Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 73020
Wrong table formatting in exported PDF by Mail Merge to E-Mail
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:44:35 UTC
I checked with "2.0.2 German version WIN XP: [680m5(Build9011)]" and found out, that the table formatting for a table in the heading of my documet looks wrong after Meil Merge E-Mail. Steps to reproduce: 1. Unpack my test kit to a folder 'C:\mailmergetest' 2. make 'testaddresses.odb' available for your OOo installation 3. Insert some useful existing E-mail-addresses to column 'AG' in 'addresses.ods' and close 'addresses.ods' 4. Close and restart OOo 5. Open 'tabletest.odt' 6. Send Mail Merge e-mail using mail merge assistant 6.1. Menu 'Tools - Mail Merge Assistant - Current document' <continue> 6.2. Radio button 'E-Mail' <continue> <continue> <continue> <continue> <continue> (Until your reach step 8.) 6.3. In step 8. of MMA select radio button 'send as E-Mail', select field "Email" for 'To', write some useful subject and select "send as Adobe PDF document" <send documents> documents will be sent 7. Now compare the heading in an e-mail attachment you have got with the original heading ('tabletest.pdf' and 'tabletest_result.odt'): Expected: headings look equal in both documents (odt / PDF) Actual: in the new PDF the horizontal line between "Bielefeld & Buß" and "Regelsysteme ...." has become a strike through for "Bielefeld & Buß". That ugly effect does not appear if you export the document with the normal PDF export function. I will test with 2.1 soon
Created attachment 41799 [details] Testkit to reproduce the problem
Corrected Version
Reassigned to HI.
I also checked on an other PC with "2.1.0 German version WIN XP: [680m6(Build9095)]", the problem is also reproducible with my testkit 'testkit_mailmergetest.zip'
For the sake of completeness: The "strike throug" is also visible in otherviewsers Ghostview 4.7 and FoxitReader.
HI->OS: Occurs also not by sending document by mail as pdf attachment.
Reassigned to FME
move to target 3.x according http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Target_3x
I did some further tests with 3.0 and 3.1Dev, where the problem still is visible. The problem is caused by the curious paragraph formatting. The red parting line in the logo is not a table border, but the bottom border of the Paragraph containing "Bielefeld & Buß oHG". When I delete this border and create a table border line between that table cell and the one containing "Regelsysteme für Heizungs-, Klima-, Lüftungstechnik", the problem disappears. May be these hints help to fix the bug.