[libreoffice-users] UPDATE: looking for sdw-compatible, Linux version of Libre Office
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 09:09:11 AM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: The document converter finds the files, then crashes with this error: Basic Runtime error. An exception occurred. Type:com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException Message: [msci_uno bridge error] unexpected C++ exception occured!. just found out that disabling the generation of a log file makes this error disappear and the conversion terminate (AFAICT, after opening some randomly chosen converted files) successfully. Pointers to a Linux version and/or how to fix that bug still welcome, in case I need to do this again... any pointer to a linux version of lo 3.3, which hopefully may not have that problem, and in any case would be easier to work with (editing macros rendered with wine's idea of libreoffice fonts = terrible) is very welcome. Ditto for tips on how to fix that macro by hand. thanks, Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] looking for sdw-compatible, Linux version of Libre Office
Greetings, I need to convert some old starwriter files (.sdw, sdd, .sdc extensions) I understand the solution consists of temporarily installing (or running off an usb key) the last version of LO that supported those formats. However, the only such version I have found so far is the one for Windows at http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/3.3.4.1/portable/ That version only works through wine, which is annoying but bearable for a one-time task, but above all doesn't work. The document converter finds the files, then crashes with this error: Basic Runtime error. An exception occurred. Type:com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException Message: [msci_uno bridge error] unexpected C++ exception occured!. any pointer to a linux version of lo 3.3, which hopefully may not have that problem, and in any case would be easier to work with (editing macros rendered with wine's idea of libreoffice fonts = terrible) is very welcome. Ditto for tips on how to fix that macro by hand. thanks, Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] looking for sdw-compatible, Linux version of Libre Office
Hi :) Does anyone know of an Extension that can add back this support for the pre-ODF formats? Is it worth posting a 'big-report' asking the devs if any of them could make such an Extension? Regards from Tom :) On 16 December 2013 08:09, M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net wrote: Greetings, I need to convert some old starwriter files (.sdw, sdd, .sdc extensions) I understand the solution consists of temporarily installing (or running off an usb key) the last version of LO that supported those formats. However, the only such version I have found so far is the one for Windows at http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/3.3.4.1/portable/ That version only works through wine, which is annoying but bearable for a one-time task, but above all doesn't work. The document converter finds the files, then crashes with this error: Basic Runtime error. An exception occurred. Type:com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException Message: [msci_uno bridge error] unexpected C++ exception occured!. any pointer to a linux version of lo 3.3, which hopefully may not have that problem, and in any case would be easier to work with (editing macros rendered with wine's idea of libreoffice fonts = terrible) is very welcome. Ditto for tips on how to fix that macro by hand. thanks, Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] looking for sdw-compatible, Linux version of Libre Office
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 08:50:26 AM +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Does anyone know of an Extension that can add back this support for the pre-ODF formats? an actual extension means taking that old source code and remaking/maintaining it compatible with all the rest of the current, ever-evolving LO code. IIUC the wish to NOT have to do that anymore is exactly the reason why that compatibility was dropped, so that's a dead end. But it isn't necessary. I'd settle without any second thought for a stand-alone, single-purpose converter: take lo 3.3.4.1, remove EVERYTHING, starting from the complete user interface, except all and only the code that makes the conversion wizard window and its buttons/fields/checkboxes, and what's needed to run from the command line only keep what's left compilable/installable on Linux, Windows, whatever. Marco -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Internet pages
Hello Some internet pages (namely those of wikipedia) de-configure when pasting onto a text document. This typically happens with formulae. Is there any way around the problem? Regards, Rui C. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.1.3
Hi :) I think the example might not have been a good one but the point was valid. There are a ton of features that almost no-one will ever use and some that almost no-one would miss. On the other hand sometimes people stumble onto a feature they would never have thought about and from then on find it immensely useful. With MS Office it's been postulated that around 80% of the features almost never get used. Of the remaining 20% some never gets used by some people and other parts never (or rarely) get used by others. I'm not sure if there has been a formal study to prove it or to get precise percentages. From what i see around me in most offices i would say that it's more like 95% never gets used until people have been on training courses and maybe start making more use of less obvious features. I am not sure what the percentages would be for LibreOffice or OpenOffice but the idea of having Extensions to keep obscure functionality available but out of the way of most people seems a brilliant way of handling it and enables companies to have their special in-house extras less tied to a single instance of a single program. Hmmm, all this is wy off-topic for this thread though! Regards from Tom :) On 16 December 2013 02:13, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 12/15/2013 08:58 PM, som wrote: On Sun, 15/12/13, Anton anto...@gmx.de wrote: Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.1.3 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 15 December, 2013, 3:19 AM The actual computer magazine c't compared OpenOffice and LibreOffice and come to the result that the new versions of LibreOffice (4.1.x) had more features than OpenOffice. (but often unneeded like the work counting ... never understodd who needs such features I never was asked how many words a my document contains) --snip-- actually i am very glad to the devs for the word count feature. most of the indexed journals (eg, lancet, bmj, nje etc) specifically mention the number of words your document should contain. e.g, abstract of the article should be within 300 words; original article 3000 words and like that. so, word counting feature is definitely not unneeded for me! regards, I know of a few writers and an editor. Having to have access to a word count option could really help. We pay you for 3,500 words and you give up 3,450 - not good, not good. Of course then you use the word count to help with the final book size. An average of 300 words per page for a hard cover and between 260 and 350 pages in the book is a good guide, but having a true word count would be better. Your manuscript almost never will have the same page, paragraph, and text formating as the finalized book from the publisher. Having every tool that helps you write in the format and the size that you editor and publisher wants/needs can be very important for a beginning author. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc 4.1.3.2 410 crashes on Fedora 19
