On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 06:51:58PM +0100, Jim Higson wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2004 14:57, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I have discovered that OpenOffice is unable to produce viewable HTML > > pages from Word Documents. > > > > 1. In FC1 the HTML document is unviewable because paragraphs come out > > as just one big line that does not wrap arroung properly. > > > > 2. I have not spent as much time doing this conversion in FC2. But > > what I got was an HTML page with just the header code and no body. > > > > Any one know how to make this work? It certainly works correctly in > > Microsoft Word under XP. > > Two pieces of advice: > > 1 - try getting the latest version, of OO, or if that fails the latest > developer snapshot (v 1.9.49) which you can get as RPMS on the openoffice > site Well it always good idea to have the latest version but we keep updating our systems and it would be nice if the updates versions of OO would work. > 2 - If you still can't convert the file report this as a bug to OO, with the > document that is causing the problem I was waiting to hear someone say that they have the same behavior from OO before I declare this a real bug. But if I have time I will report it. > 3 - try wv - it's in fedora and can translate doc to html. Well wv is strange . Again even though we continually update our machines wv is not on them, Even stranger the wv header was downloaded but no rpm installed. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
