Re: [libreoffice-users] poor default config path

2011-09-14 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/14/2011 12:30 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Hmm, i just thought. maybe this guide might help you change the path on your machine http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel Just miss out the bits where it installs another version of LibreOffice! Something else i liked about t

[libreoffice-users] Draw crashes on opening PDF on samba share.

2011-09-14 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. When I got my mac I liked that I could annotate PDF's in preview. Now I want to sign (ad signature to) them and I find I can open them in Draw. This is great as the import and manipulation seems a little publicised feature that works really well (although it is a bit slow with 25000 elements).

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: merged cells in Writer (saved as Word 97/2000/xp/2003)

2011-09-14 Thread Simon Cropper
On 15/09/11 13:22, James wrote: On 09/14/11 21:50, Simon Cropper wrote: On 15/09/11 11:05, James wrote: On 09/14/11 15:55, NoOp wrote: On 09/14/2011 12:17 PM, James wrote: On 09/14/11 14:58, JOE Conner wrote: On 9/14/2011 11:07 AM, James wrote: 1. Create a new Writer document 2. Create a ne

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: merged cells in Writer (saved as Word 97/2000/xp/2003)

2011-09-14 Thread James
On 09/14/11 21:50, Simon Cropper wrote: On 15/09/11 11:05, James wrote: On 09/14/11 15:55, NoOp wrote: On 09/14/2011 12:17 PM, James wrote: On 09/14/11 14:58, JOE Conner wrote: On 9/14/2011 11:07 AM, James wrote: 1. Create a new Writer document 2. Create a new table (whatever it defaults to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: merged cells in Writer (saved as Word 97/2000/xp/2003)

2011-09-14 Thread Simon Cropper
On 15/09/11 11:05, James wrote: On 09/14/11 15:55, NoOp wrote: On 09/14/2011 12:17 PM, James wrote: On 09/14/11 14:58, JOE Conner wrote: On 9/14/2011 11:07 AM, James wrote: 1. Create a new Writer document 2. Create a new table (whatever it defaults to (but at least 2 rows)) 3. Type 'test' in

[libreoffice-users] Re: poor default config path

2011-09-14 Thread NoOp
On 09/14/2011 06:46 PM, NoOp wrote: ... > So file a bug with Arch. You can verify where the default config is > installed by: > > $ locate versionrc Correction: $ locate bootstraprc Sorry > > When you find it: > > $ cat bootstraprc > > Example: > > /opt/libreoffice/program/bootstraprc >

[libreoffice-users] Re: poor default config path

2011-09-14 Thread NoOp
On 09/14/2011 10:20 AM, Matthew Monaco wrote: > On 09/14/2011 06:47 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) Err, sorry, which platform are you on? Is that Bsd? It's >> not the path used in Gnu&Linux and i dont remember it looking like >> that in Windows either although i could easily have missed that. >>

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: merged cells in Writer (saved as Word 97/2000/xp/2003)

2011-09-14 Thread soumalya ray
working fine for me too. ubuntu lucid,LO 3.3.2 & 3.4.3 On 15 September 2011 06:35, James wrote: > On 09/14/11 15:55, NoOp wrote: > >> On 09/14/2011 12:17 PM, James wrote: >> >>> On 09/14/11 14:58, JOE Conner wrote: >>> On 9/14/2011 11:07 AM, James wrote: > 1. Create a new Writer do

Re: [libreoffice-users] Digest Format

2011-09-14 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:15:10PM -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > > I do not remember ever seeing a email based list that worked, and a > good threading/grouping system for any of the email clients I have > used. Have you looked at Alpine or Mutt? -- Bob Holtzman If yo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: merged cells in Writer (saved as Word 97/2000/xp/2003)

