Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Marion & Noel Lodge]

I hesitated to reply to this thread because I don't use LO's native Base,
HSQL, but rather, for the last 3 years, I have been using H2SQL, which is
proving much more robust that HSQL.  But I guess that Base is designed to
be the front end for all the major databases, so here is my contribution.

My usage is -
  Writer 2%
  Calc   1%   For importing data into databases
  Impress  1%
  Base 96%
  Draw   0%

I have used Base to create 6 different databases -
   - 3 are Membership/Contact systems for -
- Good News Radio
- U3A (University of the Third Age - for the over 50's)
- A Church Roll
   - An accounting system for not for profit organisations. (Also used for
our private accounts)
   - A shopping List (featuring aisle numbers -  6.5 = half way down aisle
6)
   - An automated Sunday morning duties Roster for church

So I guess I have specialised in fairly narrow part of LO.  Happy to share
details of any of the above if anyone is interested.

Noel
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On 14 May 2014 04:29, Dan Lewis  wrote:

> On 05/13/2014 11:25 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
>
>>
>> On 05/13/2014 10:16 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I think it is helping because it helps us understand what kind of level
>>> of expertise we can expect from certain posters.  So when i try to answer
>>> questions about Calc, or Base there are clearly limits on how much i
>>> understand or have stumbled through myself.
>>>
>>
>> That was part of my thought process in asking the question. In the past,
>> for example, we have discussed the relative merits of paragraph styles.
>> Some of us love them; some of us hate them. My (totally unscientific) guess
>> is that styles lovers will tend to be primarily Writer users and styles
>> haters will tend to be primarily Calc users (or Base, but it seems that
>> *nobody* primarily uses Base).
>>
>  Actually, no one has yet to respond that primarily uses Base. You
> would probably say that I don't either considering the amount of time that
> I use Writer. Yet, my primary use of LibreOffice is writing what should
> become the future Base Guide. I am also experimenting with Base to see all
> of the things that it can do.
>  Then there are the personal uses I have for Base. The purpose of a
> database is to store data and then access or manipulate the date to obtain
> information that is needed. Just  some of the databases that I use includes
> Bible study, schedules, grocery lists, medical tests, financial (income and
> expenses), calories consumed (amount by food type, record of the over a
> period of time), and utility consumption including statistics about it. the
> queries in these databases can reveal quite a bit of information.
>
> --Dan
>
>
>
>  If I know that a user is a 95% Calc user, then it will do me little good
>> to try to convince them to set up a bunch of Writer paragraph styles. They
>> don't have time for that, just like I don't have time to learn the power
>> moves of Calc--I just don't use it enough to justify that type of
>> investment.
>>
>> So, as we discuss various topics, it will helpful (at least for me) to
>> know that awe for the power of Writer may not be shared by one who
>> emphasizes Calc.
>>
>> It also underscores for me the immensity of our office suite. To make it
>> do wonderful things, we must learn it, but it's like trying to comprehend
>> the universe. I doubt that any single human being truly understands it,
>> which is why a list like this is so helpful (aspergers, OCD and all).
>>
>> Virgil
>>
>>
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[libreoffice-users] Dutch spellchecking

[Rogier F. van Vlissingen]

I used to have a Dutch spell checker in OO, but I cannot seem to find one
anywhwere any more. What gives? Does anybody have an idea?




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RE: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[V Stuart Foote]

Top posting to Tom C.,

While there are some great people and many opinions here on the user forum, 
many facets of the collaborative development process and project management  go 
under appreciated.

As it is, the UX and Design teams are always in need of valid requirements 
analysis, and the Marketing team really should be doing more general user 
polling.

Suspect that efforts on those fronts would be well received--if you have a 
hankering to contribute ;-)

Regards,

Stuart
San Antonio, Texas
 


From: Tom Cloyd 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 9:50 AM
To: Virgil Arrington; users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

You mean I'm the only deadly serious one here? Ah...alone at last! :)

t.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Tom Cloyd]

You mean I'm the only deadly serious one here? Ah...alone at last! :)

t.

On 05/13/2014 07:41 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
Yes, Tom D., this was just for fun, and given the response from so 
many people, I think most have taken it in the way I intended.


Virgil

On 05/13/2014 07:48 AM, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
It's just a "just for fun" survey of what people think they use.

The modules can't be split up and removing any wouldn't reduce the
code=base by much at all so the usual sinister hidden-agendas behind 
this

sort of question are entirely absent.  It's just for fun.

For a lot of us this sort of thing is very difficult because answering
would require us have really measured usage and give accurate answers
rather than guesses.  It's the type of question that neurotypicals and
mainstream-press articles seem to enjoy but that are ultimately fairly
pointless.  It's just for fun and it's interesting to see people's
estimates of what they do and to see how they handle giving answers 
to this

sort of thing.
http://musingsofanaspie.com/2013/01/10/what-is-neurotypical/

If we wanted a formal vote then there are various tools such as "Survey
Monkey", or we could set-up something in LinuxQuestions.Org" or "Ask 
LO" or

somewhere.
Regards from
Tom :)


On 13 May 2014 06:06, Tom Cloyd  wrote:


On 05/11/2014 03:53 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:


I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by the
people on this list. I think it helps to know different folks' area of
experience. It might also help us in learning new ways to integrate
the different components. For myself, my approximate usage is:

Writer (85% of my use of LO)
Calc(10%)
Impress  (3%, Maybe four to five presentations a year)
Base   (once a year to print out labels for my Christmas cards)
Draw  (What's that?)

Virgil



  Virgil,
I have a considerable background in inferential statistics, and have 
done

formal survey research, in a variety of social and cultural contexts. I
want to warn you that this sort of self-select, opt-in survey is NOT 
the

way to go, if your question is serious.

