Bug 169805 - DRAW - unrequested repositioning of page when changing object selection
Summary: DRAW - unrequested repositioning of page when changing object selection
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Draw (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.8.7.2 release
Hardware: All macOS (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: regression
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2025-12-03 11:35 UTC by Alex Thurgood
Modified: 2026-01-23 13:51 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
Screen capture moving Draw page (9.98 MB, video/quicktime)
2025-12-03 11:41 UTC, Alex Thurgood
Details
Test Draw document to reproduce the issue (16.81 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics)
2025-12-03 11:56 UTC, Alex Thurgood
Details

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Description Alex Thurgood 2025-12-03 11:35:50 UTC
Description:
1) Open a Draw document containing an image object, e.g. an SVG file.

2) Enter the group of objects, select an object within the group.

3) Leave the group by clicking on another object.

4) Draw page repositions (jumps around) by itself, unrequested.

This makes working with Draw extremely fastidious, and tiring. It is unnecessary.

It has been an ongoing problem now for several versions (possibly since 24.x release), and it didn't used to do this, so would be a regression (I don't have any much older versions now where I can test this on macOS).

See also attached video.

Steps to Reproduce:
See above and attached video.

Actual Results:
Draw page jumps around.

Expected Results:
Draw page shouldn't jump around.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 25.8.3.2 (AARCH64)
Build ID: 8ca8d55c161d602844f5428fa4b58097424e324e
CPU threads: 8; OS: macOS 26.1; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Alex Thurgood 2025-12-03 11:41:41 UTC
Created attachment 204404 [details]
Screen capture moving Draw page
Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2025-12-03 11:53:19 UTC
Hmm, a closer observation of the phenomenon seems to indicate that it might be the text box function  that Draw provides for the objects that causes the page to be repositioned. In other words, double-clicking outside of a previously selected object causes the background object to activate the textbox function associated with that object.

For some reason, this activation causes the page to be repositioned. If that is the case, then I guess this is unrelated to bug 169780.
Comment 3 Alex Thurgood 2025-12-03 11:56:20 UTC
Created attachment 204405 [details]
Test Draw document to reproduce the issue
Comment 4 Alex Thurgood 2025-12-03 11:59:03 UTC
Also reproduced in

Version: 24.8.7.2 (AARCH64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: e07d0a63a46349d29051da79b1fde8160bab2a89
CPU threads: 8; OS: macOS 26.1; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR
Calc: threaded
Comment 5 Alex Thurgood 2025-12-04 11:35:30 UTC
Marking as a regression because Draw certainly didn't behave like this in older versions (from memory, pre-24.x, but maybe older still).
Comment 6 Telesto 2025-12-04 20:14:01 UTC
Is this not caused by the context dependent drawing toolbar, which is turned on/off depending of the selected object

It annoying, true