John Moran

That's the case. I just downloaded the v2 beta to check it out. The above notes were made quite a while ago with an earlier version of OO and I was looking at the document after the first opening in OO.

If you're using OO as your word processor, I would save in the OO native format rather than into another RTF.

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Be aware that "native format" has changed from OpenOffice.org version 1.1.4 to OOo beta version 2.0. This format is under the control of Sun, and may not be backward compatible to stable version OOo 1.1.4

OpenOffice.org works fine with documents output from TMG5/6 but there are a few tricks involved.

 

1) OO cannot deal with the Word document output by the TMG5/6 report writer. So the first requirement is that documents intended to be opened by OO should be output as Rich text Format (RTF).......

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The above comment, I believe, reflect Jim's experience satisfactorily opening TMG RTF report files in OOo 1.1.4.

I have an somewhat suspect OOo 1.1.2 installation, but do not intend to download a later version at dialup speeds at this time. Those who do download the relatively stable OOo 1.1.4 version (2.0 beta is available) may be cautioned to save and open their report files several times in OOo to see if the save/open operation causes any immediate errors.

OOo takes relatively simple and dated TMG report outputs in RTF format and transmogrifies them into exceedingly complex RTF files after just one save operation. Footnote fonts, in particular, may not survive this operation exactly as intended.

Good luck,

John