Trying to open a document which is stored locally and not on a server
and I get this?
Document file 'Forum%20and%20site%20logins.odt' is locked for editing
by yourself on a different system since 18.09.2012 12:32
Open document read-only, or ignore own file locking and open the
document for
On 14/08/13 7:05 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Trying to open a document which is stored locally and not on a server
and I get this?
Document file 'Forum%20and%20site%20logins.odt' is locked for editing
by yourself on a different system since 18.09.2012 12:32
Open document read-only, or
On 14/08/13 08:13, Steve Edmonds wrote:
There is probably a lock file in the same directory as the one you are
editing. It could be hidden, one I am using now looks like
.~lock.heattreating.odt#.
With the document closed for editing, try deleting the lock file.
Steve
I looked for that first
On 14/08/13 7:26 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 14/08/13 08:13, Steve Edmonds wrote:
There is probably a lock file in the same directory as the one you
are editing. It could be hidden, one I am using now looks like
.~lock.heattreating.odt#.
With the document closed for editing, try
On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote:
I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried converting
the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then tried
doing the same with just the 18 page introduction. Same result. No EPUB
output file
On 13/08/2013, Rogier F. van Vlissingen vlisc...@gmail.com wrote:
Ever since 4.0 I have had increasing problems with file compatibility with
MSO...
Consider this a blessing is disguise; the primary use of LO is to
create and increase the quantity of odf documents, not to be a free m$
clone.
On 06/08/2013, Josh Bitto jbi...@onlineschool.ca wrote:
I'm using 4.2.c community of Alfresco and I'm having an issue where viewing
a spreadsheet file in preview only shows it in portrait. I'm wondering if it
possible to show in landscape. I've touched base in the Alfresco forums and
another
Hi :)
I think most of us need to use LO for a variety of reasons. Price is just one
factor amongst many. I use it because it's better and faster for what i
typically need it for and it's cross-platform. However i still need to be able
to communicate with colleagues.
Oddly they would
e-letter wrote
Are you seriously suggesting programmers' time should be spent on a
minor proprietary format comment feature instead of improving software
QA for LO odf??? Astonishing.
If LO would ignore compatibility with DOC then it would become an island
(which only used the ODF file
Hi :)
That sounds like a nightmare! You made it look like a series of stepping
stones rather than the single hop we were hoping for.
However, when i look again you are really talking about just 1 format in the
middle? Then the extra editing is just an optional finesse that Virgil could
Hi :)
In Windows Disk clean
up might do it. It does a scan and then shows you a list of different
types of things it could get rid of. It's often worth keeping some of
the things, such as set-up files.
Ubuntu
janitor does much the same although there is a better one in Ubuntu
Tweaks
Hi.
Has anybody tried to do the exporting with eLAIX? It's in the official LO
extensions repository, and I think it works quite well:
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/elaix
I can give it a try, if someone gives me the link to a specific ODT document.
Regards,
Joaquín
Hi :)
I kinda agree with most of what Pedro says except that MS Office already is
making an effort to be ODF compatible. We are already beginning to have an
impact on MS and need to make sure we push that further by using ODF more and
more.
MSO 2010 and 2007 use an ancient version of ODF
On 14/08/13 11:51, Tom Davies wrote:
MSO 2013 and 365 uses the current version that everyone else has been using
since way before 2007.
And have they taken out the bug (cough cough) whereby if an ods
document is opened in MS Excel all the formulae are stripped out, just
leaving the last
Hi :)
Actually it is LibreOffice that is leading the way on this
https://www.libreoffice.org/home/Discover
The video in the CMIS section might help, or might not but the voice sounds
nice and it might give some ideas.
But it's still fairly rare to find people that are actually doing it and are
Hi :)
Yes, that problem was only in 2010 and 2007 and was due to their pathetic
attempts to use the older ODT (well specifically ods) format that no-one else
was using much at that time because we had all moved on to the newer version.
Their 2013 and 365 uses the newer format so they don't
On 14/08/13 12:16, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Yes, that problem was only in 2010 and 2007 and was due to their
pathetic attempts to use the older ODT (well specifically ods) format
that no-one else was using much at that time because we had all moved
on to the newer version. Their 2013 and 365
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
From: Joaquín Lameiro juacolame...@yahoo.es
To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk; e-letter inp...@gmail.com; Virgil
Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
On 2013-08-14 7:07 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
On 14/08/13 11:51, Tom Davies wrote:
MSO 2013 and 365 uses the current version that everyone else has been using
since way before 2007.
