On 2008-12-11, Larry Jaques novalidaddress@di wrote:
On 11 Dec 2008 02:58:06 GMT, the infamous "DoN. Nichols"
scrawled the following:
[ ... ]
Where? In the printout from StarOffice, I see no images of any
form. However, I *do* see a few white spaces between paragraphs, with
one or more '.'s at the left margin.
O.K. I went back into StarOffice (version 7, FWIW), and see the
same. Not quite periods, but tiny blue dots.
I agree that a PDF would have been cleaner/smaller. C'est la vie.
And it might have carried the images along in such a way that I
could see them.
Strange, I'm running OpenOffice 2.0...oh, that's not StarOffice, is
it? g
StarOffice 7.0 -- from an earlier version of Solaris, IIRC.
Time for a DL, Don. OpenOffice has very seldom failed me.
Hmm ... a download -- of the sources and compile, or a
pre-compiled version? I do remember downloading the sources at some
time in the past, and discovering that they needed a lot of libraries
which I did not have -- and those needed more libraries as well. :-)
More trouble than it was worth while StarOffice was available
pre-compiled by Sun.
O.K. I do see OpenOffice available for download for Solaris,
and I am downloading as I type.
And the StarOffice needs a license fee to run it for more than a
short trial period, so we'll see what OpenOffice does for me.
AAMOF, the only time it has [failed you] was in opening some brand new Word files
and creating PDFs from them.
Microsoft keeps changing their format so what was compatible
does not remain so -- and to force user of Microsoft Office to
continually buy newer versions. :-(
I haven't printed this file, either, but
now that it's in PDF, it should work fine.
I used OpenOffice to distill it into a PDF file and will email it to
you, DoN, iffen that email (listed above) works.
The address is valid -- but the file is about a factor of 100
too large to get to me by e-mail. I've got a 30k size limit on *all*
incoming e-mail, to keep viruses out of a couple of small mailing lists
which I host. My system may be imune to the viruses, but that does not
apply to all who are receiving from the mailing lists.
Thanks for trying, at least.
A 3MB file is better than the 11MB file, huh? Sheesh! RTF is soooo
inefficient!
:-)
Raw PostScript is probably similar in size.
It is the excellent compression in PDF which makes the
difference.
I will try the downloaded OpenOffice (once it completes the
download and I install it) -- we are only 6% done with the download so
far.
Thanks,
DoN.
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