tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51983405075652331692024-03-13T20:50:59.557+01:00Lodahl's blogLibreOffice, open source software and open standards. These are the three things you can read about on my blog. I'll try to keep you updated on news and events in Denmark.Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.comBlogger405125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-83604999316665933382015-09-26T19:55:00.000+02:002015-09-26T19:55:48.237+02:00Templates - Avoid the pitfallsThis article is an addition to my speak at the LibreOffice Conference in Aarhus. You can find the introduction here: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/the-program/talks/migration-user-experiance-and-marketing/#Templates%20-%20Avoid%20the%20pitfalls The presentation and video of the presentation will be available as soon as possible.
Introduction to templates
If you provide your users Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-78477640021401870222015-09-26T17:24:00.000+02:002015-09-26T17:24:11.282+02:00Something about stylesStyles are much more than defining the look and feel of text in a paragraph. Its almost everything about how paragraphs behave in the context. A Paragraph style for example defines how words are hyphenated and in what language the text in the paragraph should be spell checked.Remember also to take advantage of the benefits of Page styles and Frame styles. Page styles are mostly used to setup the Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-1770449438061766762015-07-08T19:44:00.000+02:002015-07-08T19:44:15.495+02:00Something about styles in LibreOfficeStyles are much more than defining the look and feel of text in a paragraph. Its almost everything about how paragraphs behave in the context. A Paragraph style for example defines how words are hyphenated and in what language the text in the paragraph should be spell checked.Remember also to take advantage of the benefits of Page styles and Frame styles. Page styles are mostly used to setup the Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-49357340898070816842015-02-16T19:14:00.000+01:002015-02-16T19:14:35.012+01:00Spelling in MalawiThis weekend I was contacted by my good friend Ove Larsen, from the organization FAIR, that are currently working in Malawi to prepare computers for use in high schools. Computers that are disposed in Denmark, but which can easily be used by students in the third world. The message was about compiling a spellchecker in LibreOffice for the language Chichewa, which is the main language in Malawi. Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-46650892064060776482015-02-09T18:00:00.000+01:002015-02-12T21:52:12.773+01:00Is LibreOffice better than the competitor?h3 { color: rgb(0, 0, 0); }h3.western { font-family: "Liberation Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; }h3.cjk { font-family: "WenQuanYi Micro Hei"; font-size: 14pt; }h3.ctl { font-family: "FreeSans"; font-size: 14pt; }h2.western { font-family: "Liberation Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; }h2.cjk { font-family: "WenQuanYi Micro Hei"; font-size: 16pt; }h2.ctl { font-family: "FreeSans"; font-size: Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-49865902062602590532014-12-17T19:22:00.000+01:002014-12-17T19:22:48.910+01:00Fuzz about Google supporting odfSince Google announced their new so called support for the open standard for documents; odf, there has been a lot of fuzz. And yesterday when the new version of Google Docs and Drive, there has been even more fuzz.
I'm happy that Google is finally implementing support for odf BUT... and there is a but:
Honestly I'm not impressed. I'm very disappointed. First of all because the support comes Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-4868741629783702172014-12-09T16:30:00.000+01:002014-12-17T17:52:03.099+01:00Making good and solid templatesp { margin-bottom: 7pt; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }
When your
organization is migrating from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice its
important that you provide the users with some good and robust
templates. If your users are using LibreOffice in parallel with
Microsoft Word or if your users are collaborating with other users
outside the organization, then your templates must take this into
Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-30824310946589786012014-12-07T16:37:00.001+01:002014-12-07T16:37:28.299+01:00Please help with testingSome years ago I developed an extension for LibreOffice for direct search for clip art from www.openclipart.org. I have recently been working on a new version that use a new OpenClipart API.
Please help me test this extension:
Install it and use it. Post your result and comments to this blog post. I would like to know witch operating system and LibreOffice version you are using. I'm specially Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-6254737865434111662014-10-13T18:17:00.000+02:002014-10-13T18:17:49.760+02:00Managing settings (on Windows)I have written quite a few articles about installation and administration of LibreOffice on Windows. My latest post was an update on the installation parameters (read it here: http://lodahl.blogspot.dk/2014/09/silent-installation-on-windows-again.html ).
This time I will write about a new and very convenient way of managing the user settings on each desktop computer. In earlier versions settingsLeif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-51568519668491709802014-09-29T15:19:00.000+02:002014-09-29T15:19:05.017+02:00Silent installation on Windows (again)pre.cjk { font-family: "Courier New",monospace; }p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }
One of many
advantages of open source projects is for sure the eternal transition
and evolutionary progress. This keeps people like my self busy just
following the changes.
Last week I was
asked to help a large organization prepare their LibreOffice install
package for Windows and Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-13551013808892033682014-09-12T21:27:00.003+02:002014-09-13T10:01:19.496+02:00Apache Open Office and LibreOffice should join forcesp { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }
This
proposal has been said many times over the last couple of years and
lately repeated by Daniel Brunner, head of the IT department of
Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court.https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/open-and-libre-office-projects-should-reunite.
And
from the first point of view I can only agree. There is no reason
whatLeif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-89935777208540262902013-12-19T20:31:00.001+01:002013-12-19T20:31:52.116+01:00I have been fooling around
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I have been fooling
around for a couple of days.
Yes I admit it. From
time to time I enjoy working with something totally different from
what I do in my daily life and something that is absolutely
irrational. This time I suddenly found my self playing around with
ownCloud (https://www.owncloud.org
).
