Announcing: New Lithuanian Webpage for OpenOffice

2014-06-26 Thread Rob Weir
Thanks to the efforts of Aivaras Stepukonis we now have a new native-language website for Lithuanian! http://www.openoffice.org/lt/ If anyone is interested in helping translate the core website (around 30 pages) send a note to l...@openoffice.apache.org and we can help you get started. Regards,

Re: Please remove my info

2014-05-31 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 9:07 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: > > On Sat, May 31, 2014 3:00 pm, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> Good catch, Brian! I'll remove that document in one week if nobody >> objects. If the document is still there in one week, feel free to send a >> reminder. > > considering the nature o

OPENOFFICE USERS LIST -- PLEASE READ

2014-05-15 Thread Rob Weir
The Apache mailing lists have been down due to a hardware failure. More information can be found on the ASF Infrastructure blog here: https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/mail_outage If you are reading this note that means that the lists are back up (yeah!) and the queued up list traffic is now b

Re: Remove me from this mailing list . This is my 3rd request

2014-05-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Tony Gallas wrote: > Please, if you cannot contribute anything constructive, do not post > anything. Direct comments such as these to C3PO. > +1. This is a "working" list, not a free discussion or a chat list. Every post we write goes out to over 500 other busy

Apache OpenOffice Weekly News #3

2014-05-05 Thread Rob Weir
https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_weekly_news_3 Contributions for next week's issue are welcome on the wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40508638 Regards, -Rob --- List Conduct Guidelines: http://op

Re: Open Office 4.1.0 - McAfee Couldn't Verify

2014-04-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Issy & Vern wrote: >> McAfee gave me a red shield with a warning that it could not verify the >> supplier of the software. > > I wonder if this is realted to the Windows feature of digitally > signing ex

A Reminder on List Conduct Guidelines

2014-04-28 Thread Rob Weir
Please remember our list conduct guidelines, which can be found here: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html A link to them appears in the footer of every post on the list as well. In particular, note the headers of "Respect one another", "Be nice", "Don't respond when you're angry" and

OpenOffice Weekly News #2

2014-04-28 Thread Rob Weir
The new issue is out and you can find it here: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_weekly_news_2 Remember, this is powered by your submissions. So be sure to add new stories to the wiki, so we have material ready for next week: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage

Re: Shame on you.

2014-04-28 Thread Rob Weir
exactly what occurred and who is to blame. I can assure you it was not us. Regards, -Rob Weir, Apache OpenOffice Security Team On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Terry Lugviel wrote: > It's bullshit that you trick us into installing crap malware that includes > home page hijackers li

Re: HeartBleed bug

2014-04-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Maurice Howe wrote: > According to MalwareBytes, Apache is very vulnerable to the HeartBleed bug. > Any truth in that? Here's what they say: > > Cheers, > Maurice Howe > > "It is a bug in OPEN SSL. It affects version 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f > (inclusive), and it affe

Re: OpenOffice Weekly News #1

2014-04-25 Thread Rob Weir
es have an associated Atom feed. If you look around you'll find numerous services that will let you receive an email notification based on feed updates. Some email clients also have built-in feed support. Regards, -Rob > Cheers > > > > > On 21 Apr 2014, at 13:48, Rob Weir w

Re: How long to fix a bug?

2014-04-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:10 AM, wrote: > How long does it take to fix a bug, please? > It depends on the bug. Some get fixed quickly. Some may never be fixed. > And is there any point in reporting them? > Yes. Even if a bug is not quickly fixed it is good for the developers to know what

Re: Really need help.

2014-04-23 Thread Rob Weir
Sounds like this issue: http://technofyi.com/2013/11/25/dismiss-pesky-last-time-opened-openoffice-popup/ -Rob On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Oda Andersen wrote: > Hello, I use open office at school.. Suddenly clicked entire program and now > it says: "The last time you opened OpenOffice.org,

Re: Open Office Writer Issue

2014-04-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:34:56 +0100 > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am a user of your Apache Open Office product, I have recently experienced >> some problems with my OO Writer files where all my files are returning a >> mess of ASCII Garble ins

Re: James Ho is on leave from 21 April to 27 April 2014.

2014-04-22 Thread Rob Weir
Hi James, Your "out of the office" notes are being sent to the many hundred subscribers of the OpenOffice users mailing list. This is not good. Could you check your mail client for how to prevent this from happening? There usually is an "exceptions" rule that you can define. I've unsubscribed

OpenOffice Weekly News #1

2014-04-21 Thread Rob Weir
The first issue is out and you can find it here: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_weekly_news_1 Remember, this is powered by your submissions. So be sure to add new stories to the wiki, so we have material ready for next week: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpa

Re: Any thoughts on Tutor.com's policy of "MS Word only"?

