Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb
Hi All, A simple copy and paste works really well!! No typing necessary. Just make sure you have the file saved as a .txt that you open with GEdit. When I was new to Linux (Ubuntu) and didn't understand anything about what the system was really doing or about the file structure, OpenOffice was updated, and it wasn't going to be included for Ubuntu users until the next update, which was three or 4 months down the road. I ran across this method as a way to update my OpenOffice without waiting. The same thing took place with the next OpenOffice release. Again I found the updated instructions on the Internet. I still use this as it is easy to update computers. I've installed Ubuntu on about 23 or so. It is also easy for a new person to Ubuntu since they don't have to understand changing directories, etc. Simple extract the download to the desktop, and then copy and paste the three commands into the terminal. Don On 02/11/2013 12:00 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) You don't need to do all that typing anyway. Just press the tab key a few times and the terminal cleverly works out what you are aiming for. It takes a bit of working out how it works at first but it's a real boon once you get used to it. Renaming is not a bad idea though as it clarifies exactly what is what. I thnk it inspired those old mobile phones that had predictive texting wy before smart-phones arrived. Hmmm, thinking about it i wonder what OS they were running! ;) Unfortunately the phones version of predictive text was quite a bit different and a bit of a pita for a lot of people. Dunno how often my phone called my best buddy a cow! This has beena great thread! Thanks all :) It's given me a lot to try out. Regards from Tom :) From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 11 February 2013, 3:27 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb I do not like all that typing. What I do is use the default file manager and double click the archived file and unarchive it. Then I take the folder that is created and rename it to Lib or LibO. That way you do not need to type all of the characters of the folder's name. I also do not use the desktop as the storage place fore the unarchived folder[s]. I keep forgetting the remove command so I use the package manager to remove the LO packages from the previous version that was installed. Works well for me. Also, I tend to use the cd command to go to the proper folder[s] where the dpkg command is needed. Long ago, in my mainframe days, I was taught to go to the folder[s] where my files are to run them. That is what I try to do. The only time I do not is when I have a launcher icon to work with on my desktop. I prefer to use the GUI more than the terminal anyways. Easier on my fingers and my typing skills after 3 strokes. So I do things as easy as I can, or easy as I can remember to do/use. On 02/10/2013 01:06 PM, Don Myers wrote: Tom, I used the following instructions to upgrade to LibreOffice 4.0.0.3 on three machines with Ubuntu 12.10. It has worked really well so far. No issues installing or using it. The bug that made some functions in Base run unacceptably slow have been fixed!!! *Instructions for the 64 Bit Debian Version:* Download LibreOffice_4.0.0.3 to the desktop. Right click on it and extract it to the desktop. This will give you the folder LibreOffice_4.0.0.3_Linux_x86-64_deb Run the following terminal commands to install it: 1. sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.* 2. sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/LibreOffice_4.0.0.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/*.deb 3. sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/LibreOffice_4.0.0.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice4.0-debian-menus_4.0.0-103_all.deb 4. If using Unity, Open Dash, type Libre and you will see the different components (Writer, Calc, etc.). Simply drag the icons for them over to where you wish to have them in the launcher bar. If you install it in this manner using the official Document Foundation version, and you type libreoffice in the command line, I get the following: The program 'libreoffice' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install libreoffice-common An install as shown above does not have any repository from which it originated. Therefore there aren't any updates, which I understand. If it showed up as an installed program, Ubuntu would try to update the LibreOffice with its own version which would lead to a royal mess!! I did not get a message saying there is a missing package like you did. Don On 02/10/2013 09:59 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: Tom I ram the install on Linux Mint 14 and had no troubles with it. On 02/09/2013 03:07 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I downloaded the .Deb for Ubuntu (and others) twice yday and tried installing it as per instructions but when i tried running LibreOffice from the command-line
Re: [libreoffice-users] new version of LO gives gibberish for excel file.
No problem opening it on Ubuntu 12.10 with LibreOffice 4.0.0.3. On 03/01/2013 09:40 AM, Dries Feys wrote: David, This works just fine with LO 4. Of course, there might be other issues. (win 7 64 bit, i7, 8Gb ram) Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards, DRIES FEYS CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer T +32 56 43 42 45 • F +32 56 43 44 46 • dries.f...@tvh.com TVH GROUP NV Brabantstraat 15 • BE-8790 WAREGEM T +32 56 43 42 11 • F +32 56 43 44 88 • www.tvh.com On 1 March 2013 15:18, David B Teague sr davidbtea...@comporium.net wrote: Hi I just downloaded an excel file from http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=205 The file is the excel version of Historical Source of Revenue as Share of GDP. The newest, recommended version of LO opens the file as gibberish: LibreOffice Version 3.6.5.2 (Build ID: 5b93205) My system runs Windows 7, 64 bit, AMD quad core, 4 GB RAM. Can anyone explain or help me fix this? A workaround is to fetch MS' Excel Viewer, then copy from that to a table in Writer for my document, but I would prefer to use LO for as nearly everything as possible. Warmest Regards David Teague -- nil significat nisi oscillat do wop, do wop, do wop! -- Duke Ellington -- 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 -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Preparing mailing labels from list (database)
Hi Muriel, I have a Base data base, and different form letters and labels in Writer. They work very well. It sounds to me like Writer is not recognizing your data base, and that it needs to be added. In Writer, go to tools, options, Base, and list of databases. Add in the one which you have the fields in your for form, and all should work well! Don On 04/24/2013 06:24 PM, Muriel Parker wrote: (no subject) : Preparing mailing labels from list Tony and Steve- I went to Tools, Options, Java - the JRE is checked. There is nothing in the box below. My list is in spreadsheet form - name, street, town - LibreOffice calc. I have it in both .odb and .ods. Other suggestions? Muriel -- ** -- 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] 4.0.3 64-bit DEB removed my extensions, but Windows version did notI
Hopefully there are some folks out there who are using the other desktops who can help you and give you some feedback. I don't know anybody who is using them to check with. Sorry. On 05/10/2013 10:05 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: YES, it works for you but I am not using Unity. How many users with MATE are having the same issues? Do anyone using KDE or the other desktop have any issues. I know that there has been work done to make the DEB install work properly with Unity. Has there been any work to make sure it works as well with the other desktops? That might be the issue here. MATE and Cinnamon are the desktops for people who liked GNOME 2.x style of desktop and did not want to switch to Unity, GNOME 3.x, KDE or the others. I hate Unity and GNOME 3.x. The same reasons I hate Win8's desktop. If you read the articles, you will find many users went to Mint Linux and other distros to get away from Unity. Mint having both MATE and Cinnamon desktop versions, got a lot of users from Ubuntu. I stuck with Ubuntu, but chose MATE desktop environment. SO it may be a MATE issue, or may not. So I ask if any MATE or Cinnamon desktop users are having the same issues. On 05/09/2013 10:25 PM, Don Myers wrote: I installed LO 4.0.3.3 tonight on a third computer, also with Ubuntu 13.04 and with Unity. No problems there either. On 05/09/2013 08:19 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I extract them to the /home folder then rename it to Lib then I cd Lib cd DEBS then sudo dpkg -i *.deb I tend to not run an command on a folder that I am not in. I learned that in my mainframe days as a safety feature. So far, I have installed it on Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.04 with MATE desktop. I HATE Unity and GNOME 3.x. Been using Ubuntu since 9.04 or 9.10 for a few months till 10.04 LTS came out. I skipped 11.xx and when to 12.04 and 13.04. 13.04 gave me errors when I tried the desktop-integration install. Kept giving me errors stating it was not matching the core install. The only fix I came up with, for it on 13.04 was to remove the current version of LO then install the new one over again. On 05/09/2013 06:55 PM, Don Myers wrote: Hi, I installed LO 4.0.3.3 on two machines running Ubuntu 13.04 with Unity today. I always download LO from the LO site, extract it to the desktop, and then run the following commands in the terminal: 1. sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.* 2. sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/LibreOffice_4.0.3.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/*.deb 3. sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/LibreOffice_4.0.3.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice4.0-debian-menus_4.0.3-3_all.deb Everything was fine with both. I've used this method since Ubuntu 9.04 in the days of OpenOffice, and I've never had a problem with anything missing or failing. Don On 05/09/2013 06:00 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 05/09/2013 05:16 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On 05/09/2013 03:40 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I just installed 4.0.3 on two systems The 64-bit DEB install removed my extensions and the persona I has setup. The Windows install did not do this. Any idea way the 64-bit DEB install in Ubuntu 12.04 would remove my added items, but Windows did not? I do not know if it is a bug, or not. If other have seen this, than it might be. It is a little difficult to say since you did not say what version of LibreOffice you had installed on the two systems. That is likely to be important. Also from where did you download LibreOffice 4.0.3? I have installed 4.0.3.3 (Debian 64 Bit) that I downloaded from the LibreOffice website. I did not notice any problems. But this might have been because I already had 4.0.3.2 installed. --Dan Version 4.0.3.3 (Build ID: 0eaa50a932c8f2199a615e1eb30f7ac74279539) I downloaded it today from the LO site, after it was announced. I try not to download RCversions. I had a different problem with the 13.04 Ubuntu I have on my laptop, which is an issue with 13.04 [I think since it effects more than LO]. I run Ubuntu with MATE desktop environment. But on my Ubuntu 12.04 desktop, I had the problem withthe loss of the extensions and persona. On 13.04 I did not have that issue, but an install problem until I removed all of the LO files with the Package Manager. But it kept the extensions and persona. -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Uninstall LibreOffice 4.0.2
Below is the method I've used for originally OpenOffice, and now LibreOffice. This is for a 64 bit install. I've done 3 clean installs of Ubuntu 13.04, and replaced the Ubuntu version of LibreOffice with the Document Version of 4.0.3.3 on each machine without issue. This method has never failed me: Instructions for the 64 Bit Debian Version: Download LibreOffice_4.0.3.3 to the desktop. Right click on it and extract it to the desktop. This will give you the folder LibreOffice_4.0.3.3_Linux_x86-64_deb Run the following terminal commands to install it: 1. sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.* 2. sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/LibreOffice_4.0.3.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/*.deb 3. sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/LibreOffice_4.0.3.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice4.0-debian-menus_4.0.3-3_all.deb 4. Drag Icons from Dash to the Unity Launcher Bar if using Unity. Don On 05/16/2013 07:31 PM, CVAlkan wrote: Hi Steve: No, none of the modules run (--writer, calc, etc.) There's apparently some older ubuntu menu integration stuff still on the machine - possibly even leftover from my 3.6 installation. Frank -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Uninstall-LibreOffice-4-0-2-tp4056552p4056557.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] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to other software/formats?
In Ubuntu 13.04, the package in the software center is called: Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts Don On 08/26/2013 08:00 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) There used to be a package called something like ms core fonts which had arial, times new roman, trebuchet, verdana and maybe a couple other things. I must have got the name a bit wrong because i cna't find it in my package manager now. I've copied across a few fonts from Ubuntu to Windows but i should really find a way of being more consistent one day to get all machines on both networks the same as each other. Possibly 1 folder on the file-share and then just dragdrop Regards from Tom :) From: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: Info/UX inf...@gmx.com Cc: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 0:33 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to other software/formats? I think you've got a good process there. Fonts! It's one problem I see with interaction between Linux and Windows. I have a dual boot Windows/Linux laptop, and the font issue is a constant problem. I've found that many Windows fonts install quite nicely into Linux, but I do want to respect copyrights and licenses, so I tend to use free fonts as much as possible. The URW collection of free fonts is quite nice, as is Linux Libertine, which has some really nice expert effects (old style numbering, true small caps, etc.). Another great free font for book-style work is OFL Sorts Mill Goudy. Virgil -Original Message- From: Info/UX Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 7:20 PM To: Virgil Arrington Cc: Tom Davies ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to other software/formats? Thanks a lot for that, Virgil. Based on the information you and Tom have provided, my workflow will go: .ott (with paragraph and page styles) -- .odt (copy and paste .doc content, load style from template, format, save) -- export to PDF -- save as .doc -- send to MS computer -- Manually clean up any problems. I think this should be fine, if a little involved. All the fonts I need are standard MS stuff, which I have installed. I'll spare you the horror stories about preparing a nice document in LO using DejaVU fonts and then later opening in a new*ish* version of MS Word. ;-) Thanks again for the time you took. Think I can get to work now. Regards, Ryan On 26/08/13 23:59, Virgil Arrington wrote: Before answering your question, I did a little test. I loaded a simple .odt two page document in LO. It has some basic paragraph styles, and a few outline styles with automatic numbering, along with a footer with a page number. Basic stuff. I then saved the document as a .doc (Word 2003). I loaded it into the Word Starter Version that came with my Sony Laptop, and it converted *almost* perfectly. There was only a slight deviation in my outline numbering. LO adds more horizontal space after an automatic number, whereas Word adds a tab character. When converting the document, LO added a tab and adjusted the extra horizontal space, but there was still an ever so slight difference in the lining up of the text. It would only bother an obsessive person like me. The page formatting and footer with page number translated perfectly. I'm using LO 3.6.7 and I must say that it's .doc translation is extremely good, much better than I remember from previous versions. Virgil -Original Message- From: Info/UX Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 6:40 PM To: Virgil Arrington Cc: Tom Davies ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to other software/formats? Thanks, Virgil. My documents are similar to yours. One last question then I'll give you guys some peace. :-) Would making a page style with page size letter and with a footer be considered LO specific? I don't need anything more intricate than that. Thanks for the tip regarding Atlantis. I only have Linux at home so will probably stick with LO. Thanks again. Your replies have helped a lot. Regards, Ryan On 26/08/13 23:29, Virgil Arrington wrote: My documents tend to be *really* basic in terms of formatting. Typically, they are either legal or academic style papers. I'm a heavy user of paragraph styles and won't work without them. I tend to do my entire document as an .odt and then at the end convert to .doc as necessary. I'd use the paragraph styles, but I would avoid LO specific methods. Another option is a shareware word processor called Atlantis. It's a lightweight clone of pre 2007 Word (e.g., no ribbon) with a $35.00 registration. I often use it when Word compatibility is paramount. It does nearly everything *exactly* like Word. I honestly don't know why MS hasn't sued them, it's that close. It doesn't support tables, but other than that, it will handle simple formats very well and will produce a
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New release of Grub2.00 for alpha testing
My Ubuntu 12.04 installs show Grub 1.99 On 06/25/2012 11:35 AM, chimak111 wrote: grub-install -v -- ** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New release of Grub2.00 for alpha testing
Thank you to Chimak from me also. It was with Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10 on one machine that I left updates update the boot loader. That was a big mistake!!! It seems much easier to fix now than back then, and if I was retired and wanted to play with something I would, but I don't need to take the chance on causing myself time and pain if it didn't work. I do hope the developers do find some folks who can check it out!! Don On 06/25/2012 02:47 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) My U 10.04 shows Grub 1.98 so that was a good guess! Thanks Chimak :) I chickened-out of testing the Grub 2.00-rc1 alpha. There doesn't seem to have been any problems over the weekend but i just wouldn't know how to push it. Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 25/6/12, Don C. Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: From: Don C. Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New release of Grub2.00 for alpha testing To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Monday, 25 June, 2012, 18:17 My Ubuntu 12.04 installs show Grub 1.99 On 06/25/2012 11:35 AM, chimak111 wrote: grub-install -v -- -- 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] LibreOffice pause during startupThis has worked for me in allrecent versions of Ubuntu
On 07/20/2012 09:06 AM, Dan wrote: Don Myers wrote: Hi Robert, This has worked for me in all recent versions of Ubuntu: In terminal, do gksudo gedit /etc/hosts Add line as shown below for, for instance, 127.0.0.1 galaxy localhost galaxy.(none) below 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 galaxy 4) and add a line so it looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 galaxy 127.0.0.1 galaxy localhost galaxy.(none) 5) save 6) now LibreOffice.org Writer and Calc open fast when the network connection is attached. For anyone new reading this. replace galaxy with whatever you have named your computer. On 07/20/2012 02:44 AM, Robert Mesibov wrote: I'm running LibreOffice 3.4.6 OOO340m1 (Build:602) on Debian Squeeze. The progress bar on the splash screen stops part-way during startup for about 10 seconds. During this time LO sends a request of some sort over the network connection (lights flash on router) every 2 seconds, 5 times in all. LO then completes startup. This happens - with the splash screen turned off in /etc/libreoffice/sofficerc (the pause and network requesting still happen) - when launching LO by itself, or when opening a Writer or other LO document through a file manager - with Java RE option on or off With an LO document already open, there is no pause when opening a second LO document. The pause only occurs during startup. How to stop LO from sending requests over the network on startup, so that it opens without the 10-second pause? Tools Options LibreOffice Online Update If an update option of Daily is checked, would this account for the network connection? Or, might it be a bug in that every time LO is opened it checks for an update instead of once a day? If so, would unchecking Check for updates automatically stop this? --Dan Hi Dan, I don't know. These instructions go back to the first release of LibreOffice when it opened initially really slowly for me. If I recall correctly, they were originally for open office. I found them on the Internet. It was essential for LibreOffice 3.3x and 3.4x for me. I've seen less difference in 3.5x. I've only updated LibreOffice when a new version is out, such as 3.5.4.2 to 3.5.5.3. Don -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] LibreOffice pause during startup
I've been running Ubuntu for three years. I'm quite proficient at using it. I've done a lot of reading about Linux and Ubuntu on line. I've read that you don't need to defrag the hard drive since Linux does not fragment a hard drive. Also that Linux doesn't use a registry, therefore it doesn't get corrupted like a registry in Windows does. That is why Linux doesn't slow down with time since nothing gets corrupted. But I'm not enough of a Linux expert to explain further details. Hopefully someone else can. On 07/21/2012 06:05 PM, Anthony Easthope wrote: If there is no registry or temporary paging system within the OS then how does that work? It is a curiosity within itself :D On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, at 05:57 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi, I run Ubuntu. As I understand it, Linux (including Ubuntu) doesn't use a registry, therefore you don't need to have a registry cleaner. Don On 07/21/2012 05:50 PM, Anthony Easthope wrote: Infact your workaround could work in theory, the problem is finding a ccleaner equivalent for debian On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, at 11:48 PM, Anthony Easthope wrote: Anne that work around works on windows but as the gentlemen said he was using debian squeze which is a variation of linux. I am curious as to why it is hanging to - by rights it should not be. On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, at 09:15 PM, anne-ology wrote: If you're referring to it getting hung-up, then this has happened to me a few times - my solution is to shut it down - clear out the caches [CCleaner is good] - re-start the computer; when it re-starts, OO/LO works great again. One of the problems with OO/LO is its immense size; if there were some way to reduce its size then this might not occur, but then it might not be as good a program as it is ;-) Mine is not caused by 'calling home or anywhere' since my machine only allows 'cookies', etc. which I accept and only at the time I accept them; in fact, each time I've tested my machine, it's invisible to these robotic eyes :-) On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Robert Mesibov mesi...@southcom.com.auwrote: I'm running LibreOffice 3.4.6 OOO340m1 (Build:602) on Debian Squeeze. The progress bar on the splash screen stops part-way during startup for about 10 seconds. During this time LO sends a request of some sort over the network connection (lights flash on router) every 2 seconds, 5 times in all. LO then completes startup. This happens - with the splash screen turned off in /etc/libreoffice/sofficerc (the pause and network requesting still happen) - when launching LO by itself, or when opening a Writer or other LO document through a file manager - with Java RE option on or off With an LO document already open, there is no pause when opening a second LO document. The pause only occurs during startup. How to stop LO from sending requests over the network on startup, so that it opens without the 10-second pause? -- 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 -- antiso...@myopera.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 -- ** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice pause during startup
Thank you so much Andreas! On 07/21/2012 06:40 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 22.07.2012 00:05, Anthony Easthope wrote: If there is no registry or temporary paging system within the OS then how does that work? It is a curiosity within itself :D Windows is the only system with a registry database. Under Linux everything is a file. All configuration is written into plain text files, XML files or scripts for dynamic configuration. LibreOffice uses XML. When you tell the software manager to remove a software everything will be removed except for user data. The LibreOffice profile folder belongs to user data. -- -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO 3.6.0.2 - Calc: date notation
I'm in the US, but I save many files which I want to have in chronological order. I always use FileNameYearMonthDate, or Backup20120709.xxx . It is important that if the month or the date is a single digit, it be preceded with a 0 as shown above. Don On 07/26/2012 08:08 AM, Andrew Brager wrote: Hmmm... Year/Month/Day Drop the year for a moment and you have Month/Day: 7/26 Sounds almost... American style. ;-) On 7/26/2012 4:05 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote: (For clarity and ease of reading I always use the 3-Letter month abbreviation. So today is 2012 Jul 26!! Ian W Pretoria, South Africa. -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] starting Base
Hi, I run Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity. Did you download LO 3.3.5 from LibreOffice, or are you using the Ubuntu repository version. In Ubuntu, the default install from Ubuntu for LibreOffice does not include Base. It can be added separately through the software center. Be careful also not to mix the two versions, the one from the repository and the one from LibreOffice directly. Don On 07/27/2012 09:43 AM, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote: Hello, I have just installed libreoffice 3.5.5 on my lately upgraded Mint system (Maya). When I now start LO the entry for base doesn't appear. On the other hand, writer, impress, calc, etc. DOES appear. Any idea what might be the cause? Thanks H. Stoellinger -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] starting Base - works for me
Hi, As I understand it, Mint uses the Ubuntu software center. The default LO install in Ubuntu does not include base. If the user wishes to have base installed, you would add that to the Ubuntu installation from the software center. If I install from a direct LO download from LO, I have all of the programs listed below in webmaster-Kracked_P_P's post. In Unity, there is a launcher bar on the left side of the screen. The top button on the launcher bar is called dash, which has multiple uses. One use is to show the installed applications. When I do an upgrade, I completely remove the old install using the terminal, and then do the new install in the terminal. I use the following commands (This is for the 64 bit 3.5.5.3 from LO): Download LibO_3.5.5_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz to the desktop. Right click on it and extract it to the desktop. This will give you the folder LibO_3.5.5rc3_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US Run the following terminal commands to install it: 1. sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.* 2. sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/LibO_3.5.5rc3_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/*.deb 3. sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/LibO_3.5.5rc3_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.5-debian-menus_3.5.5-3_all.deb After this install, all of the applications below will show up in Dash. To add them to the Launcher bar, simply drag the icons for the ones you want to the launcher bar and place them where you wish to have them. I've never had any issue with opening any of the applications. I read several days ago that Unity is now available for Fedora and for Mint for those who would like to have it. Don On 07/27/2012 10:41 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: OK I just installed the non-repository version of 3.5.5 as an upgrade to 3.5.4 on my Ubuntu 12.04/MATE laptop. I still have Base listed, and working, in my Applications/Office menu listing. It shows: LibreOffice 3.5 LibreOffice 3.5 Base LibreOffice 3.5 Calc LibreOffice 3.5 Draw LibreOffice 3.5 Impress LibreOffice 3.5 Printer Administration LibreOffice 3.5 Writer in that order. SO it could be the Repository version of LO and its desktop-integration package, of it could be Unity's menu system. As I said, I use MATE for Ubuntu 12.04 and I see Base in the menu. I use MATE so I have the best looking GNOME desktop that looks and acts like the GNOME desktop that I use for my desktop's 10.04/GNOME system. I use the 10.04 system as my default system and wanted any of my other Ubuntu systems run either 10.04 or 12.04/MATE so it looks/works like I want it to do. On 07/27/2012 10:23 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: I have not loaded 3.5.5, but I have 3.5.4 on my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop with MATE as its desktop environment and it does show Base in the applications/office menu. Also, I installed LibreOffice from the download site and not the repository. I was planning on installing 3.5.5 on the laptops [Ubuntu, XP, and Vista] but I did not have the time. Actually we had a tornado pass by yesterday about 1 mile north of me and almost hit one of our two hospitals. They are stopping people from entering our city, unless you live or work here - and can prove it. I will install 3.5.5 on my laptop in a few minutes and see what happens with Base. On 07/27/2012 10:00 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi, I run Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity. Did you download LO 3.3.5 from LibreOffice, or are you using the Ubuntu repository version. In Ubuntu, the default install from Ubuntu for LibreOffice does not include Base. It can be added separately through the software center. Be careful also not to mix the two versions, the one from the repository and the one from LibreOffice directly. Don On 07/27/2012 09:43 AM, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote: Hello, I have just installed libreoffice 3.5.5 on my lately upgraded Mint system (Maya). When I now start LO the entry for base doesn't appear. On the other hand, writer, impress, calc, etc. DOES appear. Any idea what might be the cause? Thanks H. Stoellinger -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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
Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me
Hi Jay, Thank you. Don On 07/27/2012 03:31 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 07/27/2012 02:01 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for that information. I was aware of that. I have two concerns with using it. First, it may update me when I don't want to be updated, like from 3.5.x to an early 3.6.x. I generally don't go to a new LibreOffice series until the second beta has been finished, so for the 3.6 series, it would be 3.6.2. The other concern is in the past I had issues with OpenOffice releases in the Ubuntu repositories, and just seemed to have better luck with the ones directly from OpenOffice/LibreOffice. The launchpad page for the ppa indicates that it is an unofficial repository. To turn off automatic updating in Synaptic go to SettingsRepositories and select Other Software tab. Then scroll until you find the ppa and unselect it. The Update Manager will ignore the ppa until it is reactivated. Any thoughts or comments about my thoughts would be appreciated. I'm assuming the ppa you are speaking of is in the Ubuntu repositories and it is the Ubuntu version. Don On 07/27/2012 01:48 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: An alternative is to install the ppa libreoffice/ppa using: sudo add-apt-repository ppa: libreoffice/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libreoffice This ppa is updated within a couple of days of a release of a new version of LO. Thus your update manager will keep track of LO for you. -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] pdf creation issue on a single file?