And have they taken out the bug (cough cough) whereby if an ods
document is opened
On 2013-08-14 6:09 AM, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote:
the primary use of LO is to create and increase the quantity of odf
documents, not to be a free m$ clone.
So says e-letter, the creator and primary author of
OpenOffice-Now-Libreoffice. all hail e-letter! (not)
Why can't you afford to
I installed it through LO's extension manager.
I also found that I had to change the name of the extension file from a
zip file to an oxt file. I just did that through Windows Explorer. Even
though LO's extension manager says it recognizes ZIP files, it installed
better with an OXT extension.
I was just playing around. I'm not so motivated as to do all of what you're
suggesting.
I've had a Kindle now for a couple years, and I've been fascinated with
trying different ways of creating/converting documents for its use. The
basic Kindle (as opposed to the Fire), is just a text reader.
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
And have they taken out the bug (cough cough)
I thought that was a feature. At least it is if you listen to MS. ;-)
BTW, don't forget about them making that year 1900 Excel bug an ISO
standard.
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Tom Davies wrote:
Yes, that problem was only in 2010 and 2007 and was due to their pathetic
attempts to use the older ODT (well specifically ods) format that no-one else
was using much at that time because we had all moved on to the newer version.
Their 2013 and 365 uses the newer format
e-letter:
...maybe epub for electronic archives.
EPUB is an Apple/Adobe proprietary format not supported beyond iF...
devices, which is missing critical features needed for books.
It's not an option.
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Problems?
James Knott:
BTW, don't forget about them making that year 1900 Excel bug an ISO
standard.
* Lotus 1900 bug.
Microsoft has introduced a 1904-system.
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Problems?
On 08/13/2013 02:32 AM, Dave Barton wrote:
1. http://www.oooforum.org The independent unofficial one Jim was
referring to. For reasons nobody has been able to explain, their server
is at best unreliable and frequently times out.
oooforum was setup and is controlled by a single very busy person
On 14/08/13 13:28, James Knott wrote:
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
And have they taken out the bug (cough cough)
I thought that was a feature. At least it is if you listen to MS. ;-)
BTW, don't forget about them making that year 1900 Excel bug an ISO
standard.
ROTFLMAO!
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On 08/13/2013 06:38 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
If it is a completely independant forum and one that is owned by the community could we
just copy it and host on TDF or LO servers? Alternatively might they be in a better
position to ask Apache to host it or donate a better server to them? or
Hi Sina. When opening your thesis I see the numbers in Arabic numerals
(the 0-9 digits common to Westerners), not in Hindu numerals (the
digits commonly seen in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu). This is probably
due to my locale settings.
Note that I could reproduce your issue both in the document that
On 08/11/2013 09:22 PM, aihaike wrote:
Hey Miguel,
thank you for you reply.
This the kind of macro I need but it does not seem to work with LibreOffice
4 unfortunately.
I think I'm going to make a snapshot of my codes and include them as a
picture.
Éric.
I use it in LO 4 all the
Hi :)
And that 1904 thing is also non-standard, almost a bug, isn't it?
regards from
Tom :)
From: Urmas davian...@gmail.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 13:46
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS file compatibility in
Now that I've read the bug I see that you've already discovered the
RLM character. I have nothingto add to your assessment, other than the
fact that I fully support the notion that it should be fixed!
Thanks, Sina.
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On 08/12/2013 12:44 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
On 08/12/2013 09:04 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
If none of the suggestions you have received already work for you.
You might want to look at Andrew Pitonyak's book [1]. It has syntax
highlighted basic code. I don't know if you can tell how
Hi :)
Sounds like someone we should be supporting if it's at all possible. is there
anything we can do? Could Friends of OpenDocument Format be approached to see
if they could help?
Regards from
Tom :)
From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Hi :)
Yes, it was a good trial run. I was wondering how much further you would have
time for or if anyone else would be keen to take the batton and see if they
could take it further.
Regards from
Tom :)
From: Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com
To:
I've recently had the unenviable task of updating several computers running
Windows 7 and Windows 8 as either single or dual boots. One of the odd
things I've noticed is that after updating LO 4.0.4.2 to LO 4.1.0.4, I can
only fasten the LibO and Writer icons to the Windows taskbar. Previously
all
Well I think for easier migration it would be nicer to have the best
compartibility with MS formats because:
Many companies may have a HUGE amount of documents so it would cost
effective to buy a MS licence instead of spending time to convert all
these files into odf and free formats.
On
Hi :)
+1
I can't really vote on this and this isn't really a voting list anyway but if i
could vote i would give it +1
Regards from
Tom :)
From: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com
To: Sina Momken digi...@gmail.com
Cc: LibreOffice.