2011-09-14 Thread James
On 09/14/11 15:55, NoOp wrote: On 09/14/2011 12:17 PM, James wrote: On 09/14/11 14:58, JOE Conner wrote: On 9/14/2011 11:07 AM, James wrote: 1. Create a new Writer document 2. Create a new table (whatever it defaults to (but at least 2 rows)) 3. Type 'test' in the top left cell 4. Merge the 1s

[libreoffice-users] Re: Impress 3.4 prints polygons as rectangles and ovals as polygons

2011-09-14 Thread NoOp
On 09/14/2011 02:04 AM, marshals wrote: > > NoOp wrote: >> >>> I only printed page 5 from LO 3.4.3 Win7 to an Epson Workforce 635; the >>> results were not pretty. >> > Yes, and I can see you also get the extra shapes in slide 5. I wasn't > certain that those extra shapes were also bugs - my d

[libreoffice-users] (Writer) Numbering Problem - 'Restart at this paragraph'

2011-09-14 Thread T. R. Valentine
According to everything I could find online, what I'm trying should work. I looked at Bugzilla and could not find anything, so either I found a new bug, or I'm not doing something right (not ruling that out!). In a Writer document A style has been created which on the 'Outline & Numbering' tab,

RE: [libreoffice-users] .Doc security risk in MS Office (and .Rtf)

2011-09-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
This vulnerability is about a side-loading exploit that will cause a malicious DLL be used instead of a standard one. That there is an avenue to a side-loading vulnerability by placing certain documents in the same place as the DLL is an additional door being closed. Any Windows program with a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 21:58, Cor Nouws wrote: > It states that MsOffice 2007/2010 supports OOXML to a certain level and > refers to the promises that future versions will do better. > In addition, these are stated: "Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, the Office Open XML file formats have bec

[libreoffice-users] .Doc security risk in MS Office (and .Rtf)

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) LibreOffice is probably unaffected by this issue as it seems to take advantage of vulnerabilities in MS Office.  Apparently a slightly modified version of the exploit they suffered from last year can cause them problems again but there is a security patch for it in the normal MS Office up

[libreoffice-users] Re: Changing a 'hot key' assignment

2011-09-14 Thread NoOp
On 09/14/2011 09:42 AM, William W. Austin wrote: ... > HOWEVER after I moved to 3.4.3 from the older 3.3.x releases I'm > suddenly hearing a WORLD of complaints about one thing. > > The assignnment of the key to bring up search and replace. > > Basically they hate the change. > > Now instead of

[libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: Libre Office 3.4.2/3.43 crashing on saving as PDF

2011-09-14 Thread NoOp
On 09/14/2011 12:58 AM, Илиан Иванов wrote: ... > Hi there, I don't know is this the right place to send this but ... (you > know) :) It is. > I've had installed Libre Office 3.4.2 on my machine (Samsung r538 notebook - > intel core i3 processor, 4GB of RAM and 500 GB HDD, with installed Windows

[libreoffice-users] Re: merged cells in Writer (saved as Word 97/2000/xp/2003)

2011-09-14 Thread NoOp
On 09/14/2011 12:55 PM, NoOp wrote: ... > Works for me: LO 3.4.3 linux. Also tested by merging the cells in the rows. Sorry, forgot to add: LibreOffice 3.4.3 OOO340m1 (Build:302) > BTW: you might want to let us know which version of LibreOffice you are > using. -- For unsubscribe instructions

[libreoffice-users] Re: merged cells in Writer (saved as Word 97/2000/xp/2003)

2011-09-14 Thread NoOp
On 09/14/2011 12:17 PM, James wrote: > On 09/14/11 14:58, JOE Conner wrote: >> On 9/14/2011 11:07 AM, James wrote: >>> 1. Create a new Writer document >>> 2. Create a new table (whatever it defaults to (but at least 2 rows)) >>> 3. Type 'test' in the top left cell >>> 4. Merge the 1st and 2nd cells

Re: [libreoffice-users] poor default config path

2011-09-14 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Matthew, Matthew Monaco wrote (14-09-11 03:02) Why is the default config located at ~/.config/.libreoffice? I appreciate it being under .config so as not to add to the clutter of my home directory, but is the "." necessary? It's already in .config! ~/.config/libreoffice would do just fine.

