> On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Arthur Schwarz <aschwarz1...@att.net> 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 also) person that I am, I exported my pdf file into one folder and > looked for it in another. At least that's my current story and I'm sticking > with it (until tomorrow). >
Doh! I'm glad, though, it worked out. One less bug to fix. Regards, Rob > But in a soft way I do think your points are valid. I have had problems with > the swriter software and lists. Then again, I contribute nothing to a > volunteer effort. I am a passive beneficiary of excellent software that has > a few bugs. I also have Microsoft software. In 2000 I tried to report a bug > (very hard when dealing with Microsoft). In 2008(?) software, the bug is > still there (in lists, by the way). I expect that in 2050 software the bug > will still remain in Microsoft but in Open Office the bugs I see today will > probably be gone. > > And so, although OOo is not perfect, they are better than Microsoft dreams > of in their better days, and the OOo team seems to want to better the > product. > > art > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony J. Rudgers [mailto:anthonyrudg...@att.net] > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 5:07 PM > To: Arthur Schwarz; users@openoffice.apache.org > Cc: Anthony Rudgers > Subject: Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary > > 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-result), & then > > you do it according to another set of also-valid protocols, & get an > entirely different result (or non-result). This, at least to me, would > indicate that there are instances of differing, &, consequently, > inconsistent, coding within OOo. I've experienced a similar inconsistency > in OOo code in another area. > > I submit this query. Do proponents of OOo software, want to deal w/ & > correct such problems, deny they exist, ignore them & "move on" (as embodied > > in the posting: "I'm tired of this thread, can't we talk about something > else?"), throw up their hands & say that such inherent problems are just "a > fact of life--so live w/ them," or, simply, verbally abuse & belittle the > OOo users who point them out to this "community"? > > Best wishes, > > Anthony J. Rudgers > Orlando, FL U.S.A. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Arthur Schwarz > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 6:48 PM > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets > > Win7 > cygwin > > I created and saved a spreadsheet, 'ods' ,document. When I try to read it > using my cygwin alias "alias ods='/ProgramFiles86/OpenOffice\ > 4/program/scalc.exe'" it (basically) says "what's that" but when I use open > office directly and use "Recent Documents" it seems to have no problem. is > my alias correct? I use a similar alias for the writer (alias > odt='/ProgramFiles86/OpenOffice\ 4/program/swriter.exe') and it works fine. > > Now comes the real puzzler (for me), when I export the spreadseet as a pdf > file, the cygwin shell doesn't recognize it. That is, 'find', 'ls' don't > recognize the file. It comes up with "no such directory or file. But when I > go to the Windows explorer or import the file using Adobe, no problem. The > filename is there bold as lightning. and I have no issue. On the other hand, > > using cygwin, I can't input the file to adobe. > > Now for the confounding aspect. Everything works as expected in the writer. > I can create a pdf file, see it in cygwin, open and use it in adobe, list > it, and I guess do everything needful. But not when I create a spreadsheet. > > Wait, wait. I have (yet) another mystery. When I open a new shell (but do > not reboot), the new shell shows the created pdf file but now the ods file > is missing. And, contrary to everything above, I can load the pdf file to > adobe in the cygwin shell the exact opposite of above. > > > Right now it's an irritation but is there something that I've done wrong or > someway to fix the problem so that it shows up in by cygwin shell? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
