Re: [libreoffice-users] A bit OT - just got WD MyCloud and trying to get it working with Ubuntu

2014-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks Charles! Clarified quite a few points there! Thanks and regards from Tom :) On 30 January 2014 16:09, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Hello Tom, Custfold, > > Le Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:41:17 +, > Tom Davies a écrit : > >> Hi :) >> I'm not sure if the CMIS video helps >> http://www.libr

[libreoffice-users] Error 1335 installing LibreOffice

2014-01-30 Thread ross...@libero.it
Hello I have tried to install LibreOffice French 4.2.0.4 on PC with XP SP3 and I had the reply: error 1335 fault of libreoffice2.cab (same for LO 4.1.4).I think is not a corrupted download because the the same LO I installed it on a Windows 7 smoothly. What can I do for the XP installation? Bes

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Limited Unicode Support in LibreOffice 4.1.4.2? Character insertion, non-zero (SMP, SIP) planes, and multi language documents.

2014-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Only if you want it the stable and robust way around by adding the strengths of both OSes rather than adding their weaknesses. Regards from Tom :) On 30 January 2014 17:50, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > > On 30/01/14 17:45, ♪͡♪♪͡♪Neil Ren♪͡♪♪͡♪ wrote: >> Environment: Ubuntu 12.04 64bit in

[libreoffice-users] How to unset reminders in LibreOffice Writer

2014-01-30 Thread bissjoe
In the Navigator of LibreOffice Writer, I can set up to 5 reminders, which are like temporary bookmarks to jump from one place to the next in the document. However I cannot see a way to remove or "unset" a reminder. Is it possible? In a software like Notepad++, you can easily set and unset bookmar

Re: [libreoffice-users] gstreamer-1.0 vs gstreamer-0.10

2014-01-30 Thread David Ronis
Hi Paul, Thanks for the reply. In gstreamer-1.0 gst-ffmpeg has been replaced by gst-libav (which is installed). My video plays on all machines using mplayer and things like gst-play-1.0 or totem. When it works (on gstreamer-0.10 boxes), the presentation is what these external tools show. Fina

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office 4.2 on Ubuntu 10.04

2014-01-30 Thread Joel Madero
On 01/30/2014 07:15 PM, Yadu Kishore wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to install LibreOffice 4.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 ? > > Thanks, I don't see why not but honestly I can't test. Best bet is to purge the version you have an then install the debian packages that you can find on www.libreoffice.org/downloa

[libreoffice-users] A word of warning about PDF text

2014-01-30 Thread Peter West
A word of warning about text retrieved from PDF documents. Recovering text blocks from PDFs is inherently risky. PDF is a page definition format, and so it has no notion of the semantics of the text it contains. It places bits of text at certain positions on the page. You can create a whole p

[libreoffice-users] Libre Office 4.2 on Ubuntu 10.04

2014-01-30 Thread Yadu Kishore
Hi, Is it possible to install LibreOffice 4.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 ? Thanks, -- Yadu Kishore -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundatio

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Table Relation

2014-01-30 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 01/30/2014 02:44 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: > On 01/29/2014 09:36 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> Hey Y'all, >> >> I've been struggling with this for weeks. I've got the Base Handbook >> for Version 4 that goes along really well with the version 4 LO that I >> have on my system. I also purchased a copy

[libreoffice-users] Re: Limited Unicode Support in LibreOffice 4.1.4.2? Character insertion, non-zero (SMP, SIP) planes, and multi language documents.

2014-01-30 Thread ♪͡♪♪͡♪Neil Ren♪͡♪♪͡♪
Gordon Burgess-Parker-3 wrote > Isn't that the wrong way round? Shouldn't it be Windows in VMWare on > Ubuntu? > ;-) Yeah, for so many years I have been keeping my self from the wonderful world of Linux, getting stuck here and there on the Windows platform .What a mistake! - "雷聲 靐䨻": if yo

Re: [libreoffice-users] gstreamer-1.0 vs gstreamer-0.10

2014-01-30 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
Also note: you need to make sure that gstreamer-ffmpeg (in my case gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg) is installed - et voila, it works. From: http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/466113-Solved-libreoffice-not-playing-video On 1/29/2014 5:44 PM, David Ronis wrote: I have a presentation that contain

