
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 13:29 -0500, Beth Lesko wrote: I just reviewed my installation of 3.4.4 and decided I need to download and install 3.4.5. I'm on Ubuntu and pieced together an install and I jsut realized that was none too smart... As soon as I've installed it, I will attempt to build it again and run a test with windows to see if it fixed it. Great - well, after 398 days without, I once again have a copy of Windows (Vista) running here - so, I'll try this against windows also.. Didn't think this would make a difference til now - On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:16 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 10:14 -0800, blesko wrote: Has anyone recently used or edited the BasicAddonBuilter macro? I recently used it and ran into a problem with an addon I built. The labels on my new macro are not showing up . Drew suggested it might be a language file missing? Didn't forget - it is not a missing language file in the builder, it is that it isn't picking it up from the basic library - I put some time into it yesterday, but no fix yet.. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3730282/labels.png Beth -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Basic-Addon-Builder-tp3730282p3730282.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Put on shelf] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB
Hi :) I think they avoid listing the Base problems because there are not enough electrons in the world. Possibly i'm just having a bad day and it will all look much happier tomorrow tho. Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 9/2/12, Nino Novak nn.l...@kflog.org wrote: From: Nino Novak nn.l...@kflog.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Put on shelf] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 9 February, 2012, 15:36 On Thursday 09 February 2012, Ian Whitfield wrote: On 09/02/2012 15:48, Nino Novak wrote: Don't we need a Known Problems List here somewhere???!!! you've seen this one: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5#Most_annoying_bugs No I had not - Thanks Nino. But why NEVER any mention of Base problems!!!??? I still think a User Based site for this would be a help! As for me, I don't use base extensively at the moment, so I have no distinct opinion on that. Nino -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5
Hi :) Can you use Cups to print-to-file and choose Pdf instead of Ps that way? Tim does something like that although i have never understood how. Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 9/2/12, CVAlkan fobe...@enteract.com wrote: From: CVAlkan fobe...@enteract.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 9 February, 2012, 15:25 Tinkerer: No, it's not just you, at least regarding the Writer module. The Export to PDF function has been broken for some time, but seems to be related to the size of the output pdf document (it seems to work just fine for me on smaller files), but I can't confirm that. I have experienced the identical problem on several machines with disparate OSs (Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu Linux), and with various versions of Libre Office (including the latest Windows version 3.4.5), although the symptoms sometimes vary: every now and then it will politely inform me that Writer crashed, and then die, but other times Writer just disappears immediately after a certain point. The bug number for this seems to be 32771, but I haven't been able to locate any indication that it is recognized by the developers as an actual bug or that they have confirmed it. The problem might be exacerbated by the fact that there is another bug - when restarting Writer (or Office) after an export to pdf crash, a message box appears to say that the file needs to be recovered (which, thankfully, has always been successful), and then instructs you that the error report tool will automatically start, which it never does. As far as I can determine from poking around, there is no way to start this tool and thus I'm not sure it even exists, although there are descriptions of how to use it available on line. Without being able to use the data supplied by the error reporting tool, it is likely that there may not be enough information about the pdf generation failure for the developers to identify what's going wrong. I've probably used every version of every word processor since Telewriter-64 and the standalone IBM models in the late 1970s, including all the personal computer biggies, and finally decided that I was just plain tired of putting up with Word's constant changes in interface (while maintaining the same bugs and annoyances) - and paying significant bucks for the privilege. So I decided that my current book would be done entirely with open-source stuff - hence Libre. I sure hope these issues can be addressed. Frank -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Export-as-PDF-in-LO-3-5-tp3727436p3729780.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Default path for templates
That's correct, Dan. $USER_LO_DIR//user/template are personal templates, only for each user. $LO_INST_DIR//template/common are collective templates, for all user of system. And my problem is for collective/corporate templates. Thank you. El 9 de febrero de 2012 13:13, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com escribió: On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 19:18 +0100, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Eduardo, Eduardo Maldonado schrieb: Hi all. I have created two templates, one for impress, one for writer. I have put the impress template in $LO_INST/Basis/share/template/es/presnt, and when I say new press from template I see my template, with every user. Well, thats good. I don't find where put the writer template for have the same efect: new writer document, from a template... and I don't have my template. Yes, the same question all world do. But I don't find the response. The $user_directory//template is not good for me, because it's for a masive installation, and I need do default modifications. The path, where LO looks for templates are set in Tools Options LibreOffice Paths Template. If you will stick to the predefined path, then you must put your own template under that path. Files, which are immediately in that folder are shown in the category My Templates. If you put your template into a subfolder, the subfolder is shown as category and you will find your template there. A sub-sub-folder will not be shown in the category, so you need a flat hierarchy. Kind regards Regina The path he needs to use ends in .../template/common because his LO installation is on a server. This permits people from other computers to use LO and the same templates. If templates are placed in the common folder, they will not be seen. A folder must first be created in the common folder and the templates placed in the created folder. (See my earlier post.) There is another path for templates which is in the user's LO folder. This path ends in .../user/template. Templates placed in the template folder of this path will be seen. Templates in this path are only visible on one computer which is why this path would not work for him. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...
