On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:08:55 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:04:02 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:37:45 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:49:35 +0000, Camaleón wrote: >>>> Also, if you open the file with a web browser (epiphany, >>>> iceweasel...) it will tell the errors it finds. >>> >>> iceweasel just reads the XML file and shows it to me in a nice >>> indented tree format. It's good to know I have such a tool. But it >>> finds no errors. Persumably, therefore, my XML is OK but I've >>> violated the .fodt schema, or hit a bug in OpenOffice Writer. >> >> That indicates the XML syntax of your file is valid, but yes, OOo is >> maybe crashing because cannot interpret the syntax. Launch OOo writer >> and load that fodt file from command line to see the output errors. >> >> Greetings, > > Thanks. With my newfound iceweasel, I decided to use OpenOffice to make > an .fodt file to compare with my own. > > I wrote a page with a footer containing a page number. I had no trouble > saving it as an .odt file, but OpenOffice 3.0 crashed when I tried to > save it as .fodt. So it looks as if .fodt support in OpenOffice is > totally fried. > > Not only that, but after it crashed while saving the .fodt file, it > son't come up again at all. I don't even get to the "sorry I crashed, > would you like me to recover what you ewre doning?" dialogue. > > Presumably there's some hostory file in a dot directory I need to delete > so as to get OpenOffice to work again. > > I really hadn't expected something this straigntforward to fail! > > Now I need another word processor that *does* handle .fodt. Or figure > out how to install an obsolete OpenOffice into my squeeze system. Or > change the code I've written to make a whole lot of files into a > temporary directory and zip them...
At this point mv .openoffice.org hide.openoffice.org doesn't help either. After I moved the dotfile, I tried to start openoffice writer again. It created a new .openoffice.org directory, but it still won't come up and give me a window to edit documents in. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hubmlo$ub...@dough.gmane.org
