Bug 75281 - FILEOPEN: table cell text hidden in .DOC and .RTF
Summary: FILEOPEN: table cell text hidden in .DOC and .RTF
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
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Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: filter:doc, filter:rtf
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Blocks: DOC-Tables RTF-Paragraph
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Reported: 2014-02-20 21:53 UTC by Milos Sramek
Modified: 2023-04-28 11:50 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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files demonstrating the problem (450.82 KB, application/zip)
2014-02-20 21:55 UTC, Milos Sramek
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screenshot (86.08 KB, image/png)
2015-07-19 05:37 UTC, tommy27
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tdf75281_minimal.doc: reduced test created by MSO2003 (27.00 KB, application/msword)
2017-10-13 10:31 UTC, Justin L
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The original DOCX file in Word 2013 and current Writer (213.28 KB, image/png)
2022-01-27 23:15 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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The original DOC file in Word 2013 and current Writer (208.08 KB, image/png)
2022-01-27 23:15 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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The original RTF file in Word 2013 and current Writer (215.75 KB, image/png)
2022-01-27 23:21 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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Description Milos Sramek 2014-02-20 21:53:53 UTC
Hi,

I attach file original.doc with table - if opened, the left cell in the last but one line (cell AA) is empty, but should not be. It is perhaps problem with versioning - see the following text.

This was observed in LO 4.2.1.1, but also in LO41, LO40 and even Apache OO40.

The text, which should be displayed there is "Počet realizovaných patentov, nových technológií, predaných licencií a pod." (see the attached PDF)

I can, however, display some text in the cell by the following procedure:
1. click in the table and hit CTRL-A twice to highlight the table
2. Using the Drop down menu set the style to "WW-Základný text 21" - some text appears in the AA cell
3. Hit CTRL-M - even more text appears in the AA cell, but it is not the same text as in the PDF file.

The text which appears is: "Počet realizovaných patentov, nových technológií, predaných licencií a pod.patentov, nových technológií, predaných licencií ap.patentov, nových technológií, predaných licencií ap."

Not only that - The text in the last line is different now:
Instead of 
"Školiteľ skončených ašpirantov/doktorandov (počet)" 
I can see there 
"Školiteľ skončených ašpirantov/doktorandov (počet) Počet realizovaných patentov, nových technológií, predaných licencií ap.
Pedagogická činnosť  (počet hodín ročne):"

See the attached screenshot LOTableBug.png

I've tried to investigate the problem deeper. I've converted the doc file in Microsoft Office 2013 to docx, rtf and odt (attached). Then I viewed the source - inside in all of them I was able to find both the correct and incorrect string.

Thus, I assume, that this is a problem with versioning (or something similar) in the document (neither MS Office nor Libreoffice shows any versions or revisions) - LO displays the incorrect version.

The table behaves strange in general - if different paragraph styles are applied, text in different cells vanishes - this is perhaps another problem

--
Milos
Comment 1 Milos Sramek 2014-02-20 21:55:21 UTC
Created attachment 94457 [details]
files demonstrating the problem
Comment 2 Thomas van der Meulen [retired] 2014-03-22 19:39:36 UTC
Thank you for your bug report, I can reproduce this bug running 
Version: 4.2.3.1
Build ID: 3d4fc3d9dbf8f4c0aeb61498a81f91c5b7922f13
OS: Mac osx 10.9.2

I have compared it with Microsoft word 2007 on Windows 7 and there the text is shown.
Comment 3 tommy27 2014-07-16 04:30:03 UTC
tested under Win7x64
issue confirmed in OOo 3.3.0, LibO 4.2.5.2 and yesterday 4.4 daily master build
bug is inherited from OOo
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2015-07-18 17:44:33 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 tommy27 2015-07-19 05:37:33 UTC
Created attachment 117322 [details]
screenshot

I confirm issue under Win8.1 x64 using LibO 4.4.5.1

the issue persists with the .DOC and .RTF files from attachment 94457 [details]

if I use LibO 5.1.0.0 alpha the .DOC rendering is even worse (see screenshot) while the .RTF bug remains the same.

interestingly the .DOCX version is correctly rendered in both versions
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2016-09-20 10:18:38 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Milos Sramek 2016-09-25 20:36:20 UTC
I can confirm same behavior still in Version: 5.3.0.0.alpha0+
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Comment 8 Telesto 2016-12-12 20:40:41 UTC
Still repro with:
Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 33f5bc54aaa7fe7aa9335726e30f9c349155e04d
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Windows 6.2; UI Render: default; 
TinderBox: Win-x86@62-merge-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2016-12-01_23:21:05
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); Calc: CL
Comment 9 Justin L 2017-10-13 10:31:20 UTC
Created attachment 136950 [details]
tdf75281_minimal.doc: reduced test created by MSO2003

I wonder if this document is somehow corrupt. In this minimal test, if the first cell is selected and any change is made to the character font properties, then the document works fine. For example, if in MSO you make A1's contents bold, then A2's contents become visible in LO.

I don't think that it is worth investigating this particular bug.
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2018-10-14 02:57:48 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete, spam)
Comment 11 QA Administrators 2020-10-14 04:30:43 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2022-01-27 23:15:01 UTC
Created attachment 177852 [details]
The original DOCX file in Word 2013 and current Writer

It seems to work in DOCX and DOC formats, but not in RTF.

Version: 7.4.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: eb69767d7c1bb8e6e780fd9503f08c9d7f5ecb45
CPU threads: 13; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19042; UI render: default; VCL: win
Locale: hu-HU (hu_HU); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

What we see is style inheritance: Normal paragraph style has some font effects enabled: Strikethrough, Shadow, Small caps and Hidden. Most of the document got rid of these by direct formatting.
Some parts are using the Body Text 2 style which overrides and disables these. In DOC and DOCX this works fine (at least nowadays).
Comment 13 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2022-01-27 23:15:42 UTC
Created attachment 177853 [details]
The original DOC file in Word 2013 and current Writer

Looks pretty much the same.
Comment 14 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2022-01-27 23:21:57 UTC
Created attachment 177854 [details]
The original RTF file in Word 2013 and current Writer

RTF does not import the override of disabling the previously enabled font attributes in the paragraph style inheriting from Normal.
Similar happens with the Heading 1 and Heading 3 style paragraphs which are the first three title lines of the page.