Bug 90273 - Formatting Regression: Filling background page image can't be linked anymore, only embedded
Summary: Formatting Regression: Filling background page image can't be linked anymore,...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.4.1.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: confirmed:4.1.1.2:windowsVista multip...
Keywords: bibisected, bisected, regression
: 93174 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Area-Fill-Tab Regressions-DrawingLayer-FillStyles
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Reported: 2015-03-26 23:17 UTC by João Paulo
Modified: 2022-10-01 15:08 UTC (History)
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Description João Paulo 2015-03-26 23:17:00 UTC
This is a regression from LibreOffice 4.3.6 final.

On Writer, I used to link an image when formatting the page background, instead of embedding it, to save storage space on multiple documents.

Upgraded today to LibreOffice 4.4.1.2 (was using 4.3.6 final without this bug).

Now it is not possible anymore, when formatting the page background, to link an image instead of embedding it. It is still possible to use earlier documents created with linked images, but not to change it to another linked image or create a new document and add a linked image to the page background.

Steps to reproduce it:

On Writer, access menu Format, Page, Area, Fill, choose Bitmap (should be called Image, as it allows to add bitmaps and vectors), Import Graphic. At the file selection box is not possible to select the option to link the image, so only embedding is possible now.
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2015-03-26 23:55:43 UTC
Hi @João Paulo,

reproducible, win7x64 LibreOffice 4.4.1.2 and master.

Link option appear in the browse files window, but it's not available.
Comment 2 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-03-31 13:54:29 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 João Paulo 2015-03-31 22:57:11 UTC
(In reply to Robinson Tryon (qubit) from comment #2)
> Removing comma from Whiteboard (please use a space to delimit values in this
> field)
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Fields/
> Whiteboard#Getting_Started
> 
> (To list repro results in the Whiteboard, see the format used here:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Fields/Whiteboard#confirmed:
> VERSION:OS
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Fields/Whiteboard#noRepro:
> VERSION:OS
> )

Thanks for the info, I will add the markups :-)

Also, I discovered that when saving the .FODT file with the linked image as .ODT, the linked image is saved inside the file, i.e., my .FODT document with a .SVG linked image (on some places of the document) was saved as .ODT and, upon inspecting it with 7-Zip, I found random numbered .PNG images embedded.

Excluding those .PNG images with 7-Zip and reopening with LibreOffice didn't show major issues, not even an error before opening, but the .PNG images were recreated from the linked .SVG and embedded on the document. Don't know if its a related bug, thoug. Should I create another one for this issue?
Comment 4 raal 2015-12-05 09:15:36 UTC
(In reply to João Paulo from comment #0)
> Steps to reproduce it:
> 
> On Writer, access menu Format, Page, Area, Fill, choose Bitmap (should be
> called Image, as it allows to add bitmaps and vectors), Import Graphic. At
> the file selection box is not possible to select the option to link the
> image, so only embedding is possible now.

This seems to have begun at the below commit.
Adding Cc: to Caolán McNamara & Armin Le Grand; Could you possibly take a look at this one?
Thanks

There are only 'skip'ped commits left to test.
The first bad commit could be any of: e642812606be49244f2f775e90169fbd1be29a97 d3a0e6c621ceb08e11867a2e17f155ae1977cee2
We cannot bisect more!

author	Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com>	2014-06-20 11:42:59 (GMT)
committer	Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@collabora.co.uk>	2014-07-01 11:30:09 (GMT)
commit c7853b5b5cb71899b6b60fd2175763785b8afb7f (patch)
hook up new drawing support to .uis

author	Armin Le Grand <alg@apache.org>	2014-06-02 15:00:50 (GMT)
committer	Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@collabora.co.uk>	2014-07-01 11:30:09 (GMT)
commit 7d9bb549d498d6beed2c4050c402d09643febdfa (patch)
Related: #i124638# Second step of DrawingLayer FillAttributes...


bibisect-44max$ git bisect log
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Comment 5 Armin Le Grand 2015-12-07 12:37:15 UTC
It is a follow-up for changing the FillStyle attributes to the broader standard. Graphics used for FillStyle do not support linked data currently - see draw objects in any application. I experimented in the xml format to check if this would be possible. In principle, it is, but would need some more work.
- Support linked graphics for FillStyle
- In all apps
- For all FillStyles (objects, frames, page, Header/Footer, ....)
- UI: Link button in Area and Bitmap dialog + support in cores
- UI: In Writer's Link editor (probably all apps) support editing links originating from Graphics in Styles (change, break, ...)
Comment 6 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-12-09 18:18:57 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Xisco Faulí 2016-10-13 21:51:42 UTC
*** Bug 93174 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2019-03-01 03:49:19 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 João Paulo 2019-03-02 01:22:18 UTC
Hi, I tested this bug on Windows 10 version 1809 with LibreOffice version 6.2.0.3 (x64), build ID  98c6a8a1c6c7b144ce3cc729e34964b47ce25d62.

This bug is still present.

The last version I used without this bug was LibreOffice 4.3.6 final.
Comment 10 Grantler 2019-08-21 21:50:19 UTC
Bug still on LO 6.3.0.3 (LinuxMint 19.2-64)
Comment 11 Leandro Martín Drudi 2019-08-24 21:57:46 UTC
Reproducible in:
Versión: 6.3.0.4 (x64)
Id. de compilación: 057fc023c990d676a43019934386b85b21a9ee99
Subprocs. CPU: 8; SO: Windows 10.0; Repres. IU: predet.; VCL: win; 
Configuración regional: es-AR (es_AR); Idioma de IU: es-ES
Calc: CL
Comment 12 João Paulo 2020-09-29 02:24:36 UTC
Hi, I tested on LibreOffice Writer 7.0.1.2 and this bug is still present.

Version: 7.0.1.2 (x86)
Build ID: 7cbcfc562f6eb6708b5ff7d7397325de9e764452
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19041; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: pt-BR (pt_BR); UI: en-US
Calc: CL
Comment 13 QA Administrators 2022-09-30 03:54:03 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 14 Cor Nouws 2022-10-01 15:08:05 UTC
bug still present in Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 100dc387ffd7df84199dae51abd9de35440905f1
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded