[libreoffice-users] Single graph line from multiple rows of data
Hi, I was just wondering if this is possible. I have a spreadsheet document that consists of the following structure Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2010 2011 2012 Is it possible to have a graph spanning multiple months/years on the X axis showing a single line on my graph ? ^ | _. | _. _.' | _.' '.__.' | .' +--- J A J O J A J O J A J O 201020112012 The default behaviour is to have multiple lines for each month or for each year in a single graph, but I want to span multiple years. Possible or workarounds ? Thanks, -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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: Presentation conversion to/from Powerpoint - layout
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 02.03.2012 19:25, Dag Wieers wrote: I didn't reply to your post in this thread. I was replying to e-letter's post. Maybe you got lost and assumed I was replying to your post, I don't know. I wonder who got lost in this thread actually. This is the only answer to e-letter: There is nothing sensible in spelling Microsoft as 'm$', being condescending to users and force your opinions on others. It is not followed by any other posting. Yet, the link you carefully removed from my mail was *your* answer to my mail to e-letter's mail: http://www.mail-archive.com/users@global.libreoffice.org/msg17560.html So we are not discussing whatever mail you initially send to Roger, we are discussing the tone and content of e-letter's mail and how the LibreOffice project is representing itself to users. And e-letter is doing it again, Roger is offering to report a bug and is discouraged from the very start. Way to go ! -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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: Presentation conversion to/from Powerpoint - layout
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, e-letter wrote: On 02/03/2012, Roger Sawkins ro...@sawkins.name wrote: Well, having had your little spat I see we have got back to suggestions as to what I might do about my problem. What you choose to call a spat reveals your ignorance of the historical context of gnu/linux and consequent inability to comprehend the connection with your problem. Bear in mind I am new to this game. There is a suggestion of reporting a bug. I realise there is a link for that, but what is the best way? Should There is no shame in being new: everyone starts ignorant; it is now up to you to acquire the necessary knowledge to understand the fallacy of your problem. I include a sample of a Ppt conversion (and vice versa) with examples of the problems, or just list them. The former, not via a mailing list! Your original post does not explain nor justify why LO should be used to create m$ formats. As indicated by previous reply, if consistent conversion is so important to you and similar m$ fans, have you contacted m$ and asked an equivalent question: I want to be able to edit and save odf presentations ((f)odp) in m$o and LO, but formatting is lost. Please improve m$o. By the way, how do I submit a bug report to m$ -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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 Please read the part of the Posting guidelines as is appended to every post: TDF/LibreOffice Mailing List Netiquette http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette#Avoid_Advocacy It states: Avoid Advocacy TDF and LibreOffice mailing lists are for constructive discussions about TDF as a project, and LibreOffice as a personal productivity software. TDF as a community was born out of a positive attitude with regards to the future of free software and free office suites, and therefore we expect the subject and the tone of discussions to be in line with this positive attitude. TDF does not like negative attitudes in general, even when targeted to companies advocating proprietary software (e.g. about Microsoft being the root of all evil). So while I hate to have to bring up rules, in this case I want to make clear to Roger and other subscribers e-letter is not representing the LibreOffice project. -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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: Presentation conversion to/from Powerpoint - layout
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Roger Sawkins wrote: Well, having had your little spat I see we have got back to suggestions as to what I might do about my problem. Bear in mind I am new to this game. There is a suggestion of reporting a bug. I realise there is a link for that, but what is the best way? Should I include a sample of a Ppt conversion (and vice versa) with examples of the problems, or just list them. Including simple sample files would certainly be useful. Also a description of the various steps, as well as software versions and system environment (that can affect the issue, like the fonts installed etc...) Bugs that are attractive (i.e. are well-documented and look easy to verify without the need to have more interaction) tend to get more support than vague claims or complicated descriptions that require more work by bug triage people or developers. Make sure that what you contribute will be public and cannot contain content that is copyrighted or illegal to share. Incidentally, there has been some comment about the 'different fonts on different machines'. I am using Times New Roman (plain and bold) and as far as I know that is available on any Windows machine, so presumably that is not causing the problem. Even when the fonts appear to be installed on the system, software bugs in the filters might be causing such issues. I don't expect them to, but bugs tend to be unexpected... -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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: Presentation conversion to/from Powerpoint - layout
