Re: [libreoffice-users] System-wide document template?
On Thu 2014-02-20 05:08, Dave Barton wrote: I thought that Regina had helped you resolve this issue, but... Yes, there is a global default template, but it is hard wired (coded) into the software. That is what the user's default or any other template overrides. Unless there is something extremely abnormal about your plain text file, the user default or any other template used definitely will format plain text as set in the template. So the question is: Are you setting the default template as described here?: https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Changing_the_Default_Template and in chapter 10 of the Writer User Guide here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Writer_Guide I am cc'ing you with an example template (the list server normally strips attachments). You do not have to install or do anything special with it. Simply open it in Writer and then use the Insert - File... menu option to insert any plain text file. Your text should appear in some ugly blue font, with double spaced lines centered on the page. Please write back to the list and let us know if this works for you. Regards Dave She did help me a lot. I'm happy with my macro and the shortcut assigned to it. Your method also works. But it doesn't preserve the filename, though. I was just wondering why my default template is ignored when opening plain text. After all, a plain text obviously doesn't come with a style. My default template was supposed to take over and provide a style, right? I thought so. But this doesn't happen. This might not be an issue. It's just counterintuitive. Again, I'm fine with workarounds. If any one of you think this can be an issue, here is how to reproduce it. 1. Create an empty OpenDocument Text. 2. Modify its Preformatted Text style to double-spacing and serif font. 3. Save this ODT as a template. 4. Make this template your default. 5. Create another empty OpenDocument Text, and you will see that the Preformated Text style rightly conforms to your modifications. 6. Close your empty OpenDocument Text. 7. Open any plain text file. 8. This plain text file will not be double-spaced nor in a serif font. The Preformatted Style will not conform to your default template. It actually goes back to the hard-coded one. Thank you all for your helpful suggestions. nr ps: There is nothing abnormal about my plain text files. They are just prose in LaTeX that I want to edit using LibreOffice Writer. Writer is just great for writing prose. Text editors are limited to single-spacing and monospaced fonts, which is awful for prose writing. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: read-only problem
Thanks guys. Saving under a new name works as you suggested. I wonder, does it rise to a bug that saving and marking read-only causes this lockup? - edo1 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/read-only-problem-tp4097968p4098075.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Open plain text with double-spacing
On Thu 2014-02-20 04:51, Brian Barker wrote: o If you need to open the same files repeatedly to edit them, the obvious solution is to save them in LibreOffice's native .odt format. So now we have to ask why you need plain text versions of the file. If you wish to print your edited files, you would not want to use plain text. If you wish to exchange your documents with others, you would want to use either word-processor formats (such as .odt or perhaps .doc) or perhaps PDFs. You'd need plain text output only if you were perhaps feeding your edited results to some other application which required this format - and in this case it would be a simple matter to save a plain text copy of your edited document when necessary. I trust this helps. Brian Barker Exactly. As I said in my last message, I feed plain text into a LaTeX compiler. I want to edit LaTeX files in an environment with both (i) double-spaced lines, and (ii) serif fonts. No text editor I'm aware of can do both. LibreOffice Writer can. It's just awful to write prose in single-spaced lines and monospaced fonts. Writer is way more readable. Nicolai -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] System-wide document template?
On 20/02/14 08:37, nicolai.ros...@gmail.com wrote: I was just wondering why my default template is ignored when opening plain text. After all, a plain text obviously doesn't come with a style. My default template was supposed to take over and provide a style, right? I thought so. But this doesn't happen. Template is not ignored, as it will be applied to any new document you create, but not to a plain text document (or any other document based on a different template). A plain text document cannot have a template associated, as it is plain text (so, only the document contents without any additional information like font, spacing, margins, etcetera. Best regards, Italo -- Italo Vignoli - italo.vign...@gmail.com mob IT +39.348.5653829 - mob EU +39.392.7481795 sip it...@libreoffice.org - skype italovignoli GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: Calc - sort in to columns
