Re: [OOo-Hebrew] receiving documents from MS progs

Hi Errol,

Some of your problems may be due to missing fonts on your Linux 
installation. If the Windows program was written using "Guttman Stam" 
for example, and you don't have that font on your Linux machine, OOo 
will make a guess about which font to use, but there's no guarantee that 
it will guess correctly.  Sometimes the font it chooses doesn't have 
Hebrew at all, so the text will be completely unintelligble. So the 
first thing I would do is check the fonts being used, and if necessary, 
install them on your Linux machine.

You can test for this problem by modifying the document on Windows to 
use a Hebrew font that exists on both machines, open the document on 
Linux, and see if there's any improvement.

Since you're using OOo 2.0.2, as you wrote in your Hebrew email, you 
also might check to see if there's any improvement in OOo 2.0.3.

If you still have problems, it may be due to flaws in OpenOffice's MS 
filters. In that case, every problem must be examined seperately. You 
can report bugs at http://bugzilla.openoffice.org.il/. But please first 
check for missing fonts, and try 2.0.3.

Alan

errol wrote:

>Hi
>I have recently moved over to try and be a Linux only user. I have only two 
>problems to make the move complete. The one is printing (which I won't go in 
>to here). The other is reading documents produced by MS Office. The problems 
>I'm having now are receiving letters in Hebrew from people who prepared the 
>article in Word using word-art or in powerpoint using MS signs. Any Hebrew 
>written as word art comes out unintelligible and Powerpoint documents have 
>many strange reactions when read in Presentation e.g. the shekel sign (the 
>shekel sign comes out as a small d with an equal sign crossing the top of the 
>d).
>Is there a way to define OO to receive these documents as written?
>Errol
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