Bug#551304: Openoffice writer 3.0 doesn't save correctly in Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) format
clone 551304 -1
reassign -1 openoffice.org-kde
retitle -1 551304 chooses wrong filter when using KDE file picker (Word 6.0 vs. Word 97/2000/XP)
tag -1 + pending
retitle 551304 file saved as "Word 6.0" heavily corrupted
thanks
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:14:54AM +0000, Hans Linkels wrote:
> I encountered 3 different bugs here, all complying to the same error
> description.
As I already said that is not the case... Now he have the problem on how to
get out of the mess this bug caused... Let's try.
> When I open a Word (.doc) document which is produced on a machine running XP
> with office 2003. OpenOffice offers to save it default as ODF format (.odt). When I
> choose explicitely for 97/2000/XP format the error occurs..
>
> 1. When the format Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) is chosen, I receive the message
> "some formats cannot be saved in Word 6.0 format". Either this is the wrong
> error message, or the wrong output filter.
The latter as it turned out. See e.g.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/452518
I'll add the patch for the next upload.
> 2. The file suffix .doc is not added altough the box "automatic file name
> extension" is checked. No suffix at all is appended.
Already found out to be an other bug already reported and thus will be ignored
here.
> 3. When the file is saved in this format (whatever the real format is, but
> selected as 97/2000/XP) the file is heavily corrupted when opened again in Word
> 2003. Artefacts occur like:
> - Tables have disappeared and are shown as the original contents interspersed
> with unreadable characters
> - Some pieces of the text don't show up
> - Some pieces of the text show up repeatedly.
>
> This is no Office 2003 fault, when I re-open the just saved .doc on OOw the same
> thing happens.
This seems like a general Word 6.0 filter FAIL...
Splitting the bug, handling 1. in a own bug.
Grüße/Regards,
Rene
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