[libreoffice-users] Re: Legacy Base reports won't open in LibreOffice 3.5

2012-04-19 Thread frofa
Thanks for your comments, Alex and others. One thing I didn't say is that
when I edit my original reports in OO, their hidden controls do NOT show a
'Sorting' control listed at all, and yet they run perfectly in OO apparently
without such a control. Since there is ALSO no 'Sorting' control listed when
I edit my legacy reports in LO (yet they FAIL to run), I wonder does this
mean it is NOT an IMPORT problem, as Alex suggests, but rather that a NEW
hidden control  ('Sorting') is required in LO (but not in OO)? I note that
when I create a brand-new report in LO v5.2 using the legacy report designer
(with the Report Builder Extension disabled), the hidden control 'Sorting'
IS added, and the report runs as normal! (That's in fact how I discovered
the work-around I reported above.) Before I lodge, as suggested, another Bug
Report (under the Writer component), I'm interested in what others (with
more technical knowledge than I have) think about this. - Fred

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Re: [libreoffice-users] beware of the m$ subsidiary

2012-04-19 Thread Mark Stanton
'S a good idea.  Go for it.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

2012-04-19 Thread Malcolm Moore
Incidentally ( or not ) LO gets it right in Windows


M
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From: mal [mailto:malc...@interele.demon.co.uk]
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:51:38 +0100
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

On 15/04/12 19:42, Cor Nouws wrote:
   mal wrote (12-04-12 20:05)
   On 11/04/12 22:10, Cor Nouws wrote:
   Where in LibreOffice do you get this?
  
   I just go to print a document.
   File / Print
   General /Properties
   The paper tray drop down does not include the bypass tray
   Also if you go to Device to select the paper in the options
   there are only 13 paper types listed. This printer has 21 types
   ( which show up in other applications )
  
   Is that what you meant ?
  
   Yes, thanks. (it could have been that you referred to information on 
   the page style, although that is not so logic.)
  
   I guess LibreOffice gets its information via the printer driver. And 
   for me that's a terra incognita.
   Could it be that the bypass is automatically selected once you open 
   it, or fill it?
   I think that the paper types are not relevant here. That are sort of 
   definitions, referring in the end simply to the existing trays.
  
   Regards,
  
  Since we lease the printers I have spoken to both the engineers and the 
  training department as I was
  hoping they could be set that way but these printers needs to be told to 
  use the bypass - it doesn't
  select it automatically ( like small HP printers which  if you put 
  something in the bypass it will take it
  from there preferentially. )
  
  The paper types don't just refer to the tray to take the paper from. 
  They also tell the printer how fast
  to feed the paper through the machine. For example thick3 is used for 
  t-shirt printing paper and that
  has to go through really slowly otherwise the toner doesn't stick.
  
  We have a really nasty work around for the t-shirt paper. That is, we 
  put it in tray 3 and set that tray to
  thick1 ( which LO does show ) which slows the paper a bit. Then we also 
  select 1200 dpi instead of
  the normal 600 which slows it even more and it works. However this does 
  use up a tray and you can
  also only get away which doing 2 or 3 pages then you have to put a blank 
  sheet through from a normal
  tray to clean the rollers.
  
  best wishes
  
  M
  
  
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[libreoffice-users] Re: Legacy Base reports won't open in LibreOffice 3.5

2012-04-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/04/12 08:01, frofa a écrit :

Hi Fred,

 Thanks for your comments, Alex and others. One thing I didn't say is that
 when I edit my original reports in OO, their hidden controls do NOT show a
 'Sorting' control listed at all, and yet they run perfectly in OO apparently
 without such a control. Since there is ALSO no 'Sorting' control listed when
 I edit my legacy reports in LO (yet they FAIL to run), I wonder does this
 mean it is NOT an IMPORT problem, as Alex suggests, but rather that a NEW
 hidden control  ('Sorting') is required in LO (but not in OO)? I note that

Ah, interesting :-)) - as far as I know, no new development (as in
addition of new features) has been made to either the ORB or the
original report designer within the LO project, but I haven't checked
the git log for a while to see if there were any commits.


 when I create a brand-new report in LO v5.2 using the legacy report designer
 (with the Report Builder Extension disabled), the hidden control 'Sorting'
 IS added, and the report runs as normal! (That's in fact how I discovered
 the work-around I reported above.) Before I lodge, as suggested, another Bug
 Report (under the Writer component), I'm interested in what others (with
 more technical knowledge than I have) think about this. - Fred

One way to check this would be to do a comparison of the XML making up
the content.xml of the two Writer ODF files. That way, it would be
possible to see the difference between the original and the new. Perhaps
the difference lies in the use of the ODF 1.2 spec which is the default
for 3.5 - my understanding was that ODF 1.2 had some new attributes that
were possibly ignored (silently dropped) in ODF 1.1 ?


Alex



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

2012-04-19 Thread Walther Koehler
Hallo,

I didnt follow the thread up to now.
Do you use GNULinux CUPS?

no: drop the rest
yes: In that case its probably a problem of the .ppd and could  be solved by 
modifying this filet or getting a better one from turboprint.com or a 
gutenprint driver will do it. Have you switched off CUPS?
in my case I could (troubles with a Brother) I could solve the probelm 
perfectly.

Walther


Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2012 schrieb Malcolm Moore:
 Incidentally ( or not ) LO gets it right in Windows


 M
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 From: mal [mailto:malc...@interele.demon.co.uk]
 To: users@global.libreoffice.org
 Sent: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:51:38 +0100
 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

 On 15/04/12 19:42, Cor Nouws wrote:
mal wrote (12-04-12 20:05)
   
On 11/04/12 22:10, Cor Nouws wrote:
Where in LibreOffice do you get this?
   
I just go to print a document.
File / Print
General /Properties
The paper tray drop down does not include the bypass tray
Also if you go to Device to select the paper in the options
there are only 13 paper types listed. This printer has 21 types
( which show up in other applications )
   
Is that what you meant ?
   
Yes, thanks. (it could have been that you referred to information on
the page style, although that is not so logic.)
   
I guess LibreOffice gets its information via the printer driver. And
for me that's a terra incognita.
Could it be that the bypass is automatically selected once you open
it, or fill it?
I think that the paper types are not relevant here. That are sort of
definitions, referring in the end simply to the existing trays.
   
Regards,

   Since we lease the printers I have spoken to both the engineers and the
   training department as I was
   hoping they could be set that way but these printers needs to be told to
   use the bypass - it doesn't
   select it automatically ( like small HP printers which  if you put
   something in the bypass it will take it
   from there preferentially. )

   The paper types don't just refer to the tray to take the paper from.
   They also tell the printer how fast
   to feed the paper through the machine. For example thick3 is used for
   t-shirt printing paper and that
   has to go through really slowly otherwise the toner doesn't stick.

