[users] Re: OOo LiveCD

2010-01-07 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Original Message Subject: Re: OOo LiveCD From: Sean u...@frightenstein.com To: Date: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 4:36:38 PM - Original Message - From: Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:07 AM Subject: Re: [users] OOo

Re: [users] soffice.bin hogging resources.?

2010-01-07 Thread Marcello Romani
James Elliott ha scritto: Hi Marcello Thanks for the information and comments. I have done a bit of experimenting and it seems that it happens when I am working on my catalogue in Draw. I might be wrong but I don't think it happens so much in Writer or Calc. Maybe the programming gurus

[users] Re: Base: Dropdown suggestions for existing data on condition?

2010-01-07 Thread Andreas Saeger
Dotan Cohen wrote: I do not understand what the form does. It appears to me that when I select a,b from one side, it tries to select b,a from the other. it doesn't exactly work, but as it doesn't fit what we need here I'll leave it at that. I do appreciate your attempt at helping, though. It

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, January 6, 2010 4:54 am, Dave Barton wrote: Dave, I do wish you success with your support web form. This, however: Over the years there has been much protracted debate and argument about the rights, wrongs and the mechanism of allowing non-subscribed posters to send moderated

[users] export to e-mail problem

2010-01-07 Thread Joe Hogan
Hello, I am using the French version of OO 3.1.1 for Mac PowerPC version. I have come across a problem with a useful feature. I used to use export PDF to e-mail all the time. But, sicn upgraded to this version, it works, but onnly partially. You see, when I send PDF to e-mail, it goes to

Re: [users] Re: Base: Dropdown suggestions for existing data on condition?

2010-01-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
It is not trivial to filter the content of a list box to make it offer only a subset of selectable items, it is possible, though. List boxes pick items by name, usually writing a foreign key (ID number) into the form's field. Each journey gets a city-ID from either one of the list boxes. The

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org Calc 3.2 RC1 autosaves whenever it feels like it etc.

2010-01-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/1/7 TomW tomw...@ctel.net: Cor Nouws wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote (06-01-10 12:58) So it seems to be a problem in OpenOffice.org rather than my system, I believe. Forgot to mention my OS, by the way. It's Ubuntu 8.10. Hmm.. since I run 9.10, it *could* be Ubuntu ... Any other

[users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct printing, but not for exporting to PDF. Am I missing something here? I've been using a pseudo-printer (PrimoPDF) to

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread James Wilde
On Jan 7, 2010, at 18:13 , Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct printing, but not for exporting to PDF. Am I missing something

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Mark Miller
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct printing, but not for exporting to PDF. Am I

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread John Meyer
On 1/7/2010 10:13 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct printing, but not for exporting to PDF. Am I missing something here?

[users] Bug/regression?

2010-01-07 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi, Before I go report this as a bug/regression, could someone please confirm I'm not crazy... Environment: Windows Domain, UNC path shares Situation: User has read permissions on a folder, but full control of a file in that folder. I don't know when this behavior changed, but I *know* that in

[users] Mail vom 7.01.2010 12:53

2010-01-07 Thread Heinz Jürgen Niewel
Hallo! Habe Ihre Mail empfangen weiß aber nichts damit anzufangen. Ich habe nur bei Open Office nachgefragt warum ich mich dort nicht registrieren kann.Ich habe auch mitgeteilt das ich Englisch nicht lesen kann deshalb nützen mir diese ganze Anzahl von Mail`s nichts die mir zugeschickt

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread RA Brown
Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct printing, but not for exporting to PDF. Am I missing something here? I've been using a

[users] Re: In Base can not time stamp a Forms field when a record is changed.

2010-01-07 Thread Harold Hauge
Solved Found how at: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=36728highlight=timestamp+record+basesid=3a47e5b632b9000fb398daf8b46cd2cd Thanks anyway On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Harold Hauge hauget...@gmail.com wrote: I am using a Windows computer with XPPro running OOo Base 3.1.1

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread RA Brown
Mark Miller wrote: It may sound elementary, but why wouldn't the fileexport to pdf function work? I may have to get involved in brochures for my classroom soon and thought that's how to do it. I may choose one of the other FOSS programs like Scribus though. Mark, I can not find any

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Mark Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct printing, but not for

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
John Meyer wrote: On 1/7/2010 10:13 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct printing, but not for exporting to PDF. Am I missing

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
James Wilde wrote: On Jan 7, 2010, at 18:13 , Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct printing, but not for exporting to PDF. Am

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
RA Brown wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct printing, but not for exporting to PDF. Am I missing something here? I've

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread Lars Nooden
M. Fioretti wrote: I suggest that everybody just follows the strategy explained here: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discussmsgNo=65332 What would be the correct venue to get the users' list upgraded to Mailman and off of CollabNet? /Lars

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread RA Brown
Barbara Duprey wrote: I can certainly share it -- here's a link: http://www.4shared.com/file/190755756/afb1a777/Deathtrap_Internal.html. You should be able to download it from there. Note that this file has several blank pages, it's a work in progress. (It also uses the Typewriter from Hell

[users] Re: Base: Dropdown suggestions for existing data on condition?

2010-01-07 Thread Andreas Saeger
Dotan Cohen wrote: Last question, if I may? Where in the docs would I have found this? I really am trying to get up to speed with Base but there is so much info that I am drowning. The F1 help is close to useless. http://documentation.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=778

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 21:40:55 PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: I suggest that everybody just follows the strategy explained here: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discussmsgNo=65332 What would be the correct venue to get the users' list upgraded to

Re: [users] Mail vom 7.01.2010 12:53

2010-01-07 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hallo Herr Niewel, Sie haben sich (wohl versehentlich) bei der internationalen Mailingliste registriert. Sie können das wieder rückgängig machen, indem Sie eine (leere) Mail an die Adresse users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org senden. Sie bekommen dann noch einmal eine Bestätigungsmail, die Sie bitte

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/01/07 11:13 AM Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct printing, but not for exporting to PDF. Am I missing something here?

[users] Re: Base: Dropdown suggestions for existing data on condition?

2010-01-07 Thread Andreas Saeger
I should have mentioned the most important toolbar to design a form manually and tune wizard-generated ones: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39t=11228p=52666#p52666 Toolbar Form Navigation provides the full user interface for a form in operating mode:

Re: [users] Re: Base: Dropdown suggestions for existing data on condition?

2010-01-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
Thanks. I have some experience with MySQL so my biggest problem is setting up the Base forms. In this project for the lab I come _this_close_ to just installing Apache and writing the UI in HTML, CSS, and Javascript, with PHP communicating with a MySQL database! Base is a hard application to

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
RA Brown wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: I can certainly share it -- here's a link: http://www.4shared.com/file/190755756/afb1a777/Deathtrap_Internal.html. You should be able to download it from there. Note that this file has several blank pages, it's a work in progress. (It also uses the

Re: [users] Re: Mathematical division sign.

2010-01-07 Thread Doug Hovelson
I'm running WIN XP and the alt + 0247 (on numpad) works for me to get the division symbol. -- From: Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg thomas.la...@sun.com Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 1:18 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re:

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 11:13 AM Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct printing, but not for exporting to PDF. Am I

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread Lars Nooden
M. Fioretti wrote: On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 21:40:55 PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: I suggest that everybody just follows the strategy explained here: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discussmsgNo=65332 What would be the correct venue to get the users' list

[users] Strange interface in Gnome

2010-01-07 Thread Sylvia Sánchez
I use OpenOffice 3.1, KDE4 and Gnome 2.28 in Debian Squeeze (testing). My interface in KDE looks reasonably good but when I use openoffice in Gnome it looks strange, grey, without icons, like Windows 95. I don't know why it happens in that way, I installed the interfaces for Gnome and KDE that

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/01/07 3:12 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 11:13 AM Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct

[users] unwanted table background

2010-01-07 Thread James
I have a grey background in my table. I can't see why it is there. Maybe someone can explain how to get rid of it. http://www.lockie.ca/test/background.odt.zip - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread John King
Barbara Duprey wrote: RA Brown wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: I can certainly share it -- here's a link: http://www.4shared.com/file/190755756/afb1a777/Deathtrap_Internal.html. You should be able to download it from there. Note that this file has several blank pages, it's a work in

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 3:12 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 11:13 AM Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages,

Re: [users] unwanted table background

2010-01-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
James wrote: I have a grey background in my table. I can't see why it is there. Maybe someone can explain how to get rid of it. http://www.lockie.ca/test/background.odt.zip - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [users] unwanted table background

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Harold Fuchs wrote: James wrote: I have a grey background in my table. I can't see why it is there. Maybe someone can explain how to get rid of it. http://www.lockie.ca/test/background.odt.zip - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
I suspect my system may be slowly dying, strange things are happening frequently Strange things is usually one of three things; 1) overheating CPU 2) bad memory 3) faulty power supply I would start checking them in that order. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
2010/1/8 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com: I suspect my system may be slowly dying, strange things are happening frequently Strange things is usually one of three things; 1) overheating CPU 2) bad memory 3) faulty power supply I would start checking them in that order. And cables! That

