[libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Bob Melson
Just installed 3.5.2.2 as an update in FreeBSD (8.3, AMD64 and i386) and am unable to configure printers following the LibreOffice help page for installing printers under unix. As well, there is no default printer. Following the help page instructions, I have gone to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Starting a set of styles from scratch in LO Writer?

2012-04-29 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 29/04/2012 04:50, avamk a écrit : Hello, I would love to fully utilise templates in my Writer documents, but am still confused about its organisation. When I open the Styles and Formatting window, it shows all styles under the Default category. I can make changes to, and add new entries

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc chart question

2012-04-29 Thread Pedro
billh wrote Thanks for the offer, but I think that is too much work. It was just a test drive and LibreOffice failed. I'll just stick with Office. I agree it's too much work since you already have Office. But if you provided such a file it might help others who don't (some because they

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find Commands window in LO Math

2012-04-29 Thread Pedro
Here is a small example of a 3x3 matrix A =left[matrix{1 # 2 # 3 ## 4 # 5 # 6 ## 7 # 8 # 9}right] Hope this help ;) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Can-t-find-Commands-window-in-LO-Math-tp3947640p3948014.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at

[libreoffice-users] Conversion of odg file to ppt

2012-04-29 Thread Chaim Seymour
Hallo all I am preparing slides for a lecture. At home I use Libre Office, but when I finish I will have to convert the slides to Powerpoint. As far as I can see, the only way to do it is via PDF. I tried the conversion and it works fine, but is a pain to do. Does anybody have a better solution?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Starting a set of styles from scratch in LO Writer?

2012-04-29 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi avamk, avamk schrieb: Hello, I would love to fully utilise templates in my Writer documents, but am still confused about its organisation. When I open the Styles and Formatting window, it shows all styles under the Default category. I can make changes to, and add new entries under Default.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Conversion of odg file to ppt

2012-04-29 Thread Pedro
Chaim Seymour wrote I am preparing slides for a lecture. At home I use Libre Office, but when I finish I will have to convert the slides to Powerpoint. You are creating a presentation in LibreOffice Draw? odg is created in Draw... Chaim Seymour wrote As far as I can see, the only

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Conversion of odg file to ppt

2012-04-29 Thread Ma Xiaojun
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find Commands window in LO Math

2012-04-29 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi avamk, avamk schrieb: Hello, I am trying to follow the instructions http://help.libreoffice.org/Math/Matrix here to add a matrix to my LibreOffice Writer document. However, I can't find the Commands window the instructions refer to. You have to start with Insert Object Formula. If you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Starting a set of styles from scratch in LO Writer?

2012-04-29 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 08:23 +0200, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Le 29/04/2012 04:50, avamk a écrit : Hello, I would love to fully utilise templates in my Writer documents, but am still confused about its organisation. When I open the Styles and Formatting window, it shows all

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc chart question

2012-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ok, no trouble.  Typically to test-drive a car you would have to do complicated things like put the keys in the ignition, turn the key, use the pedals, indicators and wheel and maybe the gear-stick.  Just opening the car door doesn't really count as a test drive and wont really help you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find Commands window in LO Math

2012-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The official guides including 3rd party and guides before they get officially released are all at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications The Maths guides are down the page a bit at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Math_Guide

[libreoffice-users] Re: Conversion of odg file to ppt

2012-04-29 Thread Chaim Seymour
Hi Many thanks to all of you. I will try via Impress Chaim On 29 April 2012 13:21, Chaim Seymour chaim.seym...@gmail.com wrote: Hallo all I am preparing slides for a lecture. At home I use Libre Office, but when I finish I will have to convert the slides to Powerpoint. As far as I can

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
Well, ALL my printers, network and USB, have CUPS-based drivers. One only has a CUPS-based driver and not any other type. What is wrong with CUPS for the single user printing systems? I use a Ubuntu desktop with 4 different printers, one being an older USB printer. I have not had any

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conversion of odg file to ppt

2012-04-29 Thread James Knott
Chaim Seymour wrote: I am preparing slides for a lecture. At home I use Libre Office, but when I finish I will have to convert the slides to Powerpoint. As far as I can see, the only way to do it is via PDF. I tried the conversion and it works fine, but is a pain to do. Does anybody have a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find Commands window in LO Math

2012-04-29 Thread avamk
Hello, Thank you for your quick responses. I already tried to add a formula by clicking Insert - Object - Formula in Writer, and I got the problem described in my original post. Here is a screenshot of what I see in a Writer document after I do Insert - Object - Formula: http://imgur.com/HevWr

[libreoffice-users] Re: Conversion of odg file to ppt

2012-04-29 Thread Pedro
Tom wrote I think Chaim was just getting confused as new users often do.  F and G are very close together on the keyboard and in the alphabet and it's not immediately intuitively obvious that the G would be for Graphics and the P for Presentation.  It's only obvious in hindsight.  I

[libreoffice-users] Re: Starting a set of styles from scratch in LO Writer?

