[libreoffice-users] Export Issues (Gallery, Template)
I am managing a project which is being worked on by people from varios locations world wide. Recently it was decided to utilize LibreOffice project wide to create our documents for the project during the stages prior to publication. As a result we have and are continuing to create templates for the various document types we are working on. The problem arises when we go to send the document templates out for others to use. Our document covers, and many of our documents over all, rely heavily on libraries of graphic images which have been converted into galleries for Libre Office. Since our templates rely on these, and our authors will as well, we need to find a way to export these Galleries for our authors and developers to use. The problem we encounter is how to export a gallery. Or even which files to copy and compress to send out, to allow the galleries to exist on multiple computers IDENTICALLY. The galleries, and the files need to have the same names from machine to machine (at least the human readable part of the gallery name), for the sake of the instruction brochures we give to new developers and authors. So what I need to know is: 1) What files have to be copied out of a custom gallery (when the Libre installation already has multiple Galleries installed) so the gallery can be transferred AS IS. 2) How can galleries created on an installation of Ubuntu Linux be transferred to a Mac, or a Mac to Ubuntu (or Windows to etc.). 3) Where does one add custom fonts to L.O. ? There doesn't seem to be a fonts path that I can find. (We use over a hundred different ones and some of our people are on shared machines so installing that many fonts into the system of a one machine:many user environment we are trying to avoid.) Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Export-Issues-Gallery-Template-tp4005407.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: Export Issues (Gallery, Template)
Tom, My thanks for the response. Copying some folders from the Profile section does in fact seem to be an option, however there is a large caveat there. Much of our 'official' material starts with being created by unofficial users (think people who edit wikis here), and while we could get the internal file which represents the gallery on that users computer, the names are randomized and not very long, so name collisions are possible. Additionally, I need to find out how (if) L.O. copies the artwork for a gallery to a specific spot, or if the 'gallery file' simply acts as a data base containing records of the paths to the images. If this is so (and I believe it is), then while our transfers from the main server to the users could be intelligently bundled, anything being submitted to us might be scrambled due to files stored in other places not having been added to the archive sent to us. And then when we add it to an archive, and our central server makes it available, and the original user updates their copy, they wind up with duplicate files. Some of our users are pretty prolific so that could become a real issue. Of course now that I wrote all that I realize that will be a matter of educating our users and is not a problem for here. So you have solved my first problem for me, now if someone could figure out the font thing I would be very appreciative. Thanks again Tom Jase -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Export-Issues-Gallery-Template-tp4005407p4005447.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: Export Issues (Gallery, Template)
My thanks to all of you for your help with this issue, especially the mac information since it is the one OS I am TOTALLY unfamiliar with. Solution I came up with from this information and my own research shows that on windows the fonts have to be installed at the OS level (as reported here by Heikki and Miroslaw), and Linux (most of them anyway) can handle the ~/.fonts method. Mac is similar with ~/Library/Fonts/ as a user level font location. Best solution for windows is in the share folder of the installation I guess, that way just Libre gets them and the kids doing their homework on Brand X's product don't get confused by a system wide install (would be bad if their teacher couldn't read the homework due to unavailability of fonts...). The gallery issue is just going to be a pain. So I am writting an instructional paper right now to 'teach' all of our users to handle their images like this: 1.) Before putting it in the document put it in - Windows: %APPDATA%\LibreOffice\3\user\gallery\projectIDCode\ - Linux: ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user/ gallery/projectIDCode/ - Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/libreoffice/3/user/ gallery/projectIDCode/ 2.) Create the gallery if its new. 3.) Import the gallery folder. 4.) Add the image to the file. This way when galleries need to be updated all we need is the folder of images and instructions on what folder to unpack them into, and simply create the gallery new with the correct name, or reimport that directory. So I guess my questions are all answered but one...who do I poke at to get user level font control installed in the next major release? Thank you again every one Jase -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Export-Issues-Gallery-Template-tp4005407p4005481.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
