Re: what happened to my drawing
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 18:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 06 November 2007, Craig White wrote:
>On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 12:32 -0800, Les wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 13:42 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > > On Tuesday 06 November 2007, Les wrote:
>> > > >HI, everyone,
>> > > > I had a drawing I created in OO draw, and wanted to edit it. I
>> > > > opened it, made the changes, then saved it. I was talking to my
>> > > > wife during this process, and a message window came up saying
that
>> > > > some bits might not be saved in the PNG format. I clicked OK,
and
>> > > > closed the application after the save.
>> > > > Later I came back to work on it, and the drawing had a size of 0.
>> > > > It was gone. Now, I'm no artist, so it takes me a long time
to
>> > > > generate a drawing I can use for something, on the order of days.
>> > > > In this case I lost a week or so's work. So I thought, maybe
OO
>> > > > draw saved a temp version. I thought I can just open OO draw
and
>> > > > maybe recapture the whole thing. However I cannot find Open
Office
>> > > > draw either. I have Calendar, Dia diagram editor, Invest Chart,
>> > > > J-Pilot, Presentation, Project Management, Spreadsheet, Tasks,
and
>> > > > Word Processing under the Office menue of Applications. I
already
>> > > > tried removing and
>> > > >re-installing Open Office Draw using the Applications-add/remove
>> > > >software tool, but no joy.
>> > > >
>> > > > I am sure I have a copy on my backup, so I can recover the
drawing,
>> > > > but what gives with Open Office Draw? Am I the only one with
this
>> > > > problem? Where would I invoke OO draw directly?
>> > > >
>> > > >Regards,
>> > > >Les H
>> > >
>> > > If its any consolation Les, I just checked my kmenu display and draw
>> > > is indeed missing. I didn't notice cuz I'm even less of an
artist.
>> >
>> > ----
>> > yum install openoffice.org-draw
>> >
>> > skip the morning caffeine?
>>
>> Will yum install something different than the updated RPM's? I did the
>> install from the applications - add/remove software already.
>
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>The yum install openoffice.org-draw was to satisfy Gene's diversion,
>which he trumped with the notion that he installed the OOo rpm's,
>discussion of which makes his commentary 100% irrelevant but what the
>hey.
>
What I was saying is that it is also missing from the OOo-2.3.0 release from
OpenOffice.org. If they are no longer maintaining it, then it stands to
reason that the fedora rpms might not have it if and when they get to the
2.3.0 stage.
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openoffice.org-draw isn't missing from fedora packages, it's just
packaged separately. I don't know what the packaging looks like from
OOo. Since OP and I don't use OOo's packages, it isn't germane to the
discussion. OP stated he was able to uninstall/install
openoffice.org-draw...subject closed.
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>I haven't used openoffice.org-draw very much but haven't had the
>experience you found but I got the impression that the suggestions made
>by Joe Smith are more to your solving your issue. Lately I've been using
>inkscape.
There was, IIRC fairly recently, and article I read someplace because Inkscape
had been taken back private, no longer gpl'd.
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link ? diversion ?
I thought I would have heard about that since Ted Gould is a member of
the Phoenix Linux Users Group.
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Lambasted them I believe was
the terminology used. I had it installed for a while and what it did, it did
very well, but in my case, printer formatting was at best, broken.
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It's hard to use object oriented graphics when you live in a bit-mapped
world.
Craig