Thanks Tom for clarification. R On 2013-12-14 00:43, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Sorry, i thought you were using a GnuLinux. Windows doesn't have that sort of feature. Perhaps just try reinstalling a newer version of LibreOffice instead? Let us know how that goes, especially if any error messages pop-up Apols and regards from Tom :) On 13 December 2013 02:47, rost52 bugquestcon...@online.de wrote: Hi Tom, thanks for the hint but could you please help me on how I have to do what your proposed. My IT knowledge seems to be insufficient. First maybe let me know what a package manager is and how to start it in XP. R On 2013-12-11 19:03, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Maybe a dependancy problem somewhere? Can you get one of your package managers to fix broken packages or check for errors? Regards from Tom :) On 10 December 2013 15:43, rost52 bugquestcon...@online.de wrote: Hi , I observed crashes of v4.1.3.2 on XP/SP3 when opening certain calc files. I could not trace the cause of the problem. Changing of the user profile did not help. Additionally I observed crashes when I changed page formats in the format window (F11). Changing to default or customized page formats caused Writer to crash. I had to give up 4.1.3.2 and went back 4.0.6 just. In 4.0.6 I don't observe any of these above problems. But I miss a few new features of 4.1.3.2... On 2013-12-06 10:57, Peter Langfelder wrote: Hi all, curious if anyone else noticed this - after last update a few days ago that also updated libreoffice, calc crashes upon startup or when opening documents. That is, starting libreoffice without any arguments works, but starting a new spreadsheet or opening a spreadsheet file (.ods) or running calc from command line crashes. The crash does not produce any useful debugging information, I only get a message saying [1]+ Exit 135libreoffice and ABRT reports signal 7 (SIGBUS). I wonder whether this is unique to my machine or whether others can also observe it. I am running a fully updated Fedora 19, $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 3.11.9-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 20 21:22:24 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux and libreoffice --version reports LibreOffice 4.1.3.2 410(Build:2) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 win32 seems to have a dotted right Start Screen (Draw, Database, ... side)
Hi Everyone, yesterday afternoon I install LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 win32 (ITA guied and ITA local help) on my Windows 8.1 (64 bit, updated, ITA guied, AMD Catalyst 13.9, A8 CPU + AMA dual graphics). It seems to have a dotted _right_ Start Screen (Draw, Database, ... side): if you take a look with attention you will see a regular dotted mesh. Its color is only slightly clearer than the central background. I haven't seen at all it in the past time...: is it correct or there were some bug, some runout? If you need I could attach the snapshot in Nabble... Have a nice day, Carlo -- ing. Carlo Strata - via Botticelli 1/4 30031 Dolo - VE Italia - Italy - tel./fax +39.041.822.0665 cell. +39.347.85.69.824 Skype carlo.strata Google carlo.strata.69 - carlo.str...@tiscali.it PEC: carlo.str...@ingpec.eu -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: saving documents written in Thai
Part of this Font FAQ was discussed in another thread. It would be a very good idea to have the language settings information, and the associated fonts, listed in a wiki page [for now] so our users who use both Latin and non-Latin based languages would have an easier time setting up their package for those languages. There was a discussion of adding more fonts to the install of LO. It was suggested that there could be a section/page[s] somewhere showing a list of good free fonts that has the needed languages and how to use them [i.e. set up to use them] with LO to write documents in those languages. There are many fonts out there that work well for Thai and other non-Latin based writings, but sometimes it may be difficult for our users to find the proper fonts and set up LO to use them for their documents. Having a list of free fonts and the languages they support [graph or table] could be very helpful to some of our users. Also, having an explanation on how to set up the language options in LO would be a very good idea at the top of such a list of fonts. This thread seems to indicate that more work in needed to make the setup of different non-Latin based languages within an LO install is needed. How do I get my document to work with the language and be about to edit and print the document correctly using that language. Having the list of fonts that include the Thai language scripts/glyphs hopefully was helpful to the user. If we could expand the list into some type of table where the rows are the free fonts [maybe paid one that came with the OS] and the columns are the languages supported within the fonts, it may help guide our user to which fonts work well for which languages. If you are a English and French speaking person that is learning a non-Latin based language, having a list of fonts that support that language is a needed item. To be honest, I do not use any other language but my native English. But if we get LO in schools/colleges, the students will need to use LO to write in other Latin and non-Latin based languages, while using English for the menus. Having both simple and detailed information on how to set up LO to support all of these languages would be very helpful. Having a documentation, like the solution in this thread, showing the user how to set up a non-Latin based language to be used by the user can be very important to the user. It seems that the current documentation may not be where it is needed, if this thread is any indication. But we can always make it better within the wiki page environment. On 12/16/2013 06:27 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Would that 1st post by CVAlkan be good for the wiki? Where? In the Faq? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq Should we forwards that post to the Documentation Team? Regards from Tom :) On 16 December 2013 02:05, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 12/15/2013 06:07 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: On 12/15/2013 10:16 AM, CVAlkan wrote: Dale: To type and save documents in both Thai and English, which I do quite successfully with LibreOffice and several other products, you need to understand a few things that aren't at all obvious from the documentation. At the end, I'll suggest an easy way to handle multi-lingual documents. Since your difficulty is with LibreOffice Writer, let's start there. and look at a couple things: Open a new blank document. First, go to Format | Character and take a look at the Font tab. In the top section, titled Western text font you will see the font that is currently active. The next two sections (Asian text font and CTL font) are key to understand what's going on. If your base font (the one listed in the top section) is NOT a Unicode font, or if it is a Unicode font that doesn't contain Thai characters, you will see the font that LibreOffice - in a not always successful attempt to be helpful - uses as substitutes when you type in a particular character. What happens, therefore, is that Libre Writer gives you the impression that all is wonderful even though it is doing substitutions behind your back. In itself a good thing, but sometimes leads to confusion. It also isn't very clear that Asian text font is NOT what you use for your Thai substitutions. Aside from the fact that Thai is actually an Indo-European language, the Asian text font section seems to be only applicable to languages that use ideographs (i.e. little pictures) even if they have alphabetic characters. It also relates to languages that are written vertically, although I'm not too sure about that as I don't speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese and similar languages. Now look at the CTL font section. What you want to do is to pick a font that you know supports Thai, and choose it in the CTL font section as a substitute. The font is listed first, then the size stuff, and then under Language, you would choose Thai to indicate which group of characters within the font