creating a PDF file of the selected sheets(12). The PDF export works fine on other files regarding `Export as PDF', why not on this file? I was using LibreOffice 3.3 and have since updated to LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:1505). Unfortunately the newer version is unable to `Export as PDF' on the selected TABS either!! What could be wrong? There are no special characters in the sheet names bar possibly a space. I will gladly send this file to anyone who can assist as I need to create and post to a public user mailing list a PDF at the end of the month. Help is much appreciated Hylton -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Mailmerge from query broken in 3.4.6?
Hi Mark, This may help, but I can only get you pointed in the right direction. I've used base for about 8 or 9 years, first in OO, and now in LibreOffice. Initially I setup all of the fields, and then imported the data. The fields were all case sensitive. About 5 or 6 years ago I ran across a setting for each field which makes the field non-case sensitive. I did that to all of my data bases. If I recall correctly, it needs to be applied to each field directly. You should be able to find help for that from Open Office. I'm sorry I don't remember the details. Don On 09/28/2012 02:39 PM, Mark Stanton wrote: Thanks for that Girvin. In fact my query does have the quotes around field names. I've included it at the bottom here. I haven't noticed any difference between ` (backtick) or either usual type of quotation mark either. I appear to be using the MySQL JDBC driver, com.mysql.jdbc.Driver, which *may* be new since I last ran this query, so it might be Java causing the problem. It'll get to the top of my todo list eventually ;-) Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... SELECT LTRIM( CONCAT( `people`.`Title`, ' ', LTRIM( `people`.`Firstname` ), ' ', LTRIM( `people`.`Surname` ) ) ) AS `PersonName`, `people`.`PersonId`, `issues`.`iId` AS `iiID`, `issues`.`Issue`, `people`.`LastIssue`, `subscription`.`iId` AS `subiId`, `subscription`.`Type`, `subscription`.`AdType`, `subscription`.`Delivery`, `subscription`.`Issues`, `subscription`.`StartingAt`, `address`.`Company` AS `Co`, `Address1` AS `Address1`, `Address2`, `Address3`, `City`, LTRIM( `Area` ) AS `Area`, `Country`, `PostalCode`, `sent`.`iId` AS `SendId`, `sent`.`NumberSent`, LEFT( `textvalues`.`Text`, 1 ) AS `Text`, LastIssue=Issue AND Type=2 AS RenewalDue FROM `people` JOIN `subscription` ON `people`.`iId` = `subscription`.`iPeopleId` JOIN `sent` ON `sent`.`iSubId` = `subscription`.`iId` JOIN `issues` ON `sent`.`iIssueId` = `issues`.`iId` JOIN `address` ON `people`.`iId` = `address`.`iParentId` JOIN `textvalues` ON `textvalues`.`Id` = `subscription`.`Type` WHERE `issues`.`Issue` = '74' AND `sent`.`sent` = 0 AND `Delivery` = 1 AND `textvalues`.`Field` = 'CBOSUBTYPE' ORDER BY `FirstName`, `Surname` -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] quotes about Freedom
Hi, Thank you for these words, Tom. Words well spoken with our elections in the USA next Tuesday! Don On 11/02/2012 09:04 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Searching through photos for the cover of my company's AGM i stumbled on some great images (sadly i can't share) and this quote To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela We often get caught-up in the fact that LO is a product and in the details of how it works or where something is not quite working and maybe how to work-around that. I just wanted to congratulate everyone here for doing a fantastic job of working hard towards the goals stated by Nelson Mandela in that quote. Regards from Tom :) -- ** -- 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] quotes about Freedom
I live in central PA. We had minimal damage here. I feel so badly for the people in New York and New Jersey who are suffering so greatly. I do hope all who wish to can vote. On 11/02/2012 05:03 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: I just hope those who are in the areas hit by superstorm Sandy will have their change to vote and the ability to easily get to the poling areas that are set up for them. On 11/02/2012 02:19 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi, Thank you for these words, Tom. Words well spoken with our elections in the USA next Tuesday! Don On 11/02/2012 09:04 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Searching through photos for the cover of my company's AGM i stumbled on some great images (sadly i can't share) and this quote To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela We often get caught-up in the fact that LO is a product and in the details of how it works or where something is not quite working and maybe how to work-around that. I just wanted to congratulate everyone here for doing a fantastic job of working hard towards the goals stated by Nelson Mandela in that quote. Regards from Tom :) -- ** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?
Hi Everyone, When the Microsoft formats were approved as an ISO standard, wasn't that supposed to make the information on their formats available to everyone else? From what I've read through the years, they have failed to implement their own ISO standards. Shouldn't there be some way to enforce the ISO standards approval on Microsoft so they can become inter-operable with LibreOffice? Don On 11/19/2012 08:03 AM, VA wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: There is one more hing that could turn this around - if the EU (or some other major governmental entity) were to engage in and win an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft and force them to *fully* document their file formats, as happened with their Windows Server SMB protocols (which I understand has benefited the Samba project immensely). It would help immensely if the Open Source folks would combine their efforts on one excellent MS alternative. The twin development of AOO and LibO (with each having its own advantages over the other), only helps MS. Virgil -- ** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?
Well said Henri! On 11/19/2012 03:15 PM, M Henri Day wrote: 2012/11/19 VA cuyfa...@hotmail.com At the risk of getting political, the last thing I want is my government dictating to me what kind of file format to use on my documents. Virgil At the risk of getting political, the last thing I want is a multi-national corporation, responsible to no one save a few major shareholders and/or top executives, which, due to its domination of the market, can effectively render it manditory for me to use its proprietary file format Regulation of markets, so that they remain as free and accessible as possible, is one of the principle tasks of government Henri -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?
On 11/20/2012 06:15 AM, James Knott wrote: Don Myers wrote: I have never purchased a copy of Windows either. I only get it when it comes on a computer. Microsoft charges computer companies less than what the public pays, but the last time I heard anything it was something like $50 per computer that the computer companies pay Microsoft for Windows. So we both do pay for it with new computer. And lets not forget the time bombed versions of Office that's included with many new computers. People start using it, and then, after a while, find they can't work with their own documents unless they pay for Office. The first thing I do when I get a computer is to install Ubuntu as a dual boot system. The next thing I do in Windows is to delete the trial version of MS Office. -- ** -- 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] How to edit MS doc(x) files without breaking it for MS?
On 11/20/2012 01:17 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 11/20/2012 10:21 AM, M Henri Day wrote: 2012/11/19 Paolo Debortoli paolo_debort...@yahoo.com hi all. i had the same problem receving via email from an office .docx files. when I try to import the file in libreoffice it crashes and does not allow to import in any way. the solution I found is to open such file with gwoffice (google office app, you need a google account connected to use it) and save it in odt format always via gwoffice (then it is exactly in lo format). I think that opening such files shouldn't be very difficult (I am not a programmer at all). paolo I must say I find this odd, as I've not experienced similar problems in Writer. To test, I booted from my usual Ubuntu 12.04 into Windows 7 and created two .docx documents in MS Office Word 2010 (Swedish version), one the first strophe of a Swedish poem, the other a line from Thomas Paine's *Common Sense*. I had no problem opening either one in LibreOffice (Swedish Version 3.6.3.2 (Build ID: 58f22d5)) ; to test further I sent the latter as an attachment to a Gmail message to a friend in India who has an English-language version of LibreOffice (3.5.4.2 Build ID: 350m1(Build:2)). He also had no trouble in opening and reading the attachment. Both these two documents were, of course, extremely simple, no embedded hyperlinks or tables, etc, but for documents of this nature I am unable to reproduce any difficulties in opening .docx files in recent versions of LibreOffice. From what I understand, however, things can become more complicated when links or tables are embedded in documents or when other LibreOffice functions, like Calc or Impress are used Henri I has a lady send me a .docx file of a poster that was very complex. It would have been easier for it to have been created with Publisher, CorelDraw, Inkscsape, or other non-wordprocessor, but she used Word and .docx. It did not load up properly with 3.5.4 or was it 3.5.5. I told her that the poster should have been sent as a PDF and then she agreed, and resent it out to everyone as a PDF file. That is when I saw how complex it was. I would not have tried anything like that in any wordprocessorlet alone saved it in .docx. Now that MSO 2013's .docx format will not be completely compatible with the 2010 or 2007 versions of that format, FOSS users will have as much problems as users of earlier version of MSO. Also, I have read that if you want to get all of the package to work correctly, you have to use MSO2013 with Win8. It was designed to work with Win8 and seems not to work completelywith Win7. I also read somewhere that you should not even try to use it on Vista or XP, since the testers had big problems trying to install the 2013 beta on those earilier OSs. I really think MSO changes the specifications for the OOXML formats so you are required to upgrade to the newest version of MSO to get the format to work properly. Forced upgrading as a way to getmore money from their users is as bad as their new forced software rental policies/penalties on the users. Oh well, I do digress. So, the best solution is to try to get users to use the non-OOXML formats so any version of MSO 2000-2013 can use the files properly. Then there will be no problems with and FOSS office package users as well. I agree totally. Any Word Perfect document ever created can be read by the latest Word Perfect Version. The European Commission for Interoperable Systems published a report in 2009 about Microsoft. A link to the report can be found here: http://www.ecis.eu/2009/03/microsofts-history-of-anticompetitive-behaviour-and-consumer-harm/ For the full report, click on the click here text at the end of the paragraph. Don -- ** -- 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] A Tale of Two Office Suites
Hi Virgil, The default label templates in LibreOffice and OpenOffice are frame based. About 4 years ago I ran across table style label templates that someone developed for OpenOffiice. The have worked great for me in both LibreOffice and OpenOffice without the problems of the frame based template labels not aligning properly as you get towards the bottom of the sheet. They table style are now available from http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm . Here is a link that should give you information about using them in a downloadable pdf file: http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.6-installs/add-ons-templates/OOoBlankLabels-Making%20Labels.pdf For my Christmas mailing list, I have a database using Base, and then simply pull the addresses from there for my labels. Alignment on the labels is perfect with the table style templates. Don On 12/10/2012 05:28 PM, VA wrote: But, if I need to create mailing lists, as I just did for Christmas cards, I use OpenOffice as its Avery 5160 template is more properly aligned than that found in LibreOffice. -- ** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 0xc0000005 error in RPCRT4.dll from soffice.bin
There are a lot of results if you do a Google Search: 0xc005 error in RPCRT4.dll from soffice.bin Some are from this thread, and some are from prior incidents. Don On 12/12/2012 11:22 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It might be a known problem. It might be worth trying to post a bug-report because part of the guide's process hopefully helps you quickly find similar reports that have been posted previously. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Registering at the bug-reporting place is really not difficult even though people often grumble about having to sign up to yet another site. Once registered then posting a bug-report is roughly the same as using a web-based email system to post an email. If the guide asks you to post information that you don't know already then post anyway as you can add the extra information later. Also the guide tries to cover all eventualities so some things it asks for might not be 100% necessary and the devs/triagers may ask for extra info anyway. Generally it is best to post as much of what they ask for as you reasonably can but don't let that delay you from posting. Hopefully someone from this list might have a much better idea of this specific problem and be able to give better help. Good luck and regards from Tom :) From: ubuysa tonycros...@yahoo.co.uk To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 16:07 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: 0xc005 error in RPCRT4.dll from soffice.bin Sadly the user profile seems not to be the problem. With a refreshed profile and no customisation at all I'm still getting this error. Since it doesn't seem to be a known issue it's probably something unique to my laptop. I'll do some more digging. Thanks again. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/0xc005-error-in-RPCRT4-dll-from-soffice-bin-tp4023874p4023949.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] Base: Automatically Open a Form?
Hi Tod, I asked the same question about 5 or 6 years ago in an Open Office forum, and didn't receive an answer. I'll be very interested to see if anyone here has a suggestion. Don On 09/06/2013 05:49 PM, Tod Hopkins wrote: I am looking for a method to automatically opening default form when opening a Base file. Any ideas? Cheers, tod Tod Hopkins Hillmann Carr Inc. 2233 Wisconsin Ave., NW Washington, DC 20007 202-342-0001 todhopk...@hillmanncarr.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] EMail mailmerge - does it work?
Hi Fabian, I started using mail merge using OpenOffice approximately 10 years ago using base and writer. As I recall, I set up the writer label forms without using the wizard. There were several minor issues I dealt with back then, but since then it has worked perfectly. I do have Java installed. Once LibreOffice was released, I moved from OpenOffice to LibreOffice. If you are having problems with it working, perhaps folks on this list can help you getting it working if you describe the issues. Don On 09/15/2013 12:12 AM, john herron wrote: Hi, Fabian Been successfully using the mailmerge feature for a number of years now, using MySql/MariaDB as well as Calc spreadsheets, in both Ubuntu Natty and Linux Mint 13 (Maya). HTH. John Herron - On 09/14/2013 01:24 PM, Fabian Rodriguez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi In the past I had used the email mailmerge features in LibreOffice with some problems, and was wondering if it works now? I still see it in the menus but before setting up a proper data source and going throught the wizard I just wanted to ask here. I seem to remember it depended on Java and it would be removed or rewritten at some point. Thanks for any information about this. Regards, Fabian - -- Fabián Rodríguez http://fsf.magicfab.ca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGP/Mime available upon request Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlI0R2gACgkQfUcTXFrypNVkyACgyPlV409DEDYK0ebJv5XbWvMr GYcAoOQndxDNdMUDh548bOGpZ/vPUQEg =M8mP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ** -- 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] Label Printing in LO Writer
On 10/03/2013 10:16 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 03/10/13 14:39, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 10/03/2013 09:17 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 03/10/13 08:48, Ian Whitfield wrote: Hi All This past week I was given a small job to do to produce some 40-odd individual labels. I remembered that Writer has a Label Function so decided to use that. The labels were 10 to aa A4 page in two columns (Unknown type - local manufacturer) so I decided to use user to set-up the spacing. No matter what I tried the Label Box will *NOT* accept any label size - whatever I enter in there it changes back to 0.10cm every time!! (I also feel the box labels could be made very much more intuitive!! - ie Horizontal Pitch could be Label Spacing etc. I'm using PCLinuxOS 2013-08 and I tried with an old LO ver 3 and my ver 4.12 - same result. Has anybody noticed this or know of a work-round?? Yes! Using frames for label production has been a thorn in my hide for years now and yet it is so easy to create a table-based template - I've created dozens. Maybe you should do the same? It's a certainty that Scribus is overkill. :-) Peter HB Last time I printed labels using LO, I just used a .doc label template from Avery for the label sheets I used. That can be a pain for some people, but it works the best for me. Table based! ;-) Table style templates have worked great for me, with very accurate placement of the text on the label. I've been doing labels in OpenOffice and LibreOffice together for about 8 years. American size table style templates are available here: http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm Don -- ** -- 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] Problem with
Hi Stephen, I've been running LibreOffice on Ubuntu for a number of years. Presently 13.10 with LibreOffice 4.1.3.2 directly from the Document Foundation with no issues. It sounds to me like you may not have gotten all of the old version deleted. Strange things can happen if the old version has not been completely removed, especially if you are going from a repository version to a Document Foundation version. This article may be of assistance to get a clean removal of everything in your system for LibreOffice: http://askubuntu.com/questions/180403/how-to-uninstall-libreoffice To install the Document Foundation Version after doing the above steps, I downloaded LibreOffice directly from http://www.libreoffice.org/download extracted it to my desktop,, and then ran the following in the terminal: sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/LibreOffice_4.1.3.2_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS/*.deb Hope this helps. Don On 11/08/2013 03:04 PM, Write Me wrote: Good evening and greeting from rainy London, UK I am using Linux Mint 13 Maya / 3.2.0-23-generic I have just uninstalled LibreOffice 3.6, using Synaptic. All went well. I have installed LibreOffice 4.1.3.2 ,manually. All went well. No error messages or conflicts mentioned in the terminal. Specifically these files in the order stated: 1) LibreOffice_4.1.3.2_Linux_x86_deb 2) LibreOffice_4.1.3.2_Linux_x86_deb_langpack_en-GB 3) LibreOffice_4.1.3.2_Linux_x86_deb_helppack_en-GB However I am very dissatisfied with the text in the user interface. While I think the text font is still Arial or some such sans serif font it is to squashed up close together. The distance between letters in the same word is nothing and so the letters touch each other. I have attached a screen shot. I hope this is OK I went looking for rules about posting and could not see a mention of attachments. The text in the user interface is too hard to read and is very ugly. The same problem exists in Writer, Calc, Draw, and Impress. Making the whole of LibreOffice too hard to use. I regret this installation as I will not enjoy using it with the text as it is. Any help appreciated Stephen -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Problem with
I'm glad you problem is resolved Thank you for the update!!! Don On 11/08/2013 04:31 PM, Write Me wrote: Dear all Thanks to Jay for solving this for me and thanks to Don for your contribution which will make interesting reading Solved Stephen Constantinou On 08/11/13 20:27, Jay Lozier wrote: On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 20:04 +, Write Me wrote: Good evening and greeting from rainy London, UK I am using Linux Mint 13 Maya / 3.2.0-23-generic I have just uninstalled LibreOffice 3.6, using Synaptic. All went well. I have installed LibreOffice 4.1.3.2 ,manually. All went well. No error messages or conflicts mentioned in the terminal. Specifically these files in the order stated: 1) LibreOffice_4.1.3.2_Linux_x86_deb 2) LibreOffice_4.1.3.2_Linux_x86_deb_langpack_en-GB 3) LibreOffice_4.1.3.2_Linux_x86_deb_helppack_en-GB However I am very dissatisfied with the text in the user interface. While I think the text font is still Arial or some such sans serif font it is to squashed up close together. The distance between letters in the same word is nothing and so the letters touch each other. I have attached a screen shot. I hope this is OK I went looking for rules about posting and could not see a mention of attachments. The text in the user interface is too hard to read and is very ugly. The same problem exists in Writer, Calc, Draw, and Impress. Making the whole of LibreOffice too hard to use. I regret this installation as I will not enjoy using it with the text as it is. Any help appreciated Stephen Stephen, Look under TOOLS OPTIONS LIBREOFFIC VIEW. There you will see the settings used for the LO UI. Use System Fonts... is probably selected. You can change the system fonts in the Cinnamon Settings Appearance Fonts Jay -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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: Bug report -- Libre Ofice version 4.1.3.2
Hi Everyone, About a year to a year and a half ago the question was asked on this list about when a date is filled in automatically, how it can be saved as the date that the file is saved, and the file will open automatically with the saved date instead of the current date the next time it is opened. The answer was fairly simple. I have minimal need for this and didn't write it down. Maybe the regulars to this list will remember the answer. Don On 11/23/2013 08:14 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: I think what the Original Poster was seeking was a semi-fixed date. A fixed date would simply be the same as if one typed in the date by hand. It would never change. A dynamic date field would change every time the date changed. What I think the OP wants is for the field to reflect the date on which the file was last edited and saved. So, oversimplifying the question, there would be three possible dates -- the original date the file was created, the last time the file was edited and saved, and the current date (whenever that may be). It appears from a quick glance at LO's field dialogs that one can get the first and third options, but not the second. But, I'm not an expert on date fields. While I agree this might be helpful, I would not characterize it as a bug. Perhaps a feature request (if in fact LO can't do what the OP wants) Virgil -Original Message- From: Cliff Scott Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 3:11 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Bug report -- Libre Ofice version 4.1.3.2 ** Reply to message from william drescher will...@techservsys.com on Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:01:57 -0500 On 11/23/2013 12:50 AM, Robert Baker wrote: 1) There is no way (that I have found) to insert the date and time as text; the only option is to insert them as a field, meaning that the next time the document is opened, the date and time shown would be when it was re-opened, rather than when it was last edited which is what I want. I had to take the file back into MS Word just to add the date and time, but I want to be rid of Word. The simple way of adding a date: Insert-fields-date will add a date that does not change. You have to go through a few more steps to get a date that is current when the file is opened. So, no problem with this one. I will leave the other questions to those that are more expert. bill Just to clarify this a little more, in Writer the default seems to be to insert a fixed date and or time. If you RMB on the field and select field from the popup menu that will give you all the options for format and whether it is a fixed value or updates each time it is opened. Calc is a different story. It seems as if there is no way, at least according to the Help file, to use a fixed date field in a footer or header. I have to manually insert the date as text if I don't want it to change. Of course fixed dates and times can also be manually inserted in cells. Cliff -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Mail Merge and Labels
with Excel and Word. I am not sure where to send an email to suggest that the matter be looked into so I am sending this information to this list with the hope the matter will be picked for investigation. Also, although I suspect it has been suggested before, it would be nice to be able to do a mail merge directly from the spreadsheet without creating a database file. Jeff Hahn -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Mail Merge and Labels
Hi Virgil, They have really worked well for me. With the frame based templates, I always had trouble with the spacing on the labels changing as you would get into the bottom third of the label sheet. The frame based templates print out perfectly from top to bottom, and they are so easy to adjust. I've left similar posts when people have had issues before, but it seems very few are willing to try the table based formats. Maybe they try to use the wizard, which is not the way to set up a table based template. Don On 12/16/2013 08:11 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Don, Thank you for this. I knew I had seen something like that before. LO uses a frame based label template. I agree that a table based template makes far more sense. Virgil -Original Message- From: Don C. Myers Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 7:34 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels About 5 or 6 years ago when using OpenOffice to print Christmas labels, I ran across an article about using table style labels in OpenOffice instead of the type which come with Word, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice. It is far easier to adjust the table style labels. To adjust the top spacing, simply adjust the top margin for the page. To adjust the column width, simply drag the column borders and the entire column is adjusted. At one time OpenOffice had these label templates available as an extension. I don't know if they still do or not. But they are available from World Label here: http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm They can be downloaded individually, or all together as a pdf. I've found them much easier to use and adjust, and have never used any other label templates since then. Also, when you enter the text or fields in them, the text is starts with being paced in the center of the label between the top and the bottom, and then as additional lines are added, the text of fields are automatically centered within the label itself, top to bottom. I've never used the standard templates with OpenOffice or LibreOffice since finding these. Nor have I wasted any sheets of labels because they didn't print properly. Don On 12/16/2013 05:07 PM, John Clegg wrote: I have just done my labels too - only using Avery 8165 (I just happened to have some in the drawer) It worked find, but I too found the printing started right on the edge - and I couldn't see any way to change this other than adding spaces manually. I had to add a blank line at the top for the same reason. Or is there a way that I have missed? On 5 December 2013 23:37, Jeff Hahn hahn...@outlook.com wrote: I use LO 4.1.3 and Windows 7. I should repeat that in my case the first 2 columns print properly (although the print starts right at the edge of the label). It is only the third (right) column that is off. Jeff Hahn From: cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:31:46 -0500 I just noticed this thread, and I have to chime in that, the last time I tried to create labels, I too noticed that the LO Avery 5160 template alignment was off. I had to adjust the contents of every cell. At that time, I was still using LO 3.5.x. I have not yet tried since upgrading to the 4.x.x range. At the time, I just installed Apache OO, as its template worked properly. If I recall correctly, I think there may have been other label templates online as extensions that worked better than LO's label template. Virgil -Original Message- From: Niklas Johansson Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 12:20 PM To: Jeff Hahn ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels So I looked at the configuration in LibreOffice 4.0.6 and LibreOffice 4.2 beta-version and the configuration seems to be correct. I even compared it to the result that I get in Word 2013 for the same label (sorry for not thinking about doing that earlier). So before I put anymore time into this it would be good to know what version of LibreOffice you used when you created the labels? Niklas Johansson Jeff Hahn skrev 2013-12-05 17:22: I think the configuration in the wizard may be wrong. The Avery 5160 has 30 labels on a 8.5 x 11 sheet each measuring 1 x 2 5/8. It is probably one of the most common labels used so I am surprised the issue hasn't previously been raised. As I indicated in my email, I didn't have any problem when I switched to Word so I am reasonably confident the issue is not related to my printer. Jeff Hahn Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:04:24 +0100 From: sleeping.pil...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels Hi Jeff Is the issue that you used lable sheets of the type Avery 5160 and that the preconfiguration for these lables were wrong? I think that I remember reading some issues with the label functionality (File - New - Label
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels
Hi Cliff, Are you using fields from a data base, or do you simply want something like return labels where every label is the same? Don On 12/17/2013 10:06 AM, Cliff Scott wrote: ** Reply to message from Don C. Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com on Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:48:12 -0500 Don, Thanks for the link to the templates, but, pardon my ignorance, what is the proper way to setup a table based template? The wizard is useful, but, as already discussed, the built-in templates often don't work well. If the built in ones could be replaced with these table based ones and still have the wizard work it would be the best of both worlds. Cliff Hi Virgil, They have really worked well for me. With the frame based templates, I always had trouble with the spacing on the labels changing as you would get into the bottom third of the label sheet. The frame based templates print out perfectly from top to bottom, and they are so easy to adjust. I've left similar posts when people have had issues before, but it seems very few are willing to try the table based formats. Maybe they try to use the wizard, which is not the way to set up a table based template. Don On 12/16/2013 08:11 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Don, Thank you for this. I knew I had seen something like that before. LO uses a frame based label template. I agree that a table based template makes far more sense. Virgil -Original Message- From: Don C. Myers Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 7:34 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels About 5 or 6 years ago when using OpenOffice to print Christmas labels, I ran across an article about using table style labels in OpenOffice instead of the type which come with Word, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice. It is far easier to adjust the table style labels. To adjust the top spacing, simply adjust the top margin for the page. To adjust the column width, simply drag the column borders and the entire column is adjusted. At one time OpenOffice had these label templates available as an extension. I don't know if they still do or not. But they are available from World Label here: http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm They can be downloaded individually, or all together as a pdf. I've found them much easier to use and adjust, and have never used any other label templates since then. Also, when you enter the text or fields in them, the text is starts with being paced in the center of the label between the top and the bottom, and then as additional lines are added, the text of fields are automatically centered within the label itself, top to bottom. I've never used the standard templates with OpenOffice or LibreOffice since finding these. Nor have I wasted any sheets of labels because they didn't print properly. Don ---Extra trimmed--- -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Mail Merge and Labels
Hi Cliff, When you use the table style templates, the wizard does not work. It is designed for the frame style. What I do is fill in one label. Then if you have a 30 label sheet with 3 columns and 10 rows, I copy and paste it to the nest two labels to the right. Then I copy all three of those labels on row 1, and paste into the complete second row. Then I copy rows 1 and two and paste into rows 3 4, 5 6, 7 8, and 9 10. It really goes pretty fast that way. Don On 12/18/2013 08:46 AM, Cliff Scott wrote: ** Reply to message from Don C. Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com on Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:53:17 -0500 Don, Initially I just want a sheet with all the labels the same. Being able to fill a sheet with addresses from a database or even directly print envelopes may be in the future. For now I can obviously copy/paste to each label, but the wizard's way of entering data for one then propagating it to all is handy for like a set of return address labels. Cliff Hi Cliff, Are you using fields from a data base, or do you simply want something like return labels where every label is the same? Don On 12/17/2013 10:06 AM, Cliff Scott wrote: ** Reply to message from Don C. Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com on Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:48:12 -0500 Don, Thanks for the link to the templates, but, pardon my ignorance, what is the proper way to setup a table based template? The wizard is useful, but, as already discussed, the built-in templates often don't work well. If the built in ones could be replaced with these table based ones and still have the wizard work it would be the best of both worlds. Cliff Hi Virgil, They have really worked well for me. With the frame based templates, I always had trouble with the spacing on the labels changing as you would get into the bottom third of the label sheet. The frame based templates print out perfectly from top to bottom, and they are so easy to adjust. I've left similar posts when people have had issues before, but it seems very few are willing to try the table based formats. Maybe they try to use the wizard, which is not the way to set up a table based template. Don On 12/16/2013 08:11 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Don, Thank you for this. I knew I had seen something like that before. LO uses a frame based label template. I agree that a table based template makes far more sense. Virgil -Original Message- From: Don C. Myers Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 7:34 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels About 5 or 6 years ago when using OpenOffice to print Christmas labels, I ran across an article about using table style labels in OpenOffice instead of the type which come with Word, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice. It is far easier to adjust the table style labels. To adjust the top spacing, simply adjust the top margin for the page. To adjust the column width, simply drag the column borders and the entire column is adjusted. At one time OpenOffice had these label templates available as an extension. I don't know if they still do or not. But they are available from World Label here: http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm They can be downloaded individually, or all together as a pdf. I've found them much easier to use and adjust, and have never used any other label templates since then. Also, when you enter the text or fields in them, the text is starts with being paced in the center of the label between the top and the bottom, and then as additional lines are added, the text of fields are automatically centered within the label itself, top to bottom. I've never used the standard templates with OpenOffice or LibreOffice since finding these. Nor have I wasted any sheets of labels because they didn't print properly. Don ---Extra trimmed--- -- ** -- 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] libreoffice writer freezes in ubunt 12.04
Hi, I have no problems with LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 in Ubuntu 13.10 on several different computers.I use the version from The document foundation, and not from Ubuntu. If you are using the Ubuntu version and wish to try The Document Foundation version, you must purge your system of all of the Ubuntu version. Instructions can be found here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/180403/how-to-uninstall-libreoffice Don On 12/31/2013 12:43 PM, tk wrote: Bala subramanian wrote: I am using libreoffice Version: 4.1.4.2 in ubuntu 12.04. I am able to Known bug in Ubuntu 12.04. AFAIK, the only work around is to use a different distro. Specifically a distro that nebver came close to Ubuntu, as its base.(That rules out Mint, which exhibits the same bug, albeit far less frequently.) jonathon -- ** -- 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] libreoffice writer freezes in ubunt 12.04
PS - I'm running Unity with Ubuntu 13.10. On 12/31/2013 12:43 PM, tk wrote: Bala subramanian wrote: I am using libreoffice Version: 4.1.4.2 in ubuntu 12.04. I am able to Known bug in Ubuntu 12.04. AFAIK, the only work around is to use a different distro. Specifically a distro that nebver came close to Ubuntu, as its base.(That rules out Mint, which exhibits the same bug, albeit far less frequently.) jonathon -- ** -- 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: [libreoffice-marketing] 2014 LibreOffice themed 12 page calendar - some US holidays included
Thank you so much for the monthly calendars. I will find them very useful! On 01/02/2014 03:15 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: OK, I decided to make a white banner top now, instead of later like I implied in my last marketing email. Copied this to the Users List so they have the link[s] as well without making another email just for them. White Banner Top http://libreoffice-na.us/LibreOffice-2014-Calendar-with-USA-Holidays--landscape-white.pdf http://libreoffice-na.us/LibreOffice-2014-Calendar-with-USA-Holidays--landscape-white.odt Green Banner Top http://libreoffice-na.us/LibreOffice-2014-Calendar-with-USA-Holidays--landscape.pdf http://libreoffice-na.us/LibreOffice-2014-Calendar-with-USA-Holidays--landscape.odt On 01/02/2014 11:57 AM, K-J LibreOffice wrote: Hi Tim, Am 02.01.2014 17:21, schrieb Kracked_P_P---webmaster: [...] This is a second draft of such a calendar, but it is good enough to use now. If I has a good white background banner, then the top could be a little bit different and use less ink. Have a look at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:K-j/Drafts#Web_banner The same banner and some others with white or blank background. [...] What I would love to make is a standard wall calendar with the top section a photo or graphic and the bottom section, below the staple area, the calendar itself. Maybe for this we should wait for our new 4.2 webdesign and the banners resulting out of it so that we have an actual design. -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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: Libre Icons in Ubuntu disappear after loading file
Hi, I've not had any issues with LO 4.1.4.2 (Document Foundation Version) on Ubuntu 13.10 with Unity on several machines. Since 4.2 is still in beta you might want to try 4.1.4.2 and see if the same thing happens. If 4.1.4.2 works fine, odds are it is a bug in 4.2. If you have the same issues with both versions, then I would think it is something with your computer. You are correct, Ubuntu 14.04 is the next long term release. I've read quite a few good things about it, and nothing that scares me. I've had every version since 8.10. 13.10 is the most polished, and also the fastest version yet. Upgrading even just to get the kernel updates I've found to be worthwhile. Don On 01/03/2014 05:47 PM, CVAlkan wrote: I'm using LibreOffice Version: 4.2.0.1 Build ID: 7bf567613a536ded11709b952950c9e8f7181a4a with 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I've never used Mate, only Unity, so can't comment on that. My understanding is that Ubuntu 14.04 is the next long term release, but from all I've heard I must say I'm quite nervous about upgrading when the time comes. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Libre-Icons-in-Ubuntu-disappear-after-loading-file-tp4089914p4090689.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: [tdf-discuss] Re: Start 2014 with Freedom, Adopt LibreOffice in your life!
On 01/04/2014 04:48 PM, Doug wrote: On 01/04/2014 11:21 AM, Terrence Enger wrote: On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 22:45 +0700, Urmas wrote: Vitorio Furusho - LibreOffice: Start 2014 with Freedom, Adopt LibreOffice in your life! Do you call the absolute dependence on developers' powertrips and their uncontestable decisions 'freedom'? I have bad news for you then. I do see freedom here, even if I do not quite see the negative things that you name. I do not remember anything that I would call a powertrip. In every interaction I have had with a developer, the developer has been polite and helpful. The fact that decisions are made by those who know what they are doing strikes me as a *good* thing. Terry. Like Unity? I used OpenOffice from Version 1.0 until LibreOffice came out, and have been using LibreOffice ever since. I've been impressed with what LibreOffice has accomplished during the short time it has been in existence. I've used Ubuntu since 8.10. I tried Unity when it first came out. Yes, it was pretty rough around the edges. But it has morphed into a desktop I have no desire to leave. 98% of everything I do on the computer is in Ubuntu. 90% of my time at work is on the computer. I will have multiple windows of multiple apps open at one time, and it never flinches. I recently set up a computer with Windows 8 on. It was a nightmare. I have no desire to try other Linux desktops because I work very efficiently in Unity. Don -- ** -- 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: Limited Unicode Support in LibreOffice 4.1.4.2? Character insertion, non-zero (SMP, SIP) planes, and multi language documents.
