https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115064
Bug ID: 115064
Summary: Deprecation of old text layout engine in 5.4 breaks
font based tags (data fields) used by applications
like ActiveFax (ActFax)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.4.4.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: graphics stack
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
Since rel. 5.4 old text layout engine is gone and workaround used in 5.3
(org.openoffice.office.common | VCL = old) to prevent use of HarfBuzz has no
effect. Font based tagging by embedding "data fields" in documents to process
jobs used by ActiveFax is now broken.
Thus tdf#89870 is not resolved for us. Only workaround seems to stick with rel.
5.3 or use other software with different font rendering.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Insert tags like @F211 1234567890@ in document and format this sequence with
font "ActiveFax".
2. Print document on printer "ActiveFax".
Actual Results:
ActiveFax client dialogue pops up and asks for target (e.g. fax number, mail
address, ...). Fax number 1234567890 in given example is not processed or read
by the application.
Expected Results:
ActiveFax client reads and processes tags in document in background. No user
interaction is required when tagging is in correct format and syntax. Only tags
formatted with font ActiveFax are processed. On the resulting fax or mail
attachment these tags are blanked and not visible for the receiver.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
Additional Info:
ActFax manual is here:
http://www.actfax.com/download/actfax_manual_en.pdf
Data field section is on pages 96-107.
We process several thousand documents with ActiveFax tags each year and
entering the data field information manually breaks workflows. Definitely a
show stopper for us.
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_2) AppleWebKit/604.4.7
(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0.2 Safari/604.4.7
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