Re: [libreoffice-users] merged cells in Writer (saved as Word 97/2000/xp/2003)

2011-09-14 Thread John McAtee
I used  LibreOffice 3.3.1 OOO330m19 (Build:8) tag libreoffice-3.3.1.2 to create the document and reopened in LO and MS Office 2007.  Everything worked as expected, i.e. merge not lost. My system is HP DV9910 laptop Vista sp2. John McAtee > >From: James >

Re: [libreoffice-users] merged cells in Writer (saved as Word 97/2000/xp/2003)

2011-09-14 Thread James
On 09/14/11 14:58, JOE Conner wrote: On 9/14/2011 11:07 AM, James wrote: 1. Create a new Writer document 2. Create a new table (whatever it defaults to (but at least 2 rows)) 3. Type 'test' in the top left cell 4. Merge the 1st and 2nd cells in the first column 5. SaveAs (change the format to Mi

Re: [libreoffice-users] copy from Thunderbird and paste to Calc

2011-09-14 Thread James
On 09/14/11 14:38, Hladůvka Jiří wrote: Dne 14.9.2011 19:50, James napsal(a): I want to see if this works for anyone (on another than Linux platform). 1. compose a new message in Thunderbird 2. Enter libreoffice-users Mailing List on the to line: 3. Select all the to: and copy it to the clip

[libreoffice-users] Re: copy from Thunderbird and paste to Calc

2011-09-14 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 14.09.2011 19:50, James wrote: I want to see if this works for anyone (on another than Linux platform). 1. compose a new message in Thunderbird 2. Enter libreoffice-users Mailing List on the to line: 3. Select all the to: and copy it to the clipboard 4. Create an empty spreadsheet 5. Past th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-14 Thread Cor Nouws
Dotan Cohen wrote (14-09-11 10:17) On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 23:43, Cor Nouws wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote (12-09-11 20:52) .docx != ooxml (the MsOffice 2007/2010 file format is not the standard OOXML) Not that I consider Wikipedia as an authoritative source, but this states quite clearly that i

Re: [libreoffice-users] merged cells in Writer (saved as Word 97/2000/xp/2003)

2011-09-14 Thread JOE Conner
On 9/14/2011 11:07 AM, James wrote: 1. Create a new Writer document 2. Create a new table (whatever it defaults to (but at least 2 rows)) 3. Type 'test' in the top left cell 4. Merge the 1st and 2nd cells in the first column 5. SaveAs (change the format to Microsoft Word 97/2000/xp/2003) 6. Close

[libreoffice-users] Re: Digest Format

2011-09-14 Thread Mareich
Thanks, Tom, I'll give Nabble a try. Tom wrote: > > Hi :) > I think the Nabble interface might be better than the digest for this > particular case > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/nabble-mailing-list-interface/ > It is threaded and you can get an overview of the threads written to in >

Re: [libreoffice-users] copy from Thunderbird and paste to Calc

2011-09-14 Thread Hladůvka Jiří
Dne 14.9.2011 19:50, James napsal(a): I want to see if this works for anyone (on another than Linux platform). 1. compose a new message in Thunderbird 2. Enter libreoffice-users Mailing List on the to line: 3. Select all the to: and copy it to the clipboard 4. Create an empty spreadsheet 5. P

Re: [libreoffice-users] poor default config path

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmm, i just thought.  maybe this guide might help you change the path on your machine http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel Just miss out the bits where it installs another version of LibreOffice! Something else i liked about the Arch install was the inclusion of OpenJdk

Re: [libreoffice-users] poor default config path

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it might be best to file a bug-report with Arch or Arch's tweaked LibreOffice.  The .libreoffice is a standard across 'all' GNu&Linux distros.  I think for most distros that means the path is /home/username/.libreoffice.org/3/user/ Arch seems to add an extra folder and then twea