Hi, Relative to 雷聲 靐䨻: if you can see four Chinese characters instead of blobs or question marks than your browser/OS has a good support for Unicode and CJK characters! (P.S. the four chracters put together means loud thunder) in Ubuntu 13.10 with Unity, in Thunderbird e-mail the 4 characters are present. If I paste the same in LO Write from the Document Foundation 4.1.4.2 they also show up a 4 characters. Don On 01/29/2014 08:55 AM, ♪͡♪♪͡♪♪͡♪♪͡♪ wrote: CVAlkan wrote with Linux at least, Writer sometimes helps too much by silently substituting fonts for you and doesn't always make good choices - leading to it looking like one font (which you know has the character you want) is in use, when it really isn't. Hi, sadly (and interestingly) I feel like my Writer's helping too little by not accepting my font settings at all. Take the fork and knife character (U+1F374) as an example again. Following your advice, I tried three things.1. changing font settings in Format→Character2. changing font settings for the Default style which is in use3. changing language settings to None as this character is a sign, not part of any writing system.But I still get square ... - 雷聲 靐䨻: if you can see four Chinese characters instead of blobs or question marks than your browser/OS has a good support for Unicode and CJK characters! (P.S. the four chracters put together means loud thunder) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Limited-Unicode-Support-in-LibreOffice-4-1-4-2-Character-insertion-non-zero-SMP-SIP-planes-and-multi-tp4094290p4094493.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Problems between LO and CUPS
Hi Malcolm, I haven't had the same issue as described in this thread, but it may be related. I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 and LibreOffice 4.1.5.3 presently. This situation has happened with all Ubuntu versions and LibreOffice versions in the last at least year and a half, as I update Ubuntu every 6 months, and update LibreOffice running the latest stable version from The Document Foundation as they come out. It has happened on at least 4 different printers. If I am printing multiple copies of a document in LibreOffice, lets say 10 copies, LibreOffice instead of sending 1 print job to the printer telling the printer to make 10 copies, it sends 10 different print jobs to the printer printing 1 copy of each. All other programs I run in Ubuntu send 1 print job for the multiple copies. I found this out by attempting to print 50 copies of a two page document about a year and a half ago, which overwhelmed the printer, and then Ubuntu. If I make a pdf of the document, and then through the document viewer print 50 copies of the same document, it sends one print job telling the printer to print it 50 times. So there is something with LibreOffice and printing in Ubuntu at least, which works differently than all other Linux programs I have used in Ubuntu. Don On 02/14/2014 02:24 PM, Malcolm Moore wrote: LO connects to CUPS on start not when you want to print So if you have LO open for a while the connection to CUPSwill time out. You need to set your CUPS timeout short enoughso that it will time out eventually but long enough so thatCUPS doesn't drop the connection in normal use. M -- ** -- 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] Large fonts
Hi, In all versions of LO I've used, including 4.2.1.1 now, if you highlight the number in the box showing the font size, say for example 12, then type in the size, say 400, you want and press enter, it will change to that size. I use it where I want numbers or letters to be about 4 inches tall. I general change the page layout to landscape for numbers/letters that size. I've never had a problem. You don't get many on an 8.5 x 11' page. I'm running LO on Ubuntu 123.10 presently. Don On 02/21/2014 03:19 PM, retiredi...@juno.com wrote: Hi: I would like to print some things in font size 200. In libreoffice you can only go up to about 96. I have tried putting in a larger number but it won't work. Is there any way in libreoffice to print in larger fonts than 96? M. Whiting Do THIS before eating carbs #40;every time#41; 1 EASY tip to increase fat-burning, lower blood sugar decrease fat storage http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5307b52a9fc09352a6bb0st03duc -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Please confirm bug 75376
Hi Charles The attachment displayed fine for me in 4.2.1.1 from The Document Foundation running in Ubuntu 13.10. Don On 02/22/2014 01:23 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi everyone, Would someone please confirm this bug for 4.2.1.1 I just opened? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75376 Sample document exhibiting the problem is attached to the bug. Thanks, 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] Compress images
On 02/27/2014 10:13 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 02/27/2014 10:01 AM, Dave Barton wrote: Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 02/26/2014 10:43 PM, Dale Rebgetz wrote: There is a 10 MB file size limit, which my book exceeds due to the included pictures. Thomas, beginning with LibreOffice 4.1 there is a new feature where if you right-click on an image in your document you will see the option Compress Graphic This opens a dialogue box where you are provided with information about that image (including its current size), proposed compression settings, and a Calculate button to see the new size of that image if you were to accept those settings. I have not found a way to do this on all the images at once. Because the changes are permanent, I suggest you *first* save a copy of the original (large) document. That way you can try again if you compress the images too much and loose too much image quality. Dale. What format and compression level are you using for your images? You could always use JPG and make the image compressed to the greatest level that still a good viewable quality. Also, make sure you images are the exact size you want for the document and not need to resize it to a smaller size in the document to fit the image area you are using. That will reduce the amount of space in the file needed to store the image. I have seen too many documents with nearly full page size images that are reduced to a visible one of less that 2 inches. That just add a lot of file size to the document that is not needed. So, make you image out side your document the visible size and compression level you want/need first, then you do not need to resize it in the document and add unneeded file space/size in your document. Many image formats, especially jpeg images downloaded from digital cameras, contain metadata tags (eg camera maker/model, time/date and many others). Removing all these metadata tags can sometimes make a worthwhile contribution to reducing the size of your image files. A handy little program I use for resizing, compressing and stripping metadata from images before inserting them into a document is FastStone Image Viewer: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm Not OSS, but free for personal use. A Windows only program, but undoubtedly there are equal or better ones for other platforms. Dave Yes, the whole idea is to reduce all of the file size of the image before you use it in your document. I keep forgetting about stripping the Metadata from the image. I use Faststone Image Viewer in Ubuntu running it in Wine. I use it to sort and rename pictures for websites. There is also a free Windows program called Easy Thumbnails, which works great for resizing pictures and also making high quality thumbnails. I also run it in Ubuntu using Wine. Both have several quirks in Wine, but nothing making them not usable. I've not found any Linux equivalents for these. Another option in Linux running gnome would be to install the nautilus image converter which allows you to resize pictures directly in a folder by right clicking on the photo or photos, and then resizing directly from the menu without even needing to open a program. Don -- ** -- 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] Compress images
On 02/27/2014 11:58 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 02/27/2014 11:40 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: On 02/27/2014 10:13 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 02/27/2014 10:01 AM, Dave Barton wrote: Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 02/26/2014 10:43 PM, Dale Rebgetz wrote: There is a 10 MB file size limit, which my book exceeds due to the included pictures. Thomas, beginning with LibreOffice 4.1 there is a new feature where if you right-click on an image in your document you will see the option Compress Graphic This opens a dialogue box where you are provided with information about that image (including its current size), proposed compression settings, and a Calculate button to see the new size of that image if you were to accept those settings. I have not found a way to do this on all the images at once. Because the changes are permanent, I suggest you *first* save a copy of the original (large) document. That way you can try again if you compress the images too much and loose too much image quality. Dale. What format and compression level are you using for your images? You could always use JPG and make the image compressed to the greatest level that still a good viewable quality. Also, make sure you images are the exact size you want for the document and not need to resize it to a smaller size in the document to fit the image area you are using. That will reduce the amount of space in the file needed to store the image. I have seen too many documents with nearly full page size images that are reduced to a visible one of less that 2 inches. That just add a lot of file size to the document that is not needed. So, make you image out side your document the visible size and compression level you want/need first, then you do not need to resize it in the document and add unneeded file space/size in your document. Many image formats, especially jpeg images downloaded from digital cameras, contain metadata tags (eg camera maker/model, time/date and many others). Removing all these metadata tags can sometimes make a worthwhile contribution to reducing the size of your image files. A handy little program I use for resizing, compressing and stripping metadata from images before inserting them into a document is FastStone Image Viewer: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm Not OSS, but free for personal use. A Windows only program, but undoubtedly there are equal or better ones for other platforms. Dave Yes, the whole idea is to reduce all of the file size of the image before you use it in your document. I keep forgetting about stripping the Metadata from the image. I use Faststone Image Viewer in Ubuntu running it in Wine. I use it to sort and rename pictures for websites. There is also a free Windows program called Easy Thumbnails, which works great for resizing pictures and also making high quality thumbnails. I also run it in Ubuntu using Wine. Both have several quirks in Wine, but nothing making them not usable. I've not found any Linux equivalents for these. Another option in Linux running gnome would be to install the nautilus image converter which allows you to resize pictures directly in a folder by right clicking on the photo or photos, and then resizing directly from the menu without even needing to open a program. Don Some photo/image software has save for the web type of options. Last time I used one of those Windows image editors, it did reduce the size of the image's file by a lot and still made the visual image look good. I think many of the more professional - i.e. not free - packages do have some type of image size reduction procedure to prepare the image for the web. That way the user does not have to download large images files, and saves bandwidth. Yes, I do have a few paid Windows packages, even though I am a Ubuntu user by default. Still there are a lot of free stuff out there for Windows and Ubuntu that can do the same thing. You just have to look for them and look for their image reduction for the web option. Sometimes it is buried, or at least the last time I look for them they tended to be. Gimp also does a very good job in resizing and maintaining image quality, but it is picture by picture. Before I went to Ubuntu and was running Windows, Paint Shop Pro was my photo editing program. It doesn't, or at least didn't, work in Wine. I was happy with it. I found though, with Gimp, I could have an equal or better quality 450 x 600 photo in an equal or smaller size than I could get in a 375 x 500 photo reduced and compressed in Paint Shop Pro. Don -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: copy paste into Thunderbird
I'm running LO 4.2.2.1 on Ubuntu 13.10. No problem pasting from Writer or Calc to Thunderbird. On 03/14/2014 11:15 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I'm not sure which version this is fixed for. It might be good to post a comment in the bug-report thread that i gave a link to. Sadly my post got trimmed out of this thread but you can always find my post or look through the release notes to re-find it. Regards from Tom :) On 14 March 2014 14:58, Denis Navas Vega denis.na...@gmail.com wrote: El 2014-03-12 01:51 a.m., Dave Barton escribió: Thomas wrote: Good afternoon I recently upgraded to LO 4.2.xx As far as I can recall, I have NEVER had any problems selecting text portions (or all of it) in LO and then copy that portion into a TB mail. However, no matter what I try now, this does NOT work. NOTHING happens. But the same procedure works, using Openoffice Write, MS Word, text editors (naturally), even copying from PDF files works ... So, what is this all about? How is this supposed to be fixed? Thank you. Thomas Works for me in 4.2.2.1 on Win 7 x64 no matter which paste option I use in Thunderbird. Dave Can be copied from LO to WordPad and from there, to Thunderbird. But, as has been informed, can not be copied to Thunderbird from LibreOffice. I am using Windows 7 starter with service pack 1 and LibreOffice 4.2.1.1. -- 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 -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] No menus for LibreOffice install on Chrubuntu
Hi Everyone, I recently just bought an Acer Chromebook C-720, and used Chrubuntu to install Ubuntu 13.10 on it. On my other Linux machines when I do a clean install I completely purge the system of the Ubuntu LO version, and then install The Document Foundation version. I'm presently running 4.2.2.1 on them. Once Chrubuntu was installed on the Chromebook, I purged it of the Ubuntu version, which was 4.1.3.x and installed Libreoffice 4.2.2.1. However, unlike with the installs on my other machines, none of the LO apps show up in dash at all. LO does show up in synaptic. It is like before LO had the menus as part of the install where there were not any menus without installing them separately. I'm sure there are not many people doing this, but any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Don -- ** -- 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] No menus for LibreOffice install on Chrubuntu
Hi Tom, I did that, and I also tried downloading from the PPA. The same thing happened. I'm sure this has to be a Chrubuntu issue since my installs have always worked fine on other Ubuntu installs. One strange thing though. When I was purging the failed installed, I had an error message show up in the terminal, once yesterday, and once today, saying: Reading package lists... Done W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems I did run the apt-get update, but that didn't change anything. I don't know why that would show up when I'm purging LibreOffice. I wasn't smart enough to think about going to that file and editing it until now. Thanks for your concern and assistance! Don On 03/17/2014 05:09 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Sounds like you just need to have another go at installing LibreOffice from the download you got from the official LibreOffice.org website There are some proper instructions somewhere. Regards from Tom :) On 17 March 2014 04:40, Don Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: Hi Tom, In my conventional laptop, where LibreOffice works perfectly, if I enter soffice in the terminal, I get the following: The program 'soffice' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install libreoffice-common In the Chromebook I get command not found. Maybe I will need to try PPA version. Everything else so far seems fine. Since I first posted, I found it doesn't want to install the repository version of Wine because of missing dependencies. On the positive side, it is blazingly fast. From boot to a fully loaded Ubuntu 13.10 in 15 seconds! Don On 03/16/2014 10:36 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Can you get to a command-line and open LibreOffice from there? Ctrl Alt t should open a terminal console. Then the command soffice should open LIbreOffice. If it doesn't (or maybe even if it does) then hopefully the command-line should show some error messages which might give some clue about what's gone wrong. Regards from Tom :) On 17 March 2014 01:02, Don C. Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I recently just bought an Acer Chromebook C-720, and used Chrubuntu to install Ubuntu 13.10 on it. On my other Linux machines when I do a clean install I completely purge the system of the Ubuntu LO version, and then install The Document Foundation version. I'm presently running 4.2.2.1 on them. Once Chrubuntu was installed on the Chromebook, I purged it of the Ubuntu version, which was 4.1.3.x and installed Libreoffice 4.2.2.1. However, unlike with the installs on my other machines, none of the LO apps show up in dash at all. LO does show up in synaptic. It is like before LO had the menus as part of the install where there were not any menus without installing them separately. I'm sure there are not many people doing this, but any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Don -- ** -- 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 -- -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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: SOLVED Re: [libreoffice-users] No menus for LibreOffice install on Chrubuntu
Hi Tom, I'm about a week behind on real work at the moment. I really think it is a Chrubuntu issue and not a LO office since I've not have any issues on a half dozen or more regular Ubuntu installs. Don On 03/18/2014 07:56 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Congrats on figuring out what is going wrong there!! Any chance posting a bug-report about it because that is clearly not helpful for most normal users! Congrats, thanks and regards from Tom :) On 18 March 2014 04:18, Don Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: For some reason the libreofficeX.X-debian-menus file isn't running during the install. I ran that file separately in the software center and everything is working perfectly now with the Document Foundation version of LO 4.2.2.1. On 03/16/2014 10:36 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Can you get to a command-line and open LibreOffice from there? Ctrl Alt t should open a terminal console. Then the command soffice should open LIbreOffice. If it doesn't (or maybe even if it does) then hopefully the command-line should show some error messages which might give some clue about what's gone wrong. Regards from Tom :) On 17 March 2014 01:02, Don C. Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I recently just bought an Acer Chromebook C-720, and used Chrubuntu to install Ubuntu 13.10 on it. On my other Linux machines when I do a clean install I completely purge the system of the Ubuntu LO version, and then install The Document Foundation version. I'm presently running 4.2.2.1 on them. Once Chrubuntu was installed on the Chromebook, I purged it of the Ubuntu version, which was 4.1.3.x and installed Libreoffice 4.2.2.1. However, unlike with the installs on my other machines, none of the LO apps show up in dash at all. LO does show up in synaptic. It is like before LO had the menus as part of the install where there were not any menus without installing them separately. I'm sure there are not many people doing this, but any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Don -- ** -- 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 -- -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Mail merge with custom fields in LibreOffice 4.2
Hi, I did my database in OO about 10 years ago, maybe more. I haven't fiddled with the fields since then, but they were custom fields. I moved to LO as soon as it was released. I use mail merge extensively, and had no problems having custom named fields working to pull the data from. So there should still be someway to do it. Don On 03/19/2014 04:12 PM, Jeff Prater wrote: Yeah--I guess I could do that. But I already have all these fields created. I have probably 50+ documents where I would need to make these manual changes. Plus, the spreadsheets get updated regularly and I don't want to have to reimport/reattach the spreadsheet all the time. I guess I'll have to stick with Lotus Symphony. :( - Jeff Prater On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.comwrote: On 2014-03-20 07:12, Jeff Prater wrote: At my job we currently use Lotus Symphony and we use the Open Document format exclusively. We're currently in the process of migrating to LibreOffice 4.2. We have a lot of documents we use with the mail merge feature. All of the data sources are from spreadsheets. In Symphony, the spreadsheet column names are automatically mapped to the field names in the text document. In LO, however, it seems it only wants to default to standard mail merge fields (first name, last name, address line 1, city, state, zip, etc.). I would have to remap every field to match LO's field naming convention. I don't want to have to do that. How can I make this more like Symphony's mail merge functionality where LO matches the column name with the field name? I'm not merging letters--I'm merging data from a spreadsheet using custom column names (like AmountPosted, JobID, DateCreated, DateCompleted, etc.). Thanks! - Jeff Prater Hi. I merge spread sheet data into documents that a printed (certificates). I started by creating the certificate in writer, just as I want it to look with dummy information. Then to replace the dummy information from a spread sheet I InsertFieldOther (ctl-F2). Select the database tab, mail merge fields and under the right pane Add database file - Browse. I locate my spread sheet which will appear in the right pane and allow you to select the field you want. Note that this copies the sheet to an odb file and inserts from that file. If you update your spread sheet the odb file is not automatically updated. Steve -- 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 -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mail: donmy...@myersfarm.com mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com *RE/MAX Centre Realty **1375 Martin Street, State College, PA 16803* Office Phone: 814-231-8200 Fax: 814-231-8220 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division web site at _www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com http://www.CentralPaRuralProperty.com/ _ Visit the RE/MAX Centre Realty main web site at _www.StateCollegeHomeSales.com http://www.statecollegehomesales.com/ _ View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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: Base record access unacceptably slow
Hi, Different ones of us have tried this. It is a Java issue. I keep my database compacted on a regular basis. Thank you for trying to be of assistance. Don On 07/28/2011 12:45 PM, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: Has anybody suggested that this command should an option when saving when ever records are deleted? On 7/27/2011 12:14 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote: SHUTDOWN COMPACT -- *** * -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
Hi Tom, Thank you for your great ideas and suggestions. Starting with Java 1.6.0_24, this problem arose with both OpenOffice Base and LibreOffice Base. The problems were documented on an OpenOffice forum that I searched when the problem first arose. Another alternative would be for LibreOffice to have its own embedded version of Java that works instead of using the system Java. One person a month or so ago posted here as to the exact reason the issue has happened. He felt the problem would be corrected when Java was again updated. I was greatly disappointed when 1.6.0_26 came out and the issue was still here. My data base has about 2500 entries with complete contact information, and then a separate text area I use to keep a running record of my contacts with each person. Before Java 1.6.0_24 going from the first record to last last record was almost instantaneous. Now if is painful. I wait patiently for the 20 to 25 seconds for it to happen on my fastest computer, a quad core AMD 910 with 8 gigs of ram. It is slower on my other ones. Then paging backwards through the database, I can click 5 records and each one appears instantly, then before the 6th record there is a pause. This happens consistently. 5 records, pause, 5 records, pause. I need a database. I need one that works proficiently in Linux. I was so glad when Base was added to OpenOffice. I used it for years without issue until about 6 months ago. Don On 07/28/2011 12:22 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Don, Seems like a reasonable request to me, and I'll up the ante. Where the ^%$ is the management - The Document Foundation - in all this, right now, today? Do they even watch this list? In short, do they give a damn that the only theoretically viable alternative to Access (for ordinary users) is in real trouble? Why aren't they showing up here with some clarifying position statement? I'm desperate for time, a fix, and vision of a long-term solution to this mess. I have work to do today, a lot of it, and I can't do it. I can't solve the problem, and other than by implementing the regress-your-java solution idea (which I have yet to be successful with). No one else is solving it, either. For some, migrating to another backend is not a challenge. For the rest of us, it's unknown territory. I researched this a bit, and while there certainly IS stuff out there about how to do it, there's not a lot, and there are multiple levels of challenge with this solution anyway. Personally, I'm definitely up for taking this on (what option do I really have?), but do we really have to straggle through the mountains one by one, eventually meeting on the other side, those who make it, to talk about the experience? So, I propose two things: 1. Anyone who has TDF connections - please get on the phone and update them. The question is this, I think: how important, going forward, is Base, to them? If they are going to support it, today would be a very good day to do it. If not, yank the code, stop telling people they have a db component in LO, and start getting honest. 2. If LO's in trouble with the current sun-Java, so's OO. Where's Apache in this situation? Again, where's *TDF*? Why aren't they and Apache working together on this? Looks rather like a leadership problem, to me. 2. On the assumption that those of use who need a working db are going to have to find the way home ourselves (as I said, I need to get work done TODAY, and I'm not kidding) - a. Can someone more Linux-clever than I lay out clearly the steps involve in implementing the solution found at the end of this thread - http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=125253postdays=0postorder=ascstart=0 http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=125253postdays=0postorder=ascstart=0. As I pointed on in another post last night, I tried it and simply got in over my head. This is a decent short-term solution. b. Can we work together to lay out the steps to set up an alternative back end? I'm going to start on sqlite, Others may wish to work on a different db engine. Then let's get the procedure out where it can be seen and used by others. c. Let's get altruistic about the poor bloke who, this morning, is about to set up a Base db using a java-run backend: Could someone put a notice in the documentation updating people about the current situation? It's not right for us to keep this information only on this list. Now I'm off to fully regress my java (I don't see a problem with this), while I work on getting sqlite and Base to play together. Tom On 07/28/2011 09:16 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi Tom, When the first problems showed up for me about 6 months ago, it was recommended to go back to the Java 1.6.0.22 from 1.6.0.24. I have my database on 4 computers, and could never make things work with getting a previous version installed, so I gave up and just tolerated the situation. Also, I had security concerns going backwards since
