Re: [users] [moderated] Powerpoint Presentations
On Saturday 30 October 2010 15:32, william lepage wrote: How do I open ppp power point presentations Start OpenOffice.org Impress Then open your presentation. HTH -- Michael - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] PROBLEM
On Saturday 30 October 2010 16:18, william lepage wrote: WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN IT SAYS OPERATION REQUESTED REQUIRES ELEVATION ? This is windows (Probably Vista?) wanting the permission of an administrator to continue. If this is your home computer, you probably have access to the administrator priviledges unless someone set it up for you to not damage. Sometimes it is a warning of something that could be harmful wanting to do something to your computer. This can return false-positive warnings especially when installing programs. Please - all capitals is seen as shouting (often seen as rude) and can make text harder to read. -- Michael - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: [moderated]
On 01/11/2010 05:39, Russell Butler wrote: On 31/10/10 21:32, Keith Hartley wrote: I want to open a microsoft wps file but do not seem to have the right filter, can you help? many thanks, Keith Which version of OpenOffice.org are you using, Keith? and on what platform (operating system)? I recently received a .wps file which opened happily in OOo 3.2 on my Ubuntu machine, but I think this has some of the go-oo developments: http://go-oo.org/ Russell Keith I think you may be using the OOo that we get from Openoffice.org and that does not have a way to import wordprocessing files from MS Works Russell I think that the Ubuntu version has an extra feature to read these files. Thanks Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] [moderated]
Use impress to open the file. It should be able to open MS PowerPoint files ppt, (if it is pptx (the 2007/2010 version) then you need to have either the GO-OO version or the LibreOffice version (although if have not checked if the latter opens them, the GO-OO opens for sure). That you can get from http://go-oo.org/download/ Hope this helps. Heikki Jussila -- Heikki Tapio Jussila freelance researcher and geographer On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 04:32, william lepage william.lepage...@sympatico.ca wrote: How do I open ppp power point presentations
Re: [users] Endnote 9 and writer
Sadly, Zotero does not appear to work in Firefox 4 (yet?). - Forwarded message -- From: John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com To: users@openoffice.org Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:11:02 -0700 Subject: Re: [users] Endnote 9 and writer On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:45:42 +1300 Michael Adams mbad...@paradise.net.nz dijo: On Thursday 14 October 2010 01:06, Ekain Rojo Labaien wrote: I just want to know if endnote 9 is available in open office writer like in Microsoft word 2003, if I can cite in my text and as always endnote create the bibliography. And is it possible to carry all the references that I have create in word? Writer will recognize them? Thank you very much Zotero is very popular as a FOSS (GPL) alternative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ Surprised it hasn't been mentioned before. It was recommended to me by a computer tutor at my University. Zotero is wonderful! Too bad so many are still struggling with that pathetic Endnote. -- UNixThis! registered Linux user number 526076
Re: [users] Calc - how to count cells by background color
Seems that's unique from Microsoft 2007, don't know on this function in Calc till now. Xiaoqi On 10/30/10 6:29 AM, Phil Pinkerton pcpinker...@gmail.com wrote: I found a way to do this using MS Excel 2007 and was looking for a way to do the same in OpenOffice Calc. Anyone had success with counting of cells of a particular color ? Phil - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Calc - how to count cells by background color
On 29/10/10 23:29, Phil Pinkerton wrote: I found a way to do this using MS Excel 2007 and was looking for a way to do the same in OpenOffice Calc. Anyone had success with counting of cells of a particular color ? Phil Nothing's new :-) See http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9t=2741 where it suggests there's no easy way. But that page asks a pertinent question - /why/ do you want to do this? Cell colours are surely not the real issue of the problem you're solving - they ought (probably!) to be derived from something more fundamental, which is what you could be checking. An old work colleague used to say, if you want to go there, don't start here, when people asked how to complete a half-solution to a problem. Maybe a problem rethink is in order? -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Help! Export to PDF not embedding fonts
Den 2010-10-31 21:38:52 skrev Daniel Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com: John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:07:28 -0700 John Jason Jordanjohnjas...@gmail.com dijo: I created a presentation in Impress (3.1.1 from OOo, not from the repositories, on Fedora 11, x86_64) in which I used the fonts Bitstream Vera Sans Regular and Bold. When I export to PDF all text appears as just blank boxes for the letters. I get the same view of the PDF with Adobe Reader, Okular, Evince, and a couple other PDF viewers that I have installed. I have discovered that the problem is apparently in OOo. Scribus, for example, is happy to embed the fonts in a PDF. The Bitstream Vera family apparently came with the Gnome desktop, at least reading the license leads to this conclusion. There is no prohibition on embedding, or just about anything else for that matter. It is a very open license. As a workaround I changed the entire document to DejaVu. It took an hour because you can't change a font globally. And I have a couple of tables of five columns and 15 rows. You can't even change a font for an entire table - you have to select the text in each cell individually and apply the new font. And exactly why don't you use styles? It could be that the problem with OOo 3.1.1 is due to a setting somewhere in OOo. However, I couldn't find any place in Preferences or Options to change font behavior. If there is a place to change the embedding of a font, someone please tell me where it is. You did not mention what you did in Impress to create the PDF document. Did you use the PDF icon? Or, did you use the File Export as PDF? The