RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

Andrew, the dashed-line bug has been confirmed.  See the Roundtrip Conversion Problems thread.

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From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak [mailto:andrew@pitonyak.org] 
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 23:58
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

I rarely use presentation documents, but, I will see if I can create an 
example of the failure and file  a bug unless someone else can do this. 
Also interested in the numbering/bullet issue that you mentioned.

If you have a simple example of both documents, can you just email me a 
copy. Worst case, I can host them...

I have not yet figured out filing bugs in LO, but, I expect it will not 
be a problem to do.

On 09/11/2011 12:32 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
> Hi, Andrew:
>
>
>       Thanks for asking.  Attached please find a single slide in 
> LibreOffice Impress consisting of a single dashed line.  When I saved 
> it in MS Office 97 ppt format and reopened it in LibreOffice Impress 
> 3.4.3, the dashes were converted visually to solid.  When I checked 
> the line style, it reported nothing (not solid, as it had when I drew 
> it before I changed it).
>
>
>       Other problems I've had were with previous versions, and I have 
> not yet confirmed them in v. 3.4.3.  I will do that.
>
>
>       Spencer
>
>
> On 9/11/2011 9:19 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> > Spencer,
> >
> > Any chance you can create a few simple examples and open a bug 
> > against the simple examples?
> >
> > On 09/11/2011 11:31 AM, Spencer Graves wrote:
> > >       For me, the answer is NOT obvious, because of (a) the 
> > > occasional incompatibilities and (b) the things that are easier in 
> > > MS Office than LibreOffice.  I've had problems with LibreOffice 
> > > where I save something in *.doc format or *.ppt and reopen it, and 
> > > it's different.  Also, I've been using Open Office / LibreOffice 
> > > regularly for 1.5 years now, and I still cannot find how to control 
> > > bullets and numbering as easily as I could with MS Office.  For any 
> > > document I have to send to a collaborator who uses MS Office, I need 
> > > to keep it primarily in the MS format to increase the chances that I 
> > > will at least know what is being changed without warning!
> > >
> > >
> > >       For example, in LibreOffice 3.4.3 Impress, create a dashed 
> > > line and save it in MS PowerPoint 97 format.  Close then reopen it.  
> > > When I did that just now under Windows 7 x64, the line style was 
> > > lost and it displayed solid.  If I do NOT have to share it with an 
> > > MS Office user, then I keep it in Open Office format.  Otherwise, I 
> > > must convert at some point to MS format, and I should do that 
> > > regularly at least until I identify at least one incompatibility 
> > > problem.
> > >
> > >
> > >       Best Wishes,
> > >       Spencer

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