Category Archives: OpenOffice

OOOCON2007 Presentations

Posted on September 19, 2007 by smsm1986

If any presenters do not currently have their presentation available on the programme pages, then please send your presentation to ooocon2007@openoffice.org. We would like to have both an OpenDocument Impress presentation and a PDF generated from it. If you would … Continue reading →

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Who said Barcelona was going to be cold?

Posted on September 18, 2007 by smsm1986

In fact it is rather roasting compared to Edinburgh. The direct flight with ClickAir was pretty smooth, except for a short time when coming in to land at Barcelona, due to going through a cloud. Seems that the rumours were … Continue reading →

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OOOCON2007: Incoming Flight Just Arrived

Posted on September 18, 2007 by smsm1986

The incoming flight for my flight was delayed by about 20 minutes. The passengers are now getting off, so I should be getting on my flight soon. Seem I’ll be walking straight on. South of Edinburgh seems to be clear … Continue reading →

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Petition to get Apple to support OpenDocument in iWork

Posted on August 9, 2007 by smsm1986

Filip Molcan has just pointed out a new petition to get Apple to support the ISO standard 26300, otherwise known as OpenDocument in iWork 08. iWork 08 already supports the Open Office XML (OOXML) document format, which isn’t yet an ISO … Continue reading →

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OpenOffice.org Aqua 2nd Preview Released

Posted on July 2, 2007 by smsm1986

The second OpenOffice.org Aqua Preview is now available for download. There are a number of new features and bug fixes in this release. There is one major known regression, that will be fixed in a future development build. This time … Continue reading →

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Getting plain text logs from Colloquy

Posted on June 27, 2007 by smsm1986

In the process of putting the log files of the Mac OS X porting meeting logs up on to the OpenOffice.org Wiki, I have been having a few problems. This has primarily been due to the location of new lines. … Continue reading →

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Stats for the OpenOffice.org download bouncer

Posted on June 22, 2007 by smsm1986

Many of the OpenOffice.org national language teams will be happy with the following announcement. There are now Download Statistics being produced for the downloads from the bouncer. The stats are generated once daily around 08:05 UTC. Inside the stats folder … Continue reading →

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Spaces around colons

Posted on June 18, 2007 by smsm1986

Today I discovered why it is that the French have been placing a space in front of colons (:), and it has been driving me mad. In English it is usually seen as being wrong to place a space before … Continue reading →

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UK Government gives response to OpenDocument online petition

Posted on June 7, 2007 by smsm1986

The UK (Westminster) Government has given a response to the petition on a petition calling on the UK Government to use the OpenDocument format for the storage of documents.Read the UK Government’s response to the OpenDocument Petition It seems that … Continue reading →

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OpenOffice.org Aqua’s first in depth review