Re: [discuss] omr

2005-11-13 Thread JinXation
Please excuse me for not explaining omr. I've recently joined a company that has a product line of folder inserter systems. Within the folder inserters there are addon components that interfaces the system to create a sorting function within processed papers. Simply put OMR is Optical mark

Re: [discuss] Crash report in oocalc

2005-11-13 Thread Bill Mitchell
I was using the version from Fedora. - Bill Mitchell CPHennessy wrote: On Fri November 11 2005 01:46, + Bill Mitchell wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** I don't know if this is the appropriate place to send this, but the directions when it crashed said to copy it and send it in,

[discuss] Important news for you about new products

2005-11-13 Thread Pool Jake
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Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-13 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Chad, Chad Smith wrote: On 11/12/05, Sam Stainsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] this is what I think. We're all gonna argue and have opinions, and get our little feelings hurt, and call for each other to be banned from the land of Open Source because we disagree, and in a few months or a

Re: [discuss] Free OOo training videos

2005-11-13 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:34:42 -, Christian Einfeldtextra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't seen a post yet to this email list about this OOo training videohttp://business.newsforge.com/business/05/11/09/2044220.shtml?tid=35tid=136tid=130that Roblimo Miller has made available, but these

Re: [discuss] Revision History

2005-11-13 Thread Henrik Sundberg
Thanks for all this info Mathias! I think File-Compare Documents and binary files in my VCS will suit me best. I just tested File-Compare Documents. It didn't notice differences in tables. Is it just meant for bread text? /$ 2005/11/13, Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Henrik Sundberg wrote:

Re: [discuss] Important news for you about new products

2005-11-13 Thread Henrik Sundberg
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[discuss] Visioo-Writer 0.6 is out

2005-11-13 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Visioo-Writer the OpenDocument/OpenOffice.org file viewer has improved the way to install and is now easier to get it installed and also to get a fast, slim viewer. The project still in beta and some shortcomming are rapidly apreciated, but on the bright side we get an slim (265k) program

[discuss] Re: Important news for you about new products

2005-11-13 Thread Randomthots
Henrik Sundberg wrote: SPAM warning. Potency pills or such. Moderators, Please remove these posts. /$ And in plain-text, too. Huh. Imagine that. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

[discuss] Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Randomthots
There is a review of OOo by Rob Pegoraro available here: http://letters.washingtonpost.com/WARH0355605717992FF7F3D0EE9420 Since a (free) subscription is required to view it, a few excerpts and my own comments follow: This set of programs (Win 98 or newer or Linux, free at

[discuss] Outlook Integration with MSO

2005-11-13 Thread Randomthots
Group, A question was raised some time ago as to what extent Outlook is integrated with the rest of MSO. At the time it had been so long since I had used it that I had forgotten... well, frankly, how good and capable a program Outlook really is. Since I recently had to re-install Word in

[discuss] sense of text capability of draw objects

2005-11-13 Thread Lars Hansen
Hi, what's the sense behind the capability of Draw objects like Freeform Lines to hold text? E.g. in Calc: open Calc, open the Draw functions, select the Freeform Line tool, draw a freeform line, type some text: the freeform line object (background) holds text. What is this for? greets, Lars

Re: [discuss] Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 17:04 +, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Good, good... But then... OpenOffice looks its weakest when it tries to produce PowerPoint documents. A slideshow that looked fine in Impress appeared jumbled in Microsoft's format -- some bullet points no longer

Re: [discuss] Outlook Integration with MSO

2005-11-13 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:16:07 -, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Group, A question was raised some time ago as to what extent Outlook is integrated with the rest of MSO. At the time it had been so long since I had used it that I had forgotten... well, frankly, how good and

Re: [discuss] WB1 support?

2005-11-13 Thread CPHennessy
On Fri November 11 2005 14:54, + Johan van Niekerk wrote: What is the prospect of developing a Quattro Pro filter to support WB1 files? Up until now I have used this format extensively and would like to migrate to OpenOffice Calc. RegardsJohan van Niekerk If the file format is known and usable

[discuss] Re: Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Randomthots
Ian Lynch wrote: If one app is going to be less good at file compatibility better for it to be Impress than Writer. Agreed. It depends who the audience is. Marketing is a selective communication with specific customers in specific market sectors. While ODF might be of no interest to

Re: [discuss] Re: Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:51:43 -, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that. But the OOo homepage trumpets ODF like the second coming of Christ. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would think the web presence is mostly targeted at the home and smb markets. The big-biz and

[discuss] Re: Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Randomthots
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Most of the things we already know, thats why we want to push the OpenDocument format as an open standard to stop playing catch up. If you want to play catch up forever you will end up devoting most of your developers to be back-engineering forever. Instead we

Re: [discuss] Re: Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/13/05, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with all that. I just think that promoting OOo and promoting ODF are interlocking but still separate propositions. *At this point* promoting OOo on the basis of ODF is non-starter. But the more OOo is adopted, the easier it will be to

Re: [discuss] Re: Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 13:51 -0600, Randomthots wrote: I understand that. But the OOo homepage trumpets ODF like the second coming of Christ. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would think the web presence is mostly targeted at the home and smb markets. Not sure about that really. I should

[discuss] Re: Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-13 Thread Sam Stainsby
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:12:37 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: Individuals can buy a Retail copy of MSO for $150. Busineses can get it for cheaper if they buy in volume and/or buy it OEM. As both prices decrease (MSO and just OL) the differences also decrease, to the point it would be wasteful to buy

Re: [discuss] Re: Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 13:54 -0600, Randomthots wrote: I agree with all that. I just think that promoting OOo and promoting ODF are interlocking but still separate propositions. That is why OpenDocument Fellowship exists as a separate entity. *At this point* promoting OOo on the basis of

Re: [discuss] Re: Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-13 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:48:16 -, Sam Stainsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:12:37 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: Individuals can buy a Retail copy of MSO for $150. Busineses can get it for cheaper if they buy in volume and/or buy it OEM. As both prices decrease (MSO and just

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-13 Thread Daniel Kasak
Sam Stainsby wrote: On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:24:27 -0500, William Baric wrote: I had one of them who was willing to switch to OpenOffice. They didn't have too much money and they were willing to put up with OpenOffice's Word, Excel and PowerPoint import/export filter (thanks to MS Viewers).

[discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-13 Thread Randomthots
Daniel Kasak wrote: Stop right there. You admit that the Windows port of Evolution is progressing slowly. Why would that be? Perhaps it's a big task? Perhaps there aren't many developers on it? Perhaps it needs more testing? So. What are we going to do about it? a) Every many and his

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-13 Thread Jonathon Blake
Rod wrote: Without an email/pim component many will do just that. It's called MSO. Is that what you really want? Just what functionality does MSO + Outlook offer, that can not be replicated by using OOo + FireFox + ThunderBird + SunBird + the appropriate templates? I have yet to hear a call

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-13 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Jonathon Blake wrote: Just what functionality does MSO + Outlook offer, that can not be replicated by using OOo + FireFox + ThunderBird + SunBird + the appropriate templates? [...] +1 Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software patents kill innovation and harm all

[discuss] conditions on fields/section regular expressions - not moderated

2005-11-13 Thread office
Hi all. My needs: - in large mail-merge processes i need to change often part of text, or the whole message, depending on the receiver's kind; - this kind is defined in one or more fields of the list db itself. What i can do: - i'm able to use conditional sections/fields to achieve the goal.