Public bug reported: Libreoffice writer as packaged by Ubuntu is rendering and printing some documents incorrectly - differently than the debs from libreoffice and the versions for most other OSes. It is possibly triggered by lots of overlapping images that were pasted into the document.
When you open the attached document it should show up as 7 pages. However with 6.0.3.2 ( 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 ) in the standard Ubuntu 18.04 repositories it briefly shows 1/7 pages in the lower left as the document loads and then switches to 1/5 pages, and only 5 pages show up and print. The same thing happens with 6.0.5.2 from the libreoffice fresh ppa and 6.0.6 from the prereleases ppa. This has been repeated using a clean 18.04 install, dist-upgraded. Between versions I remove --purge libreoffice* and delete. .config/libreoffice/. I filed this bug at libreoffice: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118597 but then found out that the problem does not occur using a different OS like windows or redhat or debian or manjaro. ( linux mint shows the same behavior as Ubuntu). If you open that document with the .deb files downloaded directly from the libreoffice site and installed into /opt then the document renders as 7 pages. So it sure seems like this is an Ubuntu-specific bug. As mentioned in the libreoffice bug it is not as simple as a VCL gtk3 vs. gtk2 difference, I don't know what else is different between the ubuntu repository and ppa packages and the debs from libreoffice. The problem was initially discovered under Ubuntu 16.04 using 6.0.5.2 from the fresh ppa , some documents were showing as 7 pages but only 5 pages were printing, but only with certain printer ppds. The fact that the document displays as 7 vs. 5 pages is much easier to see and replicate and is hopefully related to the original printing missing pages problem. ** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Attachment added: "document that should be 7 pages but only renders as 5 on Ubuntu 18.04" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783371/+attachment/5167227/+files/flowers-7-pages.odt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783371 Title: ubuntu versions of libreoffice writer render and print some documents improperly, they show up with fewer/missing pages Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Libreoffice writer as packaged by Ubuntu is rendering and printing some documents incorrectly - differently than the debs from libreoffice and the versions for most other OSes. It is possibly triggered by lots of overlapping images that were pasted into the document. When you open the attached document it should show up as 7 pages. However with 6.0.3.2 ( 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 ) in the standard Ubuntu 18.04 repositories it briefly shows 1/7 pages in the lower left as the document loads and then switches to 1/5 pages, and only 5 pages show up and print. The same thing happens with 6.0.5.2 from the libreoffice fresh ppa and 6.0.6 from the prereleases ppa. This has been repeated using a clean 18.04 install, dist-upgraded. Between versions I remove --purge libreoffice* and delete. .config/libreoffice/. I filed this bug at libreoffice: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118597 but then found out that the problem does not occur using a different OS like windows or redhat or debian or manjaro. ( linux mint shows the same behavior as Ubuntu). If you open that document with the .deb files downloaded directly from the libreoffice site and installed into /opt then the document renders as 7 pages. So it sure seems like this is an Ubuntu-specific bug. As mentioned in the libreoffice bug it is not as simple as a VCL gtk3 vs. gtk2 difference, I don't know what else is different between the ubuntu repository and ppa packages and the debs from libreoffice. The problem was initially discovered under Ubuntu 16.04 using 6.0.5.2 from the fresh ppa , some documents were showing as 7 pages but only 5 pages were printing, but only with certain printer ppds. The fact that the document displays as 7 vs. 5 pages is much easier to see and replicate and is hopefully related to the original printing missing pages problem. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1783371/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
