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At 05:27 PM 5/29/02 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > >Hello. Like others here, I suspect, I've developed over the years a >little toolbox of stratagems for dealing with the Word documents that >people insist on sending me. > >It seems to me, though, that it's proving steadily more difficult to >deal with this problem. Abiword (in my experience) used to deal well >with most kinds of Word documents; but in the past year or so (I >assume because people are using some new version or other of Word), it >fails on more and more of the ones I am sent: > >/usr/bin/abiword: line 73: 2207 Aborted $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/$ABIWORD_BINARY "$@" > >In addition, the PDF and RTF outputs from Word used (it seems to me) >to be fairly easy to deal with. But more and more in recent times, the >PDF files that I have been sent yield errors of this sort: > >Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref >table... Error (3428): Bad FCHECK in flate stream > >and/or they display and print as sequences of blank pages. > >In addition, Ted and Abiword both seem to choke more often than they >used to on the RTF files that I am sent. > >Is this a solitary delusion of mine, or have others experienced >something like this? Has anyone found a better way of dealing with >this plague? > >Thanks, > >Jim McCloskey > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
