Re: RTF compatibility

Revision 33056 should fix the problems with copy/paste of lists. This
commit also fixes the import of an RTF file with bullet lists but only
if the file was written by Abiword. For a file written by MS Word,
Abiword still imports bullet lists with a standard bullet as symbol
(this was the case before I changed the bullet list symbols to
Unicode).

Simon

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Per Larsson <tucker@algonet.se> wrote:
> On 24 Mar 2013 at 13:43, Simon Larochelle wrote:
>
>>
>> I am working on a fix. I am guessing that RTF does not allow Unicode
>> for the bullet symbols.
>>
>> Simon
>
> With your changes to rtf export, msword can now open the exported rtf, showing the list the
> same way as abi/win does, i.e. shows proper bullet characters for the bullets that are present
> in the selected font, and white squares for the rest.
>
> However, abi itself shows the 'standard' bullet character for all types of bulleted lists on rtf
> import (and copy/paste).
>
> Can you please also look into what needs to be tweaked on import?
>
>
>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Per Larsson <tucker@algonet.se> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > September last year, some changes were made to how bullet symbols
>> > were handled to fix bug 12334.
>> > This was in general a good idea, but
>> > I've now filed bug 13487, which i suspect is caused by this change.
>> > I made a simple document with a bulleted list by using the toolbar
>> > "bullet list" icon, and exported as .doc.
>> > MSWord 2003 and 2007 both say
>> > "invalid document" when trying to load it, which is not good.
>> > Wordpad(write) can however open it, but shows 2 slightly different
>> > bullet symbols on each list line.
>> > Any chance someone can look into this and
>> > see if MSWord compatibility can be improved?
>> >
>
>
Received on Fri May 10 03:02:39 2013