[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.4.3 Writer cannot handle RTF document

2011-11-10 Thread Tom
Hi :) It is great when it does work and yes it's really good to be able to be highly responsive and adaptable to clients. It's certainly something that LibreOffice strives for and that is one of the reasons i enjoy using it so much. When it doesn't work, even slightly it's all the more annoying

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.4.3 Writer cannot handle RTF document

2011-11-08 Thread John D. Herron
A client asked me the other day to send him an .rtf version of a file I had sent to him in Word 97/2000/XP format a few months earlier. I opened the file in LO 3.3.4 [OOO330m19 (Build:401)] and re-saved it in .rtf format. I then opened the new .rtf file in LO: flawless. My client, too, confirmed

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.4.3 Writer cannot handle RTF document

2011-11-07 Thread prino
Tom wrote: If a machine appears to be dead then often you can still use it by booting up a LiveCd session of a GnuLinux distro. Not in this case, a number of the capacitors on the motherboard have blown and even with replacements it won't boot anymore. :( -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] RE: LO 3.4.3 Writer cannot handle RTF document

2011-11-07 Thread prino
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Using the RTF as provided in Robert's e-mail, Wordpad displays everything through the Total amount due row and that is the end. The additional RTF after that row is has no effect. Same here, I've got other similar invoices but they display OK. Now trying to

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.4.3 Writer cannot handle RTF document

2011-11-07 Thread prino
Pedro wrote: prino wrote: I would appreciate it if someone could have a look at to why this document doesn't display the way it should be displayed. Actually RTF must be the worse format in the world :) I opened your document under XP SP3 Pro x86 in 6 different word processors and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.4.3 Writer cannot handle RTF document

2011-11-07 Thread Tom Davies
: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.4.3 Writer cannot handle RTF document To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Monday, 7 November, 2011, 10:46 Pedro wrote: prino wrote: I would appreciate it if someone could have a look at to why this document doesn't display the way it should be displayed

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.4.3 Writer cannot handle RTF document

2011-11-07 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry for my rant! All just my own opinion of course. A bad hair day! Apols and regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LO-3-4-3-Writer-cannot-handle-RTF-document-tp3485447p3486699.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.4.3 Writer cannot handle RTF document

2011-11-07 Thread Pedro
prino wrote: As an aside, the fact that it's very easy to turn plain text into RTF using about any editor and/or simple scripts is a big advantage that RTF has over ODF, try making an ODT file on IBM's z/OS... It is easy to turn any document into RTF but you never know what will show up

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.4.3 Writer cannot handle RTF document

2011-11-06 Thread Tom
Hi :) If a machine appears to be dead then often you can still use it by booting up a LiveCd session of a GnuLinux distro. Here is a guide for Ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD but the rest all work pretty much the same way too. Often the LiveCd is the same as the installer Cd.

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.4.3 Writer cannot handle RTF document

2011-11-06 Thread Pedro
prino wrote: I would appreciate it if someone could have a look at to why this document doesn't display the way it should be displayed. Actually RTF must be the worse format in the world :) I opened your document under XP SP3 Pro x86 in 6 different word processors and it didn't look the

[libreoffice-users] RE: LO 3.4.3 Writer cannot handle RTF document

2011-11-06 Thread Tom
Hi Dennis :) You can upload the odt to Nabble quite easily. Just click on the link in this post to get to the right thread (or navigate to it), reply to a post and click on More Options to find the upload file option Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: