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I would look take a look at ImageMagick. It is an image manipulation
program that can be run in multiple ways. I have not looked but it may
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that you take the time to submitted or comment on these issues as
bug reports or RFE's. It would be much more productive to the whole
community.
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the get the updated ODF plugin from Sun with the latest ODF 1.2 support
in contrast to Microsoft's support for only ODF 1.0.
http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/
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Douglas St.Clair wrote:
On Nov 6, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Robin Laing wrote:
Right-click, format image, delete cropped areas, compress all images
- it's a lot easier than putting all the images into Photoshop and
reformatting them. Yep, useful tool.
Maybe open GIMP or another editor like some
copies. Now they are going to OOo as the
price works better in their budget.
There is the added benefit of being able to give all their students
copies to take home for use at home. Try that with MS Office. :)
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when you printed out the customers bill.
The first one I wrote was in Paradox 4.
It integrated the inventory and other service billings.
Maybe someone needs to write business app plug-ins for OOo.
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for my need. One
reason that I use Linux is this choice.
If you want the simple, integrated approach, then follow the Microsoft
lemmings and use what everyone else does. I will use the applications
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come in as
attachments for me just like in OOo. I also only view email messages as
plain text so this may be the reason.
I do like your idea of automatically linking to the deferred
applications. I don't see any reason that the installer cannot default
to the Default applications.
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. If I do editting for a whole
site, it will then upload all the changes at once. Nice feature for
projects.
Download SeaMonkey as it has a full editor with it.
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the source code for OOo but the OOo developers don't have access to
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Bret Busby wrote:
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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:45:09 -0400
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Subject: [discuss] we need an outlook component
on
mine that I never knew I had. Just beside the save icon. This is on
Fedora 7 and the Fedora version of OOo.
All I had to do was configure the Tools Options Interenet Email
for it to work. Thunderbird opens to a compose window.
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client. I find
that the interface is terrible.
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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
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that is okay.
Also check the tmp directories for files with the same date/time as the
original file corruption date.
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are working.
But what I have read, filters are an issue on how you are used to using
them.
Like you I would like to know what the problem is.
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Trying to learn more.
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Stefan
The best option is to teach your wife by getting her to correct these
problems.
There is supposed to be a way to remove all styles but I have never used
it because I would have to go back and remember and reformat documents
that I didn't create to the way they were before.
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add them to your machine. Test and if you don't like them, get rid of them.
You have already experienced that with Gnumeric and OpenOffice.org.
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There are many programs available that do this already.
Maybe an OOo plugin to one of the already available OSS versions would
be a good idea.
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they can to get people to drop
Thunderbird or other mail apps.
http://openchange.org/
A change in format could well kill email for non-windows users in our
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Graham wrote:
On Thursday 19 July 2007 02:52, Robin Laing wrote:
I read this article this morning and it doesn't fit my experiences but
that it not the point. What is important are the comments that OOo
isn't compatible and no future plans. I guess OOo isn't spending
millions of dollars
a roadmap for the future.
“It’s about futures, planning and integration.”
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to Thunderbird which works {IMHO} 1000% better than Evolution.
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version, hidden information.
Check When printing
I remember changing this someplace.
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Windows based applications for Windows is
many Windows systems need other software installed to get the OSS apps
to run.
There was a CD that was created some time ago but I don't have the site
anymore.
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There are issues with the conversion and that you have to save in
OpenXML before you can save in ODF
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Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
On Monday, Sam Hiser wrote two entries in the OpenDocument
Foundation's blog. --Jean
Running on ODF Inside of MS Office
http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/01/running_on_odf_.html
ODF as the Perfect MS Office File
/01/odf_as_the_perf.html
I may have missed something being a non-windows user but I missed the
link to the download of the plugin. It would be nice to have to send to
people.
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On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:57 +1100, Terry wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:40 +1100, Terry wrote:
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Thanks. Those are valid points. I doubt that the OS and software
version makes any difference.
Ha, Ha, Ha. That is funny. Working in an organization
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:40 +1100, Terry wrote:
Below is a request for help from a lady who risks being failed in a
professional exam because she used Calc to complete an Excel spreadsheet.
It seems that certain safeguards implanted by Excel were lost in the
process.
Is there any way
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 19:28 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote:
Moritz Duge wrote:
Hey I'm Moritz and I use OpenOffice.org since a long time and I'm
always trying to tell more people about it. I always welcome it if
you add new great fetures like the Base-Modul which became very
useful to me.
or enhancement request.
