On 02/20/2011 02:30 AM, C Evans wrote: > Somewhere along the development path OO/LO has lost the facility to open > StarOffice 1.x ".sdw" (Writer) files directly. > > I have just switched from OO to LO, and have a small number of old sdw > files I need to open and update to the .odt file format. > > The LO help says to use the file import wizard, but when I tried this on > a folder containing (amongst some other files) 5 .sdw files, I hit the > error- > > BASIC runtime error > An exception occurred > type com.sun.start.lang.IllegalArgumentException > Message URL seems to be an unsupported one > > At this point the BASIC window is hung, you can't exit the script > because it says it's still running, but the stop button in the macro > window is inactive. The only way out is to kill off soffice.bin from the > task manager, nasty.
... Possibly this bug: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=105810 [SDW from SO3 having table in footer loops import in OOo3] I can open the works.sdw without issue in both OOo and LO, but the crashes.sdw loops both & I have to kill soffice.bin to get out. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
