[libreoffice-users] Re: Two LO issues . . . any insights?

2011-01-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 18/01/11 22:35, Steven Shelton a écrit : Hi Steven, Second: when I open a self-contained database (i.e., a single ODB file containing all of the data inside, instead of connected to a database server) I get an error from LibO that the file was created in a newer version of LibreOffice.

[libreoffice-users] LORC3 Calc CopySheet

2011-01-19 Thread lnvas _at_data.bg
I've encountered a problem with Calc when Copying either sheet to the end position of the sheet list. With OOoRC9 and LORC3, I´ve got not a cloned sheet but a darkened and empty one. Going top/left, cell counter indicated A1048576. As a workaround, select the whole sheet, Ctrl+C, add a

Re: [libreoffice-users] release schedule?

2011-01-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes there is or should be a rush. Several staunch linux distro that have years between their new releases are due to release within the next few weeks. The number 1 desktop distro releases in a few months but needs us to have had a proper release fairly soon if they are to include

Re: [libreoffice-users] which is better?

2011-01-19 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi, 2011/1/18 MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com 2) Calling it TOFU, which is an acronym I've never seen before and, based on how tricky it was to find in Google, I suspect is not often used, is worse. :-) (One might not think so, given our proclivity to using TLAs and FLAs in place of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Filling PDF forms with LibreOffice

2011-01-19 Thread amine amine
Salam NoOp, but as i said in the title Filling PDF forms with LibreOffice, i'm looking for a solution with LibreOffice because as you certainly may know it's an Office suite. and GIMP is sufficient for doing that, exept that, once the pdf form has been edited and exported to PDF, if you open it

[libreoffice-users] windows installation

2011-01-19 Thread James A. Schulz
Does the current release candidate for Windows still overwrite an existing OpenOffice installation? Thanks -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Filling PDF forms with LibreOffice

2011-01-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Most Office Suites have difficulty handling the pdf format. It is a proprietary format rather than an Open one. The whole point of proprietary formats is to force people into buying a product from a particular company. On the rare occasions that such a product is given away for free

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Filling PDF forms with LibreOffice

2011-01-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi Poppler seems to only allow me to view, nt to edit, pdf on Ubuntu 10.04 but there are a lot of libraries and packages that start with that name and possibly one of them adds editing functionality. I guess my question would be ... Does anyone know of an Open alternative that is easy to

[libreoffice-users] Re: windows installation

2011-01-19 Thread Olbi
I allways reinstall older version of OpenOffice, but you can change directory destination before install :) -- Michał Olber olbi.linuksowiec.pl http://olbi.jogger.pl -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/windows-installation-tp2286410p2286455.html Sent from

[libreoffice-users] Re: Filling PDF forms with LibreOffice

2011-01-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/01/11 14:15, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, Poppler seems to only allow me to view, nt to edit, pdf on Ubuntu 10.04 but there are a lot of libraries and packages that start with that name and possibly one of them adds editing functionality. This is version dependent. It used to work,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread Fabián Rodríguez
On 11-01-19 02:47 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote: 2011/1/18 Fabián Rodríguez magic...@member.fsf.org: :[..] 3) Type the following command to install Libre Office: **sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libreoffice libre-office-gnome * [...] What's with the asterisks? Apparently Thunderbird

Re: [libreoffice-users] alternative to pdf?

2011-01-19 Thread Fabián Rodríguez
On 11-01-19 09:11 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ooops, i was a bit unclear! I am wondering if there is an Open alternative to the pdf format itself. When i try to Print to file i have a choice of .ps or .pdf but i am not sure if ps is editable ... Regards from Tom :) That would be

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice on LinuxMint Debian Edition...

2011-01-19 Thread Cia Watson
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:58:15 + (GMT) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I thought Mint was built to be able to use Ubuntu repositories? There is an issue now it has been re-based onto Debian but it would be good if someone could experiment with this, perhaps on a virtual

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't save to .doc or .docx

2011-01-19 Thread Cley Faye
2011/1/19 Olwe Melwasul hercynianfor...@gmail.com I just installed LO3.3 from Ubuntu repo on Ubuntu 10.04. I followed the instructions at http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk/content/libreoffice-now-available-ppa-ubuntu-1010-and-1004#comment-620 Install went fine. I pull up a document in Writer,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't save to .doc or .docx