Hello and thanks to Alan Brian (who replied private) Yes my choice of words to describe the problem wasn't great, 'sort' was the first thing I tried so was probably the first to swim up from the murk. The mock sheet shows a problem from a larger sheet saved as a .xls, stored within Dropbox and accessed and added to by other people - all of whom have limited spreadsheet knowledge. Anything I add to the sheet has to add minimum chance of giving a user the possibility of screwing things up. Which was why I was keen to present the member type emails in separate columns to just be used. So the first thing I tried was 'Auto filter', that worked but the user still had to select the relevant from up to 60 rows (not a big problem I suppose). However if a user sorted the sheet and subsequently saved the sheet then the next user would be presented with a sheet they hadn't seen before, do a bit of a panic and possibly try to add data in the wrong place. I understand filters, they 'might' but best not to wear rose tinted glasses. I also tried 'If' statements. Consternation (include a 'index column + member type = unique) and VLOOKUP. Neither of which gave good result. I was trying to set something up that wouldn't mean extra and ongoing work for me, but maybe just maintaining a simple text file is a way to go. Possibly this whole 'member details' sheet would now be better served by a database. But I'm not great at database stuff and I don't know what my users would make of it. If you have any other solutions/thoughts I'd be grateful (theres shed loads of spreadsheet stuff (I know) I don't know) - IGraham W764 LibreOffice 4.2.0.4 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Calc-sort-in-to-columns-tp4098035p4098086.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] read-only problem
On 02/19/2014 06:04 PM, edo1 wrote: I saved a small (14 page) styled part of a large project as read-only What exactly do you mean with save as read-only? Stephan -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Frutiger Font Problem
Am 14.11.2013 16:12, schrieb Kracked_P_P---webmaster: On 11/14/2013 03:24 AM, Uli Geisler wrote: On 13.11.2013 18:20, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 11/12/2013 09:15 AM, Uli Geisler wrote: Hi I'm using the Frutiger Font (ttf, linotype) for several Years now for my work an have al lot of Documents and Templates. Since upgrading to ubuntu 13.10 (libreoffice upgraded to 4.1.2) the Frutiger isn't displayed correct in libreoffice-writer. Only the top half of the Font is visible. If I'm marking Text with the Mouse, the mark is beside the words. And the spaces between lines of the same paragraph are different. Typed Characters are displayed after a long delay But if I export the Document to PDF, everything is right. If I use the Frutiger with XeTeX everything is OK. Now I switched to opensuse with libreoffice 3.6 - everything is fine. I tryed to Download an install libreoffice 4.1.3 from libreoffice.org: Same Problems. I think, it's a Problem of libreoffice an not ubuntu or opensuse... Does anyone else have similar Problems - and how can I solve them? (...and sorry for my english...) Uli I have the Frutiger Linotype set [normal, bold, italic, etc.] from the early 2000's [version 1.13] and they work with Ubuntu and LO 4.0.5. I see that you have tried 3.6 and 4.1.2. For now, try 4.0.6 [latest of that line] to see if that will OK for you to use till people can figure out why you are having problems. 4.0.6, downloaded from libreoffice.org: No problem, Fonts are displayed normal. GOOD, hopefully by the time of 4.1.5 this issue will be solved. 4.1.4 comes out at the end of December and 4.1.5 in the first weeks of February. There are people who may not upgrade to the 4.1.x line, just because 4.0.x works fine for them. Some people are still using 3.6.6 or other earlier versions. So until the 4.1.x line, or later the 4.2.x line, gets to where you like it and it does what you want without any issues, I would keep using 4.0.6. Tested also in 4.2.0.4, same problem, made a comment on bug 68467 Other: Font (Frutiger family) is displayed wrong on Mac OS X Uli -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Declare Statment - Calc
On 02/19/2014 04:08 PM, Bill Martin wrote: I've tried to implement the simple example shown in the Calc Help system for the Declare Statement. Somewhere it expects to find a file: user32.dll but I have no idea where to find it. Windows has many user32.dll files for it's own use but presumably none of them are relevant to LibreOffice.The file does not seem to be included in the DLL files that install with Libre. So does it need to be downloaded from the web somewhere and manually installed?I'm just trying to understand how to link Basic to a DLL file so I can go off and do something more complex. Thanks.Bill The point is that the user32.dll file is not relevant to LibreOffice, yet you should be able to call methods in it. What is your operating system? Obviously it is Windows, so, which version of windows? 7, 8? What error do you receive if you try to run the following macro? Declare Sub MyMessageBeep Lib user32.dll Alias MessageBeep ( Long ) Declare Function CharUpper Lib user32.dll Alias CharUpperA_ (ByVal lpsz As String) As String Sub ExampleCallDLL REM Convert a string to uppercase Dim strIn As String Dim strOut As String strIn = i Have Upper and Lower strOut = CharUpper(strIn) MsgBox Converted: CHR$(10) strIn CHR$(10) _ To: CHR$(10) strOut, 0, Call a DLL Function REM On my computer, this plays a system sound Dim nBeepLen As Long nBeepLen = 5000 MyMessageBeep(nBeepLen) FreeLibrary(user32.dll ) End Sub -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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-announce] LibreOffice 4.2.1 is already available to improve the experience of early adopters
