Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-31 Thread Ron Ferguson
-Original Message- From: Gene Young Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 4:29 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF On 8/31/2011 11:02 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Gene Young > > Didn't spot it did I? Di

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-31 Thread Gene Young
On 8/31/2011 11:02 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Gene Young > > Didn't spot it did I? Did you spot my bad "there" not "their" as well? > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > Thats OK, My entire reply was stripped. I was saying that LO is actively being dev

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-31 Thread Ron Ferguson
-Original Message- From: Gene Young Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 3:21 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF On 8/31/2011 10:13 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: >Gene, > >I was obviously unaware of the change of ownership from Oracle t

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-31 Thread Gene Young
On 8/31/2011 10:13 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: >Gene, > >I was obviously unaware of the change of ownership from Oracle to >Apache >Foundation, as I have not visited there website for some time. I just >tried >and see that is now like picking a needle from a haystack. I guess my >next >move wil

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-31 Thread Ron Ferguson
-Original Message- From: Gene Young Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:42 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF On 8/31/2011 4:11 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Jerry, > > As I understand it, the difficulties arise from differing interpretat

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-31 Thread Gene Young
On 8/31/2011 4:11 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Jerry, > > As I understand it, the difficulties arise from differing interpretations of > rtf syntax. I am not well up on this, but I believe that there is no > specification for this, and/or any specification is read differently by > different compilers

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-31 Thread Ron Ferguson
: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF Jerry, As I understand it, the difficulties arise from differing interpretations of rtf syntax. I am not well up on this, but I believe that there is no specification for this, and/or any specification is read differently by different compilers of the format. Bob, Libre

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-31 Thread Ron Ferguson
/ -Original Message- From: Gociao Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 1:18 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF Thank you, Ron. The using the reset button didn't do the trick. However, when I opened the file in Open Office, I was able to more easily make correc

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-30 Thread Bob Bashford
There's also LibreOffice ... which I have no personal experience with, but it seems to be well-regarded. On 8/30/2011 8:21 PM, Gociao wrote: > Thanks for that suggestion, Bob. > It seems that Open Office gets along better with an RTF file better than > WordPerfect. > Jerry > > On 8/30/2011 11:34

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-30 Thread Gociao
Thanks for that suggestion, Bob. It seems that Open Office gets along better with an RTF file better than WordPerfect. Jerry On 8/30/2011 11:34 AM, Bob Bashford wrote: > > Maybe download OpenOffice (or one of the other free ones) and see if > that 'plays better' with the .rtf files? > > > On 8/30

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-30 Thread Gociao
x27;t then try deleting Ances.usr and then redo your settings (it should > be the same result as Reset, but one never knows!) > > Ron Ferguson, > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > -Original Message- > From: Gociao > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 5:19 PM > To: LegacyU

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-30 Thread Ron Ferguson
ww.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: Gociao Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 5:19 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF Ron, Ok, updated Legacy to 7.5.0.112 and ran an RTF of an ancestor book report. The result is the same. Word processor is WordPerfectX4.

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-30 Thread Bob Bashford
Maybe download OpenOffice (or one of the other free ones) and see if that 'plays better' with the .rtf files? On 8/30/2011 1:54 PM, Gociao wrote: > Thanks for that suggestion, Jerry. Unfortunately, the results are the > same. There seems to be some hard formatting in the RTF file that > doesn't

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-30 Thread Gociao
t; >> On 8/30/2011 12:34 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: >>> Jerry, >>> >>> You give insufficient information to identify your problem, but I would >>> suggest that you first update to the current version as the one you are >>> using is well past i

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-30 Thread Jerry
give insufficient information to identify your problem, but I would >> suggest that you first update to the current version as the one you are >> using is well past its sell by date. Then try again. >> >> Ron Ferguson >> http://www.fergys.co.uk/ >> >> -O

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-30 Thread Gociao
st its sell by date. Then try again. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > -Original Message- > From: Gociao > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:13 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF > > Whenever I create a r

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-30 Thread Bob Rowe
- just as I expected. Bob - Original Message - From: "Gociao" To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 1:13:54 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF Whenever I create a report, e.g. ancestor book report, in the RTF mode, the formatting is messed up bi

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-30 Thread Ron Ferguson
, August 30, 2011 7:13 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF Whenever I create a report, e.g. ancestor book report, in the RTF mode, the formatting is messed up big time and requires hours to put the report into the same format as when it's printed or view

[LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-29 Thread Gociao
Whenever I create a report, e.g. ancestor book report, in the RTF mode, the formatting is messed up big time and requires hours to put the report into the same format as when it's printed or viewed on the screen in the regular Legacy format. Is this the nature of the beast or is something messed up