Le 09/02/2012 19:03, Fernand Vanrie a écrit : Hi Fernand, I did a bit more testing, now i can store en review a image in a database, using a Form and a image control, but there is still the problem that there is nothing like a imagefield to recall and show the stored image date when running a merge operation. AFAIK, the only way to do this is to use a macro to read the binary stream of the image, and then find some way of converting it to something that can be inserted into a document and displayed... I remember Frank Schoenheit mentioning that this was problematic indeed even with OOo. Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Programatically changing the properties of a multselection (group)
I am building a Base form where I would like to group several controls and enable/disable them based on the actions of the user. When I group the controls, the Enabled property can be set in the Properties: Multiselection dialog through the GUI, but I can't seem to figure out how to access the group properties in a macro. I have tried accessing a Model of the Group using getByName(GroupName), followed by accessing the view using getControl(Model). However, it appears that what I get is a Model and View of the first control element contained in the group. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, -- Russell D Mileham rmile...@midwestmicro-tek.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Programatically changing the properties of a multselection (group)
On 02/09/2012 02:34 PM, Russell D Mileham wrote: I am building a Base form where I would like to group several controls and enable/disable them based on the actions of the user. When I group the controls, the Enabled property can be set in the Properties: Multiselection dialog through the GUI, but I can't seem to figure out how to access the group properties in a macro. I have tried accessing a Model of the Group using getByName(GroupName), followed by accessing the view using getControl(Model). However, it appears that what I get is a Model and View of the first control element contained in the group. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Can you post a copy of the form and code on Nabble or somewhere else so others can look at. Just send a message with the appropriate links. There are couple on the list who are very good a macros. Email attachments are stripped from the list if you send directly to the list -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...
Mark Stanton wrote (09-02-12 12:35) The thing that started this thread though was my need for conditional pictures. Can that be done without macros? Ah, did miss the start of the thread. Depends on the amount / size of pictures of course. With random pictures, as the data itself, I would not know. If there are few available pictures to choose from, it could work with conditional hidden paragraphs. Cheers, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...
Am 09.02.2012 20:14, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 09/02/2012 19:03, Fernand Vanrie a écrit : Hi Fernand, I did a bit more testing, now i can store en review a image in a database, using a Form and a image control, but there is still the problem that there is nothing like a imagefield to recall and show the stored image date when running a merge operation. AFAIK, the only way to do this is to use a macro to read the binary stream of the image, and then find some way of converting it to something that can be inserted into a document and displayed... I remember Frank Schoenheit mentioning that this was problematic indeed even with OOo. Alex I use to store pictures as references to files in the same directory as the odb document. This way all you need to store in a VARCHAR field is the file names of the pictures. In a form you can bind a picture control to the text field and you will not encounter the usual performance problems. When you import the text field content into a serial letter, all you need is a macro to replace the text field with a picture object linked to the external file (anchor as character, fixed size,...). -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...
Hi Fernand, I'm quite happy with the (idea of the) macro solution, I was just interested if there was another simpler/easier one. I really don't want to put images in a table, particularly in this case where the picture is either 'A' or 'B', although I s'pose if I can get it there as a result of a query it might be just about bearable. What I'd really like is an image control with a conditional display expression. I may try to produce one, but not for a while I think. Regards Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...
