Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem - resolved in OO

2003-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I submitted a bug report to openoffice.org about this problem and it has now been resolved in the latest build. There was a bug in the code that allowed for/created an empty OLE object on one of the slides and this prevented the export. It has

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 13:25, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 16:15 -0500, et wrote: I would not put bets on where to blame in either case,,, my [gag,,cough, cough, choke] intuition makes me think of some weird kinda file corruption in both cases, but SO is the only common

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 9:15 pm, et wrote: I would not put bets on where to blame in either case,,, my [gag,,cough, cough, choke] intuition makes me think of some weird kinda file corruption in both cases, but SO is the only common thread _that_ _we_ _know_ _of_. FWIW, I abandoned OOo from 8.2

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: 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. http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/6.0/patch.html HTH

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: 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.

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:43 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:55, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:43 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:55 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:43 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread et
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 12:55 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:43 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 15:37 -0500, et wrote: one of this thread was the one you offered to test for Preador, the Star office presentation that gave an error when saving to Powerpoint, but could be cut and pasted to a new file, and saved with no problem, and Anne had a I think that one was

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread et
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 03:53 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 15:37 -0500, et wrote: one of this thread was the one you offered to test for Preador, the Star office presentation that gave an error when saving to Powerpoint, but could be cut and pasted to a new file,

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 16:15 -0500, et wrote: I would not put bets on where to blame in either case,,, my [gag,,cough, cough, choke] intuition makes me think of some weird kinda file corruption in both cases, but SO is the only common thread _that_ _we_ _know_ _of_. Yes, that sounds right,

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Brian Schroeder
Out of interest, does anyone know if Staroffice patches can be applied to Openoffice installations? Could it be done? Would it break things? Brian From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and

[expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a starimpress presentation that I must save as a powerpoint presentation. Trying to do so from either staroffice 6.0 or OO 1.0.1 fails with a beep and a General error input/output error. Is there some limitation/issue with these packages

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Thomas Sourmail
with a beep and a General error input/output error. You are not trying to save on a fat32 partition, are you ? Apart from the fact that soffice won't read those, I had weird problems with nfs and MS formats. I could save as staroffice/openoffice own formats on nfs, but got systematic crashes

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 February 2003 08:08 am, Thomas Sourmail wrote: with a beep and a General error input/output error. You are not trying to save on a fat32 partition, are you ? Apart from the fact that soffice won't read those, I had weird problems

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread et
try sending the starimpress presentation to me off list... let's see if the same thing happens here.. I have a starimpress presentation that I must save as a powerpoint presentation. Trying to do so from either staroffice 6.0 or OO 1.0.1 fails with a beep and a General error input/output

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:03 -0500, et wrote: try sending the starimpress presentation to me off list... let's see if the same thing happens here.. Send it to me too, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread James Sparenberg
Pradeor, Had a real PowderPoint file I edited and tried to save about 6 months ago, To get it to save I had to first save it in Star Office's format. Then close the file Open it and then I could save it as a power point, I don't know why it did this. I've never been able to repeat it. It

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:57 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: Pradeor, Had a real PowderPoint file I edited and tried to save about 6 months ago, To get it to save I had to first save it in Star Office's format. Then close the file Open it and then I could save it as a power point, I

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread et
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. On Monday 03 February 2003 01:20 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:57 -0800,

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-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

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 13:45 -0500, 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. Just what I expected: On Monday 03 February 2003

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Anne Wilson
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

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread James Sparenberg
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:

[expert] Staroffice/Openoffice problem

2003-01-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone here make much use of either package? I am generating a powerpoint presentation with Staroffice 6.0 and even though it indicates that it can import/understand eps format, if I try to import an eps into a slide or graphic, all it ever

Re: [expert] Staroffice/Openoffice problem

2003-01-26 Thread David Whiting
Praedor, I have had the same problem with OO.o. I have started using the Prosper package with LaTeX to create presentations (that run using Acrobat, not powerpoint of course). It is very nice and of course has no problem with eps files. See, for example: http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~mheil/Prosper/