Re: [libreoffice-users] cannot find and replace paragraph break in writer
Folks, My apologies. Had I checked the URL to the OOo WEB page about regular expressions first, I would have found my answer. There, and I tested this so I know it works, it says that ^$ matches any empty paragraph. Replacing it with nothing removes them. Mr. Edmonds, thank you for your suggestion, maybe the solution from OOo will help you. On 2020-03-26 18:22, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. The way I have done this (because I couldn't work out another way) is; check regular expressions Find $ Replace (*) this sequence of 3 characters can be anything but should not occur in your text. Find \(\*\)\(\*\) Replace \n Find \(\*\) Replace \n On 27/03/2020 10:34, Udvarias Ur wrote: Folks, These 2 are the same solution. It works fine when a 'find and replace' is preformed on a single paragraph mark, i.e. hard return, appears as ¶,is replaced with anything else. I have a similar problem. I sometimes, especially when copying and pasting text from a WEB page, find 2 hard returns one after another. How can I search for double hard returns, ¶¶, and replace them with single hard returns, ¶. On 2020-03-26 15:56, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. From https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/32879/is-there-an-easy-way-to-find-a-paragraph-mark-and-replace-it-with-a-line-ending-or-a-space/ referring to https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Regular_Expressions_in_Writer#Tabs.2C_newlines.2C_paragraphs_.5Ct_.5Cn_.24 Tick "Regular expressions" in "Search and replace" dialog. Search for $, replace with space. In your case replace with \t steve On 27/03/2020 07:01, procuste piziocampte wrote: Im' using Version: 6.4.1.1 on linux opensuse: In a writer document I woule like to find paragraph breaks (A paragraph break that can be entered with the Enter or Return key )with a tab so following the instructions here file:///usr/lib64/libreoffice/help/en-US/text/shared/01/0211.html?=WRITER=UNIX I should perform a find/replace: in find \n and in replace \t or if it doesnt works in find \n and in replace \n and then in find \n and in replace \t checking the regular expression box (only that one) but it doesn't work, writer gives me the "search key not found" how can I solve?? manythanks -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird 60.5.1 on Ubuntu Linux 16.04.6 LTS. Cette lettre a été générée et envoyée à partir de Thunderbird 60.5.1 sur Ubuntu Linux 16.04.6 LTS. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] cannot find and replace paragraph break in writer
Folks, These 2 are the same solution. It works fine when a 'find and replace' is preformed on a single paragraph mark, i.e. hard return, appears as ¶,is replaced with anything else. I have a similar problem. I sometimes, especially when copying and pasting text from a WEB page, find 2 hard returns one after another. How can I search for double hard returns, ¶¶, and replace them with single hard returns, ¶. On 2020-03-26 15:56, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. From https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/32879/is-there-an-easy-way-to-find-a-paragraph-mark-and-replace-it-with-a-line-ending-or-a-space/ referring to https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Regular_Expressions_in_Writer#Tabs.2C_newlines.2C_paragraphs_.5Ct_.5Cn_.24 Tick "Regular expressions" in "Search and replace" dialog. Search for $, replace with space. In your case replace with \t steve On 27/03/2020 07:01, procuste piziocampte wrote: Im' using Version: 6.4.1.1 on linux opensuse: In a writer document I woule like to find paragraph breaks (A paragraph break that can be entered with the Enter or Return key )with a tab so following the instructions here file:///usr/lib64/libreoffice/help/en-US/text/shared/01/0211.html?=WRITER=UNIX I should perform a find/replace: in find \n and in replace \t or if it doesnt works in find \n and in replace \n and then in find \n and in replace \t checking the regular expression box (only that one) but it doesn't work, writer gives me the "search key not found" how can I solve?? manythanks -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird 60.5.1 on Ubuntu Linux 16.04.6 LTS. Cette lettre a été générée et envoyée à partir de Thunderbird 60.5.1 sur Ubuntu Linux 16.04.6 LTS. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Built in metric/imperial conversion
