Re: Downloading problems with some Browsers

2013-12-31 Thread Rory O'Farrell
//www.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.0.1/binaries - don't > reference that in the forum - it is there to help. > > Regards, > Dave > > On Dec 30, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > > On the en-Forum there have been some reports of "Download interrupted&q

Re: Performance measurements on Mac vs others

2013-12-31 Thread Rory O'Farrell
secs) AMD dualcore 4GB On WinXP 32 5 seconds (subsequent opening 2 secs) AMD dualcore 4GB On both computers slow hard disks. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

OO Memory usage: rough test

2014-01-05 Thread Rory O'Farrell
if needed). -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-01-05 Thread Rory O'Farrell
g a fix, try this link http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-01-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
break /Page Break. If you know about Page Styles, you can select the Page Style required from the dropdown on that dialog at the same time. If you do not select a specific page style, you get the default page style. If against a deadline this is the best way to go. -- Ro

Possible filename problem on Win 8.1: request for help

2014-01-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
ease check this out? The workaround is obviously to use longer, meaningful file names, but this problem, if confirmed, might indicate a parsing diffiulty with the filename and/or its lock file. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsub

Re: OO Memory usage: rough test

2014-01-07 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:22:27 -0500 Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > I've been conducting a little experiment over the past hour. Running OO > > 4.0.1 on Xubuntu 13.10, I monitored memory usage of OpenOffice. > > I found

Re: Possible filename problem on Win 8.1: request for help

2014-01-07 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 09:20:58 -0500 Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > On en-Forum a user has reported a problem with single character file names > > from OO 4.0.1 Calc and Writer, running on Win 8.1 > > https://forum.openoffice.

Re: Wishes for future versions OpenOffice

2014-01-09 Thread Rory O'Farrell
ion: Вы можете найти его использования для изучения https://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/6/6d/0214WG3-WorkingWithFields.pdf Использование полей, описанных в этой главе предлагает больше средств, чем те, из свойств пользователя.] -- Rory O'Farrell --

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-01-10 Thread Rory O'Farrell
you will find no intrusive add-ons. The file you download should be one file of about 135-150MB (depending on platform). -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Interesting interoperability problem with formatting of date

2014-01-10 Thread Rory O'Farrell
alculations. By default, January 1, 1900 is serial number 1, > >> and January 1, 2008 is serial number 39448 because it is 39,448 days > >> after January 1, 1900. Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh uses a > >> different date system as its default. > >> > >> Values returned by the YEAR, MONTH and DAY functions will be Gregorian > >> values regardless of the display format for the supplied date value. For > >> example, if the display format of the supplied date is Hijri, the > >> returned values for the YEAR, MONTH and DAY functions will be values > >> associated with the equivalent Gregorian date. > >> > >> Example > >> > >> The example may be easier to understand if you copy it to a blank > >> worksheet. > >> ### > >> > >> - Insert an Option in /Tools /Options : OpenOffice Calc : Calculate page, under Dates: a checkbox for dates compatible with Excel (and some warning about the error?) -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Concern

2014-01-12 Thread Rory O'Farrell
permanently. > > Sometimes more is less, and less is more. > If the automatic (but configurable) formatting features of OpenOffice are disabled, then there is no point in using it. If you find them obtrusive, then you may be using the wrong application for your needs. -- Rory O'Far

Re: Update the dead hyperlink in openoffice.org?

2014-01-13 Thread Rory O'Farrell
ool to scan the website,and update > the dead link to a valid one. In fact, this is not a dead link at all. It is not even a _link_; you are attempting to click on an illustration which is there to show what you will see if you follow the instructions of the wiki to install that Java/E

Re: [RELEASE]: snapshot build for Mac and Windows based on revision 1521921

2014-01-13 Thread Rory O'Farrell
and use them. > >> > >> Further languages and updates of existing languages will be integrated > >> in the next snapshot. > >> > >> Juergen > >> > >> ----- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > >> For additional comma

