Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing Envelopes
I use Ubuntu 12.04 and a HP Laserjet 2300dn I have add three different drivers to test out for that printer. Did the same for an Epson inkjet. I have [my text name for description] the following drivers. I do not remember which HP/Linux defaults to for this printer. HP Laserjet 2300 Foomatic Postscript HP Laserjet 2300 hpijs PL3 HP Laserjet 2300 CUPS Gutenprint lsb3.2-v5.27 Each of these show different options in the printing dialogs. Also each seems to have a different quality of printing of the sample test page with text and graphics. I chose the CUPS Gutenprint, since it seems the best print quality and the better print options for this duplexing printer. As for the Envelope, does your printer have an envelope tray? Or do you use the manual tray that centers the paper from letter to postcard widths? I have one HP printer that does not center the envelopes, and it uses an envelope feeder tray that is left justified to the printer face of the page. My Epson also uses a left justified, but the Canon uses the centered. I do think that the pstoraster is the issue though. You need to find a better driver, either a newer one from HP or try the CUPS Gutenprint driver. I have no idea what that pstoraster filter/driver could be. Slackware is RPM, correct? Also is 13.1 the newest? Did the envelope printing work in 12.x or 11.x? Every time Ubuntu's update manager system downloads and installs a new hplip, CUPS, or other printer file/driver upgrade, I seem to need to delete and reinstall my printers. They never seem to fully work properly after an automatic upgrade download/install. Sometimes I loose the connection to those network printers and it acts like they do not exist. SO, long winded statement . . . Please try downloading the newest hplip/driver installer script from the HP/Linux page. http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_5 Full List of HP printers http://www.openprinting.org/printers/manufacturer/HP/ NOTE: Before I buy a new or re-manufactured printer, I first look for Ubuntu/Debian drivers and how much the ink/toner will cost me. The non-OEM toner for this laser printer costs about $35 shipped when the HP's original one is over $120. Had to look far and wide for the Canon inkjet printer. Canon USA does not support or have Linux drivers, but Canon UK does. The Epson inkjet has a driver in the OpenPrinting.org list[s]. The Canon ink costs $180+ for 2 full sets, while a good non-OEM 2 full sets cost about $35 with shipping included. The Canon uses - Black, Big Black, Gray, Yellow, Magenta, Cyan. The Epson uses - Black, Yellow, Magenta, Light Magenta, Cyan, Light Cyan. So you see it is impo0rtant to find out how much it will cost a person to get the ink/toner. On 01/24/2013 10:21 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Rich, I am using CUPS with my HP Laserjet 8150DN and I have no trouble printing #10 envelopes in LO. So, it is possible. pstoraster is a printer driver that converts Postscript to rastor, the printer page. That implies that you are not using the Laserjet's Postscript emulation (missing option?), which would not need the pstoraster conversion. CUPS has several driver options to select from, such as Foomatic, Gutenprint, or in my printer's case, a CUPS driver (HP Laserjet 8150 Series Postscript (en)). You may try adding the same printer as a different name using different drivers to experiment with. I see on my Slackware 12.2 Linux CUPS that there are only Gutenprint or Foomatic drivers for the LJ5. However, HP has produced more then one model 5 over the years, so I am not sure which one you have. Here is a place I go for Linux printer information: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting http://www.openprinting.org/printers When I select the HP Laserjet 5, the result says it works perfectly. It also says you should be using the hplip (HP Linux Imaging and Printing) driver. Hope this helps. Girvin Herr Rich Shepard wrote: Running LO-3.5.5.3 on Slackware-13.1. The envelope template was built for a COM10 size envelope in 2003 using whatever version of OO.o was then current. Worked fine then; hasn't since OO.o was supplanted by LO. Time to fix this problem. The page size is set for a COM10 US business envelope. When I try printing it (paper size is commercial 10 and paper orientation is landscape mode), the HP LaserJet 5 sits with nothing to print. When I check the CUPS jobs tab I see this error message: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed. If I print to a disk file I can print the resulting .pdf to a letter size page, but not to an envelope. Any thoughts on this? Rich -- 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 +
[libreoffice-users] First Round of Questions for my Master Thesis
