Bug 72713 - WordPerfect documents don't import correctly
Summary: WordPerfect documents don't import correctly
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Reported: 2013-12-14 17:41 UTC by Elliott Seyler
Modified: 2014-01-08 21:34 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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A wordperfect document with a pleading-paper template applied as a border (23.84 KB, application/wordperfect)
2013-12-14 17:41 UTC, Elliott Seyler
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Description Elliott Seyler 2013-12-14 17:41:38 UTC
Created attachment 90779 [details]
A wordperfect document with a pleading-paper template applied as a border

On LibreOffice for Mac, wordperfect documents with a pleading-paper border (an example file has been attached) do not display the border. The border should appear to be two lines on the left margin, with numbers down the left side of the lines. This does not display, leaving only the content within the margins. When I open the same file in Linux, I get nothing but gibberish characters. 

Linux system: Arch Linux, up-to-date as of 12/14/2013, LibreOffice 4.1.3. 
Mac system: OS X 10.8, up to date as of 12/13/2013, LibreOffice 4.1.3.
WordPerfect on friend's system, v11 (I think). File attached contains just the pleading-paper border, nothing else.
Comment 1 retired 2013-12-14 23:02:06 UTC
Confirming that I don't see any border when opening the test file. I don't have WordPerfect so can't check if any border shows there. This is the first WordPerfect document I've seen in real live - didn't know that software was being used.

Setting to NEW.
Comment 2 David Tardon 2014-01-07 12:28:07 UTC
> When I open the same file in Linux, I get nothing but gibberish
> characters. 

That is a sign that you do not have the filter installed.

Anyway, I think we already import everything that is possible from WordPerfect documents...
Comment 3 Elliott Seyler 2014-01-08 20:01:14 UTC
Leaving aside the filter/Linux issue, it appears that when the document is
first converted to a Word doc, the numbering is displayed as comments. This
leads me to believe that the numbering is being stored in something akin to
comments, and the fact that LibreOffice can't read comments from
WordPerfect documents possibly explains the problem.


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:28 AM, <bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org> wrote:

>  David Tardon <dtardon@redhat.com> changed bug 72713<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72713>
>  What Removed Added  CC   dtardon@redhat.com, fridrich.strba@bluewin.ch
>
>  *Comment # 2 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72713#c2> on
> bug 72713 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72713> from David
> Tardon <dtardon@redhat.com> *
>
> > When I open the same file in Linux, I get nothing but gibberish
> > characters.
>
> That is a sign that you do not have the filter installed.
>
> Anyway, I think we already import everything that is possible from WordPerfect
> documents...
>
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Comment 4 Fridrich Strba 2014-01-08 21:32:40 UTC
OK, several things:
1) Document is declared corrupted by the wplook.exe introspection tool, but this is nothing to bother us since we are great at handling the corruption.
2) The document is empty, only that it has line-numbers as watermark which libwpd is not supporting.
Comment 5 Elliott Seyler 2014-01-08 21:34:31 UTC
Yeah, the document is empty. It had sensitive content in it which I removed
in a fresh copy of WordPerfect.


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:32 PM, <bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org> wrote:

>  Fridrich Strba <fridrich.strba@bluewin.ch> changed bug 72713<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72713>
>  What Removed Added  Status NEW RESOLVED  Resolution --- NOTABUG
>
>  *Comment # 4 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72713#c4> on
> bug 72713 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72713> from
> Fridrich Strba <fridrich.strba@bluewin.ch> *
>
> OK, several things:
> 1) Document is declared corrupted by the wplook.exe introspection tool, but
> this is nothing to bother us since we are great at handling the corruption.
> 2) The document is empty, only that it has line-numbers as watermark which
> libwpd is not supporting.
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