easiest way to change font families (Bitstream Vera Sans Regular and Bold to DejaVu) is to change the font in the Styles and Formatting dialog (F11 key). With your presentation opened in Impress, type the F11 key to open this dialog. At the top of this dialog are two icons on the left side: Graphics Styles and Presentations Styles. Make sure the Presentation Styles is selected. The styles you must concern yourself are the ones you used (perhaps without knowing it) among these: Notes, Outline 1, , Outline 9, Subtitle, and Title. Right click the style whose font you want to change and click Modify. Select the font you want from the list. Click OK. I'm fairly certain that directions as to how to modify any of these styles are found in the Impress Guide. (The latest version should be available through the OOo website (Wiki section) in the next week or so.) This guide contains quite a bit of information about how to use Impress if you want much more information. The chapter Getting Started with Impress from the Getting Started Guide will likely give you all the information you need about modifying a Presentation Style in Impress. It may be all you need. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] PROBLEM
Please specific your question. On 10/30/10 11:18 AM, william lepage william.lepage...@sympatico.ca wrote: WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN IT SAYS OPERATION REQUESTED REQUIRES ELEVATION ? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Endnote 9 and writer
Firefox 4 is still in beta. The final release will not be until next year. I recommend going back to the latest stable release. I am using 3.5.9 and have no problems with Zotero. On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 09:11:45 -0500 Bruce Summitt u.nix.t...@gmail.com dijo: Sadly, Zotero does not appear to work in Firefox 4 (yet?). - Forwarded message -- From: John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com To: users@openoffice.org Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:11:02 -0700 Subject: Re: [users] Endnote 9 and writer On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:45:42 +1300 Michael Adams mbad...@paradise.net.nz dijo: On Thursday 14 October 2010 01:06, Ekain Rojo Labaien wrote: I just want to know if endnote 9 is available in open office writer like in Microsoft word 2003, if I can cite in my text and as always endnote create the bibliography. And is it possible to carry all the references that I have create in word? Writer will recognize them? Thank you very much Zotero is very popular as a FOSS (GPL) alternative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ Surprised it hasn't been mentioned before. It was recommended to me by a computer tutor at my University. Zotero is wonderful! Too bad so many are still struggling with that pathetic Endnote. -- UNixThis! registered Linux user number 526076 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Calc - how to count cells by background color
Am 01.11.2010 15:54, Fans OpenSource wrote: Seems that's unique from Microsoft 2007, don't know on this function in Calc till now. Xiaoqi Please tell me how you can do that in Excel 2007. http://www.pcmech.com/forum/software-discussion-support/194498-excel-want-count-colors.html Obviously, it is not implemented in the program. You have to write your own macro to do this trick. There are reasons why such a function is not built in. Not even in Microsoft Excel. Professional spreadsheet design requires a clear separation of data and attributes. In my previous message I provide a userdefined function to extract the color code from the cell attributes which can help to repair badly designed spreadsheets. You can also go on like that and use that function together with COUNTIF, SUMIF and all the other functions. It's completely up to you. Greetings, Andreas Säger - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: [moderated] (Opening Microsoft Works file still only with LibreOffice/Go-OO)
Il 01/11/2010 10:25, Rob Clement ha scritto: On 01/11/2010 05:39, Russell Butler wrote: On 31/10/10 21:32, Keith Hartley wrote: I want to open a microsoft wps file but do not seem to have the right filter, can you help? many thanks, Keith Which version of OpenOffice.org are you using, Keith? and on what platform (operating system)? I recently received a .wps file which opened happily in OOo 3.2 on my Ubuntu machine, but I think this has some of the go-oo developments: http://go-oo.org/ Russell Keith I think you may be using the OOo that we get from Openoffice.org and that does not have a way to import wordprocessing files from MS Works Russell I think that the Ubuntu version has an extra feature to read these files. Thanks Rob Yes! Ubuntu OOo is from Go-OO! And in the near future (11.04) from LibreOffice (Libò/LO) / The Document Foundation (TDF). Here you can see, at a glance, what Go-oo has (had) to offer in addition to the features you expect in up-stream (vanilla said) OpenOffice.org http://go-oo.org/discover/ among which you could also find MS-Works import: Go-oo supports MS-Works files; you can also find there e test .wps file http://go-oo.org/discover/msworks.wps But now Go-oo has been made obsolete http://planet.go-oo.org/ by the exciting new LibreOffice project http://planet.documentfoundation.org/ http://www.documentfoundation.org/ http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ http://www.libreoffice.org/ LibreOffice is now at 3.3beta2 stage (you could download it for Windows, MacOSX, linux) and I just test it to read the above .wps file. I just test the same .wps file on OOo 3.3rc3 vanilla but it doesn't read it (it doesn't understand file type and open the choose filter/file type window...)... So if you want to adopt an application that does read those file (Microsoft Works ones) and that is growing now on, I suggest you to choose LibreOffice (Libò/LO) that is usable enough despite his beta state at the moment (we expect the final one within december 2010). Finally I suggest you to subscribe these two mailing list at least: users@openoffice.org us...@libreoffice.org you could find the correct instructions respectively here http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html#general http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/#lists If you subscribe you will not be moderated any more. Hope that help, Carlo - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] OpenOffice.org community council - only Oracle employees now??