[libreoffice-users] merged cells in Writer (saved as Word 97/2000/xp/2003)

2011-09-14 Thread James
1. Create a new Writer document 2. Create a new table (whatever it defaults to (but at least 2 rows)) 3. Type 'test' in the top left cell 4. Merge the 1st and 2nd cells in the first column 5. SaveAs (change the format to Microsoft Word 97/2000/xp/2003) 6. Close the document and then open it The m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing a 'hot key' assignment

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Just out of curiosity 1.  could the F key be re-assigned to jump into the toolbar?  Swapping the defaults around might be good as a feature-request for the longer-term too.  2.  does anyone know which sub-folder in the config those key settings are stored?  Could it be copied to a networ

[libreoffice-users] copy from Thunderbird and paste to Calc

2011-09-14 Thread James
I want to see if this works for anyone (on another than Linux platform). 1. compose a new message in Thunderbird 2. Enter libreoffice-users Mailing List on the to line: 3. Select all the to: and copy it to the clipboard 4. Create an empty spreadsheet 5. Past the clipboard in a cell It should wo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing a 'hot key' assignment

2011-09-14 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi William, William W. Austin schrieb: [..] The assignnment of the key to bring up search and replace. Basically they hate the change. Now instead of aF they have to hitF instead, and while from my background as a programmer that seems a trivial change, I have had over 70 complaints about thi

Re: [libreoffice-users] poor default config path

2011-09-14 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/14/2011 06:47 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Err, sorry, which platform are you on? Is that Bsd? It's not the path used in Gnu&Linux and i dont remember it looking like that in Windows either although i could easily have missed that. Regards from Tom :) My platform is Linux. Distributio

[libreoffice-users] Changing a 'hot key' assignment

2011-09-14 Thread William W. Austin
I have to send this on my private email for various [employment] reasons, so I can't mention where I work, but it's a large multinational corporation with a very 'conservative' public image. I have been using first star office then OOo and now LO on linux since before Sun bought it from the or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Help

2011-09-14 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
You may also want to check Ubuntu's default page size setup for that printer. If it does not match, change it and try again. Just a suggestion. On 9/14/2011 2:11 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 13/09/11 20:59, Boyd Tong a écrit : Hi Boyd, I am using Libre Office 3.3.3, Ubuntu package 1:3.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Libre Office 3.4.2/3.43 crashing on saving as PDF

2011-09-14 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
This is probably an incoming document with a format code of some type not acceptable to LibreOffice. I don't think that all codes not used by LibreOffice are stripped on opening a document. Not unwise if you wish for it to look the same from the original program. There error maybe somewhere

Re: [libreoffice-users] poor default config path

2011-09-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:02:48 -0600 Matthew Monaco wrote: Hello Matthew, > Why is the default config located at ~/.config/.libreoffice? It's in ~/.libreoffice here. Thee's not even a (sym)link to it on ~/.config/ -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad

Re: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-14 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 09/14/2011 04:14 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 22:15, Steven Shelton wrote: This is the only comment that I will make on this, and I think it's pretty self-explanatory as to why MS formats need to be supported. I work as an attorney. One of the frequent requirements from ju

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Impress: Problems with slides imported from Powerpoint

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Impress is fairly annoying although Base is much worse.  Writer and Calc are great tho :) People are actively working on Impress and it does mostly work very well but it's just got a few irritations that don't quite work perfectly.  People are working on it, apparently, so it will improve

Re: [libreoffice-users] poor default config path

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Err, sorry, which platform are you on?  Is that Bsd?  It's not the path used in Gnu&Linux and i dont remember it looking like that in Windows either although i could easily have missed that. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 14/9/11, Matthew Monaco wrote: From: Matthew Monaco Subject: [l

