Dear Developers, there are issues with text being printed over older text when
using any Mint-Y-Dark theme in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 AOO417m1(Build:9800) -
Rev. 46059c91922019-08-20 10:05 - Linux x86_64. I have raised the issue with
the developer of these dark themes. What toolkit do you use
19.3
Codename: tricia
Kind Regards,
Dean
From: Peter Kovacs [leg...@posteo.de]
Sent: Wednesday, 15 April 2020 5:46 PM
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; Dean Webber
Subject: Re: Display error with Linux-Mint Dark Themes
Linux build is at default
Dear Developers, there are issues with text being printed over older text when
using any Mint-Y-Dark theme in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 AOO417m1(Build:9800) -
Rev. 46059c91922019-08-20 10:05 - Linux x86_64. I have raised the issue with
the developer of these dark themes. What toolkit do you use
When pasting sine graph into writer then the graph is incorrect as "Star Object
Descriptor (XML)" but looks great as an GDI METAFILE object, perhaps should be
default?
Cheers and happy ladies day.
A2 - Sin Waves Untitled 7 2.ods
Description: A2 - Sin Waves Untitled 7 2.ods
Trying to complete graphs of sine waves. Due to the changing of the x scale,
when formatting the x axis, wavelength scale is set to 1 second.
This occurs whenever entering the graph format dialogue, where the "Major
Interval" is set to one, graph then shows no useful visual information.
See
See for graph as GDI METAFILE.
https://imgur.com/wnK8HMI.png
[https://imgur.com/wnK8HMI.png]
And as Star Object - https://imgur.com/xzFTpGk.png
Weird huh?[https://imgur.com/xzFTpGk.png]
From: Dean Webber
Sent: Sunday, 10 May 2020 10:29 AM
To: dev
Regarding PDF's.
>> PDF is not an editable format and it is not from any of the "major
>> competitor" suites. In any case you can open PDF files in OpenOffice. Just
>> install the PDF Import extension.
>>
>
> Yes PDF is an editable format, you just need to have a PDF editor. The
> fact is that
Dear all,
I can read a book written in German, but I cannot understand it. AOO does not
seem to understand many docx, especially those with formulae. The files I use
on a day-to-day basis need to have margins adjusted to 'fit' the pages,
formulaes added and generally pictures too.
I think
More emphasis should be placed on the fact that OO is a full feature suite
committed to the Open Document Format.
This OASIS standard is an important feature of all libre/open source/commons
suites going forward, and puts immense pressure on the older style (microsoft)
native formats, which is
Yes, best to avoid Google content if possible..
From: Pedro Lino
Sent: Monday, 31 May 2021 5:42 AM
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 21.04 / dark mode
Hi Andrea
Thank you for the links. FontAwesome requires a paid license to have access to
the
Thanks everyone. When I tried applying the format to the cells before entering
any data, it was overwritten once I entered data. ie. Set cells x1,x2,x3 ect to
text -> enter numbers -> then it reverts to number round to two dp. But yeah, I
will be changing the default table in styles, great idea
I suggest modification to the "format code" of " Number - General " to leave
the number exactly as entered, as a simple fix. Good idea, yay nay?
From: Dean.Webber <2018001...@student.sit.ac.nz>
Sent: Friday, 11 June 2021 11:06 AM
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Dear Devs,
How hard would it be to change the default rounding in the tables to the
entered value or similar. Or perhaps, can I change it to accept text as an
entry by default (ie in settings)...
Just a little time consuming whenever I enter 895.714285 or similar into the
table and have to
> How many localization pages need to be translated? How many pages are 'not
> maintained'?
>the default set has ~40 pages. But I haven't counted the total amount of words
>or sentences.
Link to the default set please, in english, are we talking
https://www.openoffice.org
Perhaps, I can try
How many localization pages need to be translated? How many pages are 'not
maintained'?
Depending on the extend of the pages, we can adopt a translate service (which
will have some cost attached). For example to translate 100 pages of similar
character length using the yandex translate api
I have updated the "main" page for the Esperanto (EO) language. The html code
is available at https://justpaste.it/8yuud for upload.
The pages have mostly been translated using translate.yandex.com with help from
en.bab.la/dictionary/english-esperanto/ for the remaining few.
This will still
Can not these pages then be converted to language using translate service?
Or is it possible to run the source page through a translation service, so the
pages remain "updated" for ones that are not maintained.
Then ones that are maintained perhaps will not need this treatment, or perhaps
if a
Have you also installed the desktop-integration?
"Desktop integration.
Desktop integration for deb-based systems requires installation of one package.
Historically, for rpm based systems, OpenOffice has provided desktop
integration packages for madriva, redhat, suse, and now freedesktop. These
[] no, regarding the claws-mail, it produces error in MX 19.4 and Linux 20.1
otherwise, it seems stable, but I have not testing for any other of the changes
From: Jim Jagielski
Sent: Monday, 26 April 2021 8:15 AM
To: dev
Subject: [VOTE] Release AOO 4.1.10-RC2 as
Hi Team,
I am on break and attempting to test the release candidate on multiple linux
systems. I have seen UI problems in the past, and am beginning to think it is
Ubuntu specific, but that is a very early theory. Basically I want to do a
comprehensive test, to ensure that the root cause is
Not detecting claws-mail on Linux Mint 20.1 nor in MX_19.4
Error; OpenOffice 4.1.10 "OpenOffice was unable to find a working e-mail
configuration. Please save this document locally instead and attach it from
within your e-mail client."
