Re: [libreoffice-users] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

2012-06-04 Thread Eric Brunel
Hello all, We are trying to generate a document in Open Document Format and we're having a problem with the latest Mac version of LibreOffice (3.5.4.2): it says the document is corrupt when other OOo-based software open it correctly (namely IBM / Lotus Symphony 3.0.0 FP2 and OOo itself

Re: [SOLVED?]Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to import printed form into writer in Linux?

2012-06-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Brilliant!! Nicely pinned-down!  Thanks for letting this list know letting us know a work-around and thanks also for posting a bug-report in the relevant place :)  More to the Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 4/6/12, Thomas Taylor li...@comcast.net wrote: snip / After further testing

Re: [SOLVED?]Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to import printed form into writer in Linux?

2012-06-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Brilliant!! Nicely pinned-down!  Thanks for letting this list know letting us know a work-around and thanks also for posting a bug-report in the relevant place :)  Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 4/6/12, Thomas Taylor li...@comcast.net wrote: snip / After further testing with the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

2012-06-04 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 04.06.2012 09:59, Eric Brunel wrote: Looks like the attached document didn't get through, so here is a link to it: http://ubuntuone.com/0LoWLJjhmIkje4wrRLOpuo Hi, All my recent offices consider your document as broken and suggest to repair. The repair process ends successfully with a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress: Default color for text is white

2012-06-04 Thread Dan Lewis
Bottom post Agustin Lobo wrote: Regina, many thanks for your help. Just found that this problem happens only if a recycle a given ppt, not if I start a new presentation from scratch. Nevertheless, as this recycling is actually important, I provide a short example here:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

2012-06-04 Thread Dan Lewis
Eric Brunel wrote: Hello all, We are trying to generate a document in Open Document Format and we're having a problem with the latest Mac version of LibreOffice (3.5.4.2): it says the document is corrupt when other OOo-based software open it correctly (namely IBM / Lotus Symphony 3.0.0 FP2

Re: [libreoffice-users] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

2012-06-04 Thread Eric Brunel
On 4 juin 12, at 14:58, Dan Lewis wrote: I did some testing on the document you created. First I downloaded the file, created a copy, and renamed the copy from .odt to .zip (doctext.zip). Then I opened the downloaded file with LO allowing it to repair the file. Then I saved it

[libreoffice-users] Re: libreoffice 3.5 inaccessible

2012-06-04 Thread V Stuart Foote
Jude, Thank you for working through this. Next we need to check if you have enabled a Java for your LibreOffice install. Same process as toggling Accessibility Tools, enter: altt -- tools alto -- options j -- for Java settings tab -- to move to Use a Java runtime environment checkbox space

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Dear you LibO folks, I have now wasted a lot of time reading some 30 mails in this thread - it was of no use because most of them did not handle neither give an answer to the original very relevant question: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users? So, what is the conclusion - if there is any?

[libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread Ken Springer
On 6/4/12 8:25 AM, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Dear you LibO folks, I have now wasted a lot of time reading some 30 mails in this thread - it was of no use because most of them did not handle neither give an answer to the original very relevant question: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users? So,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hello Pertti, As a long-time (now retired) IBM-Systems Engineer serving large customers I can only agree with you completely. I myself keep using the latest LO-versions - having used OO/LO for at least 6 to 7 years. However, there are a couple of - to my mind VERY important - insufficiencies

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks for your kind words :)  Simplest answer is grab the 3.4.6 now if you don't already have LO on your system.  If you already have LO then wait 4 weeks until the release of 3.5.5 on the 8th July or else just test-drive 3.5.4 for yourself and decide for yourself.  Annoyingly there

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread Chuck Davis
Why don't you just download it and see if it does what you need? If it works for your business needs it's ready! If not, don't use it yet. I would NEVER depend on somebody else to determine whether something is ready for me. Only I can determine that! On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Pertti

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress: No slide numbers

2012-06-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm not sure but no-one else seems to have gotten to this question yet.  The new Impress Guides got uploaded to the wiki a couple of weeks ago.  https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Impress_Guide Working through Chapter 2 page 14 (of the Pdf of the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 04.06.2012 17:22, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote: Hello Pertti, As a long-time (now retired) IBM-Systems Engineer serving large customers I can only agree with you completely. I myself keep using the latest LO-versions - having used OO/LO for at least 6 to 7 years. However, there are a couple of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Downloading LibreOffice 3.5.4 for Mac OS X

2012-06-04 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Larry Gusaas wrote: The download page for Macs is improperly configured and says you have to download two files, both RC2 and the release version of 3.5.4. Here is what the page currently says (Note it states it is a pre-release version. Yep, sorry folks, an unfortunate misconfiguration in

[libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions

2012-06-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/06/12 18:09, Thorsten Behrens a écrit : Hi Thorsten, Hi Alex, *, do we have a bug report for that, please? Preferrably with a zipped-up copy of the original ~/.libreoffice/3/... profile to replay the scenario? Well it would have contained some confidential information, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Ken, Heinrich and Tom, thank you for your kind replies. (and Andreas, you seem to know a lot and do a good job helping us 'dummies' so please, try to not be so aggressive!) Sorry - I'm getting old and forget easily the obvious: my systems are: LibO3.4.5 on a laptop Win7Prem.Home/64bit and

[libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread RustyRiley
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[libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread RustyRiley
It's crucial that people test each particular use of an application, and THEN decide. I've gone to using Apache OpenOffice V3.0, as LO seems to have fallen over badly -- none of the responses I got in response to a problem I was experiencing with using Zotero were even minimally useful to me, so

[libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread Ken Springer
On 6/4/12 10:42 AM, RustyRiley wrote: snip but being able to use Zotero AND export to PDF are CRUCIAL for me, so, as I said, it's back to AOO, I'm not even bothering with LO as I basically use it, currently, as a wordprocessor only (with Zotero support). Just curious, have you tried IBM's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread Steven Shelton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/2/2012 10:46 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: I ask the users, is it ready to be deployed to my/our business users? We really need to know. It depends on how you use it. As with all releases, it has some bugs. My office is not using any

Re: [libreoffice-users] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

2012-06-04 Thread Dan Lewis
Eric Brunel wrote: On 4 juin 12, at 14:58, Dan Lewis wrote: I did some testing on the document you created. First I downloaded the file, created a copy, and renamed the copy from .odt to .zip (doctext.zip). Then I opened the downloaded file with LO allowing it to repair the file. Then I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

2012-06-04 Thread Barry Say
Eric Brunel wrote: So if anyone could have a look and tell us what we are doing wrong. Or even better, if there's a way to make LibreOffice tell us what's actually wrong in the document, that would be great. Hi Eric, I've followed most of the discussion to date and I have had similar

RE: [libreoffice-users] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

2012-06-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Corruption could indeed be triggered by there being an inconsistency between META-INF/manifest.xml and what is present in the package. It is interesting if that is a complaint about Configurations/.../current.xml (usually a zero-length useless component), which is private information from the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread Russell Wilson
why? further complicate the issue, Aoo works From: Ken Springer snowsh...@q.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 5 June 2012 5:21 AM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users? On 6/4/12 10:42 AM, RustyRiley wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

2012-06-04 Thread Barry Say
Thanks to Dennis for his thoughts. They make sense to a newbie to this field ( with 40 years of intermittent programming experience) Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Corruption could indeed be triggered by there being an inconsistency between META-INF/manifest.xml and what is present in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 w/zotero crashing on export?

2012-06-04 Thread Simon Cropper
Ditto. I have never seen your posts on Zotero or PDF. I require both and all versions of LO have supported this functionality since it forked from OO. On 05/06/12 04:11, Marc Grober wrote: Whoa! You posted concerns re exporting LO 3.5 to PDF w zotero entries? Sorry, but never saw the post

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: libreoffice 3.5 inaccessible

2012-06-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Okay if I go alt-t then o then j, what can I do with the keyboard to go further into these instructions? The system isn't speaking in here. On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, V Stuart Foote wrote: Jude, Thank you for working through this. Next we need to check if you have enabled a Java for your

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 w/zotero crashing on export?

2012-06-04 Thread Russell Wilson
check the archives From: Simon Cropper simoncrop...@fossworkflowguides.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 5 June 2012 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 w/zotero crashing on export? Ditto. I have never seen your posts on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread Russell Wilson
it's been some months since I tried it; I think there are supposed to be some added extras, but they're all much the same, depends on what features one wants / needs, and most importantly, what works for you, which as someone said, one can only determine subjectively, after trying it out for

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Lotus Symphony is different from LibreOffice (all versions) and Apache OpenOffice 3.4. It forked much farther back than OO.o 3.x, as well as I can tell. Although it has unique features, it does not appear to have kept up with OpenOffice.org and its descendants in other respects. I just

[libreoffice-users] Printing page in landscape in 2 column mode

2012-06-04 Thread Marc Paré
I am writing a page in landscape mode (US Letter) and in 2 columns but when I print it keep printing in portrait mode. Here is what I did: * I created a new page (US Letter default to portrait) * then Format-Page-Page - checked Landscape * then Format-Page-Columns -2 Typed in some test text in

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I followed up on Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 already. For additional comparison, here are the corresponding details for Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0. The Microsoft Office Save As ... format cases are Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (*.doc) Microsoft Word 95 (*.doc) Microsoft Word 6.0 (*.doc) Rich Text Format

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 w/zotero crashing on export?

2012-06-04 Thread Marc Grober
On Jun 4, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Russell Wilson russwilso...@yahoo.com.au wrote: check the archives Actually did a complete web search and only came up with an ancient bug. _ From: Simon Cropper simoncrop...@fossworkflowguides.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printing page in landscape in 2 column mode

2012-06-04 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Jay, Le 2012-06-04 23:58, Jay Lozier a écrit : Marc On 06/04/2012 11:41 PM, Marc Paré wrote: I am writing a page in landscape mode (US Letter) and in 2 columns but when I print it keep printing in portrait mode. Here is what I did: * I created a new page (US Letter default to portrait) *

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 w/zotero crashing on export?

2012-06-04 Thread Russell Wilson
search again, I didn't keep, but nor did I dream up, the half dozen responses I got,  you might be skipping over the responses because I originally alluded to the thought it might have something to do with a Java problem, because Zotero was producung error  mesages mentioning Java -- no one at

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printing page in landscape in 2 column mode

2012-06-04 Thread Jay Lozier
On 06/05/2012 12:25 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Jay, Le 2012-06-04 23:58, Jay Lozier a écrit : Marc On 06/04/2012 11:41 PM, Marc Paré wrote: I am writing a page in landscape mode (US Letter) and in 2 columns but when I print it keep printing in portrait mode. Here is what I did: * I created a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress: Default color for text is white

2012-06-04 Thread Agustin Lobo
Dan, Thanks for your answer, but, frankly, it's not useful at all. I'm asking a very specific question, thus answering with such a general advise is like telling learn how to use a gps to somebody who is asking you the directions to the closest hospital. I can't believe changing the default color