English Dictionaries updated - 1-MAY-2015
Hello! Just to inform everyone that I have updated the English Dictionaries for *Apache OpenOffice**:* - en_CA (Canadian) (updated: 2015-04-24) - en_GB (British) (updated: 2015-05-01)* - en_US (American) (updated: 2015-04-24) * en_GB has 889 new words. It will be triggered within a few days or you can directly download it from: http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/english-dictionaries-apache-openoffice I have also updated the en_GB for *Mozilla**:* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/british-english-dictionary-2 *Project site (Proofing Tool GUI)*: http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/proofingtoolgui.html *GitHub repository:* https://github.com/marcoagpinto/aoo-mozilla-en-dict Thanks! Kind regards from your friend, Marco A.G.Pinto -- --
Re: CVE-2015-1774: OpenOffice HWP Filter Remote Execution and DoS Vulnerability
On 29/04/15 21:53, Marcus wrote: Am 04/29/2015 05:39 PM, schrieb jan i: On 29 April 2015 at 15:07, Simon Phippssi...@webmink.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Andrea Pescettipesce...@apache.org wrote: Simon Phipps wrote: Given this problem is not fixed in the current download, should the project suspend downloads until it can be addressed? This looks like a very extreme measure to take. The severity of the issue would not justify it. Can you explain that please? The CVE says Severity: Important and the effects are a denial of service or possibly execution of arbitrary code by preparing specially crafted documents in the HWP document format. The fact we are unaware of current exploits does not mitigate the risk arising from distributing the software, and the rarity of the file format does not reduce the likelihood of it being used in an exploit. Maybe I am missing some of the context from the private security list? It seems to be an extremely seldom used feature, that makes the exploit unlikely. I am with Andrea, stopping downloads would not be right in this case. +1 I also don't see this as a reason to stop to offer downloads. stopping the downloads is completely exaggerated. I personally never have seen such a file besides test documents in real life. We have a simple and effective work around in place. Even Korean community members on our l10n list have mentioned that the format is no longer relevant. And of course we have analyzed the exploit and have decided to either fix it for the next release or as currently discussed to drop it completely to get away a further obsolete format. Why I don't wonder from whom this idea is coming ;-) And Simon to be serious we take security issues very serious. So for every one who want to write something about security in AOO, security issues were and still are a serious and important topic for AOO and we analyze and decide what to do for every single security issue. Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Open office crashes
Hi, Can you help I using open office 4.1.1 using presentation Im putting in a lot of photos. However the programme crashes every few minutes. What is wrongBarry Molkentin
Re: Open office crashes
On 30 Apr 2015, at 8:48 am, Barry Molkentin kknba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can you help I using open office 4.1.1 using presentation Im putting in a lot of photos. However the programme crashes every few minutes. What is wrongBarry Molkentin Hi, This is the OpenOffice Development mailing list, you might have better success emailing the users mailing list and/or posting in the forums. See: http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#users-mailing-list-public http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#users-mailing-list-public and https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ more info at: http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html HTH Gav… signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: Open office crashes
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:48:11 +1000 Barry Molkentin kknba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can you help I using open office 4.1.1 using presentation Im putting in a lot of photos. However the programme crashes every few minutes. What is wrongBarry Molkentin You may need to delete or rename your OpenOffice user profile. If you are using Windows try this method Click the Start Button on your Desktop and click Documents. This opens a Windows Explorer window. Near the top of the window, there are two boxes. The smaller one on the right is the Search box. The larger one on the left is the Address Bar. Copy %appdata% and paste it in the Address Bar, then press Enter. This opens the Roaming folder where you should see an OpenOffice.org folder. Double-click the OpenOffice.org folder and continue double-clicking folders that appear in the window until you see the user folder. Rename the user folder. If using a different operating system, please indicate what it is. You should in any even make regular backups of any serious work, not just rely on the program to do it for you. It may, or it may not, but if you have backed your file to MyFile Thurs morning.odp you know you have a backup. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: mingw32 for building the ODK under Linux?
