Issue 23586 - OOWriter incorrectly imports "Personal Ancestral File" RTF files - Bad layout/alignment
Summary: OOWriter incorrectly imports "Personal Ancestral File" RTF files - Bad layout...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: All All
: P4 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Reported: 2003-12-16 00:20 UTC by www_gmc
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:26 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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An RTF file exported from "Personal Ancestral File" (65.48 KB, text/rtf)
2003-12-16 00:22 UTC, www_gmc 		no flags Details
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Description www_gmc 2003-12-16 00:20:38 UTC 
The attached RTF file is created by "Personal Ancestral File" in MS Windows.  MS
Office 97 without fail correctly renders the document.  However, OOWriter never
does.

Specifically, OOWriter seems not to correctly understand the Template structure
used by PAF.  This may be an oddity of PAF's export function, I don't know.
Comment 1 www_gmc 2003-12-16 00:22:19 UTC 
Created attachment 11970 [details]
An RTF file exported from "Personal Ancestral File"
Comment 2 www_gmc 2003-12-16 00:24:33 UTC 
Personal Ancestral File:

http://productsupport.familysearch.org/supportroot/eng/frameset_products.asp
Comment 3 h.ilter 2003-12-16 12:01:57 UTC 
Reassigned to MRU
Comment 4 michael.ruess 2003-12-17 15:39:10 UTC 
MRU->CMC: the frames onpage three are completely missing.
Other issues, regarding textframes not correctly overlapping is a thing Od, I think.
Comment 5 caolanm 2004-01-07 10:00:12 UTC 
Accepted, rtf frame problem
Comment 6 caolanm 2004-03-04 13:45:24 UTC 
cmc->mmaher: More of frames in rtf. Perhaps you should amalgamate the issues
into one and close the duplicates in this area.
Comment 7 www_gmc 2004-08-05 11:28:50 UTC 
I've since discovered a further (probably related issue which I didn't point out
before.

The problem is that the last page is left completely blank.  There should be
information on it as one can see by opening the RTF in a text editor.  For
example the strings "George Allman" and "Dublin Hanover St.27" are in the RTF
source but cannot be seen or searched for in ooWriter.

I'm attaching another RTF file here.
Comment 8 www_gmc 2004-08-05 11:41:49 UTC 
Okay, I can't actually figure out how to add a file.

I've done it before above but I can't figure it out here now.  So I'm leaving it
for download below and if someone closer to ninja status with this bugtracker
can add it that would be great, thanks.

http://fiachra.ucd.ie/~gavin/PedigreeMcCullaghMerielIOW.rtf
Comment 9 michael.ruess 2004-10-13 15:46:00 UTC 
retargeted to OO later due to limited resources.
Comment 10 martin_maher 2005-05-05 10:38:19 UTC 
mmaher->flr: Your's methinks
Comment 11 Mathias_Bauer 2006-08-30 15:15:28 UTC 
reassigning to hbrinkm
Comment 12 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:25:01 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".
Comment 13 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:26:12 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".