Le 09/02/2012 21:27, Andreas Säger a écrit : Hi Andreas, I use to store pictures as references to files in the same directory as the odb document. This way all you need to store in a VARCHAR field is the file names of the pictures. In a form you can bind a picture control to the text field and you will not encounter the usual performance problems. When you import the text field content into a serial letter, all you need is a macro to replace the text field with a picture object linked to the external file (anchor as character, fixed size,...). Agreed, but can you set it up to make the paragraph as invisible depending on whether or not you have a varchar string ? I imagine so, but that is the question that the original poster was asking. Your macro would need to take care of that piece of trickery in order to mark the paragraph/section where the image is to be inserted as hidden when equal to NULL. Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...
Am 09.02.2012 21:58, Alex Thurgood wrote: Agreed, but can you set it up to make the paragraph as invisible depending on whether or not you have a varchar string ? I imagine so, but that is the question that the original poster was asking. Your macro would need to take care of that piece of trickery in order to mark the paragraph/section where the image is to be inserted as hidden when equal to NULL. Personally I do not care about cosmetic trivia like an empty line in an address frame. But replacing the database field with nothing when the content is an empty string should be doable. Nevertheless, my idea will not work since you can not replace the placeholder field with its file name content since the placeholder is just that. But anything along that line should work after you printed into another odt document and keep track of the places where the picture should be placed (or not). I am not familiar with Writer. I do not have the academic degree to understand the infamous streaming document on the OOo developer site. And I am very confident that even the best fabricated byte stream will not work in the context of the data access API which is obviously broken beyond repair. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Programatically changing the properties of a multselection (group)
On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:43 -0500 Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: Can you post a copy of the form and code on Nabble or somewhere else so others can look at. Just send a message with the appropriate links. There are couple on the list who are very good a macros. I will work on getting the form out somewhere accessable. In the mean time, the code I am trying to use looks like this: Sub updateControlValue(Event As Object) Dim Form As Object Dim Controller As Object Dim Model As Object Dim Control As Object Form=Event.Source.Model.Parent Model=Form.getByName(testGroup) Controller=Form.Parent.Parent.CurrentController Control=Controller.getControl(Model) Control.Enable=FALSE End Sub This works well on an individual form control, but when trying to apply it to a Group of controls it fails to change the Multiselection Property. My gut tells me that there is a different Method or Service that I need to use to access the Group Properties, but I haven't had any luck identifying what it is. Thanks, Russ Mileham -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5
Hi All, I'm curious. I've used OpenOffice since version 1.0. I'm not sure if version 1.0 had the export to pdf feature, but I've used it many, many, many times since it has been part of the offering. I ran it in Windows until 3 years ago, and since then in Linux (Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10). Last year I switched from OpenOffice to LibreOffice when LibreOffice came out a year ago. My documents are 1 to 5 pages for the most part. I've never had any issues with export to pdf. Don On 02/09/2012 11:08 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Cor Nouws wrote (09-02-12 16:49) Currently I test Andrews Macro document http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php Is a tough job, but still running ... Got a stiff neck from the van running ;-) but after 28 minutes the 609 kB ODT-file is exported to a 2.0 MB PDF. The four Calc files that I had opened, are still there. Lucky me ;-) -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.com/ *~~* -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Programatically changing the properties of a multselection (group)
Hi :) A good guide to macros is listed at the bottom of the Programmers section of 3rd party documentation http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#Programmers A direct link to Andrew Pitonyak's page is here http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php There might be other guides to help you learn Macro language better while you are waiting for responses from this list. Good luck and regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 9/2/12, Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Programatically changing the properties of a multselection (group) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 9 February, 2012, 20:05 On 02/09/2012 02:34 PM, Russell D Mileham wrote: I am building a Base form where I would like to group several controls and enable/disable them based on the actions of the user. When I group the controls, the Enabled property can be set in the Properties: Multiselection dialog through the GUI, but I can't seem to figure out how to access the group properties in a macro. I have tried accessing a Model of the Group using getByName(GroupName), followed by accessing the view using getControl(Model). However, it appears that what I get is a Model and View of the first control element contained in the group. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Can you post a copy of the form and code on Nabble or somewhere else so others can look at. Just send a message with the appropriate links. There are couple on the list who are very good a macros. Email attachments are stripped from the list if you send directly to the list -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Addon Builder
