| Summary: | Table distroyed when saving as MS Word 6.0 | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Nikos Platis <nplatis> |
| Component: | Writer | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | jbfaure, LibreOffice |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.5.1 release | ||
| Hardware: | x86-64 (AMD64) | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
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| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Attachments: | Example | ||
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Description
Nikos Platis
2012-03-25 12:29:48 UTC
Created attachment 59035 [details]
Example
Some brightest star from 'developers' probably messed up encodings again.
I confirm the problem with export in MS-Word-6 format. But I have 2 comments: 1/ this format should not be used as export format because it is an unsupported very old format 2/ MS-Word-6 format id not the default format when you save a document with a doc extension. Try this: + open a new document + type some text + click on save button + type a name with .doc extension without choosing a file format and validate So you get the alert on file format which ask you to keep MS-Word 97/2000/XP/2003 format or to use OpenDocument Format. If you want to save in MS-Word-6, you need to choose it explicitly. I suggest to close this bug as WontFix because of too old and unsupported target format. @Rainer: what do you think about that? Best regards. JBF (In reply to comment #2) > 2/ MS-Word-6 format id not the default format when you save a document with a > doc extension. Try this: > + open a new document > + type some text > + click on save button > + type a name with .doc extension without choosing a file format and > validate > So you get the alert on file format which ask you to keep MS-Word > 97/2000/XP/2003 format or to use OpenDocument Format. > If you want to save in MS-Word-6, you need to choose it explicitly. Unfortunately, this was not the case for me: On Arch Linux x86_64 with libreoffice-kde4 package installed, when I type a filename with .doc extension the file type changes to "Microsoft Word 6.0 (.doc)". > > I suggest to close this bug as WontFix because of too old and unsupported > target format. I strongly disagree. If Word 6 exists as an export format, it should not be dangerous to use! This bug implies a data loss when a document is saved in Word 6 format, which is, in my opinion, unacceptable. If you can't support it, just drop it altogether. Jean-Baptiste Faure, Nikos Platis I believe indeed the appropriate is to drop WORD6 Export. I suggest some discussion during the next TSC call. (In reply to comment #4) > Jean-Baptiste Faure, Nikos Platis > > I believe indeed the appropriate is to drop WORD6 Export. I suggest some > discussion during the next TSC call. I agree, it was what I had in mind when I suggested to close this bug report. Same thing with old staroffice formats (.sdw, etc.) Best regards. JBF Does it work fine saving to word97 asks Caolan ? :-) It works correctly, the table is not destroyed (as I mentioned in my original report). Splitting the KDE file-picker bug off as bug#48054 - most likely fixing this would solve most of the problem, we don't want to use those ancient lossy formats if we can avoid it. Bug# 48054 fixed in kdelibs. That filter was put out of misery recently. |