Hi :) Best answer so far by a long way. Thanks NoOp :) The wikipedia page was interesting. Apparently MS are stopping developing the spec for rtf and MS Office 2010 no longer supports it!
Doc (without the X at the end) is better. File - "Save As ..." - "MS Word (97/2000/Xp)" It's about the same on most word-processors. I think in MSO 2007 & 2010 it's the golden globe at top left instead of "File". OpenDocument Formats are better but almost no-one can use the most recent spec (unless they have a non-MS suite) so Doc wins at the moment. Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 22/9/11, NoOp <gl...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: From: NoOp <gl...@sbcglobal.net> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: RTF files rendering: huge differencies in LO 3.4.2 and MSO 2010 -- bug? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 22 September, 2011, 1:06 On 09/21/2011 09:02 AM, Arkady wrote: > Hi all! > > > There's a trouble opening simple RTF file in LO 3.4.2. It is opened, but > it's rendering is incorrect. Same file is correctly opened by MSO 2010. May > someone provide feedback on the issue? RTF has always been an issue in OOo and LO. While some recommend using it, OOo & LO opinion has always been otherwise. I'm not sure exactly why, as Microsoft has had a published RTF spec for many years. But the spec seems to be a moving target[1]. Perhaps it's because Microsoft doesn't always follow their own spec? Samples: 1. <http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/ar/innovateonoffice/thread/1cc049b9-d63e-4f5e-b98e-e48e8ee78e94> [1] http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?DisplayLang=en&id=7105 [Word 2003: Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification, version 1.8] http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=10725 [Word 2007: Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification, version 1.9.1] > > > For reference: > > > Image ofLO 3.4.2 with opened file 96.rtf > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3355881/file_96_in_libreoffice_342.jpg > > > > Image of MSO 2010 with opened file 96.rtf > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3355881/file_96_in_mso_2010.jpg > > > Original RTF file: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3355881/96.rtf 96.rtf My guess is that because it's a drawing it's an issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format <quote> However, RTF drawing objects are not supported in many RTF implementations, such as OpenOffice.org[53], LibreOffice, KWord, Abiword[54] or IBM Lotus Symphony (up to version 1.3 only some limited support[55]; improved in later versions). When a RTF document with drawing objects is opened in a software that does not support RTF drawing objects, they are not displayed at all. Some implementations will also not display any texts inside drawing objects.[56][57] Similarly, when a document with drawing objects is saved as RTF in a software that does not support RTF drawing objects, these are not preserved in the RTF file. (For example, OpenOffice.org supports drawing objects in some file formats (e.g. in ODF, SXW, DOC), but do not support RTF drawing objects.) ... Each of RTF implementations usually implements only some versions or subsets of RTF specification. Many of the available RTF converters cannot understand all new features in the latest RTF specifications. </quote> I tested with MS Word 2003 and it opens fine. However with OOo versions (linux and Windows) 3.3.x - 3.4-dev, and LO 3.3.4 and LO 3.4.3 the issue is as you show in your .jpg. > Another problematic RTF file (incorrectly rendered table in LO 3.4.2): > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3355881/requisites_table_in_russian.rtf > requisites_table_in_russian.rtf You are correct; the second table isn't rendered as a table (ending with the last data ...@genesis.ru), but is instead converted from table to text. You have a valid bug/issue, but my guess is that you'll be waiting a *very* long time before the issue(s) get resolved (if at all). I'm not posting this to discourage you from using LO, but I would discourage you from using RTF in general. ... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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