[libreoffice-users] I love LO 4.1.3.2
Hi, Setting up a new wheezy system and copying the LO-user-dir in my home directory, downloading the actual version of LO from the ocfficial place, I could start LO and run it as I was used to it. No key changes, no bugs, no nasty change in design etc. Even macros, dictionaries, all was working right as expected. Thats the way I love it. (In contrast to wheezy, where fundamental packages simply disappeared (capisuite), weird pop ups, new designs (from right to left, .. I still have a lot of work to do, until its my system again. Walther -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: saving documents written in Thai
Hi :) Would that 1st post by CVAlkan be good for the wiki? Where? In the Faq? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq Should we forwards that post to the Documentation Team? Regards from Tom :) On 16 December 2013 02:05, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 12/15/2013 06:07 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: On 12/15/2013 10:16 AM, CVAlkan wrote: Dale: To type and save documents in both Thai and English, which I do quite successfully with LibreOffice and several other products, you need to understand a few things that aren't at all obvious from the documentation. At the end, I'll suggest an easy way to handle multi-lingual documents. Since your difficulty is with LibreOffice Writer, let's start there. and look at a couple things: Open a new blank document. First, go to Format | Character and take a look at the Font tab. In the top section, titled Western text font you will see the font that is currently active. The next two sections (Asian text font and CTL font) are key to understand what's going on. If your base font (the one listed in the top section) is NOT a Unicode font, or if it is a Unicode font that doesn't contain Thai characters, you will see the font that LibreOffice - in a not always successful attempt to be helpful - uses as substitutes when you type in a particular character. What happens, therefore, is that Libre Writer gives you the impression that all is wonderful even though it is doing substitutions behind your back. In itself a good thing, but sometimes leads to confusion. It also isn't very clear that Asian text font is NOT what you use for your Thai substitutions. Aside from the fact that Thai is actually an Indo-European language, the Asian text font section seems to be only applicable to languages that use ideographs (i.e. little pictures) even if they have alphabetic characters. It also relates to languages that are written vertically, although I'm not too sure about that as I don't speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese and similar languages. Now look at the CTL font section. What you want to do is to pick a font that you know supports Thai, and choose it in the CTL font section as a substitute. The font is listed first, then the size stuff, and then under Language, you would choose Thai to indicate which group of characters within the font are to be used. A CTL font is what's used for substitutions when you are using an Input Method to type on the keyboard. Since there are several of these in use it's hard to tell you anything specific, but you've probably already solved that, since I presume you do some typing in English, hit some switch command, type a little Thai, then use the switch command to get back to English. By the way, the default you will often see under CTL font is one of the Hindi fonts (I presume because of Thai's ancient relation to Indian languages) - in Ubuntu, for instance, it is almost always Lohit Hindi - a font that is part of the Ubuntu installation. I used Format | Character as an example to make the explanation more clear; obviously there are similar settings in various Paragraph and Style settings as well, and they all work the same. BUT - if you want to make things really simple, you could simply use a font that has both English and Thai characters present, so no substitutions need to take place. Unfortunately there isn't a great variety of really good looking fonts (I'll list some below), but the advantage is that there are no substitutions, and the font sizes are matched more closely than would be the case with two different fonts. This is a matter of taste of course, particularly with balancing Thai and English, since Thai nees room above and below the characters for the various superscript and subscript vowels, tone marks, and such things. (these same issues are not unique to Thai of course - you'll run into them in both Hebrew and Arabic for instance). So, here are my (so far) favorite combination fonts for easily mixing Thai and English in the same document: Free Serif (Serif) Gentium Basic (Serif) xxx Gentium Book (Serif) xxx Norasi (Serif) Kinnari (Serif) Linux Libertine (developed for Linux, but works in Win) Linux Biolinium (ditto) Sawasdee (go figure...) (light Sans Serif) Droid Sans Thai (Sans Serif) Garuda (Sans Serif) Loma (Sans Serif) Umpush (Sans Serif) Waree (Sans Serif) Purisa (informal handwriting style) Tlwg Typist (mono typewriter) Obviously if there are others who use both Thai and English, I'd be interested in any of your favorite fonts. As for moving your document to other machines, Libre Office now has the ability in some versions to embed the fonts in the document file itself, but I'm not sure if all versions and all platforms can utilize the embedded fonts yet. (can anyone help here???) I hope this helps you in your search. -- Frank Many thanks for your reply. At last someone who knows
[libreoffice-users] renaming the User Profile
Hi :) I have just been looking at Firefox's online help system and noticed they have a neat way of letting pointclick users reset their UserProfile easily. Of course our wiki-page is better in some ways because it helps people figure out how to reinstate (parts of) their profile if that turns out to be fine after all. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-to-the-file-edit-and-view-menus?esab=as=Howto+view+html+codingr=0as=s Does anyone want to post that as a feature request? Regards from Tom :) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.1.3
Hi Tom,Thanks for the hint, I will do with the 4.1.4 version which is scheduled to be released this week.RPresidentthe service institute japan... the service enhancement companywww.tsij.org On 2013-12-14 00:46, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ahh, i think just go for a standard normal reinstall of 4.1.3. maybe re-download the installer to make sure that isn't the problem Regards from Tom :) On 13 December 2013 02:42, rost52bugquestcontri@online.dewrote:The fact that I had to downgrade from 4.2.3.2 to 4.0.6 due to bugs and Nino's proposal to install 2 versions parallel made my thinking that it would be very efficient to have the install wiazerd modify to use it to replace a version or install it parallel to an existing one. I am just hesitant to go trough the work of installing LibO through the command line. In my case I would install 4.0.6 (stable) and 4.1.3.2 (with some nasty bugs for me but some interesting features as well). With 2 versions I also could do easy testing for bug reports. Is there interest/support for having the installed wizard modified to enable parallel installations? On 2013-12-12 23:07, Nino Novak wrote:Am 12.12.2013 09:38, schrieb Kunwar Shivpal Singh:What would happen if I download LO 3.5.7 (already started it from Source Forge. Will there be a clash between the 2 versions? Will LO 4.1.3.2 allow me to install the older version LO 3.5.7?Kunwar, if it is of interest for you: you can install both versions in parallel - seehttps://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallelRegards, Nino-- To unsubscribe e-mail to:users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.orgProblems?http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/Posting guidelines + more:http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/NetiquetteList archive:http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] help
