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Hey. YOU are not alone. I am. So here it comes, my next next nifty file-format tip: Do SVG-graphics in SoftMaker office Almost , that is... Until this morning, I had been convinced, that Inkscape were unable to correctly convert SVG -images to WMF . As you might know, the SoftMaker Office-Suite does...

Although the topic should cover more than the PDF-format, here is a script which has served me well a few times. Explanation : A first PDF-version of a construction plan had to be transferred to a few people for evaluation. The plan itself had been in black and white, but was enriched with some phot...

Good afternoon. This thread is an attempt to accumulate successfully applied procedures in order to avoid or remedy all kinds of trouble with file formats. I have the impression that there are still many “ incompatibilities ” or “ inconveniences ” observed, when dealing with the softmaker-owned or a...

Polemic statements are now directed against the ecologists at Notre-Dame-Des-Landes. They will storm the camp, they will have to shoot young people. Stay tuned!My house is advancing, it would become habitable in 2016 but I feel like having made the worst mistake in all my life. In the country of the...

France Culture reports, that the allegations against at least one ecologist put under house arrest, rely exclusively on his knowledge of the german language. The authorities have apparently feared that french and german ecologists could get in contact with each other during the climat conference... ...

“Chef, these are youngsters, can we pack a punch?” All of the317 preliminarily arrested people after the demonstration on Sunday have been released and the media agree on the objective of the obviously exaggerated police action: To scare potential protesters for the time of the climate conference. T...

Just to add diversity to the list of sources, here is Frédéric Lordon, en economist and Le Monde Diplomatique, the most-read French newspaper world-wide :
« État d'urgence - Ce que nous pouvons »

Please take note of the fact, that the French government uses the current « situation » to silence any kind of political or social movement that appears to either express or to have expressed at one time in the past “opposition” in the most general sense of the expression. Even biological farmers an...

Leonhard Dobusch does a good job putting the ongoing polemic into context, in the hope of a more “ fruitful and constructive conversation ”: http://www.communia-association.org/2015/07/27/rhetoric-of-copyright-extremism/ French translation / Version française : http://scinfolex.com/2015/07/28/demont...

Good morning. Can you point me at a procedure which excludes the use of TeX4ht and allows to convert LaTex to ODF or Doc? Apparently the task is complicated by the presence of depending sub-documents. I have personally no experience whatsoever. ;-) Not even with TeX and even less with this type of t...

Ha. Put your questions differently. Or not.

Somewhere, there is a happy medium, where we have all the functionality we actually need, presented in a logical manner that still allows for some user configuration and customisation. In the Microsoft world, XP is probably as good as it is ever likely to get. So, why not lock everything down, keep...

Camper, your latest message is completely okay, too. I would not even have commented on it, had it been your original response to “The Boss”. :D Michael, let the user decide if he or she does not want to download attachments with their email. As we will be paying to use the program. This is realisti...

Please put in an option to receive or not to receive attachments by the user As a Mail-User Agent, Thunderbird is in charge of the delivery/reception-process only for the very last leg of the transfer, between the receiving instance and your user-interface. As a Mail-Retrieval-Agent, it is not a lo...

A well patched Windows version is always a good option. No matter any new version with "whistle and bells". However, when Microsoft stop its official support then using an older version comes with a risk of security vulnerable. Where I live, people have a crappy satellite connection or no...