[Libreoffice-qa] Extensive docx conversion tests...

Mon Apr 21 22:05:44 PDT 2014

Hi Joel,

Thanks for the welcome and i look forward to being on the next call as i 
got the notice to late today to be on the today's. I live in Dubai, 
United Arab Emirates and wondered what was the best way to get on the call.

Jay Philips

On 04/22/2014 08:13 AM, Joel Madero wrote:
> Incredible work Jay - hope to see you in the chat and hopefully on the 
> call going forward. Really really helpful.
>
>
> Warm Regards,
> Joel
>
>
>
> On 04/21/2014 08:51 PM, Jay Philips wrote:
>> Hi Robinson,
>>
>> Thanks for cc'ing me as i wasnt part of the list but have sent in a 
>> request to be part of it.
>>
>>> Jay -- Thanks for the legwork here! As of right now all of your
>> UNCONFIRMED bug reports have had their status updated to NEW,
>> ASSIGNED, or FIXED. Got any more compat bugs to report? :-)
>>
>> Your welcome and thank you for looking into the bugs i have already 
>> submitted. If you want a compat bug which i just confirmed while 
>> writing this message but still havent reported, here is one. in the 
>> last 2 test documents i have been working on, if you open the .docx 
>> in calligra words and then save it as a odf, and then open that odt 
>> in libO, the tables will be crushed flat, allowing 1 character per 
>> line. I initially thought this was isolated, but it happen in both 
>> documents i opened which had tables in it though calligra words was 
>> able to reopen it fine. i then tested opening the file in word 2010 
>> and the tables weren't perfect but still okay, but i'm assuming it 
>> has to be related to word 2010's odf compatibility.
>>
>> I am currently finishing off the 3rd test document i've been working 
>> on, but i have only submitted the major bugs that i've found in these 
>> tests. I report most of the bugs on my twitter account < 
>> https://twitter.com/jphilipz/ > as i'm also testing kingsoft writer 
>> and calligra works, but after i complete the tests, i take all the 
>> tweets and put them into a text file and then .zip it along with all 
>> the test documents created during the test, and i place them at a 
>> public url for interested parties to have access to. As this is my 
>> current work flow, its difficult to make individual bug reports for 
>> each individual problem that occurs during the testing, but i will 
>> try to submit more. If i were permitted, i would like to send into 
>> the list a more customized test result .zip file just of libreoffice 
>> bugs, which would contain the related tweets (along with its related 
>> bug reports i've sent in), created test documents, and images of the 
>> errors. With this, i'm assuming it would be easy for the devs to 
>> create the necessary bugs reports with.
>>
>> So far in this 3rd test i've been using < http://bit.ly/QBBwfV >, and 
>> here are the tweets related to libreoffice and i've added 
>> '[reported]' to the end of the ones i've reported in bugzilla.
>>
>> test3: @libreoffice opened docx close to perfection except for a 
>> slight spacing issues and an incorrect font size - http://img.ly/yEH3
>> test3: @libreoffice 4.0's opened the .doc close to perfection except 
>> for a table width not being constant - img.ly/yEH7
>> test3: @libreoffice 4.1+'s had the same table issue in the .doc, as 
>> well as a problem with the heading - http://img.ly/yEHe
>> test3: @libreoffice 4.1+'s opening of the .doc also had a problem of 
>> showing a purple line at the top of each page - http://img.ly/yEIY
>>
>> test3: unable to export .docx into another .docx in @libreoffice 4.2 
>> as the UI crashes with an error dialog - http://img.ly/yFvh [reported]
>> test3: reopening saved rtf in @libreoffice 3.6 to 4.2 returns a file 
>> format error dialog box - http://img.ly/yFvC [reported]
>> test3: reopening saved odf 1.1 in @libreoffice causes loss of 
>> numbered and bullet list indentation, as well as paragraph spacing 
>> issues
>> test3: reopening saved odf 1.2 and .doc in @libreoffice was exactly 
>> like the original, plus it didnt have the incorrect font size issue
>> test3: reopened docx in @libreoffice 4.1 and it has missing 
>> background color behind document heading - http://img.ly/yFye
>>
>> test3: opened @Kingsoft_Office doc in @libreoffice and each page had 
>> a pink line in its header and font styles were off
>> test3: opened @Kingsoft_Office docx in @libreoffice and document 
>> title was missing, and incorrect number list style - http://img.ly/yFxt
>> test3: opened @Kingsoft_Office rtf in @libreoffice and the results 
>> were bad mainly due to incorrect font sizes for bullet list items
>>
>> test3: opened @calligrasuite odf in @libreoffice and it has 24 pages 
>> as tables are crushed flat and first page document heading is missing 
>> [first part mentioned above]
>>
>> I look forward working with you and the QA team.
>>
>> Jay Philips
>>
>> On 04/21/2014 03:07 AM, Robinson Tryon wrote:
>>> Aaaaaaand I should probably cc Jay here, as I'm not sure he's on the 
>>> list :-)
>>>
>>> --R
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Robinson Tryon
>>> <bishop.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> [was: [documentliberation-discuss] two docx conversion test results on
>>>> LibreOffice]
>>>>
>>>> Dear QA Team,
>>>>
>>>> Please say hi to Jay Philips who is currently doing extensive...well,
>>>> let's just read what he wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Jay Philips 
>>>> <philipz85 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I am doing extensive docx and doc conversion tests on libreoffice 
>>>>> from files
>>>>> pulled from microsoft's website...
>>>>>
>>>>> [...testing with LibreOffice, MSO compatibility pack, etc...]
>>>>>
>>>>> I also send in bug reports for a number of the bugs i find.
>>>>> <
>>>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?emailreporter1=1&list_id=415544&emailtype1=substring&query_format=advanced&email1=philipz85%40hotmail.com&product=LibreOffice 
>>>>>
>>>> Jay -- Thanks for the legwork here! As of right now all of your
>>>> UNCONFIRMED bug reports have had their status updated to NEW,
>>>> ASSIGNED, or FIXED. Got any more compat bugs to report? :-)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> --R
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Robinson Tryon
>>>> LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald
>>>> Senior QA Troublemaker
>>>> The Document Foundation
>>>> qubit at libreoffice.org
>>
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