Hi Sven,
I cannot decide if we should treat that or not.
Although the users apply the fix to Office XP - Office 2000 seems no longer
supported - following information below, existing documents in their file
server will remain. Opening them with not-yet-treated OpenOffice.org will
sometimes give the users a bad experiences. They can manually fix the direction
of the affected images one by one on OpenOffice.org by simple choosing a
context menu 'Flip - Vertically.' However, there is no chance to fix them when
the document files are processed by a server process of OpenOffice.org on their
application servers.
According to their Help and Support page
"Pictures in documents that were created in an earlier version of Office appear
flipped in Office XP and Office 2003"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312838
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312838/en-us/
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B312838&x=13&y=15
They seem to admit that the symptom is cased by a bug in Office and provide
users with information for both sides: creation side, Office 2000 and XP, and
affecting side, Office 2003.
=== cited from the web page above ===
This problem occurs when you open documents that were created in the following
versions of Microsoft Office:
* Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 1 (SR-1)
* Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2)
* Microsoft Office 2000
* Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1)
These earlier versions of Microsoft Office ignore the FlipVertical and
FlipHorizontal properties when you open a document. This is why this problem
does not appear to occur in the earlier versions of Office.
However, because Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Office 2003 read these
properties when you open a document, the images appear flipped, even if that
was not the original intent of the author.
Note This problem may occur even if the picture does not appear flipped, but
the flipped properties are set. This can occur when you drag the handles of an
image past the image boundary in Office 97 SR-1, Office 97 SR-2, and Office
2000. In Office 2000 SR-1 and Office XP, when you drag the handles of an image
past the image boundary, the image visually flips and the flipped properties
are set.
=== end of citation ===
Best,
Tora
Sven Jacobi wrote:
Christan is right, we should stay with the latest Office version, if they
are now supporting flipped graphics objects, then we have to support
this feature also. If now old Office versions generate wrong documents,
by setting the SP_FLIP flags (without flipping the graphic), then
perhaps this is a bug and this old Office should be patched or updated
to a newer one. There is nothing we can do.
Best regards,
Sven
Christian Lippka - Sun Microsystems GmbH - Hamburg wrote:
Hi Tora,
than this is a bug in Microsoft Office, most likely in the Mac
version. OpenOffice.org can
do nothing about it.
Regards,
Christian
tora - Takamichi Akiyama wrote:
Hi Christian,
I have just opened the proprietary bugdoc (step 1 to 3 have been
already done), which was provided by the customer before, with Office
2007 English running on Vista English.
Result:
The image is shown in a vertically flipped way.
All images except the problematic image are shown properly.
The bugdoc seemed to be edited with Office 2000 Japanese on Windows
Japanese.
I am trying to ask the customer to prepare a bugdoc which can be
attached in the Issue Tracker.
Regards,
Tora
Christian Lippka - Sun Microsystems GmbH - Hamburg wrote:
Hi Tora,
is the error also reproducable if you do the following?
1. Create a PowerPoint file with Office 2007 Windows.
2. Open it with Office 2000 Macintosh.
3. Edit it and save it.
4. Open it with Office 2007 on Windows
Regards,
Christian
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