[Libreoffice] Patch to fix bug in exporting relative hyperlinks to MS Word 97/2000/XP

[Knut Olav Bøhmer]

2010/11/3 Cédric Bosdonnat <cedric.bosdonnat.ooo at free.fr>

> Hi Knut,
>
> On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 23:30 +0200, Knut Olav Bøhmer wrote:
> > I would be very happy if someone could take a look at
> > the attached patch, and maybe improve it.
>
> First I couldn't reproduce the original problem neither with Word 97 nor
> Word 2007+. It seems that Word perfectly handles the "/" as directory
> separator (at least in the HYPERLINK fields). Could you provide
> documents to help me reproduce it?
>

Yes, it looks like the '/' and '\' was not the problem. The problem is that
Libo/OOo sets an attribute that tells MS Office that the hyperlink is
absolute, not relative. But the path is still relative.
I'll provide a patch today.

I'll make a new patch soon.

> Libo/OOo exports hyperlinks with / as directory separator. MS Office
> > does not understand that kind of paths, so / has to be rewritten to \
> >
> >
> > Description is here:
> > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=115297
>
> Hum... That patch doesn't seem to harm anybody, but I'll push it after
> having understood the problem ;)
>
> I discovered another problem that may be related to your troubles:
> relative hyperlinks with spaces in their path can't be opened. The
> reason is that the space character is transformed into a %20 in the
> HYPERLINK value... which word doesn't understand as a space but as the
> "%20" string.
>
> Could you check that you don't fall into that problem? If you're
> interested in fixing those doc path problems, then that one should be
> easy for you given the nice patch you already provided ;)
>
> Regards,
> --
> Cedric
>
>
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