   We have a really nasty work around for the t-shirt paper. That is, we
   put it in tray 3 and set that tray to
   thick1 ( which LO does show ) which slows the paper a bit. Then we also
   select 1200 dpi instead of
   the normal 600 which slows it even more and it works. However this does
   use up a tray and you can
   also only get away which doing 2 or 3 pages then you have to put a blank
   sheet through from a normal
   tray to clean the rollers.

   best wishes

   M


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Mac OS X 10.4 Check for Updates Glitched

2012-04-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/04/12 12:36, precutcolo...@mailcan.com a écrit :

Hi,

 Have others seen this oddness?  In a previous release, LibreOffice
 3.5.1.x, the Mac OS X PPC LibreOffice menu item, Help / Check for
 Updates..., failed to report 3.5.2.x release that hit on 5 Apr 2012.  I
 had to download and install it by hand.  Is the menu checker only for
 major.minor numbers like 3.4.x.x to 3.5.x.x, not bugfix numbers like
 3.5.1.x to 3.5.2.x?
 


Well it worked for me yesterday on OSX 10.6.8 Intel, I was running
3.5.1.x, so your problem appears to be PPC specific.


Alex


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac OS X 10.4 Check for Updates Glitched

2012-04-19 Thread Vittorio
Hi everybody,
I installed LO on my netbook (OS windows XP). I received the notification
for the new release but I was not able to download it automatically. I got
an error message impossible to download and install LO version 3.5.2 and
a suggestion to download it manually.
Can someone give me a hint about the reason why it happened? do I have to
modify something maybe in my profile?

Thank you in advance for your help
Cheers
Vittorio

2012/4/19 Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com

 Le 16/04/12 12:36, precutcolo...@mailcan.com a écrit :

 Hi,

  Have others seen this oddness?  In a previous release, LibreOffice
  3.5.1.x, the Mac OS X PPC LibreOffice menu item, Help / Check for
  Updates..., failed to report 3.5.2.x release that hit on 5 Apr 2012.  I
  had to download and install it by hand.  Is the menu checker only for
  major.minor numbers like 3.4.x.x to 3.5.x.x, not bugfix numbers like
  3.5.1.x to 3.5.2.x?
 


 Well it worked for me yesterday on OSX 10.6.8 Intel, I was running
 3.5.1.x, so your problem appears to be PPC specific.


 Alex


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Impress - mass photo import - mass slideshow merge

2012-04-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/04/12 12:30, precutcolo...@mailcan.com a écrit :

Hi,

 1. Given a folder/selection of jpg pics, can Impress import the whole
 set as a new slideshow, one pic per slide?

Not that I know of, unless you do it programmatically (Python, JS or
LOBasic). There might be an extension out there somewhere on the net
that lets you do this, but I don't recall having seen one.


 2. Given a folder/selection of Impress slideshow files, can Impress or a
 script merge them into one continuous, mass slideshow?  A separator
 slide may buffer between each merged file.

You would need a script for that to merge the XML - even then, you would
probably encounter the image saving bug/mess : LO, which inherited its
image storing management routines from OOo, stores each image in a ODF
file as a pseudo-randomly generated sequence of characters, and then
includes a pointer to that in the XML attributes. Your script would have
to be able to extract the image from one ODP file, in all likelihood
meaning you would have to read the binary stream API to do this, store
it in memory, rename it and resave it in the new file - fun, huh ?


 
 A shell script may do, but that must vary by OS.  Maybe Python?  Inside
 LibreOffice is a Script Provider for Python extension.
 
 My users are average folk who need simple click methods.  Old OOo
 extensions are broken in Libre, or not easy for grandma to
 click-install.  They were all that my web searches found, so I ask. 
 Thank you!

From what I know, and I don't know everything ;-), you could only do
this via a fairly complicated script. You could try using any of the
language bindings available for your script, and Python is as good as
any other in this respect, but be warned if you want it multi-OS and
clickable, it will not be a task for the fainthearted.


Alex





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[libreoffice-users] Open Office and Libre Office Questions...

2012-04-19 Thread Jerry Greenberg


Is it possible to have both Libre Office and Open Office installed at the same 
time on the same computer?

Are there going to be any new updates for Open Office. I read that since Oracle 
took over they have not been very keen on supporting Open Office. 


Thanks! 





 
 


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[libreoffice-users] Error with open ppt

2012-04-19 Thread 邱长明
 It's different open with windows
I'm think your must fix this bug

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Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice losing position between sessions - solved!

2012-04-19 Thread Ron House

Thanks Tom and Jerry, it works like a charm!

Cheers
Ron

On 15/04/12 16:58, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
I think it's an accident rather than a deliberate design choice.  Otherwise 
they would probably have put a tick-box in options somewhere i guess.  The 
work-around works though.
Regards from
Tom :)


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From: Libre Userlibreu...@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice losing position between sessions
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 15 April, 2012, 5:49

You need to have entered some information in the User Data section under 
ToolsOptionsLibreOfficeUser Data. Only a first name is sufficient but the 
form can not be completely blank.

Also check the box labeled Enable experimental (unstable) features under 
ToolsOptionsLibreOfficeGeneral

Jerry

At 06:45 PM 4/14/2012, you wrote:

In openoffice, if I saved a document, when I next opened it, the cursor was automatically 
positioned where it was when I left off. This doesn't seem to be happening in 
libreoffice, as the cursor is always at the top of the document, meaning one has to 
remember some other way where I was up to. I can't find any option to turn 
this invaluable feature back on.

Is this a design decision, an oversight, or am I missing an option somewhere?

Cheers,
Ron


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Office and Libre Office Questions...

2012-04-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 00:03 -0400, Jerry Greenberg wrote:
 
 Is it possible to have both Libre Office and Open Office installed at the 
 same time on the same computer?
 
 Are there going to be any new updates for Open Office. I read that since 
 Oracle took over they have not been very keen on supporting Open Office. 
 
 
 Thanks! 
 Jerry Greenberg 

 Yes, and you can have more than one version of LO. Presently I have
installed LO 3.4.6 and  3.5.2 besides AOO 3.4.0 which is in Beta
testing.
 One of the few problems that you may have is in the menu (Programs
 All programs in Windows).

--Dan


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO

2012-04-19 Thread Andreas Säger

Am 19.04.2012 13:00, ptoye wrote:


Mark Stanton wrote

I think I'm being misunderstood here. I've never mentioned trying to link
Base and Word - that's not something I want to do.


You do it all the time. All of your input forms are attached to Writer 
documents.


 All I originally asked

about was an incorrect display of a query in a form.


and you received at least two viable solutions although nobody was able 
to reproduce the problem.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Error with open ppt

2012-04-19 Thread Jay Lozier

Hi,

On 04/19/2012 05:49 AM, 邱长明 wrote:

  It's different open with windows
I'm think your must fix this bug

What is the specific problem you are having? Also, which version of LO 
are you using and what is your OS? These will help us try to find a 
solution.


You can post the file on Nabble and the list can try to open it.

Normally MSO 2003 formats such as ppt are well behaved.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Office and Libre Office Questions...

2012-04-19 Thread R.S.

