Created attachment 45132 [details] drawing with object that can't be flipped This is queer. On Sheet 1, bottom left, I drew a battery. I then copied it, moved it up, and flipped it. I copied the two of them, moved that up and had four. I grouped the four. I then decided to add + and - text, and so ungrouped, deleted 3, and that left the original one. I added + and - text, and grouped that with the original, then tried the copy-and-flip trick again. The new version cannot be flipped. The flip menu is greyed out. This is not what I would expect.
Have confirmed same behaviour under windows and Linux, and that removing the text fields allows the object to be flipped.
[Reproducible] with "LibreOffice 3.3.2 – WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) German UI [OOO330m19 (Build:202 / tag 3.3.2.2)]" The problem is that text boxes can not be flipped, and that restriction also prevents from flipping grouped objects with text boxes. I can't understand the restriction, because it's possible to flip shapes and drawing elements with text (inserted after double click), pls. see attached "FunnySample.odg" Corresponding OOo Bug: Bug 102502 - Ability to flip texboxes <http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102502>
Created attachment 45142 [details] Sample Document, see Comment 1
@Rainer Bielefeld >I can't understand the restriction Agreed. Other graphics editors, like Serif draw plus, can manage to do it: there is sometimes a bit of tidying to do, but in most cases they make a pretty good guess. Inkscape does it, but reverses the text direction which may or may not be the desired result.
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Confirm that the problem still exists in 3.5 don't know if I am supposed to change the version
Problem still present in 3,5.2.2 Ubuntu
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Problem still present in Version 3.6.2.2 (Build ID: da8c1e6)
Created attachment 93389 [details] test sheet with example flips and screengrab of greyed out menu Confirmed that eh problem is unchanged in 4.2.0.4
I can confirm that the problem is unchanged in 5.0.4.2
You can convert your text into a curve, for example, or you use a (transparent) shape, like Rainer did in comment 3. But the question remains valid: Why isn't it possible to flip text boxes.
No answer, so I guess it's just not possible to flip text (doesn't work in Writer either). Closing this ticket as INVALID.