Hi Tanstaafl, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-10-28 3:00 PM, Ingrid Halama wrote: In contrary go-oo and LibreOffice have choosen a license politics that make it impossible to take their code and integrate it into OpenOffice.org. Crap-crud. Sun/Oracle are the ones with the license problems/limitations. Both projects have chosen their license politics. That is true of course. But as OpenOffice.org is the original one I think it is acceptable to say that the second project which was created later is the one that *chooses* its politics regarding the newly created situation of a fork. So if you contribute code to OpenOffice.org it will went into most flavors or forks. If you choose to contribute to LibreOffice in contrary the code will only be there. True, but only because of Sun/Oracle's licensing requirements, not the other way around. No, the one way situation could be solved by LibreOffice also. They could choose a license politics with a central authority (e.g. TDF). Then the two projects would be in the position to make agreements to cooperate. We will see what they decide to do. Kind regards, Ingrid - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] OpenOffice.org community council - only Oracle employees now??
Hi Pier, yahoo-pier_andreit wrote: Who is now in charge of the code our volunteers contribute? If it goes into the OOo cvs system, Oracle. If it goes into the LibreOffice, Go-OO, OxygenOffice, etc cvs system, the community. Again I need to correct jonathon. Code committed to OpenOffice.org is open to be taken and used from all others. go-oo did that in the past and LibreOffice is doing that again. They take code from OpenOffice.org. In contrary go-oo and LibreOffice have choosen a license politics that make it impossible to take their code and integrate it into OpenOffice.org. So if you contribute code to OpenOffice.org it will went into most flavors or forks. If you choose to contribute to LibreOffice in contrary the code will only be there. Kind regards, Ingrid dear Ingrid, wich kinds of license politics libo and go-oo chosen to make impossible integrate and take their code? LibreOffice and go-oo have chosen to not have a central license authority on their contributions. This makes it quite impossible to make general agreements with other projects. Each single contributor to those forks needs to decide and effectively do the contribution also to OpenOffice.org. There can't be setup some kind of semi automatism in that direction. Well LibreOffice is still in its creation phase and discussions are ongoing so there is hope that they might decide on a central license authority in future in order to be able to organize a cooperation with OpenOffice.org or other projects. But maybe they are totally happy with the situation that they can take our code but we can't take theirs, this might be possible also. We will see. Kind regards, Ingrid - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] OpenOffice.org community council - only Oracle employees now??
Hi jonathon, jonathon wrote: On 10/28/2010 07:00 PM, Ingrid Halama wrote: I look at the votes of the issues. Looking at them is a possibility. However, the history of Issuezilla clearly demonstrates that votes have zero impact and zero influence in what Sun allowed to be added to OOo. That is not true at all. What is true is that votes are not the only criteria to decide on what I am doing. As long as you do not pay me for my work, sorry, you do not have the right to decide on what I am working. But what I - what we - are offering is that we have an open ear, we are listening to your arguments. This is an offer, you can take it or leave it. Kind regards, Ingrid - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] intel iMac JRE
Hello there, I've just loaded OO.o on my iMac with i3 dual core. When I attemp to invoke any of the wizards (letter, spreadsheet, etc.) I receive an error message: Java Runtime Environment is required for this action. Please install a version of JRE. I have a JRE installed as part of Snow Leopard. Any suggestions? Regards, G+M Le présent message électronique est confidentiel et peut être couvert par le secret professionnel. Il est à l'usage exclusif du destinataire. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur ou si vous n'en êtes pas le destinataire prévu, vous devez détruire le message et toute pièce jointe ou copie et vous êtes tenu de ne pas conserver, distribuer, divulguer ni utiliser tout renseignement qu'il contient. Veuillez nous informer de toute erreur d'envoi en répondant à ce message. Merci de votre collaboration.
Re: [users] intel iMac JRE
Hello Guy, On Monday 01 November 2010, 14:13, Guy Martin wrote: Hello there, I've just loaded OO.o on my iMac with i3 dual core. When I attemp to invoke any of the wizards (letter, spreadsheet, etc.) I receive an error message: Java Runtime Environment is required for this action. Please install a version of JRE. I have a JRE installed as part of Snow Leopard. Any suggestions? if things work just like in Win or Linux, it is not enough to have a JRE on the system, you have enable the use of Java and select the JRE in the Options Dialog using the menu Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Java Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [users] intel iMac JRE
Guy Martin wrote: Hello there, I've just loaded OO.o on my iMac with i3 dual core. When I attemp to invoke any of the wizards (letter, spreadsheet, etc.) I receive an error message: Java Runtime Environment is required for this action. Please install a version of JRE. I have a JRE installed as part of Snow Leopard. Any suggestions? Regards, G+M Le présent message électronique est confidentiel et peut être couvert par le secret professionnel. Il est à l'usage exclusif du destinataire. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur ou si vous n'en êtes pas le destinataire prévu, vous devez détruire le message et toute pièce jointe ou copie et vous êtes tenu de ne pas conserver, distribuer, divulguer ni utiliser tout renseignement qu'il contient. Veuillez nous informer de toute erreur d'envoi en répondant à ce message. Merci de votre collaboration. Open OOo on your iMac. What you need is found in OpenOffice.org (top left of screen) Preferences OpenOffice.org JAVA. When you go to this location, wait a little while OOo locates the JRE and enters the version in the window. Click OK. Close OOo. When you reopen OOo, you should be able to use the wizards. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] intel iMac JRE
On Nov 1, 2010, at 18:13 , Guy Martin wrote: Hello there, I've just loaded OO.o on my iMac with i3 dual core. When I attemp to invoke any of the wizards (letter, spreadsheet, etc.) I receive an error message: Java Runtime Environment is required for this action. Please install a version of JRE. I have a JRE installed as part of Snow Leopard. Any suggestions? There was apparently a bug in the latest version of OOo whicOr in the OOo bug report:h broke the link. The workaround is at this address: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=115180 Hope that works. I heard about it before the weekend, and it worked for me. //James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[users] Re: Graphics formats for Impress 3.1.1
On 10/30/2010 07:40 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: I am using OOo 3.1.1 on Fedora 11 x86_64. This is the version from OOo, not the version from the Fedora repositories. I am trying to create a presentation in Impress, but this is my first time with Impress. I created a vector drawing in Inkscape. I gave it a rectangular background that I set to the same color as the slide in Impress (C=25%, M=19%, Y=0% and K=0%. I also set the stroke in Inkscape to the same color. When I went to place this graphic on the slide I was amazed that Impress seemed unable to import an SVG graphic (Inkscape's native format). http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2497 [Summary: allow import of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)] [Description: Opened: Mon Dec 10 17:16:00 + 2001] So I exported to EPS, but am having difficulties with the stroke - it stays white for some reason. So I exported to OpenDocument drawing (ODG), but Impress can't handle that either. My only other options from Inkscape are bitmaps, which are not acceptable. How can I get this graphic as a vector file into Impress other than EPS? Convert to a png or: http://go-oo.org/discover/ [SVG support Go-oo provides a built-in SVG import filter.] http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/svgimport [don't know if this works with 3.x - haven't tried it in awhile] or wait for OOo 3.4. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] OpenOffice.org community council - only Oracle employees now??
