Issue 1736 - Plain text formatting error
Summary: Plain text formatting error
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 638
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P1 (highest) Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: eric.savary
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2001-09-30 00:51 UTC by prgmgr
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:56 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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2001-09-30 00:52 UTC, prgmgr 		no flags Details
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Description prgmgr 2001-09-30 00:51:01 UTC 
txtspacing.txt contains text that is formatted in a table structure.

When OpenOffice 638 loads the file, it does not preserve the spacing 
correctly.  This is reflected in all views, the page preview mode as well as a 
hardcopy printout.

Notepad, Write, MS Word 2000 and Gvim all preserve the spacing correctly.

txtspacing.txt is an Unix format file.  I tried loading the file using all the 
available text file formats.

Just to isolate the issue from the format of the file, I created a file called 
table.txt that contained text in a table structure in Notepad.  OpenOffice also 
did not preserve the formatting correctly.  The other reference programs ( 
Gvim, MS Word, etc ) did not have the same issue.
Comment 1 prgmgr 2001-09-30 00:52:03 UTC 
Created attachment 529 [details]
Test file
Comment 2 prgmgr 2001-09-30 00:52:28 UTC 
Created attachment 530 [details]
Test file
Comment 3 stefan.baltzer 2001-10-08 14:14:10 UTC 
REassigned to Eric.
Comment 4 eric.savary 2001-10-08 16:29:51 UTC 
Ooo uses "Thorndale" (non propotional font) as default font. Wordpad and Word the same font (for instance Arial) which mean the spaces will have the same size when formatted with the same (or an other but proportional font).
Simply format your text in "Courrier" or an other proportional font after import.
Comment 5 eric.savary 2001-10-08 16:30:26 UTC 
closing