Here's the new one - testing on XP now... On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:42 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 13:29 -0500, Beth Lesko wrote: I just reviewed my installation of 3.4.4 and decided I need to download and install 3.4.5. I'm on Ubuntu and pieced together an install and I jsut realized that was none too smart... As soon as I've installed it, I will attempt to build it again and run a test with windows to see if it fixed it. Great - well, after 398 days without, I once again have a copy of Windows (Vista) running here - so, I'll try this against windows also.. Didn't think this would make a difference til now - On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:16 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 10:14 -0800, blesko wrote: Has anyone recently used or edited the BasicAddonBuilter macro? I recently used it and ran into a problem with an addon I built. The labels on my new macro are not showing up . Drew suggested it might be a language file missing? Didn't forget - it is not a missing language file in the builder, it is that it isn't picking it up from the basic library - I put some time into it yesterday, but no fix yet.. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3730282/labels.png Beth -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Basic-Addon-Builder-tp3730282p3730282.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5
Hi :) +1 I've not had any problems with the export to pdf either but i haven't pushed the limits or even done a huge range of different types of things. I just export the company newsletter of about 12 pages with loads of logos and pictures in it. Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 9/2/12, Don C. Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: From: Don C. Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 9 February, 2012, 20:51 Hi All, I'm curious. I've used OpenOffice since version 1.0. I'm not sure if version 1.0 had the export to pdf feature, but I've used it many, many, many times since it has been part of the offering. I ran it in Windows until 3 years ago, and since then in Linux (Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10). Last year I switched from OpenOffice to LibreOffice when LibreOffice came out a year ago. My documents are 1 to 5 pages for the most part. I've never had any issues with export to pdf. Don On 02/09/2012 11:08 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Cor Nouws wrote (09-02-12 16:49) Currently I test Andrews Macro document http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php Is a tough job, but still running ... Got a stiff neck from the van running ;-) but after 28 minutes the 609 kB ODT-file is exported to a 2.0 MB PDF. The four Calc files that I had opened, are still there. Lucky me ;-) -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.com/ *~~* -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Addon Builder
Hi Beth, Not sure if you mean that you attached the .oxt, the list doesn't allow attachments and stripped it out if you did. For future reference, you can add an attachment to an email and then include both the list address and a direct address for someone - the list will strip it out, the direct address recipient will receive it. //drew On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 17:10 -0500, Beth Lesko wrote: Here's the new one - testing on XP now... On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:42 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 13:29 -0500, Beth Lesko wrote: I just reviewed my installation of 3.4.4 and decided I need to download and install 3.4.5. I'm on Ubuntu and pieced together an install and I jsut realized that was none too smart... As soon as I've installed it, I will attempt to build it again and run a test with windows to see if it fixed it. Great - well, after 398 days without, I once again have a copy of Windows (Vista) running here - so, I'll try this against windows also.. Didn't think this would make a difference til now - On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:16 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 10:14 -0800, blesko wrote: Has anyone recently used or edited the BasicAddonBuilter macro? I recently used it and ran into a problem with an addon I built. The labels on my new macro are not showing up . Drew suggested it might be a language file missing? Didn't forget - it is not a missing language file in the builder, it is that it isn't picking it up from the basic library - I put some time into it yesterday, but no fix yet.. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3730282/labels.png Beth -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Basic-Addon-Builder-tp3730282p3730282.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Paragraph format problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a hundreds of paragraphs that need to be fixed so that they fit the width of the pages in which they are located. Presently, the paragraphs are about 4 wide and all have the non-printing character at the end of each text line that looks like a backward letter P with a line next to it. Is there a quick way to get rid of this problem? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPNEZZAAoJEPBpZNn4grcjt5UH/0v5udA9HUXIdIB2PMofxpmk EQiYPjbeSL53pB+HO/EOoa+kKkGgggreeBZg19QbGy8440uTCv+aY4Bl9PrKFapM NX1aOZiQzlf/zwlvOwa6djAQEiPKxoL+LoRuPtPs/nZ+r3XbZ+0rxcKj57buYQ4m g7T8Bn2SBU6hqFyPbip9RdkDvnFQjk84nD+pzkjOX/XTJaGFeSTIdIVkq+VbxAE2 4/FFnHcscSJaGD6PtVLg7NN5ipTT81GJV+YNi7Hl7p27zpnV67QXJtr8L8VxvCCR 91vchL5RBnrz2FzoF6dZDOz6mljQK45YRO7mJpeYJQQU7vvLQtO6ZRucm9/0RPQ= =aaDZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph format problem
