Hi, Marc. Thank you for the reply. I think I need a bit more
enlightenment about where to file my bug reports.
goto #Discussion
J.M. Maurer wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 18:45 -0400, Smokey Ardisson wrote:
If you can a file bug (against the "wp" component) on each of your
points or subpoints below and provide example documents to illustrate
that point (original WPD plus PDF), that would be the most productive
way to proceed. Just keep in mind that unlike the developers of many
of the core features of OpenOffice.org, the developers of libwpd and
writerperfect are volunteers who do so in their spare time, so it may
take more than a little time to fix the issues :-)
If you think it is a libwpd bug, then please file it at
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=libwpd
which is the official libwpd bugzilla. I never look in OOo´s bugzilla,
so any bugs filed there will not be seen by me (i think fridrich watches
it though)
I'm afraid I don't know enough yet about either lipwpd or
OOo to diagnose whether some of my bugs are better pursued
as lipwpd bugs or OOo bugs, or both.
I have done some more investigating in the meantime. It
turns out that Corel changed the way WordPerfect generates a
standard legal pleading opening style. That is the custom
line numbering stuff I discussed. It used to be done with a
custom footer in an opening style, but somewhere along the
line Corel changed to doing it with a watermark containing
formatted text.
You can get a good look at what I'm discussing by running
the "Pleading.wcm" macro that ships with WordPerfect (and
has since at least WP 5.1), then converting the resulting
document. The line numbering and vertical lines disappear,
at least with OOo 2.0 beta.
So at one level, the problem seems to be that libwpd does
not convert WPD watermarks that are generated in WordPerfect
from the document's opening style. This could conceivably be
a limitation of Open Documents XML, but I don't know.
There is also a related issue (I think but am not sure) of
how OOo should generate such formatting for new,
non-converted documents. I don't have the answer to that
yet, although I have learned that some people have managed
to accomplish it using a custom template file. See the
graphic images of the two downloadable OOo Writer "pleading
templates" at
<http://ooextras.sourceforge.net/downloads/english/>.
So should I should file bug reports against both OOo and
lipwpd?
Best regards,
marbux
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