Issue 50260 - Linux OO fails to open MS WordXP document - Windows version opens it successfully
Summary: Linux OO fails to open MS WordXP document - Windows version opens it successf...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: open-import (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1.4
Hardware: All Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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: 50287 (view as issue list)
Depends on: 53725
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Reported: 2005-06-03 00:48 UTC by sergeiste
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:19 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description sergeiste 2005-06-03 00:48:07 UTC 
I was trying to open a MS WordXP document created under Windows XP professional
by Linux OpenOffice 1.1.4. OpenOffice just hangs.

However, Windows version of OpenOffice 1.1.4 opens the document successfully.

Today's beta version of OpenOffice fails to open it undwer both Linux and
Windows.

The document can also be opened successfully by AbiWord 2.2.7 both under Linux
and Windows.

KOffice can open the document too, but fails to save it.

Linux failure occurs under Mandrake 10.1 and 10.2 - I'm using in all the cases
files downloaded through http://www.openoffice.org/ - not Mandrake RPMs.

Please let me know whether or not you need the document - it's a proprietary
file.

Thanks,
  Sergei.
Comment 1 sergeiste 2005-06-03 01:00:32 UTC 
Also, if I save the file even in MS WordXP format by OO1.1.4 under Windows or
by AbiWord, then the saved .doc file can be opened by Linux OO1.1.4.

So, open source wordprocessors kind of filter the cause of the problem
while saving the file.
Comment 2 sergeiste 2005-06-03 01:12:33 UTC 
While OO hangs CPU utilization is above 80% - the machine has 1GByte of RAM.

AbiWord has total memory consumption 81MBytes when the file is opened by it.
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2005-06-03 10:57:26 UTC 
Please send the document to mru@openoffice.org. We will handle it confidentially.
Feel free to reopen the issue when you have done so. Thanks for supporting us!
Comment 4 michael.ruess 2005-06-07 10:56:39 UTC 
Reopened issue, document has been delivered by Sergei.
Comment 5 michael.ruess 2005-06-07 10:57:38 UTC 
*** Issue 50287 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 6 michael.ruess 2005-06-07 11:16:39 UTC 
MRU->FLR: trying to open the document, you will get many assertions. First some
of type "open eithout close" and than while caught in loop "redline table
corrupted: overlapping redlines". Document will be forwarded by mail, so please
do not share it; it is confidential.
Comment 7 flr 2005-08-22 08:07:32 UTC 
flr->fme: On Windows (m121) the import is finished and then it looks like a loop
in the layout. Hbe verified the crash on linux - don't know the result yet.
Comment 8 frank.meies 2005-08-23 10:54:28 UTC 
FME->OD: Please have a look.
Comment 9 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann 2005-08-24 14:03:58 UTC 
Investigation by FR, FME and OD reveals, that the WW8 import has several problems:
(1) redline aren't imported corrected.
(2) floating tables, which are the only content inside a section, are wrongly
anchored.
(3) tables aren't correctly imported.

ad (2): issue i53725 submitted for this defect - add dependence.

Fixing all these defects for OOo 2.0.1 is too risky. Thus, this issue is
re-target to OOo later.
Comment 10 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann 2005-08-24 14:10:01 UTC 
OD->FLR: take over again
Comment 11 Mathias_Bauer 2006-08-30 15:29:31 UTC 
assigning to hbrinkm
Comment 12 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:19:38 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".