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 00:19, . pe...@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a hundreds of paragraphs that need to be fixed so that they fit the width of the pages in which they are located. Presently, the paragraphs are about 4 wide and all have the non-printing character at the end of each text line that looks like a backward letter P with a line next to it. Is there a quick way to get rid of this problem? It sounds to me that the text came from a hard-wrapped text file (like an email). A workaround would be to save the paragraph contents to a plain text file, open it in a web browser, and then copy the text from the browser. Web browsers treat all whitespace as they would treat a space. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Basic Addon Builder
Hi :) You can always upload an attachment to Nabble to keep it with the thread and allow everyone to see it. It worked well in the first post in this thread. Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Basic-Addon-Builder-tp3730282p3731113.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Addon Builder
WooHoo! It's working now - the problem was I created the add on with an incomplete install of LibO on my Ubuntu! I fixed my install and used the BasicAddon creator to re-create it, so it is rendering perfectly in windows now. Thanks for all your help! Beth On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:23 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: Hi Beth, Not sure if you mean that you attached the .oxt, the list doesn't allow attachments and stripped it out if you did. For future reference, you can add an attachment to an email and then include both the list address and a direct address for someone - the list will strip it out, the direct address recipient will receive it. //drew On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 17:10 -0500, Beth Lesko wrote: Here's the new one - testing on XP now... On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:42 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 13:29 -0500, Beth Lesko wrote: I just reviewed my installation of 3.4.4 and decided I need to download and install 3.4.5. I'm on Ubuntu and pieced together an install and I jsut realized that was none too smart... As soon as I've installed it, I will attempt to build it again and run a test with windows to see if it fixed it. Great - well, after 398 days without, I once again have a copy of Windows (Vista) running here - so, I'll try this against windows also.. Didn't think this would make a difference til now - On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:16 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 10:14 -0800, blesko wrote: Has anyone recently used or edited the BasicAddonBuilter macro? I recently used it and ran into a problem with an addon I built. The labels on my new macro are not showing up . Drew suggested it might be a language file missing? Didn't forget - it is not a missing language file in the builder, it is that it isn't picking it up from the basic library - I put some time into it yesterday, but no fix yet.. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3730282/labels.png Beth -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Basic-Addon-Builder-tp3730282p3730282.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph format problem
On 02/09/2012 05:32 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 00:19, . pe...@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a hundreds of paragraphs that need to be fixed so that they fit the width of the pages in which they are located. Presently, the paragraphs are about 4 wide and all have the non-printing character at the end of each text line that looks like a backward letter P with a line next to it. Is there a quick way to get rid of this problem? It sounds to me that the text came from a hard-wrapped text file (like an email). A workaround would be to save the paragraph contents to a plain text file, open it in a web browser, and then copy the text from the browser. Web browsers treat all whitespace as they would treat a space. I saved the huge file as Plain Text.txt The file was then opened in Firefox but the vast amount of white space didn't go away even though I cut and pasted it back into Writer. It seems that the character at the end of each line is a carriage return. Any ideas what to do now? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph format problem
On 02/09/2012 05:19 PM, . wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a hundreds of paragraphs that need to be fixed so that they fit the width of the pages in which they are located. Presently, the paragraphs are about 4 wide and all have the non-printing character at the end of each text line that looks like a backward letter P with a line next to it. The backward P denotes a CR/LF so what you have every line is a paragraph removing this without removing the ones you want may be tricky. Is there a quick way to get rid of this problem? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPNEZZAAoJEPBpZNn4grcjt5UH/0v5udA9HUXIdIB2PMofxpmk EQiYPjbeSL53pB+HO/EOoa+kKkGgggreeBZg19QbGy8440uTCv+aY4Bl9PrKFapM NX1aOZiQzlf/zwlvOwa6djAQEiPKxoL+LoRuPtPs/nZ+r3XbZ+0rxcKj57buYQ4m g7T8Bn2SBU6hqFyPbip9RdkDvnFQjk84nD+pzkjOX/XTJaGFeSTIdIVkq+VbxAE2 4/FFnHcscSJaGD6PtVLg7NN5ipTT81GJV+YNi7Hl7p27zpnV67QXJtr8L8VxvCCR 91vchL5RBnrz2FzoF6dZDOz6mljQK45YRO7mJpeYJQQU7vvLQtO6ZRucm9/0RPQ= =aaDZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph format problem