You ARE only going to get a subset (sample) of your population of
interest, and you'll have no way to relate that subset to the 
population,

thus no way to draw any valid conclusions from the subset. It's
pseudo-research, which creates the impression of creating knowledge 
without

actually doing so.

Just something for you, and others, to think about.

Hope it's helpful.

Tom

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
It is a classic neurotypical thing that many in IT find really tough to
cope with.  So i can both see why some people are having trouble with it
and why others find it fun.

The "getting acquainted with people in a group" is an excellent summary of
it.  It's fun for some and difficult for others.  [shrugs]  No-one has to
join in and not joining in doesn't exclude you from the
group/team/whatever.

I agree with Tom C that we can't use these stats as meaningful, unbiased
research! ;)
Regards from
Tom :)




On 13 May 2014 16:05, Felmon Davis  wrote:

> On Tue, 13 May 2014, Tom Cloyd wrote:
>
>  [...]
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't think Virgil is doing this "for fun". I don't think the
>> respondents think their responses are meaningless. Seriously now: who in
>> their right mind is interested in the practices of those who bother to
>> respond to this would-be survey? What possible importance can be attached,
>> at all, to their responses? I don't get it. If there isn't some degree of
>> belief that this matters (which is cannot, as I've previously explained),
>> what's the point?
>>
>
> it's called 'getting acquainted with people in a group'. people do this at
> parties too.
>
> hard to see what's objectionable about it unless one doesn't like parties.
> (I don't mean political parties.)
>
> F.
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Re: [libreoffice-users] ss not expanding excel csv sheet to multiple columns

[John R. Sowden]

On 05/13/2014 12:10 PM, Cley Faye wrote:

2014-05-13 20:32 GMT+02:00 John R. Sowden :


I have a vendor who allows me to download a spreadsheet of my monthly
invoice.  If she downloads it to herself, in the CSV format, she gets 1
field per column in Excel.  If I download the sheet in the CSV format, I
get all of the fields in 1 column.  See headings below from libreoffice.

Hardware Identifier","Device Type","Price","Initial Service Start
Date","Station Account","Customer First Name","Customer Last Name



​When​ you open a CSV file, a dialog appear asking you for many options.

 From the look of your post, you have to choose "Separated by", "Comma", and
set Text delimiter to double quote ("). You can try this, but to be sure
having the actual csv file, even with only the first lines, would be useful
(unless it contains sensitive data of course).


When I downloaded it, I was presented with the 'open with lo' or 'save file'

when I chose to open it with lo, all of the fields went into one column.

When I saved it, and then opened it using lo, I got the dialog you 
referred to.  A couple of clicks are, there we are!


thank you,

John


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about fonts and forms in Writer

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Has this issue been solved?  Sorry i didn't know enough to help with this!
Was the documentation useful?
Regards from
Tom :)





On 12 May 2014 01:53, Tom Williams  wrote:

>  On 05/11/2014 11:40 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
>
> Hi :)
> Can you right-click on the boxes or select them all and set their
> properties?
>
>
> Yes, I can and that's how I set two of the text boxes to align the entered
> text at the top, instead of the middle.  I'll try my PDF form in Adobe
> Reader now and will see how it behaves.
>
>
>
>  Err, when you say converting a Word document into a form - for most
> things it is often better to start off with a fresh document in ODF format
> when you find yourself struggling with odd weirdnesses.   Documents that
> were previously in some other format, particularly MS formats (especially
> the various versions of DocX or Rtf), often have tons of hidden coding
> stuffing things up.  A fresh start often helps.  ODF is the better format
> for stability between different versions of software.
>
>
> Thanks for mentioning this.  I'll keep this in mind.  :)
>
>
>  How about Chapter 15 in this guide?
>
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Writer_Guide
>  I haven't read it so i don't know if it covers setting properties for
> the boxes
>
>
> Great! Thanks!  I'll check it out!
>
> Peace...
>
> "The other" Tom :)
>
>
>  Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11 May 2014 17:59, Tom Williams  wrote:
>
>> Hi!  I'm converting a Word document into a form that will eventually be
>> a PDF form that can be filled in using Adobe Reader.   I'm doing this in
>> LibreOffice Writer 4.2.3.3 on Ubuntu Linux 14.04.
>>
>> My first pass worked splendidly well and everything worked fine except
>> for two issues:
>>
>>  1. I can't seem to control the font used in the form controls, namely
>> the text boxes
>>  2. I can't get the text boxes to align text at the top (despite my
>> setting the form control to align text at the top)
>>
>> Does anyone reading this list have much experience with creating forms
>> in Writer?   With regard to issue #2, when I enter text into a text box,
>> it's vertically centered vs being aligned along the top of the text
>> box.  This is when I view the generated PDF file in Ubuntu's PDF
>> document viewer, the text I typed wasn't aligned at the top of the text
>> box.  I'm not sure if this is an Ubuntu document view issue or an issue
>> with the generated PDF file.  I'll test in Adobe Reader later.
>>
>> With regard to issue #1, is there any way to control the font used for
>> the text boxes in a form?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your time and assistance!
>>
>> Peace...
>>
>> Tom
>>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Yes, i was one of the respondants.  If i had thought it serious or "leading
somewhere" in anyway at all then i would have carefully avoided
responding.  At a guess i'm not the only respondant thinking that way.

I think a few answers, such as Tom C's, are interesting because it kinda
shows what we were talking about in another recent thread.  Even people who
don't have aspergers often exhibit signs of it often due to their expertise
in a particular area.  Also if there seem to be rules some of us feel
compelled to rebel (such as Gavin's response being in order but not giving
percentages) or do so accidentally.

