[libreoffice-users] Export Issues (Gallery, Template)
I am managing a project which is being worked on by people from varios locations world wide. Recently it was decided to utilize LibreOffice project wide to create our documents for the project during the stages prior to publication. As a result we have and are continuing to create templates for the various document types we are working on. The problem arises when we go to send the document templates out for others to use. Our document covers, and many of our documents over all, rely heavily on libraries of graphic images which have been converted into galleries for Libre Office. Since our templates rely on these, and our authors will as well, we need to find a way to export these Galleries for our authors and developers to use. The problem we encounter is how to export a gallery. Or even which files to copy and compress to send out, to allow the galleries to exist on multiple computers IDENTICALLY. The galleries, and the files need to have the same names from machine to machine (at least the human readable part of the gallery name), for the sake of the instruction brochures we give to new developers and authors. So what I need to know is: 1) What files have to be copied out of a custom gallery (when the Libre installation already has multiple Galleries installed) so the gallery can be transferred AS IS. 2) How can galleries created on an installation of Ubuntu Linux be transferred to a Mac, or a Mac to Ubuntu (or Windows to etc.). 3) Where does one add custom fonts to L.O. ? There doesn't seem to be a fonts path that I can find. (We use over a hundred different ones and some of our people are on shared machines so installing that many fonts into the system of a one machine:many user environment we are trying to avoid.) Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Export-Issues-Gallery-Template-tp4005407.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Export Issues (Gallery, Template)
Hi :) I am not sure about the fonts issue but the rest could be handled by copying the User Profile from one machine that is correctly set-up to all the rest. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile Really you probably only need 1 or 2 folders from inside the User Profile but i'm not sure which ones. There are probably other approaches but the cool thing about the User Profile is that parts of it or even the whole of it can be copied from one OS to another, even to/from different platforms; Windows, Mac, GnuLinux etc. Regards from Tom :) From: jazzon c.jaso...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 4 September 2012, 11:13 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Export Issues (Gallery, Template) I am managing a project which is being worked on by people from varios locations world wide. Recently it was decided to utilize LibreOffice project wide to create our documents for the project during the stages prior to publication. As a result we have and are continuing to create templates for the various document types we are working on. The problem arises when we go to send the document templates out for others to use. Our document covers, and many of our documents over all, rely heavily on libraries of graphic images which have been converted into galleries for Libre Office. Since our templates rely on these, and our authors will as well, we need to find a way to export these Galleries for our authors and developers to use. The problem we encounter is how to export a gallery. Or even which files to copy and compress to send out, to allow the galleries to exist on multiple computers IDENTICALLY. The galleries, and the files need to have the same names from machine to machine (at least the human readable part of the gallery name), for the sake of the instruction brochures we give to new developers and authors. So what I need to know is: 1) What files have to be copied out of a custom gallery (when the Libre installation already has multiple Galleries installed) so the gallery can be transferred AS IS. 2) How can galleries created on an installation of Ubuntu Linux be transferred to a Mac, or a Mac to Ubuntu (or Windows to etc.). 3) Where does one add custom fonts to L.O. ? There doesn't seem to be a fonts path that I can find. (We use over a hundred different ones and some of our people are on shared machines so installing that many fonts into the system of a one machine:many user environment we are trying to avoid.) Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Export-Issues-Gallery-Template-tp4005407.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Export Issues (Gallery, Template)
On 04/09/2012 at 12:13, jazzon c.jaso...@gmail.com wrote: 1) What files have to be copied out of a custom gallery (when the Libre installation already has multiple Galleries installed) so the gallery can be transferred AS IS. Look for files in gallery subdirectory in user directory (see answer below). These files are some binary format unknown to libmagic. It seems that sdv file contains metadata (gallery name etc.) while thm file contains thumbnails (to display in LO). There is also sdg file which purpose is unknown to me. I have made simple test that showed, that LO stores only information about file in filesystem hierarchy, not file content itself. Unless there is way to change that (which I don't know), your task to provide unified galleries for users will be very challenging. 2) How can galleries created on an installation of Ubuntu Linux be transferred to a Mac, or a Mac to Ubuntu (or Windows to etc.). LibreOffice stores information in user directory. You will find it in: - Windows: %APPDATA%\LibreOffice\3\user\ - Linux: ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user/ (note: for LO 3.4.x and earlier it was ~/.libreoffice/3/user/) - Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/libreoffice/3/user/ 3) Where does one add custom fonts to L.O. ? There doesn't seem to be a fonts path that I can find. (We use over a hundred different ones and some of our people are on shared machines so installing that many fonts into the system of a one machine:many user environment we are trying to avoid.) I have fonts directory in /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/ (which is something like global user directory). Perhaps you can simply create fonts dir in user directory and drop font files there. But I have not checked. I prefer to put font files into ~/.fonts/, where they are accessible for all programs (but not all users). -- Best regards Mirosław Zalewski -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
