Bug 166160 - Print/export to PDF from Writer clips comments
Summary: Print/export to PDF from Writer clips comments
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Printing and PDF export (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.8.5.2 release
Hardware: x86 (IA32) All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: PDF-Export
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Reported: 2025-04-13 05:23 UTC by Edward Lipsett
Modified: 2025-04-13 06:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
ODT file (34.86 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2025-04-13 05:25 UTC, Edward Lipsett
Details
PDF output (38.79 KB, application/pdf)
2025-04-13 05:26 UTC, Edward Lipsett
Details

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Description Edward Lipsett 2025-04-13 05:23:09 UTC
Description:
The document has a number of long comments in the right margin. When it is printed or exported to PDF (using Acrobat Pro under Windows 11), the right edge of the comments is clipped. If the document is SaveAs a DOCX file and printed/exported to PDF from Word, no comments are clipped. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open ODT file with long comments in margin
2.Set PDF preferences to include comments in margin
3.Print or export to PDF

Actual Results:
Right edge of all comments is clipped off

Expected Results:
Entire text of comments should be visible


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 24.8.5.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: fddf2685c70b461e7832239a0162a77216259f22
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: ja-JP (ja_JP); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 Edward Lipsett 2025-04-13 05:25:44 UTC
Created attachment 200330 [details]
ODT file
Comment 2 Edward Lipsett 2025-04-13 05:26:21 UTC
Created attachment 200331 [details]
PDF output
Comment 3 raal 2025-04-13 06:13:55 UTC
I can confirm with Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: dcd3427149c33852428b4198c22f6f858125c294
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: cs-CZ (cs_CZ.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

This functionality "export in margin" has been added in bug 77650, but in this version the comment's margin width has been fixed. Later the comment width is allowed to be changed, bug 73953. Samuel, do you mean it's a reason why export is clipped?