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 02.03.2012 01:49, Dag Wieers wrote: Why are you so defensive ? Open Source thrives on people that are interested in a certain subject, and one of those subjects could be improving the PPT import and export filters. Even if you personally are not affected by such improvements, why would you go against any such progress ? Why can users that experience a problem not report this to the benefit for those who would like to see this fixed ? Why are you concerned with what other people are willing to spend their free time (or maybe even paid time) on ? It's one thing to have a personal preference over what *other* people do, it's a completely different subject if one is being condescending to users who have different expectations or use-cases than yourself. OK, can open source make my car fly and swim if I only wish hard enough? What does flying/swimming cars have to do with improving the existing PPT import and export filter ? There are limitations in software development just like there are limitations in the physical technology. I am not denying there are limitations, but I refuse to believe we have come to the point we have reached any such limitation. MS has the big truck and refuses to carry the comparatively small ODF payload. Instead they do nothing and watch how we spend a lot of time struggling with their huge payload on a comparatively small truck. Finally, LibreOffice 5 will be an alternative OOXML suite with ODF as legacy file format to be dropped in version 6. It's a fallacy to think that the number of developers in LibreOffice is a constant, and that the only way to improve (what you deem) important is to focus. The success of Open Source is that it enables people to get involved in what interests *them*, and your reaction, both in style and body, actively demotivates people to get involved in anything other than what *you* think is important. If more people engage (and you seem to be afraid of having _new_ people become engaged in areas you are not interested in) we enlarge the development community, or at least make it easier to track known issues and potential improvements. I don't know what you are afraid of, but fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate... -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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: Presentation conversion to/from Powerpoint - layout
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 02.03.2012 12:33, Dag Wieers wrote: What does flying/swimming cars have to do with improving the existing PPT import and export filter ? It's the economy! Only dreams are free. Of course everybody wants the magic soft to open each and every proprietary file format of computing history. Again, a user reports a problem with the PPT import/export filter, and instead of constructive feedback on how to improve the situation we get: - Microsoft trashing (or rather, m$ tra$shing) - Lectures on ODF - Blaming the workflow or the user not choosing either MS Office or LibreOffice I object to all that because it's not unreasonable to improve the situation and the user can contribute to improving the filters by reporting simple examples showing the issue. And then you start about flying and swiming cars, dreams, magic and whatnot. I don't know what you are afraid of, but fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate... All I wish is a little more self confidence regarding the ODF standard. We don't need a third decade where virtually everybody is occupied with MS interfaces, MS documents, MS browsers, MS APIs, MS protocols and extensions of all kinds. Well, you are preaching to the wrong choir, and that's not helpful. -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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: Presentation conversion to/from Powerpoint - layout
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 02.03.2012 12:40, Dag Wieers wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 02.03.2012 09:41, Andreas Säger wrote: Please read the original posting and my reply. Then try to contribute something helpful and substancial. I didn't reply to your post in this thread. I was replying to e-letter's post. Maybe you got lost and assumed I was replying to your post, I don't know. http://www.mail-archive.com/users@global.libreoffice.org/msg17560.html Have a nice life ! -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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: Presentation conversion to/from Powerpoint - layout
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Andreas Säger wrote: So what do you reply to Roger Sawkins? That he can file a bug report hoping that some day in future LibreOffice will fully support the extinct ppt format? Yup, with the help of the community we can improve LibreOffice so that in the future people are more happy with the PPT import/export filter. For this to happen we need good information and simple test-cases showing the ill-behavior. IMO that's a better response than the original: Your are wasting your time. Make a cost-benefit analysis and decide whether to use either LO or m$; do not bother trying to use both. There's no guarantee that Roger will take the time to do this, and there is not guarantee that someone will pick up the bug reports. But it is guaranteed that if we tell people they are wasting their time using LibreOffice in a certain way, no progress is made on that front. Which would be a true shame. -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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: Presentation conversion to/from Powerpoint - layout
