[libreoffice-users] remote display

Dear LO-community, I would like to run LO on my server and access this LO from a client via b@client: ssh -X a@server libreoffice file.odt File.odt sits at the server. This runs indeed libreoffice writer on the server, however the display shows up at the server screen. So I tried b@client:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Update a mailmerge file

Wkipedia english does not mention libre/openoffice in "Mail merge" at all, the german Version at least openoffice for "Serienbrief". Could someone more apt than I make an addendum? Have a good tiem with LO Walther Am Sonntag, 15. August 2021 schrieb Michael H: > (unrelated to your last

Re: [libreoffice-users] For macro: how to get current display (keyboard) language?

Try shell command I use it with many usefull scripts Walther Am Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2016 schrieb Cor Nouws: > Hi Kamil, > > Kamil Landa wrote on 03-10-16 12:40: > > How to get the current language using on keyboard (actual display > > language) in Libreoffice Basic? I want to create macro for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Compatibility of LO Base with Access databases

My doctors office uses a dBase based system for administration, keeping patient records and so on. It has integrated LO for many purposes, i.e. medical letters. As I was told, reading those dbf files using scripts is easy (dbf_dump), modifying dbf files from outside the program however tedious,

Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt)

Hallo, look at your *.txt file: the previously hidden formated text appears as plain string. enjoy LO Am Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2016 schrieb Luuk: > On 03-05-16 19:13, Walther Koehler wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2016 schrieb Bruce Hohl: > >>> Do y

Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt

Hi Piet, your makro is ingenious, short and effective, it does the job, than you very much, I am happy. Walther Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 schrieb Piet van Oostrum: > Walther Koehler wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 schrieb Piet van Oostrum: > > > Walther Koehler wrote: &

Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt

Hi Piet, superb, a makro! I will try it later on. Walther Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 schrieb Piet van Oostrum: > Walther Koehler wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 schrieb Piet van Oostrum: > > > Walther Koehler wrote: > > > > Thank you. > > > >

Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt)

y a sequence of commands that you could use. I posted the tag, which I think is the relevant, before: > >>> blabla I assume "P2" refers to printable, suppressing output on paper. if you have a simple command line > > On Tue, 3 May 2016, Walther Koehler wrote: > > Hi R

Fwd: Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt

Hi Piet, because your makro left over empty paragraph marks I added a few lines. Walther -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt Date: Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2016 From: Walther Koehler

Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt)

xt document should do this. > > > > > > The only one I know that still exists is Notepad - once placed > > > on all MsFt machines, but now not; > > >I still have it - saved from my older machine - & would be > > > > glad > > > > > to up

Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt)

a very powerful editor. Walther > > - Robert > > On Tue, 3 May 2016, Walther Koehler wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2016 schrieb Bruce Hohl: > >> > Do you have some advice how to remove the hidden (hard-)formatted text > >> >

Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt)

wrote: > > > > If you're referring to eliminating the formatting, then I think > > > > > you'll have a non-formatted document; > > >if so, then using a simple text document should do this. > > > > > > The only one I know th

[libreoffice-users] no option to replace hidden formated text

Hallo, replacing text with respect to a lot of properties is easy in LO. However the replace function does not offer to find and replace hidden formated strings. Has anybody an idea, why this is impossible? Walther -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt

if you so wish. > > > > From: Walther Koehler <walther.koeh...@posteo.de> > Date: Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:54 AM > Subject: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > > > Dear LO users, > > I would like to give aw

[libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt

Dear LO users, I would like to give away *.odt files without hidden formated text. Do you have some advice how to remove the hidden (hard-)formatted text in a simple way? Is it possible by a macro? (I am aware that you can make hidden text invisible and print the file without hidden text on

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO-Base - Autoreconnect

Hello list, me too would like to have a reconnect: When LO-Base the first connection to a dBase database (directory) has made, all the existing *.dbf files in that directory are recognized and shown as tables in *.odb. However, if you add manually or by a third party program another *.dbf, it

