some file format spec problems with the OOXML chart import/export

[Stephan van den Akker]

Marcus,

If you like, I can test documents for you in MSO 2007 and send screenshots.
It's a version without any service packs installed - the oldest MSO version
that natively reads and writes OOXML.


2013/5/2 Michael Stahl <mstahl at redhat.com>

> On 02/05/13 00:24, Markus Mohrhard wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > so I have been fixing some chart OOXML issues recently and there are
> > some general problems.
> >
> > There are a number of comments like (from typegroupcontext.cxx:147)
> >     // default is 'false', not 'true' as specified
> > but testing this in Excel showed that Excel respects the standard in
> > contrast to our import and export. Does anyone know why these comments
> > have been introduced or does anyone have a reason why we should not
> > fix this stuff? I already fixed a few of these problems that made my
> > simple test document look awful when being imported into Excel.
>
> no idea; perhaps it is the case that different versions (or even
> different patch levels) of MSO have different defaults?
>
> > If there is nobody opposing it I will slowly fix these issues in the
> > chart import/export where I see them. Sadly there is no way to
> > automatically test these things as they are wrong in the import and
> > the export filter. The only way is to check the OOXML standard and
> > check how our exported documents look in MSO.
>
> if in doubt i guess it can't hurt to write the explicit value and not
> rely on any defaults.
>
>
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