Bug 70195 - FILESAVE: DOCX export of empty header\footer exports wrong distance from top\bottom (seen only in MSWord)
Summary: FILESAVE: DOCX export of empty header\footer exports wrong distance from top\...
Status: REOPENED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.2.0.0.alpha0+ Master
Hardware: All All
: medium trivial
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: BSA
Keywords: filter:docx
: 136065 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: DOCX-Header-Footer
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Reported: 2013-10-06 14:03 UTC by Adam CloudOn
Modified: 2024-09-30 14:02 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Attachments
DOCX containing an empty header (11.16 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2013-10-06 14:03 UTC, Adam CloudOn
Details
DOCX exported by LO with wrong header distance from top and wrong footer distance from bottom (5.46 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2013-10-06 14:04 UTC, Adam CloudOn
Details
Screenshot comparison between original DOCX and exported DOCX (66.71 KB, image/png)
2013-10-06 14:07 UTC, Adam CloudOn
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Description Adam CloudOn 2013-10-06 14:03:33 UTC
Created attachment 87189 [details]
DOCX containing an empty header

Problem description: 
When LO imports a document with no header\footer - and exports it back to DOCX - the header has a distance of 0 from the top (instead of 36) and the footer has a distance of 0 from the bottom (instead of 36).

Steps to reproduce:
1. Load attached DOCX in LO
2. Save as NEW.DOCX
3. Load NEW.DOCX in Word
4. Header is in distance of 0 from top, footer in distance of 0 from bottom

Current behavior:
In exported file the header is in distance of 0 from top, footer in distance of 0 from bottom

Expected behavior:
In exported file the header should be in distance of 36 from top, footer in distance of 36 from bottom

Please Note !
If you 'inspect' the file in Word and remove the document information - this problem doesn't happen (so don't do it if you want to reproduce the bug).
              
Operating System: All
Version: 4.2.0.0.alpha0+ Master
Comment 1 Adam CloudOn 2013-10-06 14:04:05 UTC
Created attachment 87190 [details]
DOCX exported by LO with wrong header distance from top and wrong footer distance from bottom
Comment 2 Adam CloudOn 2013-10-06 14:07:08 UTC
Created attachment 87191 [details]
Screenshot comparison between original DOCX and exported DOCX
Comment 3 tommy27 2014-10-25 06:27:45 UTC
I don't have MS Word to test, so please give an update of the bug status with current LibO 4.3.2.2 or 4.4.0.0 master

I set status back to UNCONFIRMED since the status NEW has to be set only after independent confirmation by another user
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2015-12-20 16:21:44 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete, spam)
Comment 5 Justin L 2018-08-23 18:19:19 UTC
What happens if top margin is less than the default 720? Word still uses header=720 - it doesn't come into effect until the header is enabled, so just a default.

fix proposed at https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/59523
Comment 6 Commit Notification 2018-08-25 05:50:22 UTC
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=7413216e02be9b2f8eb39d550c297021e92ef299

tdf#70195 docx export: default header/footer at 720

It will be available in 6.2.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 7 Commit Notification 2018-12-31 01:12:20 UTC
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/63b32bff885169ef77f86b205257fb573da7b70c%5E%21

Revert "tdf#70195 docx export: default header/footer at 720"

It will be available in 6.3.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 8 Justin L 2019-01-28 16:41:45 UTC
Problems found with the patch so it is reverted in master and proposed to be reverted in 6.2, where it was first introduced. https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/67020
Comment 9 Commit Notification 2019-01-31 09:28:58 UTC
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-6-2":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/7a527a9e61bccf7a8b02ed80a9a3075261be81f9%5E%21

Revert "tdf#70195 docx export: default header/footer at 720"

It will be available in 6.2.1.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 10 Justin L 2020-06-18 08:22:57 UTC
somehow, the regression was tied to bug 113849 comment 13
Comment 11 Justin L 2020-06-18 11:52:38 UTC
Marking as very trivial, since this ONLY affects a WORD user when they want to ADD a header/footer. In that case, it will be touching the edge of the page instead of the default of 1.25cm from the edge. The user would need to change the "layout" of the "Page" to adjust that value.

But it is not trivial to fix, because things get messy with exactly what the values mean, and how dynamic spacing interoperates.
Comment 12 Mike Kaganski 2020-08-24 13:18:52 UTC
*** Bug 136065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***