My apologies, I have to withdraw the following > You can't just change the suffix of a file to make it readable by an > application as open office. OO is not a text editor dealing with human > readable text; OO stores it's .swx files in a binary format (eventually as > compressed XML, I'm not sure at the moment).
It's of course possible to open a file containing just text with suffix .swx with OO - at least on linux. sorry again. Will take holidays. joe > [...] > > Am Mittwoch, 2. März 2005 02.33 schrieb Harold Castro: > > Hi, > > I wrote a perl script that will parse a log file and > > output it into a text file. I made its filename to end > > in .swx so that it will by default open in > > openoffice.org. My problem is that, when you open the > > file, each line cannot accomodate the default margin > > settings of openoffice.org such that each line always > > wraps below its current line. The solution is to > > change the format of the document such that it's > > layout would be "landscape" or I just have to manually > > adjust the left and right margins so that lines would > > not wrap. But that's fine if I'm the only one reading > > the log file reports, my problem is that those reports > > are really meant for others to read and it's quite > > tedious to tell them that after opening the document, > > they must change its layout to landscape view to be > > able to read the reports clearly. > > > > Is there any way you can suggest to get around this > > scenario, such that those people can read those > > reports without having to tweak the settings of their > > editor? > > > > > > Thank you very much. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