2011-01-19 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Olwe Melwasul hercynianfor...@gmail.com wrote on 2011-01-19 10:13: I just installed LO3.3 from Ubuntu repo on Ubuntu 10.04. I followed the instructions at http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk/content/libreoffice-now-available-ppa-ubuntu-1010-and-1004#comment-620 Install went fine. I pull up a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't save to .doc or .docx

2011-01-19 Thread webmas...@krackedpress.com
On 01/19/2011 11:13 AM, Olwe Melwasul wrote: I just installed LO3.3 from Ubuntu repo on Ubuntu 10.04. I followed the instructions at http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk/content/libreoffice-now-available-ppa-ubuntu-1010-and-1004#comment-620 Install went fine. I pull up a document in Writer, but can't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't save to .doc or .docx

2011-01-19 Thread webmas...@krackedpress.com
On 01/19/2011 11:54 AM, Olwe Melwasul wrote: I can choose from the usual long list of formats, but when I choose .doc (97/2000/XP) or .docx (2007) the Writer app hangs up. In my Gnome Ubuntu 10.04 that means the app goes gray as if it's thinking hard, but it never recovers. I kill Writer and

[libreoffice-users] Ubuntu 10.04 is LTS

2011-01-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi Olwe Melwasul :) If you have Ubuntu 10.04 then please stick with it rather than 'upgrading'. The 10.04 is a special release called an LTS which means Long Term Support and has 3 years support for the desktop version. We have about 2 years of that left. You have probably noticed that the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't save to .doc or .docx

2011-01-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sounds like a bad install somewhere then. Can the problem one be reinstalled or updated? Perhaps from a different PPA? Which is the recommended PPA now? I tend to use the Tools menu to set the default to always use .doc although now that MicroSquish Office 2007 2010 can open .odt

Re: [libreoffice-users] alternative to pdf?

2011-01-19 Thread baldwin linguas
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:12 AM, webmas...@krackedpress.com webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 01/19/2011 09:59 AM, Fabián Rodríguez wrote: On 11-01-19 09:11 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ooops, i was a bit unclear!  I am wondering if there is an Open alternative to the pdf format

Re: [libreoffice-users] alternative to pdf?

2011-01-19 Thread amine amine
Salam, i think that if there is an extension to LibO that permit djvu forms edition, it'll be very pleasant to enterprises that try to stick to open standards. LibO+djvu will be replacing the essential of the Oracle office suite and the adobe PDF format ! good luck to you all! -- Amine

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't save to .doc or .docx

2011-01-19 Thread Olwe Melwasul
So, what install should I use? Is there a nice, Ubuntu-friendly repo for me besides the one I'm using? On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Ouch!! Definitely try to find a better version to install then. Are you installing a non-US version? Is that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread baldwin linguas
She could probably add the repo to synaptic and install by simply copy/pasting the repo url appropriately into the synaptic repo tool, then searching, clicking, installing, too, since we're in pointy clicky land here. Not that learning to manage in the CLI is ever a bad idea, and, in truth, it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Two LO issues . . . any insights?

2011-01-19 Thread Steven Shelton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/19/2011 3:00 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: It is a problem related to the version of the HSQLDB engine that LibO RC3 is using compared to that used in OOo 3.1.x, and 3.2. The engine version was changed somewhere in the OOo 3.3 development

Re: [libreoffice-users] alternative to pdf?

2011-01-19 Thread baldwin linguas
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:33 PM, amine amine ammine...@gmail.com wrote: Salam, i think that if there is an extension to LibO that permit djvu forms edition, it'll be very pleasant to enterprises that try to stick to open standards. LibO+djvu will be replacing the essential of the Oracle

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 10:44:21 pm Mark wrote: snip On that terminal, execute the following lines: cd Downloads tar xzf LibO_3.3.0rc3_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz The 'tar' man page says to use a '-' for the main operation mode, and options, ' -xzf', have not tried it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread Fabián Rodríguez
On 11-01-19 02:19 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: She could probably add the repo to synaptic and install by simply copy/pasting the repo url appropriately into the synaptic repo tool, then searching, clicking, installing, too, since we're in pointy clicky land here. Not that learning to manage in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread wlb
Will LIbreOffice eventually be available on Ubuntu without having to do all the technical stuff? 2011/1/19 Fabián Rodríguez magic...@member.fsf.org On 11-01-19 02:19 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: She could probably add the repo to synaptic and install by simply copy/pasting the repo url

Re: [libreoffice-users] alternative to pdf?

