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OpenOffice 3.1.1 crashes when saving certain file as type "MsWord 97/2000/XP" while OOo 3.0.1 did not

Bug #486017 reported by Dr. Mark Marzinzik on 2009-11-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #454545: Writer won't save in Word format. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Crash happens when certain files (an example is attached) shall be saved as file type Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP.
By the way: This happens also with the Windows version of OOo 3.1.1.
With OOo 3.0.1 this crash does not happen.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 20 20:13:12 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1 [modified: var/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/program/services.rdb]
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

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Dr. Mark Marzinzik (dr-marzinzik) wrote on 2009-11-20:

Sample file that crashes OOo when saved as MS Word XP (.doc) Edit (6.5 MiB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Dan Buhrman (dan-buhrman) wrote on 2009-11-20:

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 454545, 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.