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FS#18376 - [openoffice-base] openoffice-base-devel broken Word document export

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Michal (broch) - Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 19:25 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 12 April 2010, 03:39 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
after opening Word document with tables, editing and saving again as Word doc, openoffice loses all tables.

tested in
openoffice-base-3.2.0-1
openoffice-base-devel-3.3_dev300_m70-1

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.
Arch i686,
OS updated 02-17-10


Steps to reproduce:
open word document with tables, edit save in doc format. All tables are lost
This task depends upon

Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Monday, 12 April 2010, 03:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Comment by Michal (broch) - Thursday, 18 February 2010, 14:38 GMT
it seems that there is a solution to my problem (suggested at Arch forums by whaler http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=91398):
I added
export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde4
to my .bashrc
and this entry seems to be responsible for disappearing tables in MS word documents. After removing
export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde4
everything went back to normal. I am able to safely work with MS word documents with tables. This is still a bug, but at least openoffice works with this workaround.

In contrast to what whaler suggested I did not have to modify/create /etc/profile.d/openoffice.sh (this file does not exist on my system). I did not have to set export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=GNOME

So removing export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde4 from ~/.bashrc was sufficient.

I hope that this is going to be useful information in fixing this bug.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 18 February 2010, 21:35 GMT
if kde4 integration is broken please file an upstream issue.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 18 March 2010, 19:07 GMT
any news? how's the behavior in openoffice-base-devel? if you don't report it upstream it won't get fixed.
Comment by Michal (broch) - Thursday, 18 March 2010, 19:31 GMT
my fault, I am sorry. I submitted this bug today:

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=110232

Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 10 April 2010, 10:26 GMT
Upstream got closed. Can we do the same?
Comment by Michal (broch) - Monday, 12 April 2010, 01:09 GMT
Sorry,
of course, close this bug. They (upstream) ask for an example document that is causing problems. I can't give the original and need to create similar one that will be similarly formatted. Unfortunately I am having some issues with generating my version of document with similar formatting.

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