Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 13963
Import from Word horribly broken now, wasn't in 1.1beta
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:44:28 UTC
in build 644, horizontal spacing was messed up in import from word format. Sometimes it's fine, but sometimes letters get all jumbled together. This is visible in nearly all Word documents I've imported into this snapshot; I link to one (guide2.doc) whose headline was particularly munged. I used Word 97 to cut down guide2.doc and will attach the result as guide4.doc. It has just three lines of text: a big headline LINE1, a smaller line under that with text "line2", and a footnote at the bottom, with text "footnote". All are horribly mangled -- oo1.1beta only mangled the footnote and put line2 in the wrong place -- but with the new snapshot, LINE1's letters all run together horizontally.
Created attachment 5978 [details] Example of .doc file that is horribly munged when imported
I hereby confirm my bug :-)
Reassigned to MRU
didn't know to set target build when I filed this; I know now...
This does not look like a problem of the import. The font is imported correctly, but it seems that "Times New Roman" is not replaced by a suitable Font anymore. MRU->HDU: did something change in Font replacement regarding fonts like "Times New Roman" on Linux/Unix?
Can you attach a screen (or window) shot? Is the "View->Online Layout" look better?
Created attachment 6195 [details] tarball containing two .doc files with the problem, and screenshots
Yes, View->Online Layout helps incredibly -- it's totally legible then. But wait - if you then export to pdf, it ignores the Online Layout setting, and becomes illegible again! I guess that's another (fairly serious) bug. Anyway, the exported pdfs have pretty much the same problem as the non-online view. I wonder what font it's picking instead of Times New Roman...
I can imaging what has caused this... but this has been fixed. Since you say it was build 644 do you happen to know which of the 14 milestones in 644 it was?
Sorry for the imprecision. The build I checked was 644m11. Are there more recent ones I could try?
looked ok to me in StarOffice 645m2-2. cp->Dan: can you create a ps file (print to file) that shows your problem ? That way we can check which fonts you are using. cp->MRU: can you reproduce the problem inhouse ?
Works for me in beta2. Go ahead and close it out, thanks! Next time I have a bug like this I'll be sure to include an exported .ps file so you can see the fonts.
Closed the issue.Could also see the improvement.