I found Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-30426645418103807582013-12-03T16:00:00.000+01:002013-12-03T16:00:09.195+01:00LibreOffice now has a built in XML-parser
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LibreOffice
is using a XML based document format so of cause there is a built in
XML parser. But until now it has been quite cumbersome to deal with
XML in macros. You need to manually traverse through the entire XML
structure like this example (thanks to Andrew Pitonyak):
Function
CreateDocumentHandler()
Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-70540188551254488662013-08-08T20:08:00.001+02:002013-08-08T20:55:21.075+02:00How to benefit
How to take advantage of crowd sourcing and contribute too:
I'm looking forward to my vacation starting two days from now. My wife and I are happy to see southern Spain.
We will rent a car in the airport and drive the approximately 100 km to the house in the small village called Gualchos.
As always when preparing a vacation where I need to find my way around by myself I start looking for mapsLeif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-78583577518872294902013-07-16T11:57:00.000+02:002013-07-16T11:57:12.938+02:00LibreOffice is becoming the Swiss army knife in the office
What started as a simple
text editor and later became am office suite is actually becoming a
very comprehensive set of tools for the daily office work.
LibreOffice is most likely
the only application that can open almost any office file format in
the world. Legacy and modern - it doesn't matter LibreOffice can
handle them. Even some legacy file formats from older versions of
Microsoft OfficeLeif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-25302729597051645142013-06-10T15:38:00.002+02:002013-06-10T15:38:43.553+02:00Best new feature in LibreOffice 4.1?I wrote about embedding of fonts in this blogpost: http://lodahl.blogspot.dk/2013/06/libreoffice-41-most-important-new.html
The embedded fonts will most likely result in better interoperability with Microsoft Office and between different OS'. But there is even more coming on that shelf: Even better interoperability.
From the release notes: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1
Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-77505968030791103872013-06-05T15:33:00.000+02:002013-06-05T15:33:10.729+02:00LibreOffice 4.1: Most important new feature?
In an earlier post
(http://lodahl.blogspot.dk/2013/05/exiting-new-design-initiative.html)
I wrote about the new design features that will be exposed as
experimental feature in LibreOffice 4.1.
Among the other new
features, there is one that I believe is worth noticing. Embedding
fonts in documents will make a interoperability much better - both
between Office suites but also between Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-87032792767035179932013-06-03T17:42:00.000+02:002013-06-03T17:42:26.688+02:00Exciting new design initiative
Through out the last couple of years we have seem quite a few suggestions to a new and more modern look and feel for LibreOffice. Some of these initiatives has already found its way into the product, and you can e.g., see a much more light weight ruler in Writer and the whole sphere around using and handling templates has been reworked with a new design. Each of these examples are small steps Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-23987296870811368132013-02-22T21:30:00.000+01:002013-02-22T21:34:10.069+01:00OpenClipart.org in LibreOffice - part 3I have been discussing the subject before and now I just want to tell about our progress. We have managed to use the Task pane to show the dialog so from now the feature is no longer in the Insert - Picture menu. Instead you should use View - Task pane.
It works on Linux but for some reason Windows doesn't show any preview images and it doesn't insert anything either. Don't worry we will figure Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-12684891410128293112013-02-19T13:59:00.000+01:002013-02-19T13:59:01.258+01:00LibreOffice and WebDAVRecently I made a small demonstration of how to use LibreOffice with CMIS. Now I have also made a video of how to use LibreOffice with WebDAV.
In this demonstration I'm using my ownCloud server on a Raspberry Pi.
Tell me what you think!Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-12693263850835178312013-02-11T22:59:00.001+01:002013-02-15T09:42:36.476+01:00[UPDATED]OpenClipart - Part IISome time ago I wrote about our plans to intergrate OpenClipart.org API in LibreOffice. You can read that post here: http://lodahl.blogspot.dk/2013/01/libreoffice-and-openclipartorg.html .
And thanks for all the good advice on the comments list. All input will be read and taken seriously.
Now I want to tell you how far we are...
First of all we decided to go with LibreOffice 4.0 Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-13992983369193600562013-02-03T19:12:00.002+01:002013-02-03T19:12:14.198+01:00Video tutorials and promotions
If you look around on Youtube and other video
repositories you will find that many tutorials are available for open
source projects. I my self learned Gimp qiute fast using these small
videos. Many of the videos are produced by absolute amateurs but
never the less brings a lot of value to the projects.
'These videos are an important part of marketing but
also a simple way of teachingLeif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-72496998044666894302013-02-02T17:42:00.001+01:002013-02-02T17:42:49.538+01:00LibreOffice and CMISHere you can see a short video demonstration of how CMIS integration works in LibreOffice 4.0:
Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-34030349905759259782013-01-24T20:06:00.001+01:002013-01-24T20:06:51.482+01:00LibreOffice and OpenClipart.org
For several years I have been very fond of clip arts from the Open Clipart Library (OCAL) and when LibreOffice now has built in usage of SVG files I was very happy. Now I could use these exelent cliparts in scalable format. Until then the only way was to convert to bitmap (png or jpg) format first.
Soon I began thinking of getting access to the library directly from the UI in LibreOffice. I &Leif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-56181260689006212652012-12-13T15:35:00.000+01:002012-12-14T14:04:50.977+01:00MSIEXEC parametersSome time ago I wrote a few articles about administrative installation of LibreOffice on Windows. I have had quite a lot of feedback. Later there has come a wiki page on The Document Foundation wiki: Its called Deployment and Migration.
Nice but its still rather cumbersome to actually create a parameter string that works.
I have created a MSIEXEC parameter generator in a very simple spreadsheetLeif Lodahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960229448622236930noreply@blogger.com4