https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73499
Priority: medium Bug ID: 73499 Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org Summary: Linked Textboxes Grouping Cause partially Missing Text and Messed Layout in LO Writer Severity: blocker Classification: Unclassified OS: All Reporter: wilson9...@yahoo.com Hardware: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Version: 4.1.4.2 release Component: Libreoffice Product: LibreOffice Created attachment 91859 --> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=91859&action=edit text get missing in older doc file As you can see, both MSO and LO support linked textbox, where text can flow from one box into the other. With doc files, everything works fine if not perfect, until the textboxes are GROUPED. Depending on the MSO version, the file in question is saved with, grouped and linked text boxes may get UNLINKed in different ways, in some case the text is missing in a unrecoverable fashion, which is worse than messed layout. For doc files created from MSO 2003 and previous, the text flows are broken into corresponding grouped but unlinked text boxes in LO. This could have been acceptable for viewers. But this breaking process consumes 1 character each time it breaks a text flow, which means every previously linked textbox got one trailing character missing, except the last box. And there doesn't seem to be a way to recover this missing text in LO along. (see attachment for example ) For doc files generated by MSO 2007 (and above?), Grouped Linked Textbox got unlinked, and all the text is crammed into the first textbox in LO. Other textbox got empty. Besides the first textbox is expanded vertically for as long as necessary to avoid text overflow, which messed up the layout. With docx file , all linked textbox are broken in LO. The Grouped ones are merged and enlarged horizontally in a uncontrolled way beyond the page border. Not grouped but linked ones become empty except the first textbox with overflowed text hidden. As you may have noticed in daily publications, linked textbox is a very basic and common tool in desktop publishing. And missing text is a real deal breaker. We really need it to work correctly. Please fix this feature in doc format. Thank you, Wilson. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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