Hi :) Hopefully everyone here gets these announcements but since we have been unusually stressy about it over the last couple of days i thought i would forward the official announcement so we all know where we stand. Regards from Tom :) On 20 February 2014 12:01, Italo Vignoli it...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Berlin, February 20, 2014 - The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.2.1, three weeks after the availability of LibreOffice 4.2. The first minor release - based on a shorter cycle than expected - solves over 100 problems, introduced by the larger than usual code refactoring of the LibreOffice 4.2 family. Changelog is available here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.2.1/RC1. LibreOffice 4.2 was extremely ambitious, in terms of code refactoring. Because of this, we planned an extensive quality assurance cycle, based on automated tests followed by QA sprints in December and January, but we were not able to catch all the issues, says Thorsten Behrens, Chairman of The Document Foundation. Based on early adopters feedback, developers and QA experts have jumped in immediately, and have solved the most urgent problems in less than three weeks, showing the importance of our large community. LibreOffice 4.2.1 and LibreOffice 4.1.5 will be on stage at CeBIT in Hannover from March 10 to March 14 (Hall 6, Booth H14). In addition, Florian Effenberger and Italo Vignoli will speak about LibreOffice at the Open Source Conference. Download LibreOffice LibreOffice 4.2.1 is immediately available for download from the following link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation with a donation at http://donate.libreoffice.org. Money collected will be used to grow the infrastructure, and support marketing activities to increase the awareness of the project, both at global and local level. Short link to The Document Foundation blog: http://wp.me/p1byPE-u8. -- Italo Vignoli - The Document Foundation mob IT +39.348.5653829 - mob EU +39.392.7481795 sip it...@libreoffice.org - skype italovignoli hangout / jabber italo.vign...@gmail.com email it...@documentfoundation.org GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: announce+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/announce/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] System-wide document template?
On 02/20/2014 03:37 AM, nicolai.ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu 2014-02-20 05:08, Dave Barton wrote: I thought that Regina had helped you resolve this issue, but... Yes, there is a global default template, but it is hard wired (coded) into the software. That is what the user's default or any other template overrides. Unless there is something extremely abnormal about your plain text file, the user default or any other template used definitely will format plain text as set in the template. So the question is: Are you setting the default template as described here?: https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Changing_the_Default_Template and in chapter 10 of the Writer User Guide here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Writer_Guide I am cc'ing you with an example template (the list server normally strips attachments). You do not have to install or do anything special with it. Simply open it in Writer and then use the Insert - File... menu option to insert any plain text file. Your text should appear in some ugly blue font, with double spaced lines centered on the page. Please write back to the list and let us know if this works for you. Regards Dave She did help me a lot. I'm happy with my macro and the shortcut assigned to it. Your method also works. But it doesn't preserve the filename, though. I was just wondering why my default template is ignored when opening plain text. After all, a plain text obviously doesn't come with a style. My default template was supposed to take over and provide a style, right? I thought so. But this doesn't happen. This might not be an issue. It's just counterintuitive. Again, I'm fine with workarounds. If any one of you think this can be an issue, here is how to reproduce it. 1. Create an empty OpenDocument Text. 2. Modify its Preformatted Text style to double-spacing and serif font. 3. Save this ODT as a template. 4. Make this template your default. 5. Create another empty OpenDocument Text, and you will see that the Preformated Text style rightly conforms to your modifications. 