[libreoffice-users] Latest version of Libreoffice .deb root@BrianDavid:/home/brian/Documents/Software/LibreOffice_4.3.5.2_Linux_x86_deb/DEBS# gdebi *.deb Reading package lists... Done Building depende
root@BrianDavid:/home/brian/Documents/Software/LibreOffice_4.3.5.2_Linux_x86_deb/DEBS# gdebi *.deb Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done Building data structures... Done This package is uninstallable Breaks existing package 'libobasis4.3-postgresql-sdbc' dependency libobasis4.3-base (= 4.3.4.1-1) I tried to install the downloaded packages for the latest version but got a package that is uninstallable (libobasis4.3-postgresql-sdbc I tried to install the required dependency but apt comes back with syntax indicating that the version installed already is [required version] -- Brian Hess Skipper SV Triton -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Latest-version-of-Libreoffice-deb-root-BrianDavid-home-brian-Documents-Software-LibreOffice-4-3-5-2-e-tp4134448.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: PDFs
Am 30.12.2014 um 03:16 schrieb anne-ology: Thank you for this information - I did not realize that PDFs were not merely a strange sort of word document ;-) (I have not liked PDFs; have not understand the continual use of them - although some seem to encrypt them) _Any_ software able to send print jobs can generate PDF by sending the print job to a software rather than a print device. And that very same _Any_ software is the software to edit your data and then send another print job to the PDF generator exactly like you would print new paper sheets after editing the original data. PDF is not a document format. It is a virtual print out designed to look exactly like a physical print out _regardless_ of the editing software being a word processor, graphics program, web browser, computer aided design suite, desktop publishing software, charting/plotting/rendering whatever software. If it can print sheets of paper, it can also print PDF. You can not edit the output of arbitrary software with your word processor. The PDF extension which dissembles arbitrary PDF chunks into Draw elements is a master piece. Of course, it does not fulfill the high flying expectations of the united front of ignorants. -- 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] Fields always marked as spelling errors
Hi: This is a trivial issue, but every field in my Writer documents is displayed with a blue squiggly line beneath it just as if it were a spelling error. I've looked around in vain for a way to disable spell checking of fields (if that is indeed what is causing the annoyance). By field I mean things like page numbers, cross-references and such. Cross-references to reference rather than page number seem to be a special case, though, as sometimes they only have the squiggly line in footnotes, but sometimes it appears in both body text as well as footnotes. The Tools|Options sections of Writer only seem to permit changing (or eliminating) the normal background color used to mark the fields, and I was unable to locate anything in the spell check stuff to ignore fields. This is obviously a pretty trivial thing, but if anyone knows why this happens or if there is anything I can do to clean up the display I would appreciate it. Thanks, and have a great New Year. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Fields-always-marked-as-spelling-errors-tp4134500.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: PDF Extnension for Libre Office/Writer or Open Office
Re: several of the things Anne-ology talks about: This list is only for programs I have used under Linux that have some of or all the capabilities she talks about. pdfSAM - SAM stands for Split And Merge; the interface is rather user-hostile, but it does a good job of allowing you to grab arbitrary pages from one or multiple documents and get them assembled into a new pdf. pdf Chain - similar, but permits specified pages to be rotated, and allows you to add background stuff (e.g. a transparent image saying DRAFT) to the output. pdf Mod- similar to the others, and also allows you to change the document properties (edit or remove title, author, keywords, and such things). It also allows rotation of arbitrary pages. pdf-Shuffler - permits you to crop selected pages by percentage (separate spec for top, bottom, and each side - I use this to get pdf files onto my Nook Color with the smallest margins possible to avoid having to keep stretching each page while I'm reading). Again, there are some quirks in the user interface, such as how one needs to click the beginning page and end page to set a range - the column layout makes this work somewhat strangely, but you get used to it quickly). As others have already said, pdf is really not similar to other file formats in that each page is a separate chunk, although the elements can be manipulated to a certain degree. It's similar to saving a paper copy of the document as a universal reference in that no matter how MS or TDF change formats (or like all those dearly departed earlier companies did), you'll still have something that can be printed (although not easily edited) in the future. Maybe... If you choose to embed the fonts used in the original (at least all of the characters in use), this can be quite useful. Sending a pdf to someone is almost guaranteed to permit them to read it without going through all the hoops necessary to convert to another format. Again, mostly... I hope this helps. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/PDF-Extnension-for-Libre-Office-Writer-or-Open-Office-tp4134190p4134506.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] Re: PDFs