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using an outside agency to write the code.
There is a plugin for viewing ODF files in a browser. I don't have the
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Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi Robin,
Robin Laing wrote:
I had an imported document yesterday that changing the style to
default didn't change it to default. I don't know what was wrong and
I couldn't find the formatting change using styles.
Select text and then either:
- Ctrl-Shft-Space
the formatting change using styles. It was quicker to retype the
document to get around the formatting problems.
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in the report
have already been addressed. Now if we could say that for MS Office.
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and formatting.
When I run a program, I want all the features available. When I save it
is when I make a decision on what I can afford to lose.
If I want to edit a text document, I don't use OOo, I use emacs or a
text editor. OOo is just overkill.
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or Windows.
Anything that can unzip the file and read XML can read an odf document.
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Check the archives for the various reasons to not add these features.
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it (at least according to the issue page).
You may have to remove some aspect of the document that fixes the bug or
makes it harder to trace.
I have run into this already.
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Codes (issue 3395) like feature, but this is one
place that they may actually be useful to a user.
There can be some pretty awful formatting practices that could just
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Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le jeudi 20 juillet 2006 à 12:59 -0600, Robin Laing a écrit :
There is one benefit to making the changes manually. You may find the
part of the document that is causing the problem.
And then 90% of testers won't finish the gruelling anonymizing work, the
problem
are now supporting ODF or working towards it.
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didn't
get the problem in Firefox but I ran the Java console and I received
three different errors when I selected the mirror site.
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BTW, what link were you using?
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Chad Smith wrote:
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Lets see.
Vista is beta software.
IE7 is beta software.
True. But both will be used by a large number of people, and I, for
one, am
grateful that we have volunteers who are testing OOo on those betas to see
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the available page(s).
Greetings,
Cor
And if very handy for quickly changing a document that has three line on
a second page to fit, with formatting on a single page. You know, those
documents that have the only the signature line on the second page. :)
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have done it in the
past. I have just copied and pasted from my pdf viewer into OOo.
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and reliability.
What specific features are really needed that cannot be achieved with
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using formulas or random data.
For names and addresses, I use a database.
There may be a way to write a formula to create random letters to fill
cells with stuff that would look like your address data.
Getting copies of data may be a problem due to privacy issues.
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that I can create pages that meet web standards.
I have also used NVU and Mozilla Composer.
I am not a web developer. I only do it as a hobby.
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/oooauthors2/index.html
As others have suggested, you may want to create templates that store
other settings.
Here is a link that explains the principle of styles.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7488
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to play with each one.
I guess it comes down to ease of control.
Thinking about this, is there a Styles for WordPefect users anywhere?
Something to explain how to change the mindset and teach someone
that loves reveal codes as to how to use Styles?
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, I could find
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necessary to get around the problem. Or even to delete the code that
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Jallan wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
As this discussion in the past has indicated. Create the styles you
want/need and then remove all the styles in your imported document and
apply your new styles. What do you do if you don't use the same
styles between documents? You want to do something
Daniel Carrera wrote:
We have customers that use .wdb (Microsoft Works spreadsheet) files
and it
doesn't appear that Open Office can open these. Would be nice to have a
translator for it.
Thanks-
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Cor Nouws wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
I don't use MSO so I cannot offer feature comparisons but I will say
that OOo will open MSO files that MSO won't open for some strange
reason. Even files that were just closed on the same desktop. I have
saved someones butt on more than one occasion
Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi all,
I'm interested in a *short* list with the main functional pro's
and con's of OOo compared to MsO.
I mean items *apart from* open source, integrated program, OpenDocument,
cros platform and related. And also I don't want to focus on details.
Thus: main functionality
Steve Adam wrote:
Hi,
Congratulations on OpenOffice 2.
Apparently dates, in spreadsheet cells
*must* be entered in month/day/year order.
As someone who has used day/month/year
format all through my life, I find it very
disconcerting to have to enter dates in
another way.
Dave Barton wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 12:30 +0100, Sylvain Hau wrote:
Hello,
When using Open Office, I a m still embarrassed by switching from one
document to another... I had the same problem when I was using Microsoft
Office.
Meanwhile, I surf on the web with Firefox and I am
Andras Szabo wrote:
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Subject: Re: [discuss] Lacking OpenOfficeOrg writer facilities
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 09:51:21 +
Dear Mr. Andrew Brown,
As I am not
marcus simons wrote:
Dear reader,
When using dates in Europe, we first have the day, then the month and
finally the year: December the 3rd 2005 is noted as: 03/12/05
If I try to do this in a spreadsheet it constantly flips over to march.
