https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65494
--- Comment #8 from [email protected] --- Confirmed buggy in 3.5.7 on ubuntu 12.04.3 Furthermore, strongly agree with comment#4 , there is a performance-bug here, simultaneous with the layout-corruption-bug. On my system, opening the original docx takes 33 seconds. Can somebody please test how long it takes to open in Aoo4, and in msftWord (please report office-version and OS-version). @Pierre, besides taking a pretty long time to load, when I did get it open, most pages looked good inside libreoffice 3.5.7 on ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS -- the worst broken were the first few pages (title page was missing some of the text and the table-of-contents was just outright blank). The 'real' content, the instructions on how to install the software and such, looked pretty decent. There was definitely some trouble with the font, however -- make sure you have installed the same fontfaces on both systems, which means, either have the msftWord system install the Libertine fonts, or install the msftTruetype fonts onto your Linux system. Somebody mentioned that your file looked best to them in OpenOffice 3.3.0 -- that is probably also still supported on Ubuntu 12.04.3 , but you might have difficulty getting it fully working -- something in the package seems to reference LibreOffice which seems incorrect. Another option you might consider is going really old-school, and downloading a copy of CentOS 5.5, which does support docx -- http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.5/html-single/Release_Notes/#id543727 (CentOS is a free-as-in-beer clone of RHEL.) Unfortunately, there is not much immediate help I can offer, besides telling you of a distro which you might be able to try out (that still offers support for older versions of OpenOffice -- which means you can install the distro onto a usbkey with something like the tool found here -- http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ -- and then boot into a distro that will work well with your particular problem-file. (You can also install one of these old-school distros as a guest-OS into some virtual machine software, if you have enough ram... which means no need to reboot in order to work with the problem-file.) I'd rather be able to say, hey, if the t-o-c is missing, that means you just need to change to heading-style-3 (or whatever). But if the corrupted-layout-bugs were that easy to work around, then they would already be fixed. Tracking down corruption-bugs is very hard, from what I can gather. Anyways, when you find documents that are buggy -- either ones that came from Word, and do not look right in LibreOffice, or ones that came from LibreOffice, and end up looking wrong when loaded into msftOffice, please keep filing bugs. It is appreciated, and it is the only way we can dig out of the compatibility hole. As for the future, besides filing bugs, it will help if you can get your coworkers to send you copies early and often. If they start out making a doc, and the first page looks terrible in LibreOffice, you can probably make a few trial-and-error changes, and figure out how to work around the trouble. But if they've already created all thirty pages, and gone through a week's worth of edits, who knows what particular edit(s) ended up breaking LibreOffice? That said, even if you find a workaround, please file a bug, so that the core app can be fixed so as not to *need* any workarounds. (Also, tell us what the workaround was, that might help somebody pinpoint the bug more quickly.) Thanks, and hope you find a way to make this particular problem-file work out. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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