[libreoffice-users] Excel - Calc file locking

2011-02-11 Thread Stefano Fraccaro
Hi, I have strange behaviour with file locking when xls file are accessed by LibreOffice and Excel. Situation: * user A with Excel 2000 * user B with LibreOffice 3.3 / OpenOffice 3.2 Step to reproduce: * user A open, modify,save and close example.xml file with Excel 2000 *

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: where is the guidelines on what to put on a CD/DVD distro of LibreOffice?

2011-02-11 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi Marc, On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:24:01 -0500 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2011-02-10 05:06, Sigrid Carrera a écrit : [...] Hi Sigrid: I wasn't sure who to leave this with. Could you also send along a note to the German team that the included PhotoAlbum extension returns a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Excel - Calc file locking

2011-02-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This seems to be normal behaviour. The first person to open the document should be able to edit it. If the document is then opened a 2nd and 3rd (or more) time then it can only be edited by the 1st one. The other people can open it as read only. If everyone could edit the same

Re: [libreoffice-users] Excel - Calc file locking

2011-02-11 Thread Luuk
On 11-02-11 10:56, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) This seems to be normal behaviour. The first person to open the document should be able to edit it. If the document is then opened a 2nd and 3rd (or more) time then it can only be edited by the 1st one. The other people can open it as read

Re: [libreoffice-users] Excel - Calc file locking

2011-02-11 Thread Stefano Fraccaro
Hi Tom, you are right but this is not the problem... the problem is that I don't know who have the file opened at this time (I can tell my collegue to close the file)! Excel users see last Excel user that have used the file, LibreOffice users see unknown user... expected result is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Excel - Calc file locking

2011-02-11 Thread Stefano Fraccaro
Hi Luuk, ok but this different behaviour is by design or is a bug? If it's by design, this behaviour is correctly documented? I don't remember anything about this... Il 11/02/2011 11.02, Luuk ha scritto: When reading previous message Excel does behave in a different way than Calc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Excel - Calc file locking

2011-02-11 Thread Stefano Fraccaro
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34171 :-) Il 11/02/2011 11.15, Tom Davies ha scritto: Hi :) That makes sense now. I think we need someone to post a bug-report about it http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Please let us know the bug-report's address when you have posted

[libreoffice-users] What's the planning on Java bindings for LibreOffice?

2011-02-11 Thread Patricio Martínez
Hi everyone, I've been working on some tools development using the Java bindings to use StarOffice's and OpenOffice.org's functionality (unoil and stuff), and I was wondering whether The Document Foundation is including the API in LibreOffice. After having a first look at the recently released

Re: [libreoffice-users] What's the planning on Java bindings for LibreOffice?

2011-02-11 Thread Cor Nouws
Patricio Martínez wrote (11-02-11 11:51) More precisely, my (probably silly) question is: is the LibreOffice-provided API keeping compatibility with the OpenOffice-provided one? Yes, that is the intention. Cor -- - giving openoffice.org its foundation :: The Document Foundation - --

Re: [libreoffice-users] Excel - Calc file locking

2011-02-11 Thread Luuk
On 11-02-11 11:15, Stefano Fraccaro wrote: Hi Luuk, ok but this different behaviour is by design or is a bug? If it's by design, this behaviour is correctly documented? I don't remember anything about this... Il 11/02/2011 11.02, Luuk ha scritto: When reading previous message Excel

[libreoffice-users] Couldn't open a presentation to editing

2011-02-11 Thread victorlevasseur
Hello, I've installed LibreOffice on my computer (on Ubuntu 10.10). But I've some problems with Impress : When I want to open a file for Impress, it open it, but the Splideshow start immediately. The problem happened on ppt / pptx / odp. When I press Escape to exit the slideshow, I cannot edit

[libreoffice-users] Install hangs

2011-02-11 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Good evening from Japan Two weeks or so ago I downloaded AND installed LibreOffice. It was working fine. Then I had/have computer trouble - preformed a system restore, user profile change etc. During the former action LibreOffice was lost. After a number of other things I tried, I

[libreoffice-users] Re: Install hangs

2011-02-11 Thread Luuk
Try: msiexec /qb /i C:\LibreOffice Installation Files\libreoffice33.msi /Lv LOGFILE.TXT (of course, correct above path to point to the path where installation files are) This install should create a LOGFILE.TXT, which could give an indication of what is failing (i'm no sure if it does, but

[libreoffice-users] PDF import extension-1.0.3 source code

2011-02-11 Thread amine amine
Salam, i was looking for the LibO extensions and i found that PDF Import Extension-1.0.3 was integrated to the LibO suite I want to add RTL support to it, but where can i find the source code of the Extension...? thank you all ! -- Amine Arrahmane Achargui Effectiveness (“Do the right

Re: [libreoffice-users] spell checking and mixing extensions

2011-02-11 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 02/10/2011 07:30 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:13 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productionswebmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: : but Ubuntu used the Debian install though, until it creates their own for their 11.04 repository. To be precise, Debian is a Linux distribution

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Portable Edition Will Not Install

2011-02-11 Thread Harold Fuchs
Win XP Pro SP3. I downloaded LibreOffice Portable v 3.3 and tried to install it on my USB drive along with several other Portable Apps. I got Please close all instances of Libre OpenOffice PE and then click OK. The portable app can not be updated while it is running. But it is *not* running.

