https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73270

--- Comment #16 from Wade D. Peterson <[email protected]> ---
Created attachment 101749 [details]
Document example in pdf format (does not exhibit problem)

I just wanted to confirm that I have had a problem similar to that reported by
Matthias for some years.  That is, when saving documents in pdf format the
illustrations are sometimes lost.

This problem has occurred on earlier versions of OpenOffice, as well as my
current version of LibreOffice 4.1.6.2 (stable) running under Windows 8.

This problem has been intermittent and is not reproducible.  It seems to occur
on large files with many illustrations.  To show an example of the type of
files where the problem occurred in the past, I've attached an example of a pdf
file that correctly formatted under OpenOffice (WbBridge_28MAR2012.pdf).  This
file was made about two years ago and formatted correctly, but the same problem
would occasionally occur.  I was able to format this file correctly only after
I manually paged through the entire document.  Once I had briefly inspected
every page, I was able to successfully save it as a pdf.  [My intuition is that
some type of caching operation was going on in the background while I did
this].

This problem seems to be related to another problem where saving the document
erases all of the illustrations.  For example, my current project is several
hundred pages long with 132 illustrations.  The normal file size is about 2,747
Kb, but sometimes it wipes out all of the illustrations when I save it.  It did
it yesterday using LibreOffice 4.1.6.2, and the resulting file size was cut
down to 318 Kb.  Sorry, I can't publicly share this document until I deposit it
at the Copyright Office.

Most of my illustrations are done with LibreOffice Draw.  I copy them from the
Draw application and past them into the Write application using 'Edit' ->
'Paste Special' -> 'GDI Metafile'.  I change the file names every day by
modifying the date at the end of the file name (I do this for legal reasons as
a record of invention).  This supports the thread above where the problem seems
to happen when it is saved as a new file.  Under my technique, I save it as a
new file everyday.  However, I have seen similar activity when I do a 'copy and
paste' under the Windows file system, and then change the file name.  After
opening the new file for the first time it seems to do the same thing
sometimes.

This is going to be a tough bug to fix as it seems to happen only on big files
and is intermittent.

(In reply to comment #14)
> Today I tested this issue with LibO 4.3.0.1 (RC1) and was not able to
> reproduce this phenomenon with either of three test documents, including the
> one attached here and two large sample "book" with lots of images.
> 
> Interestingly I had one document open for quite some time today (on
> 4.3.0.1), during which I created several new documents and do tests in them.
> When I later returned to the first document, some images would show the
> "Read error" warning and a saved version of the document would indeed have
> these images missing. 
> 
> Not sure what I should think of this...
> 
> Can please anyone else check if this is still reproducible with 4.3.0.1 or
> higher?

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