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-01-17 Thread Rory O'Farrell
gt; -- > Best Regards > > > Lex Ridley > Director > > Arctic Howl > > Tel: 011 465 1033 > Cell: 073 436 8033 > Email: l...@arctichowl.co.za > Web: www.arctichowl.co.za > Which version, operating syste

Re: problems with office

2014-01-18 Thread Rory O'Farrell
have. > > Susan McCrum If you are using a Mac look at this thread https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=55755 In particular, the postings of lgusaas are the important ones. -- Rory O'Farrell

Re: Little improvements from the first Web Satisfaction Survey (sent to @dev)

2014-01-19 Thread Rory O'Farrell
ps either meave (Mac) in brackets, or say "OS X.Y.Z as used on Macs" (or equivalent wording). It is my experience on the Forum that Mac users frequently have limited analytical thinking (present company excepted, of course!) so I advise against total removal of the term Mac. -- Rory O

Re: Are there any legal repercussions for banning users from mailing lists?

2014-01-20 Thread Rory O'Farrell
) shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre. But this is a European interpretation. US interpretation may differ. Re the person responsible - if she has been warned about "off-topic" and has repeatedly posted "off-topic", then ban her strictly for that - "breach of

Re: hi

2014-01-20 Thread Rory O'Farrell
wnload site may be compromised. It is best practice to scan any downloaded file for virus/malware before installing it. This is your responsibility as the user /controller of your compter. -- Rory O'Farrell -

Re: Can't open Documents as saying

2014-01-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
ile that is locked. Note that such lock files are only a few hundred bytes in size, whereas the "owning" file will be at least 6Kb in size. The above "lock" occurs usually because OpenOffice and/or computer were not properly closed down, or sometimes from a progra

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-01-23 Thread Rory O'Farrell
d professional help to get the files off the old computer. Depending on the type of files, the rescued files can very probably be opened by OpenOffice. I'm not aware if OpenOffice can run on an iPad. -- Rory O'Farrell ---

Re: "isn't comprised of"

2014-02-04 Thread Rory O'Farrell
en simpler is to say "OpenOffice comprises six personal productivity applications" -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: So-called "Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website"

2014-02-09 Thread Rory O'Farrell
ML than real > troubles with the site. > I agree with Hagar. If I find problems with a site I normally email the webmaster. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apach

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-02-10 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:06:49 -0500 (EST) pasind...@aol.com wrote: > Please advise: Is OPEN OFFICE ready for use now on Windows 8.1 system?? > > Thank you, Yes -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: Any news on a new build of 64-bit MacOSX AOO 4.1 (either dayly/developer or snapshot build) ?

2014-02-11 Thread Rory O'Farrell
Rexx.update.html";. > > Removing the ScriptProvider extension (not all of its URLs are valid > currently), rerunning the > Extension Manager - Check for Updates yields no updates and does not yield a > crash. A quick inspection shows that there is no /updates/Scr

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-02-12 Thread Rory O'Farrell
alarm, then. I clicked on the link and got a Sourceforge > page that said, "Whoops, we can't find that page." I thought the worst, > that someone had managed to spoof the site to a Sourceforge project of > their own. > > Don heanet is one of the Irish Higher Education

Re: openoffice 4

2014-02-24 Thread Rory O'Farrell
obstitute > totally the microsoft programs i usethanx 4 the reply! Leo. > Many formats can be converted by online service www.zamzar.com Best to move completely to an open format, such as .odt for text and .ods for spre

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-02-24 Thread Rory O'Farrell
sure to investigate it. > As far as I know, Roberto, it is a valid address, as I copid it off my download history. However, it seems only reachable through SourceForge servers, not directly. Directly accessing the SourceForge directory on the ftp.heanet.ie servers throws one back to SourceForge

Re: [RELEASE]: first Beta RC ...

2014-03-03 Thread Rory O'Farrell
gt; > OK, this looks like it's no longer there. > > It came up for me a moment ago, Kay. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: [RELEASE]: first Beta RC ...