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 01.03.2012 15:20, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, e-letter wrote: On 28/02/2012, Roger Sawkins ro...@sawkins.name wrote: I have Powerpoint on one machine and LibreOffice on another. I want to be able to edit and save PowerPoints on either machine. However, when loading Ppt in Presentation it does not always convert font and layout properly. Occasional tabs or spaces are missing or duplicated; occasional text boxes have text outside the slide, etc. Your are wasting your time. Make a cost-benefit analysis and decide whether to use either LO or m$; do not bother trying to use both. Are we being rude today ? The case Roger describes is something we all encounter when exporting/importing PPT documents. And while we do not control how (various) Microsoft products behave when using ODF, we can undoubtedly do a better job at making sure the import from and export to PPT (and PPTX) is smoother. Really? Can we realistically do a better job when millions of users want another set of MS features each and every day? When downloading the Microsoft *viewers* for WinWord, Excel and Powerpoint, these three *viewers* cover the file formats doc(x), rtf, xls(x) and ppt(x). Their download size is close to the download size of OpenOffice.org (single language, no extensions but including additional components, 4 macro languages and read-write access to dozends of file formats). How much coding does it take if you are aiming to 100% compatibility with their proprietary file formats? What does it mean that the specification of OOXML weighs 8 times more print pages than the specification of ODF? Why are you so defensive ? Open Source thrives on people that are interested in a certain subject, and one of those subjects could be improving the PPT import and export filters. Even if you personally are not affected by such improvements, why would you go against any such progress ? Why can users that experience a problem not report this to the benefit for those who would like to see this fixed ? Why are you concerned with what other people are willing to spend their free time (or maybe even paid time) on ? It's one thing to have a personal preference over what *other* people do, it's a completely different subject if one is being condescending to users who have different expectations or use-cases than yourself. -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Presentation conversion to/from Powerpoint - layout
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, e-letter wrote: On 01/03/2012, Dag Wieers d...@wieers.com wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, e-letter wrote: On 28/02/2012, Roger Sawkins ro...@sawkins.name wrote: I have Powerpoint on one machine and LibreOffice on another. I want to be able to edit and save PowerPoints on either machine. However, when loading Ppt in Presentation it does not always convert font and layout properly. Occasional tabs or spaces are missing or duplicated; occasional text boxes have text outside the slide, etc. Your are wasting your time. Make a cost-benefit analysis and decide whether to use either LO or m$; do not bother trying to use both. Are we being rude today ? No we are asking a sensible, direct question. There is nothing sensible in spelling Microsoft as 'm$', being condescending to users and force your opinions on others. We all like to have ODF as _the_ standard, and preferably everyone in the world is using LibreOffice (and for compatibility _only_ LibreOffice), but here is a reality check: the world is not nearly there... -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] corrupt .odt file
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Jan Kessinger wrote: the odt file for storing my workresults is broken. I did not backup the file for the past 19 days. So it does hurt :( Here is what happened: I was rendering XSL to PDF, which consumed lots of system-resources. The system was not responding properly anymore. I got impatient and pressed the reset button. -rw-rw-r-- 1 jan jan 2735419 2012-02-21 14:05 2012-02-02_LSF14.odt -rw-rw-r-- 1 jan jan0 2012-02-21 14:05 .~lock.2012-02-02_LSF14.odt# As you can see above there is a .~lock file. Which means that the system was busy doing something with the file when i pressed reset. http://12monkeys.dyndns.org/media/2012-02-02_LSF14_corrupt.odt 2735419 2012-02-21 14:05 2012-02-02_LSF14_corrupt.odt http://12monkeys.dyndns.org/media/2012-02-02_LSF14_proper.odt 1402415 2012-02-02 15:16 2012-02-02_LSF14_proper.odt I would be super happy if you could help me fixing the corrupt file. The files are no longer there. Does it mean your problem is solved ? -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] program will NOT install RE http://www.libreoffice.org/download35/
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Darlene Sartore wrote: Have tried all morning to install LibreOffice... downloads to Desktop ... installs gets passed few steps, then gives popup saying to shut down LibreOffice 3.5... Nothing is open.. when click OK , installation stops ... restarted computer... still same... Downloaded again... still same... restarted computer... Had Tech access my computer and he got same event... He had me do the download for portable, that didn't seem to like being on Desktop... and do NOT have a thumb drive to test it on.. HELP.. It is a known problem, you have to uninstall the older version on your system, or update it to 3.4.5 before you can upgrade to 3.5.0. It was mentioned in the release notes (at the end): http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-5-new-features-and-fixes/ Sorry for the inconvenience, -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Helper utilities and ODT to PDF conversion.