When I fill in 30 in stead of 03 it flips back to
chris bruinenberg wrote:
hey I am a blind user. I have been trying out openoffice and i really
like it but i have a question. Openoffice works good at reading text
but is there a way to make it read the tool bars any better. I really
like your product. thank you for your time!
Chris
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Hi There,
Actually what I have is not criticism in any way. I am very impressed
with the software. I have found though when it becomes necessary to convert
.obt files to .doc files in word they do not transfer accurately, I still have
to go into word and redo
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
I remember my Vic 20 with 8K of ram with a home made expansion pack.
Children, children I remember when the world's most popular
/mainframe/ had 1,400, 2,000, or 4,000 characters of memory. (You could
expand it up to an absolute maximum
Chad Smith wrote:
On 11/15/05, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wake me up when there's MSOffice for linux, FreeBSD, BeOS, etc.
Crossover Office, WINE, Win4Lin.
But it is NOT native so it isn't for Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS, etc. It is
running via an emulator so John's original
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:38 +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 07:45 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
[snip]
[snip]
You're showing my age, Ian! It was 640 Kb of RAM.
That was Robin :-) There was also a story that Bill Gates visited
Chad Smith wrote:
On 11/14/05, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why would this be bad for OOo? I can understand why MS feels threatened by
OOo and other non-MS software, but where's the downside for OOo here?
MSOffice will likely still be bound to the Windows platform and Microsoft
file
Caleb Marcus wrote:
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 03:39 +0900, Roger Markus wrote:
It seemed (seems) to me that you have been more interested in
pounding away
at a narrow view and ignoring many facts pointed out to you regarding
the
wider picture.
Chad Smith has
Caleb Marcus wrote:
KamiHír wrote:
Randomthots írta:
Derek Meyer wrote:
On the release of OpenOffice 2.0, OOo has come up to (and surpassed)
Microsoft Office standards for the working professional. If you
want to
increase the user base significantly, there are two things that I
believe
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 08:22 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
Chad may be a lover of MSO
but he brings criticism of OOo to the discussions that we need to deal
with.
He mainly brings a lot of noise. I doubt anyone is too worried about
people bringing constructive criticism
Randomthots wrote:
mark wrote:
*
There's an aspect to all this that I believe a lot of people who hate
html-mail, such as yourself, are missing. I believe that the attachment
to e-mail paradigm actually serves to fortify the MS file format lock-in.
Consider that html is actually a
Chad Smith wrote:
Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5940792.html?tag=nl.e589
In a memo to top company executives, the software giant's chairman ponders
the challenges posed by a host of online competitors.
It seems MS is more worried about Writely -
Andrew Brown wrote:
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On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 00:53 -0500, Chad Smith wrote:
I understand that OpenOffice.org is holy, and perfect, and is not to
be questioned. If something is missing, it *SHOULD* be missing. If
something hogs
Chad Smith wrote:
On 11/2/05, Robin Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did some tests and gnumeric wasnt that fast with the same files as
OOo in some cases with the same file.
Gnumeric OOo Excel Native Excel.ooo.export
Recalc 17.35 1:24.60 1s 1:09.73
Save 2:21.48 4:32.48 17.65 17.73
Save
these comments to the
issue about slow loading.
The parsing of the XML is the issue.
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Chad Smith wrote:
On 11/2/05, Robin Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The parsing of the XML is the issue.
Let me just see if I understand your statement. XML, the basis for ODF,
which is, of course, the single greatest thing to happen to OpenOffice.org -
no, computers - no, the freedom
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
Wednesday, November 2, 2005 M. Fioretti wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 10:56:46 AM +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I don't know how much of the problem is intrinsic in the fileformat
itself, and how much of it is nonoptimal coding in OOo. It would
Sam Hiser wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 09:00 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
Sam Hiser wrote:
http://samhiser.blogspot.com/2005/10/commonwealth-senate-meets-on-holloween.html
To me it sounds like some people are concerned about losing some
election funding from Microsoft more than what
.
But as I work on more complicated spreadsheets, I find that OOo lacks
features that Excel (which I hate) has. I would prefer that Calc went
towards Quattro Pro as this has been the best spreadsheet software
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more control. Our organization is even providing templates in LaTex
and looking at OOo versions.
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they are used to.
I will now sent either PDF or ODF documents. If someone asks for a
different format, I give them the link to OOo.
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