Issue 3145 - File imported from Word produces ghostscript-incompatible .ps file when printed
Summary: File imported from Word produces ghostscript-incompatible .ps file when printed
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 3002
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: 641
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: michael.ruess
QA Contact: issues@sw
URL:
Keywords:
: 3303 (view as issue list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-02-19 17:20 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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

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OpenOffice document containing the offending dot (6.69 KB, application/octet-stream)
2002-02-19 17:21 UTC, Unknown 		no flags Details
Non-printing postscript file produced from the above .sxw (4.98 KB, application/octet-stream)
2002-02-19 17:22 UTC, Unknown 		no flags Details
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Description Unknown 2002-02-19 17:20:34 UTC 
Hi,

I imported a Word document and tried to print it from OpenOffice 641C, and it
produced a ghostscript error.  Deleting some sections allowed it to print. 
Through the process of elimination, I've narrowed the non-printing part down to
a single dot :)

I'm attaching the resultant .sxw file and the .ps file produced by print-to-file
in OpenOffice.
Comment 1 Unknown 2002-02-19 17:21:18 UTC 
Created attachment 1066 [details]
OpenOffice document containing the offending dot
Comment 2 Unknown 2002-02-19 17:22:13 UTC 
Created attachment 1067 [details]
Non-printing postscript file produced from the above .sxw
Comment 3 stefan.baltzer 2002-02-22 14:05:06 UTC 
Reassigned to Michael.
Comment 4 michael.ruess 2002-03-04 15:29:14 UTC 
*** Issue 3303 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 5 michael.ruess 2002-03-04 16:02:49 UTC 
It looks, that some printer drivers have a problem when a document
contains characters formatted with the "Symbol" Font. I noticed this
problem also on Windows, when printing with different applications
(Writer, MS Word). Especially HP-Printers seem to have problems with
the symbol font on PS-drivers (with Lexmark-printers e.g. it printed
fine). So I think this is not an OpenOffice related issue.
Comment 6 Unknown 2002-03-04 16:11:37 UTC 
Exactly the same file prints fine (to the a ghostscript-compatible ps
file or a postscript printer) from MS Word, and was produced in a
trivial manner using normal MS Word commands.  Thus the problem is
OpenOffice-specific.

If files like this don't work in OpenOffice, it could mean serious MS
Office interoperability problems - which would be a shame, since we're
already so close.

I suggest working around this in any way necessary, even if it
involves changing all bullets/symbols into 8-balls like old versions
of StarOffice used to do.  At least then the files would print, even
if they looked funny.

Thanks,

Avery
Comment 7 michael.ruess 2002-03-05 08:52:25 UTC 
Not exactly. I printed from MS Word to file with a Laserjet 5MP PS
driver, and Ghostscript was not able do process this file. So I am not
sure, that this is really an OpenOffice issue.
Comment 8 michael.ruess 2002-04-26 11:00:17 UTC 
Added PL to cc.
Comment 9 michael.ruess 2002-04-26 11:00:42 UTC 
MRU->PL: Do you have an idea about this issue?
Comment 10 philipp.lohmann 2002-04-26 11:11:24 UTC 
fixed in 641d

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 3002 ***
Comment 11 michael.ruess 2002-04-26 11:20:06 UTC 
So the problem is fixed with 641d and is also double to another one,
I'll close it.