Description: Initials don't appear, only an empty space. New Writer document. Create a paragraph of text and chose to make an initial letter (drop cap): it appears a blank space. No matter what font is used. When printing the initial letter appears somewhere south of the expected position. Steps to Reproduce: Create a paragraph of text and chose to make an initial letter (drop cap): it appears a blank space. Actual Results: empty space Expected Results: initial (drop cap) appearing - like in LO 5.2.5 and older Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0
Created attachment 131190 [details] my Writer test file
Created attachment 131191 [details] LO 5.2.5 works
Created attachment 131192 [details] LO 5.3 no drop caps
Created attachment 131193 [details] 5.3 printed as PDF
At first I thought this might be related to bug 101664, but that started earlier. Nevertheless, it might be worth to check if its fix had an impact here. 5.3.1.1 RC build should be out in a few days.
I'd be inclined to mark this as DUP of bug 101664
I see the same display problem of the Dropped Cap in both of the test documents provided in this report and bug 101664, so marking this as DUP of that. DeepFlight5 : please test with a current nightly release, but this should be fixed by now (5.3.1 RC release is not slated til next week). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 101664 ***