On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 04:07, Anthony R. King wrote: > First, kudos to the development team. Scribus truly is a killer app. > I've used other DTP software enough to be familiar with the basics. I > just built my first project with Scribus and everybody's happy, > including the printer. > > I wanted to warn others about a problem that caused me a lot of grief. > When I saved Word files as txt using OO.o 1.1.0 a non-ascii artifact was > left at the beginning of the file. It looked like this "<feff>The > Fish's Tale". > > Whatever that is caused 5 or 6 crashes "with signal 11" and corrupted > unrecoverable files. The crashes happened late in the production > process or when trying to delete the artifact while in Scribus. > Eventually, I opened the text files in vi, deleted the <feff> and the > project went together in less than 2 hours. > > Thanks again for the great app. Hope my trouble will save someone else > what I had to go through > > Tony >
Do you have a sample file for us to test with? Are you running CVS? Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040804/3f50b73e/attachment.pgp