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
Magnificent!!! Thank you, ponsiarceds! I followed your instructions for having an older version of Java along side the present one. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 with the LibreOffice version of 3.4.1. Now base works really fast like it always did. Then only thing I did differently was I used the 1.6.0_22 version since I knew it worked well. Thank you again so much! On 07/29/2011 08:55 PM, ponsiarceds wrote: sudo cp -a jre1.6.0_21/ /usr/lib/jvm -- *** * -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
One thing to be careful of. You can use either the jre or the jdk. The jdk is basically for developers and not needed by most folks. Make sure when you follow the instructions below you use one or the other. On 07/29/2011 08:55 PM, ponsiarceds wrote: . tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Ug. This is getting ugly really fast. I'm really not on home ground here at all. FWIW, here is a relatively painless way to install an older JRE along side the default Ubuntu one. ( I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit ) It definitely sped up my Base table browsing, but then I don't have any binaries embedded in my tables. It has the bonus of not messing with the existing JRE Overview: 1. Download the JRE archive (approx. 20 mb) 2. Extract in /tmp 3. as root, copy the extracted directory to /usr/lib/jvm 4. set this JRE as the JRE of choice in LO (ToolsOptionsJava) 5. Exit LO restart Instructions: 1.Download jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin (for i386) or jdk-6u21-linux-x64.bin for x86_64 from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javasebusiness/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase6-419409.html#jdk-6u21-b07-oth-JPR JRE archive at ORACLE . Save to /tmp 2.run it using: sh jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin . The JRE is now extracted to /tmp/jre1.6.0_21/ 3. copy to /usr/lib/jvm sudo cp -a jre1.6.0_21/ /usr/lib/jvm 4. Exit restart office. In ToolsOptionsJava, choose 1.6.0_21. Exit restart office 5. Load you Base file compare the speed. If you want to remove it simply set the JRE back to the old one in ToolsOptionsJava sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_21/ -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Base-record-access-unacceptably-slow-tp3202820p3211034.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- *** * -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
Hi Ian, For some reason not all of the previous text I was responding to showed up in that post. This information I used was from a post from ponsiarceds. I'll paste everything below. Just make sure you are consistent with either jre or jdk in the instructions. The instructions have the two mixed. My Base has worked perfectly since doing this. Plus, the 1.6.0_22 is only being used for Base, so you have the updated security of the 1.6.0_26 for browsing, etc. One other person who posted used the 1.6.0_21 version in the post and said it was faster than 1.6.0_22. Mine is working perfectly fine though. You only need the jre version and not the jdk, but either will work. If you need more assistance, please let me know.Here is the post: One thing to be careful of. You can use either the jre or the jdk. The jdk is basically for developers and not needed by most folks. Make sure when you follow the instructions below you use one or the other. On 07/29/2011 08:55 PM, ponsiarceds wrote: . tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Ug. This is getting ugly really fast. I'm really not on home ground here at all. FWIW, here is a relatively painless way to install an older JRE along side the default Ubuntu one. ( I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit ) It definitely sped up my Base table browsing, but then I don't have any binaries embedded in my tables. It has the bonus of not messing with the existing JRE Overview: 1. Download the JRE archive (approx. 20 mb) 2. Extract in /tmp 3. as root, copy the extracted directory to /usr/lib/jvm 4. set this JRE as the JRE of choice in LO (ToolsOptionsJava) 5. Exit LO restart Instructions: 1.Download jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin (for i386) or jdk-6u21-linux-x64.bin for x86_64 from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javasebusiness/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase6-419409.html#jdk-6u21-b07-oth-JPR JRE archive at ORACLE . Save to /tmp 2.run it using: sh jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin . The JRE is now extracted to /tmp/jre1.6.0_21/ 3. copy to /usr/lib/jvm sudo cp -a jre1.6.0_21/ /usr/lib/jvm 4. Exit restart office. In ToolsOptionsJava, choose 1.6.0_21. Exit restart office 5. Load you Base file compare the speed. If you want to remove it simply set the JRE back to the old one in ToolsOptionsJava sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_21/ -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Base-record-access-unacceptably-slow-tp3202820p3211034.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Don On 08/01/2011 11:36 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote: On 30/07/2011 19:37, Don C. Myers wrote: Magnificent!!! Thank you, ponsiarceds! I followed your instructions for having an older version of Java along side the present one. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 with the LibreOffice version of 3.4.1. Now base works really fast like it always did. Then only thing I did differently was I used the 1.6.0_22 version since I knew it worked well. Thank you again so much! On 07/29/2011 08:55 PM, ponsiarceds wrote: sudo cp -a jre1.6.0_21/ /usr/lib/jvm Hi Don I'm interested to try this!! Where did you find the Download for 1.6.0.0_22. On the Oracle site all I keep getting is 'Error 404 = Page not found' and I can't find it using Synaptic!!?? Thanks Ian Whitfield. / /// -- *** * -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
Hi Tom, I installed 1.6.0_21 on my home computer last night and compared it to 1.6.0_22. This is a 5 year old laptop with an AMD T-50 processor and 2 gigs of ram. It is far from a powerhouse, but it works very will with Ubuntu. Both versions of Java work very well with Base. 1.6.0_21 is a second or two faster. Don On 08/01/2011 12:34 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Some clarification: The JRE is sufficient (and smaller) if you just want to USE Base. I will absolutely attest to 1.6.0_21's being an order of magnatude faster than BOTH ...0_26 AND ...0_22, for me. The difference is very dramatic. Since running with ...0_21 my Base applications are simply excellent. So, I would urge you at least to compare the two. For me ...0_22 was only about 25% faster, which really didn't fix the problem. Tom On 08/01/2011 09:54 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi Ian, For some reason not all of the previous text I was responding to showed up in that post. This information I used was from a post from ponsiarceds. I'll paste everything below. Just make sure you are consistent with either jre or jdk in the instructions. The instructions have the two mixed. My Base has worked perfectly since doing this. Plus, the 1.6.0_22 is only being used for Base, so you have the updated security of the 1.6.0_26 for browsing, etc. One other person who posted used the 1.6.0_21 version in the post and said it was faster than 1.6.0_22. Mine is working perfectly fine though. You only need the jre version and not the jdk, but either will work. If you need more assistance, please let me know.Here is the post: One thing to be careful of. You can use either the jre or the jdk. The jdk is basically for developers and not needed by most folks. Make sure when you follow the instructions below you use one or the other. On 07/29/2011 08:55 PM, ponsiarceds wrote: . tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Ug. This is getting ugly really fast. I'm really not on home ground here at all. FWIW, here is a relatively painless way to install an older JRE along side the default Ubuntu one. ( I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit ) It definitely sped up my Base table browsing, but then I don't have any binaries embedded in my tables. It has the bonus of not messing with the existing JRE Overview: 1. Download the JRE archive (approx. 20 mb) 2. Extract in /tmp 3. as root, copy the extracted directory to /usr/lib/jvm 4. set this JRE as the JRE of choice in LO (ToolsOptionsJava) 5. Exit LO restart Instructions: 1.Download jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin (for i386) or jdk-6u21-linux-x64.bin for x86_64 from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javasebusiness/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase6-419409.html#jdk-6u21-b07-oth-JPR JRE archive at ORACLE . Save to /tmp 2.run it using: sh jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin . The JRE is now extracted to /tmp/jre1.6.0_21/ 3. copy to /usr/lib/jvm sudo cp -a jre1.6.0_21/ /usr/lib/jvm 4. Exit restart office. In ToolsOptionsJava, choose 1.6.0_21. Exit restart office 5. Load you Base file compare the speed. If you want to remove it simply set the JRE back to the old one in ToolsOptionsJava sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_21/ -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Base-record-access-unacceptably-slow-tp3202820p3211034.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Don On 08/01/2011 11:36 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote: On 30/07/2011 19:37, Don C. Myers wrote: Magnificent!!! Thank you, ponsiarceds! I followed your instructions for having an older version of Java along side the present one. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 with the LibreOffice version of 3.4.1. Now base works really fast like it always did. Then only thing I did differently was I used the 1.6.0_22 version since I knew it worked well. Thank you again so much! On 07/29/2011 08:55 PM, ponsiarceds wrote: sudo cp -a jre1.6.0_21/ /usr/lib/jvm Hi Don I'm interested to try this!! Where did you find the Download for 1.6.0.0_22. On the Oracle site all I keep getting is 'Error 404 = Page not found' and I can't find it using Synaptic!!?? Thanks Ian Whitfield. / /// -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.com/ *~~* -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-users] looking for help on Base
Hi Tom, I've been a Base user for 7 or 8 years. As soon as Base came out I switched to it. I had first used a DOS based database, then Access, then Paradox, and then Base. For my needs, Base works very well. I used the guide from OpenOffice, Getting Started With Base to get things setup The present version can be found here, as well as other helps: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Database There are several small bugs in Base that are more of an annoyance than anything else. It is super fast (now that the Linux Java workaround has been found), and it is much easier to share the data between my computers than it was with Paradox. While they might not have developers working on it, there isn't anything I need to have changed. The mail merge with writer works perfectly. I've never lost any data. So even if there are not any developers working on it, I feel it is a worthy program/application. Anytime I've had an issue of needing to know how to do something, I've always been able to find an answer with on-line searches. On 08/04/2011 04:26 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's probably better to stick with MS Access tbh. Base is not being actively developed and there are no plans to recruit devs for it. Hopefully some devs might stumble into the project at some point in the future and start working on the bugs. Regards from Tom :) From: Roberto Scottiroberto.sco...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 4 August, 2011 9:19:33 Subject: [libreoffice-users] looking for help on Base the site http://www.libreoffice.org/features/base/ states ... provides native-support drivers for some of the most-widely employed multi-user database engines: MySQL, Adabas D, MS Access... When I open Base if I choose to connect to an existing database the list of available drivers doesn't include MS Access (or JET), it includes only: JDBC JDBC Oracle Adabas D Foglio elettronico dBASE Testo MySQL ODBC How do you activate the MS Access native-support driver? Is a SQLite native-support driver available? Many thanks, Roberto Scotti -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] looking for help on Base
Hi Roberto, Access will not run natively in Linux. I run Ubuntu 11.04 presently. I was a windows user when I switched to Base. One reason for switching was I knew someday I wanted to migrate to Linux. It was very easy since OpenOffice worked in both platforms. I run Quicken and Dreamweaver through Wine on Ubuntu. You may need to move up to Crossover Office, but it would be likely some version of Access would work. I have not researched this though. In general, some versions of Microsoft Office do work with Crossover Office. Don On 08/04/2011 10:04 AM, Roberto Scotti wrote: Yes, it may be. I am working on Ububntu based systems. Is it possible to install MS-Access and/or SQLite native-drivers in Linux? Many thanks, Roberto Scotti PS - I added your address in CC to be shure you would get the message, if thi causes doubling your messages please let me know. Il giorno gio, 04/08/2011 alle 10.26 +0200, Cor Nouws ha scritto: Hi Roberto, Roberto Scotti wrote (04-08-11 10:19) When I open Base if I choose to connect to an existing database the list of available drivers doesn't include MS Access (or JET), it includes only: ... That connection is Windows only. Does this explain what you see on your computer? Regards, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] There goes Open-Source in the White House
Well said Stan. On 08/05/2011 08:26 AM, Stan Goodman wrote: On 08/05/2011 02:39 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: The new chief information officer for the federal government - White House Chief of Information Technology - is a former Microsoft Executive [and assistant to Bill Gates]. Since all these big wigs in Microsoft get large blocks of stock in the company, which he most likely still has, this new guy in the White House as a good reason to keep the government using MS products over free and open source ones. So I say; there goes the government's push to go open source and start using packages like LibreOffice. Well, MS tries to control the world's computers, and now they have a man in the White House to control the government's computer system and other technology to MS's favor. The problem is not with the Chief Information Officer, buy with the Chief Community Organizer that appointed him knowing that the CIO is a MS shill, and with those who elected a know-it-all know-nothing to move into the White House. -- *** * -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
Ian, thank you from me also. When I see the number of people asking questions about Base on this forum it seems there is a lot of interest in having a database. So far the side by side install of the second, older version of Java has been working very well for me. On 08/05/2011 11:01 AM, Tony Royston wrote: Ian, On behalf of all Base users, thanks for trying! As you infer, it would have been encouraging to receive a more pro-active reply, especially from a Founder of TDF (and long-time ex-oOo active member). Perhaps it's difficult for him to say much else, if there are very few Base Developers. I guess they 'stayed' with oOo or have moved on to other things. It will be interesting to see if the oOo version fares any better...but that's another story! Regards, Tony Royston. -Original Message- From: Ian Whitfield [mailto:whitfi...@telkomsa.net] Sent: Friday,05 August, 2011 14:46 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow Hi All As I reported recently I wrote to a contact I have in regard to this thread. Part of what I said was . /*PLEASE DO* follow up on this - I think it is _VERY_ important for many users and some 'Official' Feedback' is VERY necessary. There are lots of very important points made in this thread!!! / He has just replied... /Thanks for your mail! The question is what the Steering Committee should do about this. What I would recommend is that one of the affected users either writes to the Developer Mailing List, or files a bug report. Is this something that could help? Florian -- Florian Effenbergerflo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff / This is NOT quite the reply I was hoping for. Is it worth passing this onto the Devs Mail List - I have a feeling somebody already did this. Base is working for me at the moment - sort of!! - but I would LOVE to see it sorted out!! I want to try the change to an early version of Java to see if that helps me or not at some time. Until then it looks as if we are all stuck with Base as it is!! Ian Whitfield -- *** * -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base 3.4.2 doesn't run on Windows 7
idea to keep your version of Java up-to-date. On 08/07/2011 07:20 AM, Juan Antonio wrote: Solved . The problem was *Java*. It wasn't correctly installed in my pc. I've desinstalled Java and then installed the last version, and LibreOffice Base runs normally. Regards! -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Base-3-4-2-doesn-t-run-on-Windows-7-tp3222847p3232949.html l 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 -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] LibreOffice 3.4.2 Spellcheck Not Working....
Works fine here: Ubuntu 11.04, LibreOffice 3.4.2 I'm running the official LibreOffice version. In past times, Ubuntu only updated to new versions of OpenOffice (before LibreOffice existed) when a new version of Ubuntu came out. This has changed since then. But to get the updated version, I would have to uninstall the OpenOffice version that came with Ubuntu, and then install the the updated version directly from OpenOffice version. It is quite easy to do in Linux. The download version from OpenOffice or LibreOffice isn't as pretty as the ones from Ubuntu, but I've never had any issues with anything not working. Once when I had the direct OpenOffice version installed, and then did an upgrade to a new version of Ubuntu, both their version and the OpenOffice version were installed at the same time. The install did not pick that up. That created issues with the spell checker not working, and the calc spreadsheet not calculating correctly in the Ubuntu version. I uninstalled everything related to open office, did a clean install of the OpenOffice version, and everything worked perfectly. Is it possible you have two different versions installed at the same time? Don On 08/12/2011 03:52 PM, Mark Stanton wrote: Not working here. LO 3.3.3, Fedora 15 (Linux) Mark Stanton -- *** * -- 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] Pimaco extension for labels
Hi, Open Office had form templates which an enterprising individual developed based on tables instead of instead of the block style that came with Open Office and like what Microsoft Word uses. I've used the US sizes and they work perfectly. It is super easy to adjust the column width by just dragging. The US sizes always start with the typing in the center of the label also. I'm not sure where to find them in Libre Office, but you can download them from http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm . I will never go back to the old style of labels formats. There was a tutorial on the Internet at one time. You may also find some help on the World Label site Don On 08/12/2011 05:04 PM, Claudio Aranha wrote: Hi friends I've been using LibreOffice since StarOffice and I always had dificulties printing labels, the Pimaco released a extension for BrOffice (Openoffice name in Brazil), this one: http://www.pimaco.com.br/images/upload/downloads/pimaco-labels.oxt The problem is that all the printed labels are more up and left than they should be, sometimes invading another label. I'm on Debian 6 with LibreOffice 3.4.2 and paper in the printer and LibreOffice is set to A4. Thank you -- *** * -- 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] Pimaco extension for labels
Hi, On the World Label site they have the following statement: These documents are XML Open Document Format (ODF), Public Domain, licensed under GPL. On 08/12/2011 05:46 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think those templates can be used in LibreOffice but the docs team were trying to find someone to bring them into LibreOffice properly (assuming they are copy-left rather than copyright licensed). Regards from Tom :) From: Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 22:17:48 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels Hi, Open Office had form templates which an enterprising individual developed based on tables instead of instead of the block style that came with Open Office and like what Microsoft Word uses. I've used the US sizes and they work perfectly. It is super easy to adjust the column width by just dragging. The US sizes always start with the typing in the center of the label also. I'm not sure where to find them in Libre Office, but you can download them from http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm . I will never go back to the old style of labels formats. There was a tutorial on the Internet at one time. You may also find some help on the World Label site Don On 08/12/2011 05:04 PM, Claudio Aranha wrote: Hi friends I've been using LibreOffice since StarOffice and I always had dificulties printing labels, the Pimaco released a extension for BrOffice (Openoffice name in Brazil), this one: http://www.pimaco.com.br/images/upload/downloads/pimaco-labels.oxt The problem is that all the printed labels are more up and left than they should be, sometimes invading another label. I'm on Debian 6 with LibreOffice 3.4.2 and paper in the printer and LibreOffice is set to A4. Thank you -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Pimaco extension for labels
Hi Tom, There was one size label our church was using that wasn't on the World Label list of available labels. Those labels were used to print ingredients for Easter eggs they sell. Also, there wasn't a template for that particular size. I sent them an e-mail. Apparently it was an error that the size I wanted wasn't listed. they had the label available. I made a table style template for them and sent it to them. The person who had been printing them for the church was using Microsoft Word. I was helping to put them on. By the time we would get to 2/3 down the label sheet the labels were printing high and the top line would end up being partially on the bottom of the label above it. There was no margin for error. The labels were full. I put the ingredients in the table style form and printed them in OpenOffice at that time (LibreOffice was not out yet, but the labels work just as well in it.) and they printed perfectly. No wasted labels at all. The advantage of the table style is that if you need to move the text right or left, simply drag the column widths. To change how the text is centered on the labels, simply change the top margin of the page. I do a fair amount of label printing, and I love the table style label templates. I also found in my e-mails to World Label, they are very strong proponents of Open Source. Therefore they get my business. Their prices are competitive also. I've only used American sizes. The only adjustments I've needed to make are to adjust for variations between printers. On 08/13/2011 09:20 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Oops, ignore my last email about this! Someone at work suggested turning the label sheets the other way around in the printer as there is often a tiny difference in the measurements between topbottom and leftright. I tried measuring it with a ruler but the difference seems negligible but it seemed to make a difference! My guess is that a lot of those templates need a slight editing. Last time i did labels i took the standard template and then modified it a bit for myself. Does the world label place allow uploads of improved designs or is there a place in LibreOffice wiki or somewhere that better templates could be stored? Regards from Tom :) From: Dennis E. Hamiltondennis.hamil...@acm.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 13 August, 2011 1:16:14 Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels Um, that statement makes no sense. Public domain documents require no license. They are either someone's copyright and licensed under the GPL or there's a quit claim on the copyright and no license applies. Although either case would make them all right to bundle with LibreOffice, you still have to figure out which case you are assuming. I would be concerned that whoever slapped that on there doesn't know what they are doing. (I think it is odd to apply the GPL to a document, but it's not that surprising.) - Dennis PS: For fun, I dug inside one of these. They were produced with OpenOffice.org 2.0 near the end of 2005. Remarkable. -Original Message- From: Don C. Myers [mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com] Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 16:27 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels Hi, On the World Label site they have the following statement: These documents are XML Open Document Format (ODF), Public Domain, licensed under GPL. On 08/12/2011 05:46 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think those templates can be used in LibreOffice but the docs team were trying to find someone to bring them into LibreOffice properly (assuming they are copy-left rather than copyright licensed). Regards from Tom :) From: Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 22:17:48 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels Hi, Open Office had form templates which an enterprising individual developed based on tables instead of instead of the block style that came with Open Office and like what Microsoft Word uses. I've used the US sizes and they work perfectly. It is super easy to adjust the column width by just dragging. The US sizes always start with the typing in the center of the label also. I'm not sure where to find them in Libre Office, but you can download them from http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm . I will never go back to the old style of labels formats. There was a tutorial on the Internet at one time. You may also find some help on the World Label site Don On 08/12/2011 05:04 PM, Claudio Aranha wrote: Hi friends I've been using LibreOffice since StarOffice and I always had dificulties printing labels, the Pimaco released a extension for BrOffice (Openoffice name in Brazil), this one: http://www.pimaco.com.br/images/upload/downloads/pimaco-labels.oxt The problem is that all the printed labels are more
Re: [libreoffice-users] Selecting record range in mail merge.
