Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 34541
On import of a Hebrew word document the spacing in the document changes
Last modified: 2005-09-05 02:35:28 UTC
When importing a Hebrew word document into OOo the spacing in the imported document changes and causes the page layout to be different. For example, if page 3 in the original word doc begins with paragraph 11.1 in the imported document page 3 begins with paragraph 11.4.
Created attachment 17874 [details] Hebrew doc file
Created attachment 17875 [details] OOo document after import
fixing version number (1.0.3 didn't support Hebrew at all- and the bug report itself says that you use 1.1.1)
Windows 2000 MS Word 2000 OO 1.9.122 I dowloaded attachment id=17874 and imported it into OO Writer and a read only copy of same document into MS Word 2000. The documents were not formatted the same in both applications. Since the document was in .doc format which is native to MS Word, I would assume that the problem is with OO. Screen shots of the document as it appears in Writer and MS Word are attached. Issue confirmed.
Created attachment 28538 [details] Screen shot of file as seen in MS Word
Created attachment 28539 [details] Screen Shot of document as seen in OO Writer
inquisword: From the two screenshots you attached it is clear that the wrapping is different since OOo and Word don't use the same font... wordviewer 97 under wine (linux) doesn't cope with RTL (the numbering is left of the text at all), WordViewer 2003 under wine (linux) shows the document differently than your copy of Word 2000. (in WordViewer the two lines of point 11.2 are horizontally aligned, whereas in your screenshot the first line starts right at the numbering and the second line is "indented"..) I don't know what is the right rendering, I don't have the font "David" installed, only the font David CLM (from the culmus package), but this font looks different from both of your two screenshots (it is kind of "italic").
Created attachment 28554 [details] Three different versions of Word (Viewer) result in three different renderings...
Hi, I've tested on Windows XP Professional with Office XP and OpenOffice.org m121 In word, the doc-file contains 8 pages, the same doc-file in OOo has 11 pages, and the sxw-file contains 9 pages. (This is really surprising for me, because I have only one printer installed, and this is the same for OOo and Word.) I have additionally made 3 screenshots, which are all showing the beginning of page 3 (the page which should start with paragraph 11.1). Sigrid
Created attachment 28571 [details] screenshot of page 3 in Word XP
Created attachment 28572 [details] screensot of page 3 (doc-file) in OOo m121
Created attachment 28573 [details] screenshot of page 3 (sxw-file) in OOo m121
dina: As you can see from the various screenshot we need more information on the font you used - even opening the file with Microsoft Word on windows doesn't result in the same linebreak as in your system. Where can one get this font? Is it part of Windows? Is it part from MS-Office? Is it a freely available font? Does OOo use the same font as Word on your system (both eskroni and inquisword get different fonts in Word vs OOo).
no answer from reporter → closing invalid. I guess it boils down to the font not being available to OOo.
closing issue. Feel free to reopen after you provided the requested information.