[libreoffice-users] How to close *.dbf files in a Base (makro)

Hello list, high Andrew Pitonyak, After an SQL UPDATE in a makro, the updated *.dbf is still marked as open (in LINUX see fuser *.dbf), until the last instance of LO is closed. This is nasty, because I have usually many files open and want ot access the *.dbf by other progs. How do I close that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: mimetype=text/csv opened in writer

in Linux call file to see what the system assumes for mimetype. Have a good day. Am Mittwoch, 16. September 2015 schrieb Cley Faye: > 2015-09-16 10:50 GMT+02:00 Kamil Jońca : > > Are there any rules which decide "this csv is to open with writer, and > > that by calc?" > > ​On what

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheets

Hi Richard, its in german and made for physicians, but it might give you an idea, how to set up such a spreadsheet: http://resmedicinae.sourceforge.net/manuals/EUR/eur.html GNU Free Documentation License Yours Walther Am Montag, 15. Juni 2015 schrieb Mike Scott: On 15/06/15 08:45, Richard

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux

High Eric, thank you for that information. I was trying to get a speech recognition system running for some time. I have been using the IBM-line of speech recognition ViaVoice/Nuance under Win98 with some success. Now, I planned to use it in VirtualBox. -Do you have experience with ViaVoice,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

Hi Tom, I am using intensively shell scripts for example to look up printing dates in a large number of files. With a few lines of code (and with sed an unzip) one can quickly extract the information from .odt files due to the well defined format. Yours W. K. orAm Donnerstag, 20. November

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing Reports from BASE

Hi Peter just another proposal: sub printreport() Dim oDoc as Object Dim arg(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue oDoc=ThisComponent arg(0).name = Name arg(0).value = myprinter oDoc.printPages(arg()) end sub Yours Walther Am Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2014 schrieb Peter Goggin: On

Re: [libreoffice-users] Need help with Base

Hallo Wolfgang, hallo LO-users may I ask a question in line with that thread: a few month ago, I failed installing LO-base with PostgreSQL-DB when I stumbled over the input request URL of data source ? Help will not help. I suppose something like sdbc:postgresql:dbfile is wanted, however

[libreoffice-users] spadmin GUI will be removed

High folks, just read that the spadmin printer administration tool is to be removed in future releases of LO. I rely on that tool, especially because GNU/Debian cups has only this awful slow and unpractical browser interface and since KDE removed the kcmshcell printers facility. In a small

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using LibreOffice on the command line to batch convert .htm files to .html files

Hi Tom, a little warning (GNU/Linux): Dont use headless soffice while soffice is running in a visible window. It might screw up your window dimensions, when opening the next window i.e. in writer. I had soffice headless run by a script in the background for faxes and it drove me crazy. Now I

Re: [libreoffice-users] comment-807

Hi Tom, my comment would be: Shouldnt we speak a common language? when talking to your government, would you like to be forced to speak a certain dialect and even pay for that? And the dialect is changing once and again without notice by the people, who are charging you. As our English is a

Re: [libreoffice-users] comment-807

Hi Jim sure you and anybody can use it - with no license fees :-) Walther Am Freitag, 28. Februar 2014 schrieb Jim Seymour: On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:12:13 +0100 Walther Koehler w.koeh...@onlinemed.de wrote: [snip] As our English is a free and open standard independent of company

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: “No default printer found. Please choose a printer and try again”

Hi Tom and list, recreating the user profile might work, but sometimes one would like to know what is wrong. So, is there a manual explaining the format of registrymodifications.xcu Which part of LO is modifying the file? (I have the problem that calling LO by a command line headless while

[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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Scaling with respect to display resolution

Hi Matthias + all users, I had a problem possibly related to your problem with the display size of a writer document working with kde/gnu-Linux. It seems, as when any .odt file stores the size of the window in the file. However, if you start (while libreoffice is running) soffice --writer