Il 19/04/2012 6.03, Jerry Greenberg ha scritto:


Is it possible to have both Libre Office and Open Office installed at the same 
time on the same computer?

Are there going to be any new updates for Open Office. I read that since Oracle 
took over they have not been very keen on supporting Open Office.


Thanks!









Jerry Greenberg




Hi, although it colud be possible, the installation program registers on 
the registry the same associations. If you have encountered crashes with 
Libreoffice 3.5.2.2 try using version 3.4.6.
I prefer using Libreoffice because it is more efficient and it has a lot 
of functions that are not included in OpenOffice.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Office and Libre Office Questions...

2012-04-19 Thread Jay Lozier

Jerry,

On 04/19/2012 12:03 AM, Jerry Greenberg wrote:


Is it possible to have both Libre Office and Open Office installed at the same 
time on the same computer?

Are there going to be any new updates for Open Office. I read that since Oracle 
took over they have not been very keen on supporting Open Office.


Thanks!


Jerry Greenberg

See the following wiki article for instructions about parallel 
installations http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel. 
It should work with parallel installation of OOo and LO.


OOo is now in the Apache Incubator stage with the Apache Foundation. I 
understand Apache plans to fully support OOo but because of Oracle's 
lack of effort OOo has lost some development time.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

2012-04-19 Thread Malcolm Moore
Hi,


The driver came from http://www.openprinting.org/
They claim this printer works 100% and only LO has 
this problem. All the other apps I have get it right and 
show all the trays and paper options.

I had a look at turboprint and they don't seem to support
Ricoh printers. 


:-(


M



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From: Walther Koehler [mailto:w.koeh...@onlinemed.de]
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:44:51 +0100
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

Hallo,
  
  I didnt follow the thread up to now.
  Do you use GNULinux CUPS?
  
  no: drop the rest
  yes: In that case its probably a problem of the .ppd and could  be solved by 
  modifying this filet or getting a better one from turboprint.com or a 
  gutenprint driver will do it. Have you switched off CUPS?
  in my case I could (troubles with a Brother) I could solve the probelm 
  perfectly.
  
  Walther
  
  
  Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2012 schrieb Malcolm Moore:
   Incidentally ( or not ) LO gets it right in Windows
  
  
   M
 _
  
   From: mal [mailto:malc...@interele.demon.co.uk]
   To: users@global.libreoffice.org
   Sent: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:51:38 +0100
   Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs
  
   On 15/04/12 19:42, Cor Nouws wrote:
  mal wrote (12-04-12 20:05)
 
  On 11/04/12 22:10, Cor Nouws wrote:
  Where in LibreOffice do you get this?
 
  I just go to print a document.
  File / Print
  General /Properties
  The paper tray drop down does not include the bypass tray
  Also if you go to Device to select the paper in the options
  there are only 13 paper types listed. This printer has 21 types
  ( which show up in other applications )
 
  Is that what you meant ?
 
  Yes, thanks. (it could have been that you referred to information on
  the page style, although that is not so logic.)
 
  I guess LibreOffice gets its information via the printer driver. And
  for me that's a terra incognita.
  Could it be that the bypass is automatically selected once you open
  it, or fill it?
  I think that the paper types are not relevant here. That are sort of
  definitions, referring in the end simply to the existing trays.
 
  Regards,
  
 Since we lease the printers I have spoken to both the engineers and the
 training department as I was
 hoping they could be set that way but these printers needs to be told to
 use the bypass - it doesn't
 select it automatically ( like small HP printers which  if you put
 something in the bypass it will take it
 from there preferentially. )
  
 The paper types don't just refer to the tray to take the paper from.
 They also tell the printer how fast
 to feed the paper through the machine. For example thick3 is used for
 t-shirt printing paper and that
 has to go through really slowly otherwise the toner doesn't stick.
  
 We have a really nasty work around for the t-shirt paper. That is, we
 put it in tray 3 and set that tray to
 thick1 ( which LO does show ) which slows the paper a bit. Then we also
 select 1200 dpi instead of
 the normal 600 which slows it even more and it works. However this does
 use up a tray and you can
 also only get away which doing 2 or 3 pages then you have to put a blank
 sheet through from a normal
 tray to clean the rollers.
  
 best wishes
  
 M
  
  
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Office and Libre Office Questions...

2012-04-19 Thread Caesar
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:34:39 +0200, R.S.
rosario.scars...@libero.it wrote Re Re: [libreoffice-users] Open
Office and Libre Office Questions...:

Il 19/04/2012 6.03, Jerry Greenberg ha scritto:

 Is it possible to have both Libre Office and Open Office installed at the 
 same time on the same computer?

 Are there going to be any new updates for Open Office. I read that since 
 Oracle took over they have not been very keen on supporting Open Office.
  
Hi, although it colud be possible, the installation program registers on 
the registry the same associations. If you have encountered crashes with 
Libreoffice 3.5.2.2 try using version 3.4.6.
I prefer using Libreoffice because it is more efficient and it has a lot 
of functions that are not included in OpenOffice.

You can probably avoid any such conflicts by using a portable
version of LO from here:
http://portableapps.com/news/2012-04-16_-_libreoffice_portable_3.5.2_released

for more info, see this:
http://portableapps.com/support/libreoffice_portable

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Base 3.5.2.2 hangs

2012-04-19 Thread clehmann
Alex,

I have filed a bug report on Monday.

Best regards

Charles

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Office and Libre Office Questions...

2012-04-19 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P


I really do not think having LO and AOO on the same computer works 
properly for most users.  LO is well beyond what AOO is at, and LO 
people have cleaned out so much of the old/bad/outdated code that it 
would be a real catch-up act for AOO to give you the same features and 
such that LO have given us since mid-3.3.x line.  I use 3.4.6, but will 
got to 3.5.x when it get some of its issues fixed that are specific for 
my needs.


Yes, you can have LO and AOO installed on the same computer.
No, you cannot run both at the same time.
No, it is not something that works well for most users.

Yes, it is your choice to try.

On 04/19/2012 08:49 AM, Caesar wrote:

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:34:39 +0200, R.S.
rosario.scars...@libero.it  wrote Re Re: [libreoffice-users] Open
Office and Libre Office Questions...:


Il 19/04/2012 6.03, Jerry Greenberg ha scritto:

Is it possible to have both Libre Office and Open Office installed at the same 
time on the same computer?

Are there going to be any new updates for Open Office. I read that since Oracle 
took over they have not been very keen on supporting Open Office.


Hi, although it colud be possible, the installation program registers on
the registry the same associations. If you have encountered crashes with
Libreoffice 3.5.2.2 try using version 3.4.6.
I prefer using Libreoffice because it is more efficient and it has a lot
of functions that are not included in OpenOffice.

You can probably avoid any such conflicts by using a portable
version of LO from here:
http://portableapps.com/news/2012-04-16_-_libreoffice_portable_3.5.2_released

for more info, see this:
http://portableapps.com/support/libreoffice_portable




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

2012-04-19 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P


I use CUPS-PDF for non-LO PDF printing.  Most of my printers have CUPS 
based drivers installed as their Linux default.


