On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 00:03, Istvan Gabor wrote:

A few years ago (in 2006) I made documents in openoffice writer, but I can't remember which exact openoffice version I used. (I guess it could be openoffice 2.x.) I included tables in the documents and set the text so that it perfectly fit the table window. I opened those files yesterday (in openoffice 3.1.1 and libreoffice 3.4) and found that the text does not fit in the tables. The end of the text is cut and a small red mark is shown in the lower right corner of the table. The text font is arial and I don't use font replacement table.

My questions:

1. Why the documents look different now from the originals? Is it possible that openoffice is not compatible with its earlier version? (As I recall Microsoft Word was/is famous for that). 2. How could I detect which version of openoffice created those files? Is this information recorded in the files and if so, can it be retrieved? 3. How can I get the original view without editing the text in openoffice after opening?

Well... if you edited the doc in 2006 using the latest release at the time, that was likely to be OOo 2.0.1 to 2.0.3. The ODTs created with Writer in 2.x should not be any different in 3.x. The first thing that comes to mind is fonts... are you 100% certain that the exact same font is being used to show the document? and that you're not seeing the result of a font substitution? ie.. is it really Arial and not Liberation Sans that is being used? (Arial isn't usually installed by default, but Liberation Sans is, and Liberation Sans is a typical substitution for Arial) You can unzip the ODT and look at the raw contents. The meta.xml file should tell you what was used to generate the document - look for the meta:generator tag. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org