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, 52midnight wrote: Over the years I've searched unsuccessfully for a simple ODT viewer that worked, and now have a need for commandline conversion of ODT to PDF. A search of the Internet turned up mostly old utilities from SWX days, a number of forum threads of various vintages (none of which offered a solution) and a more recent Perl script – anytopdf – that doesn't work. Being something of a Perl aficonado I've been working with this script. To save space I've uploaded a page with details: Just to make sure, you know that LibreOffice has the --convert-to option, so you can simply do: libreoffice --convert-to pdf file1 ... There's also a tool I wrote that should work on Windows, Linux and MacOSX called 'unoconv', which offers some more functionality. It would be nice if all the functionality of unoconv would be integrated into LibreOffice. - influencing the import and export filters, similar to the import/export option dialogs in LibreOffice - apply template during conversion, so you can apply styling/formatting when converting documents - so it works when LibreOffice is already running, or multiple instances are running in parallel (e.g. for batch conversion) Currently the --convert-to fails when LibreOffice is already running. -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Table of Contents with clickable links
Hi, For my asciidoc-odf project I am looking for a way to have a Table of Contents with clickable links to bring you automatically to the content. This is how most of the PDFs ought to work, but I cannot make this work in LibreOffice and as a result it doesn't work in the generated PDF. Can someone explain me how to do this in Libreoffice ? The Index/Table dialog has a button Hyperlink, which doesn't seem to have any effect, but it might be something I do not understand in this regard. Thanks in advance ! -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Table of Contents with clickable links
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Simon Cropper wrote: On 02/12/11 11:00, Dag Wieers wrote: Can someone explain me how to do this in Libreoffice ? The Index/Table dialog has a button Hyperlink, which doesn't seem to have any effect, but it might be something I do not understand in this regard. * Create hyperlinks in a ToC. See manual. http://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Formatting_an_Index_or_a_Table_of_Contents Ok, thanks. I came across that one before, but failed to make it work. Thanks to your reply I persevered and found what I was doing wrong. I can now generate a Table of Contents with working links by default ! One remark, the dialog where you edit the Index/Table where you have the E# and E buttons. Those buttons are too small so you can not see in fact what they state. For example, the LS and LE buttons do not properly show the text either. That makes it hard to understand what is going on. This is using LibreOffice 3.4.4 on a RHEL6 using Gnome. -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Formatting source code snippets in LibreOffice Writer
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, txapollo243 wrote: I was wondering if there is a nice way of formatting source code snippets in LibreOffice Writer (I use the 3.3.2 version). I know it can be done manually by changing the source code's paragraph's font to something distinct like Courier or Courier New, but I am looking for something more aesthetically pleasing. I mean not only using an appropriate font, but also reserved words-specific coloring, indentation, e.t.c. Is there a plugin to do this? The question came to me because of an 8085 Assembly project at my university, in which we have to provide reports to our instructor, but certainly it could also be useful for writing reports for projects based on other programming languages. I have tried different googling combinations, but because of the common use of the term source code in the context of development, all of the