Hi all, my name is Veit. I had studied Free Software at Free Technology Academy (ftacademy.org) and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC.edu). Now, after I had finished all my courses, I will write my Master Thesis. This will be a case study about the office suites OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Some of you probably remember my presetation about my master research work at LibreOffice Conference in October last year. For this work I need as much informations as possible. I beg you all to support me by answering my questions. Many thanks in anticipation! With best regards Veit Here are my first questions: Note: When I speak of LibreOffice this means that The Document Foundation is included. The word project allways referes to Free/Libre Open Source Projects. 1. Do you participate in LibreOffice only or in more projects? If more than one, how many? 2. Is LibreOffice the main project you contribute? 3. Which role does describe best your participation? If you have more than one role, please list them all and mark that one which is your main participation. Project Management Software Developer Testing and QA Management Localisation Writing Documentation User Support Other If other please specify. -- 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: [tdf-discuss] First Round of Questions for my Master Thesis
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:59 PM, vdv...@drvdvogt.de wrote: Hi Simos, yes, you are right! But, OpenOffice.org is past. The projects name now is Apache OpenOffice. With the abbreviation OpenOffice I refer to the former OpenOffice.org and to Apache OpenOffice. I hope you will accept this abbreviation. If you are doing academic work, you should use the proper names. The reason that 'OpenOffice' was not selected ten years ago was because some other company in Europe had already registered the name 'OpenOffice'. Simos Am 2013-01-25 15:52, schrieb Simos Xenitellis: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:18 PM, vdv...@drvdvogt.de wrote: Hi all, my name is Veit. I had studied Free Software at Free Technology Academy (ftacademy.org) and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC.edu). Now, after I had finished all my courses, I will write my Master Thesis. This will be a case study about the office suites OpenOffice and LibreOffice. There used to be a project 'OpenOffice.org' which is now defunct. Out of that project, we now have 'LibreOffice' and 'Apache OpenOffice', and possibly others. Sadly, www.openoffice.org does not reflect this situation. Sorry for hijacking. Simos -- 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: [tdf-discuss] First Round of Questions for my Master Thesis
Hi Simos, Am 2013-01-25 16:07, schrieb Simos Xenitellis: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:59 PM, vdv...@drvdvogt.de wrote: Hi Simos, yes, you are right! But, OpenOffice.org is past. The projects name now is Apache OpenOffice. With the abbreviation OpenOffice I refer to the former OpenOffice.org and to Apache OpenOffice. I hope you will accept this abbreviation. If you are doing academic work, you should use the proper names. The reason that 'OpenOffice' was not selected ten years ago was because some other company in Europe had already registered the name 'OpenOffice'. Not entirely correct. It was an american enterprise that has grabed the rights for this name. OpenOffice.org is now in the hands of Oracle and that will not spit it out. ;-( regards Veit Simos Am 2013-01-25 15:52, schrieb Simos Xenitellis: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:18 PM, vdv...@drvdvogt.de wrote: Hi all, my name is Veit. I had studied Free Software at Free Technology Academy (ftacademy.org) and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC.edu). Now, after I had finished all my courses, I will write my Master Thesis. This will be a case study about the office suites OpenOffice and LibreOffice. There used to be a project 'OpenOffice.org' which is now defunct. Out of that project, we now have 'LibreOffice' and 'Apache OpenOffice', and possibly others. Sadly, www.openoffice.org does not reflect this situation. Sorry for hijacking. Simos -- 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] Long division or long multiplication?
Hello! Certainly, LibreOffice Math does a lot of things. How do I type the numbers in long division or long multiplication? For example, ___ 2) 240 40 x32 _ Regards, C. H. D. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -- 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: [tdf-discuss] First Round of Questions for my Master Thesis
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:14 PM, vdv...@drvdvogt.de wrote: Hi Simos, Am 2013-01-25 16:07, schrieb Simos Xenitellis: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:59 PM, vdv...@drvdvogt.de wrote: Hi Simos, yes, you are right! But, OpenOffice.org is past. The projects name now is Apache OpenOffice. With the abbreviation OpenOffice I refer to the former OpenOffice.org and to Apache OpenOffice. I hope you will accept this abbreviation. If you are doing academic work, you should use the proper names. The reason that 'OpenOffice' was not selected ten years ago was because some other company in Europe had already registered the name 'OpenOffice'. Not entirely correct. It was an american enterprise that has grabed the rights for this name. OpenOffice.org is now in the hands of Oracle and that will not spit it out. ;-( The trademark for OpenOffice belongs to some other company, not related to any of these. Whoever has the trademark for OpenOffice, had that trademark well before the year 2000 (when OpenOffice.org was trademarked). The trademark to OpenOffice.org is probably with Oracle, but it is not in use as it refers to the old defunct project. If you use OpenOffice for these office suites, then you are using an informal term. Most likely it will not look good in your Master thesis to have an informal term. But then that is up to you and your school. Simos regards Veit Simos Am 2013-01-25 15:52, schrieb Simos Xenitellis: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:18 PM, vdv...@drvdvogt.de wrote: Hi all, my name is Veit. I had studied Free Software at Free Technology Academy (ftacademy.org) and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC.edu). Now, after I had finished all my courses, I will write my Master Thesis. This will be a case study about the office suites OpenOffice and LibreOffice. There used to be a project 'OpenOffice.org' which is now defunct. Out of that project, we now have 'LibreOffice' and 'Apache OpenOffice', and possibly others. Sadly, www.openoffice.org does not reflect this situation. Sorry for hijacking. Simos -- 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: [tdf-discuss] First Round of Questions for my Master Thesis
