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Open Office - [discuss] Request for Enhancement: WRITER

[discuss] Request for Enhancement: WRITER

Posted: 13 Jun 2007 01:10 PM PDT

I feel that the usability element of comments and revisions is better
in word in general. They balloon out of the document like natural
annotations - editable, acceptable and rejectable with a click of a
button


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[discuss] here's another one

Posted: 13 Jun 2007 04:34 AM PDT


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Subject: Re: [discuss] Unethical OOo distributers

 

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[discuss] Unethical OOo distributers

Posted: 12 Jun 2007 05:20 PM PDT

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:06:16 -0500, Trevor Farlow <org>
wrote:
 

Is usually a lot of work to police this lists, however I don't know if any
of this scam sites are on our distributor list.



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[discuss] My School

Posted: 11 Jun 2007 01:47 PM PDT

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Hei,

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 21:45 +0100, Chris Monahan wrote: 
:)

great.

That reminds me...i don't know if i'm allowed to make an official
statement, so regard this as inofficial. ;-) Just writing it because it
may be a good encouragement for others...

I never got a MSO license from my workplace, being a freelancer and
hence considered external...and created layouted documents in OOo
exporting to .doc for my company (I'm a graphics designer.).

After doing that for about a year we got a new marketing director, who
is gladly open to opensource and was familiar with OOo. From there it
was a pretty minor step to encouraging the general use of OOo for the
required documents. Just one longish eMail explaining the benefits of
the more stable layout (MSO shifted things all the time).

OOo got installed on the computers of the involved employees and the
workflow uses native ODF now.

Andr=C3=A9.


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[discuss] Introduction

Posted: 06 Jun 2007 05:37 PM PDT

James E. Pearman, P.E. wrote:
 

Thanks for your offer, helping as a tester is a good way to support the
project. In case you are interested to join OOo testing please go to the
qa.openoffice.org website. There you should find all necessary instructions.

Best regards,
Mathias

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[discuss] Vista Version of Open Office

Posted: 06 Jun 2007 05:36 PM PDT

OpenOffice should run fine on vista - some software needs explicit
'vista versions' however that probably indicates either a poor
standard of design, or a dependence upon a certain internal feature
that has been changed in vista.

From what i've heard OpenOffice is currently -compatible- with vista,
and the developers are working on enhanced vista integration in later
versions.

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[discuss] Suggestions: Locales and network printers

Posted: 06 Jun 2007 05:50 AM PDT

Christian Foerg wrote:
 

Yes, I forgot to add this: Calc behaves like Draw/Impress (accessing
printer while saving) but *additionally* accesses the printer when the
file is modified.
 

Yes, we don't read any printer information from "alien" formats.

I think most problems in this area will vanish in OOo2.3. We also plan
to add an option to ignore printer settings in documents completely but
I'm unsure whether we can implement this until feature deadline for 2.3.

Ciao,
Mathias

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[discuss] New Purchaser

Posted: 04 Jun 2007 04:33 PM PDT

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Dear Catherine

Son't give up! I am sorry you have had these problems. If you let me
have your address I will send you a copy of StarOffice 8 which you
should find will be OK

Kind Regards

Michael Johnson

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 19:13, CATHERINE TURNER wrote:
 

Michael Johnson
Director
BPEnet Limited Robin Hill Cottage Fairfield Road Eastbourne BN20 7NA
Tel: 0870 9220247


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Son't give up! I am sorry you have had these problems. If you let me have your address I will send you a copy of StarOffice 8 which you should find will be OK<BR>
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Michael Johnson<BR>
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On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 19:13, CATHERINE TURNER wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>I purchased this product Saturday. It never downloaded. The set up downloaded, but the product itself never downloaded. I have been trying to get in touch with ANYONE!!!.

I was sent an e-mail that said to go on: </FONT><A HREF="http://wwwOfficeBest"><U>http://wwwOfficeBest</U></A><FONT COLOR="#737373"> Deal.com/ac9811htm to download etc, etc. I attempted to so and was unable to get onto this website. I feel that this is a rip off.

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[discuss] Mac Version

Posted: 02 Jun 2007 06:13 PM PDT


On 06/06/2007, at 12:46 AM, John Orr wrote:
 
 

Well, it turns out the pre-alpha release of OpenOffice.org for the =20
Mac using native libraries is now available.
My first observations after a quick look:

* It is pre-alpha and lives up to that - it is VERY unstable (e.g. =20
hit the spellcheck on a blank document and it crashed)
* It is still matching NeoOffice for speed (very slow!). This is =20
acceptable currently as optimisation is a later issue after =20
functionality.
* The interface is fully integrated with the Mac UI and looks quite =20
nice.
* There was a small issue I believe in trying to resize the document =20
window. I had to double click to stop the mouse from resizing the =20
window?

Regards
Jonathon
 
 
 

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[discuss] double spacing for numbering

Posted: 30 May 2007 12:36 AM PDT

On 30/05/07, com <com> wrote: 

Why do people find exploring interfaces so hard...

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[discuss] Feature Report

Posted: 29 May 2007 04:49 PM PDT

> There is a general principal in ralational databases that the 

er, yeah - but the order of the data entered is persistent in the
-interface-... go make a new view and you'll see what order it is in
by default

So the designers made the decision that a particular attribute 'is not
important' it only comes to bite you in the ass every so often.
Intiutive? no....


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[discuss] Book-Fold Feature

Posted: 24 May 2007 04:07 PM PDT

This feature already exists...it is called booklet printing, and is
accomplished by treating it as a brochure.

This is a pasting from the help file in Writer...I've printed booklets from
writer using these directions:

Printing a Brochure
You can print a Writer document as a brochure or a booklet. That is, Writer
prints two pages on each side of the paper, so that when you fold the paper,
you can read the document as a book.
When you create a document that you want to print as a brochure, use
portrait orientation for the pages. Writer applies the brochure layout when
you print the document.
To Print a Brochure
1.Choose File - Print.
2.In the Print dialog, click Properties.
3.In the properties dialog for your printer, set the paper orientation to
landscape.

If your printer prints duplex, and because brochures always print in
landscape mode, you should use the "duplex - short edge" setting in your
printer setup dialog.

4.Return to Print dialog, and click Options.
5.In the Pages area of the Printer Options dialog, select Brochure.
6.For a printer that automatically prints on both sides of a page, specify
to print right pages and left pages.
7.In the Print dialog, click OK.
If you print a document in portrait on a landscape page, two opposing sides
in a brochure will be printed next to each other. If you have a printer with
double-sided printing capability, then you can create an entire brochure
from your document without having to collate the pages later. If you have a
printer that only has single-sided printing capability, then you can achieve
this effect by first printing out the front pages with the Right pages
option marked, then re-inserting the entire paper stack in your printer and
printing all the back pages with the Left pages option marked.

If OpenOffice.org prints the pages in the wrong order, open the Printer
Options dialog, select Reversed, and then print the document again.




Sincerely,
Andrew Robertson
Export Manager
derma e® Natural Bodycare
ph. 805-582-2710 xt. 244
fx. 805-582-2730
net
www.dermae.net





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Paul wrote: 

I think it is more like a macro that will calculate the pages printed on
both sides of a page to create a booklet/book section.

Think of it as if you take a small booklet apart. On a sheet, you could
have pages 1 and 14 printed on one side of the sheet and 2 and 13 on
the other side. The center of the page is the staple point. The next
page would print out 3,12 and 4,11.

This would be a handy macro for self publishing.


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[discuss] most disappointed!

Posted: 22 May 2007 05:12 PM PDT

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 15:21 +1000, Pierre wrote:
 

Responding to criticism is different to responding to flamebait. While
you can question the usefulness of responding to flaimbait, I didn't see
any honest criticism in the OP. Childish fools deserve to be treated as
such. Keep in mind this guy posted *once*, and asked for assistance once
less than this.
 

Hmmmm ...

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[discuss] Bug or Problem?

Posted: 22 May 2007 03:29 PM PDT

Chris Monahan wrote: 
Next time this happens, select the " I have already box" and click OK.
Hope this helps

Udub

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[discuss] Suggestions for Open Office

Posted: 17 May 2007 03:25 PM PDT

Quoting Robin Laing <gc.ca>:
 

OpenOffice.org already has their HTML editor. Just go to New > HTML Document

I do wish they have better CSS support on the stylist.
 

You can do this with making a template that include pagination with a =20
0 offset on it and make it the default.

to do this booklet options usually I preffer using OOo Draw which =20
allow you more flexibility. Word processors are awful DP tools.
 



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[discuss] Still Immoral to Support Microsoft

Posted: 14 May 2007 05:26 AM PDT

Why people keep saying about 'steal' being based of something doesn't =20
mean still. The minix developer has come to the front a couple of =20
years ago and said that Linus never stole anything from the minix =20
kernel.

Minix in itself hasn't stole anything from Unix nor BSD have stolen =20
from AT&T. They were all based of, inspired, copy the concept but not =20
the code.


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