results were irrelevant. There are two options that I currently know of, and one I would like to implement. The use-case is a bit different, but it does work. It's not a plugin though, but maybe that's not that hard to do. The options are: - GNU source-highlight (with the .outlang from the asciidoc-odf project) https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf/tree/master/filters/source - AsciiDoc's code-filter (with ODF support from the asciidoc-odf project) https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf/tree/master/filters/code And potentially: - pygments (ODF output does not exist yet, not a priority for me atm) https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf/issues/20 These programs output ODF when you provide it source-code either by piping, or using an option. When you pipe source-code it usually outputs ODF snippets (without styles). If you provide a file on the command line, it generates a Flat ODF file. AsciiDoc's code-filter is more basic and by default does not use colors. GNU source-highlight works as expected and supports more languages. Only yesterday I added placeholder README files, I still need to add command line examples and more information, but I only yesterday received feedback that code-filter would no longer ship with AsciiDoc. The pygments implementation looks interesting, because of the wide support of languages. There are two options in using GNU source-highlight (and future pygments). Either add/import the styles from another document (to have the colors) or have GNU source-highligh create a complete separate .fodt and import the document. Without the styles it won't show anything ! The asciidoc-odf project uses those three (mutual-exclusive) methods during generating ODF, so it is well integrated. I would like to have feedback on the default output of GNU source-highlight. We might be able to improve the output before it gets included in the upstream project. Kind regards, -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] The tone of thiese Lists
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Scott Castaline wrote: On 11/26/2011 11:27 AM, David wrote: Well I was wondering. I joined these lists hoping for 'pearls of wisdom'. If I want bickering, name calling, or insults I could just call my ex-wife. :-) All my exes live in Texas :-) Is this in reference to 'pearls of wisdom' or the bickering ? ;-) -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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: SUMIF on certain values
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Regina Henschel wrote: Gérard Fargeot schrieb: =SUMIF(A2:A7,9|10|11,B2:B7) With Regular expressions enabled in Tools Options LibreOffice Calc Calculate. It should be not comma but semicolon as function separator. =SUMIF(A2:A7;9|10|11;B2:B7) If I use semicolons, LibreOffice changes them to comma's again. But it does work with comma's here. Maybe this is related to locale ? It is a nice way, using a regular expression. I haven't consider it before. Indeed :) Very useful ! Thanks ! -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Images get smaller and deformed in .doc
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, José Antonio Moray Serrano wrote: The problem happens with the LibreOffice Writer and the format .doc . When I insert an image and use it as Como carácter (in spanish, I don't know how it's called in English. See first capture), I save the document and there's no problem (See second capture), but when I open the document (or a document created with Word) the image gets smaller and deformed (see third capture). I think it's some kind of bug, but I need to know if I can solve this problem somehow, because I need it to work as I said. It looks as if the dimensions of the frame are the same (the border of the page seems to indicate this), but a margin was added. -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] A general error occurred while accessing your central configuration.