jonathon, First, what does Language Settings have measurement units? Second, if I correctly understood what you're getting at, you can find it in Tools → Options → LibreOffice Writer → General → Settings → Measurement Unit. On 2020-02-19 18:05, toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: All: What happened to the built in metric/imperial unit function. This was usable in write. Configuration used to be at Tools >Options >Language Settings >[I've forgotten what this was called] jonathon -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird 60.5.1 on Ubuntu Linux 16.04.6 LTS. Cette lettre a été générée et envoyée à partir de Thunderbird 60.5.1 sur Ubuntu Linux 16.04.6 LTS. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] compose characters
Dear Thomas, OOPS! My bad. I could not find the character you want in the "freedesktop.org" list. However, I did find 2 versions of the character (one with a short bar the other with a long bar) in the "Character Map" program. You'll find them in the "STIXSizeOneSym" font. On 2019-05-14 4:35 a.m., Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: Good afternoon I have to enter into a technical text a capital "M" with a short bar on top of it. Some sort of mathematical expression indicating a vector. I know there is something like "composing characters", but I cannot get it right. All I ever get is a diacritical mark either left or right from the M. I would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction. While googling about this, I also found some talk a "autocorrect options" using : : Yet, I cannot make this work either. I suppose, there is a trick for this one too. Thank you Thomas -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird 60.5.1 on Ubuntu Linux 16.04.6 LTS. Cette lettre a été générée et envoyée à partir de Thunderbird 60.5.1 sur Ubuntu Linux 16.04.6 LTS. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] compose characters
Dear Thomas, The easiest way to do this is to use the "System Settings" program. This will enable you to use the compose character key with literally everything on your system. For instructions go to keyboard layout - How can I enable Compose key? - Ask Ubuntu https://askubuntu.com/questions/70784/how-can-i-enable-compose-key Once you've set it up, you can see all the characters that are available to you at https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/plain/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre On 2019-05-14 4:35 a.m., Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: Good afternoon I have to enter into a technical text a capital "M" with a short bar on top of it. Some sort of mathematical expression indicating a vector. I know there is something like "composing characters", but I cannot get it right. All I ever get is a diacritical mark either left or right from the M. I would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction. While googling about this, I also found some talk a "autocorrect options" using : : Yet, I cannot make this work either. I suppose, there is a trick for this one too. Thank you Thomas -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird 60.5.1 on Ubuntu Linux 16.04.6 LTS. Cette lettre a été générée et envoyée à partir de Thunderbird 60.5.1 sur Ubuntu Linux 16.04.6 LTS. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] automatic capitalization
Dear LibreOffice users, I've been using LibreOffice since day one. i.e. Since the fork from OpenOffice. Calc, as I remember it, has always automatically capitalized the first word, *of every line*, within a cell. When I was using calc occasionally, I just changed it. Now I'm using calc frequently and it has become a waste of time! How can I disable this? -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird 52.7.0 on Ubuntu Linux 16.04.4 LTS. Cette lettre a été générée et envoyée à partir de Thunderbird 52.7.0 sur Ubuntu Linux 16.04.4 LTS. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility
On 15-10-26 03:08 PM, Luuk wrote: What do these abreviations mean? MSO - Microsoft Office (this is a guess!) EO - because i'm Dutch, the first thing i think about is 'Evangelische Omroep' (http://www.eo.nl) But that has nothing to do with an Office package.. LibO - LibreOffice Office (http://www.libreoffice.org/) AnOO - no clue... etc - are there more packages that do something like LibO, Microsoft Office and/od Apache Open Office ? I was wondering the same thing. Even the *List of office suites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_office_suites), though it lists dozens of office suites, does not list suites that can match all the above acronyms. -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird 38.3.0 on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS. Cette lettre a été générée et envoyée à partir de Thunderbird 38.3.0 sur Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS. -- 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] When will LO have MS macro and function support?
