On 08/17/2004 11:03 AM, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:10:41AM -0400, Matt Morgan wrote:I tried a few different documents. This was not an exhaustive test, but I found: if OOo can open the document nicely, it can also create a good HTML replica of it. If OOo has trouble translating the Word formatting, then it makes bad HTML code, too.
That is exactly right.On 08/17/2004 09:57 AM, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have discovered that OpenOffice is unable to produce viewable HTML pages from Word Documents.
1. In FC1 the HTML document is unviewable because paragraphs come out as just one big line that does not wrap arroung properly.
Let me ask three questions for clarity:
1) I'm not 100% sure of what you're trying to do. It sounds like you have a *.doc that you're opening in OOo and saving as HTML. Is that right?
2) Have you looked at the resulting HTML code to see where the problem is?Yes I have and can't really see a problem. The page size is set in the
<HEADER> to 8-1/2 by 11 which seems strange.
3) What browser are you using to view the results?
Mozilla 1.4., Internet Explorer. They all have the same problem.
Line wrapping is not set in HTML code but is handled by the browser, so it normally works with arbitrary window size (the line wraps at the edge of the window). So something non-standard is happening along the way, or maybe you've inadvertently gotten some <pre> codes in there that are forcing literal interpretation of the text.
I agree but it is not working here. I did not thing of looking for
<pre> code. Could you try to do it on your machine and let me know if
it works for you. The point is that the OOo is failing. If I have to
debug the code it proves it is not working.
I had exactly the problem you describe, with lines that don't wrap right, when I opened an MS-Word generated memo, using a table in the header, in OOo and saved it to HTML. The thing is, at least for me, OOo always has trouble with tables in Word documents, and in this case too, it was pretty clear something was going to end up wrong (because it looked terrible in OOo in the first place). In fact what it ultimately did in the HTML file was make a table of fixed width, which was exactly why line-wrapping was bad in this case.
Where are these .doc files coming from? If you re-save them as .sxw first does it make any difference? I'm afraid I'm not helping, sorry!
