Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I rarely use presentation documents, but, I will see if I can create an example of the failure and file a bug unless someone else can do this. Also interested in the numbering/bullet issue that you mentioned. If you have a simple example of both documents, can you just email me a copy. Worst

[libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-12 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 12.09.2011 02:28, Edwin Powell wrote: If LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org did not support M$ Office file formats, nobody would support them. Like it or not, the M$ Office file formats, both the older ones and the newer XML based ones, are the defacto industry standards. The greatest marketing

[libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-12 Thread Tom
Hi :) Andrew there is a guide to help people post bug-reports http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport I agree with NoOp, that it is too obscure. I would like it if there was a link to it from a couple of different pages on the LO website, for example it's relevant to both these pages imo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Encrypted MSO files (docx,xlsx) in Libo

2011-09-12 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 09/09/2011 18:27, NoOp ha scritto: On 09/09/2011 02:38 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: Il 09/09/2011 10:28, krisb ha scritto: Hi all, This is my first message here so please be tolerant :) Maybe it is a not right place to ask, but let me start. I'm wondering if is possible to open encrypted

Re: [libreoffice-users] Encrypted MSO files (docx,xlsx) in Libo

2011-09-12 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 09/09/2011 21:43, e-letter ha scritto: On 09/09/2011, krisbkrzysztof.ba...@ostc.com wrote: Hi all, This is my first message here so please be tolerant :) Maybe it is a not right place to ask, but let me start. I'm wondering if is possible to open encrypted xlsx/docx files in Libo? Wrong

Re: [libreoffice-users] annoying restore window

2011-09-12 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hello Guy, On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:29:28 +0200 Guy Voets nimant...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I know this is an old one, but I encounter it today and can't find the answer in the list that easily... please help me out! Where do I find the config file that I have to rename in order to get

[libreoffice-users] Digital Signature cannot validate (linux)

2011-09-12 Thread Ferry Toth
Since years we use digital signatures to sign our documents and protect them from inadvertent modifications. The CA certificate is one generated internally. Now on linux (ubuntu natty) the certificates are stored by firefox and since a recent upgrade to firefox 6.0.2 LO complains that the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Digital Signature cannot validate (linux)

2011-09-12 Thread Dave Sergeant
On 12 Sep 2011 at 10:52, Ferry Toth wrote: Since years we use digital signatures to sign our documents and protect them from inadvertent modifications. The CA certificate is one generated internally. Now on linux (ubuntu natty) the certificates are stored by firefox and since a recent

[libreoffice-users] Re: annoying restore window

2011-09-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 11/09/11 22:12, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, We need more devs but i think they are getting through the list as it is. It's just a case of getting lucky and finding someone that is interested in fixing the problem and can learn to code. The Easy Hacks is a good way to learn or to

[libreoffice-users] Impress 3.4 prints polygons as rectangles and ovals as polygons

2011-09-12 Thread marshals
I used Impress in 3.4.3 to create a presentation containing graphics of various shapes, eg, polygons, ovals, etc. They looked fine when viewing in a browser and they looked find in the little preview in the printer dialog box. However, for some of the pages in the presentation printed on my

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc stops refreshing formula halway down the spreadsheet

2011-09-12 Thread Ant Christy
I haven't found a good answer yet, but I have figured out a few more symptoms. The reason the formula stops refreshing is because the formatting of the cells is changed halfway through the spreadsheet. Basically the formula set up is matching numbers in column D to numbers in column A and using

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Do LO installers have Java Runtime?

2011-09-12 Thread David B Teague sr
On 9/10/2011 5:36 AM, Tom wrote: Hi :) On Windows i would go for the 3.4.3 at this point. It combines the best of both branches. On GnuLinux i am staying with the release that is in the repositories/ppa. Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc stops refreshing formula halway down the spreadsheet

2011-09-12 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 12.09.2011 16:32, Ant Christy wrote: I haven't found a good answer yet, but I have figured out a few more symptoms. The reason the formula stops refreshing is because the formatting of the cells is changed halfway through the spreadsheet. Basically the formula set up is matching numbers in

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO3.4.3 -- no browser plugin available

2011-09-12 Thread Mieszko Kaczmarczyk
On 11.09.2011 21:08, leon244 wrote: I recently installed LibreOffice v3.4.3. I am running Linux (Mandriva 2010.2), and FF 6.02. My system is x86_64 as is the LO version. FF is i586 and installed in my /opt directory. LO when I open it and open the 'Options' has no browser choice available

[libreoffice-users] Re: Digital Signature cannot validate (linux)

2011-09-12 Thread Ferry Toth
I think you missed the following points in my story: - the CA certificate is generated internally. This means we are CA for our own certificates. They are not blacklisted by FF. - to be validated we manually add the CA certificate ourselves to FF and windows certificate store). - FF shows the

Re: [libreoffice-users] integration of styles management between writer and impress

