Keith, thank you so, so much! I was beginning to feel a bit nuts and or clueless here. good to know it isn't just me having this problem. thanks very much! will try the work around.
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Keith Abraham <kabraham at gmx.com> wrote: > I see what Alison Saylor is getting at and she's correct. > > Using 1.3.6 or 1.3.3.14: > 1. ?create a text frame > 2. right click on the frame > 3. click "edit text" > 4. select File/Load from File for .odt > > all that then appears in the editor is "PK" and one or two other characters > which I believe are control characters.* > > Work around:* > Yet if at stage 3. one clicks "Load text" (not Edit text) and load the file > via the file manager the file appears in the text as it should. > > Also at stage 4. if one selects "All files (*)" an .odt file loads as it > should. > > So there appears to be a bug in the .odt loading. > > The problem requires more investigation because I think there is more merely > than Alison's problem happening here. I have no time to investigate further > so perhaps the developers could have a look at it. * > > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
