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Rick,<BR>
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I see on the "save menu" that OLPC's AbiWord supports RTF, HTML, and TXT. Of the three, RTF (<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format">Rich Text Formatting</A>) is your best choice for format retention (note: if your images are not embedded, you will need to copy them over separately, and possibly reconnect them from inside your new RTF document). Remember, when you save your OO document as an RTF file, you will have 2 files: the original OpenOffice (.odt?) and the RTF. Be careful that future edits are on the correct file (your son may need guidance with that concept). The RTF will (probably) strip out some of OpenOffice's formatting, so check the results on the OLPC before committing. BTW: I've never met a Word Processor that could keep up with HTML. It's OK for simple stuff, but I would hesitate before trying to produce anything fancy in that format. <BR>
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On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:43 -0500, Rick Emery wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">We got an XO for our 10-year-old son for Christmas. He had been </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">working on some documents in OpenOffice on our home computer, and we'd </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">like to transfer them to his XO. They are currently saved in .odt </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">format, with embedded images as well as text.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I copied one of the documents to a USB thumb drive, then copied it </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">into the Journal. I tried to "resume" the document from the Journal, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and it appeared to try to start the Write activity. But the Write </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">activity seems to just hang at "Starting". The next time I tried it, I </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">started terminal, and then watched what was going on with the "top" </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">command. The Write activity consumed most of the processor, and when </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">it stopped, a "ps aux" showed that the Write process was "defunct".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Is there a way to move his documents over without losing the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">formatting? Will he be able to continue working on the documents </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">without re-creating them from scratch?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I know the Write activity is based on AbiWord...can it open/edit </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">OpenOffice files? Is there a format that OpenOffice can write that the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Write activity can open and edit?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks in advance for any help.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Rick</FONT>
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