Hi Markus Sorry to hear that you are having problems with LibreOffice. There are quite a few issues surrounding combo boxes, list boxes and pop up buttons in LibreOffice. Even though the program has had some great improvements in the last year issues with list boxes and pop up buttons still remain to be fixed. I will try to guide you through a few steps in a hope that you at least can get something exported. I suppose it is the odt2braille extension your talking about? Go to File - Export to braille Press tab three times to get to the first pop-up button Press the down arrow twice to select PEF format (sorry VoiceOver does not announce anything but the PEF is last). At least for me the extension seems to save my last setting. Also note that PEF seems to be the only of the three available choices that disables the next pop-up button so if pressing tab takes you to a check box then you have selected the correct format. The rest of the settings in this dialog should be accessible from the VoiceOver-cursor. Let us know if you can make it work. I'm getting some exception with liblouisxml that I haven't looked into but that might be something with my specific setup. Let's hope that the improvements to Windows accessibility, that is currently going on within the project, will rub off on the accessibility improvements for other platforms as well. Regards, Niklas Johansson -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels
So I tried to look in to this and checked the measurements that I get when I create the labels and they seem to be correct. Of course it is like Virgil said there is no space before the text whereas Word ads 0,07 both to the left and the right of the text. You can easily mimic that distance by modifying the Default Style to add an Indent Before/After text of 0,07. Could you create a simple label document and mail it to me directly? Just so that I can check if you do not get different measurements the me. Sorry for not being able to get back to you sooner. Regards, Niklas Johansson Jeff Hahn skrev 2013-12-06 00:37: I use LO 4.1.3 and Windows 7. I should repeat that in my case the first 2 columns print properly (although the print starts right at the edge of the label). It is only the third (right) column that is off. Jeff Hahn From: cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:31:46 -0500 I just noticed this thread, and I have to chime in that, the last time I tried to create labels, I too noticed that the LO Avery 5160 template alignment was off. I had to adjust the contents of every cell. At that time, I was still using LO 3.5.x. I have not yet tried since upgrading to the 4.x.x range. At the time, I just installed Apache OO, as its template worked properly. If I recall correctly, I think there may have been other label templates online as extensions that worked better than LO's label template. Virgil -Original Message- From: Niklas Johansson Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 12:20 PM To: Jeff Hahn ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels So I looked at the configuration in LibreOffice 4.0.6 and LibreOffice 4.2 beta-version and the configuration seems to be correct. I even compared it to the result that I get in Word 2013 for the same label (sorry for not thinking about doing that earlier). So before I put anymore time into this it would be good to know what version of LibreOffice you used when you created the labels? Niklas Johansson Jeff Hahn skrev 2013-12-05 17:22: I think the configuration in the wizard may be wrong. The Avery 5160 has 30 labels on a 8.5 x 11 sheet each measuring 1 x 2 5/8. It is probably one of the most common labels used so I am surprised the issue hasn't previously been raised. As I indicated in my email, I didn't have any problem when I switched to Word so I am reasonably confident the issue is not related to my printer. Jeff Hahn Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:04:24 +0100 From: sleeping.pil...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels Hi Jeff Is the issue that you used lable sheets of the type Avery 5160 and that the preconfiguration for these lables were wrong? I think that I remember reading some issues with the label functionality (File - New - Label) in an earlier version of LibreOffice that might or might not be fixed in newer versions. What version of LibreOffice did you use? Do you have any specifications for the measurements of these specific labels so I can do a quick review if there seems to be any issues there? Note also that you can tweak the measurements under the Format tab of the Labels-dialog. Not that you should need to if you use labels that has a preset configuration. Kind regards, Niklas Johansson Jeff Hahn wrote 2013-12-04 16:41: I tried to do my labels for Christmas cards using LO's mail merge. I was able to create the data base and print without difficulty. Unfortunately, the entire third column was not properly spaced and printed outside of the label, a couple of spaces to the left. The first two columns were they were supposed to be. I was using standard configuration for Avery 5160. I finally gave up created the labels with Excel and Word. I am not sure where to send an email to suggest that the matter be looked into so I am sending this information to this list with the hope the matter will be picked for investigation. Also, although I suspect it has been suggested before, it would be nice to be able to do a mail merge directly from the spreadsheet without creating a database file. Jeff Hahn -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and
Re: [libreoffice-users] Internet pages
Hi :) Sorry! I'm sending this back to the list because i'm not sure if my answer will work and your reply didn't look private or anything. So is it possible to copypaste the formulae separately into the Math rather than the Writer module/app/program? Are the formulae written or are they images/photos on the web-pages? Regards from Tom :) On 16 December 2013 13:20, rncorr...@sapo.pt wrote: Hello again Sorry, what I was trying to tell is that text pastes all right (and I can give it the format I want) but scientific formulae (if in a different format from the original text) are erased or obliterated when pasting, so that they seem to be not recognized. Anyway, thanks. RuiC. Quoting Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com: Hi :) If you use Ctrl Shift v then you can choose unformatted text to remove ALL formatting. It is the opposite of what you were asking but has the advantage of being consistent with all. The idea would be to then apply your own styles to make the pages appear consistent with each other. It's a good way to harvest information in usable reports. However you were asking the exact opposite thing! ie how to ensure you RETAIN formatting from a web-page! Either way around copyright is a potential issue that you might need to consider but that is a side-issue to your question Apols and regards from Tom :) On 16 December 2013 10:33, rncorr...@sapo.pt wrote: Hello Some internet pages (namely those of wikipedia) de-configure when pasting onto a text document. This typically happens with formulae. Is there any way around the problem? Regards, Rui C. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 win32 seems to have a dotted right Start Screen (Draw, Database, ... side)
