Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with Linux open nouveau video driver

2011-12-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 11/30/2011 08:04 PM, Jonathan Schultz wrote: Hello, For some time I've found that libreoffice (and openoffice before it) had trouble rendering text with the Linux open 'nouveau' (as opposed to the proprietary NVIDIA) driver. What appears to happen is that everything above a certain point

[libreoffice-users] Template dialogue

2011-12-01 Thread Lívio Cipriano
Hi, I've instaled LibreOffice in openSuSE 11.4 and the template dialogue/window takes several minutes to open. Anyone knows why? Regards, Lívio Cipriano -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] French/English date

2011-12-01 Thread Julius Becker
- D = Day as 2th One issue would be that “D” should actually = *2nd*  not *2th* … Yeah, you're right: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, ... ie. it would be /highly/ localization/language dependent to try to indicate an ordinal rather than just let the number stand on it's own…  if I recall it

Re: [libreoffice-users] French/English date

2011-12-01 Thread Julius Becker
Hi at all, creating an extension might be a solution, but in my opinion, it isn't a good one. In French dates like 1er décembre 2011, the ordinal number for the first day of a month isn't an option, it's obligatory. You cannot say 1 décembre 2011 like LO does. So, LO should offer the possibility

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template dialogue

2011-12-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Perhaps the java issue?  Which version of java are you trying to use?  You can see by going to Tools - Options - Java Anything more recent than their 6u21 gets increasingly difficult.  My guess is that you are on 6u24.  If you can find the older 6u21 then you can install it alongside

RE: [libreoffice-users] French/English date

2011-12-01 Thread Bruce Carlson
Hi, In reply to Julius. I understand your explanation and it seems to me that what you are asking for is a permanent correction or addition to an existing function in the French localisation and I'd imagine that that would not be too difficult to do. Although I have no real idea of how the

RE: [libreoffice-users] French/English date

2011-12-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) True.  The reason i suggested an Extension is because 1.  someone said they already had some C# coding to do at least part of this 2.  i think it's faster than getting something into the main branch and dealing with all the politics and systems of another group (ie the devs group) 3.  Once

[libreoffice-users] Open Source Directory for Enterprises of the Open Source Business Foundation

2011-12-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There is a directory of OpenSource programs and LibreOffice is listed on this page of theirs http://eos.osbf.eu/software-directory/sw/Project/single/view/libreoffice/ If you want to vote you have to register so i decided not to do either.  I'm not keen on registering on a ton of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem changing from OpenOffice mac to LibreOffice

2011-12-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I thought you have to uninstall programs, like you do in GnuLinux or Windows, rather than just delete them? Anyway, Larry's answer should sort out the problem as stated and it's probably not worth worrying about uninstalling NeoOffice now - it's just something to find out about next time

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Source Directory for Enterprises of the Open Source Business Foundation

2011-12-01 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 01/12/2011 13:23, Tom Davies ha scritto: Hi :) There is a directory of OpenSource programs and LibreOffice is listed on this page of theirs http://eos.osbf.eu/software-directory/sw/Project/single/view/libreoffice/ If you want to vote you have to register so i decided not to do either. I'm

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Source Directory for Enterprises of the Open Source Business Foundation

2011-12-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks :)  But the credit for finding it really goes to Andre of Florian or someone.  I'm just liaising between lists to pass messages on.  :)  So, i will forwards your message to the right people and say thanks on their behalf :) Thanks and regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 1/12/11,

[libreoffice-users] Importing/Converting WordPerfect Documents

2011-12-01 Thread Rich Shepard
My Web searches tell me that LO version 3.4.3 should have no difficulties reading WP files so I can save them as .odt files. However, I cannot find an Import item on any menu and both Open and Insert display a bunch of gibberish. What's the secret? TIA, Rich -- For unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing/Converting WordPerfect Documents

2011-12-01 Thread Jay Lozier
Rich What OS? I have 3.4.4 installed on Ubuntu 11.10. If can (there is no sensitive info in it, etc.) you send me the file off-list I will try to open/import it. P Opening Word Perfect files should work, the file type is listed under the Open command. But I do not have any WP files to

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem changing from OpenOffice mac to LibreOffice

2011-12-01 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-12-01 7:28 AM Tom Davies wrote: I thought you have to uninstall programs, like you do in GnuLinux or Windows, rather than just delete them? Nope. You uninstall the majority of programs on a Mac by deleting them. Anyway, Larry's answer should sort out the problem as stated and it's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing/Converting WordPerfect Documents [FIXED]

2011-12-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Jay Lozier wrote: What OS? Linux; Slackware-13.1 Opening Word Perfect files should work, the file type is listed under the Open command. But I do not have any WP files to test. I did not pay attention to the list of file types as OO.o used to recognize the format

RE: [libreoffice-users] Importing/Converting WordPerfect Documents

2011-12-01 Thread Bob Houston
Rich, I have 3.4.4 installed on Windows Vista and have been working with WP files for the last few days.I do an open with and chose LibreOffice Writer so there is no confusion with MS Word that is on this system. The WP document opens right up. I don't want any underlying formatting to come

[libreoffice-users] Is it possible to format text boxes in writer (bullets, hyperlinks etc.)?