I think it is helping because it helps us understand what kind of level of
expertise we can expect from certain posters.  So when i try to answer
questions about Calc, or Base there are clearly limits on how much i
understand or have stumbled through myself.  it's part of why i try to
stick to "waggle the wires" and generic answers rather than diving into
specifics and why i drop questions once they start getting expert answers
(or at least better ones than i am likely to be able to help with).
Regards from
Tom :)





On 13 May 2014 14:41, Virgil Arrington  wrote:

> Yes, Tom D., this was just for fun, and given the response from so many
> people, I think most have taken it in the way I intended.
>
> Virgil
>
>
> On 05/13/2014 07:48 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
>
>> Hi :)
>> It's just a "just for fun" survey of what people think they use.
>>
>> The modules can't be split up and removing any wouldn't reduce the
>> code=base by much at all so the usual sinister hidden-agendas behind this
>> sort of question are entirely absent.  It's just for fun.
>>
>> For a lot of us this sort of thing is very difficult because answering
>> would require us have really measured usage and give accurate answers
>> rather than guesses.  It's the type of question that neurotypicals and
>> mainstream-press articles seem to enjoy but that are ultimately fairly
>> pointless.  It's just for fun and it's interesting to see people's
>> estimates of what they do and to see how they handle giving answers to
>> this
>> sort of thing.
>> http://musingsofanaspie.com/2013/01/10/what-is-neurotypical/
>>
>> If we wanted a formal vote then there are various tools such as "Survey
>> Monkey", or we could set-up something in LinuxQuestions.Org" or "Ask LO"
>> or
>> somewhere.
>> Regards from
>> Tom :)
>>
>>
>> On 13 May 2014 06:06, Tom Cloyd  wrote:
>>
>>  On 05/11/2014 03:53 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
>>>
>>>  I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by the
 people on this list. I think it helps to know different folks' area of
 experience. It might also help us in learning new ways to integrate
 the different components. For myself, my approximate usage is:

 Writer (85% of my use of LO)
 Calc(10%)
 Impress  (3%, Maybe four to five presentations a year)
 Base   (once a year to print out labels for my Christmas cards)
 Draw  (What's that?)

 Virgil



   Virgil,

>>> I have a considerable background in inferential statistics, and have done
>>> formal survey research, in a variety of social and cultural contexts. I
>>> want to warn you that this sort of self-select, opt-in survey is NOT the
>>> way to go, if your question is serious.
>>>
>>> You ARE only going to get a subset (sample) of your population of
>>> interest, and you'll have no way to relate that subset to the population,
>>> thus no way to draw any valid conclusions from the subset. It's
>>> pseudo-research, which creates the impression of creating knowledge
>>> without
>>> actually doing so.
>>>
>>> Just something for you, and others, to think about.
>>>
>>> Hope it's helpful.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>> ~~~
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>>> Cedar City / St. George, UT, U.S.A: (435) 272-3332
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>>> * Founder: Google+ Trauma and Dissociation Education and Advocacy
>>> community
>>> 
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Heinrich Stoellinger]

Hello,

I use Base EVERY DAY! I mentioned before that I manage a wind band and this
means storing info about pieces of music, players, arrangers, business contacts,
uniforms, attendance at practices and performances (for statistical and money
reasons), supporting members, musical programmes and many more things.
For zillions of reasons (such as only storing pieces of information once and
ONLY once as against scattering info (such as names, addresses, telephone 
numbers
or e-mail addresses) across dozens of spreadsheets), databases are the logical
way to go. Base is one of the indispensable links between the pieces of the 
puzzle.

So - I use Writer, Calc and Base in an integrated way every day and couldn't
imagine leaving out ANY of the pieces of the puzzle.
Regards
H. S.
On Tue, 13 May 2014 21:13:33 +0200, Virgil Arrington  
wrote:



On 05/13/2014 02:29 PM, Dan Lewis wrote:

Actually, no one has yet to respond that primarily uses Base. You
would probably say that I don't either considering the amount of time
that I use Writer. Yet, my primary use of LibreOffice is writing what
should become the future Base Guide. I am also experimenting with Base
to see all of the things that it can do.
 Then there are the personal uses I have for Base. The purpose of
a database is to store data and then access or manipulate the date to
obtain information that is needed. Just  some of the databases that I
use includes Bible study, schedules, grocery lists, medical tests,
financial (income and expenses), calories consumed (amount by food
type, record of the over a period of time), and utility consumption
including statistics about it. the queries in these databases can
reveal quite a bit of information.



Dan,

Thanks for the ideas about Base. I've used it for arranging and printing
mailing lists, but I haven't gone beyond that. I can only imagine what
I'm missing by doing something manually that might be better done with
Base. I'm intrigued in how you use it for Bible study. My Sunday school
notes are typically a mass of disconnected thoughts written in Writer.
If Base can help organize this, I'd love to learn it.

I look forward to your Base Guide

Virgil




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

["J. Van Brimmer"]

Here's mine:

 %   TimeImportance
Writer  95  95  Homework &
research projects
Calc5   5 banking
Impress  0  0N/A
Base   0  0   N/A
Draw   0  0   N/A


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Walther Koehler  wrote:

> Hallo,
> what is percentage indicating: time or importance? I use the writer among
> other reasons because I know i have a calc, a date base, a presentation and
> even a drawing program at hand without learning the basics again (where sit
> the files an my PC, how are printers linked in,...) i.e. a complete suite
>
> %   TimeImportance
> Writer  95  50  medical reports
> Calc15  15  banking, business
> statitics,
> Impress 3/a 15  lectures
> Base5   15  controlling,
> taxes, ...
> Draw0   5   signs
>
> Walther
>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Virgil Arrington]

On 05/13/2014 02:29 PM, Dan Lewis wrote:
Actually, no one has yet to respond that primarily uses Base. You 
would probably say that I don't either considering the amount of time 
that I use Writer. Yet, my primary use of LibreOffice is writing what 
should become the future Base Guide. I am also experimenting with Base 
to see all of the things that it can do.
 Then there are the personal uses I have for Base. The purpose of 
a database is to store data and then access or manipulate the date to 
obtain information that is needed. Just  some of the databases that I 
use includes Bible study, schedules, grocery lists, medical tests, 
financial (income and expenses), calories consumed (amount by food 
type, record of the over a period of time), and utility consumption 
including statistics about it. the queries in these databases can 
reveal quite a bit of information.




