So that clown vmiklos cannot grasp the concept of multilingual fonts in DOC/RTF after _more than a year_? Pathetic.

Should we make a fundrasing to buy him a normal office suite so he could practice?

Thank you very much for your bug report!

More or less REPRODUCIBLE with
* LibreOffice 3.5.5.3 (Build ID: 7122e39-92ed229-498d286-15e43b4-d70da21)
* LibreOffice 3.6.0.1 (Build ID: 73f9fb6)
both with German langpack installed and running on MacOS X 10.6.8 (Intel).

> Opens with black boxes at the top,
To be precise, "at the top" are the boxes only when I view the document with LibO 3.5.5.3; in LibO 3.6.0.1, the boxes appear black (wrong) but are probably placed at the correct position (bottom of first page and end of document).

> ugly spacing throughout the document
We should try to express this more precisely; IMHO the lines of text and objects on page 1 take too much room (more than in MS Office, or whatever application was used to create this form), therefore the final lines of the address data flow to page 2 and three; and again, the table on (original) page 2 takes more room in LibreOffice than probably in the original application, therefore the last lines of (original) page 2 flow to page 5.

So we have mostly two problems here:
(1) a problem with the boxes which appear with black background;
(2) a problem with the total size of lines and tables; probably the tables appear bigger in LibreOffice than in the original application.


@mikchen@live.com:
Thank you again for your bug report! Do you know which application was used to create this form (that would be good to know)?

@Urmas:
> the concept of multilingual fonts in DOC/RTF
IMHO it is not obvious why this is a problem with "multilingual fonts in DOC/RTF". If you happen to know the reason of the problems with this file, could you please state briefly what's wrong here with the handling of multilingual fonts, and why this does lead to the visible problems? Thank you.

Created attachment 64310 [details]
Sample document in AOO 3.4 on MacOS X 10.6.8, page 1-2

(In reply to comment #0)
> Expected behavior:
> Opens normally. Note: Opens normally on OpenOffice.org3.3

But the spacing is "ungly" and probably wrong in Apache OpenOffice (AOO) 3.4, too; or, if the spacing which AOO shows, is correct, then the spacing in LibreOffice is not that bad, too, and only partially wrong. See the attached screenshot of page 1-2 in AOO.

Thanks for the reply Roman. 

Sorry, I'm not sure which program created this. I could try copying it into the TextEdit program and saving again. 

One thing that may be of interest is that I changed the font of the title, and it seemed to remove the boxes (spacing issues in the boxes were still there). I thought it might be a font replacement issue, which is something different I have seen from 3.3 to 3.5.

Created attachment 64353 [details]
Screenshot of page 1 and 2 viewed with MS Office 2010

(In reply to comment #4)
> Sorry, I'm not sure which program created this.
No problem -- I just asked because there was a chance that you knew it. ;-) So let's assume that the file was probably created with Microsoft Office.

> One thing that may be of interest is that I changed the font of the title, and
> it seemed to remove the boxes (spacing issues in the boxes were still there). I
> thought it might be a font replacement issue,
This is possible; I can't tell.

*

I wondered how this document is _supposed_ to look, and therefore borrowed a Win 7 machine with MS Office 2010. I attach the screenshot of page 1-2 (the image was created from two screenshots, therefore don't care for the strange look of the vertical scrollbar ;-).

IMHO the page layout is strange even in MS Office (see the table reaching from page 1 to 2 and therefore split in the middle of a row!). Maybe I have damaged the formatting of the 1st title line by accident, but this does not explain the layout problems. Whoever created this document obviously did not care for resizing/reflowing text issues (a form used to apply for seminars which cost $500 for 4 days could look a bit more professional ;-).

But this is not our problem. What I want to say is that we should concentrate on fixing the "black boxes" problem and on the inexplicable extra page break before the
    "www.hknc.org             ntthknc@hknc.org"
line; the overall spacing and page layout is IMHO a minor problem, because the page layout is not correct even in MS Office.

Created attachment 64354 [details]
Screenshot of page 3 viewed with MS Office 2010

Hello Miklós,

this is the bug report I have mentioned in my mail. Please take a look at it. Thank you very much in advance! Best,

Roman

add regression, rtf_filter annotations.

Created attachment 64359 [details]
rtf file when viewed on TextEdit, Mac, looks normal

Created attachment 64360 [details]
rtf file when viewed on TextEdit, Mac, looks normal page 2,3

oh wow, looks like MS office still has spacing issues. I attached rtf files using TextEdit on Mac to open, seems to look the best.

Miklos Vajna committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=173d769a9d32af83ea75dcf4d23b7663a5f19cb9

fdo#52066 fix RTF import of rectangle shape without text in it

Hi kaloramik,

So the biggest problem I see is the black boxes, that should be now fixed in master. I'll request cherry-pick to -3-6 and -3-5 soon. If there are any remaining issues, please let's deal with it in a separate bugreport.

Thanks,

Miklos

Miklos Vajna committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-6":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=0c1de6d3d6320f91770967d1b23c8dd57d168fe7&g=libreoffice-3-6

fdo#52066 fix RTF import of rectangle shape without text in it


It will be available in LibreOffice 3.6.1.

Miklos Vajna committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-5":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=b8e664a17abac2cad8aae9909dbd8c2da3d8557c&g=libreoffice-3-5

fdo#52066 fix RTF import of rectangle shape without text in it


It will be available in LibreOffice 3.5.6.

Cool! Thanks!

(In reply to comment #15)
> Miklos Vajna committed a patch related to this issue.
> It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-5": [...]
> It will be available in LibreOffice 3.5.6.

Wow -- this was a fast fix! Thank you very much, Miklos! And thank you even more for pushing it also to both 3.6 and 3.5 branches!

(In reply to comment #13)
> So the biggest problem I see is the black boxes, that should be now fixed in
> master. I'll request cherry-pick to -3-6 and -3-5 soon.

VERIFIED FIXED with LibreOffice 3.6.1.1 (Build ID: 4db6344) on MacOS X 10.6.8 (Intel): no black boxes anymore. Thank you again!