On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 00:37 -0500, Brian McCullough wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:26:26PM +1300, Paul wrote: > > No worries. > > There have been some comments (and from experience) that things turn > > out bad if you upgrade versions in the same directory. > > > > Regards, Paul > > > Thanks, Paul. > > > As you suggested, I uninstalled OOo and removed the directories. ( Now > that I think about it, I didn't completely remove the Win2K Profile > information that is attached to my User ID, though. I wonder whether > this might be significant. ) > > After removing the previous copy, I installed OOo 1.1.4 fresh, and tried > printing my document. No change. I tried yours and it did print > successfully, as we expected. ( another thought -- I wonder whether the > text printed, or just the "letterhead"? I must look tomorrow. ) > > For the on-lookers -- running OOo 1.1.4 in a Win2K environment, I can't > seem to print, from OOo, documents that have both images and text. If I > convert the document into PDF, everything prints well. In OOo 1.1.3 in > Win98, everything prints fine. 1.9.69 crashed with the document. > >
You have followed Help > Contents > Index > Search term > printing; controls in text documents and set your print options from the File > Print dialogue? I suspect that this is your problem. > Thanks, again Paul. I will let you know how things go tomorrow. > > Brian > > > P.S. I wonder whether images in other formats, like GIF or PNG or BMP > would be more or less successful than the JPGs that I currently have? > How did you build your example? What was the tool? Unfortunately, the > quality suffered a bit, so I would really rather use OOo in "text" mode > for the text parts of the letterhead, if possible. > JPEG and GIF are lossy formats and often end up fuzzy. BMP is bloated while PNG is lossless and reasonably compact. Google for more info -- Documentation Co-Lead PLEASE - keep list traffic on the list. Email sent directly to me may be ignored utterly. "Dinna meddle wi' things ye ken nuthin' aboot!" J.Herriot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