Dan,

Thanks for the ideas about Base. I've used it for arranging and printing 
mailing lists, but I haven't gone beyond that. I can only imagine what 
I'm missing by doing something manually that might be better done with 
Base. I'm intrigued in how you use it for Bible study. My Sunday school 
notes are typically a mass of disconnected thoughts written in Writer. 
If Base can help organize this, I'd love to learn it.


I look forward to your Base Guide

Virgil

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Re: [libreoffice-users] ss not expanding excel csv sheet to multiple columns

[Cley Faye]

2014-05-13 20:32 GMT+02:00 John R. Sowden :

> I have a vendor who allows me to download a spreadsheet of my monthly
> invoice.  If she downloads it to herself, in the CSV format, she gets 1
> field per column in Excel.  If I download the sheet in the CSV format, I
> get all of the fields in 1 column.  See headings below from libreoffice.
>
> Hardware Identifier","Device Type","Price","Initial Service Start
> Date","Station Account","Customer First Name","Customer Last Name
>

​When​ you open a CSV file, a dialog appear asking you for many options.

From the look of your post, you have to choose "Separated by", "Comma", and
set Text delimiter to double quote ("). You can try this, but to be sure
having the actual csv file, even with only the first lines, would be useful
(unless it contains sensitive data of course).

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[libreoffice-users] ss not expanding excel csv sheet to multiple columns

[John R. Sowden]

I have a vendor who allows me to download a spreadsheet of my monthly 
invoice.  If she downloads it to herself, in the CSV format, she gets 1 
field per column in Excel.  If I download the sheet in the CSV format, I 
get all of the fields in 1 column.  See headings below from libreoffice.


Hardware Identifier","Device Type","Price","Initial Service Start 
Date","Station Account","Customer First Name","Customer Last Name


I tried to save it in one of the excel formats, no change.

Thoughts?

John

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Dan Lewis]

On 05/13/2014 11:25 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:


On 05/13/2014 10:16 AM, Tom Davies wrote:


I think it is helping because it helps us understand what kind of 
level of expertise we can expect from certain posters.  So when i try 
to answer questions about Calc, or Base there are clearly limits on 
how much i understand or have stumbled through myself.


That was part of my thought process in asking the question. In the 
past, for example, we have discussed the relative merits of paragraph 
styles. Some of us love them; some of us hate them. My (totally 
unscientific) guess is that styles lovers will tend to be primarily 
Writer users and styles haters will tend to be primarily Calc users 
(or Base, but it seems that *nobody* primarily uses Base).
 Actually, no one has yet to respond that primarily uses Base. You 
would probably say that I don't either considering the amount of time 
that I use Writer. Yet, my primary use of LibreOffice is writing what 
should become the future Base Guide. I am also experimenting with Base 
to see all of the things that it can do.
 Then there are the personal uses I have for Base. The purpose of a 
database is to store data and then access or manipulate the date to 
obtain information that is needed. Just  some of the databases that I 
use includes Bible study, schedules, grocery lists, medical tests, 
financial (income and expenses), calories consumed (amount by food type, 
record of the over a period of time), and utility consumption including 
statistics about it. the queries in these databases can reveal quite a 
bit of information.


--Dan


If I know that a user is a 95% Calc user, then it will do me little 
good to try to convince them to set up a bunch of Writer paragraph 
styles. They don't have time for that, just like I don't have time to 
learn the power moves of Calc--I just don't use it enough to justify 
that type of investment.


So, as we discuss various topics, it will helpful (at least for me) to 
know that awe for the power of Writer may not be shared by one who 
emphasizes Calc.


It also underscores for me the immensity of our office suite. To make 
it do wonderful things, we must learn it, but it's like trying to 
comprehend the universe. I doubt that any single human being truly 
understands it, which is why a list like this is so helpful 
(aspergers, OCD and all).


Virgil




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[libreoffice-users] OT: Social competence and technical competence (Re: Installing windows explorer extension only)

[Wolfgang Keller]

> The ones where Urmas does help are often highly technical.  That
> raises the question of whether Urmas is a dev and just socially
> clumsy as so many are. Apparently Microsoft have recognised that many
> engineers and devs have "high functioning" aspergers syndrome or,
> even further along the spectrum, autism and that where both parents
> have such conditions their children are much more likely to have the
> condition(s).  So apparently MS health insurance covers the cost of
> their employees getting their children tested for just those sorts of
> condition(s).  Mainstream society seems to consider such conditions
> as "disabilities" but it seems that in some cases they can actually
> be a benefit, as long as you can accept the social awkwardness and
> social clumsiness that "comes with the turf".  Going out into the
> wider IT community many of us probably have OCD traits and other
> conditions but often at such low levels that we might not notice it.
> Again a lot of this might help with the work we do but probably
> doesn't help us be sociably adept.  So i think we have to accept
> interesting oddities in the way we and the people around us behave in
> order to benefit from the thing we/they are good at.



You want to bitch about "social skills" of engineers?

