[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

2014-10-17 Thread Werner
Hi Tom, On 10/16/2014 19:31, Tom Davies wrote: ... Of course Star Office is still floating around somewhere but it doesn't bear much resemblance to LibreOffice or even OpenOffice. So it can't really count as a fork any more StarOffice never was a fork, OpenOffice forked off it and then

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: MySQL/MariaDB Native Linux connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (32 and 64 bit)

2014-10-17 Thread Stefan Gruber
Dan Lewis schrieb: Do you use the opensuse repositories for LibreOffice Yes, opensuse-factory with current LO 4.3.2.2. Stefan -- System: opensuse 12.3 - 64-bit -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: [libreoffice-users] MySQL/MariaDB Native Linux connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (32 and 64 bit)

2014-10-17 Thread shelagh.man...@gmail.com
i could try it this weekend. It will an adventure! Cheers sshelagh On 16 October 2014 02:50, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Has anyone been able to test this out yet? Is it possible to test-drive these connectors without breaking an existing database? Errr, i'm not going to be

[libreoffice-users] [Calc] image in spreadsheet not the correct size once printed

2014-10-17 Thread Rafnews
Hi, I'm working on an invoice template with 2 images included. both images are 6cm x 2,3cm but once printed images are around 5 cm length only. when i check the Page Break Preview i can see everything is fine... so where is the problem ? thx -- Best Regards Alain R. The information

[libreoffice-users] Re: SQLite on OS X

2014-10-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 15/10/2014 17:42, Hal Vaughan a écrit : Hal, You might have found this out already, but I could only obtain read access to my test sqlite dbs using the jdbc drivers and your sqlite db must exist already before you make the connection, i.e. you can't use LO to create new sqlite dbs. I would

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: MySQL/MariaDB Native Linux connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (32 and 64 bit)

2014-10-17 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/17/2014 03:00 AM, Stefan Gruber wrote: Dan Lewis schrieb: Do you use the opensuse repositories for LibreOffice Yes, opensuse-factory with current LO 4.3.2.2. Stefan Opensuse makes changes in LibreOffice before putting it in their repositories. That could be the problem. Then

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

2014-10-17 Thread James Knott
On 10/17/2014 02:29 AM, Werner wrote: Hi Tom, On 10/16/2014 19:31, Tom Davies wrote: ... Of course Star Office is still floating around somewhere but it doesn't bear much resemblance to LibreOffice or even OpenOffice. So it can't really count as a fork any more StarOffice never was a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: MySQL/MariaDB Native Linux connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (32 and 64 bit)

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Blimey!! it's good to see people taking so much more interest in Base than we would have seen even just a year ago. Just 1 prod to bump the thread was effective! I still think more people testing it on more systems could help but it's been great to see so many people respond so

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

2014-10-17 Thread Werner
On 10/17/2014 13:44, James Knott wrote: On 10/17/2014 02:29 AM, Werner wrote: Hi Tom, On 10/16/2014 19:31, Tom Davies wrote: ... Of course Star Office is still floating around somewhere but it doesn't bear much resemblance to LibreOffice or even OpenOffice. So it can't really count as a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: MySQL/MariaDB Native Linux connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (32 and 64 bit)

2014-10-17 Thread Stefan Gruber
Hi, Dan Lewis schrieb: Opensuse makes changes in LibreOffice before putting it in their repositories. That could be the problem. Then again, you should have a mysql connector in the repositories that work with the Opensuse's version of LO. Now my testing environment is a vanilla install of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Quite! :) So which is the 'new' thing? * Old existing code-base that still has remnants from a decade ago * core community of people who have been working with it, again some dating back to a decade ago (presumably from early childhood judging from some of the photos of some of them)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes. That is one of the weird things about computers. When 2 copies are made of a thing it can be impossible to identify one as being the original. It's also possible to have weird cases where the original is the one that has least of it's 'original' qualities left and the newer one

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

2014-10-17 Thread Urmas
Tom Davies: Of course Star Office is still floating around somewhere but it doesn't bear much resemblance to LibreOffice or even OpenOffice. That's not true. Most of LO code is leftover from Staroffice days, including German variable names and comments. Most of the functionality (and bugs)

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

2014-10-17 Thread Werner
Hi Tom, Definitely don't want to redefine the term 'fork' as used in software development, it is well defined here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29 I was responding to your comment in this thread. Of course Star Office is still floating around somewhere but it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, nice bit of comedy there! Thanks for making me laugh :) Regards from Tom :) On 17 October 2014 04:20, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: Tom Davies: Of course Star Office is still floating around somewhere but it doesn't bear much resemblance to LibreOffice or even OpenOffice.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

2014-10-17 Thread Felmon Davis
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Werner wrote: But I should have said: StarOffice which later became OpenOffice and then LibreOffice forked off OpenOffice. In other words it is the 'new' thing which is a 'fork' and the 'original' stays the original:). I think we flogged this to death:) Werner so

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Calc] image in spreadsheet not the correct size once printed

2014-10-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Err, a fit to 1 page or scaling thing set in printer properties or page settings or something? Sometimes printers are unhappy when you ask them to print things within 3-5mm of the edge of a piece of paper so they kindly try to protect you from yourself by either shrinking the whole thing a

Re: [libreoffice-users] date acceptance patterns not sticking

2014-10-17 Thread Mark Bourne
bunk3m wrote: Thanks so much for taking time to answer my question. I never thought about the 12.6 issue messing up the decimal number format as it never happened in Excel. As I've moved over to using LO, I've learned some Excel behaviours really don't translate very well. A bit more below.