Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 10049
Word wrapping around graphics is sometimes lost when opening document
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:36 UTC
I have several documents which have one to three bitmap graphics (mostly jpg) per page embedded with the document size ranging from 4 to 40 pages in the DIN A5 format (about half the size of US letter). On some graphics contours are defined and almost all are so defined as to wrap text around them (in German: "Umlauf/Seitenumlauf" and "Umlauf/Dynamischer Seitenumlauf"). Apart from some performance problems when scrolling this works great except for one major bug: Fairly often some graphics lose their wrapping behaviour when I reopen the document. Instead they are floating on top of the text covering part of it. Irritatingly these are not always the same graphics and there is no way to predict when this will happen that I am aware of. I've been tracking this for three weeks now and I am encountering this at least for one graphic in every other opening of a document. On accessing the graphic's context menu I find the proper wrapping mode still selected. Only after selecting another wrapping mode and then reassigning the proper mode will the text wrap around properly again. I know how difficult it is to hunt down sporadic bugs, but maybe someone working on the graphics could keep a lookout for this behaviour. Thanks! P.S. I'm sorry that I may not be using the proper English command names, but I am using the German version of OO so I'm simply not aware of the names.
cmc->qa: Internal #105534# and #105459# sound similiar to this ?
I'll follow the internal tasks
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Target changed.
Could not reproduce such behavior with 644m5-8555. Seems to be fixed.
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Sorry to say, but in the 1.1 Release Candidate this behaviour still shows even on documents which were created in that version. As soon as I put two or three graphics (about 2x2 inches each) on a page and define the text to wrap around the graphics, chances are good that on opening the saved document one or all graphics are floating on top of the text hiding parts of it. I am not definitely sure if this behaviour depends on the use of contours since I usually require the text to follow the form of the graphics. If required I can probably whip up a sample document although I have to admit that this is an intermittent problem (now you see it, now you don't).
We've been using OpenOffice on Windows 98 since 1.0 for a little newsletter we print, and this has always been a (intermittant) problem. It has existed in every version I have used through 1.1RC1.
Please provide an attachment as bugdoc and/or Screenshot with the steps to reproduce, Thanks.
HI->MRU: Could not reproduce, may you can.
I'm pretty sure that this is a duplicate of issue 9762 (which was a few days earlier). I could reproduce the effect with 1.1RC3 / W2k. Please read my report on issue 9762.
I've seen little on this, so I didn't comment on it. I've had call-outs move when reopening a document, so this is not a rare problem. I have to reposition the call-out or the surrounding text each time I open that document. This has also happened on occasion with other graphics -- they simply move over the text for no particular reason.
MRU->ES: All this sounds for XML stuff. Loss of wrapping style when saving in OO 1/1.1 file format.
If we don't have sample documents, we can't say if this is a bug, if it still exist and if we can fix it. Please attach sample document with a description of which Graphic makes problems. In the meantime, retargetting to OOo 2.0
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