After further analysis I found that if the "anchor" is set to "page" rather than the default "character" before turning wrap off everything works fine. But even when I set the Anchor to Page, Save and Close, the document opens back up with the watermark picture anchored as a character again.
Rob -----Original Message----- From: Byrd, Robert Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:31 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Infinite loop! in OOo when using watermarks I have registered but my administrator blocks almost everything so I can't get my bug in for OOo 2.0 beta. I have no password to login. The bug is an infinite loop that OOo created in a document with a watermark. I opened in OOo the .doc document containing a watermark. I wasn't able to move the mouse because the watermark defaulted to the foreground After "playing around" a while I discovered that I could turn "wrap off" using the "wrap off" button in the graphics speedbar that popped up contextually when I clicked on the page. The watermark became the first page and the text advanced to the second page and was then editable. Then, by right clicking on the watermark page, selecting "in Background" from the "wrap" menu item on the context menu, the pages overlaid again and everything was fine... UNTIL....When I opened the document again I had a single page, but when I turned wrap off the watermark replicates itself on successive pages forever until I close the document "discard"ing changes. The highest I let the single page document replicate to so far has been 226 pages. It also does this in the .odt format, not just the .doc. The document was created in MS word 2002 SP3 and the document appears fine (no editing problems and no infinite loop) in Word. I just gave my provost OOo 2.0 beta to try and this is what he found for us. (it's has caused a slight setback in my open source expansion plan:-) ) Let me know if there are anymore details you need and thanks for relaying this to the bugs people. Rob Byrd WinXP, Pentium 4
