On Tuesday 06 November 2007, 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 > IIRC my OOo install is 2.3.0 from OOo, not the repos. >skip the morning caffeine? Or have some more, neither of which would help my 11 left thumbs ability to draw, which has not measurably improved in 73 years. I can write gcode to carve usefull metal pieces, but that's about it. >Craig -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to that can't keep them. -Anthony Haden-Guest
