Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 109036
RTF: graphic position in frame lost on export
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:25:56 UTC
I had high hopes for your recent ODF importer for Word but it does not fix the problem I've been experiencing all along with various versions. Exporting an ODT file containing both words and inserted pictures to RTF is a disaster. The formatting is lost (eg centre justification goes to Left justification and the picture size and location is lost. So a three page document can easily become 4 or 5 pages with great white gaps, pictures misplaced onto the next page, some pictures missing and some on top of other pictures. The resulting file is completely unusable, but even if it were, attempting to import the file into Word 2000 locked up my PC, requiring a restart. This is limiting my ability to get rid of Microsoft. If I can't generate files that all my microsoft-using friends can read, I can't communicate with them. More correctly, I can -- using the PDF converter which works very well -- but that does not allow the MS-using friends to modify a file and collaborate. I wonder would this problem exist in Star Office? Is it just that I am getting what I am paying for? I suspect it may very well exist there too, so am reluctant to lay out money to find out. OOO is a great application, but it is important that it can work properly with word as it claims to do. Kind regards Gordon
Currently this works fine with my sample documents; I inserted a picture with centered alignment, exported to RTF and reopned -> graphic still centered. Please attach a sample document (native .odt format) which then exported to RTF will show the described behavior.
Aha, I see your problem. Considering my existing documents relatively private I made a new odt document and checked that it behaved liek the others. It did not; in fact it was not too bad, retaining most of the formatting but just not showing the pictures (when the rtf file was viewed using MS Word). When the rtf was viewed using ooo it was perfect, but that did not help very much. I had just made that document in PORTRAIT mode, whereas the documents I'd had trouble with were in landscape. Changing the format to landscape gave me many of the same problems I was complaining about (WHEN VIEWED IN MS WORD 'XP' (2001): 1. resized graphics and relocated captions. 2. one of the graphics has changed aspect ratio 3. the one page document became 2 pages long 4. the 1*1 table (used as a 'text box', origionally 30% relative width, goes to 100% width 5. Any similarity to the original text layout is incidental, 6. the rtf filesize is 19MB -- rather large, don't you think? 7 the only common fault that did not occur with this file was that the centre justification of the heading was maintained correctly in the rtf. I hope these points are evident when you look at the odt file that I am attaching. At least I will admit that I am probably using a slightly unusual format, so that may be why it has escaped attention so far. Its a convenient format for making PDF 'album pages' to suit PC screens. By the way, thanks for the prompt response so far and good luck with understanding the problem. Cheers, Gordon
Created attachment 67802 [details] ODT file demonstrating RTF conversion problems reported in 109036
The graphic is located inside the frame; this makes the problem for the RTF exporter in Writer. MRU->HBRINKM: the graphics anchored inside the frames will be anchored in the body text after export to RTF.
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