StarOffice & Help on Macros & Translation & printing html
Julio Sameiro
Hi!
I received a StarOffice 4.0 (OEM) with a new computer. Installed it only
by curiosity and... it seems great!
But have some questions before a fully adoption:
1
Disk says: StarOffice 4.0, Service Pack 2. On newsgroups & web page I
saw many references to 4.0 beta and downloads, pacthes & so. So: Have I
a beta? (seems not!); should I download something?
2
Sometimes I think: well if I don't know how 'he' does this or that I'll
make it with a macro. But knowledge of macro commands & functions needs
help -- and I don't see help about macros anywhere on star office! Am I
blind? hum...? at least something to download?
3
I'm portuguese (thus you will excuse my foggy english) so I installed
the portuguese version. Help files are english. Personally I don't have
problems with that (they are almost unnecessary -- good point for
StarOf4.0... except for macros... grrr) but they w't be good for Star
Office in Portugal.
Are you planing to do something about that?
4
Sometimes the translation into portuguese is #!!#$@%$#. What can we
say? << Bah! We don't give them enough $$. So they thought: why the
pain? Lets give them a some spaghetti portuguese thing >> But if are not
interested on portuguese market why a portuguese version?
Are you sure that your neighbour isn't the portuguese academic who
could give an eye on that?
(I thinking to uninstall portuguese version and install the english one
- and maybe I'll forget this sad story)
Who should be the target of more specific & documented protests? (maybe,
who knows, on next version things will be better)
5
I found that with StarWrite we can print documents on book format. The
solution -- after we choose landscape & booklet printing & print odd
pages & later the even ones, the program reduces the each one of the A4
or Letter pages of document so it fit on half a landscape page &... you
know-- is nice and I'm impressed (was looking for that long time). BUT I
can't do it with html -- the option for printing first even, after odd
pages disappear when it comes to html. Blind again? any workaround? with
so many online books on the web this is a strange waste...
6
I've tried to online register my copy. But I always (well, 4 or 5 times)
receive something like a "be patient", I am but didn't get anything. Is
this temporary?
Thanks
Julio
star_division_customer_support_-_falko_tesch
Am 02.03.98, 00:35:14, schrieb Julio Sameiro <sam...@mail.telepac.pt>
zum Thema StarOffice & Help on Macros & Translation & printing html:
Hi Julio.
> 1
> Disk says: StarOffice 4.0, Service Pack 2. On newsgroups & web page I
> saw many references to 4.0 beta and downloads, pacthes & so. So: Have
I
> a beta? (seems not!); should I download something?
No, your version is no beta. It is also on the most recent service
level. So no need for download.
> 2
> Sometimes I think: well if I don't know how 'he' does this or that
I'll
> make it with a macro. But knowledge of macro commands & functions
needs
> help -- and I don't see help about macros anywhere on star office! Am
I
> blind? hum...? at least something to download?
Open »Help - Help Index«. Use the »magnifying glass« icon for
searching for »StarBasic«. There you'll find your desired StarBasic
information. You can also check StarBasic-commands in the Basic-IDE
directly by marking them and clicking F1.
> 3
> I'm portuguese (thus you will excuse my foggy english) so I installed
> the portuguese version. Help files are english. Personally I don't
have
> problems with that (they are almost unnecessary -- good point for
> StarOf4.0... except for macros... grrr) but they w't be good for Star
> Office in Portugal.
> Are you planing to do something about that?
At the moment I have no information about if and when there will be a
Portuguese help available. For future information please refer to our
international web site at www.stardivision.com and our announce news
group.
> 4
> Sometimes the translation into portuguese is #!!#$@%$#. What can we
> say? << Bah! We don't give them enough $$. So they thought: why the
> pain? Lets give them a some spaghetti portuguese thing >> But if are
not
> interested on portuguese market why a portuguese version?
> Are you sure that your neighbour isn't the portuguese academic who
> could give an eye on that?
> (I thinking to uninstall portuguese version and install the english
one
> - and maybe I'll forget this sad story)
> Who should be the target of more specific & documented protests?
(maybe,
> who knows, on next version things will be better)
Since I'm not Portuguese I'm not in the position to judge our
Portuguese version of StarOffice. But I will forward your complaint to
our translation dept.
> 5
> I found that with StarWrite we can print documents on book format. The
> solution -- after we choose landscape & booklet printing & print odd
> pages & later the even ones, the program reduces the each one of the
A4
> or Letter pages of document so it fit on half a landscape page &...
you
> know-- is nice and I'm impressed (was looking for that long time). BUT
I
> can't do it with html -- the option for printing first even, after odd
> pages disappear when it comes to html. Blind again? any workaround?
with
> so many online books on the web this is a strange waste...
HTML doesn't support pages (like in a normal printing document).
Actually, HTML documents do not have any pages at all. Only if you
print them you'll have paper-pages.
> 6
> I've tried to online register my copy. But I always (well, 4 or 5
times)
> receive something like a "be patient", I am but didn't get anything.
Is
> this temporary?
Actually the online registration works fine, please check if your ISP
provides you with an adequate bandwidth to our server.
Best regards
Falko Tesch
Star Division Customer Support