Re: NeoOffice OpenOffice truncates display of an rtf file

Thanks all who confirmed. The 16 bit word size is a great observation!

I have still not successfully gotten an account at openoffice.org to
log the error. I registered over a day ago, but can't get in. It tells
me I need to register, then when I try it tells me I'm already
registered. A catch 22 loop. I guess this may explain the quality of
the code too? I just complained to the webmaster per instructions on
the failure page... sigh... newsgroups are so superior...

btw, anyone else is free to log it at openoffice if they have the
ability. Maybe if half a dozen of us do it will get noticed!!!

Thanks!!!

And as to why it hasn't been noticed. I suspect very few people handle
rtf format files. And maybe, there just aren't that many openoffice
users either???

P. Sture wrote:
In article <1j6g8dq.iwxq841evv56oN%jrijnb@xxxxxxxxx>,
jrijnb@xxxxxxxxx (Hans Rijnbout) wrote:

John <jhy001@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I now have a test file that contains no copyrighted material and fails
to display fully. I put it at jytangledweb.org/TEST.rtf .

This file displays fully with TextEdit, but truncates with the latest
general release versions (see below) of NeoOffice and OpenOffice, for
me at least.

Mac OS X 10.4.11, NeoOffice 2.2.5 patch 14

TextEdit and Textwrangler display the file in full.
NeoOffice stops at 65535, which happens to be 2^16 - 1.
So apparently NeoOffice is restricted to a 16 bit character count.

OpenOffice also claims there are 65535 characters (Properties - statistics).

65535 is the maximum value which can fit in an 2 byte integer, but I find it hard to believe that no-one has come across this before.

I've just confirmed that when saving it from OO as a text (.txt) file then opening that in TextWrangler, only 65537 bytes are saved. I.e. it's not just a display problem, but truncates the file written out.

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