Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 6008
Writer: automatically split too tall rows over multiple pages
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:56:16 UTC
When opening a document composed with Microsoft Word 97 that contains many frames, part of the document does not appears in the word processor, and instead, the cursor is allowed to go beyond the end the page, at a place where the missing text is. The format of the document is also not preserved as in the original Microsoft Word document. This happens with the dcument encoded as .rtf by Word97 or as in .doc native format. I have no place to put the document online but I would with pleasure provide the example files that are needed to analyze this bug, very annoying when exchanging files with Microsoft Word users. Nicolas Pettiaux
Hello Nicolas. Can you try attaching the example files to this issue? There is a "Create a new attachment" link which you can use to upload files to this ticket.
Created attachment 2202 [details] Example of a file that is not readable till the end
Created attachment 2203 [details] Example of a file that is not readable till the end in Microsoft word 97 format
Created attachment 2204 [details] Example of a file that is not readable till the end in Microsoft word 97 format
Created attachment 2205 [details] Example of a file that is not readable till the end in Microsoft word 97 format
Created attachment 2206 [details] Example of a file that is not readable till the end in Microsoft word 97 format
Created attachment 2207 [details] Example of a file that is not readable till the end in Microsoft word 97 format
Created attachment 2208 [details] Example of a file that is not readable till the end in Microsoft word 97 format
Created attachment 2209 [details] Example of a file that is not readable till the end in Microsoft wrtf format created with Word97
Created attachment 2210 [details] ASCII example of the text that should be readable (see other formats .doc or .rtf)
I see it, there is something not quite right about this document in word itself,
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What we have here is two tables, the first table works fine, the second table has two problems. a) it has three rows as headline repeat, we can only have one row as a repeating headline (as far as I know). That is a feature request as issue 6473 b) the second and most serious problem is that the second table consists of only one cell, and word can break a single row over multiple pages if it overflows out of the row, but writer cannot. The rest of your text is all there but invisible. You can cut and paste text out of the table and the missing text will appear as you remove text to let the rest fit in the table. The import filter can't do anything there :-(, we need to support splitting rows over multiple pages in layout. cmc->ama: I'll pass this on as an extreme example of splitting a row over multiple pages. Perhaps there are plans afoot to handle this.
An older submission of this problem is issue 2109 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 2109 ***
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate issues. Please see this posting for details. First step in IssueZilla is unfortunately to set them to verified.
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate issues. Please see this posting for details.