2012-04-29 Thread avamk
Hello, Thank you so much for your quick replies. Looks like the general idea is that one should use styles by modifying the Default set. However, as you mentioned the LO Writer guide itself uses almost all custom styles not in the Default set. I guess I will start by reading through the LO

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find Commands window in LO Math

2012-04-29 Thread Pedro
Indeed there is no dotted button in your LO window. See if any of these solutions helps http://ask.libreoffice.org/question/86/how-to-insert-a-formulamath -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Can-t-find-Commands-window-in-LO-Math-tp3947640p3948328.html Sent from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Conversion of odg file to ppt

2012-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) True. It's good to see your 1st guess was right, again! And your answer was great, also again :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 29/4/12, Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote: From: Pedro pedl...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Conversion of odg file to ppt To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find Commands window in LO Math

2012-04-29 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi avamk, avamk schrieb: Hello, Thank you for your quick responses. I already tried to add a formula by clicking Insert - Object - Formula in Writer, and I got the problem described in my original post. Here is a screenshot of what I see in a Writer document after I do Insert - Object -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Starting a set of styles from scratch in LO Writer?

2012-04-29 Thread Dan Lewis
Please don't draw conclusions of the problem until more is know. The problem occurs with the numbering of graphics. What does this have to do with applying custom styles? It is a function of the Insert caption dialog. --Dan On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 13:43 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Yes,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Starting a set of styles from scratch in LO Writer?

2012-04-29 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 29/04/2012 at 08:23, Jean-Francois Nifenecker jean- francois.nifenec...@laposte.net wrote: -- any user opening you docs will be able to have their own style settings which will automagically adapt your docs to their taste. eg: you setup the Text Body paragraph style to use Liberation Sans

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Jay Lozier
On 04/29/2012 02:10 AM, Bob Melson wrote: Just installed 3.5.2.2 as an update in FreeBSD (8.3, AMD64 and i386) and am unable to configure printers following the LibreOffice help page for installing printers under unix. As well, there is no default printer. What printer is configured in the OS?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Starting a set of styles from scratch in LO Writer?

2012-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmm, you are talking about the current problem that they are working on.  The styles issue is completely different and was discussed at least a year or so ago. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 29/4/12, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think various questions in here have shown that LO uses some different system for printers and pretty much ignores whatever is set-up for the OS.  Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 29/4/12, Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com Subject: Re:

[libreoffice-users] Help with Installation

2012-04-29 Thread hookah...@juno.com
I am getting the following message when I try to install Libre on my Acer Aspire One with XP as the OS. Please exit LibreOffice 3.5 and the LibreOffice 3.5 Quickstarter before you continue. If you are using a multi-user system, also make sure that no other user has LibreOffice 3.5 open. I am

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with Installation

2012-04-29 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi hookahuo1, hookah...@juno.com schrieb: I am getting the following message when I try to install Libre on my Acer Aspire One with XP as the OS. Please exit LibreOffice 3.5 and the LibreOffice 3.5 Quickstarter before you continue. If you are using a multi-user system, also make sure that no

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with Installation

2012-04-29 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 29/04/2012 at 18:28, hookah...@juno.com hookah...@juno.com wrote: I am getting the following message when I try to install Libre on my Acer Aspire One with XP as the OS. Please exit LibreOffice 3.5 and the LibreOffice 3.5 Quickstarter before you continue. If you are using a multi-user

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Bob Melson
You want to use it, that's fine. I should probably have said it's not necessary for all printing environments, such as desktops with attached printer. CUPS adds a layer of complexity to an otherwise simple installation - lpd/lp just work. If that's not the case with you and CUPS slides into

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Don Myers
Hi, I've only used Libreoffice in Ubuntu. The printers available have always been the ones I have installed with the system, and always have all of the options available that any other programs have for the. The defaults are always the same as the way they are installed in Ubuntu. Sometimes

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I have never had troubles either but if you look back through the list you see questions about how to access the different trays that other programs can access but LO can't.  Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 29/4/12, Don Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: From: Don Myers

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Steve Edmonds
A long time ago I had to configure all the printers for OO/SO with spadmin. Are you calling spadmin as root? Steve On 2012-04-30 03:30, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think various questions in here have shown that LO uses some different system for printers and pretty much ignores whatever is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with Installation

2012-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think if you open OpenOffice and go to Tools - Options - Memory and then untick the quickstarter tickbox then that should let you install LO.  There is a guide on how to install multiple instances of LibreOffice/OpenOffice http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel Regards

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Don Myers
Hi, I've been running Linux (Ubuntu) for 3+ years with nothing but cups drivers. There have been about 8 different printers, some inkjet and some laser, some networked and some not networked. Cups is the only thing I've ever used. I've had very, very few issues. Basically almost none. Don

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Bob Melson
I might add that up until the 3.5.2.2 release, printing worked just fine, right out of the box. LO detected the system printers, allowed additional printers to be added and configured .. in short, all was right wit the world. With 3.5.2.2, however, SOMETHING has changed, and for the worst. A

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Jay Lozier
On 04/29/2012 02:29 PM, Bob Melson wrote: I might add that up until the 3.5.2.2 release, printing worked just fine, right out of the box. LO detected the system printers, allowed additional printers to be added and configured .. in short, all was right wit the world. With 3.5.2.2, however,

