Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 24618
Zaner Bloser Font converstion broken.
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:26:13 UTC
The Zaner Bloser connector software that connects the individual cursive letters appears not to cooperate with staroffice/openoffice. According to the instructions, you are supposed to type your paper in a normal font, then select the text, cut it, then run the ZB font converter and paste the text back. It will not work in StarOffice/OpenOffice, however, it does work in wordpad and wordperfect and I can also paste the converted text from these programs back into staroffice/ openoffice and it works correctly.
Reassigned to US
@submitter: pls. try a current snapshot of OO.o and report back whether the problem still persits or close. Thx.
Issue still present in 1.1.4 and 1.9.104
reassigned to es.
Please point us to a link where to find the "Zaner Bloser connector software".
Unfortunately, the software is proprietary but I'll send you an ISO image or something of the CD if that's what is needed to fix this. I can upload it somewhere or send you a link. Let me know.
ES->HDU: The Zaner Bloser Program brings manuscript fonts and has a "cursive connector" to connect manuscript cursive charcters together. The connector works as following: - type some text in your document with a well readable font (Times?) - copy it - launch the connector -> the connector has transformed the clipboard content into a "ZB Cursive" font formatted text and has connected the characters - Paste back into the application. As stated: this works in Wordpad but not in OOo (m169 tested) I tested as following: - copy from OOo -> Connector -> paste in Wordpad = it doesn't work works - copy from Wordpad -> Connector -> paste in OOo = it works So I guess there is a clipboard problem (what we send to the clipboard and what the Connecror does with it). It may be an RTF export problem. I send it to you because you may be interested in that font behavior ;) but I think you may pass it on to AMA (clipboard) or FLR (RTF). This issue is low priorized because ZB it is not excluded that it is a ZB bug (the readme talks about Win 3.1 an 95!) Note: as described, ZB is proprietary and I can't "attach" the program here! Ask me directly for more.
ES->balmquist: workaround: - copy your text from the Writer - Paste it in Wordpad - Copy it again from Wordpad - Launch the Connector - Paste back in Writer
ES->HDU: attaching screeshot + bugdoc.
Created attachment 36543 [details] bugdoc
Created attachment 36544 [details] screenshot
Looking at the attached bugdoc one can see that the "Zaner Bloser" application works by replacing some characters in the clipboard by other characters. This works when the clipboard was filled by wordpad, but not when it was filled by OOo. Please reassign this issue to the "Writer clipboard specialist".
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".