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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] cannot open this rtf
From:       wagj <jpw () sasktel ! net>
Date:       2004-06-02 5:25:46
Message-ID: 40BD64DA.4030904 () sasktel ! net
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Moses wrote:

> Kelvin wrote:
>
>> Shawn wrote,
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Shawn McDermott" <shawn@trulypersonalconsulting.com>
>> To: <users@openoffice.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 12:56 PM
>> Subject: [users] cannot open this rtf
>>
>>
>>
>>> Can someone check out this rtf?  I cannot open it in writer (or kwrite)
>>> but can open it with a friends XP MSWord.
>>>
>>> http:/members.cox.net/shawn.mcdermott/dss_face_sheet.rtf
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Shawn
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can confirm that this rtf file opens up as a blank page under
>> OO1.1.1/WinXP. It opens fine using MS Word 2002.
>>
>> I found this exact same behaviour just recently in an rtf document 
>> from one
>> of the major travel agent groups I deal with.
>>
>> I further tested this with OO1.1.0/WinXP and also only received a blank
>> page. The title bar also had the file name so it is trying to be opened.
>>
>> May I suggest raising it as an issue if it has not already been 
>> raised. If
>> it has been raised, a link to your document may also help.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Kelvin
>>
> Further to this, if you open the rtf in MSWord then save it as a doc 
> you can open it in OO. If you subsequently save the new OO file as an 
> trf (in OO) and then open it the format is different (shifted to the 
> left)
>
> Moses
>
>
And if you open it backwards in Yudit, with the font set for UTF-18, you 
get a message from Satan :-D

Jim

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