Hi, When trying to run LibreOffice 3.3 on a system that also has LibreOffice 3.4 installed, I get a pop-up window saying: LibreOffice 3.3 - Fatal Error The application cannot be started. A general error occurred while accessing your central configuration. I assume this is because LibreOffice 3.4 changed the configuration at some point that is incompatible for LibreOffice 3.3. I have multiple installations for testing purposes. What is the advised solution for running in such a situation ? -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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: How to change the layout of document via PyUNO/UNO
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 17/10/11 13:17, Gabriel Monnerat a écrit : I would like to know that is possible change the document layout via UNO because after convert the document it is not opened in standard layout(is opening in another layout). So, is possible change the layout and define it on document? You might need to give us a bit more detail about what it is exactly that you are trying to do ? You write after convert document : - which document ? - which format(s) ? - how are you converting it ? Also, what do you mean by another layout ? Since Gabriel and I are both working on similar tools, I think I know what he needs. We both have written a tool to convert documents using LibreOffice import and export filters. We use PyUNO to open and save documents and during this 'conversion' problems have been reported that the page format (eg. A4) is not retained. My understanding is that either the original document has no paper format configured, or it does not fit the expected dimensions. So the question is, how can we set (enforce) the correct page dimensions before exporting to another document format using PyUNO ? I have found some example code in Basic, however I couldn't transcode it to working Python code :-/ PS The tool I am working on is available from: http://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv Kind regards, -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] ODF backend for AsciiDoc
Hi, This is the first public announcement of a new project I started to create an ODF backend for AsciiDoc. For those who don't know AsciiDoc, AsciiDoc is a lightweight markup language that is designed to map to DocBook semantics, and as such, ideal for creating consistent documentation, articles and O'Reilly books ;-) http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc Being able to convert from AsciiDoc to ODF (onto other formats through LibreOffice) is something that always appealed to me, and lead me to create unoconv for non-interactive conversions, and get involved with docbook2odf. However XSLT is not something I can introduce with great confidence at companies as part of a technical documentation workflow and docbook2odf was not the easiest to maintain. The ultimate goal is for people to write basic documents in AsciiDoc, convert them to ODF, PDF or Word documents while applying a style in the process, without having to launch LibreOffice. However LibreOffice could be used to visually fine-tune the styling and using it in future conversions in order to give your documents a common identity (aka. corporate identity). Result: no more messing around with XSLT or XSL-FO, and much more options wrt. styling. The ODF backend for AsciiDoc is located at: https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf and feedback, pull-requests or ideas are very welcome. PS I am going to give a presentation about unoconv at the LibreOffice conference in Paris on friday 14/10 afternoon. I would like to also discuss this project at the conference, but likely one presentation slot will not be sufficient to discuss both unoconv and asciidoc-odf, so if you are attending the conference and interested to discuss both projects we can meet after the unoconv presentation. PS I have noticed a few strange behaviours related to LibreOffice that I do not understand and like to share with this list in the meantime. Kind regards, -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved
On Sat, 1 Oct 2011, Tom Davies wrote: All releases of LibreOffice have used the 1.2 (Extended) by default. I think OpenOffice was using it for quite a long time before that too. I think the only program that still uses the older 1.1 or 1.0 formats is MS Office 2010. I think Google-docs, KOffice, Calligra, AbiWord Gnumeric (together those 2 form Gnome Office) and the IBM's Lotus Symphony (or whatever it's called) all have been using 1.2 for a few years. In LibreOffice you can confirm by clicking on Tools - Options - + Load/Save - General about half-way down there is a drop-down showing 1.2 (Extended). I usually change this to the older 1.0/1.1 in order to be able to send stuff to MS Office users more easily. If you do have an older program then install any version of LibreOffice instead! ;) Lol Thanks for making this clear to an ODF novice like me :) I was wondering what standard I would use for my project and settled for ODF v1.1 (given that nearly everywhere, OASIS website and Wikipedia) refered to v1.2 as a draft. Is there an overview of the changes to the standard between v1.1 and v1.2 ? It might be possible to have both an odt11 and odt12 backend with odt12 inheriting the bulk of odt11 and implementing just the differences. Thanks in advance, -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] use of flat xml formats
