Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 70537
RTF: Objects positioned wrongly when imported
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:22:21 UTC
I have tried to open an rtf document. Unfortunately there are major differences brterrn OOo 2.04 and MS Office (XP). I do not really know which one is correct, though the MS Office document looks much better. This is an official document from the Romanian Ministry of Education (and can be downloaded from this URL: http://www.cncsis.ro/2007/inf_comp/A/Formular_A_2007.rtf ). Differences (between OOo and MS) =========== - page 1: -- header layout completely broken -- some Romanian letters (Central European special chars) are displayed wrongly (e.g. ţ -> ?) -- the select lists do not work -- table 4 is broken (first row contains some invalid data) -- table 5 is posted on the first page (should be second) and is broken (selection list does not work and some minor layout issues) - page 27: contains also some very annoying layout errors There are layout differences on other pages as well and non of the selection lists does work. The output of OOo Writer seems to resemble that from MS Wordpad (which is also very different from MS Office XP). I do not know what the standard says and therefore can not really say if OOo is wrong and MS Office correct, but it would still be nice to fix this.
Created attachment 39843 [details] The problematic rtf document (compressed)
I think that this file "Formular_A_2007.rtf" represents in a fine way many of the RTF problems I have reported in other issues. In issue 35217 is one reason why there layout might be different in Word and in OO. In this document there might be more reasons why layout is different. In issue 49087 is very rare situation where an image is disappeared. It might be possible that it works also other way round that OO misses RTF picture. In general, like issue 59345 shows there is problems when text is around or somehow related to a picture. There is also some problems with images in general - as issue 63306 and issue 59345 show. Issue 68385 describes problems with tabulators in RTF documents with OO. I would say that the file "Formular_A_2007.rtf" describes so many RTF problems that developers should take it as a general test reference. Real life documents are always better than some hastily maded quick and dirty test documents. To be precise what I used: - WIN XP Pro v. 2002 SP 2 (English version) - OpenOffice 2.0.4 RC 2 (English version) - Word 2002 (10.6802.6735) SP 3 (English version)
In this issue we will concentrate on the Layout problem regarding the objects at the top of the document. For other problems I will file new issues because this are seperate problems and need single issues regarding the "Issue submitting guidelines". Please regard this for submitting issues in the future; thanks for your patience. For problem regarding wrong Romanian characters I have filed issue 70736. Problem regarding "broken" table 4 is already tracked as issue 55074. Problem regarding table 5 on wrong page is a successor of the problem regarding layout on top of document - the whole document content is positioned much too high due to that.
Created attachment 39983 [details] document lumited to described problem
MRU->OD: see attached document. The objects in the middle and on the right are positioned too much to the left. It seems, that Word takes a different reference point for positioning these objects - to the right of the left object. BTW: it is the same as for .doc format.
Although the target milestone is set to "OOo Later" I wish to encourage the developers to correct all these RTF problems as fast as possible. REASON ====== This is an official document of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research. Actually it is the primary questionaire needed to apply for grants in Romania. CNCSIS is by far the most important institution that offers grants in Romania, and everybody from the academia is bounded to fill this form. (see http://www.cncsis.ro/tipa2007.php ; there is even an English version of the document, http://www.cncsis.ro/2007/inf_comp/A/Formular_A_2007_ENGLEZA.rtf , but this one does NOT contain the Romanian letters). It is difficult for the academia to switch to OOo, if they would not be able to fill the appliance for grants. I still use OOo, but had to switch to MS Office to write that application. So I would ask you sincerely to put every effort to correct the RTF filter as fast as possible. IF there are any inconsistencies in MS Office, please let me know. I would not loose the opportunity to bash at the Romanian Ministry, BUT I need HARD evidence, that the specific feature is not standards compliant. Kind regards, Leonard Mada
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