Re: Lost info

2014-11-16 Thread Felmon Davis
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Rod Huxley wrote: THANKS ...WILL GIVE IT A TRY it will prob be an unusable mess but try making a copy of the file and changing the extension to .zip. put it in a directory somewhere and unzip it. rummage around in 'content.xml' and see if you can do anything with it. so

Re: What is environment variable to set openoffice user config file in $HOME/.openoffice/4?

2014-11-16 Thread jupiter
Thanks Urmas and Andrea for point me the configuration parameters. Yes, I built from the source package 4.1.1 (hope it is the right last release official version :-)). While changing set up in bootstraprc is fine, I am wondering if can I set the variables in build command? I might not be clear fo

Re: help?

2014-11-16 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 04:24:26 + Rebecca E wrote: > Hello, > > > I was wondering if you can help me with a problem I am having. My open office > all of a sudden has red lines under all of the words and I have made sure > that the language settings are all correct and nothing has fixed it. H

help?

2014-11-16 Thread Rebecca E
Hello, I was wondering if you can help me with a problem I am having. My open office all of a sudden has red lines under all of the words and I have made sure that the language settings are all correct and nothing has fixed it. Help? Sent from Windows Mail

Re: Lost info

2014-11-16 Thread Rod Huxley
THANKS ...WILL GIVE IT A TRY -Original Message- From: Alexandro Colorado Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 9:17 AM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Lost info That means that your file is corrupt. The best way to configure AOO under these circumstances is to enable the auto-sa

Re: Lost info

2014-11-16 Thread jonathon
On 16/11/14 21:51, Rod Huxley wrote: Question: How do/can I recover this information. There is outside possibility that if you go to /home/user-name/.openoffice/4/user/backup/ (linux) C:/users/user-name/Application Data/OpenOffice.org/4/user/backup/ (windows) or a variant of that path, you w

Re: convert picture to OCR ODT

2014-11-16 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 05:53:40 + Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:36:33 -0800 > Reginald Bezzola wrote: > > > I have a Canon Multifunction laser MF4150 from which I scanned a text file, > > which scanned as a picture, is there a way to convert it to a text file? > > Converting

Re: convert picture to OCR ODT

2014-11-16 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:36:33 -0800 Reginald Bezzola wrote: > I have a Canon Multifunction laser MF4150 from which I scanned a text file, > which scanned as a picture, is there a way to convert it to a text file? > Converting a BMP, JPG to a word processing file which can be edited? > > thanks m

Re: convert picture to OCR ODT

2014-11-16 Thread Doug
On 11/16/2014 10:36 PM, Reginald Bezzola wrote: I have a Canon Multifunction laser MF4150 from which I scanned a text file, which scanned as a picture, is there a way to convert it to a text file? Converting a BMP, JPG to a word processing file which can be edited? thanks much, with blessings,

convert picture to OCR ODT

2014-11-16 Thread Reginald Bezzola
I have a Canon Multifunction laser MF4150 from which I scanned a text file, which scanned as a picture, is there a way to convert it to a text file? Converting a BMP, JPG to a word processing file which can be edited? thanks much, with blessings, ... Reg reg...@att.net

Re: Lost info

2014-11-16 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Alexandro - Thank you for that reminder. It caused me to check my save settings and I noted with horror that I had left the saving interval setting at the default 15 minutes. Fortunately I have not yet had an issue, but I was very glad to correct the interval before having an issue. On Sun, Nov

Re: Lost info

2014-11-16 Thread Alexandro Colorado
That means that your file is corrupt. The best way to configure AOO under these circumstances is to enable the auto-save feature located on Tools -> Options -> Load/Save -> General Reduce the minutes of saving, and also enable the option of: - Edit document properties before saving - Always save a

Lost info

2014-11-16 Thread Rod Huxley
I have an Acer (all in one) desktop computer. Z5610. I was having trouble with continual instantaneous shutdowns. This I found was/is a problem with this unit, which I have now fixed. However, in one of these “shutdowns”, I lost all info on 2 spreadsheets that I was using. Now when I open th

Re: Your ad on my computer

2014-11-16 Thread user
Hello Paul I Thinks its a good idea to tell your friends about THIS story and warn them about this unofficial websites like www. downloadfree.openoffice. com (and how they all called) which are spreading maleware! the same problem occures with other popular OSS like VLC Player. My advise: Tel

Re: What is environment variable to set openoffice user config file in $HOME/.openoffice/4?

