Re: [libreoffice-users] Badly formatted document

Is it possible to get the PDF that the ODT came from?   Have you tried converting the troublesome 
ODT to DOCX?   

Rose Byrne 
nlomrb@gmail.com 

Sent from my new iPad

> On Jul 4, 2022, at 1:00 PM, Ian Bertram <ianbertram.uk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> <!--
> /* Font Definitions */
> @font-face
>    {font-family:"Cambria Math";
>    panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
> @font-face
>    {font-family:Calibri;
>    panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
> /* Style Definitions */
> p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
>    {margin:0cm;
>    font-size:11.0pt;
>    font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
> a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
>    {mso-style-priority:99;
>    color:blue;
>    text-decoration:underline;}
> .MsoChpDefault
>    {mso-style-type:export-only;}
> @page WordSection1
>    {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
>    margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
> div.WordSection1
>    {page:WordSection1;}
> -->
> I have been sent a graphic heavy document in ODT format. However it looks as if it has been badly 
> converted from a pdf file. The layout is scrambled, headers don’t align properly and there are a 
> host of other issues. It is also in columns. Is there a simple way to strip out everything bar 
> the words? I have tried saving it as a txt file, but this loses a lot of the paragraph numbering 
> and introduces other layout issues. Saving in rtf format is even worse.
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> The best I have managed so far has been by converting all the text to a single style and removing 
> the columns. All the graphics however overlap text and it is often very difficult to find the 
> anchor point.
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