[cid:e2bc38eb-f122-40ec-b620-907f62c8a919]
is it
Thanks and yes, no voting for me i do not count (thanks for the link, read
before but i should be more careful)
To be more clear. File - Send - Document as email (or any of the other email
options) results in the error (because i didnt first set my email client in the
settings) "Error;
As attachments do not show in the mailing list;
https://ibb.co/f1XQvbW Mint-Y (Faulty Default UI)
https://ibb.co/2vtdcXK Mint-Y (Faulty Default UI)
https://ibb.co/r5bdLNg Mint-Y (Faulty Default UI)
https://ibb.co/WKzTNSk Mint-Y (Faulty Default UI)
https://ibb.co/Nr7Cddw Mint-X (All
please disregard my last email, i did not realise i had to tell AOO what my
email client was...
From: Dean.Webber <2018001...@student.sit.ac.nz>
Sent: Monday, 26 April 2021 6:51 PM
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release AOO 4.1.10-RC2 as GA
[]
Hi Tom,
These icons can be added by clicking on the down arrow at the end of the
appropriate toolbar > Visible Buttons
ie; Table > Visible Buttons > Merge Cells and also Formatting > Visible Buttons
> Font Color
Alternatively, you could reset your user profile from the guide here
Much better.
Any chance to add install instructions for the Linux, not been around enough
distros to know the difference between the various installs. Seems to be a
barrier for some people to use AOO instead of the default office suite.
The method I use on a new install is;
sudo apt-get remove
My bad, am using Apache OpenOffice 4.5.0 (AOO450m1 Build:9900 Rev:facded3995)
it an ASF Buildbot realease, Linux.
I am planning to purchase additional hardware in the future, and will be using
the 4.1.9 or 4.2.0 builds on those machines for testing purposes. This should
align better with the
Good day all,
When someone has a spare moment could these minor amendments be published into
the help for Writer, or could the "Area" tabs be renamed to "Background".
Details;
Index - Watermarks
Defining Graphics or Colors in the Background of Pages (Watermark)
1. Choose Format - Page.
2. On
Where does the help file come from, it seems to be here
(/aoo-4.1.9/main/helpcontent2/source/text/) in 4.1.9...
Okay... Location is same in trunk (helpcontent2/source/text) ..
asf - Revision 1887653:
Looking in main/helpcontent2/source/text/swriter/guide/background.xhp
Line 55 - CORRECT
Line
This issue has been resolved by generating a new user profile, as described
from
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Handling_the_OpenOffice.org_User_Profile
From: Michael Rooney
Sent: Friday, 26 February 2021 8:29 AM
To:
Hi everyone, glad to be here. I am going to jump right in with my intentions
and to share some things.
During the course of this year, I hope to find a solution to UI issues under
Linux with regards to Mint-Y- themes and various other themes under other
Linux distributions. This UI issue
>
> It also seems that MS might be dropping support for 32-bit programs, so
> perhaps a x64 edition of AOO?
> Microsoft
> stops the OEM 32 bit sale, but will provide support to existing 32bit
> installs.
WHERE did you get this? Do you work for Microsoft? Or did you not understand
the statement
The issue for Red has been resolved by using AOO 4.1.9 to create new Avery
(blank and custom printed labels) templates. The original templates that were
created with AOO 3.2.0 would not print with his HP 8035 printer.
"I have been trying to print old text and LABEL files, made by the old
I agree with "Maybe we need something more obvious than a tool tip."
Have been clicking on 'Important hint: RPM vs. DEB = What to choose?' for some
time, without any result. It is usually not obvious to hover on something for a
tool tip, and probably should not be used to contain important
Hi Everyone,
What happens if you 'save as' any basic calc file as "Microsoft Excel 2003 XML
(.xml)" when using AOO in Windows. Does it crash?
Are the XML filters not installed by default? If not, they should be.
Source; OpenOffice on Windows 7 with Java (View topic) • Apache OpenOffice
I got a 404 error for that link, was that expected?
https://www.openoffice.org/downloads/index.html
From: Dave Fisher
Sent: Thursday, 15 April 2021 8:11 AM
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Integrate download wizard into website?
I think he’s talking
Do you mean like the sourceforge page, that detects the system and offers the
download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/latest/download
Does this run from user-agent-string
https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent
Common user-agent-string (April 14
Thanks. I have some testing for Linux UI I would like to complete over the next
two weeks. I will use this 4.1.10 for these purposes.
From: Carl Marcum
Sent: Wednesday, 14 April 2021 11:42 AM
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: AOO 4.1.10-RC1
Hi Jim,
Might want to check through Calc with the dark mode improvements. Seem to lose
the ability to display highlighting or cell backgrounds... Be nice if this UI
improvement is able to fix this. Dark mode is handled poorly, but I assuming
these issues are only in UBUNTU based Linux Distributions and
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