On 08/11/2011 06:44 AM, Dave Sergeant wrote: > On 11 Aug 2011 at 12:35, Charlie wrote: > >> > How much experience of people had of Works import and does it actually >> > work, or is it as I seem to be finding rather buggy? >> >> No problem here using V 3.3.3 running on Ubuntu (that's the latest >> version for Ubuntu). See samples at >> www.writersedgeservice.com/filebrowser/proposalsfiction.asp . Formatting >> was fine. >> > > Thanks Charlie for that. I have just updated to 3.4.2 to see if that > would change things, but it did not. And yes, I DO have the legacy > filters installed, which you need for the old .sxw etc formats but I > don't think they are needed for Works. > > The documents on writersedge were in fact the ones I had found myself. > There are three .wps files on there, and these all open fine, complete > with formatting, bolding etc in MS Word Viewer. > > In LO 3.4.2: > cad7593009.wps - opens blank, if I look at the properties pane it > claims it has 1 page with 0 characters. > fot4813409.wps and mot6312910.wps open correctly as plain text but all > the bolding, italics, paragraph indents, and other formatting is > missing. They look totally different from how they do in Wordview. > > I wonder if it has changed between v3.3 and v3.4 or maybe it is a > Windows issue? ... It's not a Windows issue... I've tested using OOo 3.2.1 (go-oo based), LO 3.3.3, and LO 3.4.2 - all linux, and get the same results in 3.4.2. OOo 3.2.1 and LO 3.3.3 opens cad7593009.wps (albeit without detailed formating). So I reckon that you've found a bug - please file a bug report using those files as examples.
-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