what ??? In actually printing the data - (in my experience) - from a PDF file, there's a lot of blank pages, gobbledegook, extraneous lines criss-crossing, as well as extremely wide margins - all of which not only wastes paper but makes for a quite messy printed page(s). So other than those who think they're ecrypting the data why does anyone use a program which makes such a mess - and as for encrypting the data; well, I've been able to open any of these PDFs without waiting for whatever code - after receiving whatever codes, the outcome is never any better. From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de Date: Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:42 AM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: PDFs To: users@global.libreoffice.org Am 30.12.2014 um 03:16 schrieb anne-ology: Thank you for this information - I did not realize that PDFs were not merely a strange sort of word document ;-) (I have not liked PDFs; have not understood the continual use of them - although some seem to encrypt them) _Any_ software able to send print jobs can generate PDF by sending the print job to a software rather than a print device. And that very same _Any_ software is the software to edit your data and then send another print job to the PDF generator exactly like you would print new paper sheets after editing the original data. PDF is not a document format. It is a virtual print out designed to look exactly like a physical print out _regardless_ of the editing software being a word processor, graphics program, web browser, computer aided design suite, desktop publishing software, charting/plotting/rendering whatever software. If it can print sheets of paper, it can also print PDF. You can not edit the output of arbitrary software with your word processor. The PDF extension which dissembles arbitrary PDF chunks into Draw elements is a master piece. Of course, it does not fulfill the high flying expectations of the united front of ignorants. -- 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: PDF Extnension for Libre Office/Writer or Open Office
Thank you for this insightful, informative, statement. From: CVAlkan fobe...@enteract.com Date: Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:21 AM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: PDF Extnension for Libre Office/Writer or Open Office To: users@global.libreoffice.org Re: several of the things Anne-ology talks about: This list is only for programs I have used under Linux that have some of or all the capabilities she talks about. pdfSAM - SAM stands for Split And Merge; the interface is rather user-hostile, but it does a good job of allowing you to grab arbitrary pages from one or multiple documents and get them assembled into a new pdf. pdf Chain - similar, but permits specified pages to be rotated, and allows you to add background stuff (e.g. a transparent image saying DRAFT) to the output. pdf Mod- similar to the others, and also allows you to change the document properties (edit or remove title, author, keywords, and such things). It also allows rotation of arbitrary pages. pdf-Shuffler - permits you to crop selected pages by percentage (separate spec for top, bottom, and each side - I use this to get pdf files onto my Nook Color with the smallest margins possible to avoid having to keep stretching each page while I'm reading). Again, there are some quirks in the user interface, such as how one needs to click the beginning page and end page to set a range - the column layout makes this work somewhat strangely, but you get used to it quickly). As others have already said, pdf is really not similar to other file formats in that each page is a separate chunk, although the elements can be manipulated to a certain degree. It's similar to saving a paper copy of the document as a universal reference in that no matter how MS or TDF change formats (or like all those dearly departed earlier companies did), you'll still have something that can be printed (although not easily edited) in the future. Maybe... If you choose to embed the fonts used in the original (at least all of the characters in use), this can be quite useful. Sending a pdf to someone is almost guaranteed to permit them to read it without going through all the hoops necessary to convert to another format. Again, mostly... I hope this helps. -- 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] Fields always marked as spelling errors