2014-04-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Jeffrey Deutsch wrote: > Hi Jack, > > Excellent point about following directions in general -- that deserves its > own discussion, probably on a career forum. > > My question is: What are your (collective) thoughts on this specific > direction? For example, is it t

The Apache Software Foundation Announces 100 Million Downloads of Apache™ OpenOffice™

2014-04-17 Thread Rob Weir
[Rob: Please help spread the word by sharing this link with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.] >> this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/4BL Leading Open Source office application and personal productivity suite for Windows, Mac, and Linux reaches a majo

Re: Please cancel my online account.

2014-04-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:45 PM, japples wrote: > Andrea - SourceForge is noted in this article on the HeartBleed bug. Do not > know how accurate the information is - See Affected Services > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed#Websites_and_web_services > The linked blog post from SourceForge

Reminder: Make sure you are included in our AOO 4.1 "credits" page

2014-04-08 Thread Rob Weir
The Help/About box of OpenOffice has a link to this "credits" page: http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html We link to that page from our website and mention it in release announcements. That page links to this wiki page for a list of our volunteers: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d

Re: Permission to use Firefox Browser

2014-04-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Dave Barton wrote: > Original Message > From: Administrator > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 09:27:45 +0800 > >> Dear Open Office, >> >> BPD Kaltim is one of Region Bank in Indonesia, our central office located at >> Sama

Re: Replacement login information for Rastadog at Apache OpenOffice Templates

2014-04-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:08 AM, wrote: > Dear Sirs or automated reply unit: > On behalf of all the other subscribers to this list who are equally confused as to what you are talking about, I'll just say that downloading Apache OpenOffice requires no login or personal information. You just go

Re: NEED HELP

2014-03-26 Thread Rob Weir
Several great answers to this question, but the original poster probably saw none of them ;-) It is a pain, but remember, users are not required to subscribe. So be sure to cc your response to their email address, not just the list address. If you are curious in checking to see if any particular

Re: Apache signature good but no public key

2014-03-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Shawn Pringle wrote: > In attempting to verify > /Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.1_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz with the KEYS I > got from https://people.apache.org/keys/group/openoffice.asc, gpg reported > "Can't check signature: public key not found". Here is th

Re: Your Adress

2014-03-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Roberto Santana wrote: > Hi > Do not see any mention in your Terms and Conditions of use of > http://www.openoffice.org/contact_us.html of your Adress, for Admin or for > any eventual Legal reason, or to contribute to be able to ensure funds > arrive the right orga

Fwd: OO 4.1 and accessibility support

2014-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
Forwarding to Claus, in case he is not subscribed. As Steve says, entering the issue into our Bugzilla issue tracking system is best if you have a defect to report. But if you just want to discuss a possible issue and find out if it is a known bug or expected behavior, then the mailing list is f

Re: Charges

2014-03-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Catrina Clark wrote: > I on behalf of my brother created a resume last week on your software. In > order to access and download it, Open Office had us purchase access for > what was supposed to be $2.95 for seven days. However on more than one try, > the site infor

AOO 4.1 Beta Survey

2014-03-19 Thread Rob Weir
If you have been trying the Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Beta we'd like to get your feedback. You can find our Beta survey here: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/732688/ If you have not yet tried our Beta, and want to, you can read more about it on our blog: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/se

Re: APACHE OPEN OFFICE - COMMERCIAL USE ENQUIRY

2014-03-14 Thread Rob Weir
our project's blog. We are always looking for interesting and compelling stories from users. If this sounds interesting, let me know and I'll follow up with you. Rob Weir, Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee > Look forward for your response . > > Thank

Re: cannot open .docx document

2014-03-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Suzanne wrote: > I have used Open Office for years, on a few computers. > My new computer uses Windows 7, and I am unable to open .docx files. > Will Open Office not open docx files? What version of OpenOffice are you using? What error message are you seeing? T

Re: My document won't show up

2014-03-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:52 PM, wrote: > > > > > I have had countless problems with this program, and am beginning to HATE it. > I think that the only reason that I’m actually bothering with it is that I > need the document I saved. > > > > > At first, the only thing happening was that I could

