Bug 42248 - FORMATTING: Captions / frames convert Anchor to Character when saving as .doc
Summary: FORMATTING: Captions / frames convert Anchor to Character when saving as .doc
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.4.3 release
Hardware: Other All
: medium minor
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Blocks: DOC-Frames DOC-Anchor-and-Text-Wrap
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Reported: 2011-10-25 19:35 UTC by Mack
Modified: 2019-07-19 15:02 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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open, see picture, note size, and caption, Save as .doc, then REOPEN. Image size and anchor have changed. (17.25 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2011-10-25 19:35 UTC, Mack 		Details
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Description Mack 2011-10-25 19:35:39 UTC 
Created attachment 52771 [details]
open, see picture, note size, and caption,  Save as .doc, then REOPEN.  Image size and anchor have changed.

Problem description: Anchor Formatting for all captioned images when saving as a .doc file, is converted to Anchor as character.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Insert an image
2. Caption it
3. Anchor as Paragraph
4. Save as .doc
5. Reload, see Anchor now as character.  

Current behavior: Anchor Formatting for all captioned images when saving as a .doc file.  This really messes with the captions as well.

Expected behavior:Anchor Formatting for all captioned images when saving as a .doc file.

Platform (if different from the browser): 
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110920 Firefox/3.6.23
Comment 1 tester8 2011-11-15 00:33:16 UTC 
Reproduced with

LO 3.4.4
Ubuntu 10.04.3 x86
Linux 2.6.32-35-generic Russian UI

Yes, anchor formatting is changed to as character.


But.
>You will notice that this image which is currently 300% x 300% will change. (quote from test file)
Not reproduced.
Comment 2 A (Andy) 2013-01-20 13:06:39 UTC 
as mentioned by the commenter before: reproducible with LO 3.6.4.3. (Win7 Home, 64bit)
Comment 3 Mack 2013-06-16 16:11:22 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Reproduced with
> 
> LO 3.4.4
> Ubuntu 10.04.3 x86
> Linux 2.6.32-35-generic Russian UI
> 
> Yes, anchor formatting is changed to as character.
> 
> 
> But.
> >You will notice that this image which is currently 300% x 300% will change. (quote from test file)
> Not reproduced.

Has this been fixed?
Comment 4 Cor Nouws 2014-02-16 09:55:08 UTC Comment hidden (off-topic)
Comment 5 Cor Nouws 2014-02-16 09:56:59 UTC Comment hidden (off-topic)
Comment 6 Joel Madero 2015-05-02 15:41:55 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Buovjaga 2015-06-20 14:08:26 UTC 
Nothing changed visually, nothing funny in the image or caption, but anchor did change.
However, is this a file format limitation, ie. .doc doesn't have Anchor to paragraph?

Win 7 Pro 64-bit Version: 5.1.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 3ecef8cedb215e49237a11607197edc91639bfcd
TinderBox: Win-x86@62-merge-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2015-06-19_23:16:58
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI)
Comment 8 Cor Nouws 2015-06-22 11:43:18 UTC 
(In reply to Beluga from comment #7)
> However, is this a file format limitation, ie. .doc doesn't have Anchor to
> paragraph?

Indeed, it must be the general compatibility issue: export what type of Writer anchoring to what type of Word.
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2018-09-28 02:43:44 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 Michael Stahl (allotropia) 2019-07-19 15:02:17 UTC 
the problem here is that DOC/DOCX/RTF format supports only AS character and AT character as anchoring options, hence this is inevitable.

we can't add new anchor types to Word formats.