2014-03-03 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:54:59 -0800 Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 03/03/2014 09:48 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:43:21 -0800 > > Kay Schenk wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On 03/03/2014 09:26 AM, Herbert Duerr wrote: >

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-03-04 Thread Rory O'Farrell
u are reading this posting ONLY download from www.openoffice.org/download (redirects to SourceForge and your download should start in 5 secs without further intervention by you). -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta (RC)

2014-03-07 Thread Rory O'Farrell
+1 for Beta 4.1 release -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-03-07 Thread Rory O'Farrell
conversion service, free for non commercial file quantities, offering conversion from and to a wide range of formats. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-03-07 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:07:19 +0100 Dave Barton wrote: > Original Message > >From: Rory O'Farrell > To: Dave Barton > Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 20:56:03 + > > > On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:50:37 +0100 > > Dave Barton wrote:

A Beta 4.1 problem

2014-03-10 Thread Rory O'Farrell
oblem I'll post again. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: A Beta 4.1 problem

2014-03-10 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:46:54 -0400 Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > My main use for OpenOffice is for writing, with less frequent use for > > preparation of presentations. At present, I'm writing and expect to have no >

Re: [RELEASE]: final release preparation

2014-03-10 Thread Rory O'Farrell
. continuing the verification of fixed issues and general testing > >>>> 2. taking care of potential showstopper and fix it immediately > >>>> > >>>> Anything else? > >>> > >>> 3. As Oliver already mentioned but to state it also

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-03-18 Thread Rory O'Farrell
ailable for download from the google Play Store (free, as far as I remember). -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-03-18 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:16:18 + (GMT) Christophe Biguet wrote: > Hello, > > I've a problem to put an automatic date field, when I insert the correct > wanted format, it stays in "Date" and i can't change it ! > > Thanks /View /Fiel

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-03-27 Thread Rory O'Farrell
openofice.org/download. This will redirect to a SourceForge server. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Correction! Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-03-27 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:33:14 + Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:07:03 + > Gerry McCrory wrote: > > > Good evening,9 > > I have been a user of Open Office for a number of years now but upon > > clicking the update button i was directed

Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC)

2014-04-03 Thread Rory O'Farrell
t;[ ] 0 Don't care >[ ] -1 Do not release this package because... +1 (non binding) -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: 4.1.0_release_blocker canceled: [Issue 124607] Particular.odt fails to open with "Read Error. Error reading file"

2014-04-05 Thread Rory O'Farrell
68890 File doesn't open on 4.1 RC1 but does Insert on 4.1 -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Ryman eco font on AOO 4.xx

2014-04-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
t; -- > gw Normally fonts install system-wide on Windows. I managed to install it on Xubuntu 13.10 - I needed to install some otf related libraries first. On screen it shows up rather grey - not to my taste. Printing (quick trial) shows that increases my trial document page

Re: Fwd: Help

2014-04-07 Thread Rory O'Farrell
ument into it (/Insert /File). If your document opens correctly, you should then remove any Comments attaching to text ranges and resave; the comments can safely be attached to a point (as in earlier versions of OO). -- Rory O'Farrell --

Re: [RELEASE]: propose a second RC on revision 1585426

2014-04-07 Thread Rory O'Farrell
g.cgi?id=124509 > [4] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124394 > > Juergen > +1 -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Close, but not quite 100 million...

2014-04-15 Thread Rory O'Farrell
; full-installation artefacts of released versions (3.4.0, 3.4.1, 4.0.0 > and 4.0.1)? > > Best regards, Oliver. > > > Roberto > > Very nice! One little point. The Downloads served counter is dynamic - one can see it change for each

Re: extensions and dictionaries

2015-07-16 Thread Rory O'Farrell
seem to be down at present. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Reporting broken download link

2015-07-17 Thread Rory O'Farrell
g.md5 > Base URL to Sourceforge.net > http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.1/binaries/ > Base URL to Apache Archivehttp://archive.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.1.1 > getLinkSelection() (download URL) undefined > isLanguageSupported() (true/false)