I definitely don't want to and won't bitch about the "social skills",
much less the "technical skills" of braindead slimy weasels who don't
have a clue of elementary analytical-deductive logics and don't care to
get one, but still arrogate to "judge" as well as perpetrate their
pervert sadistic narcissistic imperiousness over those who happen to
have a higher IQ than a gully cover. Because anything I could say about
those apparent hominid lifeforms, no matter what words I use, would just
be a recklessly embellishing, dangerously softening euphemism. 

FYI: *High intelligence* together with *honesty*, *sincerity*,
*authenticity* and *frank speech* aren't "disabilities" on the
*senders'* side. Anyone who's so cognitively challenged and pampered in
their psychotic self-delusion that they can't and don't want to take
facts the way they are better learn the "social skills" to deal with
physical reality and stop "shooting the messenger", i.e. those who
already have them. Because we others are pretty well fed up with
wasting our precious lifetime and brain bandwidth shielding you useless
heaps of biomass from the Darwin effect.



>;->

Very sincerely,

Wolfgang

who keeps feeling like Nunez in the Country of the Blind when
"socially" interacting with the very vast majority of conspecifics

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Virgil Arrington]

On 05/13/2014 10:16 AM, Tom Davies wrote:


I think it is helping because it helps us understand what kind of 
level of expertise we can expect from certain posters.  So when i try 
to answer questions about Calc, or Base there are clearly limits on 
how much i understand or have stumbled through myself.


That was part of my thought process in asking the question. In the past, 
for example, we have discussed the relative merits of paragraph styles. 
Some of us love them; some of us hate them. My (totally unscientific) 
guess is that styles lovers will tend to be primarily Writer users and 
styles haters will tend to be primarily Calc users (or Base, but it 
seems that *nobody* primarily uses Base).


If I know that a user is a 95% Calc user, then it will do me little good 
to try to convince them to set up a bunch of Writer paragraph styles. 
They don't have time for that, just like I don't have time to learn the 
power moves of Calc--I just don't use it enough to justify that type of 
investment.


So, as we discuss various topics, it will helpful (at least for me) to 
know that awe for the power of Writer may not be shared by one who 
emphasizes Calc.


It also underscores for me the immensity of our office suite. To make it 
do wonderful things, we must learn it, but it's like trying to 
comprehend the universe. I doubt that any single human being truly 
understands it, which is why a list like this is so helpful (aspergers, 
OCD and all).


Virgil

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Felmon Davis]

On Tue, 13 May 2014, Tom Cloyd wrote:


[...]


I don't think Virgil is doing this "for fun". I don't think the 
respondents think their responses are meaningless. Seriously now: who in 
their right mind is interested in the practices of those who bother to 
respond to this would-be survey? What possible importance can be 
attached, at all, to their responses? I don't get it. If there isn't 
some degree of belief that this matters (which is cannot, as I've 
previously explained), what's the point?


it's called 'getting acquainted with people in a group'. people do 
this at parties too.


hard to see what's objectionable about it unless one doesn't like 
parties. (I don't mean political parties.)


F.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Actually a mainstream press article might lead with a heading such as
"Which module is best" and then make dumb remarks such as "Writer doesn't
handle pivot tables quite so well as Calc so therefore Calc is the best".
 Such an article would carefully avoid pointing out that each module is the
best for a specific set of purposes.

We see many articles weighing up "which is best" distro or "which is best"
OpenOffice or LibreOffice (or google-docs or Abiword&Gnumeric, AndrOffice).
 The aim usually seems to be to suggest that it is possible to make a wrong
choice that becomes irrevocable.

Virgil neatly dodged that sort of idiocy.

Making these tools seem fragmented rather than all part of the same
eco-system and able to fully co-operate with each other plays into the
hands of proprietary giants that dominate markets and squish all
opposition.  Having a more open market means people can choose tools that
suit a specific set of circumstances and still work with others who may
have made different choices.

Regards from
Tom :)





On 13 May 2014 12:48, Tom Davies  wrote:

> Hi :)
> It's just a "just for fun" survey of what people think they use.
>
> The modules can't be split up and removing any wouldn't reduce the
> code=base by much at all so the usual sinister hidden-agendas behind this
> sort of question are entirely absent.  It's just for fun.
>
> For a lot of us this sort of thing is very difficult because answering
> would require us have really measured usage and give accurate answers
> rather than guesses.  It's the type of question that neurotypicals and
> mainstream-press articles seem to enjoy but that are ultimately fairly
> pointless.  It's just for fun and it's interesting to see people's
> estimates of what they do and to see how they handle giving answers to this
> sort of thing.
> http://musingsofanaspie.com/2013/01/10/what-is-neurotypical/
>
> If we wanted a formal vote then there are various tools such as "Survey
> Monkey", or we could set-up something in LinuxQuestions.Org" or "Ask LO" or
> somewhere.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> On 13 May 2014 06:06, Tom Cloyd  wrote:
>
>> On 05/11/2014 03:53 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
>>
>>> I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by the
>>> people on this list. I think it helps to know different folks' area of
>>> experience. It might also help us in learning new ways to integrate
>>> the different components. For myself, my approximate usage is:
>>>
>>> Writer (85% of my use of LO)
>>> Calc(10%)
>>> Impress  (3%, Maybe four to five presentations a year)
>>> Base   (once a year to print out labels for my Christmas cards)
>>> Draw  (What's that?)
>>>
>>> Virgil
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Virgil,
>>
>> I have a considerable background in inferential statistics, and have done
>> formal survey research, in a variety of social and cultural contexts. I
>> want to warn you that this sort of self-select, opt-in survey is NOT the
>> way to go, if your question is serious.
>>
>> You ARE only going to get a subset (sample) of your population of
>> interest, and you'll have no way to relate that subset to the population,
>> thus no way to draw any valid conclusions from the subset. It's
>> pseudo-research, which creates the impression of creating knowledge without
>> actually doing so.
>>
>> Just something for you, and others, to think about.
>>
>> Hope it's helpful.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 
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Re: [libreoffice-users] [SOLVED] print table without internal borders