Hi :)
Good work and well done for getting through it!! I keep putting it off so i
tend to stick with x.x.4 releases to avoid needing to support the users any
more than i really have to. However the 4.1.0 does add a lot of better
compatibility so i probably should do the same as you.
Sorry
Hi :)
Ok, so if it is hosted on a single server then maybe we could ask Friends of
.. or some similar organisations to contribute towards the costs of a new
server? or pay to get it hosted through a dedicated hosting service that hosts
a lot of sites rather than however it is being done
Hi :)
Quite!
Some could view it as a marketing ploy to push people into using their format.
i can image the calls telling users they need to avoid 3rd party formats as
though 3rd party is somehow dodgy rather than just meaning that MS can't manage
to write code to support their own format
Tom Davies wrote:
Some could view it as a marketing ploy to push people into using their
format. i can image the calls telling users they need to avoid 3rd
party formats as though 3rd party is somehow dodgy rather than just
meaning that MS can't manage to write code to support their own
Using LO 4.1 on Ubuntu 13.04
Installed the Sun Weblog extension, configured my Blog in it.
Everything seems to work EXCEPT it won't post to the Blog!
Doesn't matter whether I do File-Send-To Weblog or click on the To
Weblog icon, nothing happens.
Any one got a solution or should I report a bug?
On 14/08/13 01:32, Brian Barker wrote:
At 22:53 13/08/2013 +0100, Alastair Noname wrote:
I note I can modify the First Page style but what I think I need to do
is create a new first page style called say Home Address Letter
style. I don't know how the style properties for the first page are
2013/8/14 Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk
Hi :)
Good work and well done for getting through it!! I keep putting it off so
i tend to stick with x.x.4 releases to avoid needing to support the users
any more than i really have to. However the 4.1.0 does add a lot of better
compatibility so
Issues with Windows 7 and 8, Taskbar Startmenu and Jump List
implementation has been cleaned up on the 4.1.1 and master builds. Should
have better results with the upcomming 4.1.1 release.
See FDO#35785 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35785 for
details.
Stuart
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http://idpf.org/epub
On Aug 14, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote:
e-letter:
...maybe epub for electronic archives.
EPUB is an Apple/Adobe proprietary format not supported beyond iF... devices,
which is missing critical features needed for books.
It's not an option.
Hi :)
Better compatibility with the formats sometimes means using a branch early in
it's life-cycle and that sometimes means it might not be 100% as stable as the
x.x.4 of the earlier branch.
So it's a balancing act for which we each need to find our own comfort-zone.
Usually whichever
Hello All,
I'm having an issue with how spreadsheets are being handled in alfresco and I'm
trying to track the source down. Here's the issueWhen I upload any document
into alfresco I can go to that document and it gives a preview of it in
portrait form. That's wonderful if all documents
Hi :)
Does that mean it is an ISO standard? It's a bit unclear who international
Digital Publishing Forum are. Are they widely known and accepted or are they
just a branch of Adobe or Apple or someone?
Regards from
Tom :)
From: Ginterak
Thank you both for your response on this matter. I will look into the
suggestion that you advised and go from there. Have a great week!
Best Regards,
Josh
From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:13 AM
To: e-letter; Josh Bitto
Cc:
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
On 08/13/2013 02:32 AM, Dave Barton wrote:
1. http://www.oooforum.org The independent unofficial one Jim was
referring to. For reasons nobody has been able to explain, their server
is at best unreliable and frequently times out.
oooforum was setup and is
It is an ISO standard (or at least in the way to be):
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=53255
Also, there's some useful information on Wikipedia. I didn't went to it
thoroughly, though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
Maybe Urmas confused EPUB with
Hi :)
Perhaps :) I think there are a lot of us who still haven't checked out these
fancy new gizmos. I'm still calling LiveUsb a LiveCd and then having to
correct myself.
Regards from
Tom :)
From: Joaquín Lameiro juacolame...@yahoo.es
To: Tom Davies
I'm trying to create mail merge documents that contain merge fields for
a document that can't connect directly to the data source. That source
(Salesforce) can read the documents if the field names are correctly
entered. I can type the field names in manually, but I can't figure out
how to
LO 4.o.2.2 on Windows XP Pro SP3
I am converting a 2003 Access DB that has different security settings for
different users contained in a .mdw file. I set it up in Base by connecting
to an existing ADO database and everything works fine as far as the security
settings go.
The problem arises
I sent his to the list this afternoon - for some reason it didn't seem
to get there, so I apologize if it's gone twice!
Using LO 4.1 on Ubuntu 13.04
Installed the Sun Weblog extension, configured my Blog in it.