[libreoffice-users] usable area in writer window

Hi, using the print layout only part of the screen area limited by the scales is used for the printable (white) area for text input. In my case with magnification set to 100% there is horizontally a 269 mm shaded stripe on the right, the available writable area has 261 mm width and on the left

Re: [libreoffice-users] writer macro record function missing

Hi, look up extra/options/libreoffice/extended W.K. Am Samstag, 3. August 2013 schrieb MissKeating: Using LO-writer Version 3.6.1.2 (Build ID: e29a214), the unhelpful help says that in order to record a macro, one should: Choose *Tools - Macros - Record Macro*. Under *Tools - Macros --

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3

Hi Amit, I am very much appreciate your opinion and it is absolutely true. As a user a rather want to have these little nasty bugs eliminated, still in LO. (i.e. spelling correction, ..). You dont need to reinvent the wheel every month. Atlhough I work in totally different business, I made the

[libreoffice-users] LO crash switching from page view

Hallo, please confirm my observation: Create a writer document with first page consisting of paragraph marks, half of them hard formatted hidden, on 2nd page single letter i.e. A. Switching to page view shows the A in the middle of a single page, when switching back to normal edit mode LO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Automatic sizing of documents in single window

Hi, I have a question in that context: How does LO (writer) determines the window size while opening a file? I know, that one can set the page size and found, that LO stores in some way the window size of a file for display. However, this is overridden when I run LO in command line mode (for

[libreoffice-users] LO crash switching from page view

Here a more precise formulation of my former posting: Hallo, please confirm my observation: Create a writer document with first page consisting of simply one paragraph mark per line, the lower half of them hard formatted hidden, on 2nd page single letter i.e. A. Switching to page view shows

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing problems

Hi, if you are with cups on Debian or similar configuration use lpoptions your_printer -o media=A4 in a shell script Walther Am Dienstag, 23. Juli 2013 schrieb Tom Davies: Hi :) I find that tricky too actually.  Everyone in this country seems to have their printers configured to print on

Re: [libreoffice-users] spelling correction

Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013 schrieb Steve Edmonds: On 2013-07-12 05:21, Fred James wrote: Walther Koehler wrote: Salute, LO-fans, I have a problem with spell check: given: This is a rong sntence with man mistokes. spell check f7 marks with a red underline what should

Re: [libreoffice-users] spelling correction

Hi Tom, thanks a lot A laugh a day keeps the doctor away. be careful when correcting laugh Walther Am Freitag, 12. Juli 2013 schrieb Tom Davies: Hi :) Top left box of the spell-check dialogue-box shows the context of the spelling mistook.  It lets me edit in there and then i click the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spelling correction

Hi Tink, I dont understand? Could you not reproduce my obervation? I used LO 4.0.4.2 and hard formats will be erased. Walther Am Freitag, 12. Juli 2013 schrieb Tinkerer: Walther In LO 4.04.2 there is no alteration of Bold type. Your other error involving the added m is still there though.

[libreoffice-users] spelling correction

Salute, LO-fans, I have a problem with spell check: given: This is a rong sntence with man mistokes. spell check f7 marks with a red underline what should be changed. So far so well. but 1) When adding manually w before rong and pressing change, spell check will jump back to the start of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] spelling correction

Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013 schrieb Fred James: Walther Koehler wrote: Salute, LO-fans, I have a problem with spell check: given: This is a rong sntence with man mistokes. spell check f7 marks with a red underline what should be changed. So far so well. but 1) When

Re: [libreoffice-users] msgbox with timeout

Hi, while using linux/kde you could use makro command shell() to call a shell script (bash) to run kdialog. Walther Am Montag, 17. Juni 2013 schrieb Vieri: Hi, I'd like to know how to write a macro that displays a message box for x seconds and closes without user interaction. msgbox or

[libreoffice-users] command line printing changes registry

Dear LO-friends, soffice -p test.odt prints fine, but changes in registrymodifications.xcu .. SetupFactory .. TextDocument the horizontal window size (in my case from 1016 to 697) Thereafter, all other odt-files will open in a running instnce with a reduced sized window. Nasty, when