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/01/07 4:22 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: I'm using version 9.2. The feature may be new in version 9. You can find it in the print dialogue under Page Scaling:. Ah! I missed that one somehow -- didn't think of this as a scaling issue, and I'd have to redesign my

Re: [users] Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Dotan Cohen wrote: I suspect my system may be slowly dying, strange things are happening frequently Strange things is usually one of three things; 1) overheating CPU 2) bad memory 3) faulty power supply I would start checking them in that order. It's an Acer laptop, used in a far from

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
John King wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: RA Brown wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: I can certainly share it -- here's a link: http://www.4shared.com/file/190755756/afb1a777/Deathtrap_Internal.html. You should be able to download it from there. Note that this file has several

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread NoOp
On 01/07/2010 04:36 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: I suspect my system may be slowly dying, strange things are happening frequently Strange things is usually one of three things; 1) overheating CPU 2) bad memory 3) faulty power supply I would start checking them in

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 4:22 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: I'm using version 9.2. The feature may be new in version 9. You can find it in the print dialogue under Page Scaling:. Ah! I missed that one somehow -- didn't think of this as a scaling issue, and I'd

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
NoOp wrote: On 01/07/2010 04:36 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: I suspect my system may be slowly dying, strange things are happening frequently Strange things is usually one of three things; 1) overheating CPU 2) bad memory 3) faulty power supply I would

Re: [users] unwanted table background

2010-01-07 Thread James
On 01/07/10 18:28, Barbara Duprey wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: James wrote: I have a grey background in my table. I can't see why it is there. Maybe someone can explain how to get rid of it. http://www.lockie.ca/test/background.odt.zip

Re: [users] unwanted table background

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
James wrote: On 01/07/10 18:28, Barbara Duprey wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: James wrote: I have a grey background in my table. I can't see why it is there. Maybe someone can explain how to get rid of it. http://www.lockie.ca/test/background.odt.zip

[users] Re: Re: Mathematical division sign.

2010-01-07 Thread tom
In news:snt103-ds30f27da0adf1b80065bb0d6...@phx.gbl, Doug Hovelson doughovel...@msn.com typed: I'm running WIN XP and the alt + 0247 (on numpad) works for me to get the division symbol. -- From: Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread NoOp
On 01/07/2010 05:48 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: NoOp wrote: ... Vacuum it out - don't blow air into it as that will just redistribute the dust and hairballs. Occasionally I make some pretty good spending money from laptop users that would use compressed air etc., to clean their laptops; the

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/01/07 7:27 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 4:22 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: I'm using version 9.2. The feature may be new in version 9. You can find it in the print dialogue under Page Scaling:. Ah! I missed that one somehow -- didn't

[users] Re: unwanted table background

2010-01-07 Thread NoOp
On 01/07/2010 01:52 PM, James wrote: I have a grey background in my table. I can't see why it is there. Maybe someone can explain how to get rid of it. http://www.lockie.ca/test/background.odt.zip Table|Select|Table|Table|Propeties|As:Color|For:Table|Background color|No Fill

Re: [users] unwanted table background

2010-01-07 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:52 07/01/2010 -0500, James Lockie wrote: I have a grey background in my table. I can't see why it is there. Maybe someone can explain how to get rid of it. It appears that table backgrounds can be set for cells, rows, or entire tables. Here, the background is for the table. Go to

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 7:27 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 4:22 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: I'm using version 9.2. The feature may be new in version 9. You can find it in the print dialogue under Page Scaling:. Ah! I missed that

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 23:18:41 PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: What would be the correct venue to get the users' list upgraded to Mailman and off of CollabNet? ... I have not clear *why* you are asking this. The hundreds of messages each quarter about unsubscribing, I have not clear how

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/01/07 10:28 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 7:27 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: That's what I'd hoped, but when I actually tried it, the text was way off-center towards the center fold (when compared to the same file sent directly to the printer). Each page

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread Clayton
What would be the correct venue to get the users' list upgraded to Mailman and off of CollabNet? The simple answer is this: http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/pages/Home C. -- Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead Sun Microsystems,

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 08:25:42 AM +0100, Clayton wrote: What would be the correct venue to get the users' list upgraded to Mailman and off of CollabNet? The simple answer is this: http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/pages/Home Interesting, I didn't know about that, thanks. It seems

Re: [users] Bug/regression?

2010-01-07 Thread O. Felka
Hi Charles Tanstaafl schrieb: Situation: User has read permissions on a folder, but full control of a file in that folder. I don't know when this behavior changed, but I *know* that in versions previous to 3.1.1, users were able to edit documents like this, but now, in 3.1.1 cannot, because