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** Description changed: Binary package hint: openoffice.org + + 1) lsb_release -rd + Description: Ubuntu 10.10 + Release: 10.10 + + 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer + libreoffice-writer: + Installed: 1:3.3.1-1ubuntu3~maverick1 + Candidate: 1:3.3.1-1ubuntu3~maverick1 + Version table: + *** 1:3.3.1-1ubuntu3~maverick1 0 + 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages + 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 OOO330m20 (Build:9567) - The document opens in portrait with OpenOffice Writer, with the tables - spilling out of the page. + 3) What is expected to happen is when one opens attached file at the + Terminal: - See attachments. + cd ~/Desktop && wget + https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/710812/+attachment/1820157/+files/try_bad_in_OpenOfficeWriter.docx + && lowriter -nologo try_bad_in_OpenOfficeWriter.docx + + it looks as it would in Abiword or Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003. + + 4) What happened instead is the document opens in portrait with + OpenOffice Writer & LibreOffice Writer, with the tables spilling out of + the page horizontally. + + WORKAROUND: Open in Abiword or Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003 via + WINE sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa && sudo apt-get -y + update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y install wine1.2 ** Tags added: lo33 ** Changed in: libreoffice Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/710812 Title: Word 2007 document with landscape pages opened in portrait page orientation -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