This time I will reply using a computer so that I can more easily respond to the list rather than directly... On 30.12.2014 09:59, CVAlkan wrote: This is a trivial issue, but every field in my Writer documents is displayed with a blue squiggly line beneath it just as if it were a spelling error. I've looked around in vain for a way to disable spell checking of fields (if that is indeed what is causing the annoyance). Grammar checker By field I mean things like page numbers, cross-references and such. Cross-references to reference rather than page number seem to be a special case, though, as sometimes they only have the squiggly line in footnotes, but sometimes it appears in both body text as well as footnotes. I did a quick check on a computer using the latest version of LO and the grammar checker did not seem to complain about things that I created as a test and did not flag numbers The Tools|Options sections of Writer only seem to permit changing (or eliminating) the normal background color used to mark the fields, and I was unable to locate anything in the spell check stuff to ignore fields. This is obviously a pretty trivial thing, but if anyone knows why this happens or if there is anything I can do to clean up the display I would appreciate it. I am clueless about this (sadly). try making some changes at Tools | Options | Language Settings and from there you can look at Writing Aids and English sentence checking. The version I just installed on a Windows box included Lightproof grammar checker. Thanks, and have a great New Year. Happy new year to you as well. Andrew Pitonyak -- 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: Fields always marked as spelling errors
Thanks again. The grammar checking on my system is LanguageTool v2.6, which may account for the differences I see. I'll try disabling that and installing the LightProof extension. Although it says Latest release compatible with: LibreOffice 3.3 , LibreOffice 3.4 , LibreOffice 3.5 that apparently doesn't mean that it won't work with 4.x versions, just that the author hasn't verified that. I'll post back when I've had a chance to make that switch. Frank -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Fields-always-marked-as-spelling-errors-tp4134500p4134527.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] Re: PDF Extnension for Libre Office/Writer or Open Office
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, CVAlkan wrote: Re: several of the things Anne-ology talks about: This list is only for programs I have used under Linux that have some of or all the capabilities she talks about. pdfSAM - SAM stands for Split And Merge; the interface is rather user-hostile, but it does a good job of allowing you to grab arbitrary pages from one or multiple documents and get them assembled into a new pdf. pdf Chain - similar, but permits specified pages to be rotated, and allows you to add background stuff (e.g. a transparent image saying DRAFT) to the output. I'd add pdftk which does a lot of the above. in addition it allows encryption. F. pdf Mod- similar to the others, and also allows you to change the document properties (edit or remove title, author, keywords, and such things). It also allows rotation of arbitrary pages. pdf-Shuffler - permits you to crop selected pages by percentage (separate spec for top, bottom, and each side - I use this to get pdf files onto my Nook Color with the smallest margins possible to avoid having to keep stretching each page while I'm reading). Again, there are some quirks in the user interface, such as how one needs to click the beginning page and end page to set a range - the column layout makes this work somewhat strangely, but you get used to it quickly). As others have already said, pdf is really not similar to other file formats in that each page is a separate chunk, although the elements can be manipulated to a certain degree. It's similar to saving a paper copy of the document as a universal reference in that no matter how MS or TDF change formats (or like all those dearly departed earlier companies did), you'll still have something that can be printed (although not easily edited) in the future. Maybe... If you choose to embed the fonts used in the original (at least all of the characters in use), this can be quite useful. Sending a pdf to someone is almost guaranteed to permit them to read it without going through all the hoops necessary to convert to another format. Again, mostly... I hope this helps. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/PDF-Extnension-for-Libre-Office-Writer-or-Open-Office-tp4134190p4134506.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Felmon Davis We buy junk and sell antiques. -- sign in country store -- 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: PDFs
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, anne-ology wrote: what ??? In actually printing the data - (in my experience) - from a PDF file, there's a lot of blank pages, gobbledegook, extraneous lines criss-crossing, as well as extremely wide margins - all of which not only wastes paper but makes for a quite messy printed page(s). So other than those who think they're ecrypting the data why does anyone use a program which makes such a mess - and as for encrypting the data; well, I've been able to open any of these PDFs without waiting for whatever code - after receiving whatever codes, the outcome is never any better. I wonder what is going on here. I don't experience _any_ of this. of course, if the composer of the pdf set the margins wide (or narrow) that will show up in the pdf (as it's supposed to). how do you open them for reading? for my part I couldn't work at all well without pdfs, pretty much indispensable. F. From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de Date: Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:42 AM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: PDFs To: users@global.libreoffice.org Am 30.12.2014 um 03:16 schrieb anne-ology: Thank