[tdf-discuss] EasyHack on EasyHacks

2011-03-26 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, Our EasyHacks page here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks is quite a mess by now as we have so many of them. Also I dont think it is very inviting to newcomers. An really important EasyHack -- that does not even require elite programming skills would be to

[tdf-discuss] Re: Bug or new feature

2011-03-26 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@pt-global.com writes: Thanks, I get by with PS2PDF but don't get the table of contents working. Yes, AFAIK postscript doesn't support that. If there's some tool that is able to extract and add bookmark information to a PDF, you can try generating the PDF directly

Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread Jaime R. Garza
Hi Peter, I don't really understand the logic behind your suggestion. You want LO to drop support for the defacto-standard file format??? I don't really see any good reason for doing such a completely strategically wrong decision. Cheers! Jaime On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 16:36, Peter Jentsch

Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread Carl Symons
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jaime R. Garza gar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, I don't really understand the logic behind your suggestion. You want LO to drop support for the defacto-standard file format??? I don't really see any good reason for doing such a completely strategically

Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
On 3/26/11 5:30 PM, Carl Symons wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jaime R. Garzagar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, I don't really understand the logic behind your suggestion. You want LO to drop support for the defacto-standard file format??? I don't really see any good reason for

Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 3/26/11 5:30 PM, Carl Symons wrote: Although MS stopped free support for MS Office 2003 some time ago, its use is still widespread. It would be a mistake for LibO to support the ill-defined, shifting OOXML and deprecate MS 2003 support. I might be wrong, but Peter was referring to MS

Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread upscope
snip On Saturday, March 26, 2011 09:30:31 AM Carl Symons wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jaime R. Garza gar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, I don't really understand the logic behind your suggestion. You want LO to drop support for the defacto-standard file format??? I

Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread Ercole Carpanetto
On 26 March 2011 16:36, Peter Jentsch pj...@guineapics.de wrote: IMHO I don't think drop office 2003 format is a good idea: a lot of people around still use it. And while you can install the compatibility pack, as you say on your PC, is not possible to force others to install a program, so it can

[tdf-discuss] Re: Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread Jonathan Hudson
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:36:39 + (UTC), Peter Jentsch wrote: Hi, I'm currently investigating a bug with the Excel 2003 import filter (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35543). Looking closer at the filter and how much work needed to be done to improve it, and considering the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread yahoo-pier_andreit
Il 26/03/2011 20:09, Jonathan Hudson ha scritto: On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:36:39 + (UTC), Peter Jentsch wrote: Hi, I'm currently investigating a bug with the Excel 2003 import filter (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35543). Looking closer at the filter and how much work needed

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 3/26/11 8:35 PM, yahoo-pier_andreit wrote: Sounds like a very reasonable proposal due to the fact that 2003 ML is rarely used. rarely??? I think is the most used in the world!!! MS Office 2003 XML format has nothing to do with DOC, XLS and PPT. It is a different format, based on XML,