SignWriting List December 15, 2011 Hello Jerry, Maria and everyone - Thank you for the tip about doing a Save As… it works! Thank you for converting the file, Jerry. Without you we would not be viewing the file right now at all, so thanks again… Maria - is there supposed to be SignWriting visibly showing up in the database? Val ;-) -------- On Dec 14, 2011, at 7:02 PM, Jerry Spillman wrote: > My apologies for the read-only. If one will do a save-as and change the filename, it should be accessible. > > Jerry. > --------- On Dec 14, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote: > SignWriting List > December 14, 2011 > > Thank you to everyone for trying to open Maria Galea's database on classifiers in Maltese Sign Language. And thank you, Jerry, for sending us a file last night. > > Jerry Spillman sent me this file, converted, last night: > > > > > I was able to open it, Jerry, as a read-only file on Microsoft Office 2008 on the Mac. > > From that I could create a PDF, but it doesn't include any written signs in SignWriting…and apparently Jerry tried to create a PDF and it was a nightmare (as Jerry called it …smile…) > > Did you have actual symbols and signs stored in the original database, Maria? That is what I would like to see….the written classifiers in SignWriting... > > Thank you again, Maria, for sharing and I plan to post your Thesis, but just want to figure this out first… > > Maria sent us a link for a viewer: > > http://freelabs.info/AccessDBViewer.aspx > > Can others read this file? > > Val ;-) > > --------- > > > On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Jerry Spillman wrote: > >> Val or Bill, >> >> Can you send me a link to Maria's file, I will try to help here if I can download it. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jerry Spillman >> >