Bug 64095 - Fileopen DOC: Writer misplaces Text Frame and Shape (so looks as DOCX in MSO)
Summary: Fileopen DOC: Writer misplaces Text Frame and Shape (so looks as DOCX in MSO)
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.4 release
Hardware: All All
: low minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: BSA, compatibilityMode
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: DOC-Frames
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Reported: 2013-04-30 21:36 UTC by Ofir
Modified: 2025-05-29 03:13 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
MS Word doc showing the issue (51.50 KB, application/msword)
2013-04-30 21:36 UTC, Ofir
Details
PDF exported with PowerPoint 2013 showing expected result (22.96 KB, application/pdf)
2015-02-06 11:46 UTC, Ofir
Details
PDF exported with LibreOffice 4.4.0.3 (Win 7) showing bad layout (23.02 KB, application/pdf)
2015-02-06 11:47 UTC, Ofir
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doc compared MSO LO (86.89 KB, image/png)
2021-06-04 10:12 UTC, Timur
Details
doc saved in MSO as docx (30.20 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2021-06-04 10:13 UTC, Timur
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Description Ofir 2013-04-30 21:36:00 UTC
Created attachment 78670 [details]
MS Word doc showing the issue

The layout in the attached MS Doc is wrong compared to MS Word.
In LO there is also an additional frame separated from the figure.
Operating System: Windows 7
Version: 4.0.2.2 release
Comment 1 Joel Madero 2013-04-30 23:21:42 UTC
I can confirm this at least back to 3.5.4 release (probably goes back to OOo). 

Updating summary to be more precise.

I have been able to confirm the issue on:
Version 3.5.4 (with bibisect - bibisect is unhelpful for this bug - not a regression)
Platform: Bodhi Linux 2.2 x64
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As I've been able to confirm this problem on an earlier release I am changing the version number as version is the earliest version that we can confirm the bug, we use comments to say that the bug exists in newer versions as well.

Marking as:

New (confirmed)
Normal - can prevent high quality work
Normal - very strange behavior but probably limited # of people being affected

Keywords - 

Whiteboard Status -

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Comment 2 Ofir 2014-01-31 17:29:18 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Ofir 2015-02-06 11:45:53 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Ofir 2015-02-06 11:46:29 UTC
Created attachment 113175 [details]
PDF exported with PowerPoint 2013 showing expected result
Comment 5 Ofir 2015-02-06 11:47:08 UTC
Created attachment 113176 [details]
PDF exported with LibreOffice 4.4.0.3 (Win 7) showing bad layout
Comment 6 Ofir 2015-09-02 16:24:42 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2016-09-20 10:29:56 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 Ofir 2016-09-20 11:04:59 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Xisco Faulí 2017-09-29 08:50:35 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 Ofir 2017-11-10 00:03:05 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 11 Ofir 2018-09-28 03:00:26 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 Ofir 2019-05-24 21:56:36 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 13 QA Administrators 2021-05-24 04:26:50 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 14 Timur 2021-06-04 10:12:40 UTC
Created attachment 172610 [details]
doc compared MSO LO

Repro 7.2+.
If DOC saved in MSO as DOCX, MSO opens it as LO opens DOC.
I set as low.
Comment 15 Timur 2021-06-04 10:13:09 UTC
Created attachment 172611 [details]
doc saved in MSO as docx
Comment 16 Justin L 2023-05-29 18:20:40 UTC
repro 7.6+
An AS-CHAR drawing canvas overlaps with a frame in MSO, but in LO it wraps (down) because it doesn't fit.

Complicated by right-to-left I imagine.
Comment 17 QA Administrators 2025-05-29 03:13:19 UTC
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