Re: [Hampshire] OpenOffice.org 2.2.0 vs Word 2007 [OT]?

Simon Capstick wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:58:00AM +0100, Simon Capstick wrote:
>>> Of particular importance to us is stability (no crashes) and
>>> gracefully handling a wide range of RTF documents. Both of which are
>>> causing us occasional problems within OpenWriter 2.2.0.
>>> Unfortunately I cannot submit a bug to OpenOffice since the example
>>> documents for the bugs are all confidential (Most annoying).
>>>
>>
>> Can you not replace the text with something else, retaining the
>> formatting?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Al.
>>
>
> I've not managed to, although I can't honestly say that I've tried on
> every document. I'll give the next bad document I find another go. The
> curious thing is that Abiword on my Linux PC never fails with these
> documents, and saving it as 'RTF (for older apps)' fixes it.
>
> Simon
>
>
A little update; I finally found the bug listed at the OpenOffice website...
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=55911

I've also managed to hand edit an example RTF and submit as an example.

Simon