APEX 5: report layouts broken after download

Hi, after switching from 4.02 to 5.0, I´m testing the new environment. Today I run into a problem I cannot solve. I have a lot of report layots stored in the section in Shared components, alle Named Columns RTF format. All these layouts are working fine in the application. But if I download one, the result is a damaged file. MS Word can not open it ('file is damaged' or 'not enough space' ). It also looks like the downloaded file is always bigger then the uploaded source.
I did a test:
- download one layout from a backup server (with APEX 4.02)
- controlled it by opening in Word, all fine
- upload to APEX 5.0
- test in the application, result is ok.
- download again: file size changed from 284kB to 388kB, file is damaged.
Is there any help? - Thank you!

Hi Norbert,
Getting back to your report layout download problem - there is an issue with certain versions of the database, which causes CLOB_TO_BLOB conversion to not always work properly (bug 7459168). This is what is causing the download of your RTF documents to produce invalid results. The files in your database are not affected by this, it's only an issue on export. To work around this database bug we've filed bug 20931298, and we've implemented a fix for this, which will be available with out first patch set, APEX 5.0.1. As usual, I do not have a date yet when this will be available. Can I ask what version of the database you are currently using?
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