On 15-02-09 01:44 PM, Thisis theone wrote: Hello, if we open up an example MS excel file, the macros and functions are not 100% working in LibreOffice. When will LibreOffice have 100% MS macro and function support? I hope LO *never** *has MS macro capability! That is how a great many viruses are spread on the MS system. Or this is something that it's not worth it to do in LibreOffice? IMHO if LibreOffice would have 100% MS compability for macros and functions too, then... nothing would stand against LibreOffice to conquer the Office world. Thanks. -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird 31.4.0 on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS. Cette lettre a été générée et envoyée à partir de Thunderbird 31.4.0 sur Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS. -- 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] language support
Folks, I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.1. When the Update Manager notified me of a new version of LibreOffice, I found that it was installing . libreoffice-l10n-en-za, South African English localization and . myspell-en-za, South African English spell check dictionary I'm Canadian. I live in Québec. So I need Canadian English and French. I sometimes use Hungarian and Hebrew. So, I have installed on my system . libreoffice-l10n-en-gb, British English localization . libreoffice-l10n-fr, French localization . libreoffice-l10n-he, Hebrew localization . libreoffice-l10n-hu, Hungarian localization, and . myspell-en-gb, British English spell check dictionary . myspell-en-us, US English spell check dictionary . hunspell-en-ca, Canadian English spell check dictionary . hunspell-en-us, US English spell check dictionary . hunspell-fr, French spell check dictionary . hunspell-hu, Hungarian spell check dictionary However, I *never* use South African English. I don't even know how these files got on to my system. So I decided to remove the South African English localization and spell checking files. The Synaptic Package Manager accepted the marking . libreoffice-l10n-en-za for removed, no problem. Unfortunately when I tried to mark . myspell-en-za for removal, the Synaptic Package Manager insisted on removing . language-support-en . language-support-writing-en. Why? The Synaptic Package Manager tells me that . myspell-en-gb needs the the same English language support file. Is there a way to remove the South African English spell check dictionary without removing the English language support files? -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird 17.0.2 on Ubuntu Linux 12.04.1. Cette lettre a été générée et envoyée à partir de Thunderbird 17.0.2 sur Ubuntu Linux 12.04.1. -- 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] updated list of KPP English dictionaries for LO
Dear webmaster-Kracked_P_P, I just downloaded and installed the KPP 2012 dictionaries. I found that after I installed them either the descriptions and/or the dates/version numbers had not been updated properly so that it is difficult or impossible to tell which version is installed. (In the case of the Canadian and British dictionaries the descriptions seem to be the same as the previous versions.) Could this please be corrected. The descriptionsshown are: American English spelling hyphenation thesaurus - tech/FOSS terms a... 2012.06.24 KPP British English spelling, hyphen, thesaurus, 638k word list 2011.11.09 KPP Canadian English Spell Checking, Hyphen, Thesaurus - 638k word list 2.0.0 KPP P.S. Other dictionaries have a flag or some kind of icon identifying them. Canadian, British, and American flags would be helpful to identify these dictionaries. On 12-07-07 07:40 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: I created a page for the KPP dictionaries, out of the NA-DVD folders. http://libreoffice-na.us/KPP-dictionaries/dictionary.html I have 3 updated dictionaries. The British dictionary now go to 639,116, the Canadian goes to 639,112. The American English one is now 773,407 words. All three dictionaries now include missing words, including open source and FOSS terms. The American English includes a lot more. In a bit, I will be updating the Extension Center with the new versions of the dictionaries. I have to decide how I am going to deal with the page[s] I have there first. I will not be updating the smaller word lists though. The new URL/page will, for now, list all of the KPP dictionaries, old and new. The current 3.5.x NA-DVD dictionary page reflects the updates and will not include the 638K versions, since the 639K version are the updates for the British and Canadian dictionaries. Next week, hopefully, 3.5.5 will be out and then I will create a 3.5.5 version ISO file to upload to the servers for downloading. That will be the one that will have the new dictionaries and the up-to-date documentation list. Impress has a full set of chapters for 3.5.x. Getting Started has Chapters 1-9 except 5 and 7 for 3.5.x. Draw has Chapters 1-3 for 3.5.x. I wish someone would help the documentation writers to get a set of chapters for BASE. There has been no additions since January, and that was a draft file. -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux. -- 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] Re: Fw: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] adding footnotes to a large LibreOffice document
