Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: abiword
Unable able to consistently reproduce, but this has happened to me twice in the
past 24 hours. The exact steps that happen are that I'm editing a fairly
complex and big rtf document, saving quite a bit (every major change), and so
on.
Eventually, I start to see slow downs (times when the mouse is almost laggy or
applications aren't switching very fast), so I save my document and exit
abiword immediately. When I reopen abiword and try to open my document I was
editing I get "Error importing file: <filename>.rtf". <filename>, of course,
was the file I was editing.
The first time this happend I just opened it in gedit and was able to
recover my text. The second time this happened I vi'd the file and
compared it to a good rtf I just made in abiword. The now corrupted RTF
contained this at the very bottom:
\pard\plain\ltrpar\ql\sl240\slmult1\intbl\itap1{\f1\fs20\lang1033{\*\listtag0}
$40,950.00}\cell{\*\abiendcell}\row}{\*\abiendtable}\par
\pard\plain\ltrpar\ql\itap0\par
The known good RTF contained something like this:
{\s28\f0\fs24\lang1033{\*\listtag0}\par}}
So I just added two }} to the end of the corrupted RTF and I could open
it and reedit again.
** Affects: abiword (Ubuntu)
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
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Abiword occasionally corrupts RTF documents
https://launchpad.net/bugs/49993
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