2011-01-19 Thread Fabián Rodríguez
On 11-01-19 02:56 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:33 PM, amine amine ammine...@gmail.com wrote: Salam, i think that if there is an extension to LibO that permit djvu forms edition, it'll be very pleasant to enterprises that try to stick to open standards. LibO+djvu

Re: [libreoffice-users] which is better?

2011-01-19 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi, Am 18.01.2011 21:06, schrieb MR ZenWiz: 2) Calling it TOFU, which is an acronym I've never seen before and, based on how tricky it was to find in Google, I suspect is not often used, is worse. :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFU Don´t ask Google, better ask Wikipedia! :-D Stefan --

Re: [libreoffice-users] which is better?

2011-01-19 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi, Am 19.01.2011 09:52, schrieb Sigrid Carrera: TOFU is a widely used acronym in german speaking areas. TOFU means Text oben, Fullquote unten translation: Text above full quote below TOFU is an acronym for Text Over, Fullquote Under and it´s not special for german speaking areas. At least

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-19 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2011 10:44:21 pm Mark wrote: snip On that terminal, execute the following lines: cd Downloads tar xzf LibO_3.3.0rc3_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz The 'tar' man page says to use  a '-' for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't save to .doc or .docx

2011-01-19 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Olwe Melwasul hercynianfor...@gmail.com wrote: I just did some experimentation and found that a very short .doc will save just fine. Then I cut and paste more into it -- and sure enough, at some point it will not save anymore and goes gray in the face and locks

Re: [libreoffice-users] which is better?

2011-01-19 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Stefan Weigel stefan.wei...@bildungskreis.org wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFU Don´t ask Google, better ask Wikipedia! :-D In Google, the first result looks like this (without the html): Tofu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tofu or bean curd is a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread MR ZenWiz
2011/1/19 Fabián Rodríguez magic...@member.fsf.org: I would welcome detailed, tested steps to do the same in a GUI with less than the 4 steps I enumerated. :) Using a PPA is already a stretch of using Linux for human beings, so is going to LibreOffice so early. It _is_ in beta test - it's not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread Arda Tunccekic
My guess is %90 won't bother installing LO, if not installed by default. On 20.01.2011 01:18, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Robert Holtzmanhol...@cox.net wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:51:05PM -0500, wlb wrote: Will LIbreOffice eventually be available on Ubuntu

Re: [libreoffice-users] alternative to pdf?

2011-01-19 Thread baldwin linguas
2011/1/19 Fabián Rodríguez magic...@member.fsf.org On 11-01-19 02:56 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:33 PM, amine amine ammine...@gmail.com wrote: Salam, i think that if there is an extension to LibO that permit djvu forms edition, it'll be very pleasant to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Arda Tunccekic a...@duzen.com.tr wrote: My guess is %90 won't bother installing LO, if not installed by default. Likely so, but until LO is officially released, 90% won't want it, either. Beta tests are for avid fans and serious users, not the general public.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread baldwin linguas
2011/1/19 Fabián Rodríguez magic...@member.fsf.org On 11-01-19 02:19 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: She could probably add the repo to synaptic and install by simply copy/pasting the repo url appropriately into the synaptic repo tool, then searching, clicking, installing, too, since we're in

Re: [libreoffice-users] alternative to pdf?

2011-01-19 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:38 PM, baldwin linguas baldwinling...@gmail.com wrote: : I discuss this more here: http://baldwinsoftware.com/blog/?p=1329 Shameless, self-promoting plug :-) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive:

Re: [libreoffice-users] alternative to pdf?

2011-01-19 Thread baldwin linguas
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:46 PM, MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:38 PM, baldwin linguas baldwinling...@gmail.com wrote: : I discuss this more here: http://baldwinsoftware.com/blog/?p=1329 Shameless, self-promoting plug I also have a bridge for sale.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread webmas...@krackedpress.com
On 01/19/2011 03:51 PM, wlb wrote: Will LIbreOffice eventually be available on Ubuntu without having to do all the technical stuff? It was announced somewhere that LO will be on Ubuntu's repository, so it will be easy to install it. I think they are waiting for it to be out of the RC mode.