OpenDocument .odt file conversion is very buggy (esp. with headlines)

[viktor]

Binary package hint: abiword

Saving as .odt seems to work, but OpenOffice will say document is corrupted.
Fixing, as suggested through OOo, the buggy xml works only if formatting was simple (no preset headlines...). Otherwise OOo fails to open, even a corrupted version of the original file.

Opening back the document with Abiword: errors appears. Document is lost after the first preset headline.
Without preset headlines the odt saving behavior is very erratic with formatting.

[viktor (lfraisse)]

Using Lucid (64bit) with Abiword 2.8.2 (and I thought it was too risky to look for a more recent version in some ppa...).

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 591503, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[msevior (msevior-gmail)]

This bug has been fixed with the latest version of abiword-2.8.6

Please update to version 2.8.6

Martin

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Charlie Kravetz <email address hidden> wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 591503 ***
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/591503
>
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a
> duplicate of bug 591503, so it is being marked as such. Please look at
> the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you
> can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug.
> Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in
> the other report.  Please continue to report any other bugs you may
> find.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 591503
>   odt created by abiword can't be opened by openOffice
>  * You can subscribe to bug 591503 by following this link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/591503/+subscribe
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/704810
>
> Title:
>  OpenDocument .odt file conversion is very buggy (esp. with headlines)
>
> Status in “abiword” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: abiword
>
>  Saving as .odt seems to work, but OpenOffice will say document is corrupted.
>  Fixing, as suggested through OOo, the buggy xml works only if formatting was simple (no preset headlines...). Otherwise OOo fails to open, even a corrupted version of the original file.
>
>  Opening back the document with Abiword: errors appears. Document is lost after the first preset headline.
>  Without preset headlines the odt saving behavior is very erratic with formatting.
>
>
>

[viktor (lfraisse)]

Can't try 2.8.6 since there are no builds available for Lucid.

I'm pretty sure it will not be backported and the ppa has been on hold for about a year.

And BTW bug #591503 is only about failure to open odt documents, not about dataloss.