On 02/09/2012 05:46 PM, . wrote: On 02/09/2012 05:32 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 00:19, .pe...@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a hundreds of paragraphs that need to be fixed so that they fit the width of the pages in which they are located. Presently, the paragraphs are about 4 wide and all have the non-printing character at the end of each text line that looks like a backward letter P with a line next to it. Is there a quick way to get rid of this problem? It sounds to me that the text came from a hard-wrapped text file (like an email). A workaround would be to save the paragraph contents to a plain text file, open it in a web browser, and then copy the text from the browser. Web browsers treat all whitespace as they would treat a space. I saved the huge file as Plain Text.txt The file was then opened in Firefox but the vast amount of white space didn't go away even though I cut and pasted it back into Writer. It seems that the character at the end of each line is a carriage return. Any ideas what to do now? I am curious, how many pages/characters are in the file? I found this via OOo: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2009/11/searching-and-replacing-paragraph-returns-carriage-returns-tabs-and-other-special-characters-in-open.html It should help you with your problem. According to the documentation you are dealing with a type of regular expression -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Restore Windows Dialogue Problems
Hi :) For Macs there is another way out of this but i can't remember it. Somewhere in the fairly recent archives are a couple of other solved threads about this. Apols and regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Restore-Windows-Dialogue-Problems-tp3719288p3731261.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph format problem
On 2/9/12 3:19 PM, . wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a hundreds of paragraphs that need to be fixed so that they fit the width of the pages in which they are located. Presently, the paragraphs are about 4 wide and all have the non-printing character at the end of each text line that looks like a backward letter P with a line next to it. Is there a quick way to get rid of this problem? Is there a blank line between what *should* be the paragraphs? If so, I think I may know a workaround that used to work in Word 2003. But not that familiar with LO as of yet to know if it would work. But, there needs to the blank line between paragraphs. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.6.8 Firefox 10.0 Thunderbird 10.0 LibreOffice 3.4.4 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph format problem
On 02/09/2012 05:46 PM, . wrote: On 02/09/2012 05:32 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 00:19, .pe...@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a hundreds of paragraphs that need to be fixed so that they fit the width of the pages in which they are located. Presently, the paragraphs are about 4 wide and all have the non-printing character at the end of each text line that looks like a backward letter P with a line next to it. Is there a quick way to get rid of this problem? It sounds to me that the text came from a hard-wrapped text file (like an email). A workaround would be to save the paragraph contents to a plain text file, open it in a web browser, and then copy the text from the browser. Web browsers treat all whitespace as they would treat a space. I saved the huge file as Plain Text.txt The file was then opened in Firefox but the vast amount of white space didn't go away even though I cut and pasted it back into Writer. It seems that the character at the end of each line is a carriage return. Any ideas what to do now? When you paste back into LO. Did you use 'Paste Special'? Try 'Paste Special' Ctrl+Shift+V and select 'Unformatted Text' cK -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Restore Windows Dialogue Problems
On 2012-02-05 4:23 PM Charles Bierwirth wrote: I'm running Libreoffice 3.4.5 on OSX Lion 10.7.2. Recently, I had to forcefully restart my computer. Since then, every time I open Libreoffice the Restore Windows dialogue pops up. See http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17t=43095#p198915 -- _ Larry I. Gusaas 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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph format problem
That won't help because the end-of-line indication is part of the structure, not the format of the document. I'm afraid the only way I've ever found to solve this problem is to put a second hard return at the end of each paragraph, do a find and replace of a double hard return, replacing it with QQQ (or some other unlikely to occur character sequence), then doing a find and replace of single hard returns, replacing them with nothing, then doing a find and replace on QQQ, replacing the placeholder characters with hard returns. It's a lot of manual work, but it works. jomali On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Calvin Kim cal...@4to14window.com wrote: On 02/09/2012 05:46 PM, . wrote: On 02/09/2012 05:32 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 00:19, .peace@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.**netpe...@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a hundreds of paragraphs that need to be fixed so that they fit the width of the pages in which they are located. Presently, the paragraphs are about 4 wide and all have the non-printing character at the end of each text line that looks like a backward letter P with a line next to it. Is there a quick way to get rid of this problem? It sounds to me that the text came from a hard-wrapped text file (like an email). A workaround would be to save the paragraph contents to a plain text file, open it in a web browser, and then copy the text from the browser. Web browsers treat all whitespace as they would treat a space. I saved the huge file as Plain Text.txt The file was then opened in Firefox but the vast amount of white space didn't go away even though I cut and pasted it back into Writer. It seems that the character at the end of each line is a carriage return. Any ideas what to do now? When you paste back into LO. Did you use 'Paste Special'? Try 'Paste Special' Ctrl+Shift+V and select 'Unformatted Text' cK -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.** org users%2bh...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** unsubscribe/http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** Netiquette http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: create mailmerge with spreadsheet librecalc without using libre base ! pls help how to do it TQ
