Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem reading Word 2003 document

You could install BullZip PDF printer.  With this installed you print your Word 2003 document Word 
2003 and with BullZip PDF Printer selected as the printer, you get a window displayed saying where 
you want to save the PDF file.  You click OK on this and the PDF is saved on the Desktop and Adobe 
PDF reader opens with the PDF being displayed.  No need to open in another program to get a PDF out.
 
I have been converting documents from Lotus Ami Pro and Windows Write for quite some time and have 
found BullZip PDF printer to be very good.  You can download it form BullZip.com here:-

http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php


Note that there are other free PDF printers available, but I like this one Cimetry is another one 
that I have used.
Declan Moriarty


________________________________
 From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 7:41
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem reading Word 2003 document
 
On 11/28/2012 01:14 AM, Chris Carlson wrote:
> I'm new to this e-mail list, so excuse me if this is something discussed already.
>
> I've been very pleased with LibreOffice on many fronts.  I recommend it to everyone.  As a matter 
> of fact, I use it instead of Word at every opportunity.  At work, though, I use Word because 
> that's what's installed.
>
> I write a newsletter for the American Legion.  Since it was developed in Word, I use my old 
> student copy of Word 2003 to create it each month.  I have to provide both a .doc and .pdf of the 
> newsletter to the printers.  My trick, since Word 2003 doesn't offer a .pdf output, is to read 
> the .doc with LibreOffice (3.5) and publish it to .pdf.
>
> For the first time in months, LibreOffice can't seem to recognize the .doc format.  I'm using the 
> same version of Word that I've used for months.  The newsletter is basically the same file, which 
> I copy and modify for the new month.  For whatever reason, LibreOffice tries to open it as a text 
> file.  It initially asks what text encoding it should use, waits for a long time, and then opens 
> a garbage document.
>
> Is this a known problem?  Did I do something to the document that caused it to be read 
> incorrectly?
>
> Thanks for any ideas on this.
>
> Chris
Which subversion of 3.5 are you using?

doc formats are generally well behaved for importing into LO. Occasionally there is file that does 
not load correctly.

You might try saving the file as rtf and try opening that in LO. Once you get the newsletter to 
open is to save it using ODF formats instead of doc format.

One trick you can try is to rename the Libreoffice users folder - I am not sure on Windows where it 
is. Restart LO and the folder will be recreated. If there is a garbled setting this sometimes fixes 
the problem.

If you can post a typical file to Nabble someone may be able to see if they can replicate the 
problem.

-- Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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