Re: [libreoffice-users] Digital signing MS format documents

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) How about licensing under a Creative Commons licence so that people know it's a protected document? http://creativecommons.org/ Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 14/9/11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions Subject: Re: [libreoffic

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Libre Office 3.4.2/3.43 crashing on saving as PDF

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If you use Nabble to look at this email thread then you can "Reply" and choose "More Options" to upload the file to there.  This is a public mailing list so if it's at all confidential or contains people's names & addresses or anything like that then do not upload the file :) The mailing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Libre Office 3.4.2/3.43 crashing on saving as PDF

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Your English was fine.  Lol.  We don't normally "Save As ..." to pdf.  Have you tried File - "Export as Pdf" Make sure the top option "PDF/A-1a" is UNticked as that has caused a few problems.  By default it is usually unticked anyway so that should be fine.  It shouldn't be crashing.  If

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Libre Office 3.4.2/3.43 crashing on saving as PDF

2011-09-14 Thread Carlo Strata
Have you tried to *export* (not save or save as) *your original .doc file* to .pdf on *other* systems (Windows, linux, MacOS X; 32 and 64 bit)? Without installing "universal document converter (udc.exe)"? If not, could you try it and make we know? If the file content is free of privacy rules,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Libre Office 3.4.2/3.43 crashing on saving as PDF

2011-09-14 Thread Илиан Иванов
I'm from Bulgaria not from Greece. Anyway it's not the language I'm concerned (actually I think my post is understandable enough) but the problem I'm describing and is it going to be fixed in the next release of the 3.4 series 2011/9/14 Tom Davies > Hi :) > I haven't read your post yet but you c

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Libre Office 3.4.2/3.43 crashing on saving as PDF

2011-09-14 Thread Brian Barker
From: Tom Davies Sent: Wednesday, 14 September 2011, 11:01 >I haven't read your post yet but you can try asking in your own language.  Is >it Greek?   With a name like Ilian Ivanov, expressed in Cyrillic, not Greeek, characters, that's probably unlikely!   Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Libre Office 3.4.2/3.43 crashing on saving as PDF

2011-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I haven't read your post yet but you can try asking in your own language.  Is it Greek?  If so there is another list you might be able to use in addition to this one http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Local_Mailing_Lists#Greek Whichever one gives the best answer please give a link to that a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Impress 3.4 prints polygons as rectangles and ovals as polygons

2011-09-14 Thread marshals
NoOp wrote: > >> I only printed page 5 from LO 3.4.3 Win7 to an Epson Workforce 635; the >> results were not pretty. > Yes, and I can see you also get the extra shapes in slide 5. I wasn't certain that those extra shapes were also bugs - my daughter insisted she had not created those shapes at

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 23:18, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Yes, there are deviations. I even remember threads about LibO files > failing ODF validation. > > But, as LibreOffice is free software, its source is open. So people who > want to find out how exactly are LibO ODF files generated can check the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 23:43, Cor Nouws wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote (12-09-11 20:52) > >> One team at MS works on MS Office, another on the OOXML standard. > > .docx != ooxml > (the MsOffice 2007/2010 file format is not the standard OOXML) > Not that I consider Wikipedia as an authoritative sourc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 22:15, Steven Shelton wrote: > This is the only comment that I will make on this, and I think it's > pretty self-explanatory as to why MS formats need to be supported. > > I work as an attorney. One of the frequent requirements from judges is > that we deliver copies of our

[libreoffice-users] Fwd: Libre Office 3.4.2/3.43 crashing on saving as PDF

2011-09-14 Thread Илиан Иванов
-- Forwarded message -- From: Илиан Иванов Date: 2011/9/14 Subject: Libre Office 3.4.2/3.43 crashing on saving as PDF To: us...@libreoffice.org Hi there, I don't know is this the right place to send this but ... (you know) :) I've had installed Libre Office 3.4.2 on my machine (S