Hi, I don't know if this might help anyone or not. I had an OpenOffice form problem using the table template with a standard 30 label sheet (3 x 10). I have all of our Christmas card addresses in an OpenOffice database. I have the form setup, etc, to automatically pull the address information in when I click print and select the database, etc. It works great with one exception. Last year my wife said I missed having a few addresses included. I didn't think anything about it, and honestly, didn't think that was possible. This year before giving her the printed labels I thought I would check that everyone was there. I set the printing so it is sorting to print A_Z based on the last name. It takes three sheets. I have 78 names in the database, but only had 76 printed labels. What happened was when the printing went from the first sheet to the second sheet, it misses one record. The rest of the second page is fine. When I went from the second sheet to the third sheet, once again, it skipped the next label, then printed fine for the balance. When I say it skipped it, the missing record just disappears. It isn't that I end up with a blank label at the top of the sheet. The next one in line to be printed on the first label on Page 2 vanishes and the one that should be the second one on the second page becomes the first one on the second page. The same with the third page. A person would never pick this up unless checking the database against the printed labels. The solution I had one full page of labels with the fields in. I read on-line that you need one complete page with fields in for each page of labels. So I added two more pages so I have a three page template. When I created Pages 2 and 3 and by pasting the complete page 1, then scrolled up, I found there was a blank page between each label page. I deleted those pages, and I now have a perfectly working label template printing all of the address! Don On 08/22/2011 06:28 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's a fence-post error (i think). To means stop just short of, up to including is what you want but i don't know of a better work-around than the one you are using. If you were driving into town your first stop wouldn't be outside the far side of town. http://catb.org/jargon/html/F/fencepost-error.html http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~moniot/Opinions/fencepost-error-history.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error Regards from Tom :) From: Steve Edmondssteve.edmo...@ptglobal.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 22 August, 2011 3:48:28 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Selecting record range in mail merge. Hi. When printing a mail merge/form letter you have the option to select a record range for the form data. If you select From 1 to 100 then records 1 to 99 inclusive are printed, record 100 is not. If you select record From 50 to 50 (so you can print just record 50) then a letter prints with no data from the data source (those fields left blank). To print record 50 you need to print From 50 to 51. I have LO 3.3.2 installed on SUSE which shows this bug and have filed bug 40278. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40278 steve -- *** * -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3.4.3 released. Stable and functionality combined
Hi all, Here is the address for finding older versions of Java: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javasebusiness/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase6-419409.html#jre-6u21-b07-oth-JPR This particular link takes you to Version 21. You can scroll up or down for others. To download, you need to set up an account. Don On 09/01/2011 07:34 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) The java version _23, as in jre-6u23-windows-i586-s.exe seems to be quite slow but i don't know where to get the fastest java from, their jre-6u21-windows-i586-s.exe seems to be the fastest and most reliable. Java is being developed by Oracle which might be worth thinking about. Any java from _24 onwards seems to cause considerable problems, hence the disclaimer in the Release notes for 3.4.3. Regards from Tom :) From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productionswebmas...@krackedpress.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 1 September, 2011 12:00:10 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3.4.3 released. Stable and functionality combined Have you installed Java before, on your Windows computer? I know that if you do not have Java installed, the previous Windows LO installer [3.4.2, or was it 3.3.4] keeps going in a loop until it sees that there is Java on the machine. Most people would say that the installer was crashing during the in install process, if they got into that install loop. Java version 6 update 23 works, but have been having issues with the later Sun/Oracle Java runtime engines. Since Oracle's site has update 27, here is a copy of that version. http://libreoffice-na.us/English/jre/jre-6u23-windows-i586-s.exe If you have had LibreOffice installed before, and the JRE installed as well, I do not have a clue. I use Ubuntu by default, and only know about the loop while installing LO on a XP system that never had LO or OOo installed. On 09/01/2011 02:40 AM, Marius Popa wrote: I am using Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit. On 1 September 2011 09:08, planasjsloz...@gmail.com wrote: Marius, On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 07:07 +0300, Marius Popa wrote: It does not work! While it is loading, it crashes. What OS are you using? You might need to uninstall an earlier version, depending on the OS. Some Linux use 3.3.x and others 3.4.x. On 31 August 2011 21:13, Tom Daviestomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Hmmm, i don't think so. There might be one somewhere but not an official one. I think if you want the 3.4.x branch then the best choice is to download from a web-site. If that's going to be around 73Kb/s then i might wait a day or 2. Regards from Tom :) snip rest of thread -- 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 -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Re: 3.4.3 released. Stable and functionality combined
I agree totally!!! I gave the information reluctantly, but I wanted to my Base work properly, which for Linux (Ubuntu) 1.6.0_21 (and 22 for that matter) did the trick! On 09/01/2011 12:15 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: Yes, but Oracle required me to create a user account [with valid email and postal address for their mailings] before they would let me download any files. near the bottom of the following page, you can download the Windows version of the JREs without needing to create the account. http://libreoffice-na.us/English/install.html I sure do not like to give Oracle my name, address, phone, email, etc., etc., just to download a JRE. I do not know how many others would like that either. On 09/01/2011 12:03 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi all, Here is the address for finding older versions of Java: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javasebusiness/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase6-419409.html#jre-6u21-b07-oth-JPR This particular link takes you to Version 21. You can scroll up or down for others. To download, you need to set up an account. Don On 09/01/2011 07:34 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) The java version _23, as in jre-6u23-windows-i586-s.exe seems to be quite slow but i don't know where to get the fastest java from, their jre-6u21-windows-i586-s.exe seems to be the fastest and most reliable. Java is being developed by Oracle which might be worth thinking about. Any java from _24 onwards seems to cause considerable problems, hence the disclaimer in the Release notes for 3.4.3. Regards from Tom :) From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productionswebmas...@krackedpress.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 1 September, 2011 12:00:10 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3.4.3 released. Stable and functionality combined Have you installed Java before, on your Windows computer? I know that if you do not have Java installed, the previous Windows LO installer [3.4.2, or was it 3.3.4] keeps going in a loop until it sees that there is Java on the machine. Most people would say that the installer was crashing during the in install process, if they got into that install loop. Java version 6 update 23 works, but have been having issues with the later Sun/Oracle Java runtime engines. Since Oracle's site has update 27, here is a copy of that version. http://libreoffice-na.us/English/jre/jre-6u23-windows-i586-s.exe If you have had LibreOffice installed before, and the JRE installed as well, I do not have a clue. I use Ubuntu by default, and only know about the loop while installing LO on a XP system that never had LO or OOo installed. On 09/01/2011 02:40 AM, Marius Popa wrote: I am using Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit. On 1 September 2011 09:08, planasjsloz...@gmail.com wrote: Marius, On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 07:07 +0300, Marius Popa wrote: It does not work! While it is loading, it crashes. What OS are you using? You might need to uninstall an earlier version, depending on the OS. Some Linux use 3.3.x and others 3.4.x. On 31 August 2011 21:13, Tom Daviestomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Hmmm, i don't think so. There might be one somewhere but not an official one. I think if you want the 3.4.x branch then the best choice is to download from a web-site. If that's going to be around 73Kb/s then i might wait a day or 2. Regards from Tom :) snip rest of thread -- 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 -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Re: JRE older installs - Windows - nowonline - no need for Oracleaccount
Hi Dave and all, I only run LibreOffice in Linux, specifically Ubuntu 11.04. Java versions 1.6.0_24 and 1.6.0_26 essentially broke base. I have a database with about 2600 records in. Before the two releases mentioned, going from the first record to last record took a second. With either of those two versions, it would take 20 to 25 seconds. It slowed mail merge to a crawl also. The way that the older version, such as 1.6.0_21 is installed in Linux, or at least specifically in Ubuntu, it is only available for Libre Office. My browsers all are using the most current version. I've checked. Also, 1.6.0_21 does not show up as an installed package on the Linux system in synaptic package manager. It is only being used for LibreOffice, primarily Base. There is no plugin installed to make it available for browsers. I'm very security conscious. I've not run LibreOffice on Windows, so I don't know if the issues of problems with Java affected Windows installs or not. One post some time ago indicated it only affected Linux installs of LibreOffice. Regardless, I now have a functional Base working as it should, and still have the security of the latest released version of Java for Ubuntu for my browsers. Hopefully this will help you understand the issue. Don On 09/02/2011 07:04 AM, David H. Lipman wrote: From: Dave Sergeantd...@davesergeant.com On 1 Sep 2011 at 13:25, David H. Lipman wrote: I have analyzed obfuscated Javascripts and viewed deobfuscated Javascripts that uses a laundry list of vulnerabilities and software versions in the vulnerability/exploitation attack vector. What on earth has javascript to do with this issue? This is a JAVA issue. Any vulnerabilities in javascript only affect javascript, which is a totally different kettle of fish and doesn't even form part of LO. I remain puzzled by this thread. I have Java 1.6.0.26 installed and that works just fine with LO 3.4.3 on Windows XP SP3. The suggestion to deliberately install old potentially insecure versions of Java is very bad advice, not to mention the copyright infringements of hosting it on personal web space. I'm sorry if this subject matter escapes you. What I have tried to do is to explain the perils of using older versions of Oracle Java. In this thread I have I tried to relate how using an older version can compromise your PC. In short... When you install an older version of JRE that version is made available via a Browser Helper Object or Browser Plug-In to Internet Browsers. When you visit a malicious website (or get redirected to a malicious web site by something like a hidden IFrame) that malicious web site can use exploit code to compromise one's computer. Usually the exploit code is in the form of an obfuscated Javascript and will use a laundry list of exploits seeking out vulnerable software (such as JRE) and particular vulnerable versions. -- *** * -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Platform cross-compatability
Hi Alexander, I was found the statement and with some kind of cache issue preventing user configurations from working properly when trying to use an ODB file produced on another machine of interest. I've been using Base since it first came out, so probably 8 years, +/-. Prior to that I used Paradox in windows. Base was used in Windows for about 5 1/2 years, and in Ubuntu the last 2 1/2 years. I always have one machine where all changes are made. Then I keep updated copies on 3 other machines. I've had different computer upgrades during that time also. Knock on wood, but Base has always performed perfectly for me on my main work computer which has the original, and the others which I keep updated. Not one issue in all of that time. This isn't a huge database. It has about 2600 records in. Hopefully I never run into the issue you mentioned above!!! Don On 09/02/2011 08:48 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 02/09/11 13:19, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, Errr, Alex and Andreas are 2 of the Base experts here. There are a few others too. My advice was based on a few posts by Andreas a while ago but i might have to work out how i misinterpreted his advice if Alex is saying something different. Usually i like it when different experts given contradictory advice because it leads to discussion where i learn something. I thought it was a good idea to avoid Hsql but i could easily be wrong. I don't think you have misunderstood. Base can be used cross-platform providing you keep it simple, e.g. : - filenames and filename paths should be made cross-platform compatible, i.e. don't name your ODB file or your tables, queries, reports, etc, with weird and wonderful characters that might be supported on one OS and not the other ; if possible, stick to ASCII 127; - don't rely on file path separators to be correctly interpreted if you store object references in your database (e.g. images, video, sounds and other binary objects) ; - if you do store references to binary objects in your db, use relative references, and ensure that your target host has the same directory setup ; - beware of potential localisation and cross-platform issues especially with regard to your choice of data types. - save your Forms outside of the Base container, i.e. when the form is open, click on Save as and save it to a different location. You can then provide the forms saved in this way independently of the ODB file. In the past, there have also been known (as in mailing list discussion and possibly OOo bugtracker) problems with user configuration files getting either overwritten or not correctly updated, and with some kind of cache issue preventing user configurations from working properly when trying to use an ODB file produced on another machine. These appear to unfortunately be rather random, and so difficult to pinpoint, but when they do occur can be really frustrating. Alex -- *** * -- 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] [OT] Microsloth Winblows was: Re: Lotus Wordpro files
Hi Brian, I agree totally with everything you said, other than the mis-spelling in the title. Because of the things Microsoft has done over the years, I'm 95% to 98% windows free, and love using Ubuntu!!! I'm sorry if I hurt you. That was not my intent. Since there are so many Windows users yet, and some of them using LibreOffice, and since some Windows users will never ever change, I didn't want them to feel we were not hospitable to them here. I've installed Ubuntu in the last 2 years roughly on about 22 computers of friends and family. But a few people have not let me touch their computer, and become quite defensive when I even mention about Linux or Ubuntu. It is sad since there is a whole new world out there waiting for them that they will never experience!! Don On 09/02/2011 11:31 AM, Grawburg wrote: If I have offended someone, I apologize; however, making negative comments about an OS is certainly not a personal attack against users of said OS. I could care less what OS someone uses, I am though, entitled to my personal opinion regarding Windows, Linux, OS/2, etc. That being said, can anyone deny that Microsoft has always made it difficult for people to use any software that competes with something they offer? Microsoft may control the world market for desktop operating systems; that does not make it necessarily the best available. Every iteration of Windows makes it increasingly difficult for the average person to continue using their existing hardware. My Thinkpad T30 works fine with XP (my T20 works fine with OS/2), do you think it will function well with Windows 7? Microsoft seems to think everyone has a bottomless pocket and can constantly upgrade their equipment. Don, give me a break. Brian Grawburg -Original Message- From: Don Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: 09/02/11 12:34 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Microsloth Winblows was: Re: Lotus Wordpro files I totally agree NoOp. On 09/01/2011 10:04 PM, NoOp wrote: On 08/31/2011 07:17 AM, Grawburg wrote: Why not install Virtual PC? I have a client who had to do this and it works very well. You have found one of the major deficiency of Microsloth Winblows. I ... I don't think that it's really necessary, or appropriate, to use the above - particularly on this list. LO supports multiple operating systems, Microsoft Windows being one of them. I use linux (also test in MS Windows), and I don't find the need to slam other OS's in the process. What OS the user selects is their own personal choice (we now have that option). -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Website at www.cbur-ruralproperty.comhttp://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/_ _View Don's farm website: www.myersfarm.comhttp://www.myersfarm.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] Re: Defective layout in Base with libreoffice 3.4.x
Hi All, When I went from OpenOffice to the first LibreOffice release, 3.3.x, I changed the size of all my fields in the Base forms since the display area became larger, and not all of the text I had entered would display. When I went to the 3.4 series, I had to increase the size of the page size to make the fields fit back into the Page. That was easier than going back and changing all of the field sizes again. Maybe this is related to what is being experienced here. Don On 09/02/2011 12:29 PM, Steven Shelton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/2/2011 11:22 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: The web display by default was a bug that was corrected in a recent version of LO, but I don't remember which one, I think one of the 3.4.x versions. The default was changed back to Print Display I think. I didn't follow the bug thread and its resolution in detail, so don't remember know exactly what was fixed. That could explain the problem I'm having on my end. I have a database form that works great under LO 3.3, but in 3.4 it always goes into Print view. Editing it, changing the view, and saving doesn't seem to help. I think they may have just changed the bug from always defaulting to web display to always defaulting to print display. - -- Steven Shelton -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5hBE4ACgkQXUonIzCvpdNYvACfVd8rBM7BcyDi5Sh+P1gvd2zH jCQAn0DNBDvJnL1FkCDptGZaojeit3eZ =pGHj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- *** * -- 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] Formating fields in mail merge
Thank you so much for sharing this information with us!! This is what makes the LibreOffice community a community! Don On 09/05/2011 10:37 AM, David Buckley wrote: I have been trying to format currency fields in libreoffice using fields from tables and queries in base, after many tests I have found the solution to my problem which gives a proper currency output. If I right click the column in the open table of the database it can be formatted to currency or any of the other options and this will feed the format to a query or mail merge and will store the setting for next time. This works fine if the data is in a table and no further action is needed. If I need to use a field in a query that is calculated in the query from a value in a table (like costone / 2) the column can be formatted in the query but the format does not carry to the mailmerge. Also the format cannot be saved. The answer is, open the mailmerge starting document, right click on the field to be formatted, select fields from the list, under format select user defined, open the combi box that says general, select additional formats and select the one you need. Save the document then do the mailmerge. Hope this helps someone as I could not find an answer David -- *** * -- 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] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?
On 09/08/2011 07:44 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Nothing to do with countries - only to do with laziness vs spending a few extra seconds intelligently crafting your responses. Thank you!! -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?
Hi to all, Some of you have convinced me to use top posting, since it is better. Some of you have convinced me to use bottom posting, since it is better. Some of you have convinced me to do snipping, since it is better. Obviously there isn't a black and white solution. *My Big Concern* here is how are we being perceived by those who come here for help by the amount of time that has been spent on this thread today. I was one of the first responders last night. Never did I dream when I went to bed last night my inbox will be filled with a discussion like this today. People come here for help. People come here to help others. If this was the first day I came to this list, and I saw all of this and my problem being somewhat trivialized by all of this discussion, I would be out of hear. Is it not time to put this to rest and move on with the business this list was created for? I'm not trying to hurt anybody's feelings, but quite honestly, I'm sure a newcomer hear today would not be at all impressed with a list that has done a tremendous amount of good for LibreOffice and provided great help to many people in the past. Don On 09/08/2011 02:58 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I use a standard email client in a standard way set on it's defaults. There are likely to be more people using such systems as LibreOffice becomes more popular. Hold onto your hats! Why are people in here so determined to make things unpleasant and difficult for normal office workers? Is LibreOffice not meant to be used in offices by office workers? Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 8/9/11, Nuno J. Silvanunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: From: Nuno J. Silvanunojsi...@ist.utl.pt Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 8 September, 2011, 19:33 -sigh- let's see if I can get this attribution thing fixed... gnus-outlook-deuglify-article couldn't process this message On 2011-09-08, Tom Davies wrote: On Thu, 8/9/11, Ken Springersnowsh...@q.com wrote: On 9/8/11 11:37 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2011-09-08 11:14 AM Tom Davies wrote: Interspersing or bottom-posting ensures that every message needs to be scrolled through unless people delete all the stuff that is irrelevant (in their opinion, which 'might not' be the same as the opinion of the person reading). Top posting means that most emails can be read without any scrolling at all. Not true. You have to scroll down to see what is being responded to then scroll back up to see the response. Since you do not include proper attribution marks for the posts you respond to, the immediate message you respond to appears to be written by you. Well, I guess if someone has a pretty damn good short term memory, then we really don't need any context at all. That's right, we need ... erm, what was I talking about again? Larry has just presented two other problems with top-posting. No, he didn't. He just showed that he has not read any of the posts yet as his arguments are already countered in previous posts. What was exactly your argument to support lack of proper citation/attribution marks? Besides it doesn't matter how strong the argument against top-posting might be. The fact is that it is widely used especially by office workers. Do we want to stop office workers from using LibreOffice? Alienating them would be a good way to get them to stay with whatever else they already use. Maybe we should instead teach office workers to use e-mail correctly. Betamax was a better format than VHS but it lost the battle for acceptance and now the argument is irrelevant anyway. Perhaps it is similar with bottom posting. It might be better but almost no-one in our target markets use it (note the almost there). Most people would rather use forums anyway as mailing lists are ancient and out-dated. Unlike betamax and VHS, top-posted emails and bottom-posted emails are both readable by the same kind of client, so that analogy won't work. With betamax and VHS, unless you buy a VCR that supports both, or two VCRs, you get to stick with the choice you made and you can't use the other format. So, do we want to go the route of betamax, ie obscurity, or do we want to get LibreOffice out there and being used? -- Ken Mac OS X 10.6.8 Firefox 6.0.2 Thunderbird 6.0.2 LibreOffice 3.3.3 -- 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 Can't you at least delete signatures? -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?
