Issue 4036 - RTFs generated for MS Word cannot be viewed in OO.o
Summary: RTFs generated for MS Word cannot be viewed in OO.o
Status: CLOSED WONT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: 641
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: michael.ruess
QA Contact: issues@sw
URL:
Keywords: oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-04-14 23:00 UTC by finalfiler
Modified: 2004-04-29 11:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

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This RTF file can be viewed in MS WOrd but not OO.o writer (9.71 KB, text/plain)
2002-04-14 23:02 UTC, finalfiler 		no flags Details
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Description finalfiler 2002-04-14 23:00:33 UTC 
We generate rtf files from reports created by an application written in Delphi.
The export filters are third party and according to the author, quote,  "We used
some advanced features in RTF to get WYSIWYG output of the report and these
features are only supported in Word"

However, I note that the rtf files generated this way cannot be opened in OO.o
writer. All we get is blank pages.
Comment 1 finalfiler 2002-04-14 23:02:00 UTC 
Created attachment 1380 [details]
This RTF file can be viewed in MS WOrd but not  OO.o writer
Comment 2 t8m 2002-04-16 16:15:57 UTC 
Not platform specific - no text on Linux too.
Clearing up the summary.
Comment 3 prgmgr 2002-09-27 02:41:37 UTC 
Thanks for posting this issue Pierre.

The file was probably created using this program:
{\doccomm Produced by: PsFRExportFilters V1.2 for FastReport 
(www.pragnaan.com)}

I could get the file to load and display by stripping out the 
following RTF code ( two instances in the file )
{\*\do\dobxpage\dobypage\dptxbx{\dptxbxtext\dpx360\dpy270\dpxsize10561
\dpysize15091\dplinehollow

Duplicated on Win NT 4.0 SP6a, OOo 1.0.1.
Comment 4 stefan.baltzer 2002-11-26 17:07:43 UTC 
Reassigned to Michael.
Comment 5 michael.ruess 2002-11-28 12:13:18 UTC 
I can see the problem, but at the moment it won't be fixable.
The export placed the text inside an Autoshape (Textfield from Words
drawing tools) and not directly on the page.
OpenOffice's RTF import/export only supports an older RTF standard and
thus is not capable of importing drawing objects from RTF files.
It is still in discussion to upgrade the RTF filter in OO but at the
moment the focus is more on the Word filter.
Comment 6 michael.ruess 2002-11-28 12:13:57 UTC 
Closed, because Product management still discusses the need of an RTF
upgrade.
Comment 7 utomo99 2004-04-29 11:37:14 UTC 
according to http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOo_2_0_timetable.html
I think we will have better RTF support but did not know if this olve this or 
not
OOo 680 m36
misc rtf bugs
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