Description: A. background Some 7 years ago, I catalogued about 240 specimens of a mineral collection. I did this on a windows-7 home box, using microsoft office word home and student 2010. Neither windows-7 nor microsoft office word 2010 are maintained any longer. I do also have microsoft office home and student 2016, but that, too, is no longer maintained. I recently installed LibreOffice on that windows box. I also have a Linux Fedora-34 workstation. I have LibreOffice on this workstation. I need to get all those 240ish catalogue forms properly converted to LibreOffice documents on my Fedora workstation. B. problem When I try to load any of those catalogue forms in LibreOffice, the document is not even close to being correctly formatted. Also, some of the original text does not show up. Further “digging” shows the following... 1. The first page appears empty; what should be on the first page is on the second page, covering up what should be on the second page. 2. If I cut the in-front frames from the second page, and paste them onto the first page, those frames are correctly placed on the first page. But the content of the frames on both pages is incorrectly positioned well right of the proper place. Clicking an anchor icon sometimes correctly shifts the frame contents to the proper place, but sometimes deletes the frame contents. 3. Frame borders are too thin and too light. 4. Fonts are changed, some to acceptable substitutes, some to different fonts that aren't even close in appearance. C. example Since these files are huge, I put them on the google drive rather than attaching them to this bug. file “specimen label 239” (this is one of the actual catalogue forms) “https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tBsLeJN-jyrR2T9bAS_QR0ojYnMfHaeq/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114910798012368488518&rtpof=true&sd=true%E2%80%9D” file “MSOffice2010_capture.JPG” (this shows how the catalogue form appears in microsoft office 2010 word) “https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l88ms0-T6CdxMV176eSVifMMVmpxdr_X/view?usp=sharing%E2%80%9D” file “MSOffice2016_capture.JPG” (this shows how the catalogue form appears in microsoft office 2016 word) “https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ueMHtpPyYRCdLAjCe_SFSdU-HYrmFcJJ/view?usp=sharing%E2%80%9D” file “LOwriter_capture.JPG” (this shows how the catalogue form appears in LibreOffice writer) “https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SmizuCGd5wzfkFLvi_dUbhl_2-TNz_xs/view?usp=sharing%E2%80%9D” D. version information (source box) windows 7 home premium service pack 1 Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 version 14.0.7268.5000 (32-bit) Microsoft Office Home and Student 2016 version 2002 (build 12527.22079 click-to-run) microsoft word 2016 MSO (16.0.12527,22086) 32-bit LibreOffice version information (on the windows-7 box): Version: 7.2.5.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community (target workstation) Fedora 34 (last updated February 10, 2022) LibreOffice Version: 7.1.8.1 Build ID: 10(Build:1) CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.utf8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Steps to Reproduce: See the "description" above. Actual Results: (see the "desacription" above. Expected Results: LibreOffice Writer should look just about identical to how it appeared in miscrosoft office write. 2. When I click an anchor icon, a frame's contents should move to its correct location, not disappear. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No OpenGL enabled: Yes Additional Info: Version: 7.1.8.1 Build ID: 10(Build:1) CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.16; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.utf8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Since submitting this bug, I've tried resetting my user profile, both on my Linux workstation and on my windows-7 box. It made no difference. I don't see a way of changing that checkbox here in bugzilla. In the original description, part B, * the frame behavior is the same in both operating systems. * I experience the frame content shift i=on the Linux workstation only.
Confirmed in Version: 7.2.5.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 499f9727c189e6ef3471021d6132d4c694f357e5 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded I also hear a lot about problems with text boxes in MS Word that get badly imported into Writer, because text boxes in Word and Writer are very different (Apache OpenOffice forum, Ask LibreOffice).
Created attachment 178581 [details] Sample DOCX Sample DOCX should be attached. It's here. Same look if resaved in MSO.
Created attachment 178582 [details] Sample compared in MSO and LO As seen in screenshot, MSO opens shapes on pages 1 and 2 and LO opens frames only on page 2. Never was OK, empty pages in OO, 1 page in LO 4.0, 4.2 and 7.4+ similar. Could be a duplicate, but not easy to find.
Created attachment 178583 [details] Sample DOCX saved as DOC in MSO Let's keep here also DOC saved in MSO.
DOCX is fixed in 7.6. (Likely one of my recent patches.) I'll leave it open until bibisect catches up and I can confirm exactly which commit it was.
fix by commit 828fde37632a5bb0542b6925454690a5287d6490 Author: Justin Luth on Tue Mar 14 14:20:58 2023 -0400 tdf#153613 tdf#146984 writerfilter: split para after anchors *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 146984 ***