Re: Question on Licensing

2014-03-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Amit Pange wrote: > Hi, > > > > We are planning to install Open Office for our colleagues. Do we need to > buy any licenses to use open office? > > > > I read something on the website regarding Apache 2 License. But I was > wondering if the Open Office is a free to

Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Tom Panfil wrote: > >> These people *cannot* send from their Remailer Addresses. > > > They do, if they use GMail SMTP servers which allow setting up "aliases" > for sending email. > And remember, Moderat

Re: Need Help - Solved, got help

2014-03-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Klaus Muth wrote: > Quick update. > > Since I was really interested in password security of OpenOffice, Vanessa had > not much trouble to talk me into giving it a try. So I compiled an MPI > version of john and started it on my i7-2600 4-core 3.4GHz on 7 CPUs, John

Re: Securing Open Office

2014-03-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Kirby, Wayne wrote: > Good evening. > > > > Is there a guidance document to secure Open Office? > Hi -- OpenOffice is configured to be suitable for most users right out-of-the-box. For example. macro security is set to require confirmation before executing unsigne

Apache OpenOffice Writer Usability Survey

2014-02-26 Thread Rob Weir
We invite you to take a brief survey on your use of Apache OpenOffice Writer. This survey is part of a larger usability study of OpenOffice usability by researchers at the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Polytechnic University of Madrid. You can read more about this research project "Usa

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2

2014-02-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > Around this time last year we invited you to send us your questions > about Apache OpenOffice, the things you always wondered about the > product, or questions about the OpenOffice open source project. > > We had you enter these

Re: Quarterly release: STIG_Library.zip

2014-01-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Saunders, Thomas D. II wrote: > To Whom it may concern: > I have questions in regarding how to configure Open Office securely to > conform to DOD guidelines and policies. Do you have some guide in how to > configure Open Office to a secure environment? Hi Tom,

Re: File formats for the Draw program

2014-01-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: > I would like to draw some figures using Draw to be used in a LaTex document, > but as far as I can see, none of the file formats offered in that programs > are used in Latex. Are there (a) some kind of addition to OpenOffice that > c

Updated List Conduct Guidelines

2014-01-17 Thread Rob Weir
Updated List Conduct Guidelines have been posted to the website: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html The main addition is item 10, which describes the role of list moderators. Regards, -Rob, Your Friendly Mailing List Moderator ---

Re: autocorrect file

2014-01-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Sandra Clark wrote: > I used Open Office 4 on a Vista computer. I now have another computer with > Windows8. Where is my autocorrect file on the Vista computer and where do I > copy it to my Windows 8 computer? > Hi Sandra, On your old computer launch OpenOffice

Fwd: AOO 4.1 Feature Verification Test needs your help -- Call for volunteers!

2014-01-17 Thread Rob Weir
A good opportunity to test-drive AOO 4.1, in a pre-beta form. I wouldn't recommend using pre-release code for real work, but if you are curious and can help run some test cases (we have 945 test cases remaining) you can help us reach our beta-release target. Read on for more details about how to

Tracking document corruption reports

2014-01-16 Thread Rob Weir
I've created a short survey related to document corruption issues, specifically the kind where the contents of a file is replaced by hash marks. The survey asks the user for information related to the circumstances of the issue, the machine configuration, OpenOffice settings, etc. The hope is tha

Re: List Management Software [Was: spell check]

2014-01-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Dave Barton wrote: >> >> it would be a big help if the list software could be >> configured to tag the subject line of messages that had passed >> moderation with something like [MODERATED]. This was done (albeit not >> with 100% reliably)

Re: spell check

2014-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Scooter wrote: > Shouldn't it be a requirement that if you want an answer to your question, > you be a member of the group? Else, what's the point? I Know you'll say "I > don't mind." but again what's the point. > Any one can send a note to the list, though posts

Re: Draft of document corruption survey

2014-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Steve Ahlers wrote: >> Rob, >> >> A question about how frequently update/download patches for OS >> Never >> Rarely >> Monthly >>

Re: Draft of document corruption survey

2014-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
eft MY computer for several hours... > Thanks, I made those changes. I also added a question suggested by Martin, about whether more than one document was open. And I added a question asking whether any OpenOffice extensions were installed, and which ones. -Rob > Steve > Sent from my iPad

Draft of document corruption survey

2014-01-14 Thread Rob Weir
http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/334187/lang-en The idea here is to have a systematic way to collect information related to the "hash mark" issue that we see reported from some users. If we can point the users to a survey like this, we can collect all the relevant information in one place a

Re: Next steps for the AOO users list

2014-01-10 Thread Rob Weir
w.vcps.com.au > > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Hagar Delest wrote: > >> Le 08/01/2014 23:21, Rob Weir a écrit : >> >>> I'm not going to call out names. Those affected have been notified. >>> They are now unable to post to this list, though

Re: sending resume using open office

2014-01-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Maurice Howe wrote: > Bravo, Rob! > > I don't know if you have some magic to blot out political, religious, > racial, etc, material but I hope so. Most of us simply want to get to the > meat is issues, not wade through a lot of off-topic stuff. > In practice, no.

