Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 corrupts DOCX completely

2012-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/14/2012 11:20 AM, Philip Gillißen wrote: Hi! I just downloaded and tested LibreOffice 3.5 on Windows 64 Bit and my test result is depressing: LibreOffice 3.5 corrupts my DOCX files completely, so that Microsoft Word 2010 cannot open it anymore! I tried it with simple documents and it fail

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 - Can't see page margins in Writer

2012-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/14/2012 10:34 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2012/2/14 noibs: I just upgraded to 3.5 from 3.4.4. There are no page margins visible for my Writer documents last saved in 3.4.4. Am I missing something? I've looked for a preference and can't find one. I'm using Mac OS 10.7.3. Thanks. I th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database or spreadsheet

2012-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/12/2012 05:25 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 02/12/2012 06:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] We're not remote-sensing mind-readers. James Knott has a very valid point, one which I myself have suffered through over the decades: power user or newbie developer has skills inadequate to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database or spreadsheet

2012-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/12/2012 01:52 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 08/02/2012 12:57, James Knott wrote: Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 07/02/2012 13:03, e-letter wrote: It is not known from the original poster _why_ the sheets needed to be changed. Jeeze. DOES IT MATTER? No of course it doesn't MATT

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Write2epub

2012-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/11/2012 11:20 AM, Pedro wrote: [snip] 1st - if we continue this, and I would not mind at all, how about we kick it over to the discuss list? Unfortunately this is not a Forum, we can not move topics :) We would have to start all over at the Discuss mailing list... Cross-post? It doe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Write2epub

2012-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/11/2012 08:14 AM, Calvin Kim wrote: On 02/10/2012 07:03 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 10.02.2012 15:41, Tinkerer wrote: I have found Write2epub. All the extensions are on a disc downloaded from Kracked Press. I thought I would try it for converting Libre User Guides to epub format for the

Re: [libreoffice-users] I've repeated a bug from OO writer. Now what?

2012-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
ter. I was able to use a force quit to exit LibreOffice. Don On 02/10/2012 05:46 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/08/2012 06:33 AM, Robin Lovelace wrote: Dear Libreoffice user group, I've accidentally (much to my annoyance) replicated this bug, that was identified, but seemingly ignored, back

Re: [libreoffice-users] I've repeated a bug from OO writer. Now what?

2012-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/08/2012 06:33 AM, Robin Lovelace wrote: Dear Libreoffice user group, I've accidentally (much to my annoyance) replicated this bug, that was identified, but seemingly ignored, back in 2007: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=77782 To replicate, please try opening this file, and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5

2012-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2012 03:11 PM, Tinkerer wrote: I am using a Mac, System 10.7.2 I suppose I could try a Log File to see what happened. Maybe dtruss would help. http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-equivalent-of-strace-in-OS-X -- How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What differen

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5

2012-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2012 01:52 PM, Tinkerer wrote: I also just tried exporting a small but complex odt (note that I unchecked "Create PDF Form") and simple 24 page doc, and both worked perfectly. Where do you find the "Create PDF Form"? I can only see "Export as PDF". I have write permissions to the folde

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export as PDF in LO 3.5

2012-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2012 08:16 AM, Tinkerer wrote: I have tried converting a single page .odt to Pdf and obtained the same result. "Write error" Re; converting the Libre User Guide I don't see that size mattered when you are talking about 9MB and I have 4 GB of Ram. I also just tried exporting a small b

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default path for templates

2012-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/09/2012 08:15 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: Comments inline On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 06:32 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] What I'm perceiving is that LO doesn't follow the standard Unix "search" hierarchy of first looking locally (~/.libreoffice/3/user/template) an

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default path for templates

2012-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/09/2012 06:13 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: [snip] The path he needs to use ends in .../template/common because his LO installation is on a server. This permits people from other computers to use LO and the same templates. If templates are placed in the common folder, they will not be s