Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with openoffice on a rtf file

On 08/27/2012 02:39 AM, zig wrote:
> I have a text file in format .rtf with a simple table. The file 
> appears the same in open office and word2003. But in libre office it 
> is correct only up to the beginning of the table, later on all the 
> text is presented in the last (very long!) column and it is unusable.
> Is this a bug? Do I have some method to avoid the problem?
> Thanks in advance
> paolo maurenzig
>
> LibreOffice 3.4.5
> OOO340m1 (Build:502)
RTFs are not the perfect solution the open-sourcers would like to think. 
I edit a small newsletter, and I used to get copy from the publisher in 
rtf format. Frequently the copy would spill over
the right-hand side of the page and be truncated. This would happen in 
OO, LO, often Symphony, sometimes even WordPerfect (on Windows). If WP 
couldn't read it, it was useless,
but the diddling around to make it work was a royal PITA.  (The files 
originated in MSWord for Mac.)  Now I take the input in MSWord .doc 
(2003 or so edition) and Symphony reads them
fine. Symphony, altho a close cousin to OO and LO, is polished and 
finished, and even tho it has a few glitches, I like it far better than 
either OO or LO, which will probably never be
polished and finished.

--doug

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