Background: I copied a picture, and the only place I could then save it turned out to be NeoOffice (which I have, but never use). I want it in .pdf format; it appears to be in .odt. I vaguely recalled some commentary about Open Office using the 'future-proof' .odt format, so I downloaded Open Office. All of this on a MacBook Pro (Intel), OSX 10.4.11; my normal word processor is Nisus; my normal image cruncher is Photoshop; both understand some form of .pdf.
I now have a disk image called OpenOffice.org, which contains a LICENSEs folder, a READMEs folder, and an OpenOffice.org 2.4 icon. The Read Mes send me to web sites which assume that I see a different screen from the one I get when I open OpenOffice.org 2.4. What I get is menu entries: OpenOffice.org, File, and Edit. The latter's lists are greyed out, except for Edit Script. 'About OpenOffice.org 2.4' tells me that it is 'an executable Script saved as an application'. Interesting--but it doesn't execute anything or anybody. At various times, under experiments like dragging the .odt file I want to convert onto various icons related to OpenOffice, X11 has intruded, but this is also an application which I never use, and it may resent this lack of attention, because it didn't want to do anything helpful. Am I doing anything recognizable wrong here? There are now several Open Office folders distributed around my disc; the 'OpenOffice.org 2.4.app' opens the unhelpful 'Script saved as an application' described above. I get the feeling that there are 3 too many wrappers for the system to cope with, maybe because I don't have the right unwrapper? -- Ferren (Dr) Ferren MacIntyre 11 Ave de Roussillon Campagne sur Aude 11260 France ------------------------------------------------ OSX 10.4.11 MacBook Pro