On 11/01/2010 04:40 PM, Ingrid Halama wrote: They could choose a license politics with a central authority (e.g. TDF). Even if LibreOffice had a copyright assignment, that would not necessarily mean that that code could be used in OOo. Then the two projects would be in the position to make agreements to cooperate. Ponder on the difference between closed source software and open source software. jonathon -- No human will see non-list, non-bulk, non-junk email sent to this address. It all gets forwarded to /dev/null signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[users] Re: intel iMac JRE
On 2010/11/01 11:13 AM Guy Martin wrote: I've just loaded OO.o on my iMac with i3 dual core. When I attemp to invoke any of the wizards (letter, spreadsheet, etc.) I receive an error message: Java Runtime Environment is required for this action. Please install a version of JRE. I have a JRE installed as part of Snow Leopard. Any suggestions? There is a bug in OOo that prevents the use of the latest update to Java on Macs. See: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=115180 To install a fix to the bug see: http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/computer_tagebuch.php The bug has been fixed in OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 RC3. You can download it at: http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html#untested-full -- - 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] Help! Export to PDF not embedding fonts
I created a presentation in Impress (3.1.1 from OOo, not from the repositories, on Fedora 11, x86_64) in which I used the fonts Bitstream Vera Sans Regular and Bold. When I export to PDF all text appears as just blank boxes for the letters. I get the same view of the PDF with Adobe Reader, Okular, Evince, and a couple other PDF viewers that I have installed. Then I tried printing to file. I did this several times using different printer drivers (I have six Postscript printers installed, including one with Adobe PS Level 3). When I open the .ps file I find that the text appears, but somehow Times was substituted for the Bitstream Vera Sans. And the text appeared without font metrics. Also all color was converted to grayscale, even though one of the printers is full color. If I print to paper on a plain Laserjet using the PCL driver all the text prints, but without font metrics, and only the bold prints in Vera Sans; somehow Times was substituted for the regular. If I print to the same printer using the (genuine Adobe) Postscript driver all the text prints, but Courier regular was substituted for both fonts; and again without font metrics. I verified that Bitstream Vera Sans regular and bold are properly installed. I did this by opening Scribus and setting some type with the Vera Sans fonts. Scribus is a layout app that will never substitute a font. I also used Fontmatrix to verify that the fonts are correctly installed. I am out of ideas. Any suggestions are welcome. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] IMPORTANT
Dear Sir's, Please remove the following link from the web, you should not have published the said letter without my permission as you have included my email address. Please remove immediately and confirm with me by return. Thank you! Best Regards Allan Suart ind...@ntlworld.com This email attachments are strictly for the recipient and cannot be copied or published without written permission from the sender
[users] Fw: Version 3.2
Sorry, diregard this mail. thanks - Original Message - From: Roberto Stoppa4 To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 18:06 Subject: Version 3.2 Hu, please how can I unistall above software. Thanks and remain Roberto Stoppa __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5582 (20101101) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
Re: [users] OpenOffice.org community council - only Oracle employees now??
