[PLUG] OO uh-oh

Colin Kuskie ckuskie at dalsemi.com
Wed Jan 22 14:31:02 UTC 2003


On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:20:54PM -0800, Michael Montagne wrote:
> More troubles converting .sxw files from open office. I created a
> document at home using oo1.0.  Emailed it myself here and now I need to
> save it in a format that my client can read (.doc or .pdf).  When I try
> to open the resulting .doc file in Word, it launches a file conversion
> dialogue and asks me what encoding I want to use. Nothing works right.
> A pdf opens fine with my acrobat reader(version 4.05-5) on Linux but my
> version 5 on windows just hangs and never even tries to open it.  
> Are there any insights from the OO vets out there?  Can someone else try
> and convert this for me, off list of course?  That might be a clue of
> sorts.

Step 1 would be to download a newer version of OO and see if it fixes
your problems.  1.0.2 just came out, and 1.0.1 is still available.

Colin




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