List formatting partially lost when saving as RTF

[Bruno Girin]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

When saving a document that contains bullet lists as RTF, part of the list formatting is lost: some items have the expected formatting, others don't.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open the attached list.odt file [1]
2. Go to File -> Save As
3. Select Rich Text Format (.rtf) in the file type drop down box
4. Click save
5. Close Open Office
6. Open the saved RTF file with Open Office

Expected behaviour
The RTF version of the file has the same formatting as the ODT version.

Actual behaviour
In the RTF version of the file, some of the list items have lost their bullet and identation (see attached screenshot [2] for a side by side comparison).

Resources:
[1] Original ODT file: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38553270/list.odt
[2] Screenshot: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38553280/oo-saveas-rtf-screenshot.png

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 30 11:47:12 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

Screenshot that shows both the ODT and RTF documents side by side, with incorrect formatting highlighted.

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

I just tested the bug with the Sun version of OpenOffice installed in Ubuntu Karmic and can confirm that the bug occurs both with Sun OpenOffice and Ubuntu OpenOffice.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/OpenOffice. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

This could be a duplicate of bug 440389.

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

Changed the OO issue tracker as issue 108998 has been marked as duplicate of 93988 in OO tracker.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Bruno Girin, this issue is unreproducible in LibreOffice Writer via the Terminal:

cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/514686/+attachment/1122664/+files/list.odt && unoconv --listener && unoconv -f rtf list.odt && lowriter -nologo list.rtf

notice the bullet structure is preserved. 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-updates/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.

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

I just re-tested this defect with LibreOffice in Precise and it appears to have been resolved so I will close the bug.