Problem with the Open Office Text Processing

[Dr. George Kostopoulos]

[Gunther Wenzel]

Hello,

I opened the document Dr. Kostopoulos attached with OOo 3.1.1 on Win7 and had no problem, I exported as PDF and attach the result so you can see what it looked like.

Regards,

Gunther

----- Mensaje original -----
De: discuss-***@openoffice.org
Fecha: Viernes, 28 de Octubre de 2011, 3:47 am

Doc opens fine in google.docs, but crashes LibreOffice 3.4.1 on my Linux box here at home.>
RP

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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:29:07 -0700

Subject: [discuss] Problem with the Open Office Text Processing
Dear Open Office,>
I have experienced a problem with Open Office.
I receive homeworks from my students and when I open them sometimes pages are just blank or missing.
This time, I decided to bring this issue to your attention.
Last week, I received the attached document.
When I open it with Open Office the document ends with a few lines on top of page five.
When I open it with Corel Write I see more text, References and Biography.
My Open Office is about one year old.
Please advise. Thank you.
Best regards,
Dr. George K. Kostopoulos
Professor
Cybersecurity Technology Program
Information Assurance Program
Graduate School of Management and Technology
University of Maryland University College
www.kostopoulos.us 

[Gunther Wenzel]

Dear George,

I have OOo 3.3.0 on another computer with WinXP, and with that version I can see the first five pages but page six is missing!  I guess it's some bug introduced somewhere after 3.1.1...

Since OpenOffice is going through some changes, I understand there won't be any development in the near future, so you should wait until they or the LibreOffice guys fix the bug.

I downloaded 3.1.1 from the openoffice.org site in January 2010, and I don't see where to download old versions from their site now.  Searching in Google, I found the following link, which you could try:

http://www.oldapps.com/openoffice.php?old_openoffice=19

Regards,

Gunther


----- Mensaje original -----
De: "Dr. George Kostopoulos" <***@kostopoulos.us>
Fecha: Sábado, 29 de Octubre de 2011, 12:57 am
Asunto: RE: Problem with the Open Office Text Processing
A: Gunther Wenzel <***@racsa.co.cr>


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Dear Gunther,> >
The only thing I can say is that I used OpenOffice 3.3 and the most recent LibreOffice and I do not see the references and the biography. I have Win7 too. Can you try it with OO3.3?> From where can I download OOo3.1.1?> >
Best regards,> >
George> >
Dr. George K. Kostopoulos> Professor
Cybersecurity Technology Program
Information Assurance Program
Graduate School of Management and Technology
University of Maryland University College
www.kostopoulos.us > >

-------- Original Message --------

Subject: Re: Problem with the Open Office Text Processing
Date: Fri, October 28, 2011 10:23 pm
Hello,
I opened the document Dr. Kostopoulos attached with OOo 3.1.1 on Win7 and had no problem, I exported as PDF and attach the result so you can see what it looked like.
Regards,
Gunther
----- Mensaje original -----
Fecha: Viernes, 28 de Octubre de 2011, 3:47 am

Doc opens fine in google.docs, but crashes LibreOffice 3.4.1 on my Linux box here at home.>
RP

---------- Forwarded message ----------

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:29:07 -0700

Subject: [discuss] Problem with the Open Office Text Processing
Dear Open Office,>
I have experienced a problem with Open Office.
I receive homeworks from my students and when I open them sometimes pages are just blank or missing.
This time, I decided to bring this issue to your attention.
Last week, I received the attached document.
When I open it with Open Office the document ends with a few lines on top of page five.
When I open it with Corel Write I see more text, References and Biography.
My Open Office is about one year old.
Please advise. Thank you.
Best regards,
Dr. George K. Kostopoulos
Professor
Cybersecurity Technology Program
Information Assurance Program
Graduate School of Management and Technology
University of Maryland University College
www.kostopoulos.us 

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[NoOp]

Dear Open Office,
I have experienced a problem with/Open Office/.
I receive homeworks from my students and when I open them sometimes pages are
just blank or missing.
This time, I decided to bring this issue to your attention.
Last week, I received the attached document.
When I open it with/Open Office/ the document ends with a few lines on top of
page five.
When I open it with /Corel Write/ I see more text, References and Biography.
My Open Office is about one year old.

...
This is interesting. I tried your document on the following:

1. OOo 3.2.1 (go-oo Ubuntu distribution build linux)
OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
OOO320m19 (Build:9505)
ooo-build 3.2.1.4, Ubuntu package 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1.

The file opens properly and displays 7 full pages of text including
References and Biography etc., with no problem.

2. OOo-Dev (standard build linux)
OOo-dev 3.4.0
DEV300m106 (Build:9582)

Crashes OOo immediately & leaves a lock file in place.

3. LibreOffice 3.3.4 (standard build linux)
LibreOffice 3.3.4
OOO330m19 (Build:401)
tag libreoffice-3.3.4.

Crashes LO immediately & leaves a lock file in place.

