Bug 51127 - FILEOPEN: .DOC file leaves blank page in middle (page 2) of four page document - per Comment 7 (also if resaved in MSO as DOCX)
Summary: FILEOPEN: .DOC file leaves blank page in middle (page 2) of four page documen...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: BSA interoperability
Keywords: filter:doc, filter:docx
Depends on:
Blocks: DOC-Header-Footer DOCX-Section
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Reported: 2012-06-15 12:07 UTC by Jerry Heyman
Modified: 2025-05-25 03:11 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
specific document where problem described is occurring (62.50 KB, application/msword)
2012-06-15 12:07 UTC, Jerry Heyman
Details
specific .DOC compared MSO LO (200.42 KB, image/png)
2019-10-03 09:16 UTC, Timur
Details
Example file converted to docx with Word 2013 (39.55 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2020-10-08 10:56 UTC, NISZ LibreOffice Team
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Description Jerry Heyman 2012-06-15 12:07:09 UTC
Created attachment 63083 [details]
specific document where problem described is occurring

Problem description: 

Steps to reproduce:
1. open write
2. load attached .doc file
3. go to page 2 - all blank

Current behavior:

A blank page is inserted between page 1 and page 3 after loading the attached Microsoft Word document.  The exported PDF has the same blank page.  the blank page does not occur when loading into Microsoft Office 2010.

Expected behavior:

Identical to handling within MS Office 2010.  No blank page generated
when exporting to PDF.

Platform (if different from the browser): 
              
Browser: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.00
Comment 1 bfoman (inactive) 2012-06-20 05:17:45 UTC
Confirmed with:
LO 3.5.4.2 
Build ID: own W7 debug build
Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit

A blank page is inserted between page 1 and page 3. The blank page does not occur when loading into Word 2010.
Comment 2 Cor Nouws 2012-11-11 20:52:38 UTC
@Jerry
I confirm the issue.
And will add the issue to bug 48741

Could you pls try to fiddle out what the source of the problem is?
Might be e.g. different rendering of space around image in header, different header/footer spaceing, ...
thanks!
Comment 3 retired 2014-05-04 12:41:06 UTC
Interesting. This still happens with 4.2.3.3 and Version: 4.3.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: f76026a43acc65465882924796d93e635c35fd90
TinderBox: MacOSX-x86@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2014-05-04_06:32:55
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2015-06-08 14:42:30 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2015-08-02 10:02:54 UTC
Confirmed.

Win 7 Pro 64-bit Version: 5.1.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 902255645328efde34ddf62227c8278e8dd61ff0
TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2015-07-30_03:52:07
Locale: en-US (fi_FI)
Comment 6 Timur 2015-08-13 17:43:38 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Justin L 2016-06-23 07:05:51 UTC
(In reply to Timur from comment #6)
> This is section break problem so probable duplicate of Bug 64372.

This .doc bug is not a duplicate of bug 64372.  That one is a docx import bug.

There are three (unnecessary) continuous section breaks in a row at the bottom of page1, followed by a next page break. It seems as if the amount of space that the breaks takes up is different (more) in Writer, making some text spill over to the next page. 

NOTE: "track changes - show changes" is turned on.  That doesn't seem to be affecting the bug, but it does mean that "removing unnecessary sections" won't visibly remove the extra page until you stop showing deleted content.
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2018-10-02 02:55:31 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Timur 2018-10-02 07:53:23 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2019-10-03 02:59:35 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 11 Timur 2019-10-03 09:16:08 UTC
Created attachment 154724 [details]
specific .DOC compared MSO LO

Reproduced in LO 6.4+
Comment 12 NISZ LibreOffice Team 2020-10-08 10:56:27 UTC
Created attachment 166183 [details]
Example file converted to docx with Word 2013

Same problem happens in docx format too.
Comment 13 QA Administrators 2022-10-09 03:50:06 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete, spam)
Comment 14 Justin L 2023-05-25 18:25:47 UTC
repro 7.6+

Well, page 2 wasn't completely empty, but almost. I don't have Verdana font - so likely that complicates things.
Comment 15 QA Administrators 2025-05-25 03:11:55 UTC
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