As for dialogs working properly, well duplexing works on an HP laser, 
while it will not on an Epson inkjet, within LO.


I use Linux mostly, but I have to compared side by side the dialogs 
between my Linux desktop and my Vista Laptop.


It could be LO, or it could be your flavor of Linux and its repository 
drivers.  You never know unless you take the same printers with 
different version of Linux on the same computer.  Or take LO on Linux vs 
LO on Windows.  If it works for one system and not the other, then it is 
not LO.  If the same issue is across OSs, then it is LO.


On 04/19/2012 03:44 AM, Walther Koehler wrote:

Hallo,

I didnt follow the thread up to now.
Do you use GNULinux CUPS?

no: drop the rest
yes: In that case its probably a problem of the .ppd and could  be solved by
modifying this filet or getting a better one from turboprint.com or a
gutenprint driver will do it. Have you switched off CUPS?
in my case I could (troubles with a Brother) I could solve the probelm
perfectly.

Walther


Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2012 schrieb Malcolm Moore:

Incidentally ( or not ) LO gets it right in Windows


M
   _

From: mal [mailto:malc...@interele.demon.co.uk]
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:51:38 +0100
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

On 15/04/12 19:42, Cor Nouws wrote:
 mal wrote (12-04-12 20:05)
   
 On 11/04/12 22:10, Cor Nouws wrote:
 Where in LibreOffice do you get this?
   
 I just go to print a document.
 File / Print
 General /Properties
 The paper tray drop down does not include the bypass tray
 Also if you go to Device to select the paper in the options
 there are only 13 paper types listed. This printer has 21 types
 ( which show up in other applications )
   
 Is that what you meant ?
   
 Yes, thanks. (it could have been that you referred to information on
 the page style, although that is not so logic.)
   
 I guess LibreOffice gets its information via the printer driver. And
 for me that's a terra incognita.
 Could it be that the bypass is automatically selected once you open
 it, or fill it?
 I think that the paper types are not relevant here. That are sort of
 definitions, referring in the end simply to the existing trays.
   
 Regards,

   Since we lease the printers I have spoken to both the engineers and the
   training department as I was
   hoping they could be set that way but these printers needs to be told to
   use the bypass - it doesn't
   select it automatically ( like small HP printers which  if you put
   something in the bypass it will take it
   from there preferentially. )

   The paper types don't just refer to the tray to take the paper from.
   They also tell the printer how fast
   to feed the paper through the machine. For example thick3 is used for
   t-shirt printing paper and that
   has to go through really slowly otherwise the toner doesn't stick.

   We have a really nasty work around for the t-shirt paper. That is, we
   put it in tray 3 and set that tray to
   thick1 ( which LO does show ) which slows the paper a bit. Then we also
   select 1200 dpi instead of
   the normal 600 which slows it even more and it works. However this does
   use up a tray and you can
   also only get away which doing 2 or 3 pages then you have to put a blank
   sheet through from a normal
   tray to clean the rollers.

   best wishes

   M


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Re: [libreoffice-users] beware of the m$ subsidiary

2012-04-19 Thread Tanstaafl

On 2012-04-19 2:56 AM, Mark Stanton m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk wrote:

'S a good idea.  Go for it.


who are you talking to, and *what* is a good idea?

Replying without quoting *anything* to maintain context is just as dumb 
as if not dumber than blindly quoting everything...


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Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice losing position between sessions - solved!

2012-04-19 Thread Tanstaafl
Actually, Tom, it is probably so that different positions can be saved 
for different users who may be editing the same file (no way to tell 
different users apart if they haven't personalized it)...


On 2012-04-19 7:21 AM, Ron House rho...@smartchat.net.au wrote:

Thanks Tom and Jerry, it works like a charm!

Cheers
Ron

On 15/04/12 16:58, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
I think it's an accident rather than a deliberate design choice.
Otherwise they would probably have put a tick-box in options somewhere
i guess. The work-around works though.
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sun, 15/4/12, Libre Userlibreu...@earthlink.net wrote:

From: Libre Userlibreu...@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice losing position between
sessions
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 15 April, 2012, 5:49

You need to have entered some information in the User Data section
under ToolsOptionsLibreOfficeUser Data. Only a first name is
sufficient but the form can not be completely blank.

Also check the box labeled Enable experimental (unstable) features
under ToolsOptionsLibreOfficeGeneral

Jerry

At 06:45 PM 4/14/2012, you wrote:

In openoffice, if I saved a document, when I next opened it, the
cursor was automatically positioned where it was when I left off.
This doesn't seem to be happening in libreoffice, as the cursor is
always at the top of the document, meaning one has to remember some
other way where I was up to. I can't find any option to turn this
invaluable feature back on.

Is this a design decision, an oversight, or am I missing an option
somewhere?

Cheers,
Ron




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Office and Libre Office Questions...

2012-04-19 Thread Steven Shelton

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On 4/19/2012 10:18 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
 I really do not think having LO and AOO on the same computer works
properly for most users.

[snip]

 Yes, you can have LO and AOO installed on the same computer.
 No, you cannot run both at the same time.
 No, it is not something that works well for most users.


I disagree with this. Well, in part.

I have OOo 3.1, LibO 3.4 (the Calc filter bug makes 3.5 unusable for
me), and IBM Lotus Symphony all installed on the same computer and I've
had all three running at once, and never encountered any problems. (Why
did I have all three running at once? Well, basically, to see if I would
encounter any problems!)


 LO is well beyond what AOO is at, and LO people have cleaned out so
much of the old/bad/outdated code that it would be a real catch-up act
for AOO to give you the same features and such that LO have given us
since mid-3.3.x line. I use 3.4.6, but will got to 3.5.x when it get
some of its issues fixed that are specific for my needs.

This I agree with whole-heartedly!

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Office and Libre Office Questions...

2012-04-19 Thread John Bijnens

Hi,

I thought after the fork of LibreOffice Oracle gave the source code of 
OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation.
IBM donated the source code of their OpenOffice fork called Lotus Symphony also 
to the Apache Foundation.
If I've read everything correctly the Apache Foundation has a special policy called the Incubation this is a period of time during which amongst lots of other 
things the new project is kept under quarantine for patent issues and to see whether the project is viable.

I thought this period of time is practically over and a new release of 
OpenOffice can be expected during the second half of this year.

I have OpenOffice installed on my laptop and I have LibreOffice as a portable 
app on an external hard drive in case I need it.
I prefer OpenOffice because, although it lacks some features available in LibreOffice which I don't use that often, it is much stabler and thus more of use in a 
production environment. Of course this is my personal impression, things can be different for someone else.


Best regards,

John Bijnens

On 19/04/2012 16:18, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:


I really do not think having LO and AOO on the same computer works properly for most users.  LO is well beyond what AOO is at, and LO people have cleaned out 
so much of the old/bad/outdated code that it would be a real catch-up act for AOO to give you the same features and such that LO have given us since mid-3.3.x 
line.  I use 3.4.6, but will got to 3.5.x when it get some of its issues fixed that are specific for my needs.