2011-09-12 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
Couldn't agree more. I would far rather see Writer with a presentation mode than the way things are now. Unified table handling, flow of text from Writer with the fancy page changes as an add-on to page handling. In Document mode, everything is as is in Writer, in Presentation mode

[libreoffice-users] Re: Digital Signature cannot validate (linux)

2011-09-12 Thread NoOp
On 09/12/2011 07:04 AM, Ferry Toth wrote: I think you missed the following points in my story: - the CA certificate is generated internally. This means we are CA for our own certificates. They are not blacklisted by FF. - to be validated we manually add the CA certificate ourselves to FF and

[libreoffice-users] Re: Impress 3.4 prints polygons as rectangles and ovals as polygons

2011-09-12 Thread NoOp
On 09/12/2011 06:25 AM, marshals wrote: I used Impress in 3.4.3 to create a presentation containing graphics of various shapes, eg, polygons, ovals, etc. They looked fine when viewing in a browser and they looked find in the little preview in the printer dialog box. However, for some of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 22:50, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/09/2011, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Which MS Office file format is secret? They are all published here: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/officebinaryformats.mspx The original poster chose the wrong word;

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 00:13, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Yes, that's the issue. I don't know about the binary formats, but I've read that Microsoft does not actually *follow* OOXML. (This, if true, means, ironically, that there is no program with complete, 100%, OOXML

Re: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-12 Thread Steven Shelton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/10/2011 3:28 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: I've been thinking a lot about this lately as many of my clients are coming to LibreOffice from Microsoft Office and I deal with both packages quite a bit. Many times, one of the first things I do once

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-09-10 1:01 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: No wait, that is in account settings. probably a better place for it than in the global preferences. No, because certain accounts you may want to treat differently. Off hand, i would say that it should be configurable

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-09-10 1:36 AM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: QuoteCollapse collapses all but the last post in the thread. Works great on lists where people do not trim the messages they are replying to. I agree, been using it for many years... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-09-12, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 23:41, Anthony Papillion anth...@cryptofreaks.tk wrote: MS don't implement their standard in the way that they wrote they would.  Having set a standard anyone that follows that standard is guaranteed to produce things that are a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-12 Thread Cor Nouws
Dotan Cohen wrote (12-09-11 20:52) One team at MS works on MS Office, another on the OOXML standard. .docx != ooxml (the MsOffice 2007/2010 file format is not the standard OOXML) -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Rountrip Conversion Problems (was Re: Should LibreOffice ... secret formats?)

2011-09-12 Thread e-letter
On 11/09/2011, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: 3. Although PowerPoint 2010 will recognize the correct dashed line when opening the ODP directly (not as a PPT), dashed lines produced in ODP format from PowerPoint 2010 are not read correctly (as ODP format) by either

[libreoffice-users] Re: Adopting LibreOffice in Corporate Environments

2011-09-12 Thread ms777
Hi, I lead a department of about 100 people in a German institution. We are on M$ products. From these 100 people - 80 to 90 use Excel for making beautiful tables, and using minimum amount of cell formulas. Lets call them C users. - about ten additionally use Excel for making medium complex

[libreoffice-users] Re: Adopting LibreOffice in Corporate Environments

2011-09-12 Thread Tom
Hi :) Some people just like to grumble. Just guestimates but if 99 say they unhappy with Excel possibly 9 might be happy with a change to something else. The rest will either grumble more about a change or not care. Of the 9 that were happy maybe 1 might make a little effort if something is

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adopting LibreOffice in Corporate Environments

2011-09-12 Thread Simon Johnson-Bégin
Hello, I agree with all of your conclusions about the A, B, C users. But there are also some issues with the C users who learned something in a specific way and do not want to learn another way, even if it is for the best. As a Law student who is writing his master thesis with LibreOffice, I

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adopting LibreOffice in Corporate Environments

2011-09-12 Thread planas
Simon On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 18:32 -0400, Simon Johnson-Bégin wrote: Hello, I agree with all of your conclusions about the A, B, C users. But there are also some issues with the C users who learned something in a specific way and do not want to learn another way, even if it is for the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc stops refreshing formula halfway down the spreadsheet

2011-09-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 07:32 12/09/2011 -0700, Ant Christy wrote: I haven't found a good answer yet, but I have figured out a few more symptoms. The reason the formula stops refreshing is because the formatting of the cells is changed halfway through the spreadsheet. I didn't address this question earlier as I

[libreoffice-users] copy styles in writer

2011-09-12 Thread James
I have two documents. docA has a paragraph style docB does NOT have. Copying text from docA to docB should copy the style, right? It doesn't. :-( -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Do LO installers have Java Runtime?

2011-09-12 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 09/12/2011 10:12 PM, NoOp wrote: On 09/12/2011 06:34 PM, David B Teague sr wrote: On 9/12/2011 5:32 PM, Tom wrote: ... So, there is a huge amount i don't know about java. If you can untick the java from your LibreOffice and have no troubles then that would be fantastic. Regards from Tom