6. Close your empty OpenDocument Text. 7. Open any plain text file. 8. This plain text file will not be double-spaced nor in a serif font. The Preformatted Style will not conform to your default template. It actually goes back to the hard-coded one. Thank you all for your helpful suggestions. nr ps: There is nothing abnormal about my plain text files. They are just prose in LaTeX that I want to edit using LibreOffice Writer. Writer is just great for writing prose. Text editors are limited to single-spacing and monospaced fonts, which is awful for prose writing. Yes, I use LibreOffice for plain text, or encoded text, on many different types of projects. For all the others, I use Kate on my default Ubuntu system. Beyond the plain text file question, there is another question here, if I read the posts correctly. You asked how to use your template system wide. What do you mean by system wide. All users on a single PC, or all PCs [Windows, Mac, or Linux] on a network? If on many networked PCs, were you intention to manually set up the network PCs, or to have the template on a network server and each LO package go out to the networked drive for that default template. I know that there are a lot of business networks that want each user's computer to have the same packages on it and maybe even use the same templates for their documents. This is an important question for LO to be part of a business network. Can you change the ToolsOptionsLibreOfficePathsTemplates to a networked drive or a file server? If so, how is that done, with examples? I do not remember if there are any references for this type of thing in the guides or on the wiki pages. Since this is one of the business options that may be required to deploy LO to their network, we need to have some good documentation for this, and other network deployment, question[s]. Since I do not use a networked drive or file server, I cannot test out any examples that I might be able to give. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: read-only problem
On 02/20/2014 03:43 AM, edo1 wrote: Thanks guys. Saving under a new name works as you suggested. I wonder, does it rise to a bug that saving and marking read-only causes this lockup? - edo1 I have been using the save as new name for many years. I have done this with LO, OOo, and earlier word processors, since the early days of Windows PCs. As for a bug, I do not know what you are stating the bug would be. It is not clear to me this morning. If you are saying that trying to edit a read-only file, or use the standard Save option freezes or locks up LO, then this might be a bug. To be honest, I tend to open documents that are attached to an email, directly into LO. Unless I save the file before opening it, I cannot edit it. That includes doing the Save As option. I tend to open these documents, from trusted people I deal with on a weekly or monthly basis, before I save them outside of the temporary folders the system stores them in. That way, I can decide if I want to save them or not. A good third of these documents I do not need, so they are not saved. So, the use of Save As with read-only files, created as read-only in various ways and reasons, is something that is a part of my office suite activities since the early 90's. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Frutiger Font Problem
On 02/20/2014 06:15 AM, Uli Geisler wrote: Am 14.11.2013 16:12, schrieb Kracked_P_P---webmaster: On 11/14/2013 03:24 AM, Uli Geisler wrote: On 13.11.2013 18:20, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 11/12/2013 09:15 AM, Uli Geisler wrote: Hi I'm using the Frutiger Font (ttf, linotype) for several Years now for my work an have al lot of Documents and Templates. Since upgrading to ubuntu 13.10 (libreoffice upgraded to 4.1.2) the Frutiger isn't displayed correct in libreoffice-writer. Only the top half of the Font is visible. If I'm marking Text with the Mouse, the mark is beside the words. And the spaces between lines of the same paragraph are different. Typed Characters are displayed after a long delay But if I export the Document to PDF, everything is right. If I use the Frutiger with XeTeX everything is OK. Now I switched to opensuse with libreoffice 3.6 - everything is fine. I tryed to Download an install libreoffice 4.1.3 from libreoffice.org: Same Problems. I think, it's a Problem of libreoffice an not ubuntu or opensuse... Does anyone else have similar Problems - and how can I solve them? (...and sorry for my english...) Uli I have the Frutiger Linotype set [normal, bold, italic, etc.] from the early 2000's [version 1.13] and they work with Ubuntu and LO 4.0.5. I see that you have tried 3.6 and 4.1.2. For now, try 4.0.6 [latest of that line] to see if that will OK for you to use till people can figure out why you are having problems. 4.0.6, downloaded from libreoffice.org: No problem, Fonts are displayed normal. GOOD, hopefully by the time of 4.1.5 this issue will be solved. 4.1.4 comes out at the end of December and 4.1.5 in the first weeks of February. There are people who may not upgrade to the 4.1.x line, just because 4.0.x works fine for them. Some people are still using 3.6.6 or other earlier versions. So until the 4.1.x line, or later the 4.2.x line, gets to where you like it and it does what you want without any issues, I would keep using 4.0.6. Tested also in 4.2.0.4, same problem, made a comment on bug 68467 Other: Font (Frutiger family) is displayed wrong on Mac OS X Ul Has anyone seen this font issue with Frutiger, or other fonts, on Windows or Linux? Is this just a Mac issue? I am asking this, since I have some packages that install several Frutiger fonts [if I remember correctly] during their standard install process. I do not use Mac, so if anyone has seem this on Windows, or Linux, then I will have to look into this. To be honest, I tend to remove unneeded fonts, like Frutiger, since I have too many specialty fonts to keep in my font folders for specialty work. Since I currently do not use that font, I removed it. I stated I have the early 2000's era fonts. I do not remember if you are using newer ones or not. I just wonder if there are any differences in the old versions of the font set, vs. the newer versions. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Frutiger Font Problem