Yes, you can have LO and AOO installed on the same computer.
No, you cannot run both at the same time.
No, it is not something that works well for most users.

Yes, it is your choice to try.

On 04/19/2012 08:49 AM, Caesar wrote:

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:34:39 +0200, R.S.
rosario.scars...@libero.it  wrote Re Re: [libreoffice-users] Open
Office and Libre Office Questions...:


Il 19/04/2012 6.03, Jerry Greenberg ha scritto:

Is it possible to have both Libre Office and Open Office installed at the same 
time on the same computer?

Are there going to be any new updates for Open Office. I read that since Oracle 
took over they have not been very keen on supporting Open Office.


Hi, although it colud be possible, the installation program registers on
the registry the same associations. If you have encountered crashes with
Libreoffice 3.5.2.2 try using version 3.4.6.
I prefer using Libreoffice because it is more efficient and it has a lot
of functions that are not included in OpenOffice.

You can probably avoid any such conflicts by using a portable
version of LO from here:
http://portableapps.com/news/2012-04-16_-_libreoffice_portable_3.5.2_released

for more info, see this:
http://portableapps.com/support/libreoffice_portable







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[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO

2012-04-19 Thread ptoye

Andreas Säger wrote
 
 Am 19.04.2012 13:00, ptoye wrote:
 
 I think I'm being misunderstood here. I've never mentioned trying to link
 Base and Word - that's not something I want to do.
 
 You do it all the time. All of your input forms are attached to Writer 
 documents.
 
   All I originally asked
 about was an incorrect display of a query in a form.
 
 and you received at least two viable solutions although nobody was able 
 to reproduce the problem.
 

One of the solutions was my own: to continue using OO (which at the moment I
am, but is not exactly a solution to the technical problem). The other was
your workaround.

No-one here said they couldn't reproduce it as far as I can see, though of
course it may be true. I'd be willing to upload the database here if anyone
would like to try it out on their system. It might be a configuration issue,
though I can't quite see how.

After the short discussion about the technical problem I had, this thread
turned into a discussion of the relationship between LO and OO, and of the
shortcomings (or otherwise) of Base, about which I am not qualified to
comment.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] beware of the m$ subsidiary

2012-04-19 Thread Mark Stanton
 Replying without quoting *anything* to maintain context is just as dumb 
 as if not dumber than blindly quoting everything...

Sorry, having a proper email client that links replies correctly, I forget 
that not everybody has that.

I was replying to Paul D. Mirowsky's point (offer to develop?) about 
Intermediate free software

Regards
Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Error with open ppt

2012-04-19 Thread e-letter
On 19/04/2012, 邱长明 qiuchangming...@163.com wrote:
  It's different open with windows
 I'm think your must fix this bug


No, libreoffice is not microsoft!

If you want to use microsoft, go and buy their software.

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Open Office and Libre Office Questions...

2012-04-19 Thread Larry Gusaas


On 2012-04-19 8:18 AM  webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:

Yes, you can have LO and AOO installed on the same computer.

True

No, you cannot run both at the same time.

You can run both programs at the same time on a Mac.

No, it is not something that works well for most users. 

Works well for me.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Office and Libre Office Questions...

2012-04-19 Thread Helen
I've also been wondering how I can go back to OpenOffice, wondering
whether I should uninstall LibreOffice first.
I've had trouble with LibreOffice refusing to print in landscape mode.
 I googled and learned that it's a known issue -- at least a few
people have reported this.  I've tried everything I know (not much) to
fix it, but, although Print Preview looks fine, anything printed
in landscape mode is distorted.  So I'm thinking of getting rid of
Libre Office and re-installing Open Office.  I'm not a sophisticated
user and  not even sure I know how to do this correctly.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:56 AM, John Bijnens johnbijne...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I thought after the fork of LibreOffice Oracle gave the source code of
 OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation.
 IBM donated the source code of their OpenOffice fork called Lotus Symphony
 also to the Apache Foundation.
 If I've read everything correctly the Apache Foundation has a special policy
 called the Incubation this is a period of time during which amongst lots of
 other things the new project is kept under quarantine for patent issues and
 to see whether the project is viable.
 I thought this period of time is practically over and a new release of
 OpenOffice can be expected during the second half of this year.

 I have OpenOffice installed on my laptop and I have LibreOffice as a
 portable app on an external hard drive in case I need it.
 I prefer OpenOffice because, although it lacks some features available in
 LibreOffice which I don't use that often, it is much stabler and thus more
 of use in a production environment. Of course this is my personal
 impression, things can be different for someone else.

 Best regards,

    John Bijnens


 On 19/04/2012 16:18, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:


 I really do not think having LO and AOO on the same computer works
 properly for most users.  LO is well beyond what AOO is at, and LO people
 have cleaned out so much of the old/bad/outdated code that it would be a
 real catch-up act for AOO to give you the same features and such that LO
 have given us since mid-3.3.x line.  I use 3.4.6, but will got to 3.5.x when
 it get some of its issues fixed that are specific for my needs.

 Yes, you can have LO and AOO installed on the same computer.
 No, you cannot run both at the same time.
 No, it is not something that works well for most users.

 Yes, it is your choice to try.

 On 04/19/2012 08:49 AM, Caesar wrote:

 On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:34:39 +0200, R.S.
 rosario.scars...@libero.it  wrote Re Re: [libreoffice-users] Open
 Office and Libre Office Questions...:

 Il 19/04/2012 6.03, Jerry Greenberg ha scritto:

 Is it possible to have both Libre Office and Open Office installed at
 the same time on the same computer?

 Are there going to be any new updates for Open Office. I read that
 since Oracle took over they have not been very keen on supporting Open
 Office.

 Hi, although it colud be possible, the installation program registers on
 the registry the same associations. If you have encountered crashes with
 Libreoffice 3.5.2.2 try using version 3.4.6.
 I prefer using Libreoffice because it is more efficient and it has a lot
 of functions that are not included in OpenOffice.

 You can probably avoid any such conflicts by using a portable
 version of LO from here:

 http://portableapps.com/news/2012-04-16_-_libreoffice_portable_3.5.2_released

 for more info, see this:
 http://portableapps.com/support/libreoffice_portable





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Re: [libreoffice-users] Error with open ppt

2012-04-19 Thread Jay Lozier

On 04/19/2012 12:26 PM, e-letter wrote:

On 19/04/2012, 邱长明qiuchangming...@163.com  wrote:

  It's different open with windows
I'm think your must fix this bug


No, libreoffice is not microsoft!

If you want to use microsoft, go and buy their software.

It depends on the OS, if Linux you can not use MSO because there is no 
MSO version available. Also, it was not stated how the file was obtained 
or created. I use Linux and often must open a MSO file so accurate file 
conversion is always a potential, nagging issue.


Also, unstated but implied is whether a Windows/MSO machine is even 
available.