Re: sending resume using open office

2014-01-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:47 AM, James Knott wrote: > jcish...@suddenlink.net wrote: >> To whom it may concern, >> My name is John, I have been using open office for some time now and fine it >> as good or better than windows office. >> I have a problem with AOO, every time I send a resume to a

Re: problem with download

2014-01-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:49 AM, peter kalunian wrote: > Help- When attempting to download, I receive a "don't recognize this > developer" prompt and it will not allow me go any further. Currently using > Chrome Google.Recommendations please. > Hi Peter Is this with MacOS ? If so, this is

Re: Publisher Templates?

2014-01-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Austin Shelton wrote: > Hi, > > A friend of mine is considering switching from her Windows computer to a > Macintosh. She is stuck because she uses Microsoft Publisher and an > equivalent is not available on MacOSX. I am thinking that maybe she could use > OO ins

Ask OpenOffice #2

2014-01-09 Thread Rob Weir
Around this time last year we invited you to send us your questions about Apache OpenOffice, the things you always wondered about the product, or questions about the OpenOffice open source project. We had you enter these questions into Google Moderator, where you could also view and rate questions

Re: Next steps for the AOO users list

2014-01-08 Thread Rob Weir
.org/en/forum/ > Maurice Howe (a dedicated AOO user, but a weary blog follower) > > -Original Message- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 4:46 PM > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Next steps for the AOO users

Re: Next steps for the AOO users list

2014-01-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > I just want to make sure that you all know that we're not ignoring > this list and its recent troubles. The PMC is taking this very > seriously and discussing what actions to take. This discussion may > take another day or two

Next steps for the AOO users list

2014-01-08 Thread Rob Weir
I just want to make sure that you all know that we're not ignoring this list and its recent troubles. The PMC is taking this very seriously and discussing what actions to take. This discussion may take another day or two. Once done we'll act but also have clearer procedures in place for how to ac

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags

2014-01-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > I've added your suggestion Roband Steve Ahlers to a draft document. I'll wait > in case of more input and then we can consider a short questionaire and > revise the wording. > One further idea on this: I can turn this into the form of a

Re: Restored Documents

2014-01-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Austin Shelton wrote: > Hi Everybody. > > I killed OpenOffice accidentally. When I started the program again the > restored document was gibberish. > > I'm sorry if this question has already been answered on the list. I am new to > the list. > Hi Austin, Do you

Re: Very dissapointed

2014-01-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:34 PM, James Knott wrote: > John Hart wrote: >> When editing important files >> it's a good idea to keep incremental backups. When a file is saved >> with the same name, the original >> is effectively over written and won't be in the trash. > > IIRC, this is what the VAX 1

Re: Reminder: List Conduct Guidelines

2014-01-07 Thread Rob Weir
that everyone on this list doesn’t have the right to be here. It is not > in keeping with the apache or open source projects. > > When a moderator so greatly misspeaks, it is no wonder that the users on > this list are at each other's throats. > > Brenda Hart Neihouse > > --

Re: Pages?

2014-01-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Dena Mossar wrote: > does Open Office read Pages documents? Can Pages read Open Office documents? > Hi Dena, Sorry for the delay. It looks like your question "fell through the cracks". No, we cannot read Apple's Pages format. Your best bet would be to export t

Reminder: List Conduct Guidelines

2014-01-07 Thread Rob Weir
Andrea suggested that we post a link to this in the footer of each message. That is something we can do, but for now I'd like to remind us all of it: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html Remember, no one has a right to post on this list. It is a privilege. To the extent any person's

Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Rob Weir
> On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > > > This is an embarrassment for me. I checked and checked and found out that I > had copied the same directory in two places and had one shell in one folder > and another in another. And so, being the Great And Wonderful (smart and > clever a

Reminder on list policy

2014-01-06 Thread Rob Weir
Speaking as a list moderator (yes we do have them) I'd like to remind all posters that threats will not be tolerated on this list. Regards, Rob >> If you want to flame me, you might want to think again. Most of your ISP's >> have a policy of no spam/hate/scam/flame. I have reported people to the

Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Rob Weir
> On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:42 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > >> On Monday 06 January 2014 18:28:15 you wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers >> >> wrote: >>> Greetings All, >>> >>> Here's (imho) another example of the symptoms of the coding flaws >>> inherent in the present OOo soft

Re: Being Good, was: RE: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Rob Weir
re and I will do it again. There is a difference between free > speech and hate speech. Hate speech is not protected under the Constitution > and your ISP's won't tolerate it either. > > Please stop treating each other like garbage. For none of you is garbage. > Each of

Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers wrote: > Greetings All, > > Here's (imho) another example of the symptoms of the coding flaws inherent > in the present OOo software suite. You do something according to one set of > seemingly-valid protocols & get one result (or, perhaps, non-re

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags

2014-01-05 Thread Rob Weir
rge lists of UFO sightings has proven nothing and will not prove anything. The sa,e is true of software crashes. Regards, -Rob > Hagar > > > Le 05/01/2014 19:45, Rob Weir a écrit : > > >> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Hagar Delest >> wrote: >>> >>

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags

2014-01-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > I've clipped the previous messages as this posting doesn't depend on them. > Rob suggests the following queries be put to Hashtag/file loss posters. I've > added some choices to the file save destinations. Are there other questions > that

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags

2014-01-05 Thread Rob Weir
r online backups of my important files. -Rob > -Original Message- From: Rory O'Farrell > Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2014 10:35 AM > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: All essay text turned to hashtags > > > On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:05:25 -0500 > Rob Weir wrote

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags

2014-01-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Hagar Delest wrote: > Le 05/01/2014 17:05, Rob Weir a écrit : > >> It would be great to ask for information like this whenever someone >> reports this kind of problem. 150 reports without this detail are >> useless. But even 10 report

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags

2014-01-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:05:25 -0500 > Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Hagar Delest >> wrote: >> > Sadly, quite nothing to do, see: >> > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:47:59 +0100 > Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> Hagar Delest wrote: >> > losing the file saved last time is just unacceptable, it's a major data >> > loss (P1 in the bug tracker). This problem should be investigated as >> >

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags

2014-01-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Hagar Delest wrote: > Sadly, quite nothing to do, see: > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=17677 where you'll > see that I've recorded more than 150 occurrences of this problem. And there were 368 reported UFO sightings in December: http://

Re: Very dissapointed

2014-01-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 5:15 PM, nick van benthem wrote: > > I deleted some text and then got it back useing control z and then the > programm crashed. And i didnt saved the progress and with the recovery hè > couldnt Get back the progress. > But when did you save the file? If you deleted some

OpenOffice Website Survey

2013-12-17 Thread Rob Weir
We're conducting a short survey about the OpenOffice website. If you have a moment you can find the survey here: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/522696/lang-en Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@o

Informal Mac OS / OpenOffice Survey

2013-12-11 Thread Rob Weir
An informal survey to help our project planning: If you run OpenOffice on the Mac, what version of Mac OS are you running today? 10.4 (Tiger) 10.5 (Leopard) 10.6 (Snow Leopard) 10.7 (Lion) 10.8 (Mountain Lion) 10.9 (Mavericks) -

Call for Comments: Apache OpenOffice Distributor Best Practices

2013-12-05 Thread Rob Weir
Details are here: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/call_for_comments_apache_openoffice Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apa

Good progress on confusing advertisements on download page

2013-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
Please take a look at this new blog post from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-blockthis-initiative-update/ It looks like they are taking the ad issue seriously. They have culled 20%+ of the ads and instituted a process for communities to report new misleading ads. I think

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 to Bring Enhanced Accessibility Support

2013-11-15 Thread Rob Weir
Our latest blog post: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_4_1_to This accessibility code has now been integrated into the trunk. This is a great step forward. If you refresh yourself on our posted Public Service Mission, you see that accessibility is a key priority for us: htt

AOO 4.0.1 and MacOS Mavericks?

