Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-06-06 Thread Jeff
Chris Halls, 2002-Jun-03 21:30 +0200: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:37:45AM -0700, Jeff wrote: > > I use OpenOffice as well, but now and then I get a Word doc that > > crashes OpenOffice when opening. I then fire up VMWare and start > > Jeff, > > I don't have enough time to test every type of Wor

Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-06-03 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:37:45AM -0700, Jeff wrote: > I use OpenOffice as well, but now and then I get a Word doc that > crashes OpenOffice when opening. I then fire up VMWare and start Jeff, I don't have enough time to test every type of Word doc with OOo. If you are able to reliably make OO

Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-05-31 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 May 2002 08:37 am, Jeff wrote: > John Griffiths, 2002-May-30 10:29 +1000: > > openoffice is the answer > > > > also for pdf files you want a recent veriosn of xpdf to handle the new > > 1.4 pdf format > > > > At 05:27 PM 5/29/02 -0700, Jim

Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-05-31 Thread Jeff
John Griffiths, 2002-May-30 10:29 +1000: > openoffice is the answer > > also for pdf files you want a recent veriosn of xpdf to handle the new 1.4 > pdf format > > 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

Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-05-30 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:27:32PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > 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? Lately I've been bouncing emails with Word docs I want to read to my Yahoo Mail acco

Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-05-30 Thread Frank Brodbeck
Hall Stevenson came to use his tongue on Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:40:16AM -0400 > For what it's worth, Word can't create PDF files (that I know > of). They're created by "printing" to Adobe PDFwriter *from* > Word or any other app for that matter. Any problems are the > fault of Adobe or in some cas

Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-05-30 Thread Hall Stevenson
> 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)

Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-05-29 Thread dman
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:27:32PM -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

Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-05-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 29/05/02 Jim McCloskey did speaketh: > 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? I personally use OpenOffice to read Word docs, or I just send them back and explain that MS Word is no

Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-05-29 Thread John Griffiths
openoffice is the answer also for pdf files you want a recent veriosn of xpdf to handle the new 1.4 pdf format 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

the dreaded Word attachment

2002-05-29 Thread Jim McCloskey
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 de