On 10/30/2010 08:15 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: So, do you take offense with StarOffice The issue is that Oracle is taking open source code, and making it exclusively closed source. and the fact that Oracle / Sun makes money selling licenses with support? I don't have an issue with selling support licenses. Note that the final product contains proprietary content (or at least last I checked it did). Gresham's Law. In the very early days, regular expressions and the database component were part of the proprietary content. Contrary to the OOo marketing material, OOo has contained a database engine since at least version 1.0. I have worked with more than one company that are not willing to move to a product that does not have support provided by the company that produces it. As Darl so wonderfully told the court: We did not need the copyrights to run the business. jonathon -- No human will see non-list, non-bulk, non-junk email sent to this address. It all gets forwarded to /dev/null signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[users] Fehler beim Speichern von Dokumenten, Sicherungskopie konnte nicht erstellt werden
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, seit einiger Zeit will es mir nicht mehr gelingen Dateien, nach dem ich in diesen Änderungen vorgenommen habe zu speichern. Es erscheint jedes mal folgende Anzeige, als Beispiel für die Datei Lesezeichen. Openoffice.Org 3.2 Fehler beim Speichern des Dokuments Lesezeichen. Fehler beim Anlegen. Sicherungskopie konnte nicht erstellt werden. Dies ist unabhängig davon aus welchem Verzeichnis ich die Datei geladen habe und in welche Datei ich diese speichern will. Ebenso spielt es keine Rolle, ob ich die Funktion speichern oder speichern unter nutze. Eine Neuinstallation von Openoffice hat das Problem nicht gelöst. Mein Betriebssystem ist Windows XP. Bei anderen Programmen, wie z.B. Zoombrowser tritt das Problem nicht auf. Wer kann mir helfen? Mit freundlichem Gruß Horst Pitzer
Re: [users] IMPORTANT
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Indaba ind...@ntlworld.com wrote: Dear Sir's, Please remove the following link from the web, you should not have published the said letter without my permission as you have included my email address. Please remove immediately and confirm with me by return. Thank you! You did not include a link. I assume it was to an email that you sent to the list that has been archived by one of the many services... Unfortunately we cannot remove your specific email. Note the warning at the beginning of this page: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html /paul Best Regards Allan Suart ind...@ntlworld.com This email attachments are strictly for the recipient and cannot be copied or published without written permission from the sender
Re: [users] Fehler beim Speichern von Dokumenten, Sicherungskopie konnte nicht erstellt werden
2010/11/1 Horst Pitzer h.l.pit...@gmx.de Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, seit einiger Zeit will es mir nicht mehr gelingen Dateien, nach dem ich in diesen Änderungen vorgenommen habe zu speichern. Es erscheint jedes mal folgende Anzeige, als Beispiel für die Datei Lesezeichen. Mein Deutsch ist nicht existent, aber ich habe Google übersetzen verwendet - um Entschuldigung für eventuelle Fehler im Voraus. Haben Sie überprüft, um sicherzustellen, dass das Verzeichnis, die Sie speichern die Backup-Dateien in noch gültig ist? Haben Sie die Berechtigungen für dieses Verzeichnis? Ich habe nicht ein Problem mit dieser Funktionalität vor. Sie können auch versuchen Surfen für Unterstützung an den deutschen Sprachdatei OpenOffice Website: http://de.openoffice.org/ /paul [snip]
[users] Re: Help! Export to PDF not embedding fonts
On 10/31/2010 11:54 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: I created a presentation in Impress (3.1.1 from OOo, not from the repositories, on Fedora 11, x86_64) in which I used the fonts Bitstream Vera Sans Regular and Bold. When I export to PDF all text appears as just blank boxes for the letters. I get the same view of the PDF with Adobe Reader, Okular, Evince, and a couple other PDF viewers that I have installed. Then I tried printing to file. I did this several times using different printer drivers (I have six Postscript printers installed, including one with Adobe PS Level 3). When I open the .ps file I find that the text appears, but somehow Times was substituted for the Bitstream Vera Sans. And the text appeared without font metrics. Also all color was converted to grayscale, even though one of the printers is full color. If I print to paper on a plain Laserjet using the PCL driver all the text prints, but without font metrics, and only the bold prints in Vera Sans; somehow Times was substituted for the regular. If I print to the same printer using the (genuine Adobe) Postscript driver all the text prints, but Courier regular was substituted for both fonts; and again without font metrics. I verified that Bitstream Vera Sans regular and bold are properly installed. I did this by opening Scribus and setting some type with the Vera Sans fonts. Scribus is a layout app that will never substitute a font. I also used Fontmatrix to verify that the fonts are correctly installed. I am out of ideas. Any suggestions are welcome. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Help! Export to PDF not embedding fonts
On 10/31/2010 11:54 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: I created a presentation in Impress (3.1.1 from OOo, not from the repositories, on Fedora 11, x86_64) in which I used the fonts Bitstream Vera Sans Regular and Bold. When I export to PDF all text appears as just blank boxes for the letters. I get the same view of the PDF with Adobe Reader, Okular, Evince, and a couple other PDF viewers that I have installed. Then I tried printing to file. I did this several times using different What happens when you print to a cups-pdf printer? ... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Help! Export to PDF not embedding fonts
