[Upstream] Writer converting .ott to rtf does not preserve text fields

this report has been opened here:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/211345

"Creating a new document on the attached template (.ott) and saving it in RTF
results in OO Writer showing an empty page when re-opening the RTF-file. Word
(on another machine) can open and show the same file."

file:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13094368/Vorlage%20Brief.ott

I cannot reproduce the problem using OO 2.4.x and OO 3.0 on Windows and Linux
with native OOo build. It looks that this is a problem of the ubuntu own build.

Closed.

I'm seeing this issue on official OOo 3.0.0. So why is that the reporter and I
both see this and even with the official version when you don't? I will attach
the RTF file that 3.0.0 generated for me.

Created attachment 57515
output file from 3.0.0

I do not know where the difference is in what we all did to create the RTF. But
when I:
- drop the ott from Windows Explorer into OOo,
- save this as RTF,
- reopen -> it looks NOT empty.

However, we now got an RTF from you which will show empty in OOo but not in
Word. This should be enough to get this issue fixed.

I have had the same problem. I had two .odt files which I saved as .rtf. I
could open one of the .rtf files successfully with OOo, the other would be blank
so I did some investigating of how they were different.

It seems to be something to do with the paragraph styles that OOo generates when
it saves as .rtf. I get a blank when I open the above attachment 57515 with OOo
so I opened it in a text editor. I deleted the unused styles (the document only
appears to use S1 so I deleted S2 - S12, lines 5 - 15 in the text editor) and lo
and behold I can open the file with OOo.

I confirm the problem. The priority should be increased; whenever exporting to
MS Word fails, RTF can be an alternative. However, when this fall back is not
working either, no more options remain to transmit an editable document from the
Linux world to the Windows world.

This said, I have a resume written in ODT that cannot be rendered properly on MS
Word as .doc or .rtf, but it is not a blank page that shows up in MS Word when
reading the RTF; text with bad formating shows up. Thus this bug seams to be
OOo3 related only.

Created attachment 47262
Vorlage Brief.ott

Downstream bug may be found at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/211345

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages

3) What is expected to happen in LibreOffice Writer via the Terminal:

cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/211345/+attachment/253514/+files/Vorlage%20Brief.ott && unoconv --listener && unoconv -f rtf Vorlage\ Brief.ott && lowriter -nologo Vorlage\ Brief.ott Vorlage\ Brief.rtf

the text fields remain.

4) What happens instead is they disappear.

Is RTF format able to handle such kind of text fields (placeholders)?
Abiword (2.5.8 under Ubuntu) save the name of the placeholder between < and >.
LO should do the same if placeholders are not supported by RTF, instead of removing it.

Best regards. JBF

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Problem reproducible in:
LOdev 3.5.0beta2
Build ID: 8589e48-760cc4d-f39cf3d-1b2857e-60db978
Microsoft Windows Vista Business 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Build 6002

Tested with LO 3.5.1. Now LO seems to do the same as Abiword, it save the name of the placeholder.
@Christopher : Please could you verify on your side ?
If it is correct, I suggest to close this bug report as fixed.

Best regards. JBF

Jean-Baptiste Faure, fixed in:

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

LibreOffice 3.5.1.2
Build ID: dc9775d-05ecbee-0851ad3-1586698-727bf66

Thank you. Closing.