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

Thank you!!!
That helped and I was finally able to get it right.
(I did not sent a file attachment, since to the best of my knowledge, 
that is "prohibited" by the netiquette / and attachments are stripped 
automatically; maybe next time)


Thomas

(2014/05/13 14:24), Dave Barton wrote:

Thomas wrote:


(2014/05/12 20:19), Brian Barker wrote:

At 19:45 12/05/2014 +0900, you wrote:

I'm not sure what you can mean by "etc.": what else did you do, then?

... but so far no setting has changed how the table looks in the 
"print preview".


If you turn off the lines for a table, you should see the result in 
Print Preview.



I just cannot figure it out.


A few suggestions:

o If you select a cell range before you turn off table boundaries, 
your action will affect only those cells: other cells will retain 
their borders. Is that what you did?


o Do you have a single table or are there actually a number of 
adjacent tables? (If you inherited this document, you may not know 
how it was constructed.) If so, you'll need to adjust the borders on 
all of them.


o Do you have a table within another table?

o Do you really have not a table but a set of frames? Or frames 
within a table?


o Do you actually have a picture of a table, perhaps imported from 
another application?


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker - privately



Maybe I need to specify:
I myself created ONE table in a Writer document.
No images, no frames etc.
Started with 6 columns and about 30 rows.
Joined a few cells in the upper portion (to make more room for 
entries like "address" etc).

Below there are the 6 colums and 14 rows.
For THIS block - part of the ONE table - I would like to make the 
lines inside the table disappear (or at least NOT print)

and retain only the border that surrounds the whole table.

Yet, (so far) regardless of what cell/block of cells I select and 
what option pertaining to "borders", "lines" etc. I choose ...

NONE has ANY effect on the appearance of that table.
Is that not a little strange?


Hi Thomas,

What makes it "/strange/", or I should say difficult, is that we 
cannot see your document or know what options you are using.
I am attaching a sample document (which may be removed by the list 
server) in the form of a mini-tutorial. Please follow the steps in 
that document using a new document of your own and write back to the 
list (not directly to me) and let us know if this works for you or 
not. This will give us some idea if the problem is in your existing 
document, or in the options you have been using.


Regards
Dave - (Writing Publicly Brian)






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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Ruth Ann]

Useless or not :-)
Going by the number of files used,
Calc = 90%
Writer = 9%
Base = 1%

And yet, I consider that one base file the most important.

I also have a few files that I work with in Corel. When I have time, I 
will switch them over to Draw, but for now I have other things to do.
I have not used Impress or Math yet, but am sure I will find use for 
them one of these days.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Virgil Arrington]

Yes, Tom D., this was just for fun, and given the response from so many 
people, I think most have taken it in the way I intended.


Virgil

On 05/13/2014 07:48 AM, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
It's just a "just for fun" survey of what people think they use.

The modules can't be split up and removing any wouldn't reduce the
code=base by much at all so the usual sinister hidden-agendas behind this
sort of question are entirely absent.  It's just for fun.

For a lot of us this sort of thing is very difficult because answering
would require us have really measured usage and give accurate answers
rather than guesses.  It's the type of question that neurotypicals and
mainstream-press articles seem to enjoy but that are ultimately fairly
pointless.  It's just for fun and it's interesting to see people's
estimates of what they do and to see how they handle giving answers to this
sort of thing.
http://musingsofanaspie.com/2013/01/10/what-is-neurotypical/

If we wanted a formal vote then there are various tools such as "Survey
Monkey", or we could set-up something in LinuxQuestions.Org" or "Ask LO" or
somewhere.
Regards from
Tom :)


On 13 May 2014 06:06, Tom Cloyd  wrote:


On 05/11/2014 03:53 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:


I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by the
people on this list. I think it helps to know different folks' area of
experience. It might also help us in learning new ways to integrate
the different components. For myself, my approximate usage is:

Writer (85% of my use of LO)
Calc(10%)
Impress  (3%, Maybe four to five presentations a year)
Base   (once a year to print out labels for my Christmas cards)
Draw  (What's that?)

Virgil



  Virgil,

I have a considerable background in inferential statistics, and have done
formal survey research, in a variety of social and cultural contexts. I
want to warn you that this sort of self-select, opt-in survey is NOT the
way to go, if your question is serious.

You ARE only going to get a subset (sample) of your population of
interest, and you'll have no way to relate that subset to the population,
thus no way to draw any valid conclusions from the subset. It's
pseudo-research, which creates the impression of creating knowledge without
actually doing so.

Just something for you, and others, to think about.

Hope it's helpful.

Tom

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Tom Cloyd]

Tom,

Good morning.

I bothered to comment at all about this for a three reasons.

First, I have a long standing serious interest inductive logic - as you 
know, this is the logic upon which all scientific endeavor depends. Not 
a "fun" topic for me, but a vitally serious and important one.


Second, I see an enormous number of these "opt-in" surveys - commercial 
enterprises and websites are doing them all the time. People participate 
as if something meaningful is happening. But it isn't. One ends up with 
data that has no known or identifiable relationship to any population of 
interest. It's all a big ruse. It APPEARS as if someone is seriously 
ignorant about what they're doing. OR, these efforts are a disingenuous 
attempt merely to induce customer involvement in an activity that brings 
them into contact with "the brand".


