[softwarelist] Re: OPro master pages and DDL import

In message <f382de7d50.jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Jim Nagel <opro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David Pilling  wrote on 20 Jul:

>> Or you can save text stories as DDL - in that case you're going to lose
>> everything except the text and styles/effects, but you should be able to
>> reload them into another document with different frames etc.

> i tried this tack:  saved the whole document as DDL.  dropped that
> onto iconbar and got a new document that looks like old one, except
> (we hope) that certain tangles might be tidied.   then, from new
> document, saved one of the big chapters as DDL.  dropped that into a
> waiting blank chapter in my formatted-as-Demy document.  result:
> "Unknown object at 235" -- what's that mean?

As far as I can see saving a story as DDL is buggy. Even a toy example 
with two text lines and a tiny embedded sprite frame produces invalid 
DDL, which OP refuses to read back with an "Unknown object" error. The 
picture frame references a named background colour that is not defined 
in the file. If I edit the file to define the colour then loading the 
edited file causes a Type5 error in OP.

So, as far as I can see saving a story as DDL is not really usable if 
you have any graphics in your file.

Martin
-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Martin Wuerthner           MW Software          lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: http://www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling

Other related posts: