Issue 49268

Summary: Error in Display of RTF File
Product: Writer Reporter: samguyer <samuel_guyer>
Component: open-importAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues, jonathan20824, orcmid
Version: 680m100   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: DEFECT Latest Confirmation in: 4.1.1
Developer Difficulty: ---
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Description Flags
The offending file
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jpeg picture of what the file opens as
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a jpeg picture of what the file should look like none

Description samguyer 2005-05-14 01:26:33 UTC 
When opening a RTF file, the Writer program fails to display the text position
correctly, making the file unreadable.
Comment 1 samguyer 2005-05-14 01:31:22 UTC 
Created attachment 26126 [details]
The offending file
Comment 2 samguyer 2005-05-14 01:34:03 UTC 
Created attachment 26127 [details]
jpeg picture of what the file opens as
Comment 3 samguyer 2005-05-14 01:35:16 UTC 
Created attachment 26128 [details]
a jpeg picture of what the file should look like
Comment 4 michael.ruess 2005-05-17 16:36:37 UTC 
MRU->FLR: many of the tabulators are completely missing here after import.
Comment 5 Mathias_Bauer 2006-08-30 15:16:03 UTC 
reassigning to hbrinkm
Comment 6 jonathandl 2014-10-30 18:23:38 UTC 
*** Issue 106116 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 7 orcmid 2014-10-30 18:41:46 UTC 
I have confirmed that this defect still occurs in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 on Windows 8.1 Pro x64.  The result of opening the file completely matches the jepg image of what the file opened as when the issue was created.

The "offending" file is a simple \rtf1\ansi file of unknown origin.

The file opens perfectly in Microsoft Office Word 2013, matching the "what the file should look like" image without requiring any adjustments.

The file opens not quite perfectly in Windows 8.1 WordPad.  Once the page margins are changed from the WordPad defaults to allow wider lines, the display is perfect. 

In Apache OpenOffice 4.4.1, none of the tab settings, and the changes in tab settings for different groups of lines seem to be effective.  Instead, there are no default tabs and only one tab set at the far right of the page.  That is why the display is so awful.

In LibreOffice 4.3, the layout is different but the tab settings in the RTF file are not being used. The default tab settings at every 0.5" appear to be used. These are almost correct, but not correct enough to have every line match the column layout of the text.