Everything seems to work EXCEPT it won't post to the Blog!
Doesn't matter whether I do
Hi :)
If this is a patch then perhaps you could make it into an Extension?
Extensions can be licensed any way you like. there is a suggestion to use a
copy-left license such as MPL or LGPL but really i think the choice is yours.
However if you did make it from code from Oracle then you will
2013/8/14 V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu
Issues with Windows 7 and 8, Taskbar Startmenu and Jump List
implementation has been cleaned up on the 4.1.1 and master builds. Should
have better results with the upcomming 4.1.1 release.
See FDO#35785
On 2013-08-14 3:40 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
I sent his to the list this afternoon - for some reason it didn't seem
to get there, so I apologize if it's gone twice!
As always with gmail accounts, you will *never* see our own posts,
because gmail considers the sent
Hello Sirs/Madam,I really appreciate your efforts to introduce the free libre
office.It is a wonderful and complete program .I have downloaded this
masterpiece few days ago and some of its features are still to be recovered.I
am feeling difficulty to130 in the tool bar but I could not find the
On 08/14/2013 12:39 PM, Dave Barton wrote:
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
On 08/13/2013 02:32 AM, Dave Barton wrote:
1. http://www.oooforum.org The independent unofficial one Jim was
referring to. For reasons nobody has been able to explain, their server
is at best unreliable and frequently
Joaquín Lameiro:
Please name me any 3rd-party reader which supports HTML5 and CSS3
sufficiently enough to provide all the features one can expect from a book.
That so-called standard is too expensive for independent implementation and
cannot guarantee acceptable results.
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Hi
FARRUKH MUNIR wrote
Hello Sirs/Madam,I really appreciate your efforts to introduce the free
libre office.It is a wonderful and complete program .I have downloaded
this masterpiece few days ago and some of its features are still to be
recovered.I am feeling difficulty to130 in the tool
On 14/08/2013 at 23:48, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
I am not aware of any way to scrape the content, perhaps someone more
talented than I would know how to do that.
Unfortunately, under some jurisdictions, creating backup copy of remote server
might be considered an
...
https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/2580-help-change-the-mobile-world?locale=en
I'm curious to know how they might compare, are you?
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Problems?
At 20:24 14/08/2013 +, Farrukh Munir wrote:
... I could not find the way to put a password to my created
document for security purpose. Will you please guide me as to how I
can solve this problem?
As has already been explained, when you use File | Save As..., tick
the Save with password
At 21:29 14/08/2013 +0100, Alastair Noname wrote:
Sorry to be so thick ...
For what it's worth, I don't recognise that.
... but all the above went well until I revisited the page styles
having shut down LO and started again later. Sadly the new style I
had created following your steps
The strange thing was I didn’t extract the oxt from the zip. I simply renamed
the zip to an oxt. There was no oxt file inside the zip.
Virgil
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:36 PM
To: Virgil Arrington ; users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users]
On 15/08/13 2:24 AM, James Knott wrote:
Tom Davies wrote:
Some could view it as a marketing ploy to push people into using their
format. i can image the calls telling users they need to avoid 3rd
party formats as though 3rd party is somehow dodgy rather than just
meaning that MS can't manage
Steve Edmonds wrote:
One thing to bear in mind is the ODF formats were derived from the
original StarOffice formats and spreadsheets in that format worked fine
in StarOffice, and later OpenOffice, for years.
In fact until LO 4+ when they were dropped.
Can they still be read? IIRC, OO 1.3
At 21:23 14/08/2013 -0500, Michael Morse wrote:
For some reason, I am no longer able to make a series of spaces
using the space bar. After one space, pressing the space bar will
not advance the cursor.
Rejoice! This is how all word processors should work. Countable
spaces exist only in
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 20:40:52 PM +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Registered Linux User no 240308
GBP's alternative computing: http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/
Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8
Hi Gordon, and list.
First of all, I'm obviously happy that you
At 21:02 14/08/2013 -0400, Virgil Arrington wrote:
The strange thing was I didn't extract the oxt from the zip. I
simply renamed the zip to an oxt. There was no oxt file inside the zip.
You didn't need to. An .oxt file, like other ODF formats, is itself
a zip archive. What has happened is
On 08/14/2013 08:12 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 20:24 14/08/2013 +, Farrukh Munir wrote:
... I could not find the way to put a password to my created document
for security purpose. Will you please guide me as to how I can solve
this problem?
As has already been explained, when you use
At 00:58 15/08/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
I thought that passwords were broken in the current release I
was unable to open my existing password protected documents with the
latest release. Removed it and installed a previous version. So, if
you cannot make it work, try a
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