LibreOffice,_4.1.4.2,_Start_Screen.png http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4088402/LibreOffice%2C_4.1.4.2%2C_Start_Screen.png Hi Everyone, as mentioned in my previous mail, I have uploaded the dotted start screen in this mail with Nabble (compare near white right background with left one). Have a nice evening, Carlo - -- ing. Carlo Strata - via Botticelli 1/4 30031 Dolo - VE Italia - Italy - tel./fax +39.041.822.0665 cell. +39.347.85.69.824 Skype carlo.strata Google carlo.strata.69 - carlo.str...@tiscali.it PEC: carlo.str...@ingpec.eu -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-4-1-4-2-win32-seems-to-have-a-dotted-right-Start-Screen-Draw-Database-side-tp4088362p4088402.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 win32 seems to have a dotted right Start Screen (Draw, Database, ... side)
Hi :) Wow! That took me ages to spot that! I had to zoom right in before i saw the dots! On my machine the LibreOffice splash-screen it smoothly white(ish), the same as the left hand side. Does it happen with other apps or just LibreOffice? Do you get the same effect in a blank document or is it just on the splash-screen? Regards from Tom :) On 16 December 2013 18:01, carlo.strata carlo.str...@tiscali.it wrote: LibreOffice,_4.1.4.2,_Start_Screen.png http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4088402/LibreOffice%2C_4.1.4.2%2C_Start_Screen.png Hi Everyone, as mentioned in my previous mail, I have uploaded the dotted start screen in this mail with Nabble (compare near white right background with left one). Have a nice evening, Carlo - -- ing. Carlo Strata - via Botticelli 1/4 30031 Dolo - VE Italia - Italy - tel./fax +39.041.822.0665 cell. +39.347.85.69.824 Skype carlo.strata Google carlo.strata.69 - carlo.str...@tiscali.it PEC: carlo.str...@ingpec.eu -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-4-1-4-2-win32-seems-to-have-a-dotted-right-Start-Screen-Draw-Database-side-tp4088362p4088402.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 win32 seems to have a dotted right Start Screen (Draw, Database, ... side)
Hi Carlo carlo.strata wrote It seems to have a dotted _right_ Start Screen (Draw, Database, ... side): if you take a look with attention you will see a regular dotted mesh. Its color is only slightly clearer than the central background. I haven't seen at all it in the past time...: is it correct or there were some bug, some runout? Wow. I had to download the image and zoom it to see the white dots. Now that you mention it, I loaded 4.1.3.2 and it has the same dots. So it seems like a regression from the 4.0 branch (there are no dots in 4.0.6) or within the 4.1 branch. Maybe you want to report that bug/regression? :) Cheers, Pedro -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-4-1-4-2-win32-seems-to-have-a-dotted-right-Start-Screen-Draw-Database-side-tp4088362p4088412.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 win32 seems to have a dotted right Start Screen (Draw, Database, ... side)
Hi Tom! Only in the splash screen and not in the white screens... And if move the main LibreOffice window the dotted area move with it in the same way. Only with LibreOffice: I tested only in the described environment. Sunny night! :-) Carlo ing. Carlo Strata - via Botticelli 1/4 30031 Dolo - VE Italia - Italy - tel./fax +39.041.822.0665 cell. +39.347.85.69.824 Skype carlo.strata Google carlo.strata.69 - carlo.str...@tiscali.it PEC: carlo.str...@ingpec.eu Il 16/12/2013 19:33, Tom Davies ha scritto: Hi :) Wow! That took me ages to spot that! I had to zoom right in before i saw the dots! On my machine the LibreOffice splash-screen it smoothly white(ish), the same as the left hand side. Does it happen with other apps or just LibreOffice? Do you get the same effect in a blank document or is it just on the splash-screen? Regards from Tom :) On 16 December 2013 18:01, carlo.strata carlo.str...@tiscali.it wrote: LibreOffice,_4.1.4.2,_Start_Screen.png http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4088402/LibreOffice%2C_4.1.4.2%2C_Start_Screen.png Hi Everyone, as mentioned in my previous mail, I have uploaded the dotted start screen in this mail with Nabble (compare near white right background with left one). Have a nice evening, Carlo - -- ing. Carlo Strata - via Botticelli 1/4 30031 Dolo - VE Italia - Italy - tel./fax +39.041.822.0665 cell. +39.347.85.69.824 Skype carlo.strata Google carlo.strata.69 - carlo.str...@tiscali.it PEC: carlo.str...@ingpec.eu -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-4-1-4-2-win32-seems-to-have-a-dotted-right-Start-Screen-Draw-Database-side-tp4088362p4088402.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 win32 seems to have a dotted right Start Screen (Draw, Database, ... side)
Hi Pedro! I used to ask people to compare my case with their ones and then, if the bug is discovered, proceed checking and, if necessary, filing a bug. What is/are your environment/s Pedro? Nice evening, Carlo ing. Carlo Strata - via Botticelli 1/4 30031 Dolo - VE Italia - Italy - tel./fax +39.041.822.0665 cell. +39.347.85.69.824 Skype carlo.strata Google carlo.strata.69 - carlo.str...@tiscali.it PEC: carlo.str...@ingpec.eu Il 16/12/2013 19:57, Pedro ha scritto: Hi Carlo carlo.strata wrote It seems to have a dotted _right_ Start Screen (Draw, Database, ... side): if you take a look with attention you will see a regular dotted mesh. Its color is only slightly clearer than the central background. I haven't seen at all it in the past time...: is it correct or there were some bug, some runout? Wow. I had to download the image and zoom it to see the white dots. Now that you mention it, I loaded 4.1.3.2 and it has the same dots. So it seems like a regression from the 4.0 branch (there are no dots in 4.0.6) or within the 4.1 branch. Maybe you want to report that bug/regression? :) Cheers, Pedro -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-4-1-4-2-win32-seems-to-have-a-dotted-right-Start-Screen-Draw-Database-side-tp4088362p4088412.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.1.3
If you want to try 4.0.6 first, since you jumped from 3.6.x, it might be a good idea. It is at the end on that line and I use it all of the time. Sure, you can try 4.1.4 when it comes out, but 4.0.6 is very stable and you can use it as a stepping stone to the 4.1.x line. The messages about 4.1.3 being too buggy for you [or others] suggests going to 4.0.6 and not going back down to the 3.6.x line. Later, when all of the possible problems with 4.1.4 comes in, you can decide if it is ready for you to use. Still, personally, I would try 4.0.6, for now. Then look into 4.1.4 or 4.1.5 later. On 12/16/2013 06:47 AM, Dr. R. O. Stapf - the service institute japan wrote: Hi Tom,Thanks for the hint, I will do with the 4.1.4 version which is scheduled to be released this week.RPresidentthe service institute japan... the service enhancement companywww.tsij.org On 2013-12-14 00:46, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ahh, i think just go for a standard normal reinstall of 4.1.3. maybe re-download the installer to make sure that isn't the problem Regards from Tom :) On 13 December 2013 02:42, rost52bugquestcontri@online.dewrote:The fact that I had to downgrade from 4.2.3.2 to 4.0.6 due to bugs and Nino's proposal to install 2 versions parallel made my thinking that it would be very efficient to have the install wiazerd modify to use it to replace a version or install it parallel to an existing one. I am just hesitant to go trough the work of installing LibO through the command line. In my case I would install 4.0.6 (stable) and 4.1.3.2 (with some nasty bugs for me but some interesting features as well). With 2 versions I also could do easy testing for bug reports. Is there interest/support for having the installed wizard modified to enable parallel installations? On 2013-12-12 23:07, Nino Novak wrote:Am 12.12.2013 09:38, schrieb Kunwar Shivpal Singh:What would happen if I download LO 3.5.7 (already started it from Source Forge. Will there be a clash between the 2 versions? Will LO 4.1.3.2 allow me to install the older version LO 3.5.7?Kunwar, if it is of interest for you: you can install both versions in parallel - seehttps://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallelRegards, Nino-- To unsubscribe e-mail to:users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.orgProblems?http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/Posting guidelines + more:http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/NetiquetteList archive:http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] looking for sdw-compatible, Linux version of Libre Office
