Bug 63145 - Opening DOCX with Mirror/Gutter, Page Layout is reverted to "Right and Left"
Summary: Opening DOCX with Mirror/Gutter, Page Layout is reverted to "Right and Left"
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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4.0.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium major
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: 63143 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2013-04-05 01:04 UTC by john.jakus
Modified: 2015-04-01 16:01 UTC (History)
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Description john.jakus 2013-04-05 01:04:53 UTC
Opening DOCX with Mirror/Gutter, Page Layout is reverted to "Right and Left"

This happens if the document was created in LibreOffice Writer 4.0.2 and prior or MS Office Word 2013.

Scenario 1:
I created an OpenXML (DOCX) document in MS Word 2013. I set "Multiple Pages" (Margins) to "Mirror Margins". I set Left Margin .5", Right Margin .5" and Gutter .5". Save document and verify. I should get an outer margin as .5" and inner as 1"

Open in LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 and prior. The "Page Layout" is reverted to "Right and Left" The margin left and right margins are reverted to .79"

Scenario 2:
I create an OpenDocument (ODT) document in LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 and prior. I set "Page Layout" to "Mirrored". I set inner to 1" and outer to .5". Save document. Open Document and Page Layout is still Mirrored and margins are correct.

I then save the document as OpenXML (DOCX). Margins still look good while open. I close the document and open again with LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 and the "Page Layout" is reverted to "Right and Left"

Scenario 3:
I use the OpenDocuemnt (ODT) Document created in Scenario 2. Open the document in LibreOffice 4.0.2.2. The "Page Layout" is set to mirrored. Inner margin 1" and outer margin is .5". Looks normal.

I open the OpenDocument (ODT) in MS Word 2013. Open Page Setup. "Multiple Pages (Margins)" is set to Normal. Left margin is 1" and right margin is 0.5".

Scenario 4:
I open the OpenXML (DOCX) Document created in Scenario 2 by LibreOffice with MS Word 2013. Open Page Setup. "Multiple Pages" is set to normal and Left margin is 1" and right margin is 0.5".

Seems that LibreOffice may be saving and reading DOCX margin info in/from the wrong location of the XML files
Comment 1 john.jakus 2013-04-05 01:06:06 UTC
I forgot to add when opening the DOCX and ODT in MS Word 2013, the Gutter is 0.
Comment 2 Jorendc 2013-04-05 23:05:58 UTC
I can reproduce this behavior using Mac OSX 10.8.3 with LibreOffice 4.0.2.2. Therefore I mark this as NEW.

Thanks for your detailed research!

Kind regards,
Joren
Comment 3 john.jakus 2013-04-08 16:01:13 UTC
Joren,

To test this properly, you may need to use MS Office 2013 (version 15) for the Office side as it's the only MS Office version that currently supports ODF 1.2. Using MS Office 2010 (Version 14) and below only supported ODF 1.1. Also I do not think that ODF 1.2 will be supported in MS Office for MAC until version 2014.

That being said, the margin issues may not matter if it's ODF 1.1. or 1.2? Not sure.

Cheers,

John
Comment 4 Jorendc 2013-04-08 16:04:33 UTC
*** Bug 63143 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jorendc 2013-04-08 16:11:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> To test this properly, you may need to use MS Office 2013 (version 15) for
> the Office side as it's the only MS Office version that currently supports
> ODF 1.2. Using MS Office 2010 (Version 14) and below only supported ODF 1.1.
> Also I do not think that ODF 1.2 will be supported in MS Office for MAC
> until version 2014.
Probably (if there would be a 2014 version? I just don't know yet :-) ). Even an ODF 1.1 isn't supported with Word for Mac 2011. But I did some test using Word for Mac 2011 and LibreOffice and I came to the same conclusion as mentioned here and in (as far I can see duplicate) Bug 63143.

> That being said, the margin issues may not matter if it's ODF 1.1. or 1.2?
> Not sure.
It shouldn't matter, no. 

kind regards,
Joren
Comment 6 Jorendc 2013-05-13 20:16:18 UTC
The bug version is the oldest version you can reproduce the bug. Therefore I restore the version number.

Kind regards,
Joren
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2015-03-04 02:20:18 UTC
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Comment 8 Buovjaga 2015-04-01 16:01:03 UTC
No problem anymore with scenarios 1, 2 and 4. Scenario 3 is not our bug.
Setting to WFM.

Win 8 32-bit
MSO 2013
LibreOffice Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 4dde5a623d563f9007dd3539b835489a27128d65
TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2015-04-01_11:40:51
Locale: fi_FI