Re: Reporting broken download link

2015-07-18 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 16:51:09 +1000 Linda Parker wrote: > Downloads “Mergedocsonline” not Openoffice. Tried multiple times. Using > OS/X Yosemite 10.10.4. The servers have a problem which is being worked on. Try later. -- Rory O&#

Re: spellcheck

2015-07-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
does not match your installed language, use /Tools /Language /For all text to change the document language variant to that you normally use. This will most probably sort out the problem without need to reinstall OpenOffice. -- Rory O'Farrell --

AOO extensions/templates after SourceForge outage

2015-07-22 Thread Rory O'Farrell
disregard this post. But in the event that there has been some mixup, please could we have the former pages back? -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e

Re: Question

2015-07-22 Thread Rory O'Farrell
e only finds fonts when it starts up. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: AOO extensions/templates after SourceForge outage

2015-07-22 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:35:15 +0200 Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > After the recent SourceForge outage, the pages being linked off the > > AOO download page for AOO extensions and AOO templates are not the > > detailed pages previously link

Re: AOO extensions/templates after SourceForge outage

2015-07-22 Thread Rory O'Farrell
are not the detailed > > pages previously linked. Of course, restoration may still be in process; > > if so, please disregard this post. But in the event that there has been > > some mixup, please could we have the former pages back? > > > > -- > > Rory O&#x

Re: AOO extensions/templates after SourceForge outage

2015-07-24 Thread Rory O'Farrell
to on one of the test computers) Rory > > > 2015-07-22 16:37 GMT+02:00 Rory O'Farrell : > > > On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:40:17 +0200 > > Roberto Galoppini wrote: > > > > > Thanks Rory, > > > > > > Actually restoration of project web d

Re: Open Office Writer

2015-07-27 Thread Rory O'Farrell
sibly in the save directory, or in the OpenOffice user directory If the file is still blank have a look at these posts: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=70500 https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=68713 https://forum.openoffice.org/en/foru

Maximum entries for AOO Writer Index

2015-07-28 Thread Rory O'Farrell
Is there any limit to the size of an Index in Writer (number of entries)? -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: [DISCUSS] Would you like to be the new chair of AOO ?

2015-07-31 Thread Rory O'Farrell
he PMC. > > He proved to be an excellent mediator and advisor to the group, always > respectful of the Apache Way and willing to help. > > Roberto Agreed. I had intended to nominate him, but was waiting for a few days to see reaction on list to Jan's announcem

Re: English Dictionaries - Issue with Extension site

2015-07-31 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:57:40 +0100 "Marco A.G.Pinto" wrote: > Hi again, > > The Extension page is back up, but it still says that the file is not > found when we try to download it: The file downloaded correctly for me a few minutes ago. It was the 01 August ve

For Information: Reported Windows 10 problems

2015-08-04 Thread Rory O'Farrell
&t=78470 https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=78450 https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=78432 https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=78445 -- Rory O'Farrell ---

Re: For Information: Reported Windows 10 problems

2015-08-05 Thread Rory O'Farrell
com] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 05:47 > > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > Subject: Re: For Information: Reported Windows 10 problems > > > > I see this as well: > > > > http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/windows-10-changed-all-my-documents-t

Re: For Information: Reported Windows 10 problems

2015-08-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 09:38:58 -0400 Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:04 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 19:44:01 -0400 > > Rob Weir wrote: > > > >> Did some of my own testing, starting with a clean image of Windows 7 > >>

Re: Possible broken link: Checksums

2015-08-12 Thread Rory O'Farrell
nload. When you select your download you will be switched to SourceForge servers where the files are kept, and your download will start automatically in 5-10 seconds. Do not click on anything else. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsu

Re: [VOTE] Dennis Hamilton as new AOO Chair.

2015-08-16 Thread Rory O'Farrell
[X] +1, I want Dennis Hamilton as new Chair [ ] +0, I do not care if Dennis Hamilton becomes new Chair [ ] -1, I am against Dennis Hamilton becomes new chair > (out of curtesy, please add another suggestion). -- Rory O'

Re: Blocked from downloading OpenOffice :-(

2015-08-18 Thread Rory O'Farrell
five or so seconds without need to click on anything else - DO NOT click on anything else. If your browser pops up a window asking what you want to do with the download - select Save; this window is OK. -- Rory O'Farrell

Section styles?

