Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 20301
Wrong bullet remapping in msoffice export
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:36 UTC
The attached OOo Writer document (and the attached corresponding PDF export) contains a dotted list with a widely used type of dot, that, to my knowledge, is also almost the only one available both in OOo and msoffice. I am attaching also the file obtained saving the Writer document as a .doc msword file; if you open the .doc with msword, a different type of dot is shown, even though the wanted dot is available also in msoffice. Maybe, the dot should be "mapped" differently by the corresponding export filter. Marco Pratesi
Created attachment 9780 [details] Writer document - dotted_items.sxw
Created attachment 9781 [details] dotted_items.sxw.pdf
Created attachment 9782 [details] Writer -> msword export - dotted_items.doc
reassigend to mru can you please take a look on this issue?
I Can Not Reproduce the problem in OOo 1.1 Rc5, Win Xp Pro. it look same after I open the sxw file in OOo and then save the sxw file to doc, and open the doc in MS Office XP Sp2. but reporter use Linux Please explain more about your problem, your information is not enough to investigate the problem. Please explain step by step. Thanks
Confirmed I had to use Word Viewer for the .doc file. I've uploaded two screenshots -- one of the .sxw file bullets (which are the same in the .pdf file) and one of the Word Viewer bullets. Tam
Created attachment 9816 [details] Dots in OOO Doc
Created attachment 9817 [details] Bullets as displayed in Word Viewer
MRU->CMC: This happens, when only the OpenSymbol (and no StarSymbol) is installed on a System. Could you please have a look if we need adjustment in the filter or in the OpenSymbol font.
forgot to re-assign... :-(
Might have some relation to issue 19066, might be able to resolve this with an additional alternative mapping for this symbol.
*** Issue 22403 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
cmc->mru: I exported this .sxw to .doc with SRC680 m24 and opened in word on machine which has no StarSymbol installed, there under tools->options->font substition I see "lucidasans" mapped to "Times New Roman" and "StarSymbol" mapped to "Arial Unicode MS", and I have bullets which are very similiar to the original unavailable StarSymbol arrows. This is what I would expect and want to see. Writer should create the same .doc whether or not StarSymbol/OpenSymbol etc are installed. If there is an exact match in the older fonts of Wingdings/Symbol etc then that should be exported instead of StarSymbol. If there is no exact match then "Arial Unicode MS" should be set as the fallback font for MSWord to use if StarSymbol is not installed (which is the normal case of course), so word might display differently depending on if Open/StarSymbol is installed or not, but should do a good job either way. I also opened them with the free word viewer from MS and there they look the same as the substituted Arial Unicode MS as in word itself.
Yes, I can see the same as CMC described. It is more a problem of Font substitution in MS Word than in Writer's export.
Closed.