Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the other do you happen to have the url. I do use Asian fonts on occasion and have had trouble. Thanks.
James On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 10:55, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:46 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Monday 03 February 2003 01:45 pm, et wrote: > > > ok, here is the "kick in the crotch" I could not save it in SO > > > powerpoint, so i created a new presentation, copy and pasted all the > > > slides to the new presentation, and it saved with no problem. > > > > Hell's bells. Hmpf. Being an emergency, I tried other options and have > > decided to go with pdf. Staroffice, I found, cannot create (in this case > > at least) a valid/useable pdf file. By printing instead to a postscript > > file (SO does BEAUTIFUL postscript) and then using ps2pdfwr I get an > > equally gorgeous pdf file. My committee will have to make do with a pdf > > file as I have already generated it and tested it. > > > > Thanks for the attempts (and possible answer). I will have to try the > > copy-paste to a new file. Must be some wierd bit somewhere in the > > presentation. > > This sounds suspiciously like the problems I've had with some .sxw files. > After a lot of help from et and others I gave up, thinking it couldn't be > solved. Then I went onto Sun's website and discovered that there is a patch, > a sort of service pack 2. I installed it; a lot of bits said they could not > install, but looking over the docs that come with it I think they were > concerned with asian fonts, which I don't have. > > The upshot is, I think the bug fixes that are in there have cured my problem. > The files that I believed to be corrupted beyond recovery now open and can be > used with ease. HTH > > Anne > -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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