2015-08-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
looking into the OpenDocument definitions; I know that Rob and Dennis (possibly other list-members also) have experience with the OpenDocument format and wonder if they may remember why this was not included in the specification? -- Rory O'Fa

Re: Section styles?

2015-08-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
fies how > to tell a section style, but nothing about what they might have in them. > However, section 16.27.28 on the element specifies > that this element can specify formatting properties for text and for > sections. It can be used with a definition element of > style:family="

Re: help needed on ODF standard for "auto" indent for paragraphs

2015-08-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
ntation. If you need references for the one em indent I can provide them. Rory -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: help needed on ODF standard for "auto" indent for paragraphs

2015-08-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
nything, but I'm going offline shortly to do Saturday things. Rory > > -Original Message- > >From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 14:20 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: help needed on ODF standard

Re: help needed on ODF standard for "auto" indent for paragraphs

2015-08-22 Thread Rory O'Farrell
site_id=nrsi&id=iws-chapter09 -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Dennis Hamilton as new AOO Chair.

2015-08-23 Thread Rory O'Farrell
erhaps make some improvement and contribution to the project's functionality. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: AOO -> LO or MS O

2015-09-03 Thread Rory O'Farrell
27;s different from "deciding it was not worth the effort". > > Why the FUD on a dev list, anyway? The posting was for information; if it contains inaccuracies, that is a different thing to posing direct FUD to the list. A messenger is not responsible for the content of the message he

Re: open office problems

2015-09-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
stems are given in https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426 -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Spellcheck

2015-09-08 Thread Rory O'Farrell
s://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426 -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Wrongful information on the Wikipedia

2015-09-14 Thread Rory O'Farrell
ate on any entry in which he is personally involved. The legal maxim is "Nemo judex in sua causa" (No man should judge in his own case) and the UK legal precedent is that of Coke in Dr Bonham's case. Rory O'Farrell > > > Am 14.09.2015 um 22:52 schrieb John D'O

The other Forum

2015-09-22 Thread Rory O'Farrell
The old OO forum, http://www.oooforum.org/ has been offline for several weeks now. Perhaps a last gasp effort to acquire its content might be appropriate? -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-uns

Re: [API] Priority Problem with AND and OR

2015-10-12 Thread Rory O'Farrell
m came up recently several times on the en-Forum; we advised that it is best to use the brackets to define order of calculation (particularly as so many Calc users are mathematically inexperienced). It would nevertheless be good to have the matter correct in some revision. Rory O'

Re: Download problem

2015-10-12 Thread Rory O'Farrell
download manager. I haven't used one in Windows for a long time, so cannot suggest one. It also may be that your download is being limited by your ISP - perhaps there is a daily download total permitted? Rory O'Farrell > > 2015-10-12 19:51 GMT+02:00 Thelma Osburg : > >

Re: Problems with Open Office 4.1.1

2015-10-14 Thread Rory O'Farrell
in the File Explorer Address Bar and press Enter. Delete or Rename the "user" folder. Start OpenOffice. This cures most spellcheck and stability problems after upgrades. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-

Re: NeoShine: ribbon introduction

2015-10-16 Thread Rory O'Farrell
x27;t do. With the current fashion for landscape screens the Sidebar makes more sense to me. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: how to switch back to my original documents

2015-10-19 Thread Rory O'Farrell
you used before. Details on how to do this are given in https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12918 If in doubt, Google for "File Associations" -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsub

Re: [VOTE] Release 4.1.2-RC3 as OpenOffice 4.1.2

2015-10-24 Thread Rory O'Farrell
[+1] +1 Approve Installed OK on Xubuntu 15.10. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

2015-10-28 Thread Rory O'Farrell
I think it is worthy to remember a deceased member of the community and note that he made a valued contribution to the project. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For addit