On 11/01/10 15:29, NoOp wrote: On 10/31/2010 11:54 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: I created a presentation in Impress (3.1.1 from OOo, not from the repositories, on Fedora 11, x86_64) in which I used the fonts Bitstream Vera Sans Regular and Bold. When I export to PDF all text appears as just blank boxes for the letters. I get the same view of the PDF with Adobe Reader, Okular, Evince, and a couple other PDF viewers that I have installed. Then I tried printing to file. I did this several times using different What happens when you print to a cups-pdf printer? ... That is my default printer for Ubuntu 10.10. I created a test document with 60 script and handwritten fonts in it and printed it via cups-pdf. Then I copied it over to a Vista machine that had only 2 or 3 of those fonts installed. The documents showed the correct fonts when I viewed in with Adobe Reader 9. So it seemed to embed the fonts properly via cups-pdf on Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. I rarely use OOo's Export to PDF anyways. ALSO, if you use Windows, use doPDF. It is a free PDF printer that embeds the fonts properly. That is what I use on the Vista system. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Endnote 9 and writer
On 2010-11-01 11:33 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: Firefox 4 is still in beta. The final release will not be until next year. I recommend going back to the latest stable release. I am using 3.5.9 Eh? Latest stable is 3.6.12... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Change path for .~lock.xyz files
On 2010-10-30 9:24 AM, Mike Scott wrote: If a shared file system is 'playing tricks', it sounds like a candidate for being fixed. Breaking something else as a workaround for a broken system doesn't sound to me like a terribly good idea. Windows provides the ability to have very fine-grained permissions. You can set permissions on a folder such that a user can modify existing files, but not create new ones. OOo provides a windows version of its program, and should allow for full interaction with said OS. There is nothing 'broken' about such a setup. All that said - I just tested this again with 3.2.o and apparently it is no longer an issue... it works like it used to (no lock file created)... so, my apologies for maiing much ado about nothing, and my thanks to whoever fixed it... :) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Change path for .~lock.xyz files
On 2010-10-30 5:53 PM, JOE Conner wrote: It *used* to have a problem allowing multiple people to edit a file simultaneously. This problem was *real* and desperately needed fixing. Fine - but when fixing things like this, it is always best to provide a fall-back to the old method so as to avoid breaking things for others relying on the old behavior. Since *you* are the *IT* department, then you have within your own power to solve your problem. It seems to me that the lock file was a much sought after solution, and it is you who are requesting a regression. No, I am requesting maintaining backwards compatibility... something that should always be maintained whenever possible. That being said it seems to me that the solution is in fixing the file permissions to properly allow the creation of the lock file and properly training the people who would edit the file that they have no *authority* to create any other files and to have suitable penalties established for violators. Right - trust users to just do the right thing... you don't do much end-user support do you? ;) A second solution, one *you would like*, would be for the file locking to follow some other procedure other than creating a lock file in the first place. No - just set an alternate lock file directory *shared by everyone on the domain* - there is no reason this wouldn't work just as well as creating the lock file in the same directory as the file itself. But as I said in my last email, apparently someone listened and fixed this as it is now working (3.2.0)... So, again, my thanks to whoever fixed it, and my apologies for the noise. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] What is the use case for multiple sheets in Calc?
Why does calc support multiple sheets in a single document? What is the use case? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] What is the use case for multiple sheets in Calc?
On 11/1/2010 2:01 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Why does calc support multiple sheets in a single document? What is the use case? Thanks. 1.Different sheets can show subsets of a master sheet 2.Different sheets can have graphics or illustrations 3.Different sheets can be set up for specific problems. For an instance where different sheets have different purposes, check out http://williams.best.vwh.net/ftp/avsig/avform.xls which is an Excel spreadsheet. (WARNING: do not open this with macros enabled, it does not use Star Basic and will lock up with errors) This will illustrate a beautiful use of multiple sheets in the same spreadsheet document. Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: What is the use case for multiple sheets in Calc?
Am 01.11.2010 22:01, Dotan Cohen wrote: Why does calc support multiple sheets in a single document? What is the use case? Thanks. - Ideally the main reason would be the separation of data and formulas. - Different sheets can have different page styles for printing. - Documentation. - Scenarios. - Data pilots change in size and tend to overwrite adjacent data. It is rather unprofessional to separate equally structured data by time intervals or other categories, but this seems to be te most common use case. Greetings, Andreas Säger - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] IMPORTANT
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 05:41:52PM -, Indaba wrote: Please remove the following link from the web, you should not have published the said letter without my permission as you have included my email address. Please remove immediately and confirm with me by return. Thank you! You don't seem to understand something about mail lists. No permission to publish your post is required. All messages are public. If you're going to use mailing lists you should find out how they work. -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Help! Export to PDF not embedding fonts
