Thanks for informing the list;
I'm interested in hearing further on Symphony?, as to where to
find it, what all it contains, ...
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote:
On 08/27/2012 02:39 AM, zig wrote:
>
>> I have a text file in format .rtf with a simple table. The file appears
>> the same in open office and word2003. But in libre office it is correct
>> only up to the beginning of the table, later on all the text is presented
>> in the last (very long!) column and it is unusable.
>> Is this a bug? Do I have some method to avoid the problem?
>> Thanks in advance
>> paolo maurenzig
>>
>> LibreOffice 3.4.5
>> OOO340m1 (Build:502)
>>
>>
>>
>> RTFs are not the perfect solution the open-sourcers would like to think.
> I edit a small newsletter, and I used to get copy from the publisher in rtf
> format. Frequently the copy would spill over
> the right-hand side of the page and be truncated. This would happen in OO,
> LO, often Symphony, sometimes even WordPerfect (on Windows). If WP couldn't
> read it, it was useless,
> but the diddling around to make it work was a royal PITA. (The files
> originated in MSWord for Mac.) Now I take the input in MSWord .doc (2003
> or so edition) and Symphony reads them
> fine. Symphony, altho a close cousin to OO and LO, is polished and
> finished, and even tho it has a few glitches, I like it far better than
> either OO or LO, which will probably never be
> polished and finished.
>
> --doug
>
>
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