Re: Reporting broken download link

2015-10-29 Thread Rory O'Farrell
rowser cache. I had the same problem and the forced page refresh cleared it. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: [QUESTION] Usability of Non-Optional Java Dependencies

2015-10-29 Thread Rory O'Farrell
; > First of all, a warm welcome to Patricia. Java developers are > > particularly welcome at this stage! > > > > Just IMHO, the C++ side of AOO is either under-control or > > too-ugly-to care-about, so we would do good focus more on the > > Java

Re: Pending release tasks

2015-10-29 Thread Rory O'Farrell
f the > updates. Now al ldownloads should show and point to the 4.1.2 release. > > And I think I know what went wrong: > I've committed to fast, and not waited for finishing the staging build > before committing the next change. > > So, even when it's a bit slow in t

Possible Mac problem 4.1.2

2015-10-30 Thread Rory O'Farrell
; it would be good to have confirmation that this is a Mac only problem and that it does not extend to Windows or BSD -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional command

Re: Possible Mac problem 4.1.2

2015-10-30 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:39:40 + Rory O'Farrell wrote: > There is a report on en-Forum of a possible problem with Macs not opening > existing database tables directly. > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=80059 > > Perhaps some developer Mac us

Re: Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer

2015-11-02 Thread Rory O'Farrell
now, I'd consider a 2650 x 1440. For memory, all my machines are 4GB (old machines) and their chips run at about 4000 Bogomips per core (2 core CPUs). The major manifestation of slow CPUs will be long compile times; editing

Re: MSI installer

2015-11-02 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 13:39:26 -0500 Daiddel Borges wrote: > Any way to get an .msi installer for deployment purposes? > > There are links to various editions of Microsoft installer at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/942288 -- Rory

Re: ОШИБКА!!!

2015-11-05 Thread Rory O'Farrell
изображение 1] Inspection of this shows one letter omitted in the Russian translation "Назания полей" should be "Наз>>в<<ания полей" (>><< characters to highlight hhe omitted letter) -- Rory O'Farrell ---

Re: Reporting broken download link

2015-11-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
gt; > > >[...] > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Rory O'Farrell

Re: Downloading

2015-11-08 Thread Rory O'Farrell
> This is an Apple Gatekeeper message. See this posting for a solution https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=80075&p=368517 -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openo

Re: [PROPOSAL] Distribute only one source package

2015-11-08 Thread Rory O'Farrell
> * better compression formats exist, but they are not as widely supported > > as the three we are using now, so I'd stick with bzip2 > > > > This of course doesn't apply to 4.1.2, which is already released and > > will remain available in all three formats. > > &g

Re: [PROPOSAL] Distribute only one source package

2015-11-08 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 08 Nov 2015 20:53:44 +0100 Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Nov 2015 09:51:07 -0800 "Dennis E. Hamilton" wrote: > >> There is interesting discussion on this thread that devolves into what > >> compression to use

Re: [PROPOSAL] Distribute only one source package

2015-11-09 Thread Rory O'Farrell
guage pack. I don't know how feasible this might be - bear in mind my knowledge of compilation and linking dates from the days of Z80 assembler and static linking at compile time! Doing the above suggestion would dramatically reduce the required number of prebuilt binaries. -- Rory

Re: [PROPOSAL] Distribute only one source package

2015-11-09 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 13:01:16 +0100 Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > I can see one possible method to reduce the number of prebuilt binaries. > > This has nothing to do with this thread though. I'm sorry for choosing the wrong thread - I realised

Reported Calc problem with large files

2015-11-09 Thread Rory O'Farrell
mp;t=80130[/url] The later reports in the thread link to other similar threads and a Bugzilla report. The reports are all for Windows at present, but a memory allcation/deallocation problem might show up on other operating systems. -- Rory O

Re: downloading to tablet

2015-11-09 Thread Rory O'Farrell
; bruce Power – 212 long st Pialba q 4655. There is an unofficial port of OpenOffice to Android called AndrOpen Office in the Android repositories. As far as I have tried it, it works, but we can give no support for it. -- Rory O'Farrell

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