Bug 146885

Summary: Distorted text when drag-select across pages
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: cupax <megadirettore>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA    
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.2.5.2 release   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Windows (All)   
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Description cupax 2022-01-20 18:46:20 UTC 
Description:
Hello.
I’ve been testing the LibreOffice (and OpenOffice before that) literally for two decades now.
Every single time I gave up using it because of a bug in one single thing a word editor should be able to do in the very first place: displaying text!

Drag-selecting text over multiple pages would distort it, add white lines, deform it or even delete entire lines.

I have the “smooth scrolling” enabled in settings. Without that enabled, Writer is completely unusable when selecting text because of a screen jumping.

For me this is a very serious bug that has been present forever and should be fixed ASAP.

Take a look at my screen grab below:
https://postimg.cc/qgt3JZCy

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In setting enable "smooth scrolling"
2. Type a very long text, multiple pages
3. Drag select a part of this text moving through multiple pages up and down. The text gets distorted.

Actual Results:
Distorted text, crossed with while horizontal lines, displaced or missing lines...

Expected Results:
Displaying just normal text without deformations. I think, this is a very core feature a word editor should be able to do flawlessly.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 7.2.5.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 499f9727c189e6ef3471021d6132d4c694f357e5
CPU threads: 32; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: default; VCL: win
Locale: sl-SI (sl_SI); UI: sl-SI
Calc: CL
Comment 1 Timur 2022-01-21 10:14:22 UTC 
You should be aware how things are done in OSS: do it yourself, find or pay someone fix it or just wait, sometimes days but also decades. You can do a good bug report. 
Did you look in thousands of other reports? Hard to imagine nobody reported in those years. There are already "smooth scroll" bugs.
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2022-07-21 03:34:06 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2022-08-21 03:37:43 UTC 
Dear cupax,

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Your bug report is being closed as INSUFFICIENTDATA due to inactivity and
a lack of information which is needed in order to accurately
reproduce and confirm the problem. We encourage you to retest
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