Am 20.02.2014 15:38, schrieb Kracked_P_P---webmaster: On 02/20/2014 06:15 AM, Uli Geisler wrote: Am 14.11.2013 16:12, schrieb Kracked_P_P---webmaster: On 11/14/2013 03:24 AM, Uli Geisler wrote: On 13.11.2013 18:20, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 11/12/2013 09:15 AM, Uli Geisler wrote: Hi I'm using the Frutiger Font (ttf, linotype) for several Years now for my work an have al lot of Documents and Templates. Since upgrading to ubuntu 13.10 (libreoffice upgraded to 4.1.2) the Frutiger isn't displayed correct in libreoffice-writer. Only the top half of the Font is visible. If I'm marking Text with the Mouse, the mark is beside the words. And the spaces between lines of the same paragraph are different. Typed Characters are displayed after a long delay But if I export the Document to PDF, everything is right. If I use the Frutiger with XeTeX everything is OK. Now I switched to opensuse with libreoffice 3.6 - everything is fine. I tryed to Download an install libreoffice 4.1.3 from libreoffice.org: Same Problems. I think, it's a Problem of libreoffice an not ubuntu or opensuse... Does anyone else have similar Problems - and how can I solve them? (...and sorry for my english...) Uli I have the Frutiger Linotype set [normal, bold, italic, etc.] from the early 2000's [version 1.13] and they work with Ubuntu and LO 4.0.5. I see that you have tried 3.6 and 4.1.2. For now, try 4.0.6 [latest of that line] to see if that will OK for you to use till people can figure out why you are having problems. 4.0.6, downloaded from libreoffice.org: No problem, Fonts are displayed normal. GOOD, hopefully by the time of 4.1.5 this issue will be solved. 4.1.4 comes out at the end of December and 4.1.5 in the first weeks of February. There are people who may not upgrade to the 4.1.x line, just because 4.0.x works fine for them. Some people are still using 3.6.6 or other earlier versions. So until the 4.1.x line, or later the 4.2.x line, gets to where you like it and it does what you want without any issues, I would keep using 4.0.6. Tested also in 4.2.0.4, same problem, made a comment on bug 68467 Other: Font (Frutiger family) is displayed wrong on Mac OS X Ul Has anyone seen this font issue with Frutiger, or other fonts, on Windows or Linux? Is this just a Mac issue? I'm working on Linux (Debian 7.4, Ubuntu 13.10, Opensuse 13.1) I am asking this, since I have some packages that install several Frutiger fonts [if I remember correctly] during their standard install process. I do not use Mac, so if anyone has seem this on Windows, or Linux, then I will have to look into this. To be honest, I tend to remove unneeded fonts, like Frutiger, since I have too many specialty fonts to keep in my font folders for specialty work. Since I currently do not use that font, I removed it. I can't, cause I need it for my work... I stated I have the early 2000's era fonts. I do not remember if you are using newer ones or not. I just wonder if there are any differences in the old versions of the font set, vs. the newer versions. Mine is Version 6.4 from 2002... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] read-only problem
edo1 wrote: I saved a small (14 page) styled part of a large project as read-only to protect against accidents while I did something else. How did you do this? e.g.: - saved the file, then from Windows Explorer set the read only attribute? - set File Properties Security Open file as read-only in LibreOffice before saving the file? - or something else? Later wanting to check a style, I unchecked read-only and reopened the file. As far as I'm aware, this should have worked - assuming you removed the same option as you originally set. But again, what exactly did you do? Yet it still opens as read-only and styles and formatting is grayed out. Does anyone know how this can happen and how I can prevent it? Usually, editing is disabled if the file is read-only when it's opened; if the read-only attribute is changed while the file is open, it does not affect the editing options available. But you say you reopened the file after unchecking the read-only option, so I wouldn't expect that to be a problem. About the 5th icon in on the toolbar is one which looks like a pencil and paper, and hovering over it shows a tooltip Edit File. You could try clicking that, and then see if you can edit the file. This just allows or prohibits editing the document on-screen; it doesn't change the read-only attribute on the file, so you still might not be able to save the file with the same name if that attribute is still set for some reason. The best I could do was copy the contents into a new file from which I could retrieve the styles. That work-around will be a great pain with the rest of the project. I'm running LO 4.2.0.4 in Win7 x64. Thanks for any help! - edo1 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: Declare Statment - Calc
Win XP is on the particular old machine I'm using. No error message, just doesn't seem to work properly. Just an error beep, not a tone of specified duration. Since Win XP is scattered full of files named user32.dll, I presume Libre was just picking up the wrong one. Once I gave up on the example though, I went back to my own DLL code and Basic program. I finally got it to work if I put my DLL in the Libre bin subdirectory. Libre wouldn't find it when I placed the DLL in with my ODS files as Excel would have. Apparently I need to somehow tweak the Libre settings to make it look for the DLL in the same subdirectory as my spreadsheet files. Providing a fully specified path name for the DLL in the Declare statement wasn't the answer. Thanks. Bill -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Declare-Statment-Calc-tp4098016p4098155.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Frutiger Font Problem
On 02/20/2014 09:58 AM, Uli wrote: Am 20.02.2014 15:38, schrieb Kracked_P_P---webmaster: On 02/20/2014 06:15 AM, Uli Geisler wrote: Am 14.11.2013 16:12, schrieb Kracked_P_P---webmaster: snip GOOD, hopefully by the time of 4.1.5 this issue will be solved. 4.1.4 comes out at the end of December and 4.1.5 in the first weeks of February. There are people who may not upgrade to the 4.1.x line, just because 4.0.x works fine for them. Some people are still using 3.6.6 or other earlier versions. So until the 4.1.x line, or later the 4.2.x line, gets to where you like it and it does what you want without any issues, I would keep using 4.0.6. Tested also in 4.2.0.4, same problem, made a comment on bug 68467 Other: Font (Frutiger family) is displayed wrong on Mac OS X Ul Has anyone seen this font issue with Frutiger, or other fonts, on Windows or Linux? Is this just a Mac issue? I'm working on Linux (Debian 7.4, Ubuntu 13.10, Opensuse 13.1) I am asking this, since I have some packages that install several Frutiger fonts [if I remember correctly] during their standard install process. I do not use Mac, so if anyone has seem this on Windows, or Linux, then I will have to look into this. To be honest, I tend to remove unneeded fonts, like Frutiger, since I have too many specialty fonts to keep in my font folders for specialty work. Since I currently do not use that font, I removed it. I can't, cause I need it for my work... I stated I have the early 2000's era fonts. I do not remember if you are using newer ones or not. I just wonder if there are any differences in the old versions of the font set, vs. the newer versions. Mine is Version 6.4 from 2002... Yes, there are people who require specific fonts for projects. I had to get an Adobe font library one year, from the people who required these fonts. I still have it, since they did not ask for them back. I really hope this issues get resolved properly for you. If it displays off but prints correct, then sometimes it may work for people. But if the fonts print out off then that is really bad. Your version is a little newer than mine, it seems. I have had some problems with quality issues between different versions of some other fonts, that are in my font library folders. I use only XP, Win7, and Ubuntu 12.04LTS/MATE, at this time. Ubuntu is my desktop, with the others for laptops and other secondary systems. By the way, what desktop environments do you use? I do not like Unity, so I use MATE to have the 10.04 feel on Ubuntu 12.04 and newer. Sometimes, I have heard form others, that some desktops may display the same document or package's editing window differently. I have not seen it with 10.04/GNOME and 11.xx, 12.04, and 13.xx with MATE desktop environment. But a few people I have email conversations with, a while ago, did tell me their desktop environment issues. Of course, that was in the early late 3.x and early 4.0.x time frame. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Congratulations to our QA Volunteers!
The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice QA Team congratulate volunteers Thomas Hackert and Ahitagni Mandal on their contributions to our QA Triage Contest. We've sent each of them a Kiva Card (http://www.kiva.org/) and give them our hearty thanks for their work in helping us track-down and triage bugs before the release of LibreOffice to the public. LibreOffice QA holds Community Bug-hunting/Triage events 1-2 times each year in preparation for new releases of LibreOffice. We welcome all LibreOffice users to join us in testing new features and reviewing existing functionality to ensure that our final releases are a delight for all of our users. Events such as the QA Triage Contest are made possible by the gracious contributions of our partners and sponsors. We love to award small prizes and gifts to our Bug-hunting Event volunteers, and are interested in expanding our programming to give even more users an opportunity to get involved in the LibreOffice community. If you or your company are interested in sponsoring an event or providing prizes for our teams, please get in touch with Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org. Cheers, Robinson Tryon TDF QA Team Coordinator -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] System-wide document template?
