Category Archive: Open Office

Mar
31

Installing new font in Mac OS X and Window

Font can be downloaded from http://www.1001freefonts.com/medieval-fonts.php (NOTE: Commercial use need to have license) Mac OS X: Download the font for Mac OS X Double click on the downloaded font (.ttf extension), “Font Book” will be opened and click on “Install Font” Window: Download the font for Window Go to “Control Panel” and click on “Fonts”. …

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Sep
04

Setting Landscape style for single page in Open Office Writer

Styles and Formatting

When you want to insert a Landscape style in one of the page of your document, it’s really painful if you don’t know how to do it (although it’s not as difficult as Ms Office ). Open office have a nice features that you can set your own style for you page, paragraph, frame, list …

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Sep
03

Setting up Nagios 3 in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty + forward notification using postfix

Since The Fascinator Desktop 0.1 Release, #tf4desktop, we need to make sure ICE service and OpenOffice are running in the server to support the conversion sent thru The Fascinator Desktop. I managed to setup Nagios in ICE server to watch ICE and OpenOffice process and when ICE or OpenOffice or even server are down, notification …

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Dec
21

Installing OpenOffice3 in Ubuntu Hardy

Remove all previous OpenOffice installation either by Synaptic Package Manager or use apt from command line: aptitude purge openoffice From Synaptic Package Manager, add new Repository: Setting->Repositories->Third-Party Software->Add http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu/ hardy main Then Reload the Synaptic Package Manager to retrieve the new package. If the new OpenOffice.org3 does not shown in Applications->Office, try to reinstall the …

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Dec
17

Open Office vs Ms Word

Lots of blogs and forum post about Open Office performance issue. ICE, the project that I am working on now is using Open Office to handle the process from rendition to pdf, html and combining multiple documents (Ms Word or Neo Office) to build a book. With 512 RAM, testing building book or rendition is …

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Oct
11

Exporting to pdf from Open office Writer

One of main reason for me to choose Open Office over Microsoft Words is that I can convert my document to PDF without installing (or buying) other software. As for my work at Uni, Open Office is main tools used by our clients to create their documents and I have been hacking around with Open …

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