Mac users may also be in the same position, no MSO installed or 
available and they have a file they need/want to open that is in a MSO 
format.


Stop assuming the user has access to MSO, many do not. And many are sent 
or must download files in MSO formats because others are too lazy/stupid 
to provide alternate formats.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Office and Libre Office Questions...

2012-04-19 Thread Jay Lozier

On 04/19/2012 12:36 PM, Helen wrote:

I've also been wondering how I can go back to OpenOffice, wondering
whether I should uninstall LibreOffice first.
I've had trouble with LibreOffice refusing to print in landscape mode.
  I googled and learned that it's a known issue -- at least a few
people have reported this.  I've tried everything I know (not much) to
fix it, but, although Print Preview looks fine, anything printed
in landscape mode is distorted.  So I'm thinking of getting rid of
Libre Office and re-installing Open Office.  I'm not a sophisticated
user and  not even sure I know how to do this correctly.


In Windows uninstall LO first, then install OOo, I forget the exact 
steps. In Linux use your package manager to uninstall LO and Install 
OOo. I have no idea for a Mac.

snip


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Error with open ppt

2012-04-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
+1
except that MS Office is available for Mac but just because it's available 
doesn't mean it's installed on every machine.  

I agree that we should be welcoming people in instead of giving them abuse and 
also think we should be helping them deal with people that have not yet been 
able to install LibreOffice/OpenOffice, Lotus Symphony, Calligra/KOffice, 
google-docs or any of the other choices that use the ODF format well.  
Regards from
Tom :)



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From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Error with open ppt
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 19 April, 2012, 18:06

On 04/19/2012 12:26 PM, e-letter wrote:
 On 19/04/2012, 邱长明qiuchangming...@163.com  wrote:
   It's different open with windows
 I'm think your must fix this bug
 
 No, libreoffice is not microsoft!
 
 If you want to use microsoft, go and buy their software.
 
It depends on the OS, if Linux you can not use MSO because there is no MSO 
version available. Also, it was not stated how the file was obtained or 
created. I use Linux and often must open a MSO file so accurate file conversion 
is always a potential, nagging issue.

Also, unstated but implied is whether a Windows/MSO machine is even available.

Mac users may also be in the same position, no MSO installed or available and 
they have a file they need/want to open that is in a MSO format.

Stop assuming the user has access to MSO, many do not. And many are sent or 
must download files in MSO formats because others are too lazy/stupid to 
provide alternate formats.

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Spell checker breaks in Windows XP LO 3.5.2

2012-04-19 Thread cbkschroeder
Hi Manfred,

Thanks again for your kind help. So, as per your suggestions:

  You might try to re-synchronize the 'bundled dictionaries':
 
  - Close LibreOffice (+ Quickstarter, if enabled)
  - Go to '...\Documents and Settings\user name\Application
  Data\LibreOffice\3\user\extensions\bundled'
  - Rename the folder 'bundled' to (e.g.) 'bundled_old'
  - Restart LibO.
 
 A new folder 'bundled' will be created in the user profile.
 All bundled dictionaries should be available.

I followed the above and exactly what you expected would happen ended up
happening. Unfortunately, my spell checker remained broken. Still no fat
check mark.

 Addendum:
 (1) Checking the program folder 'extensions'
 [Path: ...\Program_Files\LibreOffice 3.5\share\extensions]
 - Folder 'dict-en' is available (with the file 'en_US.dic' [among
 others])?

Both the folder and the file are present.

 (2) Your LibreOffice 3.5.2 installation: default or customized
 installation?

Default.

 (3) Does the problem occur--right from start--with
 - a renamed LibreOffice user profile

I exited LO, deleted the C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application
Data\LibreOffice folder, and restarted. The folder was re-created, but the
spell checker remained broken.

 - another / a new user (OS level)?

I created a new user -- an administrator -- and logged out. I logged in as
the new user and started LO. Spell check was still broken in the same way.

 [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile
 

Thanks again for your help. Would you have any other ideas? I'd be
enthusiastic to hear them!

Christian


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Spell checker breaks in Windows XP LO 3.5.2

2012-04-19 Thread cbkschroeder
Hi krakedpress,

Thanks for your input.

I have had success with these dictionaries in the past, but I thought this
time I'd try to figure out why the default dictionaries are breaking as they
are. I'd love to get to the bottom of this as I'm sure I'm not the only user
to whom this is happening. 

All the best,

Christian


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO

2012-04-19 Thread Pertti Rönnberg

On 18.4.2012 13:23, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
That is exactly why i wondered if Andreas' points could be worked on while leaving the existing package, Base, as it stands. 


That way the database functionality could be moved forwards while leaving the 
kludgy mess (ok, it might not be a kludge from a coders pov) to get sorted 
'later'.

The trees outside my window have been severely pruned back but i know that by the summer the leaves will be out in full force.  The trees look a lot healthier already as they are not groaning under their own weight. 
Regards from

Tom :)

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From: Alexander Thurgoodalex.thurg...@gmail.com
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 18 April, 2012, 10:05

Le 17/04/12 18:14, Andreas Säger a écrit :

Hi all,


The easiest improvements in my honest opinion:
- Wipe out the .odb container all together and get back to the
configuration of database access in OOo 1. Back to external databases
with configuration data in configuration files, forms and reports in
stand-alone office documents. More speed more safety, security,
accessibility and transparency. People who do not understand how to
connect separated software tools do not understand the .odb container
neither (as we can read in all the mail merge topics).
- Remove all the half done wizards. Do not improve them. Remove! No
database developer nor interface designer needs all this stinky rubbish.
There are graphical tools to compose forms and reports within office
documents. There is SQL for all the rest, including all the things we
can not do in the current graphical interface. There are plenty of SQL
editors to produce valid SQL for various databases. SQL text can be
pasted into any database configuration.
- Add native database queries, so the current direct SQL mode returns
editable row sets and the (useless or even harmful) graphical query
designer can be removed as well.
- Having removed all the wizards (they are Java components) without
losing any functionality at all, extensions could substitute .odb
packages. When you open the extension, the database gets installed
_permanently_ (rather than _temporarily_ like the .odb) into the
configuration tree together with the forms and reports documents. The
database will be registered and all the tables, queries, forms and
reports are accessible form the data source window, hyperlinks and
desktop links just like it used to be in OOo 1.



Ah, nostalgia those were halcyon days ;-)

+1 (not that that means anything in our user land.

Unfortunately, as I was told quite a while ago either on the dev-list or
IRC dev channel, or bugzilla,  no-one wants to go back to 10 year old
technology, i.e. the LO devs are not interested in undoing what Sun it
its infinite wisdom thought would be a good idea when it re-invented
OOo-Base, so we are stuck with what we have until someone steps up and
decides to either unravel it all or improve it - a mammoth task by
anyone's standards.


Alex





LibO-folks,

From this long and very interesting thread and some other discussions 
on this mailing list too, together with my own recent experiences, there 
is only one main conclusion to draw:


There is no real future forLibO's Base module, perhaps not for the whole 
LibO suite.


