Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 6511
ole2 object wmfs created under mac displayed with incorrect symbols
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
I've a document created with Word which includes embedded equations. They _almost_ import correctly, just show up with really odd fonts (greek and symbol fonts for latin and simple punctuation,like parens, etc). If I save the sxw file, unzip it, and open the OLE objects directly, they display correctly in the equation editor. I'll attach the offending document. Selecting the OLE object and double clicking gives 'Error activating object:General OLE error' The original doc was created on a Mac. I opened it under NT, resaved, and saw the same behavior. Attaching that (smaller) doc as well.
Created attachment 2309 [details] Word/Mac equations bad display of import
Created attachment 2310 [details] Word/NT resaved version - bad equation import/display
Reassigned to Michael.
Yes, we know about the font problems when Wwriting formulas in MS format. This will be fixed with OpenOffice release 643.
Is this fixed in CVS tip? your characterization of this as a 'font problem' doesn't seem to fit my investigation of it - it seems to be an incomplete import. If I open the individual Word OLE objects (in the equation editor), resave as OpenOffice Formulas, and place them in the document, I get a different (proper) structure, with OLE directories containing MathML. Ross
Yeah, sorry, I mixed it up with another issue, regarding export with Equation objects. MRU->CMC: after import of the attached document, you can see that the symbols are not correctly displayed. When activating them, it looks good again.
Reassigned to CMC.
cmc->sj: With mathtype import/export unchecked, load this document, some of the ole preview images are displayed with incorrect symbols. e.g. the large 3rd one and some "x/y scaling" asserts appear. Can we display those ole2 wmf's correctly ?, perhaps there is a font issue because its coming originally from a mac platform. After you fix or decide they cannot be fixed please send it back to me to see why they are not converted to starmath with mathtype im/ex checked.
Created attachment 3078 [details] a pct - extraction of the Mac version of LittlesTheorem.doc
The Mac version of the document is only containing pct pictures, I mean there is no windows metafile included. After extracting the pct graphics I realized, that we are able to display all of them properly. It seems, that the error is happening when converting the pct graphics to wmf. The conversion is done, because our internal representation graphic of an OLE object is wmf. I will try to find this conversion bug.
SJ: Changed target to OOo 2.0. If there is enought time left, I will try to prefer this Issue for OOo 1.1
Thorsten, can you please takeover this pict import bug.
Alright, will have a look.
retargeted due to lack of resources
@sj: please take this one back
Created attachment 64968 [details] Test file for badly rendered wmf images