Created attachment 44003 [details] try_bad_in_OpenOfficeWriter.docx Downstream bug may be found at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/710812 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 10.10 Release: 10.10 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer libreoffice-writer: Installed: 1:3.3.1-1ubuntu3~maverick1 Candidate: 1:3.3.1-1ubuntu3~maverick1 Version table: *** 1:3.3.1-1ubuntu3~maverick1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) What is expected to happen is when one performs at the Terminal: cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/710812/+attachment/1820157/+files/try_bad_in_OpenOfficeWriter.docx && lowriter -nologo try_bad_in_OpenOfficeWriter.docx it looks as it would in Abiword or Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003. 4) What happened instead is the document opens in portrait with OpenOffice Writer & LibreOffice Writer, with the tables spilling out of the page horizontally.
Noel, can you handle that one? Feel free to reassign if needed
Unreproducible in LibreOffice 3.4.2. lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch) Release: 11.10 apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer libreoffice-writer: Installed: 1:3.4.2-2ubuntu2 Candidate: 1:3.4.2-2ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1:3.4.2-2ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status