Hi all

We've discovered that a bug fix to OOo's document export to ODF has made 
certain writer documents saved with version 3.0 to appear to loose text when 
you load the document in 2.x, even if you change the ODF format version 
to "1.0/1.1 (Openoffice 2.x)".

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=96878

The issue has been closed because the problem with Writer 2.x loading the 
document would need to be fixed in OOo 2.x, which is no longer supported 
(comment by Éric Savary). 

So if we won't fix 2.x, what do we do for 3.x users - who we do support - to 
help them save documents in a way that can be read when sent to 2.x users? 
2.x is not going to go away overnight. I'm looking at this problem on behalf 
of an organisation with 10,000 OOo installs on several OSes. As a result of 
this bug they are talking about trying to upgrade to 3.0 everywhere, but that 
will not happen all at once, and even then there will be the need to exchange 
documents with other 2.x users.

So given the above, would the best way forward be to work on a way to export 
documents using the UI in a way that OOo 2.x can read properly? I wonder if 
the ODF format version option "1.0/1.1 (Openoffice 2.x)" needs to be changed 
too, since it is misleading because it implies that choosing this option 
would create documents that OOo 2.x can actually read.

Chris

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