Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base: MySQL or Mariadb ?

2014-02-10 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 2/10/2014 9:20 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I have seen nothing that indicates that you cannot use Maria DB as a drop-in replacement for MySQL at this point. Last I tried it was with Drupal 7. It just worked. I expect the same for Base, if it is not so, file a bug report against Maria D

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 1/29/2014 10:39 AM, Cley Faye wrote: 2014-01-29 Anthony Baldwin When clients send me pdf files full of images to be translated, I often just snap a screenshot of them and manage the images in GIMP. In such cases, I am reconstructing their document in LO (in English, whereas the originals

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 1/29/2014 10:07 AM, Dominique Michel wrote: Le Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:41:42 -0500, charles meyer a écrit : I've got 3 or so separate PDF files. I'd like to merge them all into one PDF file in Writer in Office 3.6.2.2 Each page of each PDF file has a lot of empty space around the graphic imag

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-28 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 01/28/2014 09:50 PM, Don Myers wrote: Hi Charles, I'm not aware of any way to merge multiple pdf files using LO. The only way I know to merge pdf files with with pdftk. http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ Works great. tony There are others on the list more knowledgeable t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-01-26 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 1/26/2014 9:40 AM, Pikov Andropov wrote: Anthony Baldwin has written on 1/26/2014 12:01 AM: No borrowed "cloud" storage, either. I will host and control my own data, thank you. Will you take it with you you go? (Younger) People want access to their data they are. I have a se

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-01-26 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 1/26/2014 5:40 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I was reading somewhere (or perhaps in a film) that Facebook considers itself to have reached "market saturation" once 55% of the people in a country/university/other-sample are using it. Continued investment in marketing brings diminishing returns s

Re: [libreoffice-users] Similar Problem?

2014-01-26 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 01/25/2014 03:00 PM, Vince Radice wrote: Hi, From my first post - I am running Fedora FC19-64 bit. Libreoffice Version: 4.1.4.2 Build ID: 4.1.4.2-2.fc19 My Desktop is KDE 4.11.4 The problem is that if I don't keep deleting these empty files, they will build up. Depending on what f

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-01-26 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 01/25/2014 05:46 PM, Girvin Herr wrote: +1 I have been working with general purpose computers since the mid 70s and made a pretty good career out of it until I retired 10 years ago. I don't do facebook because it violates my computer security rules and I strongly disagree with facebook's dat

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-01-26 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 1/25/2014 3:07 PM, anne-ology wrote: as for me, I don't even know what AskLO is - It's http://ask.libreoffice.org I just figured that out, myself (searched duckduckgo for "AskLO LibreOffice".) It looks like a simple Q/A forum. Doesn't look like FB or G+ or anything that stupid. It

Re: [libreoffice-users] low traffic lately?

2014-01-26 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 1/25/2014 2:56 PM, anne-ology wrote: d My own thought is that mailing lists are a bit archaic and unfamiliar to most new users = so it's natural for a project to mature towards forums and gui type support structures and even, perhaps, greater use of 3rd party sites, perhaps downstream

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloads all torrents now?

2014-01-22 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 1/22/2014 2:05 AM, doug wrote: On 01/21/2014 08:15 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: I went to download the 4.1.4 upgrade and it looks as if all the downloads are now torrents. I vastly prefer to download the files directly. Is this no longer possible, or is there somewhere these are still available? I

[libreoffice-users] index of tables doesn't update

2014-01-11 Thread Anthony Baldwin
I am writing a document for a client (translating it from Spanish to English), and it requires an Index of Tables. I successfully planted such an index after the table of contents, but when I do Tools>Update>All Indexes and Tables the Table of Contents updates with all relevant headings, but nothi