Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 32690
RTF saved by OpenOffice will re-open as empty document
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:25:57 UTC
The attached file was saved by OpenOffice 1.1.1 as distributed with SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional. It could not be opened again by that version, nor by the latest milestone 680m49. However, Abiword manages to open it but with much formatting missing, such as headers and footers. This is not the first time we have seen this. The document contained sensitive correspondance and has been censored, however this did not affect the ability of OpenOffice nor Abiword to read it. Please contact me if you believe that the censorship was responsible for some corruption of the file, and I can try to fix it or provide a clean copy on condition of confidentiality. Thanks for your help!
Created attachment 16990 [details] Sample RTF file saved by OO 1.1.1 and not readable by OpenOffice, but OK in Abiword
MRU->MM: the exported RTF will be opened as empty page in OO. Can you see from the attached RTF where the problem is? Perhaps we need an original .sxw for the case it is an export issue? If so, please reassign to me and I'll ask for it.
Sorry, there is no original SXW file. We have been saving in RTF only for compatibility between MS Word and OpenOffice. Cheers, Chris.
ama -> flr: Please have a look.
I've just checked this with OOo2.0.1 build8990 on Fedora Core 2. It opened with the data all as xxx's. I'll assume this is right. Looked fairly neat to me, including footer.
reassigning to hbrinkm
I just click link for SampleRtfNotReadableByOpenOffice-censored.rtf and I see empty page, when firefox starts writer OOO3000 and open loaded file. When I copy file SampleRtfNotReadableByOpenOffice-censored.rtf to harddisk and open it with Vista's standard WordPad, I can see file with lot of X's. I thing it is kind of letter model. Writer display empty page in this case too. When I save this file from wordpad (with different name), it is visible in Writer too. So, there is at least some difference how Writer and WordPad read this file. I guess that way of WordPad is favored by most of user. And file is original produced by Openoffice! I really hope, that something is done with this RTF-issue, because RTF is in fact the file form which is used sending files, if you don,t know what is receiders wordprosessing sytem. I mean in Windows environment, which is used by most of users. Best wishes Risto Jääkseläinen
*** Issue 103522 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Can I do anything to help resolve this one (see 103522 which has been marked as a duplicate of this issue)? As ristoi has pointed out rtf is a valuable format for portability. Best wishes - Ian
Making summary more significant
*** Issue 104478 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Should priority be P2 rather than P3? Definition of P2 includes "User data is corrupted in an easy-to-encounter way; e.g. saving a document corrupts the resulting file and renders it unusable". Alternatively support for rtf should be qualified. May I offer the observation that the problem looks nore likely to be in reading rtf than writing it - the original problem description reports that Abiword could read the problem rtf document, and I have compiled and run Microsoft's Sample RTF Reader Implementation included in their RTF Specification Version 1.6 which reported no error. Good hunting Ian
Good news! OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 Writer can open the file. Text is OK (XXXX...). Footer part is OK I guess. Maybe header is too hight and it is empty. That is reason why "Yours sincerely," is at beginning of page nr 2. At least enormous improvement compared to last time I test this. Because original rtf-file was created by guite old version of OO.o may this header situation need testing (creating the document) with newer version? Regards Risto
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".