[libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice 3.5 problems and info required

2012-02-17 Thread PeeWee
Hello I have just started upgrading Impress Chap 06 to LO 3.5 and have come across a couple of problems. *1st Problem* Opening the ODT file I get the warning message Template already exists. What does this mean? When I used LO3.4 I had template changer extension installed. Installing LO3.5

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Maybe you should NOT use LO 3.5...

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I suspect there are a dozen or so highly specific combinations of factors that cause the bug.  In which case it would be impossible to isolate the different sets from each other if there was any overlap.  Lets say that B=3 causes the bug but only when A is set to 3 or when C is set to

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Maybe you should NOT use LO 3.5...

2012-02-17 Thread Nino Novak
On Thursday 16 February 2012, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I was editing a simple document for about 30 minutes and then some of the figures started to disappear with an error message stating that the graphic could not be read. Andrew, if you could reproduce such behavior, it'd be of great

[libreoffice-documentation] Big Disaster

2012-02-17 Thread PeeWee
Sorry Guys I was trying to sort out the problem with installing extensions (the Template Changer) into LO3.5/LO3.4 and I inadvertently deleted all my working user guide files and that includes all the graphic files for Impress Chapters 1 to 5. I forgot to switch off my Dropbox folder, which is

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Big Disaster

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ouch!!  I'm sure we have all been there many times too.  It happens.  It's sometimes possible recover the files from odd places like fairly recent versions in the wastebin, usb-sticks, emails, other computers, or get lucky with something like test-disk or other recovery programs (which

Stop using the machine! Perhaps use a LiveCd? Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Big Disaster

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ok, step 1 is to stop using the machine until you have a plan or have accepted the loss.  This wiki-page might help with any version of GnuLinux although it was specifically written for Ubuntu. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery A lot of stuff in there might help even on

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice 3.5 problems and info required

2012-02-17 Thread Peter Schofield
Hello Jean Sorted the problem with the extension. Apparently it had the wrong extension to the filename, which seem to solve it. However, a second try because I re-installed LO3.5 did not work and kept getting the error message that it was not an extension. Solution was to totally remove LO

[libreoffice-documentation] Newbie in libreOffice

2012-02-17 Thread Guillem
Hi all great community, I am computer science student from Spain and I like so much the libreOffice software and for grow the project in ever more great than is I want to participate. I can translate English to Spanish and Catalan languages I think would be great have the documentation in

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Big Disaster

2012-02-17 Thread Martin Fox
Hi Log onto your Drop box account online, deleted files are kept there for 30 days. You have to switch on the viewing of deleted files to see them. Then you can restore them very easily. regards Martin On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:36:49 -0800 (PST) PeeWee psaut...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry Guys I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LO 3.5 release announced

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Welcome back :)  Sorry i was unhelpful off-list.  It was 2am here! lol.  Anyway, good to see you got it sorted.  Thanks Jean :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 17/2/12, Robert Ryley rryley1...@gmail.com wrote: From: Robert Ryley rryley1...@gmail.com Subject: Re:

[libreoffice-documentation] PING Dan: Is any more of your base work ready for proofing?

2012-02-17 Thread Hazel Russman
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[libreoffice-documentation] Wiki

2012-02-17 Thread Mark Stanton
Hi, I sent a message to this group a few days ago but got no replies, did it not appear? My message was :- I'm wanting to fill the Base FAQ (English version) by translating the French one. I s'pose I might want to vary the text because it seems to me not entirely correct in some places.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Wiki

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry about that.  I still had all the Faq links as FAQ.  I've just fixed them so they don't shout out so much.  Mark, your messages take ages to get to the list so at a guess you are not yet properly subscribed, although it could just be my own system or maybe i got distracted or

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Wiki

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Weird.  Internal links to sub-pages don't work quite the way i thought.  They don't split off from the page you are on but instead start back at the root.  So, 1 problem turns out to be no problem at all !!  :D The links from these 2 pages

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] PING Dan: Is any more of your base work ready for proofing?

2012-02-17 Thread Dan Lewis
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 17:25 +, Hazel Russman wrote: -- Hazel Russman hazeldeb...@googlemail.com I have just uploaded Part of chapter 2 to the Base draft folder. It might need more than a proofreading though. This chapter is going to be much more involved than the previous two

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Maybe you should NOT use LO 3.5...

2012-02-17 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/17/2012 06:00 AM, Nino Novak wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2012, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I was editing a simple document for about 30 minutes and then some of the figures started to disappear with an error message stating that the graphic could not be read. Andrew, if you could

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide Ch4, Formatting Pages

2012-02-17 Thread Jean Weber
Many thanks, John, especially for catching things I missed or goofed. The chapter is now published on the wiki and the ODFAuthors website. --Jean On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 00:39, John Smith clicks...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi Jean I've replaced the indicated figures plus one other (Fig34). I've