4. LibreOffice 3.4.4 (standard build linux)
LibreOffice 3.4.4
OOO340m1 (Build:402)

Crashes LO immediately & leaves a lock file in place.

Unfortunately I no longer have earlier 'standard' OOo versions installed
or I would have tested with them as well. In any event it appears that
you have a reportable bug.

[NoOp]

Post by NoOp

Dear Open Office,
I have experienced a problem with/Open Office/.
I receive homeworks from my students and when I open them sometimes pages are
just blank or missing.
This time, I decided to bring this issue to your attention.
Last week, I received the attached document.
When I open it with/Open Office/ the document ends with a few lines on top of
page five.
When I open it with /Corel Write/ I see more text, References and Biography.
My Open Office is about one year old.

...
1. OOo 3.2.1 (go-oo Ubuntu distribution build linux)
OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
OOO320m19 (Build:9505)
ooo-build 3.2.1.4, Ubuntu package 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1.
The file opens properly and displays 7 full pages of text including
References and Biography etc., with no problem.
2. OOo-Dev (standard build linux)
OOo-dev 3.4.0
DEV300m106 (Build:9582)
Crashes OOo immediately & leaves a lock file in place.
3. LibreOffice 3.3.4 (standard build linux)
LibreOffice 3.3.4
OOO330m19 (Build:401)
tag libreoffice-3.3.4.
Crashes LO immediately & leaves a lock file in place.
4. LibreOffice 3.4.4 (standard build linux)
LibreOffice 3.4.4
OOO340m1 (Build:402)
Crashes LO immediately & leaves a lock file in place.
Unfortunately I no longer have earlier 'standard' OOo versions installed
or I would have tested with them as well. In any event it appears that
you have a reportable bug.

Found an old version of Windows 2KPro on one of my virtual machines that
still has OOo 3.3.0 OOO330m20 (build:9567) and opening the .docx file in
that demonstrates what you probably are experiencing: only 5 pages, dual
columns in pages 2-5, and no References and Biography page.

Again, this appears to be a a regression between 3.3.0 and OOo-Dev
(3.4.0). Given the OOo - Apache conversion I'm not even sure if you can
file a bug report any longer (at least I've no idea how). But hopefully
someone from Apache will pick up on this post and see if they can pass
it along to their devs. If I've time tomorrow I'll try to remember to
file a bug report with LO.

[Larry Gusaas]

Post by NoOp
Found an old version of Windows 2KPro on one of my virtual machines that
still has OOo 3.3.0 OOO330m20 (build:9567) and opening the .docx file in
that demonstrates what you probably are experiencing: only 5 pages, dual
columns in pages 2-5, and no References and Biography page.

On Mac OS X version 10.6.8 OOo 3.3.0, OOo-dev 3.4.0, NeoOffice 3.1.2 Patch 9, and LibreOffice
3.4.4 all crash immediatly and leave a lock file.

Pages, TextEdit, and Bean all open document with references and biograpy.

Post by NoOp
Again, this appears to be a a regression between 3.3.0 and OOo-Dev
(3.4.0). Given the OOo - Apache conversion I'm not even sure if you can
file a bug report any longer (at least I've no idea how). But hopefully
someone from Apache will pick up on this post and see if they can pass
it along to their devs. If I've time tomorrow I'll try to remember to
file a bug report with LO.

Bug reports can be filed on the Apache OOo Bugzilla – Main Page
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/
--
_________________________________

Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." - Edgard Varese

[NoOp]

Post by Larry Gusaas

Post by NoOp
Found an old version of Windows 2KPro on one of my virtual machines that
still has OOo 3.3.0 OOO330m20 (build:9567) and opening the .docx file in
that demonstrates what you probably are experiencing: only 5 pages, dual
columns in pages 2-5, and no References and Biography page.

On Mac OS X version 10.6.8 OOo 3.3.0, OOo-dev 3.4.0, NeoOffice 3.1.2 Patch 9, and LibreOffice
3.4.4 all crash immediatly and leave a lock file.
Pages, TextEdit, and Bean all open document with references and biograpy.

Post by NoOp
Again, this appears to be a a regression between 3.3.0 and OOo-Dev
(3.4.0). Given the OOo - Apache conversion I'm not even sure if you can
file a bug report any longer (at least I've no idea how). But hopefully
someone from Apache will pick up on this post and see if they can pass
it along to their devs. If I've time tomorrow I'll try to remember to
file a bug report with LO.

Bug reports can be filed on the Apache OOo Bugzilla – Main Page
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/

I have WinXP on a VMWare virtual machine; opened the file in MS Word
viewer and get all 6 pages (2-5 are dual columns, page 6 is the
references page). Not sure if the PDF will be accepted as an attachment,
but I'll give it a try (it's 29.2KB) so that it can be used for comparison.