On 2013-12-17 07:55, M. Fioretti wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 06:51:27 AM +1300, Steve Edmonds wrote: I am using LO 3.6 because we have thousands of staroffice files. I assume you mean .sx* formats, NOT .sd* I am only talking of the second group, the original ones. Those are not recognized already in the 3.5.7.2 version of LO I'm running now. I know that there is no problem yet with .sx* formats Marco No. I mean sd*. On my desktop I have Version 3.6:build-304 (Build ID: 360m1(Build:304)) that opens and edits them fine and on the server for headless conversion I have 3.6.5. steve@server3:~ /opt/libreoffice3.6/program/soffice --headless -convert-to tmp:writer8 --outdir /home/steve/LO /home/steve/LO/OldRDCells.sdw convert /home/steve/LO/OldRDCells.sdw - /home/steve/LO/OldRDCells.tmp using writer8 Overwriting: /home/steve/LO/OldRDCells.tmp Creates a file OldRDCells.tmp which I rename to OldRDCells.odt and open fine in LO. Interesting though because in February it created the file with .odt May be the .tmp file is not an odt, can you open the attachment. Steve -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] looking for sdw-compatible, Linux version of Libre Office
On 2013-12-17 10:59, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2013-12-17 07:55, M. Fioretti wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 06:51:27 AM +1300, Steve Edmonds wrote: I am using LO 3.6 because we have thousands of staroffice files. I assume you mean .sx* formats, NOT .sd* I am only talking of the second group, the original ones. Those are not recognized already in the 3.5.7.2 version of LO I'm running now. I know that there is no problem yet with .sx* formats Marco No. I mean sd*. On my desktop I have Version 3.6:build-304 (Build ID: 360m1(Build:304)) that opens and edits them fine and on the server for headless conversion I have 3.6.5. steve@server3:~ /opt/libreoffice3.6/program/soffice --headless -convert-to tmp:writer8 --outdir /home/steve/LO /home/steve/LO/OldRDCells.sdw convert /home/steve/LO/OldRDCells.sdw - /home/steve/LO/OldRDCells.tmp using writer8 Overwriting: /home/steve/LO/OldRDCells.tmp Creates a file OldRDCells.tmp which I rename to OldRDCells.odt and open fine in LO. Interesting though because in February it created the file with .odt May be the .tmp file is not an odt, can you open the attachment. Steve Brain fade there. It creates tmp because I have -convert-to tmp:writer8. If I have -convert-to odt:writer8 it creates the odt file. That is so I don't overwrite an already converted file that may have been edited. steve -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels
I have just done my labels too - only using Avery 8165 (I just happened to have some in the drawer) It worked find, but I too found the printing started right on the edge - and I couldn't see any way to change this other than adding spaces manually. I had to add a blank line at the top for the same reason. Or is there a way that I have missed? On 5 December 2013 23:37, Jeff Hahn hahn...@outlook.com wrote: I use LO 4.1.3 and Windows 7. I should repeat that in my case the first 2 columns print properly (although the print starts right at the edge of the label). It is only the third (right) column that is off. Jeff Hahn From: cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:31:46 -0500 I just noticed this thread, and I have to chime in that, the last time I tried to create labels, I too noticed that the LO Avery 5160 template alignment was off. I had to adjust the contents of every cell. At that time, I was still using LO 3.5.x. I have not yet tried since upgrading to the 4.x.x range. At the time, I just installed Apache OO, as its template worked properly. If I recall correctly, I think there may have been other label templates online as extensions that worked better than LO's label template. Virgil -Original Message- From: Niklas Johansson Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 12:20 PM To: Jeff Hahn ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels So I looked at the configuration in LibreOffice 4.0.6 and LibreOffice 4.2 beta-version and the configuration seems to be correct. I even compared it to the result that I get in Word 2013 for the same label (sorry for not thinking about doing that earlier). So before I put anymore time into this it would be good to know what version of LibreOffice you used when you created the labels? Niklas Johansson Jeff Hahn skrev 2013-12-05 17:22: I think the configuration in the wizard may be wrong. The Avery 5160 has 30 labels on a 8.5 x 11 sheet each measuring 1 x 2 5/8. It is probably one of the most common labels used so I am surprised the issue hasn't previously been raised. As I indicated in my email, I didn't have any problem when I switched to Word so I am reasonably confident the issue is not related to my printer. Jeff Hahn Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:04:24 +0100 From: sleeping.pil...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels Hi Jeff Is the issue that you used lable sheets of the type Avery 5160 and that the preconfiguration for these lables were wrong? I think that I remember reading some issues with the label functionality (File - New - Label) in an earlier version of LibreOffice that might or might not be fixed in newer versions. What version of LibreOffice did you use? Do you have any specifications for the measurements of these specific labels so I can do a quick review if there seems to be any issues there? Note also that you can tweak the measurements under the Format tab of the Labels-dialog. Not that you should need to if you use labels that has a preset configuration. Kind regards, Niklas Johansson Jeff Hahn wrote 2013-12-04 16:41: I tried to do my labels for Christmas cards using LO's mail merge. I was able to create the data base and print without difficulty. Unfortunately, the entire third column was not properly spaced and printed outside of the label, a couple of spaces to the left. The first two columns were they were supposed to be. I was using standard configuration for Avery 5160. I finally gave up created the labels with Excel and Word. I am not sure where to send an email to suggest that the matter be looked into so I am sending this information to this list with the hope the matter will be picked for investigation. Also, although I suspect it has been suggested before, it would be nice to be able to do a mail merge directly from the spreadsheet without creating a database file. Jeff Hahn -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:
[libreoffice-users] Re: Importing .xls table into Base
julien2412 wrote Taking a look to the documentation, I read this: Exporting data from Calc into a database Select the data in the Calc worksheet. Hold the left mouse button down and drag the data that you want to turn into a database into the table area of the database browser. (see https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/e/e8/BH40-BaseHandbook.pdf) Sorry I can't find this info in the document you linked to. There are several paragraphs about linking to spreadsheets but that's all I can find. Nevertheless, thanks to both responders for the information, which proved to be what I needed. I would say that for folk coming to Base from Access, the lack of a menu option for 'import' does not help. To be fair, select/paste is more intuitive and a plus for Base. Again thanks David -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Importing-xls-table-into-Base-tp4088116p4088435.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 win32 seems to have a dotted right Start Screen (Draw, Database, ... side)
