Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 61727
Applied custom made gradient fills get lost after re-opening document
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:31:34 UTC
I create a new drawing from a template file, and draw e.g. a rectangle. To the rectangle I apply a gradient fill that I created *without entering a custom name*. (That means, I leave the default name offered in the input box, saying something like "Farbverlauf 7" - I use the german version). I close the document and re-open it, and: The box has lost the applied gradient fill, instead it uses the _first_ gradient in the drop down list. But: this is shown in the drop down list as a duplicate entry _at_the_very_bottom_, displayed in a manner like "[Gradient 7]" - now written in english! I was able to reproduce this behaviour. Interesting: If you enter a custom name for your newly created gradient fill it works as it should. Hope, that helps! Best Regards!
Created attachment 33906 [details] Test file, showing a box with the lost gradient and an original converted to metafile (how it should look like).
Created attachment 33907 [details] The template file which the new drawing was derived from.
Please have a look if we do the same thing: 1 open a new draw 2 insert a recangle, select it. 3 Open the area dialog 4 Select gradients tabpage 5 Customize the default gradient, change the colors. 6 Click Add-button. 7 Click ok, leave the default name. 8 Clcik ok to close the area dialog. 9 Save the file. Close it, reopen it: the rectangle has the default gradient 1. Is that ok? But with that follow up I cannot reproduce the problem.
This is not exactyl the same, but you are right: following your steps I cannot reproduce the problem, too. The decisive difference may have to do something with the attached template file (id 33907). Please try this: 1 Save the attachment 33907 [details] (D33_zeichnung.odt) to your pc. 2 Create a new drawing from this template. 3 insert a recangle, select it. 4 Open the area dialog 5 Select gradients tabpage 6 Customize the default gradient, change the colors. 7 Click Add-button. 8 Click ok, leave the default name (at my pc it is "Farbverlauf n", in german, n beeing an automatically incremented number). 9 Click ok to close the area dialog. 10 Save the file. Close it, reopen it. 11 Select the rectangle. Have a look at the area fill dropdown list. I retried these step just before with this result: a) The area fill dropdown list still shows the created area fill "Farbverlauf n" b) The area fill dropdown list shows one more entry "[Gradient n]". c) The area fill dropdown list shows "[Gradient n]" as applied fill for the rectangle. But this should be "Farbverlauf n". d) What is new (and weird): yesterday "[Gradient n]" was exactly the same like the first gradient style in the list. Today "[Gradient n]" looks like "Farbverlauf n". The behaviour seems to have a constant aspect and another varying one: a) constant: A new gradient is created if I leave the default name, now named in English. (Can this have something to do with the choosen language of the installation, German?) b) varying are the properties of the new gradient. They seem to depend on something else. (Sorry, this is rather speculative, but it is what the instinct says).
The wrong wording "gradient in a german version is reproducible but not the loss of the custom gradient..
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