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:10:42 -0400 webmas...@krackedpress.com webmas...@krackedpress.com dijo: On 11/01/10 15:29, NoOp wrote: On 10/31/2010 11:54 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: I created a presentation in Impress (3.1.1 from OOo, not from the repositories, on Fedora 11, x86_64) in which I used the fonts Bitstream Vera Sans Regular and Bold. When I export to PDF all text appears as just blank boxes for the letters. I get the same view of the PDF with Adobe Reader, Okular, Evince, and a couple other PDF viewers that I have installed. Then I tried printing to file. I did this several times using different What happens when you print to a cups-pdf printer? The resulting PDF has all the fonts converted to Times, and no font metrics. That is my default printer for Ubuntu 10.10. I created a test document with 60 script and handwritten fonts in it and printed it via cups-pdf. Then I copied it over to a Vista machine that had only 2 or 3 of those fonts installed. The documents showed the correct fonts when I viewed in with Adobe Reader 9. So it seemed to embed the fonts properly via cups-pdf on Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. I rarely use OOo's Export to PDF anyways. ALSO, if you use Windows, use doPDF. It is a free PDF printer that embeds the fonts properly. That is what I use on the Vista system. Fedora 11 x86_64 with OOo 3.1.1 from OOo, not the repositories. The problem is only Bitstream Vera family. I have hundreds of other fonts installed, including Adobe OTF Pro fonts. OOo is happy to embed and print all of them, all except the Bitstream Vera family. At the same time all my other apps (Abiword, Scribus, etc.) will print and embed the Bitstream Vera family without a problem. According to the license information (viewed with Fontmatrix), these fonts came with the Gnome desktop. It is clearly a bug in OOo 3.1.1. Eventually I will move up to 3.2, which hopefully will resolve the problem. In the meantime, for this project I just changed all the fonts to DejaVu. For those not aware, DejaVu is a FOSS remaking of the Bitstream Vera family, adding additional glyphs and eliminating any question about licensing. A lot of distros are now shipping with DejaVu instead of Bitstream Vera. Evidently Gnome hasn't got there yet. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Endnote 9 and writer
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:44:02 -0400 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org dijo: On 2010-11-01 11:33 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: Firefox 4 is still in beta. The final release will not be until next year. I recommend going back to the latest stable release. I am using 3.5.9 Eh? Latest stable is 3.6.12... Yes it is. But I repeat: I am using 3.5.9. And Zotero works just fine in Firefox and Writer. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Help! Export to PDF not embedding fonts
On 11/01/10 19:52, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:10:42 -0400 webmas...@krackedpress.com webmas...@krackedpress.com dijo: On 11/01/10 15:29, NoOp wrote: On 10/31/2010 11:54 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: I created a presentation in Impress (3.1.1 from OOo, not from the repositories, on Fedora 11, x86_64) in which I used the fonts Bitstream Vera Sans Regular and Bold. When I export to PDF all text appears as just blank boxes for the letters. I get the same view of the PDF with Adobe Reader, Okular, Evince, and a couple other PDF viewers that I have installed. Then I tried printing to file. I did this several times using different What happens when you print to a cups-pdf printer? The resulting PDF has all the fonts converted to Times, and no font metrics. That is my default printer for Ubuntu 10.10. I created a test document with 60 script and handwritten fonts in it and printed it via cups-pdf. Then I copied it over to a Vista machine that had only 2 or 3 of those fonts installed. The documents showed the correct fonts when I viewed in with Adobe Reader 9. So it seemed to embed the fonts properly via cups-pdf on Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. I rarely use OOo's Export to PDF anyways. ALSO, if you use Windows, use doPDF. It is a free PDF printer that embeds the fonts properly. That is what I use on the Vista system. Fedora 11 x86_64 with OOo 3.1.1 from OOo, not the repositories. The problem is only Bitstream Vera family. I have hundreds of other fonts installed, including Adobe OTF Pro fonts. OOo is happy to embed and print all of them, all except the Bitstream Vera family. At the same time all my other apps (Abiword, Scribus, etc.) will print and embed the Bitstream Vera family without a problem. According to the license information (viewed with Fontmatrix), these fonts came with the Gnome desktop. It is clearly a bug in OOo 3.1.1. Eventually I will move up to 3.2, which hopefully will resolve the problem. In the meantime, for this project I just changed all the fonts to DejaVu. For those not aware, DejaVu is a FOSS remaking of the Bitstream Vera family, adding additional glyphs and eliminating any question about licensing. A lot of distros are now shipping with DejaVu instead of Bitstream Vera. Evidently Gnome hasn't got there yet. Ubuntu 10.10 has DejaVu San [9 fonts styles], Mono [4 styles], and Serif [8 styles]. I do not know if it came with 10.10 or did it go back all the way back to 9.x. All I know is I did not remember installing it myself on this desktop. Just checked, DejaVu is not in my sorted part of my 100K fonts in my collection. So it must have come with Ubuntu. As for GNOME, I do not know about that. Some tell me that Ubuntu is not GNOME, even when it asked me if I wanted to use GNOME only option at the current log on. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Help! Export to PDF not embedding fonts
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:45:15 -0400 webmas...@krackedpress.com webmas...@krackedpress.com dijo: It is clearly a bug in OOo 3.1.1. Eventually I will move up to 3.2, which hopefully will resolve the problem. In the meantime, for this project I just changed all the fonts to DejaVu. For those not aware, DejaVu is a FOSS remaking of the Bitstream Vera family, adding additional glyphs and eliminating any question about licensing. A lot of distros are now shipping with DejaVu instead of Bitstream Vera. Evidently Gnome hasn't got there yet. As for GNOME, I do not know about that. Some tell me that Ubuntu is not GNOME, even when it asked me if I wanted to use GNOME only option at the current log on. Straight Ubuntu comes with the Gnome desktop. There are many derivatives of Ubuntu, which usually use a different desktop. For example, Kubuntu uses KDE, Xubuntu uses XFCE, Lubuntu uses I forgot desktop. OOo will run nicely on all of them, although if you use the default installation it will be the Go-oo version, not the version from OOo. I recommend that you install an additional desktop. After doing so you will have the additional desktop as a login option. The reason I recommend this is because it gives you an additional way to log in if you mess up something in Gnome and it won't start. But this is an OOo list, so I'll shut up now about Ubuntu. :) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Help! Export to PDF not embedding fonts
