Bug 88697

Summary:	export to word 2003 .doc format omits bibliography entries
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Yury <yury.tarasievich>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	barta, mst.fdo
Version:	4.3.0.4 release	Keywords:	regression
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58300
Whiteboard:	bibisectRequest
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	initial ODT, biblio numkeys initial ODT, biblio textkeys resulting DOC, numkeys, exported from 4.0.2.1 resulting DOC, numkeys, exported from 4.3.6.1 resulting DOC, textkeys, exported from 4.0.2.1 resulting DOC, textkeys, exported from 4.3.6.1

Description Yury 2015-01-22 09:21:55 UTC

When I export ODT from 4.3.6.1 to MS Word 2003 .doc format, all bibliography entries are omitted, either when referenced by numbers or by shortnames (textkey == name of entry).

When I do the same from 4.0.2.1, bibliography entries are exported as plain text (so, plain [1] or [Name], not special fields). This isn't ideal (export to "real" Word bib entries would be better), but anyhow is way, way better than the current behaviour, which seems to be a regression.

Importing either .doc goes okay into either 4.0.2.1 or 4.3.6.1, so it's export-related only.

Attached are: two initial ODTs, with bibliography entries displayed by 1) numkeys and 2) textkeys (prepared in 4.3.6.1) and the respective export results (informative filenames).

Comment 1 Yury 2015-01-22 09:22:41 UTC

Created attachment 112649 [details]
initial ODT, biblio numkeys

Comment 2 Yury 2015-01-22 09:23:13 UTC

Created attachment 112650 [details]
initial ODT, biblio textkeys

Comment 3 Yury 2015-01-22 09:24:10 UTC

Created attachment 112651 [details]
resulting DOC, numkeys, exported from 4.0.2.1

Comment 4 Yury 2015-01-22 09:24:39 UTC

Created attachment 112652 [details]
resulting DOC, numkeys, exported from 4.3.6.1

Comment 5 Yury 2015-01-22 09:25:14 UTC

Created attachment 112653 [details]
resulting DOC, textkeys, exported from 4.0.2.1

Comment 6 Yury 2015-01-22 09:25:52 UTC

Created attachment 112654 [details]
resulting DOC, textkeys, exported from 4.3.6.1

Comment 7 tommy27 2015-01-23 04:40:30 UTC

I confirm bug with loss of bibliography entries in all versions from 4.3.0 to recent 4.5.0 alpha under Win8.1 x64

in 4.2.7 the entries are exported as plain text.

so basically it's a 4.3.x regression and the 4.2.x management was not perfect too.

status NEW.
I add regression keyword, bibisectRequest to whiteboard and Writer expert to CC list

maybe this is somehow related to Bug 58300 - FILEOPEN: lost bibliography entries/empty bibliography index when saving as .doc or .docx

Comment 8 Yury 2015-01-23 05:38:11 UTC

Same kind of problem as in #58300, but not the same one, precisely. Like my demos show, it had been made good at least for the time of 4.0.2.1.

Comment 9 tommy27 2015-01-23 06:42:15 UTC

the regression according to my test happened in between 4.2.7 and 4.3.0

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