Am Montag, 30. April 2007 schrieb Victor Blakey: > I am running a small business dealing with local councils. > all our invoices are created in open office and converted to word .doc > documents for emailing to our customers. > However last year (at around aboput the time we upgraded to open office > v2.0) our customers started receiving .dat files that came out as garbage > tried sending to our own computers (2 windows machines and a fedora > box), came through as a .doc no probs but same email sent to customer > they received(windows XP and IE) as garbage.
I saw this occasionally with my files which I sent from my openSUSE linux box. In my case the very same Email was sent to different addresses, where one or two of the Windows users received the files as *.dat while with the others recipients, everything was fine. So for this problem openoffice is not necessarily to blame. It could very well be a faulty setting in your mailing system or somewhere on the recipient's computer, or somewhere in between, though I am not sure. There is a workaround: Ask the recipient to save the document with a new *.doc name, open Word and - from within Word - open the saved document. This does normally work. For PDFs, do the same (here, instead of Word, take a PDF reader). Guido --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
