From: nathanael_scd...@bsnl.in Sub: Various bugs in OpenOffice.org Writer Package: openoffice.org-writer Version: 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny8
1) I have more than 1,000 fonts installed. Many of which are Windows fonts as well as Tamil fonts. In OpenOffice.org Writer, editing of any drawing object, chart or picture makes every work thereafter dead slow. Scrolling particularly is a nightmare. The whole negative experience waits to repeat after saving and opening afresh. Removing all the fonts makes things slightly better, however not as normal as it was in older versions, especially OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 found in Debian Etch. Form Fields in questionnaires behave more worse after editing drawing objects, pictures and charts. 2) When working with a OpenOffice.org Writer document, clicking the ‘New’ button opens another Writer document. If I want a new spreadsheet, I choose from the drop-down list. Now, when I am back to the Writer and once again click ‘New’, it opens a spreadsheet, not a blank Writer document. In short, upon clicking ‘New’, OpenOffice.org opens a blank application from the last invoked template disregarding the application type from which I invoke the “New’ command. 3) In OpenOffice.org Writer, copying a drawing object by ‘ctrl plus mouse drag’ doesn’t show the copied object on screen. I have to ‘undo and then redo’ to show the object. 4) In OpenOffice.org Writer, selecting a table row by clicking from the left margin and dragging further to select more rows fails miserably. Rows are selected only until the screen end. Thereafter, Writer bizarrely de-selects the rows. 5) In OpenOffice.org Writer, I selected two paragraphs and invoked ‘Find & Replace’ command. Option ‘Current selection only’ is selected in the ‘More options’ command. I entered two space bar clicks in the ‘Search for’ box to search for a double space. In the ‘Replace with’ box, I entered a single blank space by clicking the space bar once. When I clicked the ‘Replace’ command, the entire selected text is wiped out with a single space. However, ‘Find’ and ‘Replace All’ commands work correctly. 6) In OpenOffice.org Writer, Bold, Italic and/or Underline do not work properly for very long selections. For example, if everything is selected in a long document of more than 50 single-spaced pages with text, tables, charts and figures, clicking Bold makes everything bold. However, keeping that selection, clicking Bold again does nothing. It should have reversed the bold formatting as it does in smaller documents. 7) In OpenOffice.org Writer, it seems that Undo and Redo are unreliable when the number of instances is higher, say hundred or more. Once I ‘Undo’ed 115 times and ‘Redo’ed one by one. After four ‘Redo’s, when I clicked the ‘Redo’ button for the fifth time, all the 115 instances were ‘Redo’ed instantly. In another case, when I inserted a long document with ‘Insert File’ command, and for some reason tried Undo and again Redo, the Writer crashed. Overall, Undo and Redo operations give a sense of fear for unstableness. 8) OpenOffice.org Writer does not recognise image files without extension. When I wanted to insert a PNG format image, it was not listed upon invoking ‘Insert File’ command. It needed renaming with .png extension for it to recognise. 9) In OpenOffice.org Writer, ‘Select All’ function does not work if the very starting of a document is table. Invoking the command selects only the first cell. Invoking the command again selects the entire table. Selecting the entire document is impossible. 10) In OpenOffice.org Writer, while one can set negative numbers for indents and spacing normally, the same is not possible with Find/Replace. Searching and replacing a paragraph with negative indents or spacing is impossible. Thanking you A.M. Tony Allwyn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
