Retrofitting a template to a document

users
#1

All:

In trying out various allegedly ODF compatible office suites, I discovered that one of them stripped template data from the file.

Can somebody point me to an easy way to add the source template data back to the file?

jonathon

#2

​Look for the "Template Changer" extension; it should do what you want.

#3

Can somebody point me to an easy way to add the source template data

back to the file?

>​Look for the "Template Changer" extension; it should do what you want.

It looks like it did.
"Looks like", because I have to read the entire 1,500 pages as a PDF file, to know if everything changed correctly.

jonathon

#4

bug-reporting system.

I'd rather deal with Microsoft's bug reporting system for non-paying customers.

jonathon

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
Perhaps skim-read? Perhaps zoom out so that you get multiple pages
on-screen and just race through to see if anything stands out as being
horribly worng? Go into more depth later?
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

I think that you want an extension called template-changer that allows you to set the document's template. A quick internet search showed this as one link to it

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/template-changer

Same template will likely work for AOO or LO.

>It's also a good idea to post a bug-report using that office suite's
bug-reporting system.

I'd rather deal with Microsoft's bug reporting system for non-paying customers.

jonathon

Do they have one? Last I checked, the text IO routines in their C++ libraries had bugs that I first had to create work arounds for ten years earlier. And I pay them over $1000 a year to use their compilers and such with an MSDN license. When I think of companies that are responsive to bugs, MS is pretty low on the list. Last time I called MS Support, they wanted a credit card to discuss with me if a new version of the software provided a fix for a limitation in the older version of a product that I was using. That was back in the early 90's. My only other interaction with MS support has been reactivating operating systems when they decided that the OS installed on the machine was pirated and I had to reactive the OS. Only had to do that three or four times in the last 10 years. Annoying as all get out when it happens though.

#7

That is what I was doing, and nothing looked wrong. Then I looked at the PDF, and discovered a plethora of minor issues, And that is when
I discovered that the template data had been stripped from the documents.

So far, going through the PDF, the errors have been because the office suite was using the wrong version of the template.
Changing that fixes the errors.