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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Thu Feb 4 13:06:23 +0000 2010 ------- Here are the steps for demonstrating the issue that were performed with the files in the attached tarball (ootest.tar.gz). I also added these steps to the attached file. Demonstrating Issue 107841 of Openoffice writer =============================================== RTL documents lose correct directionality when exported ------------------------------------------------------- Reported by Amit Ramon, [email protected] 0. start swriter (version 3.20 320m8 rc1) 1. In the new document type a word in Hebrew. Right-click on it and open the Paragraph Style for the Default style, go to Alignment. This is what I see: * Options: Left * Properties/Text direction: Use subordinate object settings 2. Change Text direction to "Right-to-left". In Options it is changed automatically to "Right". 3. Save original.odt 4. Save as doc1.doc, word 97/2000 5. Close doc1.doc 6. Open doc1.doc. Now the text is aligned to the left! 7. Open the Paragraph Style for the Default style, go to Alignment: * Options: Left (was Right in the odt) * Properties/Text direction: "Right-to-left" 8. Press Cancel to close the dialog box. 9. Do Save as and save the document as doc2.doc. After saving the text is still left-aligned. 10. Close the file. 11. Open doc2.doc. Now the text is aligned to the right! 12. Open the Paragraph Style for the Default style, go to Alignment: * Options: Right (was Left when the file was last saved) * Properties/Text direction: "Right-to-left" To summarize: the Text direction is maintained, as it should be. The alignment is seems to be switched from Right to Left and vise verse when a file is opened. I believe that the alignment is changed when a file is opened since: * Right after saving the file looks okay. * In Microsoft Word (2007) the file looks as it was when it was saved (either left or right aligned). * If I do successive "save as" and create a couple of doc files, close them, then open, they all show the same alignment after opening (which is opposite to what it was just before they were closed). The above was demonstrated on a Debian Gnu/Linux Squeeze, with a Openoffice that was installed from the official openoffice site. However, the same happens with the openoffice package that comes with Debian. The locale was en_US.UTF-8. It also seems that the problem does not happen with documents that contain only Latin characters. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