Hi Simos, Am 2013-01-25 16:34, schrieb Simos Xenitellis: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:14 PM, vdv...@drvdvogt.de wrote: Hi Simos, Am 2013-01-25 16:07, schrieb Simos Xenitellis: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:59 PM, vdv...@drvdvogt.de wrote: Hi Simos, yes, you are right! But, OpenOffice.org is past. The projects name now is Apache OpenOffice. With the abbreviation OpenOffice I refer to the former OpenOffice.org and to Apache OpenOffice. I hope you will accept this abbreviation. If you are doing academic work, you should use the proper names. The reason that 'OpenOffice' was not selected ten years ago was because some other company in Europe had already registered the name 'OpenOffice'. Not entirely correct. It was an american enterprise that has grabed the rights for this name. OpenOffice.org is now in the hands of Oracle and that will not spit it out. ;-( The trademark for OpenOffice belongs to some other company, not related to any of these. Whoever has the trademark for OpenOffice, had that trademark well before the year 2000 (when OpenOffice.org was trademarked). The trademark to OpenOffice.org is probably with Oracle, but it is not in use as it refers to the old defunct project. If you use OpenOffice for these office suites, then you are using an informal term. Most likely it will not look good in your Master thesis to have an informal term. But then that is up to you and your school. Of course I will not use this informal name in my Master Thesis. I just had used it for abbreviation. But if this will cause so much trouble I will use the correct terms in future. regards Veit Simos regards Veit Simos Am 2013-01-25 15:52, schrieb Simos Xenitellis: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:18 PM, vdv...@drvdvogt.de wrote: Hi all, my name is Veit. I had studied Free Software at Free Technology Academy (ftacademy.org) and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC.edu). Now, after I had finished all my courses, I will write my Master Thesis. This will be a case study about the office suites OpenOffice and LibreOffice. There used to be a project 'OpenOffice.org' which is now defunct. Out of that project, we now have 'LibreOffice' and 'Apache OpenOffice', and possibly others. Sadly, www.openoffice.org does not reflect this situation. Sorry for hijacking. Simos -- 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: [tdf-discuss] First Round of Questions for my Master Thesis
Hi Simons, Simos Xenitellis schrieb: [..] The trademark for OpenOffice belongs to some other company, not related to any of these. Whoever has the trademark for OpenOffice, had that trademark well before the year 2000 (when OpenOffice.org was trademarked). The trademark to OpenOffice.org is probably with Oracle, but it is not in use as it refers to the old defunct project. Search in Trademark Electronic Search System (US): The current owner of the word and picture trademark OpenOffice.org is The Apache Software Foundation. The current owner of the trademark StarOffice is still Oracle. The trademark OpenOffice.org is still in use. You can download the software in the versions 3.2.1 and 3.3 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stable/. You can download older versions from the archive at http://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/ooo/stable/ Kind regards Regina -- 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] Printing Envelopes
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: I use Ubuntu 12.04 and a HP Laserjet 2300dn I have add three different drivers to test out for that printer. Did the same for an Epson inkjet. I have [my text name for description] the following drivers. I do not remember which HP/Linux defaults to for this printer. HP Laserjet 2300 Foomatic Postscript HP Laserjet 2300 hpijs PL3 HP Laserjet 2300 CUPS Gutenprint lsb3.2-v5.27 Each of these show different options in the printing dialogs. Also each seems to have a different quality of printing of the sample test page with text and graphics. I chose the CUPS Gutenprint, since it seems the best print quality and the better print options for this duplexing printer. As for the Envelope, does your printer have an envelope tray? Or do you use the manual tray that centers the paper from letter to postcard widths? I have one HP printer that does not center the envelopes, and it uses an envelope feeder tray that is left justified to the printer face of the page. My Epson also uses a left justified, but the Canon uses the centered. I do think that the pstoraster is the issue though. You need to find a better driver, either a newer one from HP or try the CUPS Gutenprint driver. I have no idea what that