Re: .swx and .odt files

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 21:08 -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:53 am, Brett Shand wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm new to the list and Abiword.
> >
> > I have been using OpenOffice since version 1.1.something and have now
> > reached a stage in my life when I don't need a full suite anymore so
> > I have "downsized" to Abiword. It looks like it will suit me very
> > well.
> >
> > As you might expect I have a large number of OOo files (mainly text
> > files). I have downloaded all the plugins but the conversion still
> > seems patchy. Many convert perfectly, but a lot don't; I just get two
> > or three lines of garbage characters.
> >
> > I can't see any pattern - it doesn't seem to matter which version of
> > OOo they were saved under, for instance - does anyone have any idea
> > why this might be? And is there a fix? I can re-install OOo and batch
> > covert to .rtf, but I would prefer not to do that.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Brett
>
> Is there a pattern with .odt vs .sxw files. AFAIK, .odt is the
> extension for the Open Document Format, which is supported by OOo ver
> 2.0.

The AbiWord OO.o filter is not perfect by any means. Save your documents
to either *.doc or *.rtf in OO.o and AbiWord will read them much better.

Cheers

Martin

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Received on Mon Jan 31 07:23:52 2005