Converting document to word .doc format removes graphics

[Howard Brill]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

When converting open office document containing graphics, the graphics no longer appeared in the .doc formatted document. The conversion was done through the Open Office Save As menu.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Can you please attach an example document exhibiting this problem?

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Do you still have this problem with the new version of OOo in the ppa at https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive ? I can't reproduce this problem with OOo 3.1.0 in Karmic and the ppa.

[Howard Brill (hrbrill)]

Yes, same problem (ppa). In order to see the problem, you have to close OpenOffice and then reopen the .doc file. When initially doing the "save-as" the graphics still appear. They are missing, however, when you reopen the .doc file.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I am attaching the output from saving the file as a word document with openoffice.org 1:3.1.0-3ubuntu2. As best as I can tell it works fine under Karmic, so I am not sure why it wouldn't work just as well under the ppa version, which has the same code.

[Howard Brill (hrbrill)]

Chris:

When I open the document you attached, I can see illustrations 1 and 2, but illustration 3 is missing. Curiously, when I looked at the original converted document, one of the illustrations was still there but it's width had been changed to zero.

I'm going to check tomorrow at work to see if the graphics are actually visible when the document is opened in Microsoft Word.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I'm sorry, you are correct in that illustration 3 disappeared. Thanks for catching that and letting me know.

Chris

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

This appears to be an ooo-build issue, as the official OOo 3.1 and dev300 m49 (OOo 3.2) don't export any of the pictures correctly at all. So ooo-build partially fixed that issue but still has some bug causing illustration 3 not to appear.

[Joseph Smidt (jsmidt)]

I've reported this upstream.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Howard Brill, this is unreproducible in LibreOffice Writer via the Terminal:

cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/384295/+attachment/601904/+files/Rachel%20Brill%20Design%20Improvement%20Project.odt && unoconv --listener && unoconv -f doc Rachel\ Brill\ Design\ Improvement\ Project.odt && lowriter -nologo Rachel\ Brill\ Design\ Improvement\ Project.doc Rachel\ Brill\ Design\ Improvement\ Project.odt

notice how the images are preserved in the .doc and do not look like the one found at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/384295/+attachment/601905/+files/Rachel%20Brill%20Design%20Improvement%20Project.doc

Does this work for you?

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages

apt-cache policy unoconv
unoconv:
  Installed: 0.3-6
  Candidate: 0.3-6
  Version table:
 *** 0.3-6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

[This is an automated message.]
There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. This Ubuntu release has reached EOL for Desktops.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Since this bug hasn't been touched in a while and the Incomplete autoclose didn't work, I'm going to close it.

If you can still reproduce on a new version of Ubuntu, please reopen it.