Wow, what a lot of great responses. Thanks, all.
To answer a number of questions:
I was using an older version of LO (I just got notified when I brought
it up this month that a new version was available). Both versions could
not open the .doc file. The 3.5 version I am using now was updated this
last weekend (3.5.7.2).
Word 2003 and LO are running on the same machine, running Windows 7.
I didn't consider writing it as RTF and reading it into LO. I'll try
that next time.
I'm guessing the LibreOffice folder is the one under
"C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice.
It was suggested I post the file to Nobble. I'm willing to do that, but
I don't know what that is. Google doesn't provide anything useful.
I will definitely look into the Bullzip PDF printer (I've downloaded
it). I have a PDF printer somewhere (when I bought OmniPage 18), but I
can't seem to find the CD. My biggest goal in bringing up this issue
was to help the LO developers fix a problem. I was ultimately able to
send the .doc file to my work computer and generate PDF there.
Just so you know, I'm not a huge fan of .PDF. The only reason I have to
provide .PDF is because the company we use to print the newsletter
requires it. Apparently, the .PDF format is a lot smaller, too, so it
is what the American Legion suggests. We send the newsletter to about
250 people each month.
I tried the "Open and Repair" option (that was new to me). It came up
with a bunch of errors for all the images that were in the document. I
then saved the file, but it made no difference. It still doesn't
recognize it as a Word document.
I tried "Save as..." with a different name. It was said that this would
do a garbage collection. New name has the same problem. It's not
recognized as a Word document.
Odt files: Okay, I had a bad experience with OpenOffice. When I
contacted the e-mail support group, they said I shouldn't save files on
a flash drive. Then someone told me how to unpack the .odt file and fix
it with an editor. Okay, that's the last time I wanted to trust the
.odt format. I've heard that LibreOffice is much better maintained, but
I hadn't trusted the .odt format. I usually save .doc, .rtf or .html
formats. I've never had a problem with them. Maybe I should give the
.odt format a try again.
Thanks again for all the great suggestions. I've got some work to do to
try some of these things.
Chris
On 11/28/2012 8:48 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote:
On 2012-11-28 19:14, Chris Carlson wrote:
I'm new to this e-mail list, so excuse me if this is something
discussed already.
I've been very pleased with LibreOffice on many fronts. I recommend
it to everyone. As a matter of fact, I use it instead of Word at
every opportunity. At work, though, I use Word because that's what's
installed.
I write a newsletter for the American Legion. Since it was developed
in Word, I use my old student copy of Word 2003 to create it each
month. I have to provide both a .doc and .pdf of the newsletter to
the printers. My trick, since Word 2003 doesn't offer a .pdf output,
is to read the .doc with LibreOffice (3.5) and publish it to .pdf.
For the first time in months, LibreOffice can't seem to recognize the
.doc format. I'm using the same version of Word that I've used for
months. The newsletter is basically the same file, which I copy and
modify for the new month. For whatever reason, LibreOffice tries to
open it as a text file. It initially asks what text encoding it
should use, waits for a long time, and then opens a garbage document.
Is this a known problem? Did I do something to the document that
caused it to be read incorrectly?
Thanks for any ideas on this.
Chris
Hi.
Did you update your version of LO. Possibly this is related to the
thread with subject MS Office MacIntosh to Libre Writer Windows.
There was a bug filed
(<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53909>) and seems to
apply to LO > 3.5.4 and LO < 3.6.4.
Steve
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