Bug 153247 - MAILMERGE: Writer to individual PDF files: hide paragraph when data is empty does not work
Summary: MAILMERGE: Writer to individual PDF files: hide paragraph when data is empty ...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 152482
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.5.1.2 release
Hardware: All macOS (All)
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Blocks: Mail-Merge PDF-Export
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Reported: 2023-01-27 16:06 UTC by Paul AMIET
Modified: 2023-04-03 10:25 UTC (History)
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Description Paul AMIET 2023-01-27 16:06:27 UTC 
Description:
In Preferences/LibreOffice Writer/Compatibility, there is a check box
« Masquer les paragraphes de champs de base de données (par ex. publipostage) avec une valeur vide » translated with Google support as
"Hide database field paragraphs (e.g. mail merge) with empty value"
When saving individual files to ODF Text format, it works as expected.
When saving the same files to PDF format, it does not work : paragraph with field with empty value is not hidden 

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a Writer file for mailmerge
2.Insert a database field which may optionally be empty for some records
3.Activate mailing menu to save the results in individual files in PDF format

Actual Results:
When the database field is empty, PDF files shows the paragraph containing this field

Expected Results:
When saving to ODF Text format, ODT files hide the paragraph containing an empty database field


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 7.3.2.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 49f2b1bff42cfccbd8f788c8dc32c1c309559be0
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.14.6; UI render: default; VCL: osx
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Paul AMIET 2023-01-27 16:27:32 UTC 
When exporting the individual ODT files (created by Mailmerge) to PDF via Export directly to PDF format, the PDF result is correct.
Comment 2 Dieter 2023-02-10 12:07:29 UTC 
Paul, thank you for the report. It semms, you're using an old version of LO. Could you please retest with latest version LO 7.5. Thank you.

=> NEEDINFO
Comment 3 Paul AMIET 2023-02-10 14:39:48 UTC 
Hi Dieter
I have installed LO 7.5.0 with a different macOS administrative account not to interfere with my current environment LO 7.4.5.
I copied the LibO Base, Calc, Writer files in this test environment. 
I reproduce the same bug.
When saving individual files to ODF Text format, it works as expected.
When saving the same files to PDF format, it does not work : paragraph with field with empty value is not hidden 
Thanks
Comment 4 Paul AMIET 2023-03-29 19:09:33 UTC 
Today, my current version is
Version: 7.5.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: fcbaee479e84c6cd81291587d2ee68cba099e129
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.14.6; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR
Calc: threaded

I reproduce the same bug.
When saving individual files to ODF Text format, it works as expected.
When saving the same files to PDF format, it does not work : paragraph with field with empty value is not hidden 

As I am new to Bugzilla for LibreOffice, I don't clearly understand the links made between my bug and META bugs.

Thanks
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2023-04-03 10:25:24 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 152482 ***