No thanks for confirming my first instinct was a reasonable one. I should systematically do that and save as a doc file (docx seems to be part of the issue) from now on.
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megan walker - Jan 27, 2014 10:00:38 am PST #23598 of 25496
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Typo Boy - Jan 27, 2014 11:04:40 am PST #23599 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
You could copy the text (minus art) as plain text. Then you could download open office draw or libre office draw (essentially variations on the same thing). Then use the "save as" or "export to" to convert the art to other formats. If a jpeg, png. If a png jpeg (set to lossless). Then pull the converted pictures. Plain text plus all art converted ought to result in fewer problems. It means restoring formatting manually.
megan walker - Jan 27, 2014 11:23:20 am PST #23600 of 25496
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Thanks, Typo. Given the nature of this project and the team members involved, I'm not sure that's a viable option, but I will keep it in mind to request of the in-house assistant if it becomes necessary.
Mostly I'm just hoping it's something that is contained to these chapters from this source and not something that will spread to other files.
Typo Boy - Jan 27, 2014 12:47:46 pm PST #23601 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I doubt it is malware - more a problem with the way the source interacts with word. Hope Doc rather than DocX solves it. You could also use Open Office in spite of the clunky interface compared to word for this one set of documents and just save as doc or docx. The problem is that you would have to examine carefully in word, because in that kind of conversion dormatting can be lost or damanged - expecially headers, footers, footnotes and endnotes. Also problems can occur with table formatting, and graphics sizing and justification. Huh. I'm not sure I'm actually being helpful here.
Dana - Jan 27, 2014 1:14:08 pm PST #23602 of 25496
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm sure it's something to do with the graphics, and not any kind of malware. My other suggestion would be to leave the graphics out until the last minute, but that's usually not plausible.
megan walker - Jan 27, 2014 1:23:32 pm PST #23603 of 25496
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Well, that's reassuring anyway.
Theodosia - Jan 28, 2014 9:25:52 am PST #23604 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Does anybody here have a Lynda.com membership that allows you to download exercise files? I could really use the one for Practical & Effective JavaScript if so....
Jessica - Jan 28, 2014 9:56:01 am PST #23605 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Theo, email me.
Hil R. - Jan 28, 2014 10:10:46 am PST #23606 of 25496
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
One of the jobs where I'm applying wants a video of me teaching. I had one of my friends video my class yesterday, on my iPad. I just tried to post the video to YouTube, from the iPad, and the iPad just froze. Touching the screen doesn't do anything. Pressing the square button gets me back to the home screen. The video did not post to YouTube. I tried iCloud, and same thing happened. Any suggestions?
Hil R. - Jan 28, 2014 10:15:42 am PST #23607 of 25496
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, wait, it seems that, if I just leave it alone after it freezes, then eventually, it starts uploading.