Issue 57390 - equations do not translate correctly into MS Office
Summary: equations do not translate correctly into MS Office
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 53223
Alias: None
Product: Math
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0 Beta
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: michael.ruess
QA Contact: issues@sw
URL:
Keywords: ms_interoperability, oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-11-05 02:06 UTC by warrensanderson
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:55 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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

Attachments
Presentation file (37.97 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation)
2005-11-05 19:00 UTC, quetschke 		no flags Details
Corrupted formulas in PPT (50.50 KB, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint)
2005-11-05 19:01 UTC, quetschke 		no flags Details
Formulas in OOo text document (23.43 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2005-11-05 19:03 UTC, quetschke 		no flags Details
Corrupted formulas in word document (38.00 KB, application/msword)
2005-11-05 19:03 UTC, quetschke 		no flags Details
screenshots showing different export results (293.51 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics)
2005-11-06 07:37 UTC, Rainer Bielefeld 		no flags Details
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Description warrensanderson 2005-11-05 02:06:24 UTC 
I write an equation in Writer.  I save the file as a .doc file -
Word XP.  I then open the .doc file using Word.  The equation does not
appear correctly.  Often there is a blank square where a plus sign or space
should be.
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld 2005-11-05 10:25:57 UTC 
warrensanderson, pls. attach example document!
Comment 2 quetschke 2005-11-05 18:59:36 UTC 
Sorry for hitchhiking the issue. I just found the same problem in the OOo 2.0
release version. I will attach examples.

I leave setting the milestone to the actual developer.
Comment 3 quetschke 2005-11-05 19:00:35 UTC 
Created attachment 31205 [details]
Presentation file
Comment 4 quetschke 2005-11-05 19:01:53 UTC 
Created attachment 31206 [details]
Corrupted formulas in PPT
Comment 5 quetschke 2005-11-05 19:03:00 UTC 
Created attachment 31207 [details]
Formulas in OOo text document
Comment 6 quetschke 2005-11-05 19:03:34 UTC 
Created attachment 31208 [details]
Corrupted formulas in word document
Comment 7 Rainer Bielefeld 2005-11-06 07:37:10 UTC 
I can also confirm the problem, with “2.0 German version WIN XP:
[680m3(Build8968)]â€, pls. see attached screenshots.

After I saved 'example2.odt' in 1.1.4 format, opened that .sxw-document with
“1.1.4 (German) WIN XP: [645m52 (Build 8824)]†and saved that new document as
WORD2000.doc, formulas looked fine in WORD2000
Comment 8 Rainer Bielefeld 2005-11-06 07:37:58 UTC 
Created attachment 31214 [details]
screenshots showing different export results
Comment 9 Rainer Bielefeld 2005-11-06 07:54:35 UTC 
This is a new issue in the 2.0 branch:
"(1.9.m113) German version WIN XP: [680m113(Build8930)]":  WFM
"(1.9.m118) English version WIN XP: [680m118(Build8936)]": bad result as reported
"(1.9.m125) German version WIN XP: [680m125(Build8947)]": bad result as reported
"2.0 German version WIN XP: [680m3(Build8968)]": bad result as reported
Comment 10 dridgway 2005-11-08 01:41:36 UTC 
I've had similar problems. As a workaround, I had success by

1) ensuring that in the Options - Load/Save - Microsoft Office dialog, the
equation is saved as MathType.

After opening in Microsoft Word XP, it still looks wrong... BUT

2) doubleclicking an equation after opening in Microsoft Word opens the equation
editor, and after closing the editor, the equation is rendered correctly.

If the equations are exported as OOo Math, this doesn't work. Double clicking
the equation in MS Word produces a gray box covering the equation, and the
equation disappears after hitting escape to deselect. I think this failure of
Equation Editor while inside Word is a known bug, but I can't find the bug
report at the moment.
Comment 11 quetschke 2005-11-09 18:08:29 UTC 
Sorry being drastic. This is a regression and makes scientific
documents/presentations no longer exchangeble with MSO users, it's a regreesion.

Setting target to 2.0.1 (please check if this is doable) but this *really* is
important functionality.
Comment 12 dridgway 2005-11-09 18:48:03 UTC 
Just to followup my previous comment, the gray box issues are #49599 and #53651,
both FIXED for 2.0.1.
Comment 13 michael.ruess 2005-11-10 11:03:41 UTC 
Known problem, see issue 53223.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 53223 ***
Comment 14 michael.ruess 2005-11-10 11:04:05 UTC 
Closing duplicate.