Bug 50108

Summary: Broken compatibility
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: skiani
Component: LibreOfficeAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal CC: LibreOffice
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.5.2 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description skiani 2012-05-18 20:10:35 UTC 
I'm not sure where exactly to file this but a resent "fix" has significant repercussions for end users. My understanding is that the graphics render in 3.5 was changed to match ODF spec, which all sounds fine, except graphics generated in pre-3.5 were all perfect just not matching spec (I have files near 10 years old that are just fine). So fix was to "import" pre 3.5 files and convert them to match the ODF spec, this was fix in 3.5.2. This would all be fine in a world that everyone was forced to upgrade at the same time.

The reality on the ground is that we have a broad mix of LO and OOo versions. This fix horribly breaks graphics for non-LO 3.5+ users. In my situation that means we have had to ban 3.5 from our company because change will impact users in multiple offices and partner IT departments many of which are running OOo and are not willing to change. It is also not clear that Apache will interpret spec the same way as well. Bottomline is that now we have situation where if I generate a file (say a presentation) in 3.5.2+ there is a good chance most of people I send that file to will see a jumbled mess! That is one sure fire way to have people loose confidence is a product.

The bug I'm referring to is 47406.

Thanks.
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-05-19 00:02:35 UTC 
No idea what reporter wants to tell us, seems to be a continuation of barren discussion in "Bug 47406".

@skiani@alum.mit.edu
Please feel free to reopen this bug if you know a bug in current LibreOffice and if you can provide useful NEW information. Repeating old arguments and whining is not new and not useful.

If you need a converter making old buggy documents readable with current LibO versions so that they can be saved as correct ODF documents, submit a new Bug for that request with concrete and complete information due to <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport>  and add me to CC, we will try to find a solution. 

Anything else will be time wasting.