Bug 125235 - FORMATTING: Text wrapping goes bonkers for page widths 48 inches and greater
Summary: FORMATTING: Text wrapping goes bonkers for page widths 48 inches and greater
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.1.6.2 release
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Page
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Reported: 2019-05-12 11:35 UTC by Sam Brubaker
Modified: 2023-05-25 14:27 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Sam Brubaker 2019-05-12 11:35:33 UTC
Description:
Page widths equal to or greater than 48 inches cause text wrapping in LibreOffice Writer to break. The issue reliably seems to happen somewhere between 47" and 48".

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Writer document with a few paragraphs of text
2. Goto Format > Page > Paper Format
3. Increase the page width to 46 inches and apply
4. what
5. why
6. this is terrible

Actual Results:
All text on the page seems to get wrapped by margins that aren't there. The resulting layout is absurdly narrow and there is no apparent fix other than to work at a width of 47" instead of 48"

Expected Results:
The user should at least hit a hard limit on page width before this happens! I don't think 48 inches is an edge case, though. I'm designing a scientific poster!


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes


OpenGL enabled: Yes

Additional Info:
Comment 1 Sam Brubaker 2019-05-12 11:37:08 UTC
PS This bug is still current in the 6.3 development version
Comment 2 Sam Brubaker 2019-05-12 11:39:18 UTC
PPS: Minor typo; you gotta set it to 48 inches to break formatting, not 46. 46" works just fine!
Comment 3 Usama 2019-05-12 12:34:21 UTC
Thank you for reporting this issue: Confirmed on both

Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 98630a0bd49bd80652145a21e4e0d0ded792b36b
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2019-05-04_04:44:35
Locale: tr-TR (tr_TR.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

And

Version: 5.1.6.2
Build ID: 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial6
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 4.4; UI Render: default; 
Locale: tr-TR (tr_TR.UTF-8); Calc: group
Comment 4 Usama 2019-05-12 12:38:55 UTC
Additional note everything works fine till the page width is set above 119,59 cm
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2021-05-12 03:59:04 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 LeroyG 2021-11-15 14:00:37 UTC
Same with me:
Version: 7.1.7.2 (x86) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: c6a4e3954236145e2acb0b65f68614365aeee33f
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.1 Service Pack 1 Build 7601; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: es-MX (es_MX); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Related bug report:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67320
Comment 7 LeroyG 2021-11-15 18:42:29 UTC
Page width (with margins set to 0) its OK until 115.59 cm (~45.27 in).
Page width (with margins set to 100) its OK until 315.59 cm (115.59+100+100).

If margins are asymmetric (i.e., 160+40) things break appart.

When width is set to 515.39, and margins to 200, margins revert to 84.40 cm, and things break appart.

Page height…
Font size and name…
Zoom level…
…does not affect.

Frames seem affected by a similar issue.