From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 18:38:08 EST
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 00:30, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> If I save a file as MS Word or RTF, then try to read it with something
> like OpenWriter, OpenWriter crashes immediately.
Unless they tell us what is wrong in our file, then it is an OpenWriter
bug. Anyway their RTF importer is not really wonderful.
>
> Looking at the .doc, it shows that it's just RTF, at least it appears so
> to me.
It is. The .doc saving feature is on illusion that we made to users so
that they stop asking us for that feature. Writing .doc file is far from
being on easy task....
> I'm curious what's going on here. This also goes the same for saving
> files as .DOC in OpenWriter then re-saving them in abiword.
Sure since we completely rewrite the file.
> However, documents sent to me by other people using word97, or 2000 open
> just fine in OpenWriter, whereas formatting is usually messed up in
> Abiword. This goes for RTFs too.
Do they contain table ? Then you've got the answer.
Hub
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