New: NeoOffice User Guide

aussie149 · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:00 pm Post subject: New: NeoOffice User Guide

I've been looking at some of the excellent resources for OpenOffice.org, and wondered whether it was possible to make them more relevant to NeoOffice and OS X.

I've managed to do a draft of the second chapter [there are 14 chapters] of the OpenOffice.org 2.0 User Guide. The draft is located for download here.

This exercise has shown me that it is quite feasible to do the whole User Guide in Neospeak. I am happy to keep going - if it is going to be a justifiable use of my time. Please have a look and get back to me here or in a PM.

Is this worth pursuing?

Peter

rays · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject:

In a word, Peter, "Yes!"

It think it would be a welcome and long-overdue addition to the support provided to NeoUsers.

It's something I dabbled with myself once but never got far enough to warrant publication - not even a complete chapter - so I encourage you to continue. It looks very good from where I'm sitting and we'll certainly make use of it in our offices. I know from my short experience of trying just how time-consuming this work is.

Thanks for your generous efforts.

LemonAid · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:15 am Post subject:

Excellent Effort! BRAVO!

If you write it, they will ... read? (or maybe not RTFM Crying or Very sad

)
"I" will read it. Laughing

It's an amazing contribution and your efforts are MUCH appreciated.

I'm sure that many groups of NeoOffice users will read and appreciated your efforts. Thank YOU!

Philip ( you meet the Most AMAZING people on these fora! Wink

)

valterb · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:57 am Post subject:

And what about adding this guide to NeoOffice CD when it will be done?

Valter

jgd · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject:

I've downloaded the guide and read some pages. A great work. Thank youâ€¦ I've already learned a few things.
I've noticed that on page 20 you wrote

LemonAid · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject:

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

I think this is a good idea, too, Peter (and an awful lot of work!) Smile

I briefly noticed there was some unix-related printing cruft in towards the end when I jumped through it.

I also wondered why you used the old-school  (Apple) rather than ⌘ (Command; which appears in the menus and on keyboards) in the keyboard shortcuts?

Smokey

aussie149 · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject: OK

K-9 · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject:

I have tried downloading the various downloads and unzipping them and I cannot get anything to really open with anything that resembles a user guide. any suggestions? thanks.

jgd · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:27 am Post subject:

Don't unzipp the file. Remove the extension .zip. You'll get a file named
"NEO_OOo2_chapter2_master2.odt". Neo opens it without any problem.

Jacqueline

K-9 · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:48 am Post subject:

Ok - Thank you. I wil try that. How would i know to do this? Is there something i am missing? Is this something endemic to NeoOffice or something?

Thanks - K-9

p.s. it worked! I would have never known to edit the zip out of it....why do you do that? or how does one know to do that?

re: the text itself. Nice work! I find this very nicely written and very clear and cogent and extremely helpful for me a neophyte.

thank you for the text. I would like to have a copy of the complete edition.

:-)))

jgd · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:09 am Post subject:

yoxi · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:35 am Post subject:

Looks lovely - the only comment I have is a grammatical one; the abbreviation i.e. (Latin: id est, 'that is') needs its full stops (Yankee: periods) as it's an abbreviation rather than a word. I don't know whether the folk at OpenOffice are responsible for that omission, but I though I'd mention it in any case, pedant that I be.

- padmavyuha

aussie149 · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:45 am Post subject: Id est quod id est

aussie149 · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:48 am Post subject: PDF's

Can somebody please help with PDF's. I haven't touched the last few pages of that sample chapter because it describes I can't seem to find any references to in the NeoOffice version.

With the new PDF Export security tab the user has the following possibilities:
create a PDF document that can be opened only with the correct password, once password-opened the user can do whatever it likes with it (see Only â€œopen passwordâ€, no restriction);

create a PDF document that can be opened only with the correct password, but with restricted permissions; for example the document cannot be printed, or any of the selections from 6 to 9 in ( see â€œopen passwordâ€, restricted);

create a PDF document that can be opened by anyone, but with restricted permissions; for example the document cannot be printed, or any of the selections.

create a PDF document without restrictions, everything is allowed (see PDF without restriction).

Can anyone tell me whether thsi is a feature in NeoOffice? I can't find it.

P