[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 135079] Formatting of simple .RTF one page A4 document completely screwed up

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135079

--- Comment #10 from robert at prino.org ---
(In reply to Telesto from comment #7)
> (In reply to robert from comment #4)
> > Stop adding new "new shiny and whiter than white" features to the suite, and
> > concentrate on removing bug like these, you know, that 80/20 rule! People
> > needing the most complicated functions work in environments where the price
> > of an office suite is 0.001% of their daily turnover, and nobody gives an
> > (fill in your favourite expletive) about it!
> 
> -> For my curiosity: is there also a rule where to start with 'bug like
> these'. There are a quite a number of those, sadly, IMHO (not talking about
> RTF specifically) So is there also a rule on how to set priority's. All
> those bug more or less 'trivial' in some way. Don't think that RTF is the
> most used format these day's (but of course depending on system; user case
> etc). So rather hard to define what's important or not. Especially with a
> suite with quite some functionality

There is very obviously no hard and fast rule to classify "bug(s) like these",
but what confidence does it instil in people if even a single one A4-sized
document that only uses the most basic of RTF features cannot be rendered
correctly in Writer. 

Hell, if it uses a font that's not on the system, why not open a pop-up that
asks the user which font to substitute. I still use the Word XP freebie that
came with my old AD 2003 PC, and I've set it up to show me a pop-up whenever I
open something non-.DOC. How hard would it be to add a similar feature to
Writer, when opening a non-.ODT format file, with a warning that it may not
render correctly, just as there is one when saving in non-.ODT formats?

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