Re: [users] paragraph in one cell
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.comwrote: At 18:04 13/10/2010 +0530, Anand Warik wrote: In spreadsheet Whenever i copy a long sentence paste it in one cell instead of having every thing in one cell itself the sentence is split pasted in number of rows. I want everything to remain in one cell. Like others, I am puzzled: if the original text is continuous and not formatted as a number of paragraphs, I don't find this happens. But in any case, in addition to the suggestions already made, there is a convenient workaround. o Select all the cells into which the text has been pasted. o Go to Format | Merge Cells (or click the Merge Cells button in the Formatting toolbar). o Answer Yes to Should the contents of the hidden cells be moved to the first cell?. (Note that Calc will even add intervening spaces.) The text is now in a single merged cell. o Go to Format | Merge Cells again (or click the Merge Cells button in the Formatting toolbar again) to unmerge the cells and return the text to the first of the cells - where you want it. (Oh, and to those who enjoy such things: you can't do that, I think, in Excel!) I trust this helps. Brian Barker Hello, I had this problem until someone told me that when you go to the cell you want to paste into, with the cursor in the top left corner, just hit the space bar to make one space and then do the paste and the result is what I think was wanted in the original post. You may notice that when you do the same for a second copy and paste to another cell when the space bar is moved the one space the previously copied text is there but is highlighted. Take no notice of that and just do the paste and the highlighted text is deleted and the new copy is in its place. This has saved me for ages now as it is annoying when you want everything in the one cell formatted as it was in the original. Hope this helps. meld...@gmail.com
Re: [users] paragraph in one cell
Thanks for all the answers i have received, but the problem still remains. Not that your suggestions weren't useful at all but it couldn't help me around the problem completely may be because i did not gave you the example. I have attached a png file here. I copied the text from Evince Pdf viewer, when i copy, the entire sentence is picked up as it is and pasted in one cell(*NOW* after your suggestions, earlier not even that used to happen) but displayed in many cells. whenever part of the sentence is on next line a long space seems to come up. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] paragraph in one cell
On 14/10/10 11:35, anand warik wrote: Thanks for all the answers i have received, but the problem still remains. Not that your suggestions weren't useful at all but it couldn't help me around the problem completely may be because i did not gave you the example. I have attached a png file here. Unfortunately, most attachments don't seem to make it to the list; certainly yours didn't. I copied the text from Evince Pdf viewer, when i copy, the entire sentence is picked up as it is and pasted in one cell(*NOW* after your suggestions, earlier not even that used to happen) but displayed in many cells. whenever part of the sentence is on next line a long space seems to come up. Now that might be easier - text is sometimes displayed outside its own cell if there's too much of it. You may need to alter the row and column dimensions, or alter the 'wrap text automatically' or 'shrink to fit cell size' settings. Also, 'Format|column|optimal width' may be useful (similarly for row height) Depends what you want to achieve; but if there's too much text to fit, something's got to give!! -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] paragraph in one cell
Thanks, I think that's the solution. i may have to delete the spaces manually use wrap. Thanks Again
Re: [users] Strange message from the server
On 2010-10-14 1:21 AM, jonathon wrote: On 10/13/2010 06:23 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: So whitelist the OOo sender so they won;t be blocked... :) Do you want to explain how to whitelist an address on a mail-server that you don't control, without running afoul of various civil and criminal laws. ?? don't be dense. They are obviously using some kind of anti-spam software. When an ISP provides such a service, they usually also provide a way to manage it per user - enable/disable it, whitelists, blacklists, spam quarantine, etc. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] OpenSuSE and Libò
Il 13/10/2010 19:34, webmas...@krackedpress.com ha scritto: On 10/13/2010 12:02 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Hello Carlo, On Wednesday 13 October 2010, 12:44, Carlo Strata wrote: Hi Everyone, this is my first TDF post! :-) I'm an active and long time OpenSuSE and Novell's OOo user and bug poster, too! Now, in my OpenSuSE daily updated 11.2, x86-64, notebook I have Novell/OpenSuSE OBS OOo 3.2.1.6 (x86-64) (still with the famous fixed but not released pdf bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615812). Now I want to install both: - Libò 3.3= beta2 and - OBS (OpenSuSE Build Service, *ubuntu's Launch Pad analog) OOo 3.2.1.6 and/or becoming 3.3 This because: - on October the 23th I will participate as OOo/Libò/TDF speaker in Padua's (Italy's NE) Linux Day (in the Padua's FSUG kind People group); - I want to start my soft migration from OOo to... Libò, obviously!!! ;-) so why do you CC users@openoffice.org ? please explain, I can not understand you My two questions are: 1. May OOo 3.2.1.x/3.3.x and Libò coexist (in the same operating system instance, I mean)? At least in linux? May I go on with just downloaded Libò x86-64 beta2? I guess this might work with forks too http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Run_OOo_versions_parallel 2. When does Novell/OpenSuSE start to build Libò in his (our!) OBS? I mean here: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ or here http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Office:/ (in a new LibreOffice directory) or here, too http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/ (in a new LibreOffice directory)? To search in the OBS you could go here (The Famous Webpin page) http://packages.opensuse-community.org/ It's now time for Novell and OpenSuSE whole Community to start giving solid/concrete Libò/TDF support signs! :-) be sure they started already: by reading http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2010-September/02.html Present: Thorsten, Caolan, Rene, Michael Invited:Petr, Fridrich I count in LO's technical group 5 developers from Novell and 1 from RedHat. Regards Hopefully the OOo name will be released for use to this OOo project, if the new owner of the OpenOffice.org name copyright decides not to continue supporting OOo. If that happens, then LibreOffice will be renamed OpenOffice.org so we can keep the name most people know OOo's suite by. We all are waiting for this, but we cannot wait for ever, can we? Oracle owns the copyright of the name, as I was told, and if they decide that they will not continue to work on this office suite, or their version that Sun was marketing, then Oracle could be nasty and tell this group that the OpenOffice.org name can no longer be used. They can do that if they want. This is the worst case, but I don't see in that any people or enterprise advantage. In this behavior I only see human envy, jealousy, endive. Hopefully they will either support the project or allow LibreOffice development line to use the name, or allow this project to continue on its own and keep the name. I do not know what will happen. Sincerely I hope that Oracle transfer all OOo infrastructures, names, rights, people and so on in The Document Foundation (TDF). Are we going to have to let this branch of the development of the office suite to be cut off because of Oracle, or is it to continue to grow. If cut off, will LibreOffice be able to use the OOo name or will it keep the LibreOffice name? Sun's version of OOo was Star Office? This open source version was OpenOffice.org. Then there were/are other branches like Go-oo, Neo-, and several others I have been told. It is hard to keep up. I have been told that Ubuntu/Debian used Go-oo instead of OOo's Debian version [I wonder about that] and it comes up OpenOffice.org in the splash screen. Will LibreOffice do the same and keep the OpenOffice.org splash screen? It keeps getting more and more confusing. Who has/uses what version, when the splash screen and internal stuff seem to be the same. Maybe someone can post a good message about who [distros] uses which version, and why, plus what the differences between the version are really about. Explain why we should switch between OOo's web site's version to the other ones out there, like Go-oo and LibreOffice. Are all good stuff, good questions. Distros choose Go-OO version because: - read the home page http://go-oo.org/ - read the added features (!!!) here (many of that are included by the same developers, that subscribed the Oracle/Sun JCA..., in the original/vanilla OOo next 3.3 release) http://go-oo.org/discover/ The two pages are rapid to read and I suggest you to give that a look! ;-) I suggest you to to give a look to the upper bug history, so that you'll see what all distros have suffer this summer about... I'm sure in the next weeks you (we!) will be less confusing, Oracle gratias and mind openess! Could anyone re-tell us
Re: [users] paragraph in one cell
On 10/14/2010 6:35 AM, anand warik wrote: I copied the text from Evince Pdf viewer, when i copy, the entire sentence is picked up as it is and pasted in one cell(*NOW* after your suggestions, earlier not even that used to happen) but displayed in many cells. whenever part of the sentence is on next line a long space seems to come up. I have found that when I copy and paste from a PDF file the text copies exactly as it appears in the pdf. ie; if you copy line one line two line three it will paste as line one line two line three and not as line one line two line three even if it is one sentence. PDF's treat all end of line's as either a paragraph break or a line feed-carriage return. The only work around I have found is to copy the text to a text editor that will allow you to search and replace that paragraph break ( I use NoteTab lite) then paste that text into your cell. -- Gene Young - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] pps slide show applications
bpapwo...@aol.com wrote: Dear Sir, Is it possible to use Open Office to read pps e-mail attachments? That would be useful as many photos are sent in that presentation format yet it is a MSFT Office application only as far as I know? An, I do not have it. Thanks, BP If you associate .PPS files with OpenOffice then doubling clicking such an attachment from within your mail program will automatically invoke the OpenOffice Impress module to display the presentation. Note, however, that OpenOffice doesn't have an Autorun feature. For that you should download the *free* Microsoft slide viewer. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Strange message from the server
On Friday 15 October 2010 00:41, Tanstaafl wrote: ?? don't be dense. Avoiding personal conflict on mailing lists. http://www.madmanweb.com/archives/0102avoiding_personal_conflict_on_mailing_lists.html IRHTH -- Michael - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
RE: [users] Open office
Thank you very much, James. Charlie Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:23:26 -0400 From: james.kn...@rogers.com To: users@openoffice.org; cwhunt...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [users] Open office Charlie Hunter wrote: Hi, I just downloaded openoffice 3.2.1 yesterday. As I use it, periodically, I am asked on a screen that is called Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 for a product key and each time I open it, the message tells me I have 25, then 24, then 23, then 22 etc opportunities to open it free before I am required to enter a product key. Should I take this message seriously. Will my access to openoffice run out after 25 accesses. Can you give me a product key. Thank you for any help you can provide. Charlie Hunter, calgary, Canada. That is not normal OpenOffice behaviour. Where did you download it from. You should only be downloading it from www.openoffice.org or one of the mirrors that site links to.
[users] Integration Idea
Dear Sir/Madam, I am developing an partial open source cloud collaboration service. I have been using open office for a long time, I would like to integrate open office into my service. This service would potentially be going against google's suite. How would I be able to go about doing this? Do I have to pay a certain commission? Kind Regards Israr Chowdhury - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Track changes
Hi, I just started using open office this week. On my old computer where I useed microsoft, I could enter corrections on my students' work via track changes through the 'Review' tab. There is no review tab visible to me on my system now. I would be very grateful if you could tel me how I can edit students' work using Openoffice on Windows 7. Thanks. Charlie
[users] opening .doc files
I have the following question: How do you change settings in OpenOffice so that OpenOffice is not the default application used to open .doc files? thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Track changes
That is under the Edit menu. You can track and show changes. John On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:50, Charlie Hunter cwhunt...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I just started using open office this week. On my old computer where I useed microsoft, I could enter corrections on my students' work via track changes through the 'Review' tab. There is no review tab visible to me on my system now. I would be very grateful if you could tel me how I can edit students' work using Openoffice on Windows 7. Thanks. Charlie -- John Kennedy
Re: [users] opening .doc files
Those settings are changed in Windows, NOT OpenOffice.org. How you do it depends on the version of Windows you are using. John On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:07, fuad abboud abbo...@shaw.ca wrote: I have the following question: How do you change settings in OpenOffice so that OpenOffice is not the default application used to open .doc files? thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org -- John Kennedy
Re: [users] Strange message from the server
On 2010-10-14 1:36 PM, Michael Adams wrote: On Friday 15 October 2010 00:41, Tanstaafl wrote: ?? don't be dense. Avoiding personal conflict on mailing lists. http://www.madmanweb.com/archives/0102avoiding_personal_conflict_on_mailing_lists.html Sorry, when someone is being dense, I just say it... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Track changes
On 10/14/2010 2:20 PM, John Kennedy wrote: That is under the Edit menu. You can track and show changes. John Snipped original question Does anyone know whether OO.o's track changes us respected by MS Word, and conversely? That might be useful in a mixed environment. I do not have access to MS Office to check this. David Teague