2013-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
I'm starting to see questions on whether AOO is compatible with the newly released Mavericks. Has anyone tried it yet? Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-m

Re: OpenOffice MSI installer build

2013-10-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:07 PM, John Meyer wrote: > Hey guys: > > I'm trying to get my office to upgrade. The IT staff says that they > need an MSI installer build. Is there one available? > If you install onto a test machine you will see that the install program unpacks a bunch of files to a

New Serbian (Latin script) website live

2013-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
A quick announcement that we now have a freshly translated website for Serbian with Latin script (sr-latn) due to the efforts of Vladislav Stevanovic "Wlada". You can find it here: http://www.openoffice.org/sr-latn/ Regards, -Rob

Re: Kannada script

2013-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:13 PM, paul hockings wrote: > The kannada script provided by OpenOffice is useless, because so many of the > characters are missing (while two are duplicated). Basically all the > syllables beginning in v- plus nearly all those ending in -i or -í are not on > the keybo

Re: Apache License Version 2.0.

2013-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Дмитрий Пучков wrote: > Hello > Please answer, Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004 applies to > all components included in the distribution of OpenOffice (for > example. Png or. Wav files), or only at the source code and object > code. Thank you. See the LI

Re: Graph numbers in stats pages need thousands separator

2013-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > While looking at the graph in http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html > it was very difficult for me (besides small screen and poor eyesight) to > see if the numbers were 6 million 60 million or 600 million, because of the > tiny text

New Turkish website live

2013-10-07 Thread Rob Weir
A quick announcement that we now have a freshly translated website for Turkish, due to the efforts of Burak Yavuz. You can find it here: http://www.openoffice.org/tr/ Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@o

Re: [ANN] Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 released

2013-10-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Urmas wrote: > "Rob Weir": > > > The Apache OpenOffice project is pleased to announce the immediate > availability of OpenOffice 4.0.1 You can download it from our website. > > No FODT support --> Recycle Bin. > We rate o

Re: Open Office 4.0.1

2013-10-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Janis Langins wrote: > I see a notice that there is a new version of Apache (4.0.1) with an > invitation to download. I checked on my present (4.0.0) version and asked > for updates and was told that everything is up to date. Why so? > Janis > We typically enable

[ANN] Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 released

2013-10-01 Thread Rob Weir
, Turkish and Vietnamese. Details of new features and enhancements in this release are described in the Release Notes [2]. Those interested in the source code can download it via the links on this page [3]. Regards, Rob Weir, Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee [1] http

Re: AOO can't open .xlsx spreadsheet at Cornell site

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Dick Hoffman >> wrote: >> > I downloaded a fairly large spreadsheet from this location >> > http://www.birds.co

Re: AOO can't open .xlsx spreadsheet at Cornell site

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Dick Hoffman wrote: > I downloaded a fairly large spreadsheet from this location > http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ > but when I try to open it with AOO the progress line shows about a quarter > of it being loaded and then AOO stalls and I h

2013 InfoWorld Bossie (Best of Open Source) Awards

2013-09-17 Thread Rob Weir
We picked up an award in the desktop and mobile software category: http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/119867/bossie-awards-2013-the-best-open-source-desktop-and-mobile-software-226979#slide8 Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: Windows 8

2013-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:37 AM, iain watson wrote: > Will all versions of OpenOffice run under Windows 8? > We haven't tested all versions of OpenOffice on Windows 8, but versions 3.4.1 and 4.0 appear to run fine on Windows 8. -Rob > Many thanks for your replies. > > Iain Watson > > Sent > By i

Re: MSFT FUD

2013-08-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > https://twitter.com/whymicrosoft/status/352474084262678528 > "6 things you should consider before you rely on http://OpenOffice.org > : http://ow.ly/mBdvR " > Companies tend to do this when they feel threatened. -Rob > Ballmer might be o

Re: KEYS

2013-08-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Allen Tabbert wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I wanted to verify the > Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.0_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz.asc > against my download. I downloaded the KEYS using: wget > http://www.apache.org/dist/open

Re: Please Enroll Me in Your Users' Database and Your Mailing List

2013-08-22 Thread Rob Weir
Information on signing up for the Apache OpenOffice mailing list is here: http://www.openoffice.org/social/ Regards, -Rob On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Steven W. Kimble wrote: > --Steve ('Gator) Kimble sends - To unsubscri

Re: Is anyone using Apple Pages?

2013-08-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Julian Thomas wrote: > > On 21Aug 2013, at 3:33 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> If possible I'd like to get two test files saved from Pages: >> >> 1) An Empty document >> >> 2) A document that has a simple string, like

Is anyone using Apple Pages?

2013-08-21 Thread Rob Weir
If possible I'd like to get two test files saved from Pages: 1) An Empty document 2) A document that has a simple string, like "hello world" Both saved in DOC format. I'm seeing some reports claiming that DOC exports from Pages crashes AOO 4.0. I have a complicated example file. But I'd like

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