Issue 27930 - Error in importing Hebrew texts from BibleWorks5
Summary: Error in importing Hebrew texts from BibleWorks5
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 21821
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC4
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: bettina.haberer
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-04-17 21:06 UTC by alkra
Modified: 2004-10-18 00:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

See Also:
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

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Greek and Hebrew examples from BibleWorks 6 (5.33 KB, application/vnd.sun.xml.writer)
2004-10-17 22:19 UTC, chemnitzfish 		no flags Details
the sample document opened with OOo on linux -> no problem (101.38 KB, image/png)
2004-10-18 00:07 UTC, lohmaier 		no flags Details
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Description alkra 2004-04-17 21:06:51 UTC 
When I import a Hebrew text from the Program Bible Works (version 5) the text 
shows up completely messed up and unreadable. This applies to version 1.1.0 rc4 
of Open Office, both in the text editor and the Presentaton. However when the 
text is saved and then opened in another editor (MS Word or OpenOffice 1.0) the 
text is normal. Bible Works is used in most theological seminaries, and this 
problem makes vesion 1.1 unusable for students of theology. Is there a solution 
for this problem?
Comment 1 sforbes 2004-04-19 04:29:42 UTC 
Do you have an example file that you can attached here?
Comment 2 h.ilter 2004-05-18 11:59:28 UTC 
Set to ENHANCEMENT
Comment 3 chemnitzfish 2004-10-17 22:19:24 UTC 
Created attachment 18471 [details]
Greek and Hebrew examples from BibleWorks 6
Comment 4 chemnitzfish 2004-10-17 22:20:34 UTC 
I am a theological student and ran into exactly the same issue with a simple cut
and paste from BibleWorks 6 into OpenOffice 1.1.1, but with the Greek fonts. 
It's mainly with the accents and other diacritics in Greek, and with the vowel
pointing and accents in Hebrew.  I am increasingly convinced that it has
something to do with how OpenOffice is handling fonts, and others have posted
similar conclusions in forums used by BibleWorks fans.  

The fonts in question are available here:  http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html
Comment 5 lohmaier 2004-10-17 23:59:45 UTC 
no problem on linux (see screenshot); Windows only problem -> same problem as
issue 26466 -> fixed with issue 21821
duplicate.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 21821 ***
Comment 6 lohmaier 2004-10-18 00:07:31 UTC 
Created attachment 18472 [details]
the sample document opened with OOo on linux -> no problem
Comment 7 lohmaier 2004-10-18 00:11:31 UTC 
If the screenshot does not show the desired characters/formatting please reopen
this issue.
You can check whether this issue is fixed by trying the developer snapshot from
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

Solution for now: 
* Either use unicode-fonts, 
* OOo on linux or 
* the developer snapshots (may be unstable, crash, loose data... - don't use
this for productional work)