Bug 118460 - Legal Document Has Lots of Issues in LibreOffice
Summary: Legal Document Has Lots of Issues in LibreOffice
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.0.4.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2018-06-29 17:36 UTC by Joel Madero
Modified: 2018-07-03 15:34 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Attachments
Problematic Document (82.77 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2018-06-29 17:37 UTC, Joel Madero
Details
LibreOffice PDF Export (110.06 KB, application/pdf)
2018-06-29 17:37 UTC, Joel Madero
Details
MS Office PDF Print (44.23 KB, application/pdf)
2018-06-29 17:38 UTC, Joel Madero
Details

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Description Joel Madero 2018-06-29 17:36:16 UTC
Description:
Hi All,

I'm happy to divide this up over multiple bug reports but that'll take more time so hopefully one is enough. This document is from a template that we use in my office for our trial briefs. I was hoping to slowly move to LibreOffice entirely at work but this document shows why that is currently impossible.

Problems Listed:
(1) Line numbering not respected, in MS Office the first line corresponds with "SUNORNORYSR STYSPTTTXN" in LibreOffice the first line is actually pretty much between these two lines: "ZRysputy ZRrststrrstzt Xttornysy, SXN ttrstt8awertt" & "tttttt TTT. Strysyst, Sursttys rws000"
(2) Margins not respected at all - in particular at the bottom, in MS Office there is no overlap into the footer (and beyond) while in LibreOffice text from the body overlaps footer/margin area substantially
(3) Related to 2 - I'd imagine largely because of 2, the actual words don't match up to the pages, any court would reject this document if it came from LibreOffice;
(4) Footer - completely missing
(5) Page # on the bottom center - completely missing
(6) Related to 2 and 3 maybe - the actual page count is significantly different. MS Office has the document at 11 pages, LibreOffice has it at 9. Could be entirely due to #2 and #3

I am still looking over the documents but figured this is a good start.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open attached document in LibreOffice and MS Office
2. Compare the points listed in the description

Actual Results:
See description.

Expected Results:
Should be the same product with MSO and LibreOffice


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
I honestly think that this qualifies for major as it demonstrates serious interop issues. But I'll leave that to others to judge.
Comment 1 Joel Madero 2018-06-29 17:37:05 UTC
Created attachment 143211 [details]
Problematic Document

This document shows a few serious interop problems that make doing professional quality work nearly impossible.
Comment 2 Joel Madero 2018-06-29 17:37:55 UTC
Created attachment 143212 [details]
LibreOffice PDF Export
Comment 3 Joel Madero 2018-06-29 17:38:54 UTC
Created attachment 143213 [details]
MS Office PDF Print
Comment 4 Dieter 2018-06-30 15:44:26 UTC
Hi Joel, I agree, that compatibility could be improved. But I also think, that it is necessary for you, to open a separate bug report for each issue. One example: If I could confirm problem (1), can't confirm problem (2) and find a duplicate for problem (3) what's the status of the bug. So please open new bug reports. Have you checked for duplicates?
Comment 5 Joel Madero 2018-06-30 23:12:15 UTC
Fair enough. I was part of the project for years so I get it. Unfortunately I don't have the time now to do so, so I'll just continue using Microsoft Office for business needs. 

Thanks!
Comment 6 Roeland 2018-07-01 12:09:05 UTC
As the different issues have been laid out in the initial post, isn't it an idea to submit the same document 6 times, each focused on the corresponding problem?

If you're out of time, i'd happily give it a shot.
Comment 7 Buovjaga 2018-07-01 15:24:01 UTC
(In reply to Roeland from comment #6)
> As the different issues have been laid out in the initial post, isn't it an
> idea to submit the same document 6 times, each focused on the corresponding
> problem?
> 
> If you're out of time, i'd happily give it a shot.

That would be a big help, Roeland, thank you in advance. Note that you don't have to upload the document each time - you can just refer to the already existing attachments like:

attachment 143211 [details]
Problematic Document

attachment 143212 [details]
LibreOffice PDF Export

attachment 143213 [details]
MS Office PDF Print

Do try to search for existing reports before creating the new ones just in case. You can filter meta bugs for DOCX files in here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Tracking_Bugs
Comment 8 Roeland 2018-07-01 17:03:29 UTC
Hi Buovjaga, thank you for the advice. I started with the first two. I'll continue later on with the others, if I have some more time to investigate.