Bug 56011

Summary: docbook2rtf produces bad rtf
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Will Backman <whb>
Component: docbook-utilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Will Backman 2001-11-10 16:58:26 UTC 
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Description of problem:

when converting docbook to pdf, ps, rtf, the export to rtf always 
produces a mangled rtf file.  Abiword fails to load it, and MS 
Word2000 opens it, but with one line per page.



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How reproducible:

Always



Steps to Reproduce:

1. create docbook file

2. run "docbook2rtf [file]"

3. open file in favorite word processor

	



Actual Results:  Abiword says it is an invalid file



Expected Results:  I should have seen output similar to my postscript 
and pdf



Additional info:



I noticed this in RedHat Linux 7.1.  Hoped 7.2 would fix it.

Nope.



This is important to me, as I am trying to move our comapny away 
from Word doc format.  My docbooks need to be exportable to a form 
that the "suits" can open in Word and modify.
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2001-11-10 17:31:13 UTC 
Which stylesheet are you using?  I thought this was fixed already when bug 
#49677 got closed.
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2001-11-12 11:20:47 UTC 
Can you give me an example document that renders badly for you?

By the way, I don't think AbiWord's RTF filter is very resilient..
Comment 3 Will Backman 2001-11-12 14:45:34 UTC 
Created attachment 37265 [details]
sample docbook that fails to create rtf
Comment 4 Will Backman 2001-11-12 14:50:37 UTC 
I don't know what stytle sheet I am usung.  I just create the docbook file and
then run the "stadard" tool, docbook2rtf.  I guess I am getting the defaults.
Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2001-11-12 15:06:46 UTC 
Okay, here's what I see when I view the RTF in Ted (a GPL RTF editor):

Page i, book title, "IS Operations Manual".
Page ii blank except for header.
Page iii, table of contents showing the chapter and its two sections.
Page 1 then looks like this:

Chapter 1. Guiding Principals

Organizational Goals
  This is a test paragraph under this section of this chapter. [etc]

Departmental Goals
  This is another paragraph [etc]

AbiWord unsurprisingly doesn't import the RTF file correctly (AbiWord is bad 
at RTF as far as I understand it).  Do I need to view the RTF file in Word 
2000 to see the problem?

Another thing to try is 'docbook2rtf -d none ...'.  Let me know if that 
produces any better RTF output.
Comment 6 Will Backman 2001-11-12 21:13:18 UTC 
docbook2rtf -d none ... fixes it.
Without that "-d none", MS Word2000 showed all the pages with text starting half
way down the page.  Is this a bug, or just a different setting.  Your call I guess.
Comment 7 Tim Waugh 2001-11-12 22:18:01 UTC 
Sounds like a page margins problem in the stylesheet.  BUT, those margins work 
fine for non-RTF output.  Perhaps it's an openjade RTF backend bug.  I'll need 
to investigate a bit further.  Thanks for the feedback.
Comment 8 Tim Waugh 2001-11-12 22:48:33 UTC 
Okay, the last work-around in this area involved tweaking the %bottom-margin%; 
this problem seems to be related to the %top-margin%.

I will attach a modified stylesheet that I'd like you to try.  Save it as 
'margin.dsl', and use 'docbook2rtf -d margin.dsl ...' to try it out.  Let me 
know if that corrects the problem.

Thanks.
Comment 9 Tim Waugh 2001-11-12 22:48:58 UTC 
Created attachment 37322 [details]
margin.dsl
Comment 10 Will Backman 2001-11-14 17:15:13 UTC 
The new margins.dsl produced rtf that MSWord2000 liked.  It did produce an error
during compile, though.
I ran "docbook2rtf -d margin.dsl secpol.docbook"
Error was:
jade:margin.dsl:510:2:E: too many arguments for function
Comment 11 Tim Waugh 2001-11-14 17:18:07 UTC 
Okay, great.  Yes, the error that you saw was my fault, oops.
Comment 12 Tim Waugh 2001-11-17 14:21:51 UTC 
Fixed in docbook-utils 0.6.9-9.