[GTALUG] Europass docs and LibreOffice

[Malgosia Askanas]

Well, yes - on the Mac I can write an RTF or a  PDF.  I can also send 
the file to Zamzar for conversion.  But what I am (perhaps foolishly) 
dreaming of is some kind of Linux self-sufficiency.  I bought this 
machine in the hope of freeing myself from Apple and its likes...


On 2015-07-14 10:28 PM, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> On the mac, write them out as .rtf files.  That's Microsoft's
> version-independant-mostly format for copying between different
> versions. Those should be openable on a newer Libre Office.
>
> --dave
>
> On 07/14/2015 07:04 PM, Malgosia Askanas wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I just had occasion to open in Libre Office under Ubuntu 15.04 some
>> (externally created) Europass CVs (with extension .doc), and
>> LibreOffice made a real mess of them, overlaying lines over one
>> another, etc.  Can anybody suggest a remedy?  The obsolete Word on my
>> MacOS 10.4 system reads them perfectly...
>>
>> With many thanks in advance,
>> Malgosia Askanas
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