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc chart question

2012-04-29 Thread billh
Hi, On the other hand, if you opened the door and it fell off... you probably wouldn't look any further. :-( Bill Original Message *Subject: *Re: Calc chart question *From: *Tom [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] ml-node+s969070n3948233...@n3.nabble.com *To: *billh

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Bob Melson
This will sound snotty, I know, but I really don't mean it to. I'm very happy that those of you who successfully use CUPS on your systems, whatever the o/s happens to be, can do so. But that doesn't answer my basic question of how to get LO 3.5.2.2 to work as it did in previous releases, WITHOUT

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Bob Melson
Jay, Thanks. I've built and re-built LO from source twice, now, and continue to receive the same error. I don't believe it's a corrupted driver that's causing the problem and, in fact, may be nothing more than a minor error in the source code that causes LO to behave as it does. On the other

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conversion of odg file to ppt

2012-04-29 Thread e-letter
On 29/04/2012, Chaim Seymour chaim.seym...@gmail.com wrote: Hallo all I am preparing slides for a lecture. At home I use Libre Office, but when I finish I will have to convert the slides to Powerpoint. As far as I can see, the only way to do it is via PDF. I tried the conversion and it works

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with Installation

2012-04-29 Thread hookah...@juno.com
Thank you for the info. Quitting the Oo Quickstart in the system tray enabled a smooth installation. Thank you,Roger -- Original Message -- From: Miros#322;aw Zalewski mini...@poczta.onet.pl To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with Installation

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find Commands window in LO Math

2012-04-29 Thread avamk
I went to the bug report for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46071 bug 46071 , and indeed that was my problem. The https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46071#c3 third comment by Andy gave a macro that fixes this issue. In LibreOffice Writer, I clicked on Tools - Macros -

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printer Dialogs

2012-04-29 Thread NoOp
On 04/05/2012 06:59 AM, Malcolm Moore wrote: I wonder if I could revisit this issue again. I have been experimenting a bit more and LibreOffice doesn't show all the options the printer has available. For example:- ( With LO 3.5.n and openSuse 12.1) In the system printer dialog my

[libreoffice-users] Re: Conversion of odg file to ppt

2012-04-29 Thread Pedro
e-letter wrote Why convert to m$? Assuming the presentation content is not too dynamic, pdf is easier to deliver (by fullscreen presentation mode). Trying to convert to m$ is high risk: formatting details will be lost during the conversion and is also dependent upon the m$ software

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Have you tried the Forums/Mailing-Lists for whichever version of BSD you are using?  You can usually find an appropriate forum from http://distrowatch.com or/and it might be good to contact the LO devs http://www.libreoffice.org/developers-2/ I think there might be problems with trying to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc chart question

2012-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
HI :) No-one else seems to be able to replicate the problem you are having.  There only seems to be 1 document affected.  Perhaps the document is corrupted somehow.  Maybe inexperience with LO led you into doing something weird during install or with the document.  Who knows?  Regards from Tom

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc chart question

2012-04-29 Thread billh
Tom, I'm pretty sure I just went through the install in a normal fashion. I didn't specify anything strange. Actually it is all my spreadsheets that have column type charts. I'm kind of busy right now, but if I can... maybe I'll try to cleanse out one of them and post it on the board. It

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) MAybe the easiest way to handle this is for you to post a bug-report http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport and then install the 3.4.6 and stick with that one for a while.  There seems to be less problems with it generally anyway. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 29/4/12, Bob Melson

[libreoffice-users] Unable to start my newly installed LibreOffice v3.5.2 programs.

2012-04-29 Thread Ant
Hello. I just uninstalled old OpenOffice (OO) v3.3.0 and then installed a new LibreOffice v3.5.2 into my old, updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 machine. However, none of its programs will start. I see the splash screen and then it (soffice.bin) exits. No errors I saw. What's the problem? OO was

no rush Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc chart question

2012-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There is no rush.  It would just be nice to find out what has gone wrong but as you point out at this point it's better for you to keep using MS Office until there is a better time for you for finding out what went wrong.  Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 30/4/12, billh

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unable to start my newly installed LibreOffice v3.5.2 programs.

2012-04-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Please can you try renaming you User Profile http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile that seems to fix most weird problems.  Crashing might be something to do with an Extension/Add-on.  Java sometimes causes crashes so do you happen to know which version of java you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unable to start my newly installed LibreOffice v3.5.2 programs.

2012-04-29 Thread Ant
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 01:10:39AM +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Please can you try renaming you User Profile http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile Nope. remember this is my first LibreOffice installation since I wanted to replace the outdated OpenOffice. I deleted

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in 3.5.2.2

2012-04-29 Thread Bob Melson
Tom, Thanks for the suggestion. LO 3.5.2.2 is in the official FreeBSD ports tree and is my source for the source. I've contacted the FBSD LO maintainer and have filed a bug report with FBSD. I'm just now getting ready to file a bug report with LO, so we'll see what comes of _that_. Bob