-------- Original Message  -------- From: Heinrich Stöllinger
<[email protected]> To: Dave Barton
<[email protected]>[email protected] Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 23:25:45 +0200

> Dave Barton schrieb:
>> Heinrich Stöllinger wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> A long time ago (REALLY long ago!) I complained that LO does not print
>>> serial letters correctly.
>>> I think I also filed a bug report with (in MY opinion!) the right test
>>> data. I just tried to
>>> print such serial letters again today. Unfortunately the problem still
>>> exists. As you can maybe
>>> see from the enclosed pdf-file, only the FIRST letter prints correctly,
>>> while ANY letters after
>>> the first one miss out lines of text (e.g. the place and date near the
>>> top on the right),
>>> drawn lines (near the bottom). Even though I use a MySQL database as
>>> "supplier" of DB-fields,
>>> I don't think this has anything to do with Base.
>>> It should be easy enough to put together a test for this issue, but I
>>> include the respective
>>> .odt-file in any case. Again, I don't think a DB-table is necessary for
>>> testing.
>>> Regards
>>> Heinrich
>> Heinrich,
>> Is https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76257 the bug report you
>> are referring to? If so, I will take a look and see if I can replicate
>> and confirm it.
>>
>> Gary,
>> Please add a reproducible example to Heinrich's report. This will:
>> a) Assist QA in assessing if it is the same bug or not.
>> b) Add more weight to the issue, which in turn is more likely to attract
>> a developer's interest.
>> If you know it's not the exactly the same issue and your reference to
>> "messing up colors" suggests that it may not be, please find and
>> contribute to an existing report, or open a new one.
>> Nobody (developer, QA or other) "denies the existence of an issue", but
>> no issue can be effectively resolved if it cannot be replicated and it's
>> cause determined. Which is where we come in with accurate reports and
>> reproducible examples.
>>
>> This list is a great place to vent our frustrations about our "pet"
>> issues, but at the end of the day our "rants" here do nothing, only our
>> contributions (ie. bug reports and reproducible examples) will help to
>> get anything done.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Yes it is

OK! Give me a few days to check it out and I will post my findings on
Bugzilla.

> and - looking at it again I can see that I DID add attachments
> for testing.

Yes, I know you did. My comments about attachments were in response to
Gary's part of this thread.

> Regards
> Heinrich

Regards
Dave



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