Re: [libreoffice-users] spelling + grammar checker in writer

Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2013 schrieb webmaster-Kracked_P_P: On 02/02/2013 07:30 AM, Walther Koehler wrote: Hello web-m, hello list, Thank you for your reply. I am using / have been using different Linux Debian Versions and OO from 2.* on up to LO 3.5.3 and I have seen no different behaviour

[libreoffice-users] spelling + grammar checker in writer

Hi folks, I am using the spelling and grammar checker quite often. However, there are some nasty drawbacks (in all versions of OO and LO I know): - any manual correction outside the (red marked) word will result in either reevaluation of the whole paragraph, loss of hard formats in that

[libreoffice-users] writer table bug?

Hallo and a happy New Year to all, especially for the developers of LO, and good health to them, so that they can keep up with their marvellous work. Debian Lenny, KDE, LO 3.5.5.3 (and earlier versions) I encountered a reproducible error using LO-writer table: Take a simple 4x4 writer table

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Collate print option not working

Hi, Debian 5, CUPS, Brother HL6050D I solved printing problems by 1) add a cups-filter to the ppd, that manipulates the final postscript file (in my case I added a PJL reset command) 2) use a basic makro (see oo bug 88333) arg(1).name=Collate arg(1).value=true arg(0).name=CopyCount

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ending a document

Hi, no rule without exception: I never was able to find out which special sequence gives rise to this error: Deleting the content of the last cell in a writer table, the paragraph mark of that cell is deleted, such that no content can be added in that cell. Usually, shortly afterwards writer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ending a document

to be the case for LO as well. In your case, deleting content in **any** cell should not delete the paragraph within the cell. It sounds like deleting the contents deletes all reference to the cell in the XML. It may seem that it is there, but it is not. --Dan On 11/21/2012 09:15 AM, Walther

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

Hi, in my office as a medical pracitioner, I probably had the same situation but sized down as Freiburg is having while switching to OO/LO. Yes, I had a lot of work invested into forms, autotexts, dictionary and many makros (Fachanwendungen) to be used with Word2000 and Access2.0+Works. Yes,

[libreoffice-users] crash

Hallo, I am using Libreoffice 3.5.5.3 as provided by the Document Foundation. on Debian lenny. Old documents generated by Word2000 (*.doc) are well converted to odf 1.2. However when viewing those *.odt in page view an switching back to -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux

Hi, if you drop Basic as a makro language in writer, you will drop me as a makro user, and maybe even as a LO user. It gives me the freedom to automatize much of my daily tasks without learning another high level language. And when I want to use GNU/Linux system functions I use extensiveley

Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux

Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux Date: Montag, 15. Oktober 2012 From: Walther Koehler w.koeh...@onlinemed.de To: users@global.libreoffice.org Hi, if you drop Basic as a makro language in writer, you will drop me as a makro

[libreoffice-users] loadComponentfromUrl

Hi, When I open a document in writer (by menu/open or recently used or new), it opens a frame with full window size. bingo. When I open the same document via a basic makro using loadComponentfromUrl(sURL, _blank, 0, args()) it opens in a frame maximised vertically but not horizontally. All

[libreoffice-users] How to determine FilterName of loaded document?

Hi, how to find out the FilterName of a loaded document? (other than try to save under and look what is marked) I would like to find it by a Basic Makro, but didnt find a hint even in Andrew Pitonyaks marvellous guide. a sequelae: Does anybody know, how a document is stored in memory? Is it

[libreoffice-users] Open in maximized window

Hi, file/new/textdocument (strg-n) - opens a maximized (empty) window. file/open/ - opens the file in a vertically but not horizontally maximized window. even when it has been stored as maximized before. LO =3.5 writer GNU/Debian KDE (never such thing in OO) What is wrong? Where is the switch?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open in maximized window

