Bug 108716 - Writer: SVG, TEXT, spacing, sorting, copying, displaying bugs galore
Summary: Writer: SVG, TEXT, spacing, sorting, copying, displaying bugs galore
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All macOS (All)
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Reported: 2017-06-23 12:17 UTC by DeepFlight5
Modified: 2018-01-29 10:36 UTC (History)
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Description DeepFlight5 2017-06-23 12:17:22 UTC
BUG 1) LO Writer forgets how items are stacked upon another after reopening of a document. It forgets the order of sorting if there are two or three SVGs laying upon another (or a text frame on a SVG image) and are sorted by "send to back" and "send to front". Sometimes when opening a documents it is OK, oftentimes it is messed up. LO does not remember how they were put. This messes up the design of a document and one cannot trust LO Writer. This bug happens often, after inserting additional SVGs on other pages of the document, then closing the document and open it again.

BUG 2) I write several Writer documents including SVG files. Then I put them together by "manual page break", so they are in one document but separate from each other. Sadly this is in LO Writer only theoretically. If I edit one document in the middle of the put together document, and the text exceeds over the end of that document, SVGs in the following documents disappear until I reopen the whole document.

BUG 3) You have a main Writer document. When adding (by manual page break) a second document that includes SVGs, those SVGs are not imported. You have to manually place them from the second document to the main document. JPG images are also not imported.

BUG 4) If you have a JPG image and use the context menu command to add a description, it creates a frame around the picture, but the image doesn’t sit exactly on top of the frame bit 1 millimetre below. The created text has huge spacing, but using the paragraph command and make the line spacing 80 or 90 % proportional messes up the placing of the image, some parts disappear.

BUG 5) When proportionally reducing "line width" of a paragraph (for example to 90 %) the first and second line move closer together than the others. If further reducing line width this effect becomes more severe.

BUG 6) When I copy parts of a Writer document (text, image, SVG) by pressing CMD-C (on OSX) Writer oftentimes (in three out of four cases) inserts at this place a bookmark.

BUG 7) In full-screen mode it is possible to edit a Writer document, but it is impossible to save it. CMD-S (on OSX) doesn’t work.

BUG 8) Moving selected text from a Writer document to the OSX desktop (called Finder) deletes the text from the Writer document. Expected behaviour is simply to place a Text-Clip on the desktop with the text in the Writer document unaltered (as any text application in OSX does).

BUG 9) LO 5.3 seems to have changed the font-rendering. All fonts in sizes of 12 point or lower (the usual size for editing documents) have terrible spacing, letters move/smear into another, spaces disappear. With this major bug I’m stuck with LO 5.2.7.2. Designing a newsletter in WYSIWYG is now impossible.

Finally: I always have to triple check, if there are missing SVGs and messed up designs, when I am opening a Writer document. I don’t do anything exotic, but LO is quite buggy for serious use. Meanwhile I know how to work around all those bugs, but it costs time.

LO 5.2.7.2 and older
Comment 1 Alex Thurgood 2017-06-26 07:35:32 UTC
@DeepFlight5 : 

Please file separate bug reports for each issue you are experiencing. When doing so, it would be helpful if you could check to see whether your bug has already been reported first - the bug submission assistant will make suggestions in this regard whilst you are typing the title of your bug.


Additionally, please also either provide a sample document in which you experience the problem, with instructions on how to reproduce the buggy behaviour, or a series of step by step instructions on how to see the bug. Thank you for your assistance in this, it makes our volunteer QA triaging job easier and benefits all in the long run.
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2018-01-02 10:15:35 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2018-01-29 10:36:34 UTC
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