Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 41049
File truncation on load
Last modified: 2005-01-20 19:21:52 UTC
I have a 269K streaming text RTF file that HAS NO HARD RETURNS in it. When doing File | Open, OOo Writer truncates this file on load about 1/3 of the way through. I did a search and replace in the original app that created it (WordPerfect 8 for Windows) replacing [CHAPTER] with [HardReturn][CHAPTER] and then saved it back to disk as an RTF file. OO Writer was happy with this loading all 50 chapters. OOo Writer 1.1.3 for Windows on Win98 SE behaves the same way. OOo Writer appears to be unable to handle large text files unbroken by any hard returns. I've used files of this nature for years in WordPerfect. I'm a newbie to both OO and Linux, and this is my first bug/issue report. I read the instructions first. I hope this is suitable. I can be contacted at d.m.s@shaw.ca Thanks for a truly great product. It is this product that is allowing me to move away from Windows. I am grateful. Frank Billington Calgary, Canada.
The 269K RTF file that I used to test this is english-language. It is a book with 50 chapters in it. Words are separated by spaces as is normal for a book. The only thing that appears to cause a failure to load is the absence of hard returns in this file. Frank Billington d.m.s@shaw.ca
duplicate. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 17171 ***
closing duplicate.