Re: Saving files as .doc borked?

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 19:07:16 EST

  • Next message: Austin Gonyou: "Re: Saving files as .doc borked?"

    On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 01:02, Austin Gonyou wrote:

    > I don't doubt that it's complex, but to say it's broken, when it clearly
    > works in OpenWriter is not right.

    Last time I tried, I had to save as Word 6 to have it readable by my
    co-workers....
    No comment.

    A side note: StarDivision now Sun hired the orginal author of wvware,
    the library that we use to read MS-Word .doc file and that Dom now
    maintains with FJF.

    > I will complain as well, and file another bug, or comment on that bug.
    > More voices, more action?

    File a bug with your crashers, and tell us the # so that we can watch
    it. I'm curious to read what they have to say.

    > > That always will be a problem. Word .doc and RTF files does not contain
    > > a rendered layout...
    > >
    >
    > Good point. Does the ABW format?

    Neither. PDF and PS do :-)

    Hub


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