Bug 107106 - PDF export of hidden paragraphs (workaround: print to PDF with "hidden text")
Summary: PDF export of hidden paragraphs (workaround: print to PDF with "hidden text")
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: filter:pdf
Depends on:
Blocks: PDF-Export
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Reported: 2017-04-12 04:42 UTC by Mohith Manoj
Modified: 2024-10-15 03:14 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
Original text document (21.14 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2017-04-12 04:43 UTC, Mohith Manoj
Details
PDF created after hiding hidden paragraphs (18.08 KB, application/pdf)
2017-04-12 04:43 UTC, Mohith Manoj
Details
PDF created without hiding hidden paragraphs first (18.08 KB, application/pdf)
2017-04-12 04:44 UTC, Mohith Manoj
Details

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Description Mohith Manoj 2017-04-12 04:42:34 UTC
* Situation
A document with regular text, hidden paragraphs and TOC is about to be exported to PDF / printed (TOC.odt)

* Condition 1
Hidden paragraphs are retained hidden ('View > Hidden Paragraphs' unchecked), TOC is updated and printed / exported to PDF.

* Expectation 1
Print / PDF created with hidden paragraphs excluded and TOC referring to page numbers as seen in the writer document.

* Result 1
Print / PDF created with TOC referring to correct page numbers (TOC - HP Hidden.pdf).

* Condition 2
Hidden paragraphs are visible ('View > Hidden Paragraphs' checked), TOC is updated  (because it does not updated automatically on print / export, Bug 44448) and printed / exported to PDF.

* Expectation 2
Print / PDF created with hidden paragraphs excluded and TOC referring to page numbers after excluding the hidden paragraphs.

* Result 2
Print / PDF created with hidden paragraphs hidden but TOC referring to page numbers before excluding the hidden paragraphs (TOC - HP Visible.pdf).
Comment 1 Mohith Manoj 2017-04-12 04:43:13 UTC
Created attachment 132493 [details]
Original text document
Comment 2 Mohith Manoj 2017-04-12 04:43:57 UTC
Created attachment 132494 [details]
PDF created after hiding hidden paragraphs
Comment 3 Mohith Manoj 2017-04-12 04:44:44 UTC
Created attachment 132495 [details]
PDF created without hiding hidden paragraphs first
Comment 4 Xisco Faulí 2017-04-12 08:33:34 UTC
Confirmed in

Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 7635e0c1c7f821a1081f8e3868f641ae74a172d6
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; 
Locale: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group

and

LibreOffice 3.3.0 
OOO330m19 (Build:6)
tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4

TOC should be referring to page 1 when printing the document to PDF and hidden Paragraphs is enabled.
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2018-04-13 02:32:21 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Timur 2019-01-18 15:40:46 UTC
If I understand well, Condition 1 is OK and Condition 2 NOK.
I guess Condition 2 meant this:
* Expectation 2
Print / PDF created with hidden paragraphs INcluded and TOC referring to page numbers after INcluding the hidden paragraphs.
* Result 2
Print / PDF created withOUT hidden paragraphs but TOC referring to page numbers before INcluding the hidden paragraphs (TOC - HP Visible.pdf).

Reporter already noted Bug 44448 as a possible ToC solution. Other solution would be to check ToC presence after turning on/off hidden text. 
But bug is not about "ToC update", rather about exporting hidden paragraphs.

There's Bug 99995 for hidden text and this one looks similar. But I keep it separate for hidden paragraphs in PDF. Print works. I'll change the title. 

Let me add a workaround to PDF export that misses hidden text: print with "Hidden text" in Print dialog. 
Note: while in Tools -> Options -> LO Writer Hidden characters, hidden text and hidden paragraphs are different, File-Print-LO Writer's Hidden text seems to include it all.
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2022-10-15 03:39:35 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2024-10-15 03:14:09 UTC
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