Re: [users] Track changes
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 15:03, David B Teague davidbtea...@comporium.netwrote: On 10/14/2010 2:20 PM, John Kennedy wrote: That is under the Edit menu. You can track and show changes. John Snipped original question Does anyone know whether OO.o's track changes us respected by MS Word, and conversely? That might be useful in a mixed environment. I do not have access to MS Office to check this. David Teague Yes, changes done on a file are seen in both MS and Openoffice.org. I often work on documents created in MS Office that need to track changes. I have had no problem seeing the changes that have been made and no one has complained about my changes. John -- John Kennedy
Re: [users] opening .doc files
Den 2010-10-14 20:23:20 skrev John Kennedy skeb...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:07, fuad abboud abbo...@shaw.ca wrote: I have the following question: How do you change settings in OpenOffice so that OpenOffice is not the default application used to open .doc files? thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org Those settings are changed in Windows, NOT OpenOffice.org. How you do it depends on the version of Windows you are using. John That is if Windows is his operating system. -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Integration Idea
In news:1bba97f3-16ab-4125-9095-04433a44c...@me.com, Israr Chowdhury israrchowdh...@me.com typed: Dear Sir/Madam, I am developing an partial open source cloud collaboration service. I have been using open office for a long time, I would like to integrate open office into my service. This service would potentially be going against google's suite. How would I be able to go about doing this? Do I have to pay a certain commission? Kind Regards Israr Chowdhury First: Have you read the license? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] mail
i would like to get mail from open office, as i am a new subacriber, 0ne day, but only my mail, please help. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: opening .doc files
On 2010/10/14 10:07 AM fuad abboud wrote concerning opening .doc files: I have the following question: How do you change settings in OpenOffice so that OpenOffice is not the default application used to open .doc files? thanks. Right click on a .doc file. Click Get Info In section Open with: choose the application you want to open file with. Then click on Change All... button. -- As a courtesy I have sent a copy of this reply to you as well as to the mailing list. Do Not reply to me personally but just to the list at users@openoffice.org - replies to my personal email address will be ignored. Since you are not subscribed to this list you may not see all the replies to your query.To subscribe send an email to users-subscr...@openoffice.org -- _ Larry I. Gusaas * Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese * - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] opening .doc files
fuad abboud wrote: I have the following question: How do you change settings in OpenOffice so that OpenOffice is not the default application used to open .doc files? thanks. What you want to is change the file associations, following the instructions below. I assume you're running Windows. Changing file associations Right click on file icon Select Open With Choose Program... Check Always use the selected program to open this kind of file and choose the desired application. If that method is not available, follow the directions listed here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Installation major problems
Glad to hear it went well. As for the envelopes -- do you already have the addresses in some form you want to use? Are you interested in creating mailing labels, or in printing individual envelopes that draw from the data source to address them? We can certainly help there, too. Here's a reference that will probably help (you may have to reassemble the URL if it splits across lines): http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Printing_envelopes On 10/14/2010 9:41 AM, phod...@verizon.net wrote: Hey Barbara: That's exactly what I did, and all went well after that. Thanks for the input. Now, if I can only master how to address envelopeslol. But, thanks again for your input. Paul H. Oct 12, 2010 02:11:38 PM, b...@onr.com mailto:b...@onr.com wrote: On 10/11/2010 8:32 PM, Paul Hodges wrote: I was trying to update to the 3.2 version, but, it keeps telling me to get out of open office.org before continue. I wasnt in open office.org. I cannot install the new version. And another thing, I cannot open the older version unless I start to quit the computer. Please help! [Paul (phod...@verizon.net mailto:phod...@verizon.net) is not subscribed and probably will not see responses unless directly copied.] If you are running some version of Windows, try bringing up the Task Manager and ending any soffice.bin process that is running (that will also terminate soffice.exe processes it started). Sometimes OOo does not end cleanly, and these processes can be left over.
