lör 2011-04-09 klockan 04:50 -0700 skrev David Hanson: > Hello. I've been exclusively a Linux user for more than 10 years. > Unfortunately practically all of the undergraduates I teach are still > windoze droids, so I have to grade their papers in .docx format now, and I > don't have a windoze machine to do it on. > > The problem is that somehow Bill has found a way to make .docx files > containing graphs impossible for LibreOffice, OpenOffice, or odfconverter to > handle. See attached example. The original version of this file (before I > redacted the names and saved it from libreoffice) definitely contains > embedded graphs probably imported from EXCEL. But nothing at all shows up in > libreoffice 3.3.2 after the student's headings "Part A: Graph " and so forth. > Openoffice 3.1 and odfconverter give the same result. > > Is there any insight out there? Conversion from .doc format works better, > but as true windoze droids these students can barely cope with instructions > like "save your file in .doc format before turning it in". > > Thanks. >
I would ask them to export their work to the PDF format, unless you need to edit them. There is a Linux version of Adobe Reader, if Evince won't open the documents. -- Best regards Johnny Rosenberg -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
