Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 84216
Text flow goes astray in OLE writer tables
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:02:14 UTC
I found another problem with using ole Writer objects containing tables in impress presentations. In the file attached you will find a table in an Impress file where text visualization went wrong when I formatted some words in bold and changed a little the table size. As you can see some words appear over other , making the text completely unreadable. If you double click on the object to open and edit it, text is shown correctly, but when you exit from the edit operation it goes berserk again. I fiddled around a bit with the object but could not figure out a sure way to "cure" this problem. It really seems that the least editing of the OLE object you do in Impress the highest are the chances of it not degenerating as in the example file. I also noticed that, even apart from the gravest cases like the one in the file, very often text in a table pasted in Impress appear differently when the OLE object is opended than when it is closed. For example it was easy to have the text partially "hidden" beyond the right border of a cell (as if it was too long to fit) while it looked correctly fitting when you open the same object. All this of course makes editing tables in Impress a time consuming, rather unpredictable and somewhat frustrating activity. This does not depend on a SPECIFIC FONT, since is alas the same with Arial and Times new roman as well as other fonts. Thanks for the attention.
Created attachment 50082 [details] Problems with text in tables in Impress
Confirming with 2.4.m241 on WinXP - as described. scagni, please note that if you double-click OLE object and then exit you get correct display (at least with build m241).
Do you mean with the writer table in the attached file here? Alas, with OO231 right now I tried a lot of times to "exit" after opening the object in as many ways I could think of (clicking somewhere else, pressing ESC key, altogether closing the doc,....) but could not obtain a "correct display". For example, the final "o" in "livello was always overimosed on the rectangular characters following, while in truth there is even a space between them. In general the wrong display was exactly the same after as many opening and closing of the object without modifying anything as you want. But perhaps I did not grasp the exact meaning of your writing?
I ESCaped or clicked out (do not remember exactly) of the object. Please try dev build from http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html.
I see. I will try, but please consider that, although it could sound amateurish, it is more difficult - or at least requires more effort - for me to try development builds. I use OO everyday to work and the flow of bug reporting is just a byproduct of the working process. The business of downloading, installing, trying, and disinstalling devbuilds is instead an independent effort that must be planned and pursued independently, and I rarely have time for it. I hope to be able to give some news before next week. Sorry.
Instead of trying dev build you could just wait for release, but that is 3 month away (or some release candidate before that), so it is up to you to decide which rout to take.