Public bug reported:
Tested May 2nd running the Ubuntu Live/install .iso for both 24.04 and
26.04. No settings changed. Occurs on different PCs.
In LibreOffice Impress, under the Insert>OLE Object, the option for
Formula Object is greyed out so you can't create (Math) Formula Objects.
Worse, if you have any Formula Objects in already existing Impress files
and you double-click the objects, the Formula Objects get corrupted (LO
turns them into static images rather than editable formula objects).
Downloading the latest version of LibreOffice and overwriting the
bundled version fixes the greying out and the further corrupting of
files -- in other words, the problem seems to be that Ubuntu is bundling
a corrupted/incomplete version of LibreOffice -- but as far as I can
tell, any Formula Objects you may have already corrupted cannot be
reverted to editable Formula Files and so are permanently corrupted.
Worse still, as the corruption replaces editable Formula Objects with
near identical static images, it is not at all clear to users that the
Formula Objects have been corrupted, so if most of your work on a given
Impress File does not involve further attempts to edit said Formula
Objects, it would be horrible easy to save file version after file
version in which the Formula Objects are corrupted, thus poisoning your
entire backup chain.
Thank you.
Trevor
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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LibreOffice Impress Insert>OLE Object>Formula Object greyed out &
Formula Objects getting corrupted.
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