[dev] interested in joining you

2009-11-18 Thread Ranjeet Jaiswal
Hallo sir, I am an engineering graduate from university of Allahabad. Interested to joining openoffice.org Please tell me how I can start with you.

Re: [dev] interested in joining you

2009-11-18 Thread bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:56:42 -0800 (PST) Ranjeet Jaiswal jaisranj...@yahoo.com wrote: Hallo sir, I am an engineering graduate from university of Allahabad. Interested to joining openoffice.org Please tell me how I can start with you. Welcome Ranjeet, it depends on what tasks you want to

Re: [dev] Library requirements (freetype2 = 2.0 ) not met . . .

2009-11-18 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:32:11AM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: Thank you and I think error messages should be a bit more explicit. They are explicit enough. It's common that you need -dev for the libs. r...@knoppix:/media/hdb2/inst/sw/OO/source/ooxpkgs# dpkg -l | grep curl ii curl

[dev] Re: Library requirements (freetype2 = 2.0 ) not met . . .

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Stahl
On 17/11/2009 17:32, Albretch Mueller wrote: configure: error: install curl to run this script and I already (apparently) fixed a similar curl-config one This is what my system looks like right now: r...@knoppix:/media/hdb2/inst/sw/OO/source/ooxpkgs# dpkg -l | grep curl ii libcurl3

Re: [dev] Want to start contributing in OpenSource Community

2009-11-18 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi, welcome, Idress Husain Mukadam! Idrees Husain Mukadam wrote: Dear Sir, I am *'Idrees Husain Mukadam'*, a *Bachelor of Engineering* in I*nformation Technology* from Indore, *India*. I am proficient in C/C++ and JAVA. As a programmer I would also like to contribute in the OpenSource

Re: [dev] How to build OOo in Ubuntu 8.04

2009-11-18 Thread Mathias Bauer
Michael He wrote: Hi, I have get the OpenOffice.org source, but I have some problem to build it. This link: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Building_OpenOffice.org is not enough for me. Would you give me a little bit more information about how to build OOo? Thank you. yanping He

Re: [dev] Textile export filter

2009-11-18 Thread Mathias Bauer
Pavel Lastovicka wrote: Hello, I consider writing export filter to Textile format[1]. I need to make an estimate how many hours it would take to write. Am I right that I need just two filter config files for registry and a single XSLT file, similar to odt2mediawiki.xsl? In general all

Re: [dev] How to build OOo in Ubuntu 8.04

2009-11-18 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Michael He heyanpingli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have get the OpenOffice.org source, but I have some problem to build it. This link: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Building_OpenOffice.org is not enough for me. Would you give me a little bit

Re: [dev] Re: Library requirements (freetype2 = 2.0 ) not met . . .

2009-11-18 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Michael Stahl wrote: What more curl(ing) stuff do I need? uhm, there really is a very simple rule for this: if configure complains that it cannot find the foo library, and you see that you have a libfooN package installed, then you should install a package that (on debian or derived

Re: [dev] Re: OpenOffice Calc in the Financial Markets.

2009-11-18 Thread Cassio Neri
Hi Jurgen. ok, lets assume that OOo Calc would become viable, the issues would be fixed and the missing features would be implemented. What do you think would people really think about a shift from Excel to Calc or is it more hypothetical. I mean is there really interest to move to an open

[dev] Re: OpenOffice Calc in the Financial Markets.

2009-11-18 Thread Andreas Saeger
Cassio Neri wrote: One intention (among others) of my previous messages was to propose a solution for our major problem. By doing so, OOo Calc will make one step to become a viable option for very important applications we have in financial markets. I'm very sorry to say that currently only

[dev] Re: OpenOffice Calc in the Financial Markets.

2009-11-18 Thread Björn Michaelsen
Am Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:49:49 +0100 schrieb Andreas Saeger saege...@onlinehome.de: Cassio Neri wrote: One intention (among others) of my previous messages was to propose a solution for our major problem. By doing so, OOo Calc will make one step to become a viable option for very important

[dev] Re: OpenOffice Calc in the Financial Markets.

2009-11-18 Thread Andreas Saeger
Björn Michaelsen wrote: There is absolutely no reason for this ad-hominem. Financial markets are generally a very conservative business: There are enough fake arguments being thrown around to prevent adoption of open solutions. This is why I find it really delightful that Cassio Neri takes his

[dev] Re: OpenOffice Calc in the Financial Markets.

2009-11-18 Thread Björn Michaelsen
Am Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:12:43 +0100 schrieb Andreas Saeger saege...@onlinehome.de: [...] Nobody has ever been fired for using Microsoft (and the money remains on the right side of the fence). Thats totally offtopic here on d...@openoffice.org. Best Regards, Bjoern Michaelsen

[dev] Re: OpenOffice Calc in the Financial Markets.

2009-11-18 Thread Andreas Saeger
Björn Michaelsen wrote: Am Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:12:43 +0100 schrieb Andreas Saeger saege...@onlinehome.de: [...] Nobody has ever been fired for using Microsoft (and the money remains on the right side of the fence). Thats totally offtopic here on d...@openoffice.org. Best Regards, Bjoern

[dev] Build with Ubuntu 9.10

2009-11-18 Thread Zhu Lihua
Hi all, I'm trying to build under ubuntu 9.10. After: ./configure --disable-odk --with-lang=zh-CN --disable-build-mozilla ./bootstrap build --all It stopped at module soltools: mkout -- version: 1.8 -- Making: ../unxlngi6.pro/obj/cppsetup.obj gcc -fmessage-length=0

[dev] OO Dialog sizes - MapAppFont

2009-11-18 Thread Oliver Brinzing
Hi, can one give me a hint how to solve this problem ? OO uses MapAppFont metric for dialogs created with the basic ide editor. We are using different window styles for screen resolutions 1024x768 and 1280x1024. The styles use different font sizes too - this seems to be the, problems cause

Re: [dev] OO Dialog sizes - MapAppFont

2009-11-18 Thread Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Oliver, And how does oo convert from MapAppFonts to pixels ? css.awt.XUnitConversion should allow this. The existing documentation at http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/awt/XUnitConversion.html is somewhat sprase, this improved in the 3.2 version, which is not yet online

Re: [dev] Build with Ubuntu 9.10

2009-11-18 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:24:55AM +0800, Zhu Lihua wrote: In file mkdepend/def.h:157 char *getline(); But in file /usr/include/stdio.h:651 extern _IO_ssize_t getline (char **__restrict __lineptr, size_t *__restrict __n, FILE