On Thu 2014-02-20 09:19, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: ---CUT--- You asked how to use your template system wide. What do you mean by system wide. All users on a single PC, or all PCs [Windows, Mac, or Linux] on a network? ---CUT--- Sorry to disappoint you here. I don't have much to say about LO and networking. By system wide I mean my particular laptop wide. I was just wondring if I can fool LO Writer into displaying plain text content as serif+doublespaced by default. Maybe by tweaking something under /usr instead of ~/.config/libreoffice/ Thanks. nr -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Frutiger Font Problem
Am 20.02.2014 18:16, schrieb Kracked_P_P---webmaster: On 02/20/2014 09:58 AM, Uli wrote: Am 20.02.2014 15:38, schrieb Kracked_P_P---webmaster: On 02/20/2014 06:15 AM, Uli Geisler wrote: Am 14.11.2013 16:12, schrieb Kracked_P_P---webmaster: snip GOOD, hopefully by the time of 4.1.5 this issue will be solved. 4.1.4 comes out at the end of December and 4.1.5 in the first weeks of February. There are people who may not upgrade to the 4.1.x line, just because 4.0.x works fine for them. Some people are still using 3.6.6 or other earlier versions. So until the 4.1.x line, or later the 4.2.x line, gets to where you like it and it does what you want without any issues, I would keep using 4.0.6. Tested also in 4.2.0.4, same problem, made a comment on bug 68467 Other: Font (Frutiger family) is displayed wrong on Mac OS X Ul Has anyone seen this font issue with Frutiger, or other fonts, on Windows or Linux? Is this just a Mac issue? I'm working on Linux (Debian 7.4, Ubuntu 13.10, Opensuse 13.1) I am asking this, since I have some packages that install several Frutiger fonts [if I remember correctly] during their standard install process. I do not use Mac, so if anyone has seem this on Windows, or Linux, then I will have to look into this. To be honest, I tend to remove unneeded fonts, like Frutiger, since I have too many specialty fonts to keep in my font folders for specialty work. Since I currently do not use that font, I removed it. I can't, cause I need it for my work... I stated I have the early 2000's era fonts. I do not remember if you are using newer ones or not. I just wonder if there are any differences in the old versions of the font set, vs. the newer versions. Mine is Version 6.4 from 2002... Yes, there are people who require specific fonts for projects. I had to get an Adobe font library one year, from the people who required these fonts. I still have it, since they did not ask for them back. I really hope this issues get resolved properly for you. If it displays off but prints correct, then sometimes it may work for people. But if the fonts print out off then that is really bad. In my case I need the correct display. Your version is a little newer than mine, it seems. I have had some problems with quality issues between different versions of some other fonts, that are in my font library folders. Beside Frutiger I have only those fonts, which are installed as default by Debian, Ubuntu... I use only XP, Win7, and Ubuntu 12.04LTS/MATE, at this time. Ubuntu is my desktop, with the others for laptops and other secondary systems. By the way, what desktop environments do you use? I do not like Unity, so I use MATE to have the 10.04 feel on Ubuntu 12.04 and newer. Sometimes, I have heard form others, that some desktops may display the same document or package's editing window differently. I have not seen it with 10.04/GNOME and 11.xx, 12.04, and 13.xx with MATE desktop environment. But a few people I have email conversations with, a while ago, did tell me their desktop environment issues. Of course, that was in the early late 3.x and early 4.0.x time frame. I'm using Debian 7.4 for work on Desktop (and OpenSuse 13.1 as second Linux) and Ubuntu 13.1 on my Laptop. For my every days work I'm on Gnome (Debian), Unity (Ubuntu) and sometimes KDE (OpenSuse or Debian) Everywhere the same issue with Frutiger font... and only in Libreoffice. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: read-only problem
sberg wrote On 02/19/2014 06:04 PM, edo1 wrote: I saved a small (14 page) styled part of a large project as read-only What exactly do you mean with save as read-only? Stephan In windows: After the file is saved to some folder, go to that folder and right-click (if you're right-handed) on the file name; choose Properties and check off read only on the popup panel. SOP Sorry this reply is late . Yesterday's message seems to have gotten lost in the void . edo1 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/read-only-problem-tp4097968p4098248.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: read-only problem
Mark Bourne wrote edo1 wrote: I saved a small (14 page) styled part of a large project as read-only to protect against accidents while I did something else. How did you do this? e.g.: - saved the file, then from Windows Explorer set the read only attribute? - set File Properties Security Open file as read-only in LibreOffice before saving the file? - or something else? Later wanting to check a style, I unchecked read-only and reopened the file. As far as I'm aware, this should have worked - assuming you removed the same option as you originally set. But again, what exactly did you do? Yet it still opens as read-only and styles and formatting is grayed out. Does anyone know how this can happen and how I can prevent it? Usually, editing is disabled if the file is read-only when it's opened; if the read-only attribute is changed while the file is open, it does not affect the editing options available. But you say you reopened the file after unchecking the read-only option, so I wouldn't expect that to be a problem. About the 5th icon in on the toolbar is one which looks like a pencil and paper, and hovering over it shows a tooltip Edit File. You could try clicking that, and then see if you can edit the file. This just allows or prohibits editing the document on-screen; it doesn't change the read-only attribute on the file, so you still might not be able to save the file with the same name if that attribute is still set for some reason. our right. I was using the Windows Properties panel, I'd forgotten about the panel in LO itself. Problem solved, thanks - edo1 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/read-only-problem-tp4097968p4098250.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Open plain text with double-spacing