you for this information - I did not realize that PDFs were not merely a strange sort of word document ;-) (I have not liked PDFs; have not understood the continual use of them - although some seem to encrypt them) _Any_ software able to send print jobs can generate PDF by sending the print job to a software rather than a print device. And that very same _Any_ software is the software to edit your data and then send another print job to the PDF generator exactly like you would print new paper sheets after editing the original data. PDF is not a document format. It is a virtual print out designed to look exactly like a physical print out _regardless_ of the editing software being a word processor, graphics program, web browser, computer aided design suite, desktop publishing software, charting/plotting/rendering whatever software. If it can print sheets of paper, it can also print PDF. You can not edit the output of arbitrary software with your word processor. The PDF extension which dissembles arbitrary PDF chunks into Draw elements is a master piece. Of course, it does not fulfill the high flying expectations of the united front of ignorants. -- 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 -- Felmon Davis We buy junk and sell antiques. -- sign in country store -- 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] Deleting 2nd page in Libre Writer 4.3.5.2
Hi Folks, I just up[graded to the latest Libre Office version 4.3.5.2 and I've found it's quite different than my older 3.0 version. I have a 2 page document (opened as a .jpg) in Libre Writer but I can't seem to find how I would delete the 2nd page so I can save the document as one page. I Googled How do I delete a page in Libre Writer 4.3.5.2 and the results were just about where I could download the program. Thanks so much. Charles. -- 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] PDF Extnension for Libre Office/Writer or Open Office
I've discovered, at least with my new Libre Office 4.3.5.2, that I can open a PDF or .jpg in Writer and not have to open Draw. I can also insert images (from file) into these respective documents and then print them to a PDF, if desired, or save as .odt, MS Word, etc. This was a pleasure to discover and helps enormously. I hope it's helpful to others as well. Happy New Year! Charles. -- 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] Deleting 2nd page in Libre Writer 4.3.5.2
Hi Charles, I'm afraid there is some confusion here: On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:49:47 -0500 charles meyer reachmepl...@gmail.com wrote: I have a 2 page document (opened as a .jpg) in Libre Writer If the file is a .jpg, it's not a document, it's a picture, and should then open in LibreOffice Draw, not Writer. If it is a document, and opened in Writer, it should not be a .jpg. but I can't seem to find how I would delete the 2nd page so I can save the document as one page. If this is a document, then you don't delete pages, you delete the contents (which is just text, formatted in one way or another), until there is only enough to fit on a single page. If there is too much content, Writer will automatically make it go onto the next page. Of course, you can make the font of the text smaller (and maybe the margins wider and that sort of thing), so that with the same content, it takes up less space and perhaps fits on a single page. If you really have a .jpg file, an image, then it should not open in Writer, it should open in Draw. Unless you are trying to insert the picture into a text document. In either case if the image is so large that it takes up two pages, then you should be able to resize the image to fit on one page. This makes the image itself smaller, so may not be what you want. Instead, you may want to edit the image in Draw and remove some of the contents of the image, so that it takes up less space and fits on one page. All this depends on what you want to achieve. Are you trying to get what you currently have small enough to fit on a single page, or are you trying to remove some of what you currently have, so that what you are left with is small enough to fit on one page? Your question was a little confusing, so I thought it best to explain in detail; please ignore any of the above that you already know. Hopefully some of what I've said is new and gives you the hint you need to figure out how to solve your problem. Paul I Googled How do I delete a page in Libre Writer 4.3.5.2 and the results were just about where I could download the program. Thanks so much. Charles. -- 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] PDF Extnension for Libre Office/Writer or Open Office
would you please explain how you're able to open these PDFs so. From: charles meyer reachmepl...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:57 PM Subject: [libreoffice-users] PDF Extnension for Libre Office/Writer or Open Office To: users@global.libreoffice.org I've discovered, at least with my new Libre Office 4.3.5.2, that I can open a PDF or .jpg in Writer and not have to open Draw. I can also insert images (from file) into these respective documents and then print them to a PDF, if desired, or save as .odt, MS Word, etc. This was a pleasure to discover and helps enormously. I hope it's helpful to others as well. Happy New Year! Charles. -- 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