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ChrisFoxx
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| Mike Regan wrote: | A 'Word' of warning though. (Sorry could not resist the pun there.)
Saving a file as an RTF in OO may cause problems if anyone else is using Word. |
Oh, swell.
| Quote: | | I have gotten several where the formatting is all screwed up. Spaces between words is messed up as are things like suddenly making random paragraphs all in bold. Saving in straight DOC format does he same. But saving in Word XP DOC does not have the problem, neither does the default ODT. |
I added a couple of things to the list I keep at the top of the chapter, sort of a checklist of what I want to use in The Story. When I hit Ctrl/S it gave me the option to save in ODT or keep what I had, and I told it to keep what I have.
| Quote: | | If you use OO and send me something, send it in the OO default ODT to avoid problems. I have Open Office on my system so I can easily open them. |
Okay, I'll try to remember that, thanks! Racky, you make sure I remember! 
| Quote: | | I don't know what it would do with Word Perfect or AbiWord (another free one) (Not easy to open those ABI files either.) |
Best exuse I know of then not to use 'em 
(wait, they still make WordPerfect???) |
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mwalimu
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| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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Last week I wnated to convert one of my stories from html to rtf so I could upload it to FA in something other than plaintext.
First I tried loading the html file in MSWord and using Save As... to save it as an rtf file. I immediately noticed the file was 50K (from an html file that was originally 5K). Then I browsed the resulting rtf file in Notepad. OMG! That was the most bloated rtf encoding I've ever seen (not that I've looked at a lot of it, mind you, but...) I think I had to scroll down several times before I spotted anything that I recognized as part of the story text.
Then I opened the original html file in Firefox, cut-and-pasted it into Wordpad, and used Save As... to save it as an rtf file. The resulting rtf file was only 5K and looked much cleaner when browsed with Notepad. And it looked just as good in Wordpad (after closing and reopening) as the 50K file.
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AmigaDragon
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:00 am Post subject: |
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Hey guys. Just letting you know I haven't abandoned the stories over here at PF, I just got into rabidly reading Metamor Keep this past spring and am nearing the current end of their posted stories.
I'll get back to more frequent checking of PF stories (and my usual webcomics) when I reach #460 of MK. Just finished a 600k+ word one tonight... WHEW!! What a ride!
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shortwave
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| Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 11:38 am Post subject: Chapter 57? |
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hey Chris, 
If theirs anything you may need let me know I can scare something up to help you out if necessary let me know or message me all three are available don't hesitate to ask!  Just give me time and I'll flush something out  |
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Frazikar
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| Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| Hey Chris, have you celoebrated the one year anniversary of non-updates yet (ie, drop a line on site soon!)... |
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shortwave
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| Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:46 am Post subject: |
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Writers block happens and so does life I come to the grips that when it happens, it happens!  just don't freak out in the mean time. Take yer time Chris.
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Alexi
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| Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:18 am Post subject: |
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Hey Chris, just a reminder. I get leave here late Feb. Counting decompression in Kuwait, I should be boot's on ground" stateside around the first of March.
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I have your address. 
Just pulling your leg big guy. Although, my wife and I have kicked around the idea of me taking an extra week or so to decompress stateside and maybe to see some folk. I've debated dropping the MRE box by yun's myself rather than trusting my fearless post office. Who knows.
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racky raccoon
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| Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:44 am Post subject: |
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Well I dot know how many times I have said this for this bloody chapter but we do have it ready...
Well almost, we have many pages of OMFG for you to read and that I can assure you (i know I wrote many of them)
ATM we have even put our parts together and it makes sence, just need Chris to dot the i and cross the t....
Which is a good trick on a PC screen. But we are ALMOST there.
I must say though its NEXT chapter you should be looking forward to
Coming Winter 2012
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RCraccoon
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well hurray for that news and on a side note where have you been lately?
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ChrisFoxx
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| Yep, the last bits of Chapter 57 are being written as we speak. |
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Teric
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Hooray!
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Styx
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| racky raccoon wrote: | | Coming Winter 2012 |
Would that be Dec 21 2012?
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| Styx wrote: | | racky raccoon wrote: | | Coming Winter 2012 |
Would that be Dec 21 2012? |
It can be, wiseguy  |
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racky raccoon
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| ChrisFoxx wrote: | | Styx wrote: | | racky raccoon wrote: | | Coming Winter 2012 |
Would that be Dec 21 2012? |
It can be, wiseguy |
That would give us time to figure out a plot line
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ChrisFoxx
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| Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| racky raccoon wrote: | | ChrisFoxx wrote: | | Styx wrote: | | racky raccoon wrote: | | Coming Winter 2012 |
Would that be Dec 21 2012? |
It can be, wiseguy |
That would give us time to figure out a plot line |
:PppppppPPPppppPPPpppPPpppppp! |
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