[Larry Gusaas]

Post by NoOp
I have WinXP on a VMWare virtual machine; opened the file in MS Word
viewer and get all 6 pages (2-5 are dual columns, page 6 is the
references page). Not sure if the PDF will be accepted as an attachment,
but I'll give it a try (it's 29.2KB) so that it can be used for comparison.

That is basically the same as the original opened in Pages on my Mac.
--
_________________________________

Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." - Edgard Varese

[NoOp]

Post by Larry Gusaas

Post by NoOp
I have WinXP on a VMWare virtual machine; opened the file in MS Word
viewer and get all 6 pages (2-5 are dual columns, page 6 is the
references page). Not sure if the PDF will be accepted as an attachment,
but I'll give it a try (it's 29.2KB) so that it can be used for comparison.

That is basically the same as the original opened in Pages on my Mac.

I think that I may have found the issue; I opened in MS Word 2002 with
the MS odf extension installed and found that there is an extra section
between the last text column and the references page. In other words it
went from section 2 at "intent of the law could be solidified." to a
blank section 3, and then section 4 which is the 'Refrences' page. I
deleted the section 3 and then did a saveas. Attached is the .docx from
that & it no longer crashes my linux OOO's or LO's.

Seems odd that a blank section would cause this. Please test on the Mac.
Thanks.

[NoOp]

Post by NoOp

Post by Larry Gusaas

Post by NoOp
I have WinXP on a VMWare virtual machine; opened the file in MS Word
viewer and get all 6 pages (2-5 are dual columns, page 6 is the
references page). Not sure if the PDF will be accepted as an attachment,
but I'll give it a try (it's 29.2KB) so that it can be used for comparison.

That is basically the same as the original opened in Pages on my Mac.

I think that I may have found the issue; I opened in MS Word 2002 with
the MS odf extension installed and found that there is an extra section
between the last text column and the references page. In other words it
went from section 2 at "intent of the law could be solidified." to a
blank section 3, and then section 4 which is the 'Refrences' page. I
deleted the section 3 and then did a saveas. Attached is the .docx from
that & it no longer crashes my linux OOO's or LO's.
Seems odd that a blank section would cause this. Please test on the Mac.
Thanks.
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Post by NoOp
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So something in the first is causing the crashes.

[Larry Gusaas]

Post by NoOp

Post by Larry Gusaas

Post by NoOp
I have WinXP on a VMWare virtual machine; opened the file in MS Word
viewer and get all 6 pages (2-5 are dual columns, page 6 is the
references page). Not sure if the PDF will be accepted as an attachment,
but I'll give it a try (it's 29.2KB) so that it can be used for comparison.

That is basically the same as the original opened in Pages on my Mac.

I think that I may have found the issue; I opened in MS Word 2002 with
the MS odf extension installed and found that there is an extra section
between the last text column and the references page. In other words it
went from section 2 at "intent of the law could be solidified." to a
blank section 3, and then section 4 which is the 'Refrences' page. I
deleted the section 3 and then did a saveas. Attached is the .docx from
that& it no longer crashes my linux OOO's or LO's.
Seems odd that a blank section would cause this. Please test on the Mac.
Thanks.

Opens fine in OOo, LibreOffice, NeoOffice, and Pages.
--
_________________________________

Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." - Edgard Varese

[NoOp]

Post by Larry Gusaas

Post by NoOp
Found an old version of Windows 2KPro on one of my virtual machines that
still has OOo 3.3.0 OOO330m20 (build:9567) and opening the .docx file in
that demonstrates what you probably are experiencing: only 5 pages, dual
columns in pages 2-5, and no References and Biography page.

On Mac OS X version 10.6.8 OOo 3.3.0, OOo-dev 3.4.0, NeoOffice 3.1.2 Patch 9, and LibreOffice
3.4.4 all crash immediatly and leave a lock file.
Pages, TextEdit, and Bean all open document with references and biograpy.

Interesting & thanks for testing.

On WinXP OOo didn't crash (but dual columns in 2-5, no page 6 with
references):

OOo 3.3.0
OpenOffice.org 3.3.0
OOO330m20 (build:9567)

or

OOo-Dev (Windows)
OOo-dev 3.4.0
OOO340m0 (Build:9583)

LO (Windows same VM):
LibreOffice 3.3.4
OOO330m19 (Build:401)
tag libreoffice-3.3.4.1

Doesn't crash. Again, dual columns in 2-5, no page 6 with references. I
wonder why this only crashes non-windows versions.

So it appears that there are two issues: 1) the .docx crashes other
non-windows versions tested (linux, Mac), and 2) even when the file
opens it is missing the references page. OOo 3.2.1 (go-oo Ubuntu
distribution build linux)
OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
OOO320m19 (Build:9505)
ooo-build 3.2.1.4, Ubuntu package 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1. opens the document &
displays the reference page, but 2-6 are single column.

Overall pretty disappointing results as the .docx doesn't contain
anything special (formating-wise).

If I get time I'll try to save to a .doc and see if there are any major
differences.

Gary