Bad display of layout and characters in a MS Word .rtf

Hi Eberhard

Conversion between formats can be problematical at the best of times. The problem may be the way MS Word created the rtf file in the first place. Can you try saving on the Mac as a doc file and see if that converts any better? The other problem you may have is with fonts. Does the Mac have fonts which you Ubuntu system does not? You could try installing the msttcorefonts package.

In a terminal, enter

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Enter your password when prompted.

Tony

Hello Tony,
the funny thing is that the layout and characters are displayed correcty in some parts of the .rtf and in others not... and what about these little squares instead of the characters in some lines? It stays the same when I save the document as a .doc and open it with OO.
Thank you
Eberhard

Hi Eberhard

The little squares may be a font problem, or it may be that the point size is set so small the characters cannot display properly. Without seeing an example, I can't really tell what is going on.

Are you loading the rtf into OOo and saving as a doc? That will not change things. You need to go back to the Mac and do it. You could have a look at the documents on the Mac and see if you can find something different about the sections which don't display properly.

Tony

By the way, you are asking all your questions in the OOo package section. You need to specify the correct package. If you don't know the package, just go to

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/

and ask the question there.

I changed it into a .doc on my mac and it looks the same... The point size is the same in all the text and is shown correcty in most parts. I use OO 3.0.

Hi Eberhard,

I suppose the problem are umlauts (ö,ä,ß).
Ubuntu uses utf-8 code. All signs, which are not in the utf-8 (or on another position) are displayed as squares.
Are you saving your files on the Mac and then copy them to an Ubuntu partition, or are you opening the files directly on the Mac harddisk?

Hello Ernst,
The files have been saven on my mac with OSX and are reopened from a cardreader on a notebook with Ubuntu. Whole lines of characters are shown as squares, Umlaute are shown correctly and are not the problem.

So you have lines of text you can read,
and lines where the characters are replaced by empty squares,
and you can view the original document on your Mac?
So find out what the difference is in those lines (on your mac).
Most surely a Font (perhaps with special attributes [shadows, underline, background color etc.]) is not available.
Perhaps you can change those parts in the originating document.
If all else fails (saving as .doc was already suggested) save the Document as a text (.txt) file, open it in OOo and make it look the way you want it to.
And, if your problem is solved, be so kind and mark this Question as solved.