Hi All, On 09/08/2011 04:23 PM, Ken Springer wrote: *My Big Concern* here is how are we being perceived by those who come here for help by the amount of time that has been spent on this thread today. I was one of the first responders last night. Never did I dream when I went to bed last night my inbox will be filled with a discussion like this today. People come here for help. People come here to help others. If this was the first day I came to this list, and I saw all of this and my problem being somewhat trivialized by all of this discussion, I would be out of here. My perception if I was a new user, is if a thread is long, it must be something important enough to generate that much discussion. But once I started reading the posts, and found that replies were here and there and spread all over the place, I'd get so frustrated trying to figure things out I'd just leave after awhile. And that would certainly not help the LO cause. :-) I'm not trying to hurt anybody's feelings, but quite honestly, I'm sure a newcomer here today would not be at all impressed with a list that has done a tremendous amount of good for LibreOffice and provided great help to many people in the past. I certainly agree with you here. Thanks Ken! Another thing. Does anyone actually read those links at the bottom? I'm not asking this facetiously. I joined this List probably about 5 months ago and have left a fair number of posts. I never, ever, once, looked at anything at the bottom. I never even thought about looking at anything down there. I would assume that is true for most folks. I did look at the links tonight, but am too far behind to click on them right now. Don -- *** * -- 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] LO on Lucid...
Hi Barry, What has worked very well for me from back in the days when Ubuntu didn't update things like OpenOffice until a new version of Ubuntu came out has been the following. Someone had posted these instructions several years ago for OpenOffice. I've used it since probably Ubuntu 9.04 through 11.04, just modifying it for the proper version and file location for the menus for each new version of OpenOffice, and now LibreOffice: Upgrading to LibreOffice 3.4.3: For LibreOffice, download the 32 bit or 64 bit debian version from LibreOffice.org to the desktop, or move it to the desktop. Then right click on it and choose extract to extract it to the desktop. Then do the following commands in the terminal: (For 32 bit version below – for 64 bit modify the lines below for the correct version: Remove OpenOffice or LibreOffice with: sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.* or sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.* sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/LibO_3.4.3rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/*.deb sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/LibO_3.4.3rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.4-debian-menus_3.4-302_all.deb gksu add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa I've always used the direct download from LibreOffice. This method has never failed me on many computers, many versions of Ubuntu, and many upgrades originally in OpenOffice and now LibreOffice. Don On 09/20/2011 05:22 PM, Barry Smith wrote: Hi, gang! Summary (before I get wildly off-topic) -- Thank you for a great app in LO... Keep up the great work... Okay... keep reading at your own peril. ;) You were warned. :) I have had an interesting month. For a while now, I have been cron'ing a backup of ~ to my 2T USB drive, as well as forcing myself to remember to do most of my work on the USB. I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 maverick to Ubuntu 11.04 natty (I was surprised one night by Update Manager, so I let it upgrade to natty), and things quickly started going completely _batty_! (I chose a word that rhymed with natty... although a few curse words were what originally came to mind). I almost freaked when the upgrade started deleting all of my apps, and only replacing some of them apps in natty, and I really was nervous when it replace OoO with LO. LO is now my standard suite on Linux and Windows, and I'm still converting others from M$ to OoO and now LO in Windoze. So I went to natty Gnome2 and LO... tried to install Gnome3 for Evolution... very bad idea. Gnome3 would not display so I had to install natty Xfce. natty Xfce just wouldn't do some things that I was used to in Gnome2 (like mount my darn 2T USB), and I lost all of my Evolution email archives, so I installed KDE and swiched to kdm... hoping to magically find my evolution email structure somewhere. I somehow ended up booting Xubuntu, and using kdm/KDE... I'm not sure how I did it. Apparently, all of my Gnome2 programs were still there, but I had to find them and run them from the commandline... until I started figuring out how to add items to the menu... yet I just wasn't satisfied with KDE. One or two massive updates, and long unstable boots watching Xbuntu . . . . ... I said time to go back to LTE plus PPAs. KDE was still was not as strong as Gnome2... so I punted and called it a wash! I re-installed the last LTE which was Lucid 10.04.3. Found out that you have to amputate and donate your left forearm to science in order to install LO on Lucid, especially when Lucid is fresh. I added the LO PPA, and compiled one sudo apt-get install for LO including all of the Suggested packages (sort of as an exercise to see how many packages I had to install. The only meta package (LO) didn't include msttcore-whatever or Java-anything... I know that my final all-in-one install for LO and all that it needed was more that a single 23x80 Terminal screen could display... not to mention the research for no candidate for this package that I had to research. During the install of LO, dpkg couldn't find some script files or something, and dpkg was wonky on a couple of installs of Firefox 6 or Thunderbird 6... It eventually cleared up again and is working right... I say ALL of that to say -- Ubuntu is probably the most flexible platform for installing things... from synaptic apt-get aptitude dpkg to yum rfm packages. I'm just glad that I was able to get back up and running... and install LO into lucid (along with other apps)... all in less than a week. :) I've given up on evolution, when I can to what I need in TB-enig-Sunbird. Oh, you might have figured out, encryption is an important thing to me, by my last statement. Thank you for a great app in LO... Keep up the great work... so people will stop asking me to download an illegal copy of MS Office for them. ;( -- Barry Smith e bnsmith...@gmail.com w http://bit.ly/l8QJup -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors
[libreoffice-users] Slow Opening of LibreOffice in Ubuntu
Hi All, Tom has mentioned several times about disabling Java so LibreOffice would open faster. I started using LibreOffice when it first became available. It opened very slowly compared to OpenOffice. I ran across the following when I researched the issue. It was due to LibreOffice calling home when it was initially opened. I don't know if this still happens or not, but the following fixed this issue for me (running Ubuntu 11.04) and others who were having the issue back then: /*Change hosts setting in hosts file for LibreOffice on Ubuntu 11.04:*/ /In terminal, do gksudo gedit /etc/hosts/ /Add line as shown below: For instance, *127.0.0.1 don localhost don.(none) Originally it looks like this *127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 galaxy *Add a line so it looks like this:* 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 galaxy 127.0.0.1 galaxy localhost galaxy.(none) *save* *Now OpenOffice.org Writer and Calc open fast when the network connection is attached.* For anyone new reading this, replace galaxy with whatever you have named your computer./ / /Don -- * *** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto Filling Drop Down Boxes
://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 -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Boarders in calc
Hi Gary, I'm sorry, but I'm the wrong person to be able to answer your question. Hopefully someone else will be able to help you. Don On 09/24/2011 06:18 PM, GarryM wrote: Don With LibO 3.3.4, assigning shortcut keys to special characters is not working. I record the macros, no problem, but after assigning the keys (e.g. ALT+a = á) when the shortcut is utilised the TABLE menu drops down. My first download was LibO 3.4 and when the shortcut assigning didn't work I removed 3.4 and installed 3.3.4. But, same problem. On OO 3.3 the assigning works fine so I went back into LIb O and tried again. It shows the keys are assigned but they don't elicit the correct response. What do I need to do for LibO to accept the shortcut keys,please? garrymo --- On Sat, 9/24/11, Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: From: Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Boarders in calc To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Saturday, September 24, 2011, 4:05 PM Hi, If you right click on a cell and choose format, and then borders, you can choose from several double lines. Don On 09/24/2011 04:43 PM, Rasmus Højbjerg wrote: Hi LibreOffice team I really like LibreOffice, but i think that Calc can be made better. If you put double underline in boarders. I use double underline all the time, and i really miss that feature. Please include it in the next update, if possible. -- * *** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc and Base problems.
On 09/30/2011 11:29 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 30.09.2011 16:03, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi Ian, First, there are far more knowledgeable people responding here than I am. But here are a few thoughts from reading this thread. These suggestions are from my having used a database similar to yours for years in Open Office, and since roughly 6 months in LibreOffice since I switched from OpenOffice. I copy my database to 3 other computers running LibreOffice (I did the same thing when I was using Open Office) and I've never had any issues at all on any of the computers. So your doing it should work perfectly fine. I also don't think this is a Java issue. I'm assuming you have both LibreOffice and Open Office installed. I've never had both on the same computer at the same time. When I moved to LibreOffice, before I installed it, I removed Open Office. Maybe there is a conflict on the second computer since I see ooobuild in the path below. The second thought is maybe LibreOffice actually isn't finding your database on the second computer. I would compare your setup, paths, etc. on the first computer with the one on the second computer, and make sure on the second computer LibreOffice is looking in the right place for the database. I always have a folder under home/documents/Database where I keep my database on all of the computers. Don Don, 1) I run 5 versions of OOo (2.4.3/3.3/3.4beta) and LibO(3.3/3.4) on the same machine without any trouble nor conflict. OOo 2.x, 3.x and LibO behave as independent applications so I can run them at the same time. If it were a Windows machine I would run MS Office, Word Perfect or whatever as well. First of all you should be aware about the database you are working with. No, Base is *not* a database. Your database is indicated in the status bar of the connected database document. If it claims to be embedded then you need to understand that you are working with a kind of plug-in that installs an external database. 2) I was not talking about the folder where to store the so called database document. I was talking about the folder where the *true* database gets extracted to while you start up your embedded HSQLDB. Base is *not* a database program. You never work with Base. You *always* utilize some office features in order to work with some external database, even when it claims to be an integrated or embedded database. I strongly recommend to abstain from this type of database except for demos and drafts. Demo proposal (1 minute of time): Look up your temp. folder in ToolsOptionsPaths and open that folder in your preferred file manager. Open any of your integrated database documents (status bar: embedded HSQLDB). Open any object table, query, form or report in your database. Watch the temp. folder. This is the place where your HSQL database actually lives. Close the integrated database document and watch the database disappearing. The database will be lost when any office component crashes while the database gets installed or repackaged respectively. Databases grow over time. The larger the database, the more likely you will lose the entire database so you need to restore it from backups. 3) In a Windows network I run a HSQLDB server and many clients. Each client writes to the very same database simultaniously through LibreOffice forms (could be any other database forms as well, Access for instance). No matter which component crashes, there can not be any data loss except the currently edited records. Of course I run daily backups, but only on the server machine. On the clients there is nothing to save. Hi Andreas, Thank you very much. Yes, I have an embedded data base, and yes, in the temp folder when I open a form in the database a new temporary file appears and when I close it the file goes away. You have a much more elaborate system and use than I do. I have about 2,600 records in mine. I use it for doing some mail merge with writer, and basically for keeping information and updates for clients I work with. Is there a simple way to use the LibreOffice Front end with my form and use another database for the database file without it becoming a nightmare in trying to set it up? I'm running Ubuntu 11.04. Thank you so much! Don -- * *** -- 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] Adding a song to an Impress presentation
On 10/05/2011 04:43 PM, ycor wrote: Is there any way to add a song to the 2nd or 3rd slide of a presentation and make it play through the rest of the presentation? Or when it gets through to start playing another song until it gets through? And so on. Roxy -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Adding-a-song-to-an-Impress-presentation-tp3397901p3397901.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Hi Roxy, I don't know the answer to your question with respect to Impress. But something I have done is to make slide shows in my video editing program by using pictures instead of actual video, and then adding narration and background music. It worked quite well. Don -- * *** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation
Hi Roxy, I'm 95% Linux (Ubuntu), but part of the 5% left in windows is my video editing program, which is Ulead. Te current version is called Corel Video Studio I believe. Instead of capturing video to edit, I can just put in pictures from my hard drive. The reason I still do this in Windows is that I have about 300 songs I've purchased over the years from smartsound.com so I can legally use it on the Internet, and it is very easy to integrate the songs into the video. Here is a link for the 2011 Ag Progress Days Slide Show so you can see what it looks like doing it this way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWJ-xoG0OhU This will help you know whether this method would work for you. You could use larger pictures than I did. I wanted this to work for people on slow connections also. Don On 10/05/2011 05:49 PM, ycor wrote: Don, This slide presentation will probably be about 100 slides long when I finish it - though it will never really be finished. It is a listing, if you will, of the deceased alumni from the small high school where I graduated. It currently starts with the class of 1919 and runs to the present. In most cases one slide contains each class, though there are some classes that cover 2 pages. I have 3 or 4 songs I'd like to use while the presentation is running - one starting when the previous completes. And then starting back with the first one again. I'm not sure how that would transfer over into a video program. Roxy On 10/05/2011 04:43 PM, ycor wrote: Is there any way to add a song to the 2nd or 3rd slide of a presentation and make it play through the rest of the presentation? Or when it gets through to start playing another song until it gets through? And so on. Roxy -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Adding-a-song-to-an-Impress-presentation-tp3397901p3397 901.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Hi Roxy, I don't know the answer to your question with respect to Impress. But something I have done is to make slide shows in my video editing program by using pictures instead of actual video, and then adding narration and background music. It worked quite well. Don -- * *** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [hidden email] 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 If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below:http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Adding-a-song-to-an-Impress-presentation-tp339790 1p3397980.html To unsubscribe from Adding a song to an Impress presentation, click here .. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Adding-a-song-to-an-Impress-presentation-tp3397901p3398076.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] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation
Hi Roxy, I've used Impress and Power Point very, very little. I'm sorry I couldn't be of better help here. Good Luck!!! Don On 10/05/2011 07:31 PM, ycor wrote: Don, I guess if I had pictures of each slide that would probably be the way I go, but they are just simple slides I've done within Impress. They all use the same base slide with the names typed in one the slides. I did just find some help within Impress that, I think, is what I'm looking to do. Now I just have to go back and re-time each slide, as some where along the way I must have inadvertently hit the Apply to All Slides button on a 4 second slide. So, we live and learn. I hope I don't do that again. Roxy Hi Roxy, I'm 95% Linux (Ubuntu), but part of the 5% left in windows is my video editing program, which is Ulead. Te current version is called Corel Video Studio I believe. Instead of capturing video to edit, I can just put in pictures from my hard drive. The reason I still do this in Windows is that I have about 300 songs I've purchased over the years from smartsound.com so I can legally use it on the Internet, and it is very easy to integrate the songs into the video. Here is a link for the 2011 Ag Progress Days Slide Show so you can see what it looks like doing it this way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWJ-xoG0OhU This will help you know whether this method would work for you. You could use larger pictures than I did. I wanted this to work for people on slow connections also. Don On 10/05/2011 05:49 PM, ycor wrote: Don, This slide presentation will probably be about 100 slides long when I finish it - though it will never really be finished. It is a listing, if you will, of the deceased alumni from the small high school where I graduated. It currently starts with the class of 1919 and runs to the present. In most cases one slide contains each class, though there are some classes that cover 2 pages. I have 3 or 4 songs I'd like to use while the presentation is running - one starting when the previous completes. And then starting back with the first one again. I'm not sure how that would transfer over into a video program. Roxy On 10/05/2011 04:43 PM, ycor wrote: Is there any way to add a song to the 2nd or 3rd slide of a presentation and make it play through the rest of the presentation? Or when it gets through to start playing another song until it gets through? And so on. Roxy -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Adding-a-song-to-an-Impress-presentation-tp3397901p33 97 901.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Hi Roxy, I don't know the answer to your question with respect to Impress. But something I have done is to make slide shows in my video editing program by using pictures instead of actual video, and then adding narration and background music. It worked quite well. Don -- * *** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [hidden email] 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 If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below:http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Adding-a-song-to-an-Impress-presentation-tp3397 90 1p3397980.html To unsubscribe from Adding a song to an Impress presentation, click here .. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Adding-a-song-to-an-Impress-presentation-tp3397901p3398 076.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- * *** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [hidden email] 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 If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below:http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Adding-a-song-to-an-Impress-presentation-tp339790 1p3398199.html To unsubscribe from Adding a song to an Impress presentation, click here .. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Adding-a-song-to-an-Impress-presentation-tp3397901p3398322.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] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
On Ubuntu 11.10 synaptic is not installed by default. So if doing a clean install, simply get it from the software center. If you are doing any upgrade from 11.04, it should be there. To open it in 11.10, click on the Dash button and type in syn and it will be there to run. You could add it to the launcher. When 11.04 came out, I was reluctant to move it from 10.10 because of all of then negative things I had read. But I decided to since if I was going to be continuing to use Ubuntu, that is what I would need to learn. The Unity had some quirks, but over all wasn't too bad. I learned to really like the launcher bar. When I would go back to a machine with the old desktop on 10.10 after several months, it felt antiquated and old fashioned. 11.10 is smoother, works fast, and I am most pleased with it. It isn't perfect, but significant progress has been made over 11.04. On 10/18/2011 12:32 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: Unity looks good, sometimes, so I have been told. But for people use to GNOME or KDE, I would make sure those desktops are installed and set them as the default. Everything I have read, and heard, makes me fee that will be my only choice, once I get my monitor issues fixed so I can install 11.xx. It may be worse with Win 8 and its Ribbon style of desktop. Good for touch pads but not of desktops. That menu form is what many of my MSO users would not go beyond MSO 2003 or switched to OOo and then LO. On 10/18/2011 11:05 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Which version of Ubuntu are you using? It might be easier to try to uninstall things using the package manager while LibreOffice is closed. Perhaps the lock is due to LibreOffice being open? In Ubuntu 10.10 and earlier try the top taskbar and click on System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager I don't know how to do that in Ubuntu 11.10 or 11.04. If you are using one of them then perhaps open a command-line / terminal-console and try gksu synaptic to open Synaptic? Either way once open the sesarhc tools should help you find the extensions. I would search for libreoffice and then click the top of the column that has the green splodges in it that indicate packages that are installed. Hopefully that will get all the installed packages, extensions and all to the top so you can just scroll down to find the one you want. The package manager ususally searches in descriptions as well as titles so a straight-forwards search might just give you the right thing straight away but i'm a bit pessimistic about that sort of thing ;) Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 18/10/11, chimak111chimak...@gmail.com wrote: From: chimak111chimak...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 18 October, 2011, 15:13 Hi, I installed lo-menubar from the Ubuntu Software Center which is said to provide a Global Menu rather than a program-specific one. While the installation is successful and the extension works as stated, I would like to disable or remove it because I now realise that it does have *Windows* as part of the Global Menu. There's File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Tools, Help ... but no *Windows*. I'm used to relying on *Windows* and then opening a new window of the same document. Additionally, LibreOffice would remember how I arrange two Windows and open the second window just the way I like it. Since Windows is missing, I have to work around by going to File, New Document which I don't like. When I look in Tools, Extension Manager, I see three extensions listed: Copy Visible cells (which I had installed on LibreOffice 3.3 / Natty and which has been retained during the upgrade to 11.10) menubar (installed via Ubuntu Software Center) Script Provider for Python 3.3.0 (which seems to have been there by default since I didn't install it) The last two, menubar and Script Provider have little locks next to them. While the first, Copy visible cells has a disable/remove option, the two with locks next to them don't. So it looks like I cannot disable or remove menubar unless someone helps me! -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-3-4-3-on-Ubuntu-11-10-Unity-3D-tp3431366p3431366.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 -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue
Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) and Base/Java on 11.10
