Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0

2011-03-20 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:05:39 -, C A Wills infocawi...@talktalk.net wrote: No, the core fonts are installed; it's the latest new fonts in Win 7 Office which cause a problem, to do with spacing again, they throw out the format. Would it not be a whole host easier to ask students to

Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0

2011-03-20 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 13:39 +, Robert Bronsdon wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:05:39 -, C A Wills infocawi...@talktalk.net wrote: No, the core fonts are installed; it's the latest new fonts in Win 7 Office which cause a problem, to do with spacing again, they throw out the

Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0

2011-03-20 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 00:05 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, John Cooper wrote: If you are talking about MS corefonts they are copyrighted but you are free to distribute and use as many copies as you like as long as it contains everything in the release. A very rare case for M$ and they

Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0

2011-03-19 Thread C A Wills
Peter I recently read that someone had done some tests on formatting text from/to MS Office. They found that changing the font to a particular serif font got the formatting almost exact. Trouble is I can't remember which Linux font it was, I'll keep looking for it. Also they said M$ had

Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0

2011-03-19 Thread Tim Allen
On 19/03/11 18:28, C A Wills wrote: Peter I recently read that someone had done some tests on formatting text from/to MS Office. They found that changing the font to a particular serif font got the formatting almost exact. Trouble is I can't remember which Linux font it was, I'll keep looking

Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0

2011-03-19 Thread John Cooper
On 19/03/11 22:48, C A Wills wrote: Noted Tims reply but that's using M$ fonts which are copyrighted, to keep on the 'right side' you have to have 'M$ Word' installed, see above site. C A Wills If you are talking about MS corefonts they are copyrighted but you are free to distribute and

Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0

2011-03-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, John Cooper wrote: If you are talking about MS corefonts they are copyrighted but you are free to distribute and use as many copies as you like as long as it contains everything in the release. A very rare case for M$ and they probably now regret it.

Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0

2011-03-16 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 16/03/11 09:00, Peter Merchant wrote: Be careful - I downloaded and installed this a few moments ago, and now I don't have an Office suite. Still investigating, was in the middle of marking, I think I'll try and revert to the old version for now. Peter Hi Peter- Not sure where you got

Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0

2011-03-16 Thread Chris Dennis
On 16/03/11 09:33, C A Wills wrote: Hi Peter I've changed to LibreOffice and have had no problems I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. I thought I'd try LibreOffice, so I added this to my sources.list: http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu maverick main and installed the full LO suite

Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0

2011-03-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday 16 Mar 2011, Chris Dennis wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. I thought I'd try LibreOffice, so I added this to my sources.list: http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu maverick main Thanks for this. It seems to work OK and, I may be imagining it, but it seems a lot

Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0

2011-03-16 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 16/03/11 09:50, Chris Dennis wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. I thought I'd try LibreOffice, so I added this to my sources.list: http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu maverick main Which reminds me, I spotted a neat way to add repos in Ubuntu that's new. It may be old news to