Hi Carlo carlo.strata wrote What is/are your environment/s Pedro? I tested this under Windows XP Pro x86 SP3 en_US I can't see any white dots in my Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS laptop running LO 4.1.3.2 It seems to be a Windows only bug. If you do report it, post the bugzilla link on this thread so I can confirm the bug. Cheers, Pedro -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-4-1-4-2-win32-seems-to-have-a-dotted-right-Start-Screen-Draw-Database-side-tp4088362p4088442.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels
About 5 or 6 years ago when using OpenOffice to print Christmas labels, I ran across an article about using table style labels in OpenOffice instead of the type which come with Word, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice. It is far easier to adjust the table style labels. To adjust the top spacing, simply adjust the top margin for the page. To adjust the column width, simply drag the column borders and the entire column is adjusted. At one time OpenOffice had these label templates available as an extension. I don't know if they still do or not. But they are available from World Label here: http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm They can be downloaded individually, or all together as a pdf. I've found them much easier to use and adjust, and have never used any other label templates since then. Also, when you enter the text or fields in them, the text is starts with being paced in the center of the label between the top and the bottom, and then as additional lines are added, the text of fields are automatically centered within the label itself, top to bottom. I've never used the standard templates with OpenOffice or LibreOffice since finding these. Nor have I wasted any sheets of labels because they didn't print properly. Don On 12/16/2013 05:07 PM, John Clegg wrote: I have just done my labels too - only using Avery 8165 (I just happened to have some in the drawer) It worked find, but I too found the printing started right on the edge - and I couldn't see any way to change this other than adding spaces manually. I had to add a blank line at the top for the same reason. Or is there a way that I have missed? On 5 December 2013 23:37, Jeff Hahn hahn...@outlook.com wrote: I use LO 4.1.3 and Windows 7. I should repeat that in my case the first 2 columns print properly (although the print starts right at the edge of the label). It is only the third (right) column that is off. Jeff Hahn From: cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:31:46 -0500 I just noticed this thread, and I have to chime in that, the last time I tried to create labels, I too noticed that the LO Avery 5160 template alignment was off. I had to adjust the contents of every cell. At that time, I was still using LO 3.5.x. I have not yet tried since upgrading to the 4.x.x range. At the time, I just installed Apache OO, as its template worked properly. If I recall correctly, I think there may have been other label templates online as extensions that worked better than LO's label template. Virgil -Original Message- From: Niklas Johansson Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 12:20 PM To: Jeff Hahn ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels So I looked at the configuration in LibreOffice 4.0.6 and LibreOffice 4.2 beta-version and the configuration seems to be correct. I even compared it to the result that I get in Word 2013 for the same label (sorry for not thinking about doing that earlier). So before I put anymore time into this it would be good to know what version of LibreOffice you used when you created the labels? Niklas Johansson Jeff Hahn skrev 2013-12-05 17:22: I think the configuration in the wizard may be wrong. The Avery 5160 has 30 labels on a 8.5 x 11 sheet each measuring 1 x 2 5/8. It is probably one of the most common labels used so I am surprised the issue hasn't previously been raised. As I indicated in my email, I didn't have any problem when I switched to Word so I am reasonably confident the issue is not related to my printer. Jeff Hahn Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:04:24 +0100 From: sleeping.pil...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels Hi Jeff Is the issue that you used lable sheets of the type Avery 5160 and that the preconfiguration for these lables were wrong? I think that I remember reading some issues with the label functionality (File - New - Label) in an earlier version of LibreOffice that might or might not be fixed in newer versions. What version of LibreOffice did you use? Do you have any specifications for the measurements of these specific labels so I can do a quick review if there seems to be any issues there? Note also that you can tweak the measurements under the Format tab of the Labels-dialog. Not that you should need to if you use labels that has a preset configuration. Kind regards, Niklas Johansson Jeff Hahn wrote 2013-12-04 16:41: I tried to do my labels for Christmas cards using LO's mail merge. I was able to create the data base and print without difficulty. Unfortunately, the entire third column was not properly spaced and printed outside of the label, a couple of spaces to the left. The first two columns were they were supposed to be. I was using standard configuration for Avery 5160. I finally gave up created the labels with
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels
Don, Thank you for this. I knew I had seen something like that before. LO uses a frame based label template. I agree that a table based template makes far more sense. Virgil -Original Message- From: Don C. Myers Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 7:34 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels About 5 or 6 years ago when using OpenOffice to print Christmas labels, I ran across an article about using table style labels in OpenOffice instead of the type which come with Word, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice. It is far easier to adjust the table style labels. To adjust the top spacing, simply adjust the top margin for the page. To adjust the column width, simply drag the column borders and the entire column is adjusted. At one time OpenOffice had these label templates available as an extension. I don't know if they still do or not. But they are available from World Label here: http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm They can be downloaded individually, or all together as a pdf. I've found them much easier to use and adjust, and have never used any other label templates since then. Also, when you enter the text or fields in them, the text is starts with being paced in the center of the label between the top and the bottom, and then as additional lines are added, the text of fields are automatically centered within the label itself, top to bottom. I've never used the standard templates with OpenOffice or LibreOffice since finding these. Nor have I wasted any sheets of labels because they didn't print properly. Don On 12/16/2013 05:07 PM, John Clegg wrote: I have just done my labels too - only using Avery 8165 (I just happened to have some in the drawer) It worked find, but I too found the printing started right on the edge - and I couldn't see any way to change this other than adding spaces manually. I had to add a blank line at the top for the same reason. Or is there a way that I have missed? On 5 December 2013 23:37, Jeff Hahn hahn...@outlook.com wrote: I use LO 4.1.3 and Windows 7. I should repeat that in my case the first 2 columns print properly (although the print starts right at the edge of the label). It is only the third (right) column that is off. Jeff Hahn From: cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:31:46 -0500 I just noticed this thread, and I have to chime in that, the last time I tried to create labels, I too noticed that the LO Avery 5160 template alignment was off. I had to adjust the contents of every cell. At that time, I was still using LO 3.5.x. I have not yet tried since upgrading to the 4.x.x range. At the time, I just installed Apache OO, as its template worked properly. If I recall correctly, I think there may have been other label templates online as extensions that worked better than LO's label template. Virgil -Original Message- From: Niklas Johansson Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 12:20 PM To: Jeff Hahn ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels So I looked at the configuration in LibreOffice 4.0.6 and LibreOffice 4.2 beta-version and the configuration seems to be correct. I even compared it to the result that I get in Word 2013 for the same label (sorry for not thinking about doing that earlier). So before I put anymore time into this it would be good to know what version of LibreOffice you used when you created the labels? Niklas Johansson Jeff Hahn skrev 2013-12-05 17:22: I think the configuration in the wizard may be wrong. The Avery 5160 has 30 labels on a 8.5 x 11 sheet each measuring 1 x 2 5/8. It is probably one of the most common labels used so I am surprised the issue hasn't previously been raised. As I indicated in my email, I didn't have any problem when I switched to Word so I am reasonably confident the issue is not related to my printer. Jeff Hahn Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:04:24 +0100 From: sleeping.pil...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels Hi Jeff Is the issue that you used lable sheets of the type Avery 5160 and that the preconfiguration for these lables were wrong? I think that I remember reading some issues with the label functionality (File - New - Label) in an earlier version of LibreOffice that might or might not be fixed in newer versions. What version of LibreOffice did you use? Do you have any specifications for the measurements of these specific labels so I can do a quick review if there seems to be any issues there? Note also that you can tweak the measurements under the Format tab of the Labels-dialog. Not that you should need to if you use labels that has a preset configuration. Kind regards, Niklas Johansson Jeff Hahn wrote 2013-12-04 16:41: I tried to do my labels for Christmas cards using LO's mail merge. I
Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels
Hi Virgil, They have really worked well for me. With the frame based templates, I always had trouble with the spacing on the labels changing as you would get into the bottom third of the label sheet. The frame based templates print out perfectly from top to bottom, and they are so easy to adjust. I've left similar posts when people have had issues before, but it seems very few are willing to try the table based formats. Maybe they try to use the wizard, which is not the way to set up a table based template. Don On 12/16/2013 08:11 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Don, Thank you for this. I knew I had seen something like that before. LO uses a frame based label template. I agree that a table based template makes far more sense. Virgil -Original Message- From: Don C. Myers Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 7:34 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels About 5 or 6 years ago when using OpenOffice to print Christmas labels, I ran across an article about using table style labels in OpenOffice instead of the type which come with Word, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice. It is far easier to adjust the table style labels. To adjust the top spacing, simply adjust the top margin for the page. To adjust the column width, simply drag the column borders and the entire column is adjusted. At one time OpenOffice had these label templates available as an extension. I don't know if they still do or not. But they are available from World Label here: http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm They can be downloaded individually, or all together as a pdf. I've found them much easier to use and adjust, and have never used any other label templates since then. Also, when you enter the text or fields in them, the text is starts with being paced in the center of the label between the top and the bottom, and then as additional lines are added, the text of fields are automatically centered within the label itself, top to bottom. I've never used the standard templates with OpenOffice or LibreOffice since finding these. Nor have I wasted any sheets of labels because they didn't print properly. Don On 12/16/2013 05:07 PM, John Clegg wrote: I have just done my labels too - only using Avery 8165 (I just happened to have some in the drawer) It worked find, but I too found the printing started right on the edge - and I couldn't see any way to change this other than adding spaces manually. I had to add a blank line at the top for the same reason. Or is there a way that I have missed? On 5 December 2013 23:37, Jeff Hahn hahn...@outlook.com wrote: I use LO 4.1.3 and Windows 7. I should repeat that in my case the first 2 columns print properly (although the print starts right at the edge of the label). It is only the third (right) column that is off. Jeff Hahn From: cuyfa...@hotmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:31:46 -0500 I just noticed this thread, and I have to chime in that, the last time I tried to create labels, I too noticed that the LO Avery 5160 template alignment was off. I had to adjust the contents of every cell. At that time, I was still using LO 3.5.x. I have not yet tried since upgrading to the 4.x.x range. At the time, I just installed Apache OO, as its template worked properly. If I recall correctly, I think there may have been other label templates online as extensions that worked better than LO's label template. Virgil -Original Message- From: Niklas Johansson Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 12:20 PM To: Jeff Hahn ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels So I looked at the configuration in LibreOffice 4.0.6 and LibreOffice 4.2 beta-version and the configuration seems to be correct. I even compared it to the result that I get in Word 2013 for the same label (sorry for not thinking about doing that earlier). So before I put anymore time into this it would be good to know what version of LibreOffice you used when you created the labels? Niklas Johansson Jeff Hahn skrev 2013-12-05 17:22: I think the configuration in the wizard may be wrong. The Avery 5160 has 30 labels on a 8.5 x 11 sheet each measuring 1 x 2 5/8. It is probably one of the most common labels used so I am surprised the issue hasn't previously been raised. As I indicated in my email, I didn't have any problem when I switched to Word so I am reasonably confident the issue is not related to my printer. Jeff Hahn Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:04:24 +0100 From: sleeping.pil...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels Hi Jeff Is the issue that you used lable sheets of the type Avery 5160 and that the preconfiguration for these lables were wrong? I think that I remember reading some issues with the label functionality (File - New - Label) in
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is there a risk eliminating table:number-rows-repeated attribute
Thanks for your input. Indeed it does not work, as we found out. We now convert to ODS flat XML before extracting the data. It seems to be much more reliable. Le 14/12/2013 02:45, Urmas a écrit : Maxime Bégnis: The xslt remove any table:number-rows-repeated attributes. So my question is: By doing what I describe in this procedure is there a risk to break the content of the file or to make the file not a valid ODS file? There is no other way to represent empty rows in ODF tables except explicitly declaring N empty rows; so your idea won't work. -- -- *NeoDoc* *Maxime Bégnis* max...@neodoc.biz Tél: +33 (0)4.42.52.24.20 5, rue de la Touloubre 13770 Venelles France http://www.neodoc.fr/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
