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[Upstream] [hardy] attached file open garbled in linux OO, fine on windows OO

Bug #194400 reported by mcr on 2008-02-22

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	OpenOffice	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	openoffice.org (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

attached file was from an MS .doc file.
Linux OO opens both doc file and odt file with all the text smashed together.
Windows OO opens both fine. I tried saving as odt on windows, but that didn't help.
I think that OO files should work across platforms.

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mcr (mcr-xdsinc) wrote on 2008-02-22:

broken file Edit (14.5 KiB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)

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TerryG (tgalati4) wrote on 2008-02-22:

Definitely a problem on OO 2.3 on Gutsy. Crappy work around: right-click on each text block and choose "default" formatting. Each problematic text box seems to have "block formatting". The boundaries of the text boxes are not respected so all the text is jumbled together. Don't have a windows machine to test.

Changed in openoffice.org:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote on 2008-02-26:

Appears to still occur on Hardy 2.3.1. I will be uploading 2.4.0 soon, hopefully the bug will be fixed there.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

Changed in openoffice.org:
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote on 2008-03-07:

This file seems to still be screwed up on openoffice.org 1:2.4.0~rc2-1ubuntu3 but looking at it under upstream's 2.4.0~rc2 it is MUCH more screwed up looking. I will try to take a look at it under Windows OO 2.4.0 and see how it looks.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

Chris Cheney (ccheney) on 2008-06-13

Changed in openoffice.org:
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote on 2008-10-22:

I'm sorry it took so long for me get back to this bug. Can you attach the original .doc file? The .odt file looks screwed up in both Ubuntu's version, upstream 2.4.1 and 3.0.0 on linux and 2.4.1 on Windows. So it would appear the .odt file is just generally screwed up.

If however OOo has problems reading/converting .doc files then I can forward the original file to upstream for them to correct the bugs.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

Changed in openoffice:
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in openoffice.org:
status:	Triaged → Incomplete

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote on 2008-11-17:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!