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, planas wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 14:41 +0100, e-letter wrote: Is there a logical reason why xslt filters need to be selected manually for installation? Flat xml file formats are a very good feature, especially for document version control. Why is flat xml not the default file format for LO? I am not sure which filters come installed in the base configuration because I tend install all the filters. The ODF formats are default because they are official (ISO?) standards for general purpose office type documents. Because ODF formats are an international standard producers of office suites - in theory - should support the latest version (1.2) allowing users to easily share documents no matter what program produced the original. MS has not implemented 1.2 support yet in MSO 2010. I believe the ODF formats are a type of compressed xml file. The issue of flat xml is whether other, particularly commercial, suites directly support the format. My suspicion is FLOSS projects probably do but commercial support may be erratic. Cfr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_technical_specification Document Representation The OpenDocument format supports the following two ways of document representation: - As a single XML document - also known as Flat XML or Uncompressed XML Files. Single OpenDocument XML files are not widely used. Filename extensions for a single OpenDocument XML documents are not defined in the OpenDocument technical specification, but commonly used are .xml, .fodt,[1][2] .fods, ... etc. - As a collection of several subdocuments within a package, each of which stores part of the complete document. This is the common representation of OpenDocument documents. It uses filename extensions such as .odt, .ott, .ods, .odp ... etc. The package is a standard ZIP file with different filename extension and with defined structure of subdocuments. Each subdocument within a package has a different document root and stores a particular aspect of the XML document. All types of documents (e.g. text and spreadsheet documents) use the same document and subdocuments definitions. I am writing an AsciiDoc backend to produce ODF files directly from AsciiDoc. I was also looking for a flat file importer. Currently LibreOffice and OpenOffice want to open such a .fodt (or .xml) file as text rather than an pure ODF file. Flat ODF file support would be useful to anyone producing/converting simple ODF files, and can help with learning/debugging ODF. It could be very useful to the larger ODF development community. Kind regards, -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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: use of flat xml formats
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, NoOp wrote: On 09/27/2011 12:05 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: ,,, I am writing an AsciiDoc backend to produce ODF files directly from AsciiDoc. I was also looking for a flat file importer. Currently LibreOffice and OpenOffice want to open such a .fodt (or .xml) file as text rather than an pure ODF file. I suspect it's a Windows version issue. I can easily open .fodt, .fods in linux LO 3.3.4 3.4.3. Windows versions act (using the same test files) do as you suggest and only open as text. I am using Linux, however I found that the flat XML ODF files require an office:mimetype attribute to the office:document root-element. Not doing this will make LibreOffice (3.4.3) fail to open the document as ODF, but instead as plain text. So adding: office:mimetype=application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text did the trick for me ! -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Invoice automation using macros
Hi, I have quite simple LibreOffice invoices, one file per invoice. There are 2 items in each invoice I would like to make dynamic. 1. Invoice number 2. Due date For the invoice number, I created a user field InvoiceNumber and a macro UpdateInvoiceNumber, which automatically extracts the invoice number from the filename and updates the field when the file is opened. This works great as I simply can copy my invoice to the new name (invoice--MM-#NR-company) and the document is updated automatically with /MM/#NR. Now for the due date its more simple, but I cannot make it work. I used to have 2 fields, invoice date and due date. Both are fixed date fields, the second is 30 days off. To update them, I have to open the new invoice copy, double-click the invoice date field, disable the 'fixed' (so that is shows today's date), then make it fixed again, so it doesn't change the next time I may edit it. Repeat the same procedure for the due date fields. (twice, because I repeat the due date at the end in bold) Now, what I