On Friday March 10 2006 08:12 pm, Jim Wagner wrote:
> Jim Wagner wrote:
> > G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 00:23 -0600, Jim Wagner wrote:
> >>> I had notice, on occasion, several versions ago, that sometimes when
> >>> I saved a file as rtf, then went back to work on it, it was no
> >>> longer there. What I got was a single empty page, marked "1 of 1",
> >>> with no text on it at all.
> >>>
> >>> At that time, I took to saving in .sxw, .doc. and .rtf, to make sure
> >>> I had the files.
> >>>
> >>> The problem is that several publishers want to see submissions in
> >>> .rtf only. Tonight, going through a submission for a publisher, I
> >>> found four files at least which were invisible.
> >>> The table said they had 63k, 36k, or whatever, but nothing showed on
> >>> the screen.
> >>>
> >>> What's happening?
> >>>
> >>> Furthermore, most of the reloaded .rtf files have lost their
> >>> formatting. This is a serious problem for a writer. If I can't
> >>> depend on my files to actually be there, and be in the format in
> >>> which I saved them, I'm in trouble.
> >>
> >> And which version did you use to save the files? If it was a beta
> >> version, then this could be the source of the problem. Are you using
> >> the version of OOo that is upgraded via your OS distro update
> >> mechanism? If yes, this could also be part of the problem.
> >> So we need more info to help you. I, for one, cannot reproduce the
> >> problem with RTF files that I saved with 1.1.0 let alone anything
> >> later.
> >
> > Sorry.
> >
> > I'm using Open Office version 2.0, working on Ubuntu. I am _not_
> > using the Ubuntu version, as it had no Thesaurus.
> > Thanks,
> >
> > JimW
>
> A little more data. The files are still there, (the .rtf files) but
> nothing shows on writer when I attempt to open them. However, I can
> open them in other text editors, which of course shows all the
> formatting code as well, but doesn't do the formatting.
>
> Any useful suggestions?
>
> JimW
Could you send me one of the files? I would like to look at one.
Dan
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