LibreOffice

Lufbery · 02-11-2011, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

Indeed, I do not add dictionaries into my libreoffice packages, you will have to download and install those from http://extensions.services.openoffic...n/dictionaries. Subscribe to my blog posts and/or read http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/get-...eoffice-3-3-0/ where I explain more about the packages I create.

Eric

Hi Eric,

Actually, I'm a big fan of your blog and read it regularly. Just for some reason I thought you built Libreoffice with an English dictionary with others needing to be downloaded. This is an example of my sometimes fuzzy-headed thinking.

Thanks for the link to the dictionaries, though. I tried to search for "libreoffice dictionaries" and pretty much came up blank. I didn't think to look for them at Openoffice.org.

I'm going to mention a couple of bugs here in the interest of hopefully getting a cure and helping the general cause (i.e., these aren't complaints

):

1) What about the problem with settings not staying put, but reverting to the defaults?

2) Libreoffice's menus look funny in my bone-stock Slackware 13.1 23-bit installation. See the attached picture.

Regards,

rpedrica · 02-17-2011, 02:08 AM

My Libreoffice ( Alien package 3.3.0 64-bit ) has recently started behaving strangely when opening odt files ( only ). It pops up a dialogue box with "General Error' and then after clicking the ok button, proceeds to open the file. I could be mistaken, but this may have started after a recent round of -current updates ( ~ 12 Feb 2011 ). ODS and other office files are fine.

The only similar item I've found relates to JAVA and OpenOffice - mine seems to be fine though. I've tried reinstalling and removing my .libreoffice dir but makes no difference. Any ideas welcome ...

BroX · 02-17-2011, 06:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rpedrica

My Libreoffice ( Alien package 3.3.0 64-bit ) has recently started behaving strangely when opening odt files ( only ). It pops up a dialogue box with "General Error' and then after clicking the ok button, proceeds to open the file. I could be mistaken, but this may have started after a recent round of -current updates ( ~ 12 Feb 2011 ). ODS and other office files are fine.

Just to confirm I have noticed the same behaviour. Have not yet diagnosed it further.

bl0tt0 · 02-25-2011, 09:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trillobyte

I'm attempting to install libreoffice build-3.3.0.4. (Alien Bob's slackbuild)
onto my 32-bit slackware 13.1 system. I'm running KDE 4.4.3.

The build is failing with the following:

Code:

./package-ooo: line 9:
/tmp/build/tmp-libreoffice/libreoffice-build-3.3.0.4/build/libreoffice-3.3.0.4/*
.[sS]et.sh: No such file or directory
libreoffice.SlackBuild: line 720: cd:
/tmp/build/package-libreoffice/usr/lib/libreoffice/basis-link/share/fonts/
truetype/: No such file or directory
libreoffice.SlackBuild FAILED at line 725

Thanks in advance

I was having this same problem, until I found this post on alienbob's blog: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/libr...ate-for-3-3-0/

The gist of it is that you need to remove the seamonkey and seamonkey-solibs packages and install xulrunner, apache-ant, and perl-archive-zip before building libreoffice. After that I was able to compile without any problems.

rpedrica · 03-02-2011, 12:34 PM

I was hoping Eric's 3.3.1 package build would fix the problem but unfortunately not. I still get the General Error when opening ( only ) odt files or when saving new odt files. Help?

BroX · 03-02-2011, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rpedrica

I was hoping Eric's 3.3.1 package build would fix the problem but unfortunately not. I still get the General Error when opening ( only ) odt files or when saving new odt files. Help?

That's strange, the upgrade seems to have fixed the error message for me.

rpedrica · 03-02-2011, 01:47 PM

BroX, could you tell me your 'upgrade' procedure?

BroX · 03-02-2011, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rpedrica

BroX, could you tell me your 'upgrade' procedure?

Sure, nothing special:

Code:

$ wget http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/pkg64/13.1/libreoffice-3.3.1-x86_64-1alien.txz -P /tmp
# upgradepkg /tmp/libreoffice-3.3.1-x86_64-1alien.txz

I left the newly created ~/.ooo3 directory for what it was (no links from ~/.libreoffice/3 as suggested here)

rpedrica · 03-02-2011, 02:11 PM

Ok have removed package(s) - includes en_GB - completely and reinstalled. Still get the same error ... grrrrrr

BroX · 03-02-2011, 02:15 PM

Aaargh... maybe the error is still there, it just doesn't pop up in a window any longer? When run from command line, the following appears when opening a .odt file:

Code:

$ libreoffice 
$ X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Major opcode: 42 (X_SetInputFocus)
  Resource id:  0x6a00d46
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Major opcode: 42 (X_SetInputFocus)
  Resource id:  0x6a00d46

No such messages when opening .ods or .odp files.

rpedrica · 03-02-2011, 02:19 PM

Hmmm, I get the popup window and no cli errors.

folkenfanel · 03-03-2011, 09:13 PM

Thanks a lot! I downloaded your package and i'm using it right now.

I normally make custom installers, so I used to repackage the OpenOffice.org installers, tweaking some things.

LibreOffice in general feels a lot faster than OOO. It hasn't crashed a lot lately, but my workload is not as high as last year, so I have to test it more.

I did have some problems when repackaging your package (can't help it, let's call it a vice I have). I use English as my primary language, but I use metric units and A4 as my default page size. I need to replicate metric units as defaults in my installers. Most installations are intended to be as unattended as possible and with as little user interaction as possible. (one of the final users is an aunt who is an accountant and "has little time to learn new things", so telling her to open any configuration window is not an option).

I achieved that in the past (with OOO) editing individual XCU files. In LibreOffice the registry happens to be a single line XML so using a diff file would not be helpful. After wandering a bit in the LibreOffice IRC channel and being told the registry was an autogenerated file (yes I did intend to use some "source registry" with line breaks I could find), I decided to modify the file by sedding it with long search strings. First I wanted to set the default metric units so I changed MeasureUnit in proper places.

The next thing I wanted to do was to set an A4 default template. I used to do that in the past by modifying the starter scripts to detect custom templates in the proper place. Luckily this wasn't needed this time, for I got it to work by setting ooSetupSystemLocale to en-AU (Australia uses metric units and A4). I modded the registry and it worked. No custom templates needed, but I enabled the scripts anyway just in case.

I just downloaded the newest version. It is huge so I kept just the localizations I needed. I trimmed my installed package size to about 320MB instead of about 550MB.

Anyway, I will post the registry modifications in case someone wants to use metric units with the precompiled package (tested with AlienBob's package only)

XCDREGISTRY=/usr/lib/libreoffice/basis3.3/share/registry/main.xcd

Code:

# Force metric units in Calc.
sed -i 's#oor:name="StatusbarFunction" oor:type="xs:int"><value>9</value></prop><group oor:name="TabStop"><prop oor:name="Metric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1250</value></prop><prop oor:name="NonMetric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1270</value></prop></group><group oor:name="MeasureUnit"><prop oor:name="Metric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop><prop oor:name="NonMetric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>8</value>#oor:name="StatusbarFunction" oor:type="xs:int"><value>9</value></prop><group oor:name="TabStop"><prop oor:name="Metric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1250</value></prop><prop oor:name="NonMetric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1270</value></prop></group><group oor:name="MeasureUnit"><prop oor:name="Metric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop><prop oor:name="NonMetric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value>#' $XCDREGISTRY

Code:

# Force metric units in Draw.
sed -i 's#oor:name="Draw" oor:package="org.openoffice.Office" xml:lang="en-US"><component><group oor:name="Layout"><group oor:name="Display"><prop oor:name="Ruler" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>true</value></prop><prop oor:name="Helpline" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Guide" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Bezier" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Contour" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>true</value></prop></group><group oor:name="Other"><group oor:name="TabStop"><prop oor:name="Metric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1250</value></prop><prop oor:name="NonMetric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1270</value></prop></group><group oor:name="MeasureUnit"><prop oor:name="Metric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop><prop oor:name="NonMetric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>8</value>#oor:name="Draw" oor:package="org.openoffice.Office" xml:lang="en-US"><component><group oor:name="Layout"><group oor:name="Display"><prop oor:name="Ruler" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>true</value></prop><prop oor:name="Helpline" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Guide" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Bezier" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Contour" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>true</value></prop></group><group oor:name="Other"><group oor:name="TabStop"><prop oor:name="Metric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1250</value></prop><prop oor:name="NonMetric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1270</value></prop></group><group oor:name="MeasureUnit"><prop oor:name="Metric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop><prop oor:name="NonMetric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value>#' $XCDREGISTRY

Code:

# Force metric units in Impress.
sed -i 's#</templates><component><group oor:name="Layout"><group oor:name="Display"><prop oor:name="Ruler" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Helpline" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Guide" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Bezier" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Contour" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>true</value></prop></group><group oor:name="Other"><group oor:name="TabStop"><prop oor:name="Metric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1250</value></prop><prop oor:name="NonMetric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1270</value></prop></group><group oor:name="MeasureUnit"><prop oor:name="Metric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop><prop oor:name="NonMetric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>8</value>#</templates><component><group oor:name="Layout"><group oor:name="Display"><prop oor:name="Ruler" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Helpline" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Guide" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Bezier" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>false</value></prop><prop oor:name="Contour" oor:type="xs:boolean"><value>true</value></prop></group><group oor:name="Other"><group oor:name="TabStop"><prop oor:name="Metric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1250</value></prop><prop oor:name="NonMetric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1270</value></prop></group><group oor:name="MeasureUnit"><prop oor:name="Metric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop><prop oor:name="NonMetric" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value>#' $XCDREGISTRY

Code:

# Force metric units in Writer.
sed -i 's#<group oor:name="Other"><prop oor:name="MeasureUnit" oor:type="xs:int"/><prop oor:name="TabStop" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1250</value>#<group oor:name="Other"><prop oor:name="MeasureUnit" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop><prop oor:name="TabStop" oor:type="xs:int"><value>1250</value>#' $XCDREGISTRY

Code:

# Force metric units in Writer/Web.
sed -i 's#<group oor:name="Other"><prop oor:name="MeasureUnit" oor:type="xs:int"/></group>#<group oor:name="Other"><prop oor:name="MeasureUnit" oor:type="xs:int"><value>2</value></prop></group>#' $XCDREGISTRY

Code:

# Force the en-US language and en-AU locale (this will change the default page size to A4):
sed -i 's#<prop oor:name="ooLocale" oor:type="xs:string"><value/></prop><prop oor:name="ooSetupSystemLocale" oor:type="xs:string"><value/></prop>#<prop oor:name="ooLocale" oor:type="xs:string"><value>en-US</value></prop><prop oor:name="ooSetupSystemLocale" oor:type="xs:string"><value>en-AU</value></prop>#' $XCDREGISTRY

folkenfanel · 03-03-2011, 09:32 PM

By the way, I haven't tried the preloader. Writer loads in an average of 00:02:17 (a little more than 2 seconds). I don't think I'll be needing the preloader, as I tested it on a less powerful machine and it still loads reasonably fast (less than 3 seconds).

Calc loads a really huge sheet almost instantly. No flickering using the arrows or the mouse wheel. It rocks.

I just tried some heavy presentations and it lacks the memory hunger of OOO. It actually runs below 400MB, including FF with streaming videos. Writer and Impress running at the time. 331MB of RAM in use.

TSquaredF · 03-04-2011, 10:56 AM

In LibreOffice, prior to 3.3.0, I had the notification box with I/O Error show up, also the ruler (in Writer) would always come up in Char horizontally & Lines vertically. Version 3.3.0 fixed the ruler problem, but not the I/O Error problem. Version 3.3.1 fixed the I/O Error problem, but reintroduced the ruler problem. I have made my own default template, using Inch in both rulers. But even though it is saved with the ruler set to Inch & Tools->Options->LibreOffice Writer->View->Horizontal/Vertical Ruler are saved to Inch, if I open a document (new or otherwise), the rulers come up in Char & Line. This is not a showstopper, it is easy to change, it is just irritating. Anyone know how to make my chosen ruler settings stick?
Regards,
Bill

hplgonzo · 03-23-2011, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TSquaredF

In LibreOffice, prior to 3.3.0, I had the notification box with I/O Error show up, also the ruler (in Writer) would always come up in Char horizontally & Lines vertically. Version 3.3.0 fixed the ruler problem, but not the I/O Error problem. Version 3.3.1 fixed the I/O Error problem, but reintroduced the ruler problem. I have made my own default template, using Inch in both rulers. But even though it is saved with the ruler set to Inch & Tools->Options->LibreOffice Writer->View->Horizontal/Vertical Ruler are saved to Inch, if I open a document (new or otherwise), the rulers come up in Char & Line. This is not a showstopper, it is easy to change, it is just irritating. Anyone know how to make my chosen ruler settings stick?
Regards,
Bill

I built up an entirely new Arch Linux System some time ago and yesterday was the first time I needed an office application. After using ooo on earlier systems, this time LibreOffice was my first choice and I guess I will continue using it instead of ooo, whenever I have to write something small. First of all the application is quite easy to configure and easy to use.

The only thing that is a little bit annoying is the "ruler problem" you mentioned in your posting. As you said definitely no showstopper, as you can change it easily to the preferred setting. but it's for sure a little bit annoying.

Have you found out any solution for the "ruler problem" by now? There should be way to change it permanently. I guess it would be no problem to change a setting file manually, but i haven't found any file that contains the ruler settings. Would be nice if anyone could post a solution to solve that little problem.