Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 20265
Microsoft Word 97 document needs 2 pages instead of 1
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
I created a Microsoft Word 97 document with the original Office application on Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro. The document took only 1 page. Open with OOWriter 1.1 RC5, the same document needed 2 pages. Moreover, I need to see accuratly this format for professionnal use.
Created attachment 9749 [details] document with which the bug is seen
I can Reproduce the problem on OpenOffice 1.1 RC5(default Install, US), Win XP Pro Sp1. (And MS Office XP Sp2). It is real problem as reporter say. the last two line is become in next page. Change OS to all, because also happend in Windows
reassigend to mru can you please take a look on this issue? set target to OOo later
MRU->AMA: the paragraph following the 2-column section ("ingénieur informatique") is expanded to two lines. This is insisted due to the fact, that word measures the paragraph border spacings to the outside, OO Writer calculates to the inner area. A compatibility mode will be needed.
retargeted to OO 2.0
I mean this is a key feature. This (tiny ?) bug discourages all users to jump from Microsoft Word to OpenOffice Writer. OOWriter should at least be able to correctly read a Microsoft Word document. My CV is the smaller MS Word document I use. Currently, I can't use OpenOffice Writer for professional stuffs. I'm not the only person which can't use OpenOffice Writer. Since I have some time now, what could I do in order to fix it ? I developp in Java for 3 years but I haven't any experience in OO developpement. Have you identified a component on which I could work ?
We've to suppress the subtraction of the border from the paragraph area by a compatibility flag. This flag has to be interpreted in sw/source/core/layout/calcmove.cxx or in sw/source/core/layout/frmtool.cxx. Sophia, do you want to implement and test it?
Ok, I will implement and test it. I can't give a dead line but I will do it.
I read the same document with Microsoft Word 97 on top of wine (CVS version) and I got exactly the same layout problem. Could it be a system dependant problem ? Can someone give me a clue ?
I just started with this bug. I downloaded the latest developper build in order to reproduce it with it and I got an other behaviour. This seems to be related to the layout too.
Created attachment 11121 [details] new behaviour: characters are on top of each other
1.1.1 rc announced Wed 3 Mar 2004 has not the layout problem showed in latest attachement but the former bug always occurs. I have not enough time to fix it since I spend all the time I get in searching a job.
We will need a compatibilty flag (in a later version) to solve this issue.
what a pity.. i think this issue is very important to resolve due to the fact that it enhances the OOo compatibility w/ ms off. documents quite a lot.. and many ppl expect OOo to be more compatible w/ their doc, xls and ppts.. who should i ask to help w/ this? novell guys?? -- joe
Everybody is invited to take part on development our OpenOffice.org. So if you find contributors, fine! My problem is we have a lot of interoperability issues and a lot of other features and bugs to do. With our given resources it is not possible to solve every problem in the next version. I didn't retarget this issue because I'm not willing to solve it but I'm not able to solve it for OOo2.0.
always occurs on 1.1.2 version
This bug still live in 2.0 for linux in french version.
The document is still two pages on OOo 2.0.4rc2 Linux and I do have Times New Roman. (I'm just checking old bugs.)
2 pages in OOo 3.0.0