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Open Office - [discuss] Lack of OOo feature forces writer to move to Windows

[discuss] Lack of OOo feature forces writer to move to Windows

Posted: 07 Aug 2006 04:09 AM PDT

Robert Derman wrote:
.... 

i'd like to add that this would be a pretty bad decision.
much better would be seamless integration with email, calendar & project
management software.
there are some pretty decent email & calendaring apps, and i've heard
that also some of the project management apps are pretty usable.
cooperating with them (preferably in a common way) would be much better
and would require less resources than rewriting from scratch
applications in some of the most mature application markets (email).
 
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Rich

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[discuss] DO YOU HAVE A CALENDAR FEATUTE SIMILAR TO MICROSOFT

Posted: 06 Aug 2006 10:32 AM PDT

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 19:24 +0000, jonathon wrote: 

True, but it does take several minutes to start up so if you want to use
it regularly its probably best to transfer to the hard drive and its
certainly a lot less of a problem to do that than it is for a beginner
to get rid of viruses and spyware on an infected windows machine.
 

Strange you should say that, I used draw for the first prototypes of the
new house we built next door for my son and his partner. I dare say
there are some other things out there with lots of fancy pre-defined 3-D
house configs etc. But draw did what I needed.
 

Well not yet having met a Linux virus I don't really know but I have a
fair bit of experience of Windows varieties that come for free. I
definitely think in terms of software volume and variety, Windows beats
Linux hands down for viruses.
 

Its interesting how few people you ever come across using voice
recognition software. Bit disturbing in an office environment apart from
anything else.

 
 

Actually I was told my in car satnav is Linux based. Why would I need
that on a computer. There is actually a Linux based cell phone with
built in satnav and then there is the open streetmap project
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
 

The mind boggles - I'm sure it gives some people a lot of pleasure ;-)
 
Ian
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[discuss] Compatibility

Posted: 02 Aug 2006 05:41 AM PDT

bob lyskowski wrote: 

I don't take things that hard in this world. I would be in really shape.

I do agree with compatibility issues between any application. I run
into it almost daily. I just use the tools that work for me that are
the most productive. I wouldn't use Word to edit text either. I would
use WordPad or Notepad if I was editing a text file that I was going to
leave as a text file.

My wife uses Mac, Linux and Windows and OOo is the best across all
platforms. Even MS Office between different Windows machines was
problematic as you have stated. I ran into the same issues with Office
2000 myself.

You did bring up an interesting point on saving a file in an older
format as to what would change. Maybe an improvement to the "Save As
XXX format" could have a "further information button" to explain what
would be lost or changed. But that still would not fix the issue of
saving as a the current format and there being a machine dependent
difference causing issues. Just as you mention the problems you had.

I for one wouldn't like to lose formatting features on imported files
because I will save the documents in odf and then when I am done my
work, export it to the format(s) I need then. In many cases pdf is the
first selection, then the office formats and lastly, text based. In
some cases, all of the above for the same document for different reasons.


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Robin Laing

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[discuss] Microsoft Word

Posted: 01 Aug 2006 10:29 AM PDT

Andy Luddy wrote: 
This is a problem with any closed format files from any old program.
You get a new computer and find that your old files are now not readable.

I have many paradox databases that are not directly usable by me. This
is one of the nice reasons for using odf which is an open and
standardized file format.

At least with odf I can read the documents on Linux, mac or Windows.
Anything that can unzip the file and read XML can read an odf document.


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Robin Laing

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[discuss] Nonprinting Characters

Posted: 31 Jul 2006 10:44 AM PDT

Hi Eicke
 
If a user puts two or more spaces to an end of a line he cannot see his
mistake. But that is the only sense of that visualization. If the user
adds text before this invisible space mistake the spaces slide into the
row and become visible _in the document_. The problem is, that the user
has - with the current configuration of space display - needs to counter
check the whole document for such mistakes each time he inserts text in
the middle or at the beginning of their document.
 
So what - they are invisible in the printed or clean version. The way
the document looks with the invisible characters turned on is of
secondary importance as you will always send it printed out or as pdf or
in any other clean version. The editor in text processing software is a
tool for editing not for viewing.
 
 


Oh ja, I see it is taken care of already :o) Sorry for bothering you
with that.

Regards
Stefan

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[discuss] Writer: Multiple Tabs in Single File

Posted: 29 Jul 2006 08:44 PM PDT

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:56:34 -0500, vineet subramani
<com> wrote:
 

Hi Vineet, I think you should try to get acquainted with our product so
you can get a better understanding of how it works. You will find that
some part of your idea are already implemented and also that we have a
framework so you can modify the code s you can develop the missing parts
to adjust it to your needs.

OOo Writer currently have a windowing system that lets you see different
parts of the same document however they are on different windows (as
opposed to tabs). We also have a compare document function and a tracking
changes function so you can either compare between different people in an
organization.

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Alexandro Colorado
Grupo de Usuarios Linux Tabasco
http://www.gultab.org

OpenOffice.org
Community Contact // Mexico
http://www.openoffice.org

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[discuss] word 5 filter

Posted: 28 Jul 2006 08:29 PM PDT

On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 16:52 +1200, Michael Adams wrote: 

No, there was only one version of word which created ".doc"s which were
really .rtf. I think it was in a very early version of word 97, and
subsequent updates completed the "save as word 6/95" to be as .doc
instead of the interim as .rtf hack.

On "word 5", word 5 should be openable in OOo without any problems.
Being word 5 should be autodetected and opened without anything special
needing to be selected. The Word 5 format is very similiar to the word 6
format, except that everything is contained in a single stream which is
not embedded inside an ole2 wrapper. While Word 6 is all in a single
stream "WordDocument" which is inside an ole2 structured storage
wrapper, and Word 97+ where the WordDocument stream was split into a
number of streams, WordDocument/0Table (or 1Table) and Data streams.

And from 2.0.2 onwards, also the old Word 2 format is also capable of
being opened.

C.

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Help Please : Creating PDFs on the fly and storing to the database

Posted: 26 Jul 2006 12:09 PM PDT

What do you use to convert .odt document to pdf ?

Fabrizio