Re: [users] Track changes
On 10/14/2010 11:50 AM, Charlie Hunter wrote: Hi, I just started using open office this week. On my old computer where I useed microsoft, I could enter corrections on my students' work via track changes through the 'Review' tab. There is no review tab visible to me on my system now. I would be very grateful if you could tel me how I can edit students' work using Openoffice on Windows 7. Thanks. Charlie [Charlie, you may want to subscribe to either the users mailing list (users-subscribe-cwhunter1=hotmail@openoffice.org) or its digest (users-digest-subscribe-cwhunter1=hotmail@openoffice.org) so your messages go to the list without going through a human moderator, and you see responses even when you are not directly copied. The list itself is fairly high-traffic; the digest collects the messages over some period and sends a single, indexed and threaded message that includes the others as attachments.] You'll find the relevant options under Edit Changes. OOo and Office (at least presently) are interoperable on this if you use the Windows XP .doc formats for the files. I don't know what the situation is if you use .odt files, but there are other compatibility issues with the Office implementation of ODF formats. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] mail
On 10/14/2010 2:39 PM, Ian E. Coaton wrote: i would like to get mail from open office, as i am a new subacriber, 0ne day, but only my mail, please help. It's not really clear what you're asking for here -- you appear to be subscribed to this list to get e-mail messages from OOo users, so what mail are you referring to that you'd like to get, and delivered how? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: opening .doc files
On 14/10/2010 20:49, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/10/14 10:07 AM fuad abboud wrote concerning opening .doc files: I have the following question: How do you change settings in OpenOffice so that OpenOffice is not the default application used to open .doc files? Those settings are logically part of the OS, not the application, if you think about it. You need to specify. thanks. Right click on a .doc file. Click Get Info In section Open with: choose the application you want to open file with. Then click on Change All... button. That's an OS-sensitive operation. Certainly your instructions are not good for XP. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: opening .doc files
On 2010/10/14 3:03 PM Mike Scott wrote: On 14/10/2010 20:49, Larry Gusaas wrote: Right click on a .doc file. Click Get Info In section Open with: choose the application you want to open file with. Then click on Change All... button. That's an OS-sensitive operation. Certainly your instructions are not good for XP. No they are not. But the OP is using Mac OS X. Note the header X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1). -- _ Larry I. Gusaas * Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese * - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] mail
On Thu Oct 14 2010 14:03:49 GMT-0700 (PDT) Barbara Duprey wrote: On 10/14/2010 2:39 PM, Ian E. Coaton wrote: i would like to get mail from open office, as i am a new subacriber, 0ne day, but only my mail, please help. It's not really clear what you're asking for here -- you appear to be subscribed to this list to get e-mail messages from OOo users, so what mail are you referring to that you'd like to get, and delivered how? Barbara, The way I read it is that the OP only wants messages that would be replies to their messages, not everything from the list. Sadly I do not believe that is possible. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] mail
On 10/14/2010 4:21 PM, RA Brown wrote: On Thu Oct 14 2010 14:03:49 GMT-0700 (PDT) Barbara Duprey wrote: On 10/14/2010 2:39 PM, Ian E. Coaton wrote: i would like to get mail from open office, as i am a new subacriber, 0ne day, but only my mail, please help. It's not really clear what you're asking for here -- you appear to be subscribed to this list to get e-mail messages from OOo users, so what mail are you referring to that you'd like to get, and delivered how? Barbara, The way I read it is that the OP only wants messages that would be replies to their messages, not everything from the list. Sadly I do not believe that is possible. Andy Ah! Bet you're right. There's a fairly awkward way to accomplish something like this effect using nabble, I'll send Ian a message off-list. (The OOo archives are not suitable for conversational exchanges, and newsgroups and Gmane searches may be too intimidating. I don't like depending on an outside group, but so far nabble is the closest I've come.) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: pps slide show applications
From: Harold Fuchs hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com | bpapwo...@aol.com wrote: Dear Sir, Is it possible to use Open Office to read pps e-mail attachments? That would be useful as many photos are sent in that presentation format yet it is a MSFT Office application only as far as I know? An, I do not have it. Thanks, BP | If you associate .PPS files with OpenOffice then doubling clicking such | an attachment from within your mail program will automatically invoke | the OpenOffice Impress module to display the presentation. Note, | however, that OpenOffice doesn't have an Autorun feature. For that you | should download the *free* Microsoft slide viewer. You can download it | from | http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951- | 294eeb832823. OO doesn't have a good way to associate file extensions. There should be a program preference setting to associate either all compatible file extensions or selected file extensions to OO. To me, the fact that is doesn't exist is is semi-major problem. -- Dave New, Multi-AV v7.03 Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Linked code, syntax highlighting, frames, and captions
Hi! I would like to do the following: - Link to an external source code file (for example a SQL script in ASCII format) - Apply syntax highlighting to the imported text - Place the highlighted text inside a frame - Add a caption to the frame - Edit the external source file and have OpenOffice refresh the linked content and re-apply syntax highlighting Is this possible? If so, how? I could not find any examples. Thank you.
