Re: what happened to my drawing

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On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 13:42 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 November 2007, Les wrote:
> > >HI, everyone,
> > >	I had a drawing I created in OO draw, and wanted to edit it.  I opened
> > >it, made the changes, then saved it.  I was talking to my wife during
> > >this process, and a message window came up saying that some bits might
> > >not be saved in the PNG format.  I clicked OK, and closed the
> > >application after the save.
> > >	Later I came back to work on it, and the drawing had a size of 0.  It
> > >was gone.  Now, I'm no artist, so it takes me a long time to generate a
> > >drawing I can use for something, on the order of days.  In this case I
> > >lost a week or so's work.  So I thought, maybe OO draw saved a temp
> > >version.  I thought I can just open OO draw and maybe recapture the
> > >whole thing.  However I cannot find Open Office draw either.  I have
> > >Calendar, Dia diagram editor, Invest Chart, J-Pilot, Presentation,
> > >Project Management, Spreadsheet, Tasks, and Word Processing under the
> > >Office menue of Applications.  I already tried removing and
> > >re-installing Open Office Draw using the Applications-add/remove
> > >software tool, but no joy.
> > >
> > >	I am sure I have a copy on my backup, so I can recover the drawing, but
> > >what gives with Open Office Draw?  Am I the only one with this problem?
> > >Where would I invoke OO draw directly?
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Les H
> > 
> > If its any consolation Les, I just checked my kmenu display and draw is indeed 
> > missing.  I didn't notice cuz I'm even less of an artist.
> ----
> yum install openoffice.org-draw

It's installed on my machine, but not in the menu. Ric

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