On 05/20/2008 01:12 PM, Jerry Clancy wrote: > Jim, > > Good idea. The author is a good friend and wouldn't mind the doc being > posted for this purpose. Download it here: > http://www.billtrak.net/temp/EP_May_19_2008.doc. > He uses AGaramond for the logo, a non-std. font, so that may normally look > odd. In general the conversion isn't bad but a lot of extra spacing seems to > be added. > > Look at the main box to the right ("NJ Politics"). > > * There may be as many as three font shifts in each bulleted paragraph > (headline, body, link). > > * Too much space is added in the box so that part of the penultimate story > and the last one are lost, requiring elongation of the frame of reduction of > font size. Doing the former results is all sorts of frame repositionings. > > * The bullets are rendered in varying sizes. > > * Tabs are set where there are none in the substories (e.g., "> Pennachio > didn't report...". > > * The page 1 footer has rolled to the top of page 2, again the result of all > the extra spacing during the conversion, and this has a ripple effect as > well on the next page. > > I mitigate some of this by changing Default to 8 or 9pt. and Heading 1 to > 10pt but it often isn't enough. > > Actually, I am impressed with what does get converted but this spacing issue > is apparent in almost any Word file I import (and I set off all the "add > space" options in Writer) and were it solved the document would render > almost perfectly. > > Excepting the AGaramond font, all renders well in Word 2000 on another of > our boxes (but not the one with mail). > > Not a top priority at the moment so don't spend a lot of time at this. It > would be nice, though, to get a solution to this even if it's simply changes > to the default template. > > Jerry
I see exactly what you are talking about. I have two systems side-by-side; on the left I put up the doc in Word97 and on the right I put up the doc in OOo 2.4.0 (linux) and it's easy to spot the differences. If (on OOo) I resize the frame font sizes to 10 they seem to fit. And with some modifications to the hard tabs I can get it to look pretty much the same as the Windows MS Word version. However, I do notice that the AGaramond rendering on my linux is entirely incorrect, that is a font issue with my linux system as AGaramond shows up properly on my OOo Windows system. I'm not sure it you friend would mind - you'll need his permission first - but it might be worth filing a bug using that exact document, plus PDF's of both the MS Word and the OOo so that the developers can review and _possibly_ use for improving the 3.0 import filters. This is a perfect example of an MS Doc with a "Text Box" converted into a Frame that is not converting properly: no embeded graphics, simple text w/bullets and a few tab stops. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
