Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Call for testers - automatic migration of embedded hsqldb Base files to embedded Firebird Base files

2018-04-12 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 12/04/2018 12:22, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > I somehow doubt that this will be seen as a suitably satisfactory > solution for most users... I think that this specific announcement should be evaluated carefully to avoid a disruptive impact on the user base (although the number of Base users

[libreoffice-users] Re: Call for testers - automatic migration of embedded hsqldb Base files to embedded Firebird Base files

2018-04-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 11/04/2018 à 17:19, Robert Großkopf a écrit : > Hi all, > > have put the content of the mail I wrote to a bug-report: > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116944 > Thanks Robert. Tamas has indicated on the dev mailing list that the binary content of the hsqldb database

[libreoffice-users] using/printing of non-std paper formats

2018-04-12 Thread Paul Neuwirth
Hello, (5.4.5.1,GNU/Linux,cups) I want to use paper formats, which are not predefined in LibreOffice (8x12 and different custom labels (autocutting device)). I can set the page dimensions manually (e.g. in Writer), but no way to use the corresponding (in ppd defined) paper formats in the printer

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to another]

2018-04-12 Thread anne-ology
yes, & thank you for expressing what obviously I was unable to so do. There's also a problem with their copy & paste suggestion, since that surely requires having more than one copy of LO open at one time, which seems impossible since when I click on LO again, the opened one appears

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to another]

2018-04-12 Thread jorge Rodríguez
Hi Anne and all:     As  I understood you are working with one Presentation file that is in cloud and the other that you need copy too.     Why not try to use two tabs in web browser to open each Presentation file, or use two different web browser to open each file, supposed that you can't

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to another]

2018-04-12 Thread Italo Vignoli
With the latest versions of LibreOffice you have two different options for inserting slides from one presentation into another one, both tested and working on every platform. A. You can open two different LibreOffice presentations at the same time, and switch between them using the Window menu.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Call for testers - automatic migration of embedded hsqldb Base files to embedded Firebird Base files

2018-04-12 Thread V Stuart Foote
Italo Vignoli-5 wrote > ... > > So, any "radical" deprecation of features should be evaluated not only > in technical terms, but also in marketing/communication terms. We cannot > get rid of a feature without giving users a reasonable amount of time to > migrate their data (and the fact that they