2011-12-01 Thread floridabrits
Hi there LibreOffice fans... Just a qq hopefully... I am using writer and I have created a text box that covers a colored shape... I want to be able to format that text box so it is a bulleted list and then create a hyperlink from one of the items on the bulleted list. I can't seem to find a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing/Converting WordPerfect Documents [FIXED]

2011-12-01 Thread Jay Lozier
On 12/01/2011 12:10 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Jay Lozier wrote: What OS? Linux; Slackware-13.1 Opening Word Perfect files should work, the file type is listed under the Open command. But I do not have any WP files to test. I did not pay attention to the list of file

[libreoffice-users] Re: Invoking cli while an instance already runs.

2011-12-01 Thread Lewis
Paul Chavent paul.chavent at fnac.net writes: Thank Regina. I will try on those other lists... Le 11/13/2011 01:21 PM, Regina Henschel a écrit : Hi Paul, Paul Chavent schrieb: With soffice.bin -env:UserInstallation=~/.libreoffice_cli/ --headles --infilter=Thomas

Re: [libreoffice-users] Is it possible to format text boxes in writer (bullets, hyperlinks etc.)?

2011-12-01 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi floriadabrits, floridabrits schrieb: Hi there LibreOffice fans... Just a qq hopefully... I am using writer and I have created a text box that covers a colored shape... I want to be able to format that text box so it is a bulleted list and then create a hyperlink from one of the items on

[libreoffice-users] mod

2011-12-01 Thread James
I get err 509 when I try this: =34 mod 12 How do I use mod? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List

Re: [libreoffice-users] mod

2011-12-01 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi James, James schrieb: I get err 509 when I try this: =34 mod 12 How do I use mod? It is a function and not an operator. Use =mod(34;12) Kind regards Regina -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] mod

2011-12-01 Thread James
On 12/01/11 13:04, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi James, James schrieb: I get err 509 when I try this: =34 mod 12 How do I use mod? It is a function and not an operator. Use =mod(34;12) Kind regards Regina I guess it used to be an operator:

Re: [libreoffice-users] mod

2011-12-01 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi James, James schrieb: On 12/01/11 13:04, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi James, James schrieb: I get err 509 when I try this: =34 mod 12 How do I use mod? It is a function and not an operator. Use =mod(34;12) Kind regards Regina I guess it used to be an operator:

[libreoffice-users] Unwanted horizontal white hairline rules in PDF in Mac Preview

2011-12-01 Thread bh
I just switched from NeoOffice to LibreOffice on my Mac. LibreOffice is much more reliable! I was getting mysterious disappearances of pictures in NeoOffice and have had no such problems since the switch. But one new problem is that when I export a PDF and then view it in Preview (in MacOS

Re: [libreoffice-users] Localization of macros

2011-12-01 Thread leif
Hi Andrew, I can see that you have another approach to the problem so far. My idea has been to use the already existing localization files to also localize other things than dialogs. More comments inline to spare you a lot of time (I solved the most important problem). On 01-12-2011

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unwanted horizontal white hairline rules in PDF in Mac Preview

2011-12-01 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
do you have a PDF printer to try? Ubuntu and other Linux have CUPS-PDF and there is a Windows one called doPDF. I find that it is good to try both the Export to PDF and a PDF Printer to compare each output. Sometimes it works better with CUPS, while other times it is better with the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Is it possible to format text boxes in writer (bullets, hyperlinks etc.)?

2011-12-01 Thread floridabrits
Thanks for the quick response Regina... Unfortunately when you use a frame you don't appear to be able to have a colored/shaped box behind it, which I need... I have found I can do what I need with Impress/presentation format, so it's not a showstopper, but if there is another way to achieve

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is it possible to format text boxes in writer (bullets, hyperlinks etc.)?

2011-12-01 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi floridabrits, floridabrits schrieb: Thanks for the quick response Regina... Unfortunately when you use a frame you don't appear to be able to have a colored/shaped box behind it, which I need... Perhaps you are looking for this: Set the background color of the frame to white (or another

[libreoffice-users] Re: Is it possible to format text boxes in writer (bullets, hyperlinks etc.)?

2011-12-01 Thread floridabrits
OK, will try that too... thanks again Regina! MUCH appreciated. /g -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Is-it-possible-to-format-text-boxes-in-writer-bullets-hyperlinks-etc-tp3552226p3552738.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is it possible to format text boxes in writer (bullets, hyperlinks etc.)?