On 20/02/2014, nicolai.ros...@gmail.com nicolai.ros...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly. As I said in my last message, I feed plain text into a LaTeX compiler. I want to edit LaTeX files in an environment with both (i) double-spaced lines, and (ii) serif fonts. No text editor I'm aware of can do both. LibreOffice Writer can. You should be able to achieve this by configuration of default settings in lyx, which in case you are unaware can compile latex also. It's just awful to write prose in single-spaced lines and monospaced fonts. Writer is way more readable. If you really prefer a text-editor, jedit offers nice ways to make text look nice, including choice of background colour. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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: Calc - sort in to columns
Just tried something that *may* work for you: pivot tables. On your sample spreadsheet, I did the following: * Select all the data, header row included. * Select Data | Pivot Table | Create. * With Current selection selected, click OK. * Drag member type and email to Row Fields. * Click OK. A new sheet is created with the pivot table, which has the data sorted by member type, with all the email addresses listed per type. Note that if data is added, it won't automatically show up in the pivot table. You can right-click in the pivot table and select Edit Layout, then click More and change the Selection from value to include the new rows of data. If you set the last row to be beyond the end of the current data, you will get a new member type in the pivot table called (empty), but any data now added in empty rows that are still within the pivot table selection will show up if you right-click on the pivot table and select Refresh. This isn't really what pivot tables are for, and may not suit your needs, but given what you've described of your needs, this may be a sufficient workaround. You haven't really given us a proper explanation of what you are trying to do, so it's hard to guess what might suit your needs best, but it does sound like a database would be the best solution here, or perhaps user defined functions (i.e. coded macros) in Calc. Short of that, I think that you'll probably need to manually maintain a list of email addresses per member type, either in a separate file, or still manually in your columns as per the example file. Even using a pivot table, you'll have to either adjust the selection when data is added, or make the selection bigger than the data and just refresh when data is added, and hope the data doesn't go beyond the end of the selection, in which case you'll still need to adjust the selection. Maybe if you give us more details we can come up with better suggestions. Hope this helped. Paul On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 01:17:47 -0800 (PST) IGraham gra...@lovatt.co.uk wrote: Hello and thanks to Alan Brian (who replied private) Yes my choice of words to describe the problem wasn't great, 'sort' was the first thing I tried so was probably the first to swim up from the murk. The mock sheet shows a problem from a larger sheet saved as a .xls, stored within Dropbox and accessed and added to by other people - all of whom have limited spreadsheet knowledge. Anything I add to the sheet has to add minimum chance of giving a user the possibility of screwing things up. Which was why I was keen to present the member type emails in separate columns to just be used. So the first thing I tried was 'Auto filter', that worked but the user still had to select the relevant from up to 60 rows (not a big problem I suppose). However if a user sorted the sheet and subsequently saved the sheet then the next user would be presented with a sheet they hadn't seen before, do a bit of a panic and possibly try to add data in the wrong place. I understand filters, they 'might' but best not to wear rose tinted glasses. I also tried 'If' statements. Consternation (include a 'index column + member type = unique) and VLOOKUP. Neither of which gave good result. I was trying to set something up that wouldn't mean extra and ongoing work for me, but maybe just maintaining a simple text file is a way to go. Possibly this whole 'member details' sheet would now be better served by a database. But I'm not great at database stuff and I don't know what my users would make of it. If you have any other solutions/thoughts I'd be grateful (theres shed loads of spreadsheet stuff (I know) I don't know) - IGraham W764 LibreOffice 4.2.0.4 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Calc-sort-in-to-columns-tp4098035p4098086.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Spellcheck/ Grammar highlighting
When I run Spell/Grammar check, LibreOffice nicely underlines the incorrect items. However, I find it very difficult to *see* the underlineings. Is there a way to highlight the incorrect items with a background color? That would be *so* much easier to see! Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Spellcheck-Grammar-highlighting-tp4098234.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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] Gray boxes on copy paste from browser
Windows 7 - latest release. Writer - several different releases over last 6-8 months which was when I installed libre office on a new comp. Background info: I'm a moderator for a writers workshop forum and we turn our lessons into a PDF at the end of a workshop. When I copy/paste from chrome into writer I end up with small gray boxes (one space height/width) scattered through my document. To get rid of them I must either delete each one or paste to textpad and then back which of course loses all formatting. I've also tried firefox and copy/pasting from other forums/pages. I've even opened an emailed doc where the sender copied from a browser and the boxes still show up. Libre must be converting some formatting marks but I have no idea which ones or how to fix. The spaces show up on paragraph starts, and also inside paragraphs. Most often where formatting of italics/bolds/dates/links start but not always. I hope someone can help as I'm stumped and will have to return to open office as this is a time sink. :( -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Gray-boxes-on-copy-paste-from-browser-tp4098209.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
