Created attachment 110891 [details] .docx with linked frames. Links not created in LibreOffice Although LibreOffice supports Linked Frames/Textboxes and they work with .doc files, they don't work in .docx format.
Created attachment 110892 [details] The same document in .doc format. These links work fine.
If you open the .doc with LibreOffice, and use LibreOffice to save as a .docx, then LibreOffice can re-open the .docx, but not word. Tested using Word 2003 with 2007 extensions.
confirmed that LibreOffice 4.5 development still has this bug.
Thanks for the report. I can confirm the bug, but I believe it is the same one as bug 73499, so I will close this as a duplicate. Tested on: Win 7 64-bit Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 170616e9f2d30c1302bbb5a7a4b588bc05cd5cc9 TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2014-12-12_01:58:46 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 73499 ***
allow generated, unique frame name to be saved: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/14548/
not a duplicate. The other one is specifically related to grouping. This bug is based on not honouring the mso-next-textbox xml attribute.
Created attachment 116616 [details] Office 2013 document. Textframes were NOT linked in the same order that the frame were added. the processing of Linked Textboxes assumed some kind of ordered processing which was faulty. Issued a patch to fix that. https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/16353
Created attachment 116646 [details] Office 2003 document. several chains of textboxes using mso-next-textbox This patch hopefully rounds out most of the import issues. It adds support for older vml-style linking. https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/16366 Remaining is the grouping issue from bug 73499 as well as exporting.
Exporting linked-textboxes is in a terrible state. MSOffice is unable to open the exported .docx with connected links. Only in the ideal case could LibreOffice open it's own exported .docx with connected links. A patch issued to at least allow LO to export and import .docx repeatedly without breaking the links is proposed: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/16516. The unit test uses the sample document from comment 8. So, it tests VML initial import, export, and DML import. I think I'll stop here. Someone else can pickup the coding of textbox exporting. There are MANY issues - sizing, spacing, remnant shapes with duplicate names etc.
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=976add10b35e482251ed4c75957baeb6811e6e2c tdf#87348 allow non-sequentially processed textboxes to be linked It will be available in 5.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=091fe76b6329b4bb974987554369cbfadd8f2401 tdf#87348 implement mso-next-textbox vml-style textbox chaining import It will be available in 5.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=4802bf32b84655f6e1d3389070c76371ede8fbce tdf#87348 enable docx exporting linked textboxes that LO can import It will be available in 5.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=2a51dd6aca55a92d8751b67cdf7a5a6ab8c38237&h=libreoffice-5-0 tdf#87348 enable docx exporting linked textboxes that LO can import It will be available in 5.0.0.3. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=f408edabd52f865abb29401dbff995921b394e6c&h=libreoffice-4-4 tdf#87348 implement nonsequential and mso-next-textbox textbox chaining It will be available in 4.4.5. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=9ab3e9292b093fc02c07fc52b25430d253277d1c&h=libreoffice-5-0 tdf#87348 implement nonsequential and mso-next-textbox textbox chaining It will be available in 5.0.0.3. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
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