OO Writer cannot handle simple RTF documents

[prino]

Writer cannot handle some very simple M$ RTF documents, take this one, included here - save as whatever.RTF. Papersize is A4, 210x297 mm.

=== CUT ===
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\uc1\deff0
{\fonttbl
{\f0\froman\fcharset0\fprq2 Times New Roman;}
{\f2\fmodern\fcharset0\fprq1 Courier New;}
{\f3\fscript\fcharset0\fprq2 Monotype Corsiva;}}
{\*\listtable
{\list\listtemplateid-99\listhybrid
{\listlevel\levelnfc0\levelnfcn0\leveljc0\leveljcn0\levelfollow0\levelstartat1\levelspace0\levelindent0
{\leveltext\leveltemplateid99\'02\'00);}
{\levelnumbers\'01;}\fbias0
\fi-360\li720\jclisttab\tx720\lin720 }
{\listname ;}\listid99}}
{\*\listoverridetable
{\listoverride\listid99\listoverridecount0\ls1}}
\paperw11907\paperh16840\margl992\margr1418\margt567\margb567
\pard\plain \qc \fs20
{\fs24\b\f3 MyCompany Ltd}
{\par }\pard \ql
{\par
\par }
{\b Any Person
\par Complaints Team
\par This Bank
\par FREEPOST
\par Thattown
\par AB1 2CD}
{\par
\par
\par Re: }
{\b A/C 12345678}
{\par
\par Mytown, 23 June 2007,
\par
\par Dear Any Person,
\par
\par}\pard \qj
{I am extremely angry of having to deal with this again, I\rquote m
in the middle of moving home and have more important matters to take
care or in the 36 hours that I\rquote m in Mytown every week!
\par
\par So \'93... We believe this document is referring
to cross border payments in Euros between Countries with Euro Currencies
and does not cover the circumstances highlighted in this case. ... \'93
\par
\par Please do not believe, rely on facts and please read the enclosed
copy of a letter from Mr EU Official, who replied to my complaint
made directly to the legal information service of the EU.
\par
\par Given his reply, I want you to
\par
\par {\listtext\pard\plain \f0 1)\tab}}
\pard \qj \fi-360\li720\tx720\ls1\rin0\lin720\itap0
{Immediately refund these charges, an amount of }
{\b\fs20 GBP 28.00}
{\fs20
\par
{\listtext\pard\plain \f0 2)\tab}Pay me interest on them at a rate of }
{\b 25%, your own unauthorised overdraft rate}
{, for a total amount of }
{\b GBP 2.98 (*)}
{\par {\listtext\pard\plain\fs20 \f0 3)\tab}Compensate me for my time.
I have now spent in excess of three hours dealing with this matter.
Given that this is essentially overtime for me, I have decided to
charge you at my overtime rate, which is 150% of my normal rate of
eur 57.50 per hour, so this adds }
{\b eur 258.75 (GBP 174.31 at the moment of writing this)}
{\fs20 to what you owe me.
\par }\pard \qj
{\par I expect the total amount, }
{\b GBP 205.29}
{, to be credited to my account with you within the next }
{\b five (5)}
{ working days and appear on my June statement. If it is not, I will
indeed contact the FOS, which means that I will have to spend at least
another hour on this matter, which will add another eur 82.25 to the
amount you owe me. I will also continue to charge you 25% interest on
the amount of GBP 28.00 that was deducted and I will start charging
13.50% on the expenses I incurred until now.
\par }\pard \ql
{\par
\par Yours sincerely,
\par
\par
\par
\par
\par Me
\par }
{\ul Director}
{\par
\par
\par
\par
\par
\par
\par
\par
\par
\par
\par
\par
\par }\pard \qj {\fs16 (*) Payments entered my account on 2006-12-04,
2007-01-04, 2007-02-05 and 2007-03-02. The interest as of today is
calculated as (201+170+138+113)/365 * 25% * 7.00 = GBP 2.98.
\par }\pard \ql {\fs20
\par
\par }\pard \qc {\f2\fs16 MyCompany Limited, 999 Anystreet, Mytown, ZY9 8XW
\par Telephone: +44 (0)1234 567890
\par Registered in England No 9999999 Registered office as above }
{\b\f2\fs16 VAT number 123 4567 89}}
=== CUT ===

Problems:

Least serious: The last line ends up on the next page
Very serious: The list is completely screwed up

Yes, I am aware that this is pretty trimmed RTF which I created before switching to OO, but even M$ Wordpad can render it correctly...

Robert

[David]

This is not reply, since I can not resolve the problem. However, Metapad [free text editor], seems to render it properly [formatted] if the file is pasted, but not with File/Open, in which case the text is pasted, but not formatted. Writer will not render formatting that I can see under any circumstance, and pasting yields only the rtf coded text. Unless there is some initial setting to alter this, I'm confused as to similarities, differences, and purposes.

David.

[flaxthejute]

Strangely enough, copying and pasting the text (into Notepad++ 4.1.2) then saving it as new.rtf makes it load perfectly in MSWord and OOo Writer 2.2.1. So, can't confirm this as a bug.

Flax

[prino]

[flaxthejute]

Oops. Your right I get a list that consists of lines without numbers, as in your snippet

Flax

[floris_v]

Word 2002 renders it correctly - with the exception that it doesn't insert spaces at your line breaks:

matter.Given (...) tocharge (...) ofeur (...) etc.

So maybe there's something wrong with your very sparsely coded rtf.

[prino]

The missing spaces are due to my cut & paste of the RTF, either the Paste operation zapped the leading spaces or this bulletinboard system zaps them, so that's not a problem!