On 11/01/2010 04:52 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On 11/01/10 15:29, NoOp wrote: ... What happens when you print to a cups-pdf printer? The resulting PDF has all the fonts converted to Times, and no font metrics. ... Fedora 11 x86_64 with OOo 3.1.1 from OOo, not the repositories. The problem is only Bitstream Vera family. I have hundreds of other fonts installed, including Adobe OTF Pro fonts. OOo is happy to embed and print all of them, all except the Bitstream Vera family. At the same time all my other apps (Abiword, Scribus, etc.) will print and embed the Bitstream Vera family without a problem. Sorry, I can't help you out with 3.1.1; I had to remove the older versions (disk space issue) cannot find that version on any of the mirrors (US English - linux), all I find is Windows versions. Given that 3.1.1 is quite out of date, why not install a 3.2.x version in parallel and see if that resolves your problem? I cannot replicate the issue on OOo 3.2.1. I can export to pdf w/Bitstream and can print to cups-pdf w/Bitstream... no substitution w/Times. According to the license information (viewed with Fontmatrix), these fonts came with the Gnome desktop. I have Bitstream Vera /home/gl/.fonts/VeraBd.ttf Glyphs count 267 Font Type TrueType Charmaps List Unicode, Apple Roman Font Family Bitstream Vera Sans Font Subfamily Bold Full font name Bitstream Vera Sans Bold Postscript name BitstreamVeraSans-Bold License Description Copyright (c) 2003 by Bitstream, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Bitstream Vera is a trademark of Bitstream, Inc. It is clearly a bug in OOo 3.1.1. Eventually I will move up to 3.2, which hopefully will resolve the problem. In the meantime, for this project I just changed all the fonts to DejaVu. If it is a bug, then you should be able to find it in the Tracker issues... there are 236 currently filed related to bitstream. If not, file a bug. You are sucking lemons... You know that you are running an outdated version of OOo (August 2009) yet complain when you run into an issue regarding fonts. I don't know if 3.2.x will fix your issue (as I mentioned I can't find a 3.1.1 to install to test at the moment), but given the bandwidth regarding the issue you might take the time to at least install 3.2.1 in parallel (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Run_OOo_versions_parallel) and report back as to whether that resolves your issue. For those not aware, DejaVu is a FOSS remaking of the Bitstream Vera family, adding additional glyphs and eliminating any question about licensing. A lot of distros are now shipping with DejaVu instead of Bitstream Vera. Evidently Gnome hasn't got there yet. Really? What has this to do with Gnome? Gnome has had DejaVu for quite a long time. Perhaps it is your distro that is the problem: $ apt-cache search dejavu ming-fonts-dejavu - Ming format DejaVue Fonts t1-thai-arundina - Thai DejaVu-compatible fonts in Type1 format ttf-thai-arundina - Thai DejaVu-compatible fonts in TrueType format ttf-dejavu - Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-core and ttf-dejavu-extra ttf-dejavu-core - Vera font family derivate with additional characters ttf-dejavu-extra - Vera font family derivate with additional characters http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ttf-dejavu Ubuntu Dapper was released on 01 June 2006 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Help! Export to PDF not embedding fonts
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:57:50 -0700 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: Fedora 11 x86_64 with OOo 3.1.1 from OOo, not the repositories. The problem is only Bitstream Vera family. I have hundreds of other fonts installed, including Adobe OTF Pro fonts. OOo is happy to embed and print all of them, all except the Bitstream Vera family. At the same time all my other apps (Abiword, Scribus, etc.) will print and embed the Bitstream Vera family without a problem. Sorry, I can't help you out with 3.1.1; I had to remove the older versions (disk space issue) cannot find that version on any of the mirrors (US English - linux), all I find is Windows versions. Given that 3.1.1 is quite out of date, why not install a 3.2.x version in parallel and see if that resolves your problem? I cannot replicate the issue on OOo 3.2.1. I can export to pdf w/Bitstream and can print to cups-pdf w/Bitstream... no substitution w/Times. It is clearly a bug in OOo 3.1.1. Eventually I will move up to 3.2, which hopefully will resolve the problem. In the meantime, for this project I just changed all the fonts to DejaVu. If it is a bug, then you should be able to find it in the Tracker issues... there are 236 currently filed related to bitstream. If not, file a bug. You are sucking lemons... You know that you are running an outdated version of OOo (August 2009) yet complain when you run into an issue regarding fonts. I don't know if 3.2.x will fix your issue (as I mentioned I can't find a 3.1.1 to install to test at the moment), but given the bandwidth regarding the issue you might take the time to at least install 3.2.1 in parallel (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Run_OOo_versions_parallel) and report back as to whether that resolves your issue. For those not aware, DejaVu is a FOSS remaking of the Bitstream Vera family, adding additional glyphs and eliminating any question about licensing. A lot of distros are now shipping with DejaVu instead of Bitstream Vera. Evidently Gnome hasn't got there yet. Really? What has this to do with Gnome? Gnome has had DejaVu for quite a long time. Perhaps it is your distro that is the problem: I only state that by way of pointing out that if Bitstream Vera is good enough and open enough for Gnome, it ought to work. The problem is not in my distro. The problem is a bug in OOo 3.1.1. And it is the version from OOo, not from the Fedora repos. I know it is not a Fedora problem because all my other apps embed and print the Vera family just fine. As for upgrading OOo, yes, I will do that soon. (Too busy at the moment, and I have a workaround for the current problem.) I don't need to install 3.2 in parallel; I'll just upgrade the 3.1.1 to 3.2. Since from posts by others 3.2 fixes the problem, there is no need to file a bug report on 3.1.1. NoOp, I love you just all over the place. But this thread is resolved and dead. :) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] OOo 3.1 Base Forms
Hi I have created a database in OOo 3.1 Base, I want to give access of only the form to the users so that they can enter the data in the database and should have user rights of only adding new entries in the database and also searching an entry in the database. So if you can guide me how to do that? Thanks Regards Adeel Shahid
