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Old 03-02-2009, 11:50 AM   #31
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I have never used Open Office.

I scanned the page of portable version but cannot understand the difference between standard version and portable. Most likely I missed something obvious, silly me.
I don't know of any difference beside the obvious one . You don't have to install it. Just decompress it into a folder of your choice and you're done.
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Old 03-02-2009, 11:51 AM   #32
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I don't know of any difference beside the obvious one . You don't have to install it. Just decompress it into a folder of your choice and you're done.
Oh, I see. I thought maybe you have to install it on USB stick or something.
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Old 03-02-2009, 11:53 AM   #33
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... we don't want to blow money on MS Office.
You gained a lot of my respect with that remark. Once you've tried OpenOffice you'll never want to go back to the dark side (i.e., MS Office).
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Old 03-02-2009, 12:51 PM   #34
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You gained a lot of my respect with that remark. Once you've tried OpenOffice you'll never want to go back to the dark side (i.e., MS Office).
Actually I sometimes do want to go back, but only because software like BD, for example, won't cooperate with OO. There is a lot of work left to be done on that level, if at all possible.
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Old 03-02-2009, 02:37 PM   #35
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Can you have both, 2003 Office and Open Office on the same computer?
Yes--Open Office and MS Office 2003 can co-exist on the same machine. I have both installed on my computer at home.

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Old 03-02-2009, 03:56 PM   #36
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Once you've tried OpenOffice you'll never want to go back to the dark side (i.e., MS Office).
I rather like the dark side.

[Not beating on OO.o; I use it daily on my Linux machines, but I prefer Office 2007]
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Old 03-02-2009, 05:10 PM   #37
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We will evaluate including images. There are complications with how OO handles images in XHTML, exports as Base64 and sizes them proportionally to a 96dpi version of the OO page. The result is the image is probably too small. We didn't want to hold the app back while wrestling with this problem...
I'm sure you will solve that problem in a satisfactory manner. Maybe you could ask the user for the file location of the original images when exporting to ePub?

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I rather like the dark side.
[Not beating on OO.o; I use it daily on my Linux machines, but I prefer Office 2007]
I don't use MS Office at home - OpenOffice, especially Writer and Calc, is all i need personally. Well, at work it's different. The dark side is powerful there...
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Old 03-04-2009, 10:19 AM   #38
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I rather like the dark side.

[Not beating on OO.o; I use it daily on my Linux machines, but I prefer Office 2007]
Well - having more than 1 machine here - I ususally always remove any MS-Office-Like products from the systems (Except my Work machine, I nerd it there for outlook - but not for Office - running inside a VMWare for security ).

BTW - I am, at work, the only one capable of converting ad-hoc any old Office document using OpenOffice. MS itself does not support old closed formats of it's own ... Reason I use OpenOffice for the future is also the Open Document Format, which will IMHO also work years in the future.
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Old 03-15-2009, 09:34 AM   #39
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any chance to get it running with Open Office on Mac OS X?

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Old 03-20-2009, 12:17 PM   #40
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I am loving eScape for creating my ePubs quickly. How do I change the default font size my Sony PRS-505 displays? Books I download from feedbooks.com have a nice default font and font size. I know I'll have to edit the css somewhere. I've been finding the eScape (classic css) font size to be too small by default. Any ideas on how to change this? Thanks everyone, this site has been very useful!
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Old 03-21-2009, 04:23 AM   #41
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I have added a CSS customization tutorial page to the eScape online tutorial. Go to the last topic "Customizing the CSS Stylesheets".
The font size is set to 0.9em, and you can easily change it following the tutorial (I hope - I wrote it pretty fast). eScape lets you modify your stylesheets (within the predefined selector rules) anyway you like. I think that will solve your problem, but might just make a few more if you go wild with CSS! Have fun making custom CSS files and if there are any more issues or information you want just let us know.
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Old 03-21-2009, 04:32 AM   #42
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We are a very "non-Mac" operation and have no nearby Mac friends. It's programmed in Python, so there is no inherent reason why it wont run on a Mac with some interface changes. The issue is creating installables and sorting out the interface. I will ask the guys and see if we can get a Mac installation ready sometime soon as I think a lot of target users are Mac'aholics. May have to buy a powerbook one day soon!
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We are a very "non-Mac" operation and have no nearby Mac friends. It's programmed in Python, so there is no inherent reason why it wont run on a Mac with some interface changes. The issue is creating installables and sorting out the interface. I will ask the guys and see if we can get a Mac installation ready sometime soon as I think a lot of target users are Mac'aholics. May have to buy a powerbook one day soon!
As a Mac user myself, that would be awesome! I don't mind having to fire up VMWare, but it would be nice not to have to! Where can i sign up to beta test? lol
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I have added a CSS customization tutorial page to the eScape online tutorial. Go to the last topic "Customizing the CSS Stylesheets".
The font size is set to 0.9em, and you can easily change it following the tutorial (I hope - I wrote it pretty fast). eScape lets you modify your stylesheets (within the predefined selector rules) anyway you like. I think that will solve your problem, but might just make a few more if you go wild with CSS! Have fun making custom CSS files and if there are any more issues or information you want just let us know.
Thanks for such a quick reply! I'll check the tutorial now.
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We are a very "non-Mac" operation and have no nearby Mac friends.
You could grab a Mac mini for the Office to get your Mac version going and tested. But, then you will most certainly get everyone wanting to work on the Mac all the time!

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