On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 12:37 -0800, Les wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:07 -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > > 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. > > > > You really have to pay attention when managing files with OOo, because > > it's very easy to shoot yourself in the foot. I've done it several times. > > > > However, there is no way, as far as I know, to get that message when > > creating a PNG file. Are you sure that's what happened? > > > > Draw should have saved (or prompted you to save) your work as an ODF > > file (e.g. "drawing.odg"). Have you checked for that? It also has a > > nasty habit of saving files in unexpected places. So, it's probably > > worth a complete search of your home directory. > > > > Something like > > > > $ locate *.odg > > > > or > > > > $ find ~ -name '*.odg' > > > > should do it. > > > > > ... Where would I invoke OO draw directly? > > > > The Fedora 7 OOo packages don't create a desktop icon or menu item for > > Draw. You can start any OOo app from any other OOo app, so you can > > always use the menu or panel to start OOo Writer, then do File > New > > > Drawing, to open Draw. > > > > If you want to create a menu or launcher for Draw, you can use the > > command "which oodraw" to locate the startup file, which for f7 should > > be /usr/bin/oodraw. > > > Thanks, Joe, This is the piece I was missing. I'll set that up now. > The drawing was a ".png" file and I don't remember how I saved it that > way, but that was done to allow me to put it on a server for a web > application in HTML. Anyway, with your tip I should be able to get back > to basics. For what it is worth, I downloaded the image from my web > app, then converted it and then edited it, cropped it and reinstalled > it. Took three applications, Gimp, draw, and snapshot to get what I > wanted. And then the modifications don't quite match the original, but > at least it is technically correct which is the most important thing for > logical diagrams. > > I think I need to find an easier way. ---- PNG is very native format for Gimp. I am not certain why you would want to move beyond there. Craig