pstoraster filter/driver could be. pstoraster or Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers , is a Postscript to raster, or page bitmap, filter. It is sometimes used on printers that do not respond to Postscript or a similar compositing language such as HP's own printer language, which I cannot remember what its acronym is now. Slackware is RPM, correct? Also is 13.1 the newest? Did the envelope printing work in 12.x or 11.x? No, Slackware is zipped tarball (TGZ). Slackware comes with a filter called rpm2cpio which can be used to extract an RPM file. I use it to extract the LibreOffice binary RPM packages and then re-package them into a TGZ for installation on my Slack 12.2 system. Slack 13.0 up changed from TGZ to TXZ which uses a different zipper algorithm. Slack 14.0 is the newest as of the last time I checked. But I have not installed it because it's version ends in 0. Every time Ubuntu's update manager system downloads and installs a new hplip, CUPS, or other printer file/driver upgrade, I seem to need to delete and reinstall my printers. They never seem to fully work properly after an automatic upgrade download/install. Sometimes I loose the connection to those network printers and it acts like they do not exist. That makes some sense. CUPS probably needs to be updated as to what the new files are and updating CUPS would be self-explanatory. Updating requires printer re-installation. The newer CUPSs goes out and find printers, which worked well for me. However, it only installs one printer at a time, so the find function must be repeated until all the printers are found. At least that is how CUPS 1.3.11 works. SO, long winded statement . . . Please try downloading the newest hplip/driver installer script from the HP/Linux page. http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_5 Full List of HP printers http://www.openprinting.org/printers/manufacturer/HP/ That's what I suggested. I might add that sometimes searching (i.e. googling) for an error message brings some meaningful hints or places to look for the problem. NOTE: Before I buy a new or re-manufactured printer, I first look for Ubuntu/Debian drivers and how much the ink/toner will cost me. The non-OEM toner for this laser printer costs about $35 shipped when the HP's original one is over $120. Had to look far and wide for the Canon inkjet printer. Canon USA does not support or have Linux drivers, but Canon UK does. The Epson inkjet has a driver in the OpenPrinting.org list[s]. The Canon ink costs $180+ for 2 full sets, while a good non-OEM 2 full sets cost about $35 with shipping included. The Canon uses - Black, Big Black, Gray, Yellow, Magenta, Cyan. The Epson uses - Black, Yellow, Magenta, Light Magenta, Cyan, Light Cyan. So you see it is impo0rtant to find out how much it will cost a person to get the ink/toner. Stick with Postscript and you can't go wrong. It simplifies printing interfaces immensely. Hope this helps. Yours in enlightenment. Girvin Herr On 01/24/2013 10:21 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Rich, I am using CUPS with my HP Laserjet 8150DN and I have no trouble printing #10 envelopes in LO. So, it is possible. pstoraster is a printer driver that converts Postscript to rastor, the printer page. That implies that you are not using the Laserjet's Postscript emulation (missing option?), which would not need the pstoraster conversion. CUPS has several driver options to select from, such as Foomatic, Gutenprint, or in my printer's case, a CUPS driver (HP Laserjet 8150 Series Postscript (en)). You
[libreoffice-users] Re: Thunderbird Address Book as Data Source
On 01/20/2013 04:03 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 20/01/13 01:06, NoOp a écrit : Hi NoOp, I see; not trying to not shooting the messenger - thanks Alex ;-) So will this be yet another 'improvement feature' like removing the text boundaries[1] in Writer? Should we toss all of our pre-mork .odb's? To be honest, I don't know, as I haven't really played around with it in a before and after situation. On Mac, one couldn't access Thunderbird addressbooks anyway prior to LO4, so at least for that OS, there's been an improvement ;-) From what I understand, the mork driver is a work in progress...in other words, basic functionality works for one address book, things like lists, other address books, etc, do not yet work, and the table will remain read-only (as was the case with the mozab driver), in order to avoid potentially nasty conflicts of write operations when having the address book table open in TB and LO at the same time... Alex https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51004 [replace mozilla address book parser with a new implementation that doesn't link to mozilla libraries] They've certainly accomplished the doesn't link to mozilla libraries part; not only can you not access your other Thunderbird addressbooks, but you can no longer access *any* other Mozilla (SeaMonkey for example) addressbooks. If you rename the ~/.thunderbid directory, you get a The file $finame$ could not be loaded. That also applies to any previous .odb's with non-Thunderbird addressbooks (links are all that the .odb uses). Found this: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57285 [Address Book Data Source Wizard lists Mac OS X address book on Linux] which seems to shed some light on the issue (sdbc:address:mozilla: etc). -- 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
