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[sabine <a4a43959@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is just an add-on comment to my previous email: While I am typing the
documents, they look fine. It is after saving them and re-opening them,
that they are suddenly scrambled. They also get scramble when they are
being printed.

Thanks!

On 9 December 2011 09:11, Sabine Hadgkiss <a4a43959@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> http://www.languagegeek.com/font/fontdownload.html      This is the
> Language-Geek website.
>
> I am mainly using the Aboriginal Sans. A couple of weeks ago, a long time
> after using this (as I explained earlier, I am using macros to put special
> characters into my writings) these macros suddenly crashed and disappeared
> from LibreOffice and I had to reinstall something again. But the problem
> with the scrambling even occurred long before this happened. (I believe,
> the offending character may have been the one that will be listed under
> "Diacritical marks" after the download of the font in the special character
> settings under the number U+0312) As my macros also disappeared lately, I
> reinstalled a slightly different character for the same purpose, trying out
> if this would make a difference. I am not sure about this yet, as it has
> only been a few days.
>
> I do not have good copies of the files that were scrambled, no matter
> where I get them from, even back-ups, certain files show up scrambled. Some
> files from way back when are all-right, and some files are not. It seems to
> be related to some version changes in the software. (I had problems with
> version-changes before, i.e. in impress, where the" insert movie and sound
> feature" suddenly stopped working -still works in the original files before
> the break occurred-, and I had to do things differently to  play sounds
> with the files. But this is a different matter, that also has never been
> fixed.)
>
> Sorry to not have the original files unscrambled, they are wrecked now.
>
> I am attaching the previous document again, AND I have highlighted what I
> believe to be the offending character (the comma or accent on the top).
> This character goes all over the place, some of them are even entirely off
> the document, see attached screen-shot.
>
> After downloading the font, I chose the two characters I need to combine
> with the letters and record a macro with the fantastic macro-recording
> feature, which seems to be working again. (It was going well for years
> without breaking. The recorded characters just worked, and the documents
> were just fine.)
>
> After recording the macro, I went into the customization features and
> assigned the F3 and F5 key to use for insertion of the accent. (I use F4
> for Accentuate). [So I had three macros running: Accentuate, and the two
> special characters, one of which crashed and caused the scrambling. The two
> self-recorded macros were the ones that disappeared and the accentuate one
> was still alive, when this part crashed. But that was much later than the
> scrambling.]
>
> I also experienced system crashes. At the time I had Firefox and
> LibreOffice running, and an update manager notification showing up, and
> VOILA it logged me out. I don't know if this is related or something else.
> This is on Kubuntu 11.10. On Unity it was even more buggy, Libre-Office
> constantly crashed in various ways. It was not compatible with work.
>
> A while ago, I also opened Libreoffice in Terminal, and it gave me an
> error message, which has now disappeared. I am also attaching the Java
> error file for your information (I don't know if this has anything to do
> with this, or is another issue.)
>
> I tried many different things, for week I have been combing the Internet
> now to figure this out. I also installed everything JAVA, that I could find
> in Synaptics, and found a new version 7. Now, at least, I am not getting
> JAVA errors any more, at least so far. I also uninstalled KDE-integration,
> as this was recommended at one bug-reporting website.
>
> I hope the scrambled documents are not beyond repair, but I fear they are.
> I also hope, that whatever is causing this will not continue and be fixable.
>
> I just experienced a SYSTEM-Crash again! Maybe there are more bugs to
> report. Do you think it is advisable to do a fresh install (I have been
> trying to avoid this, because it means days and days of work, and putting
> me behind in my other work.), because this is Kubuntu on top of multiple
> upgrades and Ubuntu 11.10? Would that fix things, or does it not matter?
> It appears to be mostly the UPDATES, which are crashing the whole system.
>
> I thank you for all your efforts at figuring this out, it is greatly
> appreciated. I also apologize for being so difficult to work with, most of
> the underpinnings of the software are unfamiliar to me.
>
> Thanks again for all the support and for working on this problem,
>
> Sabine
>
>
>
> On 9 December 2011 03:14, Christopher M. Penalver <
> christopher.penalver@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> sabine, could you please answer the following questions:
>>
>> + I am typing in Secwepemctsin (or shuswap). I downloaded aboriginal
>> font from language geek"
>>
>> Could you please post a direct link to the specific font file you
>> downloaded?
>>
>> + While you attached the file that is already scrambled, we also need a
>> copy of the file before it has been scrambled and step-by-step
>> instructions to reproduce the scrambling. Could you please attach this
>> file?
>>
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>> report.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/901896
>>
>> Title:
>>  scrambled words in LibreOffice
>>
>> Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
>>   Incomplete
>>
>> Bug description:
>>  I am running Kubuntu (switched from Ubuntu 11.10). I am preparing
>>  school-work and learning-materials in Libre-Office (formerly
>>  OpenOffice.org). I have countless hours and years of material.
>>
>>  Lately certain special characters, which I have to use for the
>>  aboriginal language I am writing in, appear to scramble my words, and
>>  they become unreadable and documents are unusable.
>>
>>  I do NOT know WHAT is causing this or which program is causing this,
>>  but it happens in LibreOffice documents (writer).
>>
>>  HELP, PLEASE!!!
>>
>>  I need to get this fixed in order to NOT loose a lifetime of
>>  documents.
>>
>>  I am NOT a computer expert, so I do not know what else to do., or even
>>  how this is properly reported.
>>
>>  THANK YOU in advance!
>>   ---
>>  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
>>  Architecture: i386
>>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
>>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386
>> (20100816.1)
>>  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
>>  Package: libreoffice 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1
>>  PackageArchitecture: i386
>>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic-pae 3.0.6
>>  Tags:  oneiric
>>  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic-pae i686
>>  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (52 days ago)
>>  UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout fax lp lpadmin netdev
>> nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare
>>
>> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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>

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/901896

Title:
  scrambled words in LibreOffice

Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I am running Kubuntu (switched from Ubuntu 11.10). I am preparing
  school-work and learning-materials in Libre-Office (formerly
  OpenOffice.org). I have countless hours and years of material.

  Lately certain special characters, which I have to use for the
  aboriginal language I am writing in, appear to scramble my words, and
  they become unreadable and documents are unusable.

  I do NOT know WHAT is causing this or which program is causing this,
  but it happens in LibreOffice documents (writer).

  HELP, PLEASE!!!

  I need to get this fixed in order to NOT loose a lifetime of
  documents.

  I am NOT a computer expert, so I do not know what else to do., or even
  how this is properly reported.

  THANK YOU in advance!
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Package: libreoffice 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic-pae 3.0.6
  Tags:  oneiric
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic-pae i686
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (52 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout fax lp lpadmin netdev nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare

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