From a non-expert user's perspective there are in fact two versions of 
LibO-Base


A a Light-LibO-Base = a package consisting of LibO-Base as a 
front-end GUI and an embedded db-engine HSQKDBv1.8. This package is 
(could be) suitable for up to medium complex databases and be used by 
'ordinary' people (like me) who does not have own skills in programming 
or developing or in SQL or other languages (PHP, HTML, etc.) -- who 
plainly want to create a database following instructions mechanically


B  an Advanced-LibO-Base = the LibO-Base module to be used as a 
front-end GUI connected to an external db-engine and that can be used by 
people with own knowledge in programming anddb-theories and SQL and who 
have a good knowledge of the whole LibO's build-up,preferable in the 
linux environment


The Light-LibO-Base will fail because it is like a car without a gear 
box: you can open it and start it but not use it as intended


Øthe installing procedure of Lib-O causes problems because of unclear 
instructions


Øthe LibO-Base module as a program is half done;even basic features does 
not work


Øthere is no documentation explicit for LibO-Base -- and will 
obviouslynot be;


Users have to rely on OpenO documentation why there is no logical reason 
to install LibO (ordinary new users does not know about any differences 
between LibO and OO -- and do not know why to seek)


Øthe LibreOffice Help is a disaster -- a user new to LibO does not get 
any (direct) help


Øthe embedded HSQLv1.8 is out-of-date and causes frustration and waste 
of time because the lack of easy to get and sufficient 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Office and Libre Office Questions...

2012-04-19 Thread Cor Nouws

John Bijnens wrote (19-04-12 16:56)


I have OpenOffice installed on my laptop and I have LibreOffice as a
portable app on an external hard drive in case I need it.
I prefer OpenOffice because, although it lacks some features available
in LibreOffice which I don't use that often, it is much stabler and thus
more of use in a production environment. Of course this is my personal
impression, things can be different for someone else.


There are many bugs from OpenOffice code removed from the LibreOffice code.
People running Libreoffice as a server application, that ran OpenOffice 
before, are extremely clear in their experience: it's much and much stabler.
And the biggest bug from OpenOffice code is being worked on too at 
LibreOffice: cleaning up the whole thing, make it ready for future.
This gives regressions, temporarily. Alas. But the other improvements 
outweigh that, by far.

Ah well, you will find out yourself the next months, years maybe  ;-)

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

2012-04-19 Thread Cor Nouws

Malcolm Moore wrote (19-04-12 09:12)

Incidentally ( or not ) LO gets it right in Windows


Looks as what I suggested: a driver problem.
Printing from Ubuntu to the Epson etc etc here, gives quite a 'different 
experience' from that when printing form Windows.



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[libreoffice-users] Getting Started Guide updated

2012-04-19 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P


Just to let people know.

The Doc people updated the full book Getting Started Guide was updated 
today.


Also the final Draw Guide chapters were added to the list today as well.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

2012-04-19 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P

On 04/19/2012 03:19 PM, Cor Nouws wrote:

Malcolm Moore wrote (19-04-12 09:12)

Incidentally ( or not ) LO gets it right in Windows


Looks as what I suggested: a driver problem.
Printing from Ubuntu to the Epson etc etc here, gives quite a 
'different experience' from that when printing form Windows.





I get no duplexing - even when it is asked for - with the Epson Artisan 
810 inkjet, but will get it with the HP Laserjet 2300 dn.


The default PDF reader will print duplex to the Epson, but it shows a 
different Printer Panel design.


Is there any way to use the default Ubuntu Printer Panel options 
instead of LO's panel?


90% of the Windows software I have used in the past 10 years use the 
same Printer Panel and options that seems to be the system default one.


Any reason why LO uses a different panel style?


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[libreoffice-users] Calc Data Filter, Standard Filter, Value lost during restart?

2012-04-19 Thread lagagnon
I have a calc database of 2000 lines or so. I use Data, Filter, Standard
Filter to test whether one column has a certain value and whether the cells
in another column are empty.

Here is what the standard filter looks like:  http://ompldr.org/vZGZ0dg

This works fine on first attempt. However, when I save the file and then
close it and reopen at a later date the Values in the Standard Filter are
empty so the filter no longer works. It then looks like this:
http://ompldr.org/vZGZ0eA

Can anyone suggest what is going on. BTW this is LibreOffice v3.5.1.2 under
ArchLinux.

thanks in advanceLarry


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Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice losing position between sessions - solved!

2012-04-19 Thread John D. Herron


At 06:45 PM 4/14/2012, you wrote:
In openoffice, if I saved a document, when I next opened it, the 
cursor was automatically positioned where it was when I left off. 
This doesn't seem to be happening in libreoffice, as the cursor is 
always at the top of the document, meaning one has to remember some 
other way where I was up to. I can't find any option to turn this 
invaluable feature back on.


Is this a design decision, an oversight, or am I missing an option 
somewhere?


Cheers,
Ron


In all the years I've been using OO and LO (omg, am I getting 
old...) I never once had the
good fortune of re-opening a document and automatically having the 
cursor (or pointer,
however you prefer to call it) fall onto the location where I had 
left it before closing the doc.


Before I close a document, I mark the spot where the cursor is located
by inserting a bookmark (Alt - Insert - Bookmark and enter a name
of your choice for the bookmark in the dialog box ).

Then, to go back to that spot, after I reopen the document I 
right-click in the lower
left corner, where the page count is shown, and the bookmark name 
pops up: a
click on the name itself brings me to the bookmarked position in the 
text.


Hope this helps.
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Re: [libreoffice-users] beware of the m$ subsidiary

2012-04-19 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky

Wish I could.

Nary the knowledge or the time.
Frustration abounds.


On 4/19/2012 2:56 AM, Mark Stanton wrote:

'S a good idea.  Go for it.

Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...





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[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO

2012-04-19 Thread Andreas Säger

Am 19.04.2012 20:45, Pertti Rönnberg wrote:


LibO-folks,

 From this long and very interesting thread and some other discussions
on this mailing list too, together with my own recent experiences, there
is only one main conclusion to draw:

There is no real future forLibO's Base module, perhaps not for the whole
LibO suite.

