Bug#487948: openoffice.org-writer: writer exporting to .doc: greek characters in eq.s are (almost) lost
Rene Engelhard writes:
> tag 487948 + moreinfo
> thanks
>
> giacomo boffi wrote:
> > when i save a document containing a formula with greek letters to .doc
> > format, the greek letters (or more, see later) disappear when opening
> > the .doc using some sort of word
>
> Unreproducible. I don't have Word.
>
i find very hard to think that you have not a single correspondent
that uses word, but whatever
> > here i have a very minimal example,
> >
> > i open a new oowriter document, insert a ole formula object
> > "sin ( %phi ) = 3 + 4 a"
> > then i "save as" example.doc, put my saved example.doc on a usb key
> > and later open using (a) word2004 for mac or (b) word2007 for windows
> >
> > in (a) i have an equation with a "?" in place of phi, and nothing
> > that i can do, except erasing the "?" and manually inputing the
> > "phi" symbol in equation editor
> >
> > in (b), using a collegue's pc, there are 3 empty boxes displayed
> > [][][] in place of (phi), but this can be changed in equation
> > editor selecting the three ??? that appear in place of the empty
> > boxes and changing the font
> >
> > as you can see from (b), some information is there (in the word
> > document's equation, i mean), and some information is missing...
>
> Does this also happen in a "normal" build from www.openoffice.org?
> Please try, and if yes, file an issue there please (and tell me the
> issue number so I can mark it as forwaded).
yes, it happens
but i do not want to register with openoffice.org to file a bug report
my best regards
gb
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