Thanks Guys, I actually did find the answer to the 1st question, how to restart the numbering, in chapter 3. However, there is no mention of how to use the same footnote/endnote number in more than 1 location in the text to refer to a single footnote. I've had to restore to changing the colour of the consecutive numbers. i.e. 2 different locations/footnote numbers that both refer to Leviticus III, 16. Regardless, thanks very, very much for pointing me to the documentation WEB site, I had not even thought of it before. I've now added it to my bookmarks. Thanks again. On 12-04-16 07:52 AM, Tom Davies wrote: --- On *Mon, 16/4/12, Jean Weber /jeanwe...@gmail.com/* wrote: . . . ... I think they are covered in Chapter 3. I'm not sure if the info available wil help with item 1 in the original question, but I'm fairly sure that item 2 is covered. Jean On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 20:36, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk /mc/compose?to=tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Chapter 12 of the Writers Guide might help http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Regards from Tom :) . . . 1. I have not found a to restart the number of automatic footnote numbers. Is there some way to restart the number that I have not found? 2. There are also cases there a footnote number in the text refers to the same footnote that a previous footnote number referred to. In the text the same number is use both times. Is there a way to create a footnote number in the test that refers to a previous footnote? . . . -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux. -- 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] adding footnotes to a LibreOffice document
I have started converting a very large document to PDF. i.e. Many books, each of which has many chapters, which in turn contain many folios. All of which is extensively footnoted. This document was originally published as a manuscript and is therefore referenced, as all manuscripts are, by folio number and side. i.e. The books are not bound, each page of the manuscript is an individual sheet with text on both sides. So the text of the 1st page is referred to as folio 1a and folio 1b. The footnotes are numbered for each side of each folio. So the footnotes on folio 1a start at 1 and the footnotes on folio 1b start at 1 again. 1. I have not found a to restart the number of automatic footnote numbers. Is there some way to restart the number that I have not found? 2. There are also cases there a footnote number in the text refers to the same footnote that a previous footnote number referred to. In the text the same number is use both times. Is there a way to create a footnote number in the test that refers to a previous footnote? -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux. -- 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] New design
My experience tells me that there is a /long term/ solution. However, it requires a change in attitude amongst software publishers/developers. Anecdote: About 20 years ago Wordperfect was the dominant word processor on the market. I was going to McGill University and Wordperfect was the university's approved and internally supported word processor. Like most software publishers, the Wordperfect publisherswere not concerned about the UI (user Interface), and concentrated entirely on the functionality. The result was that UI research went screaming ahead while the Wordperfect UI was frozen in time. Finally Wordperfect simply had no choice but to upgrade it's UI. As the UI had been ignored for so long the upgrade was huge. All the 10 fingered 150 word per minute typists complained that they had to learn an entirely new word processor. Worse, their typing speed slowed to a crawl. The only reason that they stuck with Wordperfect was because it was what the university provided, and the only word processor the university supported. The point is that software publishers/developers must change their attitude. The UI is as important a part of the software as anything else, may be more so. Ergo, UI development MUST be continuously on going just like functionality development. That is the ONLY way to avoid the problems being discussed in this thread. Having said that ... I agree with both Quinn Heagy and webmaster for Kracked. In the current circumstances, if a new UI is introduced that is significantly different from the classic one, it MUST be possible change back and forth. I do not agree with webmaster for Kracked that the classic UI must be the default. What MUST be done is to: 1. Allow the user to change back and forth simply and easily, 2. Make information about how to do things in the new UI easily accessible, and (possibly the most important thing of all is) 3. Inform the user, at install time, that: A. there is a new UI, B. that the classic UI is still available, C. the simple and easy way to switch back and forth, D. how to get information about getting things done in the new UI. Neither do I agree with Pedro. He may have a wide screen monitor, however, the install base of old fashioned CRTs is huge. I'd even hazard a guess that if everyone in the world who currently has a CRT monitor was to switch to a wide screen (cost and availability aside) the old CRTs would make a pile tall enough that any self respecting mountaineer would be eager to tackle. (Classic case of Jungian projection.) Udvarias Ur Software Quality Assurance Engineer (retired) On 11-11-28 10:48 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: With Ubuntu 11.10, it looks like you do not have a choice to go back to the GNOME 2.32[?] desktop like Ubuntu 11.04 did. I just do not want us to have a menu system that is too different. It we can switch between classic and the new design, that would be great, but the classic design needs to be the default. Then there must be an easy way to switch between menu designs. We cannot afford to give our users a reason to dump us. Menu redesign is one issue that bugs users a great deal. If they are use to finding their options in one place and they are use to going to that place in one way, having them relearn how to find options and where they are located will make users not want to use LO. We all hate when things change. I hate to relearn how to do the tasks I use to do one way when it is not that way anymore. I chose to go from Windows to Linux, so things change. Yet, I would not have that choice if LO changes their menu structure. I like it the way it is now. On 11/28/2011 10:23 AM, Quinn Heagy wrote: I think a good way would be to have the user able to change between a classic and a new look. Also, with Windows 8 - it looks pretty much the same as Windows 7 for a normal desktop. It has the new look for touch enabled computers, but they can still use the old look. If a user needs to get some work done in a good amount of time, then they can use the classic look, and just mess around with the new look when they have free time. They could then choose whichever look they wanted to use. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:16 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: The big thing we need to learn from current desktop design changes, is the fact that if the redesigns are too radical or too much different from what users are use to, then it will turn users away from our product. The change from MSO's old menu design to the new one is something that caused users issues and was a concern for IT departments to be able to handle the tech calls asking for help finding where all their normal menus went to. If LO changes too much from the traditional look, then we will have the same problem