High Andreas, Am Freitag, 10. August 2012 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 10.08.2012 08:53, Walther Koehler wrote: file/new/textdocument (strg-n) - opens a maximized (empty) window. file/open/ - opens the file in a vertically but not horizontally maximized window. even when it has been stored

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice 3.6

Hi, thanks for the hints where to find the macro recorder in 3.5.5. to me, its a very useful to tool and helped a lot, to learn how macros work. In some cases its the only chance to get something work by use of the dispatcher. Please keep it in the future. Walther Am Mittwoch, 8. August

Re: [libreoffice-users] auto-text menu

Hallo List, using autotext extensively, I found that replacing an item is rather slow. One has to search the item to be replaced by mouse or repeated key strokes. It would be easier, to type the name or shortcut and have the item to be replaced marked in the list of exiting items. Find always

Re: [libreoffice-users] different X-Displays

Hi, our scenario: several clients use via ssh the same user-account and run a common prog client1$ ssh -X user@server prog client2$ ssh -X user@server prog ... Every client starts its own instance of prog and get the output on the clients screen. However client1$ ssh [-X] user@server

Re: [libreoffice-users] We want to create a questionnaire...

Hi, sometimes filling out a form I would like to 1) scan the form 2) open a document 3) put the form in the background (as a water mark?) 4) type the answers at the appropriate positions 5) print the whole thing. I could a imagnie writing a makro for that, or is there faster procedure? Walther

Re: [libreoffice-users] We want to create a questionnaire...

High Tom do you really recommend a proprietary format like pdf in an open source environment? You know, PDF is licensed by Adobe and even a simple end user has to subscribe a contract with this company. Have you ever read this license agreement? So PDF ist NOT free. Walther Am Mittwoch, 20.

Re: [libreoffice-users] We want to create a questionnaire...

:) --- On Wed, 20/6/12, Walther Koehler w.koeh...@onlinemed.de wrote: From: Walther Koehler w.koeh...@onlinemed.de Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] We want to create a questionnaire... To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 20 June, 2012, 9:58 High Tom do you really recommend

[libreoffice-users] basic makro DBase connection

Hallo, Is it possible, to connect to an DBase file like test.dbf without prior registration using makros? I tried: ... oDataSource=oDataBaseContext.getByName(file:///test.dbf) ... giving the error message: ... no approriate SDBC driver found. What is my mistake/misconception? Walther --

[libreoffice-users] Re: database

to Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de Hallo Andreas, thank you for your short practical guide how to use a .dbf for serial letters. I spent a lot of time fiddling around reading books etc. and couldnt come up with a result. With your advice LO did what I want within some minutes. I never

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

Hallo, I didnt follow the thread up to now. Do you use GNULinux CUPS? no: drop the rest yes: In that case its probably a problem of the .ppd and could be solved by modifying this filet or getting a better one from turboprint.com or a gutenprint driver will do it. Have you switched off CUPS?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer recover document

is that it tends to work well on machines that are so slow that MS Office would keep falling over.  To switch it on the back-ups option try Tools - Options - +Load/Save - Always create a back-up copy Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 5/3/12, Walther Koehler w.koeh...@onlinemed.de wrote: From

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer recover document

Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 8/3/12, Walther Koehler w.koeh...@onlinemed.de wrote: From: Walther Koehler w.koeh...@onlinemed.de Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer recover document To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 8 March, 2012, 18:16 Hi Tom, Thanks for your reply

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer recover document

Hello, after a crash LO3.4 writer recovers documents, however it seems not to use the regularly saved corrections. However, looking up /tmp/.../0.odt I can find the very last corrections stored and can manually recover from there. Is this a flaw or a bad configuration at my system? Walther

[libreoffice-users] Writer printer selection

Hello over there, I have a problem with this scenario: PC1: OOwriter 3.0.0. PC2: LOwriter3.4 PC1+2 on LAN: standard printer Brother, DIN A4,... At PC1 I write a file.odt using OOwriter 3.0.0, printer configuration says Brother1, DIN A4, and save and print it. At PC2 another user in the LAN