[Stoves] Stoves Digest, Vol 118, Issue 1

neiltm at uwclub.net neiltm at uwclub.net
Sat Jun 6 02:18:02 CDT 2020


On 5 Jun 2020 at 8:52, ajheggie at gmail.com wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 19:37, Ronald Hongsermeier <rwhongser at web.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > so now that I've already answered, I have to modify what I said. The
> document works fine if you open it with a microsoft reader of some kind. I
> tried to open it with Open Office and all it shows in that are the photos.
> No drawings, no text. i find that a bit puzzling.
> 
> All 9 pages open in Libreoffice-writer but I needed to move some
> images as they were partially obscured by text boxes.
> 
> Andrew

Those Babel fishes never seem to cope with complex formatting well.  I 
got the same result as Andrew in linux libre office writer.

The only reliable format for universal sharing these days would seem to 
be to convert to pdf for distribution, which can be done for free now.

Neil Taylor



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