On Thursday 18 September 2008 10:11:40 am Gregory Pittman wrote: > John Culleton wrote: > > I have a one-page sample file with one text window, as simple as > > can be. But I get this message when I save the sla file: > > > > QDom: saving invalid character , the document will not be > > well-formed > > > > This is repeated 5 times. I have 3 em dashes but no other unusual > > characters. I use URW Palladio and URW Palladio italic. > > > > The text was imported from an ASCII file. > > I'm not sure why this is happening, but this is the character used > in 1.3.3.x and earlier for a soft carriage-return, and causes > problems if you use an xml parser. > Have never seen it within Scribus while saving though. Perhaps it's > in the ASCII file? > > Maybe try saving the text to a file, then re-importing to the > frame. > > Greg
The text file was saved from OO Writer. I pulled up the file in gvim but saw no special characters. Will review it in od. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