[libreoffice-users] inserting an image from a scanner ify
I tried 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Request ...' in LibreOffice on Ubuntu. Nothing happened. I rebooted into Windows. The same menu item resulted in 1. the scanner being immediately activated, 2. the document in the scanner being scanned, and 3. the result being pasted into the open document in LibreOffice. (Full 216 mm X 279 mm (US letter size).) I rebooted to Ubuntu. There I found that if I: first go to 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Select ...', I get a dialogue box in which I can select a scanner, and set the dimensionsof the document to scan. Whether I the set dimensionsor not I can click the 'Create Preview' button,when I do. I get a error box telling me I can not create a preview though I can scan. Clicking 'OK' in the error box activates the scanner and scans the document. However, when I click the 'OK'buttonin the 'Scanner' selection dialogue boxeverything disappears. I learned, by accident, that I can: 1. Select 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Select ...', 2. Select 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Request ...' Which will now scan the document and past it into the open document in LibreOffice. The issue however, is that the default paper size is 212 mm X 276 mm. This is neither A4 nor US letter size. The issue worsenswhen I set the paper size to 216 mm X 279 mm (US letter size) and the size is automatically reset to 212 mm X 276 mm thereby cutting off all the edges when the document is scanned. Worst still the next time I start LibreOffice writer the paper size is reset to 212 mm X 276 mm. How can this be corrected? -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux. -- 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] inserting an image from a scanner ify
I have a Brother MFC-240C Printer/Scanner/Copier/Fax/PCFAX/Photo Centre. To the best of my knowledge there is no default scanner software for Ubuntu. Simple Scan was installed with the system. I didn't like it so, I installed Xsane Image Scanning Program, which was not much better, so I found and installed gscan2pdf which is great. I just checked, whereis found both sane and xsane. Yes, I can use gscan2pdf to scan documents. If memory serves I can even copy and paste from it to LO. I just wanted to avoid running a 2nd program as LO is supposed to do this. BTW. A good reason for having gscan2pdf 0.9.x is that it has 3 OCR engines in it. Tesseract-ocr 2.x.x is the best, it recognizes several languages, though you have to download the language files. Once I have gscan2pdf 1.0.0 set up so that I can install it, it will recognize even more languages and scripts. As gscan2pdf 1.0.0 seems to include the Tesseract-ocr 3.x.x engine and the language files. On 11-11-23 04:25 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: LO 32-bit or 64-bit DEB? 3.4.3? 3.4.4? or some other version? What is the Printer/Scanner model you are using? What is the the default scanner software you are using for Ubuntu? Do you have XSane installed or just Sane? I know that my Artisan Printer/Scanner/Copier/Fax [network, wireless, and USB]does not have a working driver for the scanner so I can use it with Ubuntu [10.04 LTS], so I use my HP PSC-1410 [print-scan-copy - USB] as my Ubuntu Scanner. I have it buried and will have to un-bury it to do a proper test for the scanning into LO. But that will have to be later, since I have to leave for a meeting after I sent this email. Any reason you do not scan in the image through XSane or other package, save it to a file, then import the file? Or at least for now till we find out what is needed to get that option working correctly. On 11/23/2011 04:13 PM, Udvarias Ur wrote: I tried 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Request ...' in LibreOffice on Ubuntu. Nothing happened. I rebooted into Windows. The same menu item resulted in 1. the scanner being immediately activated, 2. the document in the scanner being scanned, and 3. the result being pasted into the open document in LibreOffice. (Full 216 mm X 279 mm (US letter size).) I rebooted to Ubuntu. There I found that if I: first go to 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Select ...', I get a dialogue box in which I can select a scanner, and set the dimensionsof the document to scan. Whether I the set dimensionsor not I can click the 'Create Preview' button,when I do. I get a error box telling me I can not create a preview though I can scan. Clicking 'OK' in the error box activates the scanner and scans the document. However, when I click the 'OK'buttonin the 'Scanner' selection dialogue boxeverything disappears. I learned, by accident, that I can: 1. Select 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Select ...', 2. Select 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Request ...' Which will now scan the document and past it into the open document in LibreOffice. The issue however, is that the default paper size is 212 mm X 276 mm. This is neither A4 nor US letter size. The issue worsenswhen I set the paper size to 216 mm X 279 mm (US letter size) and the size is automatically reset to 212 mm X 276 mm thereby cutting off all the edges when the document is scanned. Worst still the next time I start LibreOffice writer the paper size is reset to 212 mm X 276 mm. How can this be corrected? -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux. -- 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