 From a non-expert user's perspective there are in fact two versions of
LibO-Base

A a Light-LibO-Base = a package consisting of LibO-Base as a
front-end GUI and an embedded db-engine HSQKDBv1.8. This package is
(could be) suitable for up to medium complex databases and be used by
'ordinary' people (like me) who does not have own skills in programming
or developing or in SQL or other languages (PHP, HTML, etc.) -- who
plainly want to create a database following instructions mechanically

B  an Advanced-LibO-Base = the LibO-Base module to be used as a
front-end GUI connected to an external db-engine and that can be used by
people with own knowledge in programming anddb-theories and SQL and who
have a good knowledge of the whole LibO's build-up,preferable in the
linux environment



I can hardly see any difference between A and B. The embedded HSQLDB 
behaves exactly like an external DB. When you open the embedded 
database document you actually _install_ an external HSQLDB and connect 
the office suite to that _external_ database in cached mode (single user 
on local machine) until you close the database document which 
re-packages the external database.
IMHO, nobody needs to know anything about macro programming in order to 
build useful database applications with Base. The vast majority of Base 
macros are due to bad database design, save one or two clicks or they 
are made to impress the boss.
There are plenty of macros for generic tasks. All the most desperately 
wanted macros have been written already (clone records, refresh this and 
that, open forms and reports, open text as hyperlink).
What I would describe as Base light is the ability to use 
spreadsheets, csv files, dBase files, LDAP and popular mail client 
address books as read-only data sources for office documents, mostly 
mail merge.
This is the most important feature and the concept is superior to MS 
Office if there is a computer knowledgable administrator able to work 
with templates, spreadsheets, plain text and some SQL in a creative 
manner. For the end user who writes a serial letter the type of data 
source makes no difference at all. It is always used in the same 
(slightly clumsy) way, no matter if the addresses come from Oracle 
server or plain text file.



The Light-LibO-Base will fail because it is like a car without a gear
box: you can open it and start it but not use it as intended

Øthe installing procedure of Lib-O causes problems because of unclear
instructions

Øthe LibO-Base module as a program is half done;even basic features does
not work


Base is not a stand-alone program and all the _basic_ features do work 
well. The database backend is a mature database program, most of the 
rest belongs to the Writer component.
There is just too much dysfunctional junk on top of the basic database 
functionality which does not add any additional functionality. 
Everything that the wizards are supposed to do can be done without the 
wizard.
Today's users are do not accept any _basic_ features in a highly 
sophisticated office suite, no matter how well the basic features use to 
work. Instead they complain about the dysfunctional rubbish.




Øthere is no documentation explicit for LibO-Base -- and will
obviouslynot be;


There is excellent documentation for OOo Base which is identical to LibO 
Base. Main problem with documentation is that today's computer users 
overestimate their skills and do not understand the difference between 
end user applications and development tools. This type of office suite 
suggest that each component should be as easy to use as the text processor.




Users have to rely on OpenO documentation why there is no logical reason
to install LibO (ordinary new users does not know about any differences
between LibO and OO -- and do not know why to seek)

Øthe LibreOffice Help is a disaster -- a user new to LibO does not get
any (direct) help


LibO documentation on Base is plain wrong and misleading. Simply point 
to the existing OOo docs or copy and paste that stuff.




Øthe embedded HSQLv1.8 is out-of-date and causes frustration and waste
of time because the lack of easy to get and sufficient support

There are not many users who suffer from the limited capabilities of 
HSQL1.8. A high risk of total data loss is the main reason why one must 
not use the embedded database. Getting an embedded database out of the 
jail is easy enough.



Øthe reports is a important part of the data output; there is no Report
Builder explicit for LibO-Base or one that works properly

Calc is a very good sorrogate for a report engine even if you are not 
very familiar with spreadsheets. It supports 

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc Data Filter, Standard Filter, Value lost during restart?

2012-04-19 Thread Andreas Säger

Am 19.04.2012 23:37, lagagnon wrote:

I have a calc database of 2000 lines or so. I use Data, Filter, Standard
Filter to test whether one column has a certain value and whether the cells
in another column are empty.

Here is what the standard filter looks like:  http://ompldr.org/vZGZ0dg

This works fine on first attempt. However, when I save the file and then
close it and reopen at a later date the Values in the Standard Filter are
empty so the filter no longer works. It then looks like this:
http://ompldr.org/vZGZ0eA

Can anyone suggest what is going on. BTW this is LibreOffice v3.5.1.2 under
ArchLinux.

thanks in advanceLarry



Works for me with LibreOffice 3.5.2 and any other version under XUbuntu 
10.4 and Windows 7.



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[libreoffice-users] Ubuntu 12.04 with MATE LO 3.4.6 install error

2012-04-19 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P


I am dealing with a DELL laptop that I went from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 
final beta.

I installed MATE for its GNOME 2.x desktop environment.

Ubuntu 12.04 final beta installs 3.5.2 as a default.
I wanted LO 3.4.6 instead.

BUT,
I had errors trying to get the menus system to show 3.4.6
I could not get the launchers to show in Applications/Office

I finally got it to work but it required a bit of weirdness.

I un-installed 3.5.2 with Ubuntu Software Center
[the big mistake]

Install 3.4.6 with the terminal

install menu [desktop-integration] - got errors

try 1via terminal
 stated something about could not since the menus 
already exists


try 2via GDebi Package installer
 had error in the LO core dependency

SOLUTION - I hoped but it worked

First
 I had to reinstall 3.5.2 via the Synaptic Package Manager
Second
 Then removed it in that same manager just after it was reinstalled

Then ran the 3.4.6 desktop-integration via GDebi Package installer
 [since 3.4.6 still was in the Synaptic Package list]

It worked then, showing the launcher listing for LO in the 
Applications/Office.



SO
Please do not remove the default LO version via the Ubuntu Software 
Center when you have 12.04 and MATE.  It may be OK when 12.04LTS comes 
out on April 26th, but I will not hold my breath.  It could be MATE, or 
a combination.  I do not know, but it messed me up.


So currently, it WILL cause problems.






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Re: [libreoffice-users] beware of the m$ subsidiary

2012-04-19 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:44:57AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
 On 2012-04-19 2:56 AM, Mark Stanton m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk wrote:
 'S a good idea.  Go for it.
 
 who are you talking to, and *what* is a good idea?
 
 Replying without quoting *anything* to maintain context is just as
 dumb as if not dumber than blindly quoting everything...

+1

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[libreoffice-users] Page Styles not consistent

2012-04-19 Thread Russ Mannex
What I'm Running: Using Writer 3.4.4 on Mint 12 KDE.

What I want: A header on each page except the first page of each chapter

How I tried to do it: I created a separate page style for the first page of 
each chapter. I disabled the header for this style, and set the Default 
style (with the header turned on) to be the next style.

What went right: The selected page no longer had the header, and the following 
page did.

What went horribly wrong: Every other page following that is missing the 
header.

It seems that the only way to consistently get the style to work is to end the 
first page with a manual break. Unfortunately, that would severely disrupt the 
flow of the text (and the layout).

Is there any way to do this? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

2012-04-19 Thread Malcolm Moore
I don't understand why you say it's a driver problem when
every other application gets it right only LO misses stuff.


best wishes


M


 
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From: Cor Nouws [mailto:oo...@nouenoff.nl]
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Cc: Malcolm Moore [mailto:st-malcolm.mo...@whsg.info]
Sent: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:19:44 +0100
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

Malcolm Moore wrote (19-04-12 09:12)
   Incidentally ( or not ) LO gets it right in Windows
  
  Looks as what I suggested: a driver problem.
  Printing from Ubuntu to the Epson etc etc here, gives quite a 'different 
  experience' from that when printing form Windows.
  
  
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