I've been enjoying it. With respect to the LibreOffice/Base issue, I did one clean install of the 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10, and three upgrades from 11.04. On the clean install, Sun (Oracle) Java is not installed nor is it available in the repository nor is it available from a partner. If you really have to have it it can be installed if you look hard. What I read said Ubuntu felt that the Open JDK had progressed far enough and was secure, and that it would take care of almost anybody's needs. I just left things the way the default install did it and didn't install Sun Java. I uninstalled the packaged LibreOffice that came with Ubuntu, and then installed the 3.4.3 that is directly from LibreOffice. I then tried Base. It was TERRIBLY slow. I checked what it said the Java was, and it said it was Sun Microsystems, Inc. Version 1.6.0_23. With a clean install, where did it come from??? Maybe it read the OpenJDK as being 1.6.0_23 as being the Sun Version. I don't know. So the I installed 1.6.0_21 and Base was very happy again!!! In Synaptic there is no evidence that Sun Java 1.6.0_23 is installed, nor does 1.6.0_21 show up the way we are installing it. Could it have been shipped with Base? Don Original Message Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:18:27 +0100 (BST) From: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Hi :) I really quite like the 11.10. When i tried the 11.04 i really hated it but the 11.10 is a big improvement. I still prefer traditional menus such as KDE or Gnome or any of the others but i get the feeling Unity is worth getting to know. I like the way the top-taskbar becomes the title-bar when you hover the mouse arrow over it and i really like the way that accessing LibreOffice and Firefox is so easy! ;) Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 18/10/11, Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: From: Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 18 October, 2011, 18:10 On Ubuntu 11.10 synaptic is not installed by default. So if doing a clean install, simply get it from the software center. If you are doing any upgrade from 11.04, it should be there. To open it in 11.10, click on the Dash button and type in syn and it will be there to run. You could add it to the launcher. When 11.04 came out, I was reluctant to move it from 10.10 because of all of then negative things I had read. But I decided to since if I was going to be continuing to use Ubuntu, that is what I would need to learn. The Unity had some quirks, but over all wasn't too bad. I learned to really like the launcher bar. When I would go back to a machine with the old desktop on 10.10 after several months, it felt antiquated and old fashioned. 11.10 is smoother, works fast, and I am most pleased with it. It isn't perfect, but significant progress has been made over 11.04. On 10/18/2011 12:32 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: Unity looks good, sometimes, so I have been told. But for people use to GNOME or KDE, I would make sure those desktops are installed and set them as the default. Everything I have read, and heard, makes me fee that will be my only choice, once I get my monitor issues fixed so I can install 11.xx. It may be worse with Win 8 and its Ribbon style of desktop. Good for touch pads but not of desktops. That menu form is what many of my MSO users would not go beyond MSO 2003 or switched to OOo and then LO. On 10/18/2011 11:05 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Which version of Ubuntu are you using? It might be easier to try to uninstall things using the package manager while LibreOffice is closed. Perhaps the lock is due to LibreOffice being open? In Ubuntu 10.10 and earlier try the top taskbar and click on System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager I don't know how to do that in Ubuntu 11.10 or 11.04. If you are using one of them then perhaps open a command-line / terminal-console and try gksu synaptic to open Synaptic? Either way once open the sesarhc tools should help you find the extensions. I would search for libreoffice and then click the top of the column that has the green splodges in it that indicate packages that are installed. Hopefully that will get all the installed packages, extensions and all to the top so you can just scroll down to find the one you want. The package manager ususally searches in descriptions as well as titles so a straight-forwards search might just give you the right thing straight away but i'm a bit pessimistic about that sort of thing ;) Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 18/10/11, chimak111chimak...@gmail.com wrote: From:
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: Re: LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) and Base/Java on 11.10
On 10/18/2011 10:10 PM, NoOp wrote: On 10/18/2011 06:30 PM, Don Myers wrote: On 10/18/2011 07:35 PM, NoOp wrote: If you would have/read/ what it said, you would have seen that it was *openJDK* version 1.6.0_23 (which of course is the Sun/Oracle package) - bottom of the Java options panel: Location:/usr/lib/jvm/java6-openjdk/jre Hi NoOP, Thank you for your detailed response. With all due respect, when I clicked in LibreOffice on Tools/Options/Java LibreOffice said exactly: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Version 1.6.0_23 and not openJDK I can take a screenshot of it for you tomorrow if you would like. Don No need. Just look at the: bottom of the Java options panel: Location:/usr/lib/jvm/java6-openjdk/jre and you'll see that it's java6-openjdk. Hi NoOP, You are correct!!! Don -- * *** -- 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] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
Hi, All cd's and burners are not created equal. I've had several instances where a live Ubuntu cd would not work on one computer, but worked perfectly on another. If you burned it the computer you are trying to boot it on, it should work. If you have both a burner and a player, try it in both. If it was burned on a different player, please burn one on the computer you are trying to boot from, and then try booting from the burner drive. Don On 10/19/2011 08:22 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 10/18/2011 09:33 PM, Don Myers wrote: In your BIOS, make sure when you are booting that it is checking you CD/DVD drives before your hard drive. I needed to do this and change the boot order so I could preview and also install 11.10. It was that way before I went to a dual boot system. It still set for that. Don On 10/18/2011 08:18 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I cannot get a 11.10 CD/DVD to do a live demo on a Ubuntu system. My only Windows machine I have working is dual boot and I cannot get it to boot from the CD. It keeps going to GRUB. When I choose Win Vista, it does not boot from the CD then. So I cannot see what 11.10 looks like. Since it wants to boot at 1920 by 1080 [nVidia MoB graphics] and my monitor max out at 1368 by 768, it causes problems. I still will use GNOME/KDE combo for my desktop and packages. On 10/18/2011 05:18 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I really quite like the 11.10. When i tried the 11.04 i really hated it but the 11.10 is a big improvement. I still prefer traditional menus such as KDE or Gnome or any of the others but i get the feeling Unity is worth getting to know. I like the way the top-taskbar becomes the title-bar when you hover the mouse arrow over it and i really like the way that accessing LibreOffice and Firefox is so easy! ;) Regards from Tom :) -- * *** -- 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] Your mailing list thinks my subscription attempt is spam!
On 11/11/2011 08:58 AM, Mas/_gemini wrote: Hi Jez On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Jeremy Mortonjez9...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I have signed up to this mailing list with my Gmail account because I wasn't sure how else to get a message to you. I'd like to sign up from my ad...@game-point.net address, but whenever I try to send en e-mail to users+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org, I get a bounceback from my server's Exim telling me that your server rejected my message as spam: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: users+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host bilbo.documentfoundation.org [178.63.91.70]: 554 5.7.0 Reject, id=04442-13 - SPAM Could an admin take a look at why my subscription attempts are being rejected as spam? Thanks, Jez Resending just in case my other email came through unreadable I believe this needs needs to go to the website team (webs...@global.libreoffice.org) . Before forwarding this to them I would recommend posting the full email header of the returned message. Mas Walls I had the same issue several months ago. Some mail servers are blacklisted as ones which send out spam. It turned out the one I was on was blacklisted by two of three sources. The hosting company did not have something set up properly. -- * *** -- 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] Labels
Hi Duncan, It sounds like you have setup your fields properly in Excel, and now calc. I personally use base, but it doesn't matter. I use the table style templates available from the worldlabel.com site for OpenOffice/LibreOffice. If you are using those, do not use the label wizard, but go to insert/fields/other. In that window choose the Database Tab, then select mail merge, and drag the fields you want to your label form. Once you are done with that, in the same column as the mail merge selection choose next record and click insert. Once you have one label done, then simply copy the information from the first cell to the other cells. When you print each label should have the correct information from your source database. You will have two other issues if printing more than one page. First, a blank page will show up between each printer page. Second, one label between each sheet will disappear. Here is how to fix those issues: Hi, I don't know if this might help anyone or not. I had an OpenOffice form problem using the table template with a standard 30 label sheet (3 x 10). I have all of our Christmas card addresses in an OpenOffice database. I have the form setup, etc, to automatically pull the address information in when I click print and select the database, etc. It works great with one exception. Last year my wife said I missed having a few addresses included. I didn't think anything about it, and honestly, didn't think that was possible. This year before giving her the printed labels I thought I would check that everyone was there. I set the printing so it is sorting to print A_Z based on the last name. It takes three sheets. I have 78 names in the database, but only had 76 printed labels. What happened was when the printing went from the first sheet to the second sheet, it misses one record. The rest of the second page is fine. When I went from the second sheet to the third sheet, once again, it skipped the next label, then printed fine for the balance. When I say it skipped it, the missing record just disappears. It isn't that I end up with a blank label at the top of the sheet. The next one in line to be printed on the first label on Page 2 vanishes and the one that should be the second one on the second page becomes the first one on the second page. The same with the third page. A person would never pick this up unless checking the database against the printed labels. The solution I had one full page of labels with the fields in. I read on-line that you need one complete page with fields in for each page of labels. So I added two more pages so I have a three page template. When I created Pages 2 and 3 and by pasting the complete page 1, then scrolled up, I found there was a blank page between each label page. I deleted those pages, and I now have a perfectly working label template printing all of the address! Hopefully this will help you!! Don On 12/03/2011 08:57 AM, Duncan Sanders wrote: Hi Using Windows 7 I have open office version 3.2 loaded having converted all my previous word and excel programs But I need to produce Christmas address labels from an original excel file (converted to Calc) I have followed the wizard but only produces a page for one address and none of the others Any help would be appreciated Tks Duncan dun...@rowans.clara.co.uk -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Slow startup time
On 12/09/2011 02:53 PM, David Woodfall wrote: I've noticed a very slow startup time. I'm using 3.4.4 and I found this post that suggests that somehow LO is trying to do something with the network up, and turning off networking speeds it up: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22693 I've tried this and it is indeed the case. Can someone explaing what LO is trying to when there's an interface up? And also how to fix it? I know about quick starter so please don't suggest that. This IMO is a bug. Cheers Dave Hi Dave, This solved the issue for me. I had problems with 3.3.0, and did this back then, and do it with every new install I do: *Change hosts setting in hosts file for LibreOffice:* In terminal, do gksudo gedit /etc/hosts You will see the following: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 galaxy Add a line so it looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 galaxy 127.0.0.1 galaxy localhost galaxy.(none) 5) save 6) now OpenOffice.org Writer and Calc open fast when the network connection is attached. For anyone new reading this. replace galaxy with whatever you have named your computer. Basics above are fromhttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9410791 Don -- ** -- 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] Slow startup time
On 12/09/2011 03:31 PM, David Woodfall wrote: On (15:07 09/12/11), Don C. Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com put forth the proposition: On 12/09/2011 02:53 PM, David Woodfall wrote: I've noticed a very slow startup time. I'm using 3.4.4 and I found this post that suggests that somehow LO is trying to do something with the network up, and turning off networking speeds it up: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22693 I've tried this and it is indeed the case. Can someone explaing what LO is trying to when there's an interface up? And also how to fix it? I know about quick starter so please don't suggest that. This IMO is a bug. Cheers Dave Hi Dave, This solved the issue for me. I had problems with 3.3.0, and did this back then, and do it with every new install I do: *Change hosts setting in hosts file for LibreOffice:* In terminal, do gksudo gedit /etc/hosts You will see the following: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 galaxy Add a line so it looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 galaxy 127.0.0.1 galaxy localhost galaxy.(none) 5) save 6) now OpenOffice.org Writer and Calc open fast when the network connection is attached. This does indeed work for a blank calc sheet, but opening a file on the command line is still very slow. It's actually faster to open the office main app, enable quickstarter, close office main app, load the file. (Or just load it from the normal file list.) Hi Dave, I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 now. Back when I did what I described above I was most likely using Ubuntu 10.10, I don't think 11.04 was out yet. My problem was that the first time I would open any of the LibreOffice suite of programs, the first one would open quite slowly. After one would open, everything was fine after that. I never had an issue with any files opening slowly. Don -- ** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Problem
Hi Everyone, I'm running LibreOffice (version directly from LibreOffice) 3.4.4 on Ubuntu 11.10. I tried printing 75 copies of a single sheet with significant graphics (large file size) on a black and white Konica-Minolta PagePro 1400w laser printer. I had no idea that LibreOffice would be sending 75 individual print jobs to the printer instead of 1 print job with 75 copies. It crashed the printer, and also the driver after several copies. Then there was the horrendous mess of getting all of the unprinted jobs deleted. I was able to use my inkjet (HP OfficeJet Pro 8000) to finish the printing after the laser crashed. Once again individual print jobs were sent for each copy, but the printer did not crash. Once everything was printed, I had about 10 minutes of icons coming on the screen saying printing started and printing completed when the printing was all done. The icons were playing catchup with all of the print jobs. I've tried to research this. The only way I've found that you can print a large number of copies is to export the page to pdf, and then print the pdf. Programs other than LibreOffice (GEdit, Document Viewer) send 1 job to the printer with multiple copies. This problem did not exist in OpenOffice a year ago with whatever was the current version of openoffice on Ubuntu 10.10 back then when I printed the same job on the same laser printer. Has anyone else had similar problems, or does anyone have any other solutions? I filed a bug report in bug 33696 on Freedesktop.org. It may not have been the best place for it since that was a bug report for a 3.3x version and for Windows. Don -- ** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Problem
Hi Tom, Thank you for the link. I had gone to freedesktop.org directly. This link made it easier to find related bugs. I have now posted what I had written here under Bug 41524. Don On 12/15/2011 01:58 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Wow! Blimey! Sounds like a nightmare! Have you had a chance to check to see if there is already a bug-report about this? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 15/12/11, Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: From: Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Problem To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 15 December, 2011, 18:07 Hi Everyone, I'm running LibreOffice (version directly from LibreOffice) 3.4.4 on Ubuntu 11.10. I tried printing 75 copies of a single sheet with significant graphics (large file size) on a black and white Konica-Minolta PagePro 1400w laser printer. I had no idea that LibreOffice would be sending 75 individual print jobs to the printer instead of 1 print job with 75 copies. It crashed the printer, and also the driver after several copies. Then there was the horrendous mess of getting all of the unprinted jobs deleted. I was able to use my inkjet (HP OfficeJet Pro 8000) to finish the printing after the laser crashed. Once again individual print jobs were sent for each copy, but the printer did not crash. Once everything was printed, I had about 10 minutes of icons coming on the screen saying printing started and printing completed when the printing was all done. The icons were playing catchup with all of the print jobs. I've tried to research this. The only way I've found that you can print a large number of copies is to export the page to pdf, and then print the pdf. Programs other than LibreOffice (GEdit, Document Viewer) send 1 job to the printer with multiple copies. This problem did not exist in OpenOffice a year ago with whatever was the current version of openoffice on Ubuntu 10.10 back then when I printed the same job on the same laser printer. Has anyone else had similar problems, or does anyone have any other solutions? I filed a bug report in bug 33696 on Freedesktop.org. It may not have been the best place for it since that was a bug report for a 3.3x version and for Windows. Don -- ** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Problem
Thank you Webmaster, Yes, that is the way I figured out to do it once it was too late. Had I only known that before I tried sending the print job in the first place I could have saved myself a ton of time and aggravation! Don On 12/15/2011 02:08 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: There has to be a way to do the multiple copies in one print job. I printed a page using CUPS-PDF, but Export to PDF will do. Then I went to print it out to an HP color laser printer. There was a number of copies option show. I wonder it that will make 5 or 10 jobs, just printing the same job 5 or 10 times? Do you have that option for your printers? . On 12/15/2011 01:58 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Wow! Blimey! Sounds like a nightmare! Have you had a chance to check to see if there is already a bug-report about this? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 15/12/11, Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: From: Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Problem To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 15 December, 2011, 18:07 Hi Everyone, I'm running LibreOffice (version directly from LibreOffice) 3.4.4 on Ubuntu 11.10. I tried printing 75 copies of a single sheet with significant graphics (large file size) on a black and white Konica-Minolta PagePro 1400w laser printer. I had no idea that LibreOffice would be sending 75 individual print jobs to the printer instead of 1 print job with 75 copies. It crashed the printer, and also the driver after several copies. Then there was the horrendous mess of getting all of the unprinted jobs deleted. I was able to use my inkjet (HP OfficeJet Pro 8000) to finish the printing after the laser crashed. Once again individual print jobs were sent for each copy, but the printer did not crash. Once everything was printed, I had about 10 minutes of icons coming on the screen saying printing started and printing completed when the printing was all done. The icons were playing catchup with all of the print jobs. I've tried to research this. The only way I've found that you can print a large number of copies is to export the page to pdf, and then print the pdf. Programs other than LibreOffice (GEdit, Document Viewer) send 1 job to the printer with multiple copies. This problem did not exist in OpenOffice a year ago with whatever was the current version of openoffice on Ubuntu 10.10 back then when I printed the same job on the same laser printer. Has anyone else had similar problems, or does anyone have any other solutions? I filed a bug report in bug 33696 on Freedesktop.org. It may not have been the best place for it since that was a bug report for a 3.3x version and for Windows. Don -- ** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Impress Question
Hi, I've moved my brother to Ubuntu and LibreOffice. I do not have a need to do presentations, so I am not familiar with either Power Point or Impress. He used Power Point a great deal in windows. In LibreOffice, he is having a great deal of difficulty adapting. He did a 15 (+/-) slide presentation and went to print it. In the preview of the slides, two of them are grayed out for some reason, and those two will not print, but the other slides do. They all look fine when you view the presentation as a slide show. Can anyone recommend some good tutorials about getting started with and using Impress, in either text form or YouTube videos? If anyone would like to view the Impress show, I can upload it. Thank you so much. Don -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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] Re: Impress Question
Hi Tom, Could you please give me the exact address to upload to? It isn't a memory issue I don't think. Thank you. Don On 12/20/2011 04:14 PM, Tom wrote: Hi :) Can you upload it to Nabble? I think Impress is quite a lot less powerful than PowerPoint but there are other OpenSource programs that do a far better job than either. Also i think Impress has quite a few people working on it so it's probably developing quite a lot. Has he increased the options in Tools - Options - Memory Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Impress-Question-tp3602216p3602329.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] Impress Question
On 12/20/2011 05:25 PM, J.A. de Vries wrote: Hi, I've moved my brother to Ubuntu and LibreOffice. I do not have a need to do presentations, so I am not familiar with either Power Point or Impress. He used Power Point a great deal in windows. In LibreOffice, he is having a great deal of difficulty adapting. He did a 15 (+/-) slide presentation and went to print it. In the preview of the slides, two of them are grayed out for some reason, and those two will not print, but the other slides do. They all look fine when you view the presentation as a slide show. Can anyone recommend some good tutorials about getting started with and using Impress, in either text form or YouTube videos? If anyone would like to view the Impress show, I can upload it. Thank you so much. Don Could it be that he has accidentally hidden those slides? With Impress open you see a sliding bar to the left with thumbs of all slides (at least that is the default setup). Select one of the slides in question in that sidebar and you'll see three grey icons appearing. The hints that appear when the mouse it over such a thumb.show you what they do. It could be that he has accidentally clicked one of those icons hiding the slides that won't print. Grx HdV Thank you!!! That is exactly what the problem was -- ** -- 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] Fw: More Mentors Needed!
Looks legitimate: http://www.wou.edu/las/cs/morgan.html or the search in Google: https://www.google.com/#hl=encp=51gs_id=2xhr=tq=Professor+Becka+Morgan+at+Western+Oregon+Universitytok=CQ7K1OMuTgb4n_eSROL90wpf=poutput=searchsclient=psy-abpbx=1oq=Professor+Becka+Morgan+at+Western+Oregon+Universityaq=faqi=aql=gs_sm=gs_upl=bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osbfp=ee50a85590b9a705biw=1680bih=936 Don On 12/21/2011 09:19 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Professor Becka Morgan at Western Oregon University -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.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
