I think asking the students to use the .doc or .odf format would be excellent
to require in your syllabus. Also, for those instances that non-compliance
is inevitable (I work in an educational environment too), you can use a
virtual machine running MSOffice that will handle .docx files. That is
You can use GIMP to directly import the postscript file and then export to
any image format you want. GIMP, of course, would let you edit the image if
you want. I use to use ghostscript as you've described to convert
postscript to TIFF for publication quality images. However, since I would
crop
Just tested the doc versus odt format and your correct, Writer won't save the
background of the document when saving in the doc format.
What is up with that? Isn't that a simple format filter error?
Dow
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XnView might help in Linux with converting to a different high res format
that would importable into LO and yet keep the resolution you require. I
just checked and GIMP would import your .emf file at the resolution you
prefer, with or without anti-aliasing and allow export as a eps or png file.
In Tools | Options | Language Settings | Languages, what is your Locale set
to?
I'm sure your feeling a bit frustrated with everyone's responses. After
reading through the thread, I was frustrated and it's not my problem!
However, the real problem is determining if your LO's Locale is set to a
I can define using Format | Page a page that is 72 inches wide and 42 inches
high for a poster. However, after adding a title that spans the 72 inch
width, saving the document in Draw format, and reopening the document, I
find the title is wrapped at the 40 inch width mark and no longer spans the
