On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 15:23 -0400, Klemens Häckel wrote: > Hi Doug, > > I made some of Your proposed tests here - although everything works fine > with the file on the installation at G. Roderick Singleton's. > > 1. On the page some strings are in a table, some are in paragraphs below > it - without table > 2. Tried saving in sxw and odt, no change in appearance > > Searching of strings works, although the "marking" color is not the usual > one - since the letters are superposed. > I can change letter type, alignment, line spacing, without change respecting > the superposing of the letters. > Looked into some of the the XML file(s) of the sxw version. Everything > readable. But since i don't know the meaning of the parameters in the xml > tags (specially in the "style" tag) i cannot identify the problem like this > at first glance. > > Thanks anyway, > It is not urgent anymore, but maybe the solution would help prevent someone > else's problem. > >
I recall that this occurred in W98 with earlier releases of OOo. I searched but could find no references or issues with my quick search but I wonder if the systems fonts have somehow become damaged or unstable. Might be worth a few minutes to check via Control Panel. > Klemens > > > > <--> snip <--> > > > > Tell me more about the problem, eh? > > > > 1> Is the string, in fact, in a table, or was that just a hunch? > > 2> Have you tried saving the file as an oo file and reloading that file? > > 3> Once you have the oo file, you can search through it and look for > > your strings: > > --If this and this and this are superimposed > > --over that, that, that, and that: > > Then you can open the oofile (which is handily in xml) and search for > > the sentence > > and see what's wrong with it. > > 4> In your 'original' file, try various operations that b-doink with > > the lines (Like > > double spacing the entire document.) > > > > I saw another post about superimposing characters... > > > > Stanislaw Hodur wrote: > > %| Is it possible to type (and print) a character over another in a text > > %| document? > > > > %There is a field: Functions: Combine characters, yet it seems to be > > %useless -- the characters are simply squeezed. Or is it a bug? > > > > %staho > > > > You might try playing with that. > > -- > > Douglas Hernandez > > (612) 229-9684 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
