Bug 145001 - Image shrinks and positioned differently when actually printing (OK in print Preview; OK with PDF export)
Summary: Image shrinks and positioned differently when actually printing (OK in print ...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.0.4 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords: bibisected, bisected, regression
Depends on:
Blocks: Print
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Reported: 2021-10-08 15:14 UTC by James Falksen
Modified: 2025-11-01 03:12 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
the source file (9.00 MB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2021-10-08 15:17 UTC, James Falksen
Details
the exported result (3.70 MB, application/pdf)
2021-10-08 15:21 UTC, James Falksen
Details
scanned printed result (554.11 KB, application/pdf)
2021-10-08 15:23 UTC, James Falksen
Details

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Description James Falksen 2021-10-08 15:14:43 UTC
Description:
Occasionally, a writer document looks fine on the screen, looks fine on the print preview, looks fine when exported to pdf, but comes out wrong on paper. I have not seen this in Calc and haven't used other components much. I have done over 100 of this ilk, but this failure has happened only 3 or 4 times. In one instance, changing the page area from a solid color to a crosshatch gave a good print. Have even tried protecting contents, position, and size -- to no avail. Mostly, the graphics are PNG. On an instance where it fails, it always fails.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load the odt file
2. print
3.

Actual Results:
At least 1 of the graphics prints out of place and the wrong size. The page area is incomplete.

Expected Results:
The printed image matches the print preview.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: TextDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Windows (All)
OS is 64bit: no
Comment 1 James Falksen 2021-10-08 15:17:47 UTC
Created attachment 175598 [details]
the source file
Comment 2 James Falksen 2021-10-08 15:21:27 UTC
Created attachment 175599 [details]
the exported result

this is the result of exporting to PDF
Comment 3 James Falksen 2021-10-08 15:23:36 UTC
Created attachment 175600 [details]
scanned printed result

this is what the printed output looks like
Comment 4 Telesto 2021-10-09 17:53:53 UTC
I didn't reproduce this yesterday, but I do today (using a PDF printer)

The image in the left corner shrinks and gets a different position

Found in
Version: 7.3.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 93115d2c54d645bcf2f80fde325e3ede39dee4d5
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (nl_NL); UI: en-US
Calc: CL

and in 
Version: 7.0.0.0.beta1+ (x64)
Build ID: 2891e91a513520d68ea2b8c59c14335861a15253
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: en-US
Calc: CL

and in
Version: 6.3.7.0.0+ (x86)
Build ID: 726535ec30f12697ceccd2f0640d9371a64dc5bd
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: CL

not in
Version: 6.2.9.0.0+ (x86)
Build ID: 5f01fe15eb2661f1f9ce12d1d99dc2a705b462ee
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: CL
Comment 5 Aron Budea 2021-11-01 00:35:09 UTC
Bibisected to the following commit using repo bibisect-win32-6.3. Adding CC: to László Németh.

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=f006b6339e20af6a3fbd60d97d21590d4ebf5021
author		László Németh <nemeth@numbertext.org>	2018-11-23 21:55:54 +0100
committer	László Németh <nemeth@numbertext.org>	2018-11-27 14:44:59 +0100

tdf#112195 Writer: page background covers whole page
Comment 6 Justin L 2021-12-09 10:51:38 UTC
I can't reproduce in Linux, so maybe this really is Windows only as already noted under Hardware.
Comment 7 Telesto 2023-11-01 19:02:05 UTC
Repro (FWIW: build is 7 weeks old)
Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: be9d7bee88eff89c0d361f23abb447ac2086c3b4
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2025-11-01 03:12:41 UTC
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