dotan, thanks for your help whenever you can give it. i was not aware of RTF being proprietary - i've used it for years to avoid lock-in, which i suppose is less of a concern with an open project like OO.o. if .odt is superior i will certainly switch.
i managed to see the file again by opening and resaving it in abiword, but this unsurprisingly mangled both the encoding of accented characters and the arranement of graphics. i look forward to whatever you discover or advise. thanks again. aaron. so said [EMAIL PROTECTED] in 1.2K on Sat, Oct 28, 2006: > On 28/10/06, aaron brick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >hi folks, > > > >i am preparing an academic paper for a conference and am almost done - like > >i intend to send it this week. however, today i saved the RDF to disk, > >upgraded OO.o from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 (debian packages), and now can't reopen > >the file. an error is reported at the end of the file - nothing appears > >amiss to me. > > > >can anyone help? the file is 20M, about which i apologize (it contains > >a few photos). > > > > http://www.lithic.org/tmp/volkswagen-2006.rtf > > > >i would really appreciate any help. > > > >aaron. > > > > I doubt that you'll find many strangers willing to download a > proprietary Microsoft format file (prone to viruses) and be willing to > test them on their systems. I'm downloaing the file now, and I'll > bring it to the university where I'll see if I can recover it on a > sterile winbox. I'll be at the university on Sunday (the start of the > Israeli work week), so I hope it's not urgent. > > Dotan Cohen > > http://nanir.com > http://what-is-what.com/what_is/drm.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > \\ aaron brick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://www.lithic.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