[users] Re: pps slide show applications
On 10/14/2010 09:40 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: ... If you associate .PPS files with OpenOffice then doubling clicking such an attachment from within your mail program will automatically invoke the OpenOffice Impress module to display the presentation. Note, however, that OpenOffice doesn't have an Autorun feature. For that you should download the *free* Microsoft slide viewer. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823. I think the ability to associate and open the pps from the email client depends upon the email client. Some can be configured to associate an attachment with a particular program, others cannot. The safest smartest way to use the pps attachment is to save it to disk, virus check it (if your particular OS requires that), and then play from there. Playing an attachment (pps or other) from within the email client directly subjects the client to all sorts of security issues. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: opening .doc files
Mike Scott wrote: Right click on a .doc file. Click Get Info In section Open with: choose the application you want to open file with. Then click on Change All... button. That's an OS-sensitive operation. Certainly your instructions are not good for XP. Actually, they were written for XP. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: opening .doc files
On 2010/10/14 8:09 PM James Knott wrote: Mike Scott wrote: Right click on a .doc file. Click Get Info In section Open with: choose the application you want to open file with. Then click on Change All... button. That's an OS-sensitive operation. Certainly your instructions are not good for XP. Actually, they were written for XP. Your instructions were written for XP. He was commenting on the instructions I gave which were for Mac OS X. Your instructions were useless to the OP who is using a Mac. He already sent me an email thanking me for the help. -- _ Larry I. Gusaas * Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese * - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: opening .doc files
On 10/14/2010 11:23 AM, John Kennedy wrote: Those settings are changed in Windows, NOT OpenOffice.org. How you do it depends on the version of Windows you are using. Actually those settings are changed from OOo... bug reports are there, but I'm a little too busy to look them up just now. See past threads on icons file associations in Windows. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] mail
On Friday 15 October 2010 08:39, Ian E. Coaton wrote: i would like to get mail from open office, as i am a new subacriber, If you can read this you are getting mail from the users mailing list. 0ne day, I don't understand this. but only my mail, please help. You have somehow managed to subscribe to a mailing list. http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html This list is of the type discussion list mentioned here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_mailing_list Unsubscribing instructions to prevent further emails automatically being sent to you should be in the footer of the emails. This is a special case list and you can send mails without being subscribed if you wish. Most regular contributors to the list will reply direct to you regarding your question - though some replies may not be posted to you. HTH -- Michael - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Linked code, syntax highlighting, frames, and captions
On Friday 15 October 2010 12:51, Thangalin wrote: Hi! I would like to do the following: - Link to an external source code file (for example a SQL script in ASCII format) - Apply syntax highlighting to the imported text - Edit the external source file and have OpenOffice refresh the linked content and re-apply syntax highlighting Is this possible? If so, how? I could not find any examples. Yes - but you use a programmers text editor for this. On windows try PSPad or Notepad+ On Linux i use Bluefish made by OpenOffice If you are happy to learn keyboard shortcuts to speed up your work try Emacs or Vim. - Place the highlighted text inside a frame - Add a caption to the frame These are more difficult. IIUC the above text editing programs use a collection of RegEx'es to achieve the highlighting. The only way i know how to do this would be to print screen in a text editor and trim the image then add a caption to the subsequent image. This would render the text useless however. In OpenOffice.org to achieve suitable coloured syntax output would require you to write the appropriate macro, adding all relevant RegEx'es as you go. I doubt this would already exist in an extension. HTH -- Michael - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Linked code, syntax highlighting, frames, and captions
