[libreoffice-users] LinuxQuestions

2015-03-13 Thread Tim Lloyd
Hi I recently posted a link from LQ regarding a UK thesaurus. A number of people made useful suggestions and I also made suggestions to the poster but, unfortunately, the problem never got resolved. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/apparent-lack-of-uk-thesaurus-for-lib

Re: [libreoffice-users] resume from where I left off?

2015-03-13 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Tim Lloyd : Dave, can you make changes to the docs? If yes then this link may help (post #3). If not then no immediate ideas http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/185 Cheers yes, that looks good, thanks! D On 14/03/15 12:12, Dave Stevens wrote: I have dozens of book length docu

Re: [libreoffice-users] resume from where I left off?

2015-03-13 Thread Steve Edmonds
I thought you needed user data under preferences/options too, but I find I have no user data and LO opens with the cursor where I last saved it. Steve On 2015-03-14 14:12, Dave Stevens wrote: I have dozens of book length documents that I open with LO. I am usually obliged to not read them throug

Re: [libreoffice-users] resume from where I left off?

2015-03-13 Thread Tim Lloyd
Dave, can you make changes to the docs? If yes then this link may help (post #3). If not then no immediate ideas http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/185 Cheers On 14/03/15 12:12, Dave Stevens wrote: I have dozens of book length documents that I open with LO. I am usually obliged to not read

[libreoffice-users] resume from where I left off?

2015-03-13 Thread Dave Stevens
I have dozens of book length documents that I open with LO. I am usually obliged to not read them through at one sitting, so I've been exporting them as .pdfs so I can use evince as a reader. That works fine because if I close the document and reopen it, I'm back where I left off - evince k

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: pdf file consists of 'F' after convert from doc on self built libreoffice-4.4.0.3

2015-03-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes :) Good point. That might be a good stepping-stone towards the goal. Is there a machine you could use as a desktop/client machine and set-up either; 1. a dual-boot so that you can have a nice gui desktop to see how things work 2. a virtual machine (VirtualBox tends to be in the repos

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: pdf file consists of 'F' after convert from doc on self built libreoffice-4.4.0.3

2015-03-13 Thread Tim Lloyd
Hi, I notice you are using Arch linux. Is this why you are building rather than just installing from the repos? Would it be easier to try a different distro (I use fedora but there are a number of people using Ubuntu/Mint) and establish whether the same problems occur? IE. take out the uncer

[libreoffice-users] Re: pdf file consists of 'F' after convert from doc on self built libreoffice-4.4.0.3

2015-03-13 Thread fdong
Hi, Paul: Thanks for your response. It is a daunting task to build libreoffice. I did learn a quite a lot to build it, but not enough to solve the issue. I am going to try the latest version to build it. I will post the question to developer list and hope to get some help. I built it without x s

[libreoffice-users] Re: pdf file consists of 'F' after convert from doc on self built libreoffice-4.4.0.3

2015-03-13 Thread fdong
I built the package with debug enable. and I got more warning message when running the command. I built the package with debug enable; Here is the log I got (more than release build). I don't know whether it is helpful to find the issue. ./soffice --headless --convert-to pdf onebyte.txt warn:co

[libreoffice-users] Re: pdf file consists of 'F' after convert from doc on self built libreoffice-4.4.0.3

2015-03-13 Thread fdong
Thanks Tom. I built the package without UI support. The only reason we are using LIbreoffice is for the convert office documents to pdf format. So I don't have the ability to try UI to make sure that it has all the fonts or print save as pdf. I did the test though to convert a txt document, whic

Re: [libreoffice-users] exporting calc as csv but keeping ods form

2015-03-13 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Eric , find the code below, you must do some googling to fin the makePropertyValue function made by Danny Brerwer hope it helps Fernand I have an application that takes input formatted as csv. my source form is calc sheet with computed cells. if I save as csv, I need to re open the sheet

Re: [libreoffice-users] pdf file consists of 'F' after convert from doc on self built libreoffice-4.4.0.3

2015-03-13 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
There is a newer version at https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libreoffice-fresh/ which is libreoffice-fresh 4.4.1-2 It might help resolve your problem. Not an Arch user myself so I don't understand the build process. Did you run LibreOffice the normal way and export as pdf to se

Re: [libreoffice-users] exporting calc as csv but keeping ods form

2015-03-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:52 13/03/2015 -0400, Eric Jonly wrote: I have an application that takes input formatted as csv. my source form is calc sheet with computed cells. if I save as csv, I need to re open the sheet's ods file when I make changes. is there any way to export as csv but keep the original ods in ca

[libreoffice-users] exporting calc as csv but keeping ods form

2015-03-13 Thread Eric
I have an application that takes input formatted as csv. my source form is calc sheet with computed cells. if I save as csv, I need to re open the sheet's ods file when I make changes. is there any way to export as csv but keep the original ods in calc?? macro? bit o'python? --- thanks -

Re: [libreoffice-users] pdf file consists of 'F' after convert from doc on self built libreoffice-4.4.0.3

2015-03-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) No idea. Have you tried contacting the Dev's irc channel or mailing list or whatever they use? Is this some sort of fonts issue? Is it just a case of having the right fonts or figuring out the paths it uses to look for fonts? I have no idea how to do that from a coding angle but through t

[libreoffice-users] pdf file consists of 'F' after convert from doc on self built libreoffice-4.4.0.3

2015-03-13 Thread fdong
After spent many days of struggling, finally I built libreoffcie-4.4.0.3 on Arch linux. I run the command line on new built software: soffice --headless --convert-to pdf my.docx (here my.docx is a regular English document with size 19K) my.pdf has been created successfully. but the display in Ado