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Herbert Duerr h...@apache.org wrote: On 2015-04-29 00:07, Kay Schenk wrote: I normally set --disable-odk in my builds. When I enabled it today for some testing, I get an configuration error that says -- checking for external/unowinreg/unowinreg.dll... configure: WARNING: not found, will be cross-built using mingw32 configure: error: for rebuilding unowinreg.dll you need the mingw32 C++ compiler. Specify mingw32 g++ executable name with --with-mingwin. Or use prebuilt one from http://tools.openoffice.org/unowinreg_prebuild/680/ and put it into external/unowinreg using your browser or a command equivalent to: wget -O external/unowinreg/unowinreg.dll http://www.openoffice.org/tools/unowinreg_prebuild/680/unowinreg.dll Is this really needed for Linux builds of the ODK? If you want to build an ODK that can run on windows then this DLL is needed. As the error message says you can build this DLL from scratch or you can download the pre-built library from [1]. For some background info please see the thread around [2]. I usually take the pre-built binary blob and put it into main/external/unowinreg/ as suggested by the error message. yes...this seems most straightforward It isn't mentioned in our build information. The unowinreg.dll blob is mentioned as a prerequisite in [3]. Oops! Missed this. OK. Thanks. [1] http://www.openoffice.org/tools/unowinreg_prebuild/680/unowinreg.dll [2] http://markmail.org/message/lwgjbdvtoyijymwf [3] https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO#General_Build_Requirements Herbert - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- - MzK “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?” -- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Impress
Good morning. Does OpenOffice have a substitute for Microsoft Publisher? Certain comments on the OpenOffice website refer to Impress being a substitute for Power Point, then relates to Publisher. I am confused. Regards Sue T. England
Re: Impress
Draw is efficient as a digital publishing software, althought there are some caviates, Personaly I would like to see the frame linkage existing in writter in Draw. That would probably solve most of the issues with Draw used as a Digital publisher software. However the open source community also has Scribus which is more targeted for Publishing and imports ODG (Draw files). On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Sue Taylor sue.littlebent...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning. Does OpenOffice have a substitute for Microsoft Publisher? Certain comments on the OpenOffice website refer to Impress being a substitute for Power Point, then relates to Publisher. I am confused. Regards Sue T. England -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
Re: Impress
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:44:15 +0100 Sue Taylor sue.littlebent...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning. Does OpenOffice have a substitute for Microsoft Publisher? Certain comments on the OpenOffice website refer to Impress being a substitute for Power Point, then relates to Publisher. I am confused. Regards Sue T. England Impress is a slightly lesser powered equivalent to PowerPoint. For publishing purposes many use Writer, although this gas not the full capability of a fully fledged publishing program - it really depends on how large and complex your publishing needs are. For text layout or text and some illustrations it is excellent. If your work is heavily graphics oriented, it may not suit. As it is free to download (only download from www.openoffice.org/download) you can try it out and see, -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: mingw32 for building the ODK under Linux?
On 2015-04-29 00:07, Kay Schenk wrote: I normally set --disable-odk in my builds. When I enabled it today for some testing, I get an configuration error that says -- checking for external/unowinreg/unowinreg.dll... configure: WARNING: not found, will be cross-built using mingw32 configure: error: for rebuilding unowinreg.dll you need the mingw32 C++ compiler. Specify mingw32 g++ executable name with --with-mingwin. Or use prebuilt one from http://tools.openoffice.org/unowinreg_prebuild/680/ and put it into external/unowinreg using your browser or a command equivalent to: wget -O external/unowinreg/unowinreg.dll http://www.openoffice.org/tools/unowinreg_prebuild/680/unowinreg.dll Is this really needed for Linux builds of the ODK? If you want to build an ODK that can run on windows then this DLL is needed. As the error message says you can build this DLL from scratch or you can download the pre-built library from [1]. For some background info please see the thread around [2]. I usually take the pre-built binary blob and put it into main/external/unowinreg/ as suggested by the error message. It isn't mentioned in our build information. The unowinreg.dll blob is mentioned as a prerequisite in [3]. [1] http://www.openoffice.org/tools/unowinreg_prebuild/680/unowinreg.dll [2] http://markmail.org/message/lwgjbdvtoyijymwf [3] https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO#General_Build_Requirements Herbert - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