On 10/14/2010 07:51 PM, Thangalin wrote: Hi! I would like to do the following: - Link to an external source code file (for example a SQL script in ASCII format) - Apply syntax highlighting to the imported text - Place the highlighted text inside a frame - Add a caption to the frame - Edit the external source file and have OpenOffice refresh the linked content and re-apply syntax highlighting Is this possible? If so, how? I could not find any examples. You can see how I format code for display in this extension http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/CodeFormatter The purpose is to make it pretty, but not to maintain this while editing. There is an explanation of an older version of this here: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Be warned, however, that there is a bug in OOo that will cause OOo to crash when you close AndrewMacro.odt (a fix is in the works for the bug). So, be certain to save all your work frequently after you open this document. This might avoid the trouble (I think this link is good). http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.pdf This is a tricky problem. If you really want it for editing, should probably write something specifically for that, or just get an editor that supports this sort of thing out of the box. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Linked code, syntax highlighting, frames, and captions
Hi, Michael.
Thanks for the reply. I am not looking to edit source files in OpenOffice. I
want to link their content, like linking an image, except linking to a text
file. I have since created a script, as follows:
#!/bin/bash
FILENAME=$1
BASENAME=${FILENAME%%.*}
enscript --pretty-print=sql -f Courier12 -X ps -B -1 --highlight=sql \
$2 -h -o - $FILENAME | \
gs -dSAFER -sDEVICE=png16m -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -r300 \
-sOutputFile=$BASENAME.png -dNOPAUSE /dev/null \
convert -trim $BASENAME.png $BASENAME-trimmed.png \
mv $BASENAME-trimmed.png $BASENAME.png
This script takes a text file, applies some syntax highlighting, then writes
the result to an image at 300 dpi. The text file can be SQL code, Java
source, R commands, Python script, you name it. For what it's worth, I've
been editing text files with vi for over 15 years. ;-)
The result is this: http://i.imgur.com/v8yCy.png
However, it is an extra step (I have to run the script after editing the
source code to generate a new image) and if the size of the image changes,
OpenOffice doesn't stretch the enclosing frame. This means that if I change
the source code (by adding or removing lines), I have to re-import the
image.
So in my ideal world, the frame would simply include the text and an
OpenOffice add-on (such as CodeFormatter or other) would apply the syntax
highlighting.
These are more difficult. IIUC the above text editing programs use a
collection of RegEx'es to achieve the highlighting. The only way i know how
Only simpler languages can get away with RegEx for syntax highlighting.
Complex languages like C++ require other mechanisms.
to do this would be to print screen in a text editor and trim the image
then
add a caption to the subsequent image. This would render the text useless
Not only that, but it would not get 300 dpi. Screen resolutions are 72 dpi,
so I would have to scale the image. This can be done (i.e., set the size to
300% and then set the dpi to 288), but the text isn't quite as beautiful as
it can be.
In OpenOffice.org to achieve suitable coloured syntax output would require
you
to write the appropriate macro, adding all relevant RegEx'es as you go. I
doubt this would already exist in an extension.
Two extensions exist for this:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/CodeFormatter
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/coooder
The linking text, however, is the bigger issue. Essentially, I don't want to
have to change both the source code as it resides in a source file *and* the
same source code inside OpenOffice. I want to change the source code *once*
and have OpenOffice import those changes.
It probably won't be a big deal when I move the content over to Scribus.
Thanks for all the help!
Dave