2011-12-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Do frames have to have squared corners or can they be rounded? Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 1/12/11, floridabrits floridabr...@gmail.com wrote: From: floridabrits floridabr...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is it possible to format text boxes in writer (bullets, hyperlinks

[libreoffice-users] automatic formatting, turn off

2011-12-01 Thread 20rdj04
Hello, I am trying to copy a contract that I purchased at the stationary store. On the left margin, the contract starts with 1. Parties: Everything between the quotes is BOLD and underlined. Initially, I had no problem with this. But then I put a RETURN into the text that followed and

[libreoffice-users] Re: Unwanted horizontal white hairline rules in PDF in Mac Preview

2011-12-01 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 01/12/2011 19:55, bh a écrit : Hi, But one new problem is that when I export a PDF and then view it in Preview (in MacOS 10.6.8), there are full-width hairline white horizontal rules aligned with the top edge of some JPGs in the document. These rules don't appear when I view the document

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem changing from OpenOffice mac to LibreOffice

2011-12-01 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 01/12/2011 18:03, Larry Gusaas a écrit : He has uninstalled NeoOffice. Some programs that install stuff at the system level (especially MS and Adobe) have uninstaller programs. Most don't. Yep, and the ones that don't leave junk lying around all over your hard disk (plist files, pkg

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template dialogue

2011-12-01 Thread Lívio Cipriano
On 01 December 2011 10:22:44 Tom Davies wrote: My guess is that you are on 6u24. Hi Tom, I'm using 6u92 :-) But with OpenOffice it's fast. Any hint? Presently I don't have installed LibreOffice, so I can't do some experiments, but any guess if I use openJDK? Regards, Lívio Cipriano -- For

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template dialogue

2011-12-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) OpenJDK is also run by Oracle and suffers about the same.  I'm not sure about the best version numbers numbers for that either.  I don't know if the community that work hard on that are able to free it from Oracle in the way that TDF freed LibreOffice from them.  I don't know if it is

[libreoffice-users] Re: Unwanted horizontal white hairline rules in PDF in Mac Preview

2011-12-01 Thread NoOp
On 12/01/2011 10:55 AM, bh wrote: I just switched from NeoOffice to LibreOffice on my Mac. LibreOffice is much more reliable! I was getting mysterious disappearances of pictures in NeoOffice and have had no such problems since the switch. But one new problem is that when I export a PDF

[libreoffice-users] Table of Contents with clickable links

2011-12-01 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi, For my asciidoc-odf project I am looking for a way to have a Table of Contents with clickable links to bring you automatically to the content. This is how most of the PDFs ought to work, but I cannot make this work in LibreOffice and as a result it doesn't work in the generated PDF. Can

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table of Contents with clickable links

2011-12-01 Thread Simon Cropper
On 02/12/11 11:00, Dag Wieers wrote: Hi, For my asciidoc-odf project I am looking for a way to have a Table of Contents with clickable links to bring you automatically to the content. This is how most of the PDFs ought to work, but I cannot make this work in LibreOffice and as a result it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table of Contents with clickable links

2011-12-01 Thread Dag Wieers
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Simon Cropper wrote: On 02/12/11 11:00, Dag Wieers wrote: Can someone explain me how to do this in Libreoffice ? The Index/Table dialog has a button Hyperlink, which doesn't seem to have any effect, but it might be something I do not understand in this regard. *

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with Linux open nouveau video driver

2011-12-01 Thread NoOp
On 11/30/2011 05:04 PM, Jonathan Schultz wrote: Hello, For some time I've found that libreoffice (and openoffice before it) had trouble rendering text with the Linux open 'nouveau' (as opposed to the proprietary NVIDIA) driver. What appears to happen is that everything above a certain

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with Linux open nouveau video driver

2011-12-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 12/01/2011 10:05 PM, NoOp wrote: On 11/30/2011 05:04 PM, Jonathan Schultz wrote: Hello, For some time I've found that libreoffice (and openoffice before it) had trouble rendering text with the Linux open 'nouveau' (as opposed to the proprietary NVIDIA) driver. What appears to happen is that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Localization of macros

2011-12-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I posted the entire thing here: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/code-colorizer-formatter/ On 12/01/2011 02:02 PM, leif wrote: Hi Andrew, I can see that you have another approach to the problem so far. My idea has been to use the already existing localization files to also

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with Linux open nouveau video driver

2011-12-01 Thread Jonathan Schultz
It always helps if you: 1) tell others what version of LO you are having issues with (and also if it is from LO or some other source; linux distribution repository or PPA, etc), Here are the details. I'm currently running LO version 3.4.4 OOO340m1 from the Debian sid (unstable) repository.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Unwanted horizontal white hairline rules in PDF in Mac Preview

2011-12-01 Thread Libre User
I viewed the document in Foxit Reader v5.1 on a Win7 64bit system and didn't see the lines either. Jerry At 04:10 PM 12/1/2011, you wrote: On 12/01/2011 10:55 AM, bh wrote: I just switched from NeoOffice to LibreOffice on my Mac. LibreOffice is much more reliable! I was getting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with Linux open nouveau video driver

2011-12-01 Thread Jay Lozier
On 12/01/2011 10:16 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 12/01/2011 10:05 PM, NoOp wrote: On 11/30/2011 05:04 PM, Jonathan Schultz wrote: Hello, For some time I've found that libreoffice (and openoffice before it) had trouble rendering text with the Linux open 'nouveau' (as opposed to the