Save as doc crashes LO

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#1

Hi.
Saving a writer document as .doc crashes my LO on OpenSuse. Could someone
please try on 4.0 and if it persists I will file a bug.
perf_calc_translations.odt
<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4037263/perf_calc_translations.odt>
Cheers, Steve

#2

Hi.
Saving a writer document as .doc crashes my LO on OpenSuse. Could someone
please try on 4.0 and if it persists I will file a bug.
perf_calc_translations.odt
<

http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4037263/perf_calc_translations.odt

I could with no problem
I'm using version 4.0.0.3 on Debian Wheezy

#3

Thanks, problem must be fixed.
I could save it as docx but the formatting was scrambled. Saving as .doc
just crashed LO.
Steve

#4

What version of LO are you using?

I assume (by your question) that it is earlier than 4

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
Using 3.6.1 from the official LibreOffice website rather than the one from
the Ubuntu repos i managed to save a doc version and uploaded it to here.

perf_calc_translations.doc
<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4037360/perf_calc_translations.doc>

I've not tried it with the 4.0.0 nor with any of the versions in the Ubuntu
repos or Ppas so they might work or might not. Sorry i know that's not very
helpful but it occured to me it might be more important to just get the file
done first and then worry about trouble-shooting later.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

It is much more important to know: does LO crash when creating an odt file?

Considering odf files are opened successfully in many programs,
including m$, there is little justification to use LO as an m$-clone.

We should want to see more questions posted to m$ support: "how do I
open an odt file just received?"

#7

Hi :slight_smile:
The odt is obviously fine.  It's only a problem when the op wants to share the file with other people.  Not all of those people have control over what gets installed on their machine and the rest might not yet have heard of LibeOffice or any of the others.

Once they get used to receiving higher quality documents they might start being interested.  If all the documents they receive from LO users are un-openable or corrupted or look bad then why would they be interested in moving to LO themselves? 
Regard from
Tom :slight_smile:

#8

No problem saving a writer document as .doc (MS Word 97/2000/XP/2003, either Save or Save_As) in LO 4.0.0.3 on Ubuntu Natty.

jdh

#9

Hi :slight_smile:
For something like 99.5% of documents it's not a problem. The op was asking
if this particular odt was a problem in 4.0.0
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4037263/perf_calc_translations.odt

I've just been able to save that document as doc in 4.0.0.3 from the
LibreOffice website (ie not form a ppa or any distros repo) using Ubuntu
12.04 with the Unity DE.
perf_calc_translations.doc
<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4037492/perf_calc_translations.doc>

Now i am wondering if LO crashes on the op's system when he tries to open
any of the versions of doc that i have sent. Also i wonder if renaming the
User Profile fixed it or if the 4.0.0.3 is a more recent version than
whatever he downloaded on Launch Day.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#10

I saved it successfully to doc format with LO 4.0.0.3 using Linux Mint 13. LO was downloaded from the website; I do not believe it is available in the repositories yet.

I did notice Chinese? characters. I used the default install settings.

#11

Hi :slight_smile:
Yes, i saw Chinese characters too and it looked like they were arranged properly.  So it looks like Gnome/Cinamon/Mate are covered by Mint and Unity covered by Ubuntu.  Is anyone using a KDE distro?

Alternatively perhaps it's a packaging issue?  Mint and Ubuntu both use the .Deb (apt-get or dpkg).  Does anyone have LibreOffice installed using the yum (.Rpm) method?  Redhat/CentOS/ScientificLinux anyone?

Hmmm, ideal would be someone on Redhat family and using KDE of course :wink:
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#12

LO 4.0 on ubuntu seems very normal, no crash.