intended to do was to create another user field of the due date and automatically update both with the date set in the invoice date field (which remains a fixed date) and add 30 days. But the problem is that, contrary to user fields, date fields cannot be referenced in Basic (likely because they do not have a name). Or at least I cannot find it anywhere. Below is the code I am using in LibreOffice to update the InvoiceNumber. Can someone tell me how I can get the value of a (fixed) Date field ? Or is there an easier way to update dates, and manipulate them elsewhere ? Sub Main UpdateInvoiceNumber() RemUpdateDueDate() End Sub Sub UpdateDueDate Rem Don't know how to get to the invoice date fixed date field in the document InvoiceDateField = thisComponent.getTextFieldMasters().getByName( com.sun.star.text.fieldmaster.InvoiceDate ) end Sub sub UpdateInvoiceNumber InvoiceNumberField = thisComponent.getTextFieldMasters().getByName( com.sun.star.text.fieldmaster.User.InvoiceNumber ) InvoiceNumberField.Content = InvoiceNumber() disp = createUnoService(com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper) disp.executeDispatch(thisComponent.CurrentController.Frame, .uno:UpdateFields, , 0, Array()) end Sub Function InvoiceNumber InvoiceNumber = ERROR If (Not GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.isLibraryLoaded(Tools)) Then GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.LoadLibrary(Tools) End If InvoiceNumber = FileNameoutofPath(thisComponent.getURL(), /) InvoiceNumber = Mid(InvoiceNumber, 9, 11) InvoiceNumber = ReplaceStr(InvoiceNumber, -, /) End Function Function ReplaceStr(myString As String, str1 As String, str2 As String) ReplaceStr = join(split(myString, str1), str2) End Function PS Is there an easier way to look at the document object model than using a watch in your macro editor ? Preferably something to search. That would be so useful ! Thanks for your insights ! -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Invoice automation using macros
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Dag Wieers wrote: But the problem is that, contrary to user fields, date fields cannot be referenced in Basic (likely because they do not have a name). Or at least I cannot find it anywhere. With some help from the OpenOffice forums I solved this by not using fixed date fields, but rather using user fields (variables) with a Date format. The downside is that editing them is editing the number of days since Epoch (although it does accept a 2011.04.04 string). To use the below code as macro in your documents, simply create three user fields named InvoiceNumber (string), InvoiceDate (Date formatted) and DueDate (Date formatted), and use a filename that matches invoice-2001/03/011-customer.odt (year/month/number) or simply modify the code to do what you like ;-) And then link the below event-handlers to their respective event from Tools Customize Events. REM For testing purposes Sub Main updateInvoiceNumber() updateDueDate() End Sub REM Event handler when opening a document Sub _Open updateInvoiceNumber() End Sub REM Event handler when a document is being saved Sub _Save updateDueDate() End Sub REM Event handler when a document is modified Sub _Modified updateDueDate() End Sub REM Update a user field (DueDate) with the invoice date + 30 days Sub updateDueDate DueDate = getDueDate() DueDateField = thisComponent.getTextFieldMasters().getByName( com.sun.star.text.fieldmaster.User.DueDate ) If (DueDateField.Value DueDate) Then DueDateField.Value = DueDate thisComponent.TextFields.refresh() EndIf End Sub REM Retrieve the user field (InvoiceDate) from the document and make DueDate = InvoiceDate + 30 Function getDueDate If (Not GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.isLibraryLoaded(Tools)) Then GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.LoadLibrary(Tools) End If InvoiceDateField = thisComponent.getTextFieldMasters().getByName( com.sun.star.text.fieldmaster.User.InvoiceDate ) getDueDate = InvoiceDateField.Value + 30 End Function REM Update a user field (InvoiceNumber) with a slice of the document name Sub updateInvoiceNumber InvoiceNumber = getInvoiceNumber() InvoiceNumberField = thisComponent.getTextFieldMasters().getByName( com.sun.star.text.fieldmaster.User.InvoiceNumber ) If (InvoiceNumberField.Content InvoiceNumber) Then InvoiceNumberField.Content = InvoiceNumber thisComponent.TextFields.refresh() End If End Sub REM Extract the invoice number from the document name (slice 9-20) Function getInvoiceNumber If (Not GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.isLibraryLoaded(Tools)) Then GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.LoadLibrary(Tools) End If getInvoiceNumber = FileNameoutofPath(thisComponent.getURL(), /) getInvoiceNumber = Mid(getInvoiceNumber, 9, 11) getInvoiceNumber = ReplaceStr(getInvoiceNumber, -, /) End Function REM Return a string with str1 replaced with str2 Function ReplaceStr(myString As String, str1 As String, str2 As String) ReplaceStr = join(split(myString, str1), str2) End Function Hope this is useful to you. -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