[libreoffice-users] Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

2011-02-11 Thread Eric Marx
Hello all, My company uses documents exported out of Crystal Reports from a vendor. One particular document which has been in use for years formats and performs adequately in Microsoft Office but formats poorly and causes Libre Office to lock up while scrolling, resizing, editing or pretty

Re: [libreoffice-users] Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

2011-02-11 Thread Scott Jones
Can't attach docs on these emails. gotta post somewhere and put a link. On 2/11/2011 10:32 AM, Eric Marx wrote: Hello all, My company uses documents exported out of Crystal Reports from a vendor. One particular document which has been in use for years formats and performs adequately in

RE: [libreoffice-users] Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

2011-02-11 Thread Eric Marx
Thank you Scott, I'm new here and was not aware of that. Microsoft office image https://gp.profinishes.com/remote/mso.2010.jpg Libre Office Image https://gp.profinishes.com/remote/lo3.3.jpg The document https://gp.profinishes.com/remote/document.doc -Original Message- From: Scott Jones

Re: [libreoffice-users] Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

2011-02-11 Thread Colin J. Williams
Eric,The LibreOffice mail service is primitive.It doesn't handle attachments, HTML or images.Thus your attachment went nowhere.Colin W.On 11-Feb-11 10:32 AM, Eric Marx wrote:Hello all, My company uses documents exported out of Crystal Reports from a vendor. One particular document which

RE: [libreoffice-users] Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

2011-02-11 Thread Eric Marx
It’s a side effect of how poorly Crystal Reports exports that report as a spreadsheet. It was less work for the people at my company to export it as a .doc. -Original Message- From: T. R. Valentine [mailto:trvalent...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 11:59 AM To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

2011-02-11 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 11 February 2011 11:01, Eric Marx eric.m...@profinishesplus.com wrote: It’s a side effect of how poorly Crystal Reports exports that report as a spreadsheet. It was less work for the people at my company to export it as a .doc. Might it be exported as a csv? -- T. R. Valentine Your

RE: [libreoffice-users] Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

2011-02-11 Thread Eric Marx
That was tried and was a similar travesty. The root of my companies problem is how poorly formatted reports are from Crystal 8.5 which is ancient by any standard and is forced on us by a required vendor. My company is looking into other ways around this issue, however I was hoping that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Couldn't open a presentation to editing

2011-02-11 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi Victor, On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:06:04 -0800 (PST) victorlevasseur victorlevasseu...@orange.fr wrote: The bug appear when I open directly the file and when I open the file from Impress Sigrid Carrera wrote: From the context menu try open with LibreOffice 3.3 instead of Open

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open pps as ppt

2011-02-11 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-11 2:44 AM, Mihai Dobrescu wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: I just tested, and if I right-click, 'Open with...', then choose 'LibreOffice 3.3' - NOT 'LibreOffice Impress' - it just opens it for editing... Sorry, I don't understand the 'LibreOffice 3.3'

[libreoffice-users] Unable to copy AutoCorrect

2011-02-11 Thread T. R. Valentine
Using LO on WinXP The very useful AutoCorrect function is something I would like to have, but I don't want to have to manually insert all the 'Replace' and 'With' entries (Replace tab). The same goes for the list of 'Exception's (Exceptions tab). In the ..LibreOffice 3\Basis\share\autocorr

[libreoffice-users] RE: Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

2011-02-11 Thread plino
I know this won't help a bit, but it looks as bad under OOo 3.3.0, OOo 3.4.0 m99 and Abiword (all under Windows XP SP3) If these files are not meant for editing I advise you to export to PDF using the fantastic FLOSS program PDF Creator. (BTW the reason most documents work in MS programs is

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Portable Edition Will Not Install

2011-02-11 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-11 2:48 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Can you open your task-manager? It should show what processes are running. I think it is Ctrl Alt Del although that is likely to reboot the machine. Tip: CTRL-SHIFT-ESC goes straight to Task Manager in all windows version... -- Best

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Portable Edition Will Not Install

2011-02-11 Thread Scott Jones
It's not a bug, it's a feature. On 2/11/2011 3:08 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote:On 11/02/2011 19:48, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Can you open your task-manager? It should show what processes are running. I think it is Ctrl Alt Del although that is likely to reboot the machine. Regards from Tom :)

[libreoffice-users] Re: Couldn't open a presentation to editing

2011-02-11 Thread NoOp
On 02/11/2011 03:56 AM, victorlevasseur wrote: Hello, I've installed LibreOffice on my computer (on Ubuntu 10.10). But I've some problems with Impress : When I want to open a file for Impress, it open it, but the Splideshow start immediately. The problem happened on ppt / pptx / odp.

[libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 3.3.1 Release Candidate available

2011-02-11 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Dear Community, The Document Foundation is happy to announce the release candidate of LibreOffice 3.3.1. This release candidate is the first in a series of frequent bugfix releases on top of our LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: where is the guidelines on what to put on a CD/DVD distro of LibreOffice?

2011-02-11 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 02/11/2011 01:09 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Hi, Did not see where the subject of the disc being produced by the North American team (on the US Marketing mailing list) has been mentioned, I may of missed it though. For a reference on the ISO image please see this thread:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 3.3.1 Release Candidate available

2011-02-11 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 02/11/2011 05:05 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Dear Community, The Document Foundation is happy to announce the release candidate of LibreOffice 3.3.1. This release candidate is the first in a series of frequent

Re: [libreoffice-users] Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

2011-02-11 Thread Len Philpot
[ From users@libreoffice.org (T. R. Valentine) on Friday, February 11, 2011 ] My LO Writer/Win XP does seem to struggle with the file, so the problem can definitely be replicated. Same here, LibO 3.3 on Vista. It's very sluggish to navigate. In terms of general comments, I don't have the

[libreoffice-users] Re: where is the guidelines on what to put on a CD/DVD distro of LibreOffice?

2011-02-11 Thread NoOp
On 02/11/2011 01:17 PM, NoOp wrote: On 02/11/2011 10:09 AM, Drew Jensen wrote: ... Along with this is a tri-fold brochure, with the same branding, available here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibOPamphlet-feb_11.pdf ... What's up with having the pdf open in full screen view

[libreoffice-users] QuattroPro incompatibility with LO Calc

2011-02-11 Thread MR ZenWiz
I recently send a friend of mine a spreadsheet I built in LO Calc and had it write in .xls format (MS Excel). There were two columns of dates in the spreadsheet. When my friend opened the spreadsheet in QP, the date columns all came up as 12:00am instead of a date. He did some playing with it

[libreoffice-users] Re: QuattroPro incompatibility with LO Calc

2011-02-11 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:59 PM, MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote: I recently send a friend of mine a spreadsheet I built in LO Calc and had it write in .xls format (MS Excel).  There were two columns of dates in the spreadsheet.  When my friend opened the spreadsheet in QP, the date columns

[libreoffice-users] Re: Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

2011-02-11 Thread NoOp
Please bottom post on this list :-) - thanks. On 02/11/2011 09:01 AM, Eric Marx wrote: It’s a side effect of how poorly Crystal Reports exports that report as a spreadsheet. It was less work for the people at my company to export it as a .doc. ... The document

[libreoffice-users] Re: Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

2011-02-11 Thread NoOp
On 02/11/2011 04:09 PM, NoOp wrote: ... My suggestion would be to file a bug report and use a modified version of that report (omit BASF other identifiers etc) as an example. Unfortunately Crystal Reports are now SAP, so I doubt that you'll get much sympathy there given that their rival

[libreoffice-users] Good news

2011-02-11 Thread MR ZenWiz
A while back I posted an issue to this list that whenever I clicked on the Help function in Writer (or Calc or any of the other LO apps), it would attempt to access something, probably a web page, and then crash. With 3.3.1 rc1, I downloaded and installed LO and the English lang pack and help

[libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 3.3.1 Release Candidate available

2011-02-11 Thread NoOp
On 02/11/2011 02:05 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Dear Community, The Document Foundation is happy to announce the release candidate of LibreOffice 3.3.1. This release candidate is the first in a series of frequent

[libreoffice-users] OOo link opens during LibO install

2011-02-11 Thread Len Philpot
I'm sure it's been noticed before, but this... http://update.services.openoffice.org/ooo/index.html?cid=920899 was called both during the 3.3 and 3.3.1RC1 install, FWIW. -- Len Philpot - l e n @ p h i l p o t . o r g (no spaces) http://philpot.org/ - http://lphilpot.zenfolio.com Read

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc

2011-02-11 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 11.02.2011 20:18, TVCSF Chair wrote: I have been using Libre Office 3.3 having up dated from Ooo 3.2. I now find that when trying to reference from one spreadsheet to another sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, coming up with a #REF failure. It also fails to show the graphs from an

[libreoffice-users] Re: where is the guidelines on what to put on a CD/DVD distro of LibreOffice?

2011-02-11 Thread drewjensen
hmm - well, it wasn't an evil plan - although sounds like you should open an issue with evince, don't think I've ever had the pleasure of using that.. - will recreate that file, sans, the full screen mode then, look for an update, in a few minutes and BTW - on behalf of the guys (Mark, Jeff,