On 01/31/2012 11:59 PM, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 01/02/2012 05:20, NoOp a écrit : Hi, Have you with the stock 3.5RC2? No, I'm not being factitious or disrespectful... but you keep claiming that this all works with your own build from Master I'd appreciate an answer. It even works for me with : LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:502) You didn't answer my question. Provided by Ubuntu from the Oneiric repositories. I clicked on Other external data source, then Parameters, and chose Spreadsheet. It appears to work fine, as in I can thereafter press F4, select a tuple from the table, copy it into a Writer document, the merge data wizard starts up, and I can choose how I want the data merged. File a bug report. That distro version is missing other data source parameters. Further, on a new Ubuntu 11.10 install from the Ubuntu repositories, clicking on 'Other external data source' results in: The connection to the external data source source could not be established. No SDBC driver was found. and clicking on 'More results in the standard sdbc:addresss:evolution:local. LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:502) Copyright © 2000, 2010 LibreOffice contributors and/or their affiliates. All rights reserved. This product was created by Ubuntu, based on OpenOffice.org, which is Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. Ubuntu acknowledges all community members, please find more info at the link below: -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph format problem
At 17:19 09/02/2012 -0500, Dottie Noname wrote: I have a hundreds of paragraphs that need to be fixed so that they fit the width of the pages in which they are located. Presently, the paragraphs are about 4 wide and all have the non-printing character at the end of each text line that looks like a backward letter P with a line next to it. In other words, each line is actually a separate paragraph. Is there a quick way to get rid of this problem? Yes. o Go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Options, and tick Combine single line paragraphs if length greater than 50%. o Go to Format | AutoCorrect | Apply. Notes: o You may need to reduce that value of 50% to make the facility work properly in your case. Click on the text of the option and the Edit... button below will light up and enable you to edit the 50% value to a suitable smaller one. o How are your real paragraph breaks indicated in your text? There will need to be consecutive paragraph marks to show these if you are not to end up with a single enormous paragraph, of course. (This will mean that the text has an empty paragraph between each pair of real paragraphs - though you may think of these as blank lines.) If you need to add these, you may find it easier to do so first. o Applying AutoCorrect will make other changes to your text - which you may not want. You can avoid this in two ways: either switch off unwanted changes in the AutoCorrect dialogue or - more easily - use Format | AutoCorrect | Apply and Edit Changes instead. Then choose Edit Changes when challenged. Now click the Comment column header in the Accept or Reject AutoFormat Changes panel; this sorts all the changes of a particular type together. Select all the Combine paragraphs lines together (using Shift-click or Shift-arrow in the usual way) and click Accept. Now click Reject All to reject all other changes. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...
In article 4f342906.5010...@nouenoff.nl, Cor Nouws wrote: If there are few available pictures to choose from, it could work with conditional hidden paragraphs. Only two pictures, a first class stamp or a second class stamp, according to whether the address is outside or inside the UK, so it's very simple in that respect. So, you're saying that I put the anchor point in a paragraph and making the paragraph hidden will hide the picture? If that's right it should be fairly simple. A bit of a nuisance because the two stamps will appear in (very) slightly different places on the page (one paragraph up or down), but I also don't care about such trivia. Regards Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...
In article jh1c19$53k$1...@dough.gmane.org, Alex Thurgood wrote: Agreed, but can you set it up to make the paragraph as invisible depending on whether or not you have a varchar string ? No, that's not quite my question. There will *always* be a picture, and it is either a picture of a first class stamp or a second class one. But I want whichever stamp it is to appear in (almost) the same place according to destination (international or domestic). See my answer to Cor below. I had thought the anchor point was outside the paragraph structure, but that appears not to be the case, and y'all seem to be saying that hiding or showing the paragraph that the anchor is in will hide or show the picture anchored to it. If that's right, then that is my solution. It would be much nicer to have an image field that could be conditionally hidden... Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
