RTF import bug & info

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Al Schapira (a_schapira at verizon.net) wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-08-16 at 21:53 +0500, Mike Kaganski wrote:
> > On 16.08.2024 21:52, Al wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2024-08-12 at 16:18 -0400, Al Schapira wrote:
> > > > With reference to libreoffice bug 162342 ("RTF input fails to
> > > > honor
> > > > \marg[lrtb]N commands when a \page command is added")
> > > > On Tue, 2024-08-13 at 10:44 +0500, Mike Kaganski wrote:
> > > > Regarding import, you may start at the heart of RTF keyword
> > > > dispatch
> > > > method, RTFTokenizer::dispatchKeyword:
> > > > https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sw/source/writerfilter/rtftok/rtftokenizer.cxx?r=246ef0b8#261
> > > > 
> > > Thanks for the pointer, Mike.  I think this is way too deep to be
> > > relevant to the afore mentioned bug.  The problem rtf file renders
> > > correctly in libreoffice 7.3.7.2 under windows 10.0, but fails to
> > > render margins correctly in LibreOffice 7.6.7.2 60(Build:2) in
> > > fedora
> > > 39 & 40.
> > > 
> > > So what in rtf import code might differ between these environments?
> > > Where should I look for OS dependencies that might affect rtf
> > > import?
> > 
> > 
> > https://bibisect.libreoffice.org/
> > 
> I'm flying blind wrt bibisect (and git).  However I did
>    clone git clone https://bibisect.libreoffice.org/linux-64-7.4.git
> and got a version of soffice that renders rtf margins properly!!
> 
> ads at ADS4:~/Downloads/libreoffice/linux-64-7.4/instdir/program
> $ ./soffice --version
> LibreOfficeDev 7.4.8.0.0 f8ba7c6f77497e2dc7bfef8378511e2074ce01f9 
> works!
> 
> But my LO 7.6.7.2 fails. Is this info of use

Yes, add it to the bug.

> to the assignee?

Note there isn't an assignee yet!  So you're the only person looking
at this so far.

> 
> Now what? 

You know 7.6.7.2 is bad, and 7.4.8 is good.

How about 7.5 ?

Ideally with bibisect you can get down to just a few versions and
then we can go and hunt back to if there were any interesting
RTF changes in there.

Dave

> Thanks.
> 
> 	--Al
> 
> 
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