https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127134
Issue ID: 127134
Issue Type: DEFECT
Summary: Text glitch
Product: Writer
Version: 4.1.2
Hardware: PC
OS: Windows 7
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: Minor
Priority: P5 (lowest)
Component: ui
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 85693
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A copy of the 'corrupt' document. Hopefully the error will transfer with it.
Delete the red text, you should see the remaining text shift a little (if the
glitch persists via download)
(I searched and couldn't find that this had already been handled)
I must admit before I continue that this issue is difficult to reproduce, as
I'm not perfectly sure what the cause of it is, but I've determined the trigger
of it's appearance.
Some documents enter some kind of state I've been calling "corrupted". When a
document becomes 'corrupted' I'll notice text begins to be displayed
incorrectly. Some squashed, some stretched, and others misaligned on the line.
I've captured this in the act, and included them in an image found at this
link.
http://i.imgur.com/6lgHIfA.png
The first one shows a misalignment of characters versus how the text is
normally displayed. The second shows a squashed set of text (most noticeable in
the 'g' the 's' and the 'a'.) And the last one shows a short paragraph where
text has been stretched.
What I've noticed is that this issue seems to favor documents that were opened
by writer as .doc and saved as .odt. What makes it hard to reproduce is that it
doesn't happen often, and when it does, I don't know what triggers it. But it's
been present in two files that started out created in Microsoft Word 2003, and
it's now present in a .odt document that was open at the time a .doc was opened
and saved as a .odt. But it seem to only work on .doc files with multiple pages
before conversion. But I could be entirely wrong on this whole assumption.
What I've noticed about the issue is that it tends to happen while working
lengthily in a document that's been 'corrupted'. While running a few
experiments, I've noticed that when a page or several pages are added or
removed, older text seems to shift up and down a little. I have about 10 pages
of notes after where I'm typing, which pushes my notes down and can create a
new page every so often. I've also noticed shifting text usually happens before
or after an empty line where there is no text, such as the one before this very
paragraph. But I've also seen it happen in the middle of a paragraph. My best
guess is this shift isn't always displayed right, causing part of a line to
look moved up a little, or the text to look squashed, or stretched as shown in
the image. But as I mentioned, it's difficult to reproduce.
I got it to shift the text consistently by copying two short paragraphs with a
full empty line between them, and started pasting it a bunch. After a few pages
were created, I highlighted chunks of text one after another, and deleted them.
Sometimes it would take place right away, other times I would have to delete
bigger chunks of text to get it to happen, and sometimes it would only happen
after I scrolled my scroll wheel a little. Sometimes the text will shift even
while highlighting areas of the document. I ran the same test on an uneffected
document and it was perfectly fine.
Attached is (hopefully) a copy of a 'corrupted' document. Yes, the words are
mixed up jibberish. That was my doing. I'm writing a novel and don't want part
of it floating around before it's published. As written in the description, if
you delete the red text, you should see the remaining text move a little. (This
may take a few tries, but if should work provided the 'corrupted' part of the
document makes it through cyberspace.) And with any luck, the text errors will
hopefully show up in the document, too. Though, where, when, and how the text
is effected seems to be random, so I can't provide directions of reproducing
the glitches shown in the link above, but the moving text, which I think is
causing the glitches above can be consistently reproduced with the document
I've attached.
This is a relatively minor problem, as simply scrolling the text off the screen
and back on usually corrects it, or making an edit to the line corrects the
text when scrolling it out of view will not. However, the affected document
will continue to act up even after a system reboot.
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