Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 13858
Footnote not rendered, or replaced with I Ching characters, when importing .doc file from Word
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:44:28 UTC
The footnote at the bottom of page 1 column 1 of TRANS-JOUR.DOC is not rendered at all properly. It should be a paragraph of text, but instead it is a tiny horizontal bar (under Windows) or an approximately correctly sized box filled with I Ching characters (under Linux). This bug was present under OpenOffice 1.0.x, so it is not new.
See http://a957.g.akamai.net/f/957/3680/1h/www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/TRANS-JOUR.PDF for a pdf showing how it should look.
Created attachment 5945 [details] Minimal test case: a blank page with a footnote saying "This is a footnote".
I just attached a minimal testcase, consisting of a page blank except for a footnote saying "This is a footnote". The footnote displays fine in Word 97, but not in any version of OpenOffice. It also displays mostly correctly in AbiWord. Note that I cannot reproduce the problem with a .rtf file, so it may be specific to the .doc importer.
I hereby confirm my own bug, as directed by the "how to help" page.
Reassigned to MRU
MRU->CMC: The content of the footnote text is not imported correctly. Formatting this with a different font after import does not correct this; seems the characters are converted wrongly.
The good news is that I can remove the silly font stuff. The bad news is that when I do that I find that the footnote does not have a symbol before it at the beginning of the footnote, and for some reason the existing code takes the footnote symbol from there instead of from the main text where it also appears. i.e. we end up with "T"his is a footnote, where the "T" is used as a footnote symbol. annoying, I need a bit of thought to see the easiest and safest way to rectify this.
cmc->mru: Ok, heres what I propose. For rc we fix the silly symbols because that's certainly very broken. This reveals that the filter expects to see the footnote character before the text inside the footnote itself, which is not always the case. This is quite an extensive change to make before the final version and very error prone, so I'd reccommend we do that for the 2.0.
reopen to reassign
cmc->mru: acceptable in dublinfilterteam07 for 6.1RC ? and make changing the footnote character system a new seperate 2.0 task ?
MRU: Yes, this is acceptable for me. The "loss of information" has been eliminated and the problem, that the "T" is taken for the footnote can be workarounded. For the extensive change I'll file a new task. ID will be posted here in this issue, so it can be monitored by the OO user(s).
Fix verified in CWS filterteam07. Will be available in OO 1.1 RC.
The "follow up" issue for the remaining problem is #14737. Dan Kegel has been added to CC list of it.
Fix applied to OO 1.1 RC.