Third, as a cultural anthropologist (my first serious intellectual 
commitment, before clinical psychology), I'm keenly aware that there is 
a base of cultural knowledge in all societies. In the 16th and 17th 
century, that knowledge included the fact that witches were real and 
that at times they constituted a genuine threat to society. In our own 
time, respect for expertise, science, and real knowledge is such that 
all major potential presidential candidates for one of our two political 
parties are busy either disavowing the reality of rapid climate change 
or that it has anything to do with human activity. Scientists be damned 
- full speed ahead. God wants profits, not sustainable economies!


That last one scares me half out of my mind. My species may not have 
what it takes to survive in the long run.


So, it appears that one of my principal roles in this world is to be an 
educator, whenever and where I can.


I don't think Virgil is doing this "for fun". I don't think the 
respondents think their responses are meaningless. Seriously now: who in 
their right mind is interested in the practices of those who bother to 
respond to this would-be survey? What possible importance can be 
attached, at all, to their responses? I don't get it. If there isn't 
some degree of belief that this matters (which is cannot, as I've 
previously explained), what's the point?


So, I am induced to think that they really DO belief that this has 
significance, and so I posted what I did.


That's what's behind my post, for what it's worth.

I could be completely cynical and just shake my head and move on. I 
choose not to.


About other matters, I'll respond, next, now that I'm up and half way 
through my first cup of coffee!


Tom

On 05/13/2014 05:48 AM, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
It's just a "just for fun" survey of what people think they use.

The modules can't be split up and removing any wouldn't reduce the 
code=base by much at all so the usual sinister hidden-agendas behind 
this sort of question are entirely absent.  It's just for fun.


For a lot of us this sort of thing is very difficult because answering 
would require us have really measured usage and give accurate answers 
rather than guesses.  It's the type of question that neurotypicals and 
mainstream-press articles seem to enjoy but that are ultimately fairly 
pointless.  It's just for fun and it's interesting to see people's 
estimates of what they do and to see how they handle giving answers to 
this sort of thing.

http://musingsofanaspie.com/2013/01/10/what-is-neurotypical/

If we wanted a formal vote then there are various tools such as 
"Survey Monkey", or we could set-up something in LinuxQuestions.Org" 
or "Ask LO" or somewhere.

Regards from
Tom :)


On 13 May 2014 06:06, Tom Cloyd > wrote:


On 05/11/2014 03:53 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:

I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by the
people on this list. I think it helps to know different folks'
area of
experience. It might also help us in learning new ways to
integrate
the different components. For myself, my approximate usage is:

Writer (85% of my use of LO)
Calc(10%)
Impress  (3%, Maybe four to five presentations a year)
Base   (once a year to print out labels for my Christmas
cards)
Draw  (What's that?)

Virgil



Virgil,

I have a considerable background in inferential statistics, and
have done formal survey research, in a variety of social and
cultural contexts. I want to warn you that this sort of
self-select, opt-in survey is NOT the way to go, if your question
is serious.

You ARE only going to get a subset (sample) of your population of
interest, and you'll have no way to relate that subset to the
population, thus no way to draw any valid conclusions from the
subset. It's pseudo-research, which creates the impression of
creating knowledge without actually doing so.

Just something for you, and others, to think about.

Hope i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
It's just a "just for fun" survey of what people think they use.

The modules can't be split up and removing any wouldn't reduce the
code=base by much at all so the usual sinister hidden-agendas behind this
sort of question are entirely absent.  It's just for fun.

For a lot of us this sort of thing is very difficult because answering
would require us have really measured usage and give accurate answers
rather than guesses.  It's the type of question that neurotypicals and
mainstream-press articles seem to enjoy but that are ultimately fairly
pointless.  It's just for fun and it's interesting to see people's
estimates of what they do and to see how they handle giving answers to this
sort of thing.
http://musingsofanaspie.com/2013/01/10/what-is-neurotypical/

If we wanted a formal vote then there are various tools such as "Survey
Monkey", or we could set-up something in LinuxQuestions.Org" or "Ask LO" or
somewhere.
Regards from
Tom :)


On 13 May 2014 06:06, Tom Cloyd  wrote:

> On 05/11/2014 03:53 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
>
>> I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by the
>> people on this list. I think it helps to know different folks' area of
>> experience. It might also help us in learning new ways to integrate
>> the different components. For myself, my approximate usage is:
>>
>> Writer (85% of my use of LO)
>> Calc(10%)
>> Impress  (3%, Maybe four to five presentations a year)
>> Base   (once a year to print out labels for my Christmas cards)
>> Draw  (What's that?)
>>
>> Virgil
>>
>>
>>
>>  Virgil,
>
> I have a considerable background in inferential statistics, and have done
> formal survey research, in a variety of social and cultural contexts. I
> want to warn you that this sort of self-select, opt-in survey is NOT the
> way to go, if your question is serious.
>
> You ARE only going to get a subset (sample) of your population of
> interest, and you'll have no way to relate that subset to the population,
> thus no way to draw any valid conclusions from the subset. It's
> pseudo-research, which creates the impression of creating knowledge without
> actually doing so.
>
> Just something for you, and others, to think about.
>
> Hope it's helpful.
>
> Tom
>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[J-M. Gibey]

Hello,

Writer: 80%
Calc: 15%
Impress: 5%
Base: 0%
Draw: 0%

J-Marc

-Message d'origine- 
From: Walther Koehler

Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 6:55 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

Hallo,
what is percentage indicating: time or importance? I use the writer among
other reasons because I know i have a calc, a date base, a presentation and
even a drawing program at hand without learning the basics again (where sit
the files an my PC, how are printers linked in,...) i.e. a complete suite

% Time Importance
Writer 95 50 medical reports
Calc 15 15 banking, business statitics,
Impress 3/a 15 lectures
Base 5 15 controlling, taxes, ...
Draw 0 5 signs

Walther



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Tom Cloyd]

On 05/11/2014 03:53 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:

I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by the
people on this list. I think it helps to know different folks' area of
experience. It might also help us in learning new ways to integrate
the different components. For myself, my approximate usage is:

Writer (85% of my use of LO)
Calc(10%)
Impress  (3%, Maybe four to five presentations a year)
Base   (once a year to print out labels for my Christmas cards)
Draw  (What's that?)

