On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 18:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 06 November 2007, Craig White wrote: > >On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 12:32 -0800, Les wrote: > >> 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 > >> > > >> > skip the morning caffeine? > >> > >> Will yum install something different than the updated RPM's? I did the > >> install from the applications - add/remove software already. > > > >---- > >The yum install openoffice.org-draw was to satisfy Gene's diversion, > >which he trumped with the notion that he installed the OOo rpm's, > >discussion of which makes his commentary 100% irrelevant but what the > >hey. > > > What I was saying is that it is also missing from the OOo-2.3.0 release from > OpenOffice.org. If they are no longer maintaining it, then it stands to > reason that the fedora rpms might not have it if and when they get to the > 2.3.0 stage. ---- openoffice.org-draw isn't missing from fedora packages, it's just packaged separately. I don't know what the packaging looks like from OOo. Since OP and I don't use OOo's packages, it isn't germane to the discussion. OP stated he was able to uninstall/install openoffice.org-draw...subject closed. ---- > > >I haven't used openoffice.org-draw very much but haven't had the > >experience you found but I got the impression that the suggestions made > >by Joe Smith are more to your solving your issue. Lately I've been using > >inkscape. > > There was, IIRC fairly recently, and article I read someplace because Inkscape > had been taken back private, no longer gpl'd. ---- link ? diversion ? I thought I would have heard about that since Ted Gould is a member of the Phoenix Linux Users Group. ---- > Lambasted them I believe was > the terminology used. I had it installed for a while and what it did, it did > very well, but in my case, printer formatting was at best, broken. ---- It's hard to use object oriented graphics when you live in a bit-mapped world. Craig
