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I don’t think this is an old version of LO. I suspect it was written in word,
then the pdf produced, then the Open Document version created from the PDF. I
have both the PDF and the ODT versions. There is no HTML version.
I can’t use the PERL script. I don’t know PERL and I suspect by the time I was
confident enough to try I could have cut and pasted everything I need manually!
I put the PDF through an online converter and got a very clean DOCX version, so
that at least is a start. The document uses page styles. What I find confusing
is that the original ODT version has 91 custom page styles for 47 pages. The
DOCX version has only 39 page styles, which still seems a lot. It isn’t
something I use a lot though, so I don’t know if this is normal or an artefact
of the conversion. It doesn’t appear to use footers, but text in a frame fixed
to the bottom by inserting enough line breaks. Again this may be from the
conversion.
To put this in context, this is a policy document from a public body,
originally issued for information in PDF and ODT formats. Both versions use
columns, which makes reading onscreen a bit of a nightmare. It also includes
tables split across columns and also across pages, without repeating headers.
All in all I get the impression that the original document layout is a bit
kludged together. While that may be a feature of the conversion, given the mess
the ODT file is in, I can’t see any benefit from providing it, other than
ticking an accessibility box and if tested would probably fail. I can’t see a
screen reader making much sense of it.
Side topic from my original problem but the UK government guidance on
accessible formats is
here:https://www.gov.uk/guidance/publishing-accessible-documents
Sent fromMailfor Windows
From:Steve EdmondsSent:04 July 2022
20:50To:[email protected]:Re: [libreoffice-users] Badly
formatted document
Is it possible it is an old document from an earlier version of LO.
A while back the way LO anchored images (and frames) was changed, images
<p class=MsoNormal>in tables were particularly affected throwing out text
positioning also
and I had to go through all my manuals and change my image anchoring to
"as character".
On 05/07/2022 04:59, Ian Bertram wrote:
> I have been sent a graphic heavy document in ODT format. However it looks as
> if it has been badly converted from a pdf file. The layout is scrambled,
> headers don’t align properly and there are a host of other issues. It is also
> in columns. Is there a simple way to strip out everything bar the words? I
> have tried saving it as a txt file, but this loses a lot of the paragraph
> numbering and introduces other layout issues. Saving in rtf format is even
> worse.
>
>
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> The best I have managed so far has been by converting all the text to a
> single style and removing the columns. All the graphics however overlap text
> and it is often very difficult to find the anchor point.
>
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>
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> Sent fromMailfor Windows
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