Re: [libreoffice-users] gstreamer-1.0 vs gstreamer-0.10

2014-01-30 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
Just a question Have you tested the mpeg file with the same player (MPlayer) on all linux machines before using in a presentation? If so, does the results match with presentation? On 1/29/2014 5:44 PM, David Ronis wrote: I have a presentation that contains a mpeg video. It works on some L

[libreoffice-users] UK picks Open Document Format for all government files

2014-01-30 Thread John King
Interesting article on The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/30/uk_picks_open_document_format_for_all_government_files/ John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Limited Unicode Support in LibreOffice 4.1.4.2? Character insertion, non-zero (SMP, SIP) planes, and multi language documents.

2014-01-30 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 30/01/14 17:45, ♪͡♪♪͡♪Neil Ren♪͡♪♪͡♪ wrote: > Environment: Ubuntu 12.04 64bit in VMWare, clean install Isn't that the wrong way round? Shouldn't it be Windows in VMWare on Ubuntu? ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/g

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Table Relation

2014-01-30 Thread Dan Lewis
On 01/29/2014 09:36 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey Y'all, I've been struggling with this for weeks. I've got the Base Handbook for Version 4 that goes along really well with the version 4 LO that I have on my system. I also purchased a copy of "OpenOffice.prg Base & Basic" that contains lots of

[libreoffice-users] Re: how many languages can LO support at the same time. . .

2014-01-30 Thread ♪͡♪♪͡♪Neil Ren♪͡♪♪͡♪
TomD wrote > Hi :) > I was wondering it there is likely to be a slow-down in opening or > normal usage when there are a lot of languages installed. Hi! "tk" below says that RAM usage of LO grows as languages used increases. I think it's generally true. But I would like to offer my opinion, altho

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-30 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
I've used Inkscape to break up PDFs. However, I prefer to have everything in Writer natural rather than as an image. It's a mix of deleting oversized areas (objects), cut and paste (text) and export. Hope it helps On 1/28/2014 8:41 PM, charles meyer wrote: I've got 3 or so separate PDF file

[libreoffice-users] Re: Limited Unicode Support in LibreOffice 4.1.4.2? Character insertion, non-zero (SMP, SIP) planes, and multi language documents.

2014-01-30 Thread ♪͡♪♪͡♪Neil Ren♪͡♪♪͡♪
I have tested LO for these issues on Ubuntu in a VM. Now I am much more confident that the problems I've described are Windows-specific issues and not directly related to LO itself. See my own reply to these problems. These issues may have arisen during the porting of LO to Windows, or may be purel

[libreoffice-users] Re: Limited Unicode Support in LibreOffice 4.1.4.2? Character insertion, non-zero (SMP, SIP) planes, and multi language documents.

2014-01-30 Thread ♪͡♪♪͡♪Neil Ren♪͡♪♪͡♪
This reply goes to every one who has offered their help. I just want to say thank you. I have tried out LO on Ubuntu 12.04 and on Windows 7 in a VM, and these issues are simply almost gone on the Linux platform but remain the same on the virtual Windows. I will briefly answer all my questions in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: North America Touching Basis

2014-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That sounds like an excellent strategy. It's likely to help boost LibreOffice's presence at conferences and raise 'our' profile with whoever else goes along to such conferences for other projects. Also people who go mainly for LibreOffice also get to see other projects. There are some quit

Re: [libreoffice-users] Docx

2014-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Another good question to ask Microsoft is when they will start to (or whether they ever are likely to manage to) support the DocX format as specified in the ISO format which they pushed through. Regards from Tom :) On 30 January 2014 00:29, e-letter wrote: > On 29/01/2014, Qusai Al Haddad

[libreoffice-users] Re: Limited Unicode Support in LibreOffice 4.1.4.2? Character insertion, non-zero (SMP, SIP) planes, and multi language documents.

