Bug 101847 - Formatting in presentation saved as .pptx - multiple incompatible alignment
Summary: Formatting in presentation saved as .pptx - multiple incompatible alignment
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All macOS (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2016-09-01 19:00 UTC by jimrussell98116
Modified: 2016-09-02 18:37 UTC (History)
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Attachments
screenshot illustrating multiple incompatible selections (132.99 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2016-09-01 19:03 UTC, jimrussell98116
Details
screenshot illustrating multiple incompatible selections, still (1.19 MB, image/tiff)
2016-09-02 18:11 UTC, jimrussell98116
Details

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Description jimrussell98116 2016-09-01 19:00:05 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36
Build Identifier: LibreOffice 5.1.4.2

Format Align bring up a menu with two sections: Align Left | Center Horizontally | Align Right | Justified above a line and Align Top | Center Vertically | Align Bottom below the line. Only one choice should be active in each section, and indicated as so with a check mark. However, once a feature is selected above the line, picking another leaves both the 1st and the 2nd (and if you continue a 3rd and finally all of them) are checked and active. They are mutually incompatible, and the results are nonsensical.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. position cursor in a text box
2. in main menu, choose Format - Align
3. pick any item in the upper list, in addition to whatever is already checked
Actual Results:  
more than one item in the upper list is checked

Expected Results:  
check mark should move from former position to newly chosen list item, disappearing from its former position

[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: PresentationDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Mac OS X (All)
OS is 64bit: no <- you auto-filled this as no, but in fact the OS is 64 bit


Reset User Profile?No <- your instructions for finding it are insufficient on a Mac, as Library is hidden and I don't recall how to expose it
Comment 1 jimrussell98116 2016-09-01 19:03:48 UTC
Created attachment 127113 [details]
screenshot illustrating multiple incompatible selections
Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2016-09-02 07:31:06 UTC
No repro with 

Version: 5.2.0.4
Build ID: 066b007f5ebcc236395c7d282ba488bca6720265
CPU Threads: 2; OS Version: Mac OS X 10.11.6; UI Render: default; 
Locale: en-GB (fr.UTF-8)


WFM

Please update to the latest release and report back.
Comment 3 Alex Thurgood 2016-09-02 07:35:10 UTC
It is also fixed worksforme in

Version: 5.1.5.2
Build ID: 7a864d8825610a8c07cfc3bc01dd4fce6a9447e5
CPU Threads: 2; OS Version: Mac OS X 10.11.6; UI Render: default; 
Locale: en-GB (fr.UTF-8); Calc: group
Comment 4 jimrussell98116 2016-09-02 18:11:17 UTC
Created attachment 127129 [details]
screenshot illustrating multiple incompatible selections, still
Comment 5 jimrussell98116 2016-09-02 18:37:48 UTC
See discussion following bug 101847, which as you'll see seems to be prematurely closed. 

At the closer's recommendation, I installed the latest "release" of LibreOffice, which your site identifies as "Fresh" (I have preferred to remain on more stable "Still" releases (I'm currently on 5.1.4.2), which, when queried with Help-Check for Updates says it is up to date). On opening (sometimes and not others), it complained that "LibreOffice requires a Java runtime environment (JRE) to perform this task. The selected JRE is defective. Please select another  ...". Following its instructions, it finds none to choose from.
 
Next I wandered into a morass of non-LibreOffice instructions (LibreOffice did not explain how to get a new, working JRE), wading through stuff about Java, JavaDB, JDK, Java SE and finally finding an obscure link about JRE. There's a bunch of warnings complaining about how Oracle and Apple don't get along. Finally, I find and download the apparently latest JRE. When I run its installer (for 1.8.1.1.13), I get a notification that I have an even more recent version (1.8.102.14) already installed, and that I shouldn't go backwards. Neither "Fresh" nor "Still" detects this JRE (installed to satisfy some other application, if I recall correctly).

"Fresh" opens anyway when I close the JRE Defective dialog. The bug reported at 101847 remains (see attachment).

If I now run "Still" on my computer, it complains (sometimes) about JRE being defective as well. Like "Fresh" it then goes on to open anyway (no hint by either about what "this task" is). I've selected to turn off JRE in LibreOffice (Preferences-Advanced, uncheck the box). Now on opening LibreOffice I get "Enable JRE? LibreOffice requires a Java runtime enfironment (JRE) to perform this task...". Still no explanation of what "this task" is, and (again apart from this rather obscure bug under Impress Format) LibreOffice appears to work fine.

This is all very confusing and unsatisfying. It's not like I haven't tried.

I should not have to be a Java expert to figure out how to run LibreOffice.