On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:46 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 03 February 2003 01:45 pm, et wrote: > > ok, here is the "kick in the crotch" I could not save it in SO > > powerpoint, so i created a new presentation, copy and pasted all the > > slides to the new presentation, and it saved with no problem. > > Hell's bells. Hmpf. Being an emergency, I tried other options and have > decided to go with pdf. Staroffice, I found, cannot create (in this case > at least) a valid/useable pdf file. By printing instead to a postscript > file (SO does BEAUTIFUL postscript) and then using ps2pdfwr I get an > equally gorgeous pdf file. My committee will have to make do with a pdf > file as I have already generated it and tested it. > > Thanks for the attempts (and possible answer). I will have to try the > copy-paste to a new file. Must be some wierd bit somewhere in the > presentation.
This sounds suspiciously like the problems I've had with some .sxw files. After a lot of help from et and others I gave up, thinking it couldn't be solved. Then I went onto Sun's website and discovered that there is a patch, a sort of service pack 2. I installed it; a lot of bits said they could not install, but looking over the docs that come with it I think they were concerned with asian fonts, which I don't have. The upshot is, I think the bug fixes that are in there have cured my problem. The files that I believed to be corrupted beyond recovery now open and can be used with ease. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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