![]() I would look on the bright side, roylond. Only typing I'm having to do is if the text in some of the tables is completely missing from the doc opened in LibreOffice - which has happened with a fair number of the tables. I'm finding that I need to recreate the tables themselves anew in LibreOffice but a lot of the textual content I can just copy and paste from the document that is giving problems. You may not have to type in everything - try copy and paste for the textual content, or what of it you can access. If you send it a straightforward letter to printout from LibreOffice, does it still get garbled (or is it only converted documents that get garbled)? If it's only converted documents that get garbled then that would very much suggest that the problem lies with the converted documents and how LibreOffice is handling them (not with your printer). Lastly you don't say if your physical printer is garbling all documents that it tries to printout. If it doesn't come out as garbled in Boomaga then that would suggest that the problem lies with your physical printer and/or its drivers. If it shows in Boomaga as garbled (again) then that would suggest the problem lies with something LibreOffice, and/or the conversion process for your documents, is doing and not with your physical printer. Once you have Boomaga installed take one of the documents that you know is causing problems at printout and print it to Boomaga. dt.7z?dl=0 (You do not need to register with Dropbox to download the file.) The document contains crucial information on setting up your physical printer to work with Boomaga if your physical printer has automatic duplex (automatic double-sided) printing. For instructions on how to install Boomaga download the document here and read through it. As it's not in the repository you have to install it by creating a PPA (Personal Package Archive). It's a really handy tool to have on the system in my opinion and should really be in Mint's official repository. You might be able to check if it is a printer problem or a problem stemming from LibreOffice (and the *.doc conversion problem) by installing Boomaga and printing to that: īoomaga is a virtual printer that, among other things, allows you to see exactly how a document will look before you send it to your physical printer for printing. It's a pain but I'll only have to do it once and I am learning how to deal with tables in LibreOffice.Īs to your printer problems. Personally I am now gradually just manually replicating my old complex Word docs straight into LibreOffice. ![]() What I took from that is that despite the often quoted line that LibreOffice (or OpenOffice for that matter) can handle *.doc files it just isn't true when it comes to docs with tables or any complexity in the format. Often the table would be split - the kinds of problems you are suggesting you are having. However, when it came to *.doc files that contained tables they didn't really convert with any consistency. It worked fine for simple things like letters and so on. ![]() I think you might be running into the same kinds of problems I ran into in converting MS Word documents to odt. ![]()
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