2014-01-30 Thread ♪͡♪♪͡♪Neil Ren♪͡♪♪͡♪
Hi! I wasn't able to view the pictures in your message, in both Nabble and mailing list. I only get plain text. I have been trying out LibreOffice on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in VMware player today. Everything is working fine. No all these windows bugs. - "雷聲 靐䨻": if you can see four Chinese charac

Re: [libreoffice-users] A bit OT - just got WD MyCloud and trying to get it working with Ubuntu

2014-01-30 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tom, Custfold, Le Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:41:17 +, Tom Davies a écrit : > Hi :) > I'm not sure if the CMIS video helps > http://www.libreoffice.org/home/Discover > but the voice-over is well worth hearing. Yes indeed. The CMIS interface also gives you access to a number of services, many

Re: [libreoffice-users] A bit OT - just got WD MyCloud and trying to get it working with Ubuntu

2014-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm not sure if the CMIS video helps http://www.libreoffice.org/home/Discover but the voice-over is well worth hearing. It might be better to go with "OwnCloud" http://owncloud.org/ As OwnCloud is now a partner of TDF (or supporting organisation or something). There are various things "up

[libreoffice-users] Persistent System Level Custom Options?

2014-01-30 Thread rik-shaw
Hello All,Is there any way to define customized options at the "system level" that won't be overridden when a new version of LibreOffice is installed?Right now, we use xmlstarlet to make a few entries in /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/registry/main.xcd (and writer.xcd, calc.xcd).However

Re: [libreoffice-users] FYI: LO's security system is compromised, please be careful

2014-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) We are mostly all in different time-zones so don't worry. Best way of using any security is to use it in combination with other types of security. ie, find some way of discouraging people from putting post-its in obvious places. Perhaps make it into some sort of game? I'd be tempted to co

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: North America Touching Basis

2014-01-30 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/29/2014 08:22 PM, Joel Madero wrote: On 01/29/2014 05:07 PM, anne-ology wrote: Andrew, well said. Joel, ... [see my comments below, interspersed within Andrew's] Um honestly I don't have the time. Sorry but first line made me realize how far off point this is getting. Al

[libreoffice-users] Fwd: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 4.2

2014-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) We have had a few threads lately about improving interoperability with a certain format. Sadly that format, or at least the various different implementations of it, seems to show that it's designed to decrease interoperability between systems as part of a marketing strategy (or something).

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: North America Touching Basis

2014-01-30 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
QA is a great place to start You can jump in when you have time, you become familiar with different features, and it is a huge help... You will probably enjoy it Ruth Ann. Good of you to help her through it Joel! Do we have a FAQ or WIKI page to help people become involved in the QA proc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: North America Touching Basis

2014-01-30 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I popped on over to the Cincinnati when Jean Webber (documentation team) was there for a conference so that we could have lunch. It was nice to finally meet her in person :-) On 01/29/2014 09:58 PM, Ruth Ann wrote: Hi Joel, Well, I am in the Mid-west, so it would be kind of far to travel just

[libreoffice-users] A bit OT - just got WD MyCloud and trying to get it working with Ubuntu

2014-01-30 Thread Custfold
There seems to be a windows start up is there a download for Linux? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List a

Re: [libreoffice-users] *Persistent* System Level Custom Options?

2014-01-30 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 01/30/2014 12:31 PM, iveand wrote: Hello All,Is there any way to define customized options at the "system level" that won't be overridden when a new version of LibreOffice is installed?Right now, we use xmlstarlet to make a few entries in /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/registry/main

[libreoffice-users] *Persistent* System Level Custom Options?

2014-01-30 Thread iveand
Hello All,Is there any way to define customized options at the "system level" that won't be overridden when a new version of LibreOffice is installed?Right now, we use xmlstarlet to make a few entries in /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/registry/main.xcd (and writer.xcd, calc.xcd).However

Re: [libreoffice-users] Where is the documentation for soffice command line execution?

2014-01-30 Thread Peter West
Thanks folks. soffice --help did the trick. On 29/01/2014 11:03 am, Peter West wrote: There are plenty of snippets on the web about using soffice command line for document conversion, for example, but I cannot find documentation. Looking for 'soffice' in the LO help file yields no results. Any

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Table Relation

2014-01-30 Thread Alex McMurchy
You can creta a form based on queries as well as a table. https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Queries Alex On Wednesday 29 Jan 2014 21:36:56 Mark LaPierre wrote: > Hey Y'all, > > I've been struggling with this for weeks. I've got the Base Handbook > for Version 4 that goes along really well