From: nathanael_scd...@bsnl.in
Sub: Various bugs in OpenOffice.org Writer
Package: openoffice.org-writer
Version: 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny8

1) I have more than 1,000 fonts installed. Many of which are Windows fonts as 
well as Tamil fonts. In OpenOffice.org Writer, editing of any drawing object, 
chart or picture makes every work thereafter dead slow. Scrolling 
particularly is a nightmare. The whole negative experience waits to repeat 
after saving and opening afresh. Removing all the fonts makes things slightly 
better, however not as normal as it was in older versions, especially 
OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 found in Debian Etch. Form Fields in questionnaires 
behave more worse after editing drawing objects, pictures and charts.

2) When working with a OpenOffice.org Writer document, clicking the ‘New’ 
button opens another Writer document. If I want a new spreadsheet, I choose 
from the drop-down list. Now, when I am back to the Writer and once again 
click ‘New’, it opens a spreadsheet, not a blank Writer document. In short, 
upon clicking ‘New’, OpenOffice.org opens a blank application from the last 
invoked template disregarding the application type from which I invoke 
the “New’ command.

3) In OpenOffice.org Writer, copying a drawing object by ‘ctrl plus mouse 
drag’ doesn’t show the copied object on screen. I have to ‘undo and then 
redo’ to show the object.

4) In OpenOffice.org Writer, selecting a table row by clicking from the left 
margin and dragging further to select more rows fails miserably. Rows are 
selected only until the screen end. Thereafter, Writer bizarrely de-selects 
the rows.

5) In OpenOffice.org Writer, I selected two paragraphs and invoked ‘Find & 
Replace’ command. Option ‘Current selection only’ is selected in the ‘More 
options’ command. I entered two space bar clicks in the ‘Search for’ box to 
search for a double space. In the ‘Replace with’ box, I entered a single 
blank space by clicking the space bar once. When I clicked the ‘Replace’ 
command, the entire selected text is wiped out with a single space. 
However, ‘Find’ and ‘Replace All’ commands work correctly.

6) In OpenOffice.org Writer, Bold, Italic and/or Underline do not work 
properly for very long selections. For example, if everything is selected in 
a long document of more than 50 single-spaced pages with text, tables, charts 
and figures, clicking Bold makes everything bold. However, keeping that 
selection, clicking Bold again does nothing. It should have reversed the bold 
formatting as it does in smaller documents.

7) In OpenOffice.org Writer, it seems that Undo and Redo are unreliable when 
the number of instances is higher, say hundred or more. Once I ‘Undo’ed 115 
times and ‘Redo’ed one by one. After four ‘Redo’s, when I clicked the ‘Redo’ 
button for the fifth time, all the 115 instances were ‘Redo’ed instantly. In 
another case, when I inserted a long document with ‘Insert File’ command, and 
for some reason tried Undo and again Redo, the Writer crashed. Overall, Undo 
and Redo operations give a sense of fear for unstableness.

8) OpenOffice.org Writer does not recognise image files without extension. 
When I wanted to insert a PNG format image, it was not listed upon 
invoking ‘Insert File’ command. It needed renaming with .png extension for it 
to recognise.

9) In OpenOffice.org Writer, ‘Select All’ function does not work if the very 
starting of a document is table. Invoking the command selects only the first 
cell. Invoking the command again selects the entire table. Selecting the 
entire document is impossible.

10) In OpenOffice.org Writer, while one can set negative numbers for indents 
and spacing normally, the same is not possible with Find/Replace. Searching 
and replacing a paragraph with negative indents or spacing is impossible.

Thanking you
A.M. Tony Allwyn



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