https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51119
Bug #: 51119
Summary: EDITING: OLE objects from writer are impossible to
manage
Classification: Unclassified
Product: LibreOffice
Version: LibO 3.5.4 release
Platform: Other
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Status Whiteboard: BSA
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Presentation
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Created attachment 63074
--> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=63074
a writer file where you can copy the text that doesnt go well in Impress
Problem description:
copying a writer text object (e.g. simply a text paragraph from a writer doc
currently open) and pasting it in Impress as is is (i.e. as a writer object)
gives you severely unpredictable results. the size of the pasted object, the
visibility of its content, its similarity to the original object are all deeply
unpredictable.
It is unfortunately very easy to give an example:
1. open the attached "original odt file.odt", and select and copy the large
sized title at the beginning
2. open a new impress presentation, and paste what you copied into the first
page
3. You get a rectangular object with nothing visible; if you double click on
it, you'll see the text of the original title, but when you click outside to
end the edit nothing is visible anymore.
4. To actually see the text in the object, you have to enlarge it a lot; then
you see the text in it, but it will likely be split on two lines!
5. when you double click on it after enlarging, the text will be shown on a
single line and back at the upper left corner of the object; moreover, while
the open object has a grey thick border with some small black handles at its
corners, on the right side only you will have also the more common green
handles of selected objects, but they will be slightly to the right of the
object, as if they were suspended in a vacuum. It is not clear if they make
sense (and what sense) or are only a bug.
6. now drag one of the black handles on the right side of the object while
open, and resize it making it smaller: while you do it, it seems possible, and
the text shrinks as being squeezed. However when you click outside to finish
editing, the object returns to its previous size and the last edit described is
totally lost.
There are a few more glitches that could be described, but it would make this
message really too long. I would say that the whole functionality concerning
writer ole objects needs thorough revision.
Notice that, while writer OLE objects behaviour in Open Office has never been
fully reliable, things seem to have turned for the worse lately. Right now, the
only thing to do if you want to stay on the safe side is to completely avoid
using such functionality.
Which is a bit annoying, since a writer object has much more flexibility than
an impress text object (e.g. you can get hyphenation, which you don't have in
impress text objects).
Thank you for your patience, Andrea
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