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Re: no answers to my question

Ken Springer — 2013-05-23T23:47:05

<snip>


FWIW, all three will Save As in MS Office formats, for those that need 
to share a file with someone else.  In addition, OS X allows you to save 
that file as a PDF file from the Save/Save As print dialog.

The downside of saving as MS Office format, I think you are l likely to 
lose some formatting the OS X are capable of that MS formats are not.  I 
know this is true for Keynote to PowerPoint files.

As for the other two...  I never liked Pages, just a personal 
preference, so don't use it.  But, our club newsletter creator has 
created quite the results with Pages.  I'm not sure I'd want to tackle 
it in MS Word.  As for Numbers, never used it, as to me all the 
spreadsheets may as well be identical.  I use a spreadsheet for simple 
number crunching, not a graphing program, or database program.

I have to say, some will, but you have to understand the results might 
not be what you want.  That's a problem with importing any file created 
by any program, in either direction, as I noted with Keyno

Re: no answers to my question, ...

Tom Davies — 2013-05-23T21:32:29

Re: Re: no answers to my question

Anthony Easthope — 2013-05-23T20:49:34

I did some initial research on this. It seems that .pages ect formats
work in the same way as ODF formats in the fact they are some form of
compressed archive. I was able to explore them through a archive such as
7zip. 

On Thu, 23 May 2013, at 01:07 PM, Tom Davies wrote:

Re: Missing font from font list

Kracked_P_P---webmaster — 2013-05-23T19:02:16

I never tried using the terminal to install fonts.
I do not have any good book reference to all of the things that can be 
done that way.

Problem with Menu Bar in 4.0.3

Ida Louise Johnson — 2013-05-23T18:24:35

I was able to upgrade to 4.0.3 from 3.5 but could not install the help. I
get the message unable to locate package.

I am able to open my spreadsheet, but can't access the menu bar. When I
click on the options of the menu bar, I get the drop down menu but the menu
is black and I can't see the options. If there is an arrow on the drop down
menu, the option is white and once again I can't see the option.

My operating system is Ubuntu 12.04. I would love to be able to sort my
spreadsheet, but at this time it's impossible without access to the menu
bar.


Some of it's magic! Some of it's tragic! But I've had a good life always! -
Jimmy Buffett

*Ida Louise*
Researching: Johnson, Major, Roberts, Higgs, Turnquest, Barry/Berry, Dean

Re: Missing font from font list

Peter Hillier-Brook — 2013-05-23T17:00:14

You probably forgot to update the font cache 'sudo fc-cache -f' when you
placed them in /usr/share...

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Re: Missing font from font list

Warner White — 2013-05-23T15:02:08

SOLVED!

Thanks to all of you for patiently talking this through with me until I found the problem.

It was this--

First I put my fonts into /usr/share/fonts/truetype and when that didn't work, I put them into home/.fonts. I remembered that just now and deleted them from the former to see what would happen. And it solved the problem. Now I have them all recognized and working.

But it's odd that the malfunction was so selective about which fonts not to set up properly.
 
Warner White
12 Harbor Watch Road
Burlington VT 05401
http://www.warnerwhite.org

Re: Missing font from font list

Kracked_P_P---webmaster — 2013-05-23T14:11:15

Have you any other versions of those fonts?
I wonder if the font files are corrupted.

I did not have that problem for me.



On 05/23/2013 10:05 AM, Warner White wrote:

Re: Missing font from font list

Warner White — 2013-05-23T14:05:41

I opened the font files with font viewer and they all list as already installed. And they show up in LO's font listing, but whenever I try to use one I just get a blank--the insert cursor disappears and no text. But if I change to, say, Arial, then the text reappears.

So the fonts are installed or sort of half-installed, and LO recognizes them to the extent of listing them, but refuses to use them.
 
Warner White
12 Harbor Watch Road
Burlington VT 05401
http://www.warnerwhite.org

Re: [Solved] Re: 4.0.3.3 - Thanks!

M Henri Day — 2013-05-23T13:34:20

2013/5/23 Tom <tomdavies04< at >yahoo.co.uk>


Kudos to the LO developers - and to the foundation, which makes their work
possible ! They are worth all praise !...

Henri

Re: Missing font from font list

Kracked_P_P---webmaster — 2013-05-23T13:26:36

OK
I just installed some of the listed fonts to my Ubuntu 13.04/MATE laptop.
I used the
"highlight" > right-click > open with the font viewer.

Then I install the fonts with the "install button".

I had not problems.


On 05/23/2013 09:11 AM, Warner White wrote:

Re: Missing font from font list

Warner White — 2013-05-23T13:11:15

I am using Ubuntu, not Windows.

The fonts are ttf.
 
Warner White
12 Harbor Watch Road
Burlington VT 05401
http://www.warnerwhite.org

Re: Missing font from font list

Kracked_P_P---webmaster — 2013-05-23T13:08:18

Is the font .ttf or .otf?

I know that some systems will allow you to just put the font in the font 
folder, with no issues, but I find that if you do a font install 
procedure, it may work better - for some systems.

I forget, are you using Win7 or other Windows OS?

For Windows, have you used their font installation procedure or did you 
just place the font into the font folder? Each Windows font install 
procedure seems to be a little different.  I tend to place all my 
to-be-installed fonts in their own folder. Then I use 
Control-Panel/Fonts and add the fonts there - for the older version of 
Windows.  For the newer versions of Windows. I just highlight the list 
of font files and right-click them and use the "install" option.  I 
never just place the fonts into the system's font folder directly.

Re: Missing font from font list

Warner White — 2013-05-23T12:58:09

Hi--

Tom, I'm not sure that your response is to me. "That should work" doesn't compute & I've already given the details you ask for. But here goes again.

I'm running Ubuntu 13.04, LO 4.0.3.3.

When I open an rtf file that I use frequently all I get is the headings. The text body lines have disappeared. If I do Control-A and change to Arial, I get the text body lines. So it's a question of fonts.

First question: Previously, it seems to me, when a font was missing LO substituted another. This is the first time I've seen just blanks. Am I not remembering correctly or has something changed in LO?

The fonts I want to use -- Trebuchet and Candara -- show up in the list of fonts in LO, but whenever I change to one of them I get a blank line, no insert cursor.

I have followed my customary procedure for installing fonts--
I copy the fonts into home/.fonts.

I tried AbiWord to see if I get the same problem there. Yes, I do. But when I go through the font list some fonts make text in Abi and not in LO, and vice v

Re: Image wrapping

Kracked_P_P---webmaster — 2013-05-23T12:51:49


What version are you using and what OS?
  4.0.2? 4.0.3?
Win7, Win8? Mac? Linux?

What type of image?  JPEG, PNG?
How large it is in file size?


Let me get it correct. . .


You click on the image/picture.  Then you go to Format and the wrap, 
anchor, alignment, etc. are all grayed out.  Then you try right clicking 
on the image and the wrap/contour option - it crashes.

I just tried it on an image, that is a part of a LO brochure, with 4.0.3 
on 64-bit Debian install and it worked fine and no crashing.

So it may be in your install version or something got messed up in your 
user profile.

Try renaming your user profile and then when you open LO, a new clean 
one will be created.  If that does not work, then it may be the install 
itself.  Uninstall LO completely and reinstall it.


On 05/22/2013 07:29 PM, Tom Davies wrote:

Re: Re: Base to Heroku PostgreSQL requires "SSL=true"

Tom Davies — 2013-05-23T12:26:58

Hi :)
The link for bug-reporting
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
Regards from
Tom :)

DDE link works wierd, at least to me

Rodney D. Myers — 2013-05-23T12:08:48

Linux Mint 13
LibreOffice 4.0

When linking cells within one spreadsheet, to another spreadsheet, all
within the same folder. I am getting this error message, after I press
the "this file contains links to other files. Should they be updated?";


"The following DDE source could not be updated possibly because the
source document was not open. Please launch the source document and try
again.

Source : file:Legion-Post2-Ledger-BLDG-2013.ods
Element : June_2013.F31
Type : soffice"

Why should I have the secondary spreadsheet open. This makes no sense
to me.

Re: Base to Heroku PostgreSQL requires "SSL=true"

Richard Broersma — 2013-05-23T11:17:31

LO: Version 4.0.2.2 (Build ID: 400m0(Build:2))
OS: Ubuntu 13.04
Java:
java version "1.7.0_21"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.3.9) (7u21-2.3.9-1ubuntu1)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)


Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into opening a bug report.



On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood< at >gmail.com

subscription problems

Tom Davies — 2013-05-23T11:38:11

Hi :)
I think you have both not quite completed the subscription 
process.  I'm not sure what has gone wrong.  I think you have both sent a
 blank mail to;

users+subscribe< at >global.libreoffice.org

or to
users+subscribe-nomail< at >global.libreoffice.org
(this 2nd one if you plan to use Nabble to read the list and don't want the emails going directly to your email's inbox)

Usually
 the problem happens at the next step.  You are supposed to get a 
confirmation email which you have to respond to.  Again it can be a 
blank email as no-one reads it (afaik), it just gets processed by a bot 
of some sort.  The usual problem is that the confirmation email goes 
into your junk or spam folder rather than into your inbox.  

Have
 you had your confirmation email and replied to it?  Please let me know 
so i can try to find out what else might have gone wrong or forwards 
your issue to the postmaster.  

Regards from
Tom :)

Re: Re: no answers to my question

Tom Davies — 2013-05-23T11:07:48

Hi :)
Thanks Alex!  I guess we would rather have devs working on more widely used stuff.  It's always possible to put these ideas forwards possibly for Extensions and just see if that sparks a new dev into working on LibreOffice.  I was wondering if there was already an Extension for OpenOffice or something lurking around some long forgotten corner of the internet but i guess the original poster would have already tried googling for that sort of thing.  

I found the link that i keep losing
http://blog.freedomsponsors.org/about/
but if Apple are no longer supporting their own formats then i doubt anyone else will be keen to!
Regard from
Tom :)

Re: no answers to my question

Alexander Thurgood — 2013-05-23T10:44:46

Le 22/05/13 20:45, Tom Davies a écrit :

Hi Tom,


Seriously, I doubt that anyone is going to volunteer to provide Claris
or Appleworks support. These are old binary formats.


Now, Pages/Numbers/Keynote support might interest more people, but for
that you would need a Mac developer with some serious time on his/her
hands and at the moment there aren't many floating around in this project.

To my knowledge, not even other apps on OSX can open the
Pages/Numbers/Keynote files. One would have thought that if the problem
of interoperability with these formats was that acute, then some bright
Mac spark would have developed an app that could do just that, convert
them to something more useful.


Alex