2014-11-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
jupiter wrote: It should be in $HOME/.openoffice/4, how can I set the environment value to let the program create the configuration directory under the user home directory? Is this with the official version or with the version you built? With the official version you need to edit the file ...

Re: Activation codes

2014-11-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Urmas wrote: All that could have been avoided if OpenOffice signed its binaries. But they are too cheap to do that simple step. We simply take it very seriously. You can find updates from October at https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/code_signing_service_now_available and you can expect conc

Re: What is environment variable to set openoffice user config file in $HOME/.openoffice/4?

2014-11-16 Thread Urmas
"jupiter": What is the "UserInstallation" value from .../program/bootstraprc ? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Where to add PDF Import aoo-pdf-import-0.1.0-linux-x86-64.oxt?

2014-11-16 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:12:40 +1100 jupiter wrote: > Hi, > > I've just downloaded aoo-pdf-import-0.1.0-linux-x86-64.oxt, but have > no idea where to add this file. Appreciate your advice. > > Thank you. > > Regards, > > - hce Either start OpenOffice and use /Tools /Extensions > Add and point

Re: Activation codes

2014-11-16 Thread Urmas
"Rosemarie Brisciana": I'm invited to spend 4.5 euros for a first activiation code, then another 4.5 euros for a second one. All that could have been avoided if OpenOffice signed its binaries. But they are too cheap to do that simple step. -

Re: Activation codes

2014-11-16 Thread James Knott
On 11/16/2014 04:59 AM, Rosemarie Brisciana wrote: > When I try to do so and am connected to an official page, I'm invited to > spend 4.5 euros for a first activiation code, You have downloaded it from somewhere other than www.openoffice.org. There are sites that charge for something that's free

Where to add PDF Import aoo-pdf-import-0.1.0-linux-x86-64.oxt?

2014-11-16 Thread jupiter
Hi, I've just downloaded aoo-pdf-import-0.1.0-linux-x86-64.oxt, but have no idea where to add this file. Appreciate your advice. Thank you. Regards, - hce - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For a

Re: Your ad on my computer

2014-11-16 Thread user
Then i thinks its a good idea to tell this story to your firends and warn them about this sites like www . freedownload.openoffice. com (and how they all called). the same problem with modified versions exists with other popular programs like VLC Player (official videolan.org) and i know people

What is environment variable to set openoffice user config file in $HOME/.openoffice/4?

2014-11-16 Thread jupiter
Hi, I am running openoffice in a CentOS 6, it tried to create a configuration directory .openoffice/4 under the binary source directory and got permission issues as I cannot access /usr/lib64/openoffice.org4/program/.openoffice/4. It should be in $HOME/.openoffice/4, how can I set the environment

Re: Activation codes

2014-11-16 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:59:32 +0100 (CET) Rosemarie Brisciana wrote: > Hello, > >   > > As a great user in France of all the Open Office products, I am experiencing > problems with the update, and am currently using the 4.1.0 edition. Every > time I click to open or create a document, I'm inv

Re: Activation codes

2014-11-16 Thread akkurtb
Never will openoffice ask you a fee. Immediately, uninstall the software, browse to http://openoffice.org and download the real package. BA Sent from Samsung tablet Original message From: Rosemarie Brisciana Date: 16/11/2014 11:59 (GMT+02:00) To: users@openoffice.apach

Activation codes

2014-11-16 Thread Rosemarie Brisciana
Hello,   As a great user in France of all the Open Office products, I am experiencing problems with the update, and am currently using the 4.1.0 edition. Every time I click to open or create a document, I'm invited to update to 4.1.1.   When I try to do so and am connected to an official pag