This bug occurs with both 5.0.6.3 as well as 5.2.4.2. I have a .odt document containing an academic paper. The figures in this paper are in flames, positioned relative to the page. The first figure caption contains two equations. These are the first equations to appear in the document. The document also makes use of JabRef for the bibliography. Every time I save my document, then close it, then re-open in, the first *two* equations in the document disappear. They are replaced by a white box of the same size as the equation, but the box is just white and no longer behaves like a formula. If I re-enter the first equation by deleting the white box and re-typing the first equation, then coincidently, the second equation also re-appears all by itself. Clearly this document has become corrupted in some way. I don't know how I can uncorrupt it. I don't want to post the whole file here as it is a paper in press, but I will be happy to send it to anyone able to look into this issue for me -- my email address is john.pye@anu.edu.au. Would really appreciate this, I think this relates to another bug I filed about frames in LO, I think there are some serious bugs in this area relating to behaviour of (indexing of?) objects in frames, so I hope this can be addressed.
Also wanted to add that the problem occurs on both Windows and Linux.
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Created attachment 130647 [details] sample document, partly anonymised this file will load with errors, visible as gaps in the caption of the first image.
Created attachment 130648 [details] screen shot after the file is saved, before closing the file Note the equations are visible here.
Created attachment 130649 [details] screenshot after re-opening the file note the missing equations. this happens every time, on windows as well as on Linux.
The requested documents are there. Please take a look and confirm if you can.
(In reply to john from comment #3) > Created attachment 130647 [details] > sample document, partly anonymised > > this file will load with errors, visible as gaps in the caption of the first > image. The two equations below the images on the first page are already invisible upon opening. If I place my cursor before either of the "white boxes" and use Delete to remove a space, both the formulas immediately appear. I looked inside the content.xml of the file and this is the markup for the first problematic formula in case someone understands the cause: <text:span text:style-name="T91"> <draw:frame draw:style-name="fr12" draw:name="Object27" text:anchor-type="as-char" svg:y="-0.282cm" svg:width="1.266cm" svg:height="0.351cm" draw:z-index="62"> <draw:object xlink:href="./Object 39" xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad" /> <draw:image xlink:href="./ObjectReplacements/Object 39" xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad" /> </draw:frame> </text:span> Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5 Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 63fd4c97118a943c84ba5a666cf8c9cc54b511c7 CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Linux 4.8; UI Render: default; VCL: kde4; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group Built on January 22th 2016
Ping, any thoughts on this issue? Trying to work on this document is infuriating, as the formula disappear every time I re-open it. Could the 'importance' of this bug please be increased, since no work-around is known?
(In reply to john from comment #8) > Could the 'importance' of this bug please be increased, since no work-around > is known? I could raise it, if the formulas disappeared for real, but now they are just invisible upon opening. Confirmed with 3.3 already. Arch Linux 64-bit LibreOffice 3.3.0 OOO330m19 (Build:6) tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4
They do disappear 'for real'. If I save my document, then re-open it, then print or export as PDF... no formulae! I uploaded my conference paper recently to the conference organisers, and received feedback that my formulas were missing. Embarrassing! Also, there is no workaround. There is nothing I have been able to do to the document to stop this problem re-occurring. However it is that my document is corrupted (or whatever it is that the bug in LibreOffice might be), the equations just keep disappearing every time I load the file. I have tried deleting them and re-creating them, etc etc, but it keeps happening.
(In reply to john from comment #10) > They do disappear 'for real'. I was referring to a case, where one could not get them to reappear.
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Yes, this bug is still present in Version: 5.4.6.2 Build ID: 1:5.4.6~rc2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); Calc: group
Created attachment 142149 [details] sample document, single page Repro with 6.1+. Since sample document is too long, I add just 1st page which shows the problem. Formulae in frame work if created from scratch, this is something specific to this part of document.
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This big is still present in 6.2.6.2. Additionally, the empty frames now appear in the wrong location, making it harder to use the workaround. Activating one of the formulae, then escaping out of the forumula editor brings back the invisible equations, as before. Version: 6.2.6.2 Build ID: 1:6.2.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1~lo1 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
Dennis Francis committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/318229900fe6d30d9b82256d908dadda8b2f4d61 tdf#105481 : Do not skip invalidation of as-char anchored objects It will be available in 6.5.0. 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.
Dennis Francis committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-6-4": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/7dd84a761202097c3afda7fe8296604791b58d2f tdf#105481 : Do not skip invalidation of as-char anchored objects It will be available in 6.4.0.1. 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.