Virgil




Virgil,

I have a considerable background in inferential statistics, and have 
done formal survey research, in a variety of social and cultural 
contexts. I want to warn you that this sort of self-select, opt-in 
survey is NOT the way to go, if your question is serious.


You ARE only going to get a subset (sample) of your population of 
interest, and you'll have no way to relate that subset to the 
population, thus no way to draw any valid conclusions from the subset. 
It's pseudo-research, which creates the impression of creating knowledge 
without actually doing so.


Just something for you, and others, to think about.

Hope it's helpful.

Tom

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Automating creation of PDF from Calc

[Alex Kempshall]

Hi Fernand and everyone else.

Thanks for the note. The reason for my initial posting was that I realised that 
using the Dispatcher was not helpful and I wanted to use the API methods. It 
wasn't until several days later with lots of googling that I fould that the API 
method to export to a PDF was 

oDocument=ThisComponent
oDocument.storeToURL(sURL, aMediaDescriptor)

plus the filter 

calc_pdf_Export

and it wasn't until I fell over the link

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/API/Tutorials/PDF_export

that things became a lot clearer. Prior to this I was googling for a method 
like export as PDF and as there isn't one that explicitly has this or a similar 
name I couldn't find what I was looking for but suffering from information 
overload with the hundreds of thousands hits I was getting.

I've now decided to follow the discussions in the Apache Open Office Community 
Forum for "Macros and UNO API" as it seems to contain a wealth of information. 
I've not found any information of any relevance on the LibreOffice sites 
relating to the API. If there is any, can someone point me in the right 
direction. A simple guide to the key areas of the API would be really useful.

OpenOffice has this page which can search their API - 
http://www.openoffice.org/api/

So if I enter  "export as pdf" in the "The Office API Reference" and push the 
Search button I get 2 results which contains the information I was looking for. 
Though I do think the Description for the page found 
http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/frame/XStorable.html 
  could also include something like "You are here because you want to export as 
PDF and here are some relevant examples.

Or am I being unhelpful and just complaining because I don't undestand how to 
navigate the API documentation?


Alex


On Monday 12 May 2014 12:37:59 Fernand Vanrie wrote:
> Alex ,
> 
> using the Dispatcher is not a good idea , use te API and basic to 
> automate some functions as printing to PDF under specific conditions.
> Please find below the code i use to print from a Writer doc
> 
> Sub export2PDF()
> 
> dim oDoc as object
> 
>  CheckReportUser()
>  sParent = checkparent
> 
> OpenParams = Array(MakePropertyValue("Hidden",True),)
> 
> odoc = ThisComponent
> 'dispatcher = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")
> aray = Split(Date,"/")
> D = Join(aray,"-")
> aray = Split(Time,":")
> T = Join(aray,".")
> 'path = ConvertToUrl( "file:///C:/export/test " & D & "_" & T & ".pdf" )
> sfilename = left(odoc.title,12)& ".pdf"
> path = ConvertToUrl( "file:///H:/LowRes_" &  sfilename )
> '
> 'all documentation about  filderdata: >>> 
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/API/Tutorials/PDF_export#PDF_Export_filter_data
> '**
> pdfFilterData() = array((makepropertyvalue("UseLosslessCompression", false))
>   AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"Quality",90) ' only if we set 
> UseLosslessCompression to FALSE ( jpg)
> 'AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"ReduceImageResolution",false)
> 'AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"MaxImageResolution",300) ' only if we 
> set ReduceImageResolution to TRUE (only  75, 150, 300, 600 or 1200 can 
> been used
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"UseTaggedPDF",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"SelectPdfVersion",0) '0= pdf1.4 , 1= pdf-xa
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"ExportNotes",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"ExportBookmarks",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"OpenBookmarkLevels",-1)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"UseTransitionEffects",true)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"IsSkipEmptyPages",true)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"IsAddStream",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"EmbedStandardFonts",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"FormsType",0)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"ExportFormFields",true)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"AllowDuplicateFieldNames",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"HideViewerToolbar",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"HideViewerMenubar",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"HideViewerWindowControls",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"ResizeWindowToInitialPage",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"CenterWindow",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"OpenInFullScreenMode",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"DisplayPDFDocumentTitle",true)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"InitialView",0)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"Magnification",0)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"Zoom",100)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"PageLayout",0)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"FirstPageOnLeft",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"InitialPage",1)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"Printing",2)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"Changes",4)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"EnableCopyingOfContent",true)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"EnableTextAccessForAccessibilityTools",true)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"ExportLinksRelativeFsys",false)
> AddPropertyValue(pdfFilterData,"PDFViewSelection",0)
> 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

[Walther Koehler]

Hallo,
what is percentage indicating: time or importance? I use the writer among 
other reasons because I know i have a calc, a date base, a presentation and 
even a drawing program at hand without learning the basics again (where sit 
the files an my PC, how are printers linked in,...) i.e. a complete suite

%   TimeImportance
Writer  95  50  medical reports
Calc15  15  banking, business 
statitics,
Impress 3/a 15  lectures
Base5   15  controlling, taxes, ...
Draw0   5   signs

Walther



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