Hi Owen, Owen Davies wrote:
> I have been looking into the problem of open office with Microsoft > office files and wasn't sure where to write this. It's coding related, > but I haven't done any code. > > There are two major problems when converting / opening Microsoft word > files which causes the layout to be different, which is a major > annoyance for many people, especially when it changes the number of pages. > > ----- > > The first is a rounding problem, Microsoft office rounds up percentages > calculations, where Open Office rounds down. An example, > > I have an open office document which I exported as a Microsoft office > document. They should be the same, but the page count is different. > > For the spacing between lines, OO is 11px, whereas MO is 12px. > > Another occurrence of this in the same document is the spacing above and > below paragraphs, which for MO is 1px greater. > > I assume, that when it calculates the line spacing in relating to the > text size, it produces a float which is then rounded differently for OO > or MO, though this explanation could be wrong. > > ----- > > The second fault is after a table, the font formatting tags appear to go > wrong, and so in the OO document, the blank line after tables might be, > for example, font 10px, whereas the MO version will have been put the > the paragprah default, of 12px. > > ----- > > I hope you could forward this information on to the appropriate section. The best idea would be to submit bug reports with example documents attached. This way it would get the biggest attention from the developers. Pulling out bug reports from mailing lists usually is too cumbersome and time consuming. If you want to submit a bug report please go to http://qa.openoffice.org Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
