Bug 35865 - EDITING: allow to flip text boxes
Summary: EDITING: allow to flip text boxes
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Drawing (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2011-04-01 04:14 UTC by Bob Harvey
Modified: 2014-02-04 17:20 UTC (History)
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Attachments
drawing with object that can't be flipped (17.31 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics)
2011-04-01 04:14 UTC, Bob Harvey
Details
Sample Document, see Comment 1 (13.50 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics)
2011-04-01 09:40 UTC, Rainer Bielefeld Retired
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test sheet with example flips and screengrab of greyed out menu (123.69 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics)
2014-02-04 17:20 UTC, Bob Harvey
Details

Description Bob Harvey 2011-04-01 04:14:11 UTC
Created attachment 45132 [details]
drawing with object that can't be flipped

This is queer.
On Sheet 1, bottom left, I drew a battery.  
I then copied it, moved it up, and flipped it.
I copied the two of them, moved that up and had four.  I grouped the four.

I then decided to add + and - text, and so ungrouped, deleted 3, and that left the original one.

I added + and - text, and grouped that with the original, then tried the copy-and-flip trick again.

The new version cannot be flipped.  The flip menu is greyed out.

This is not what I would expect.
Comment 1 Bob Harvey 2011-04-01 06:41:22 UTC
Have confirmed same behaviour under windows and Linux, and that removing the text fields allows the object to be flipped.
Comment 2 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-04-01 09:36:43 UTC
[Reproducible] with "LibreOffice 3.3.2  – WIN7  Home Premium  (64bit) German UI [OOO330m19 (Build:202 / tag 3.3.2.2)]"

The problem is that text boxes can not be flipped, and that restriction also prevents from flipping grouped objects with text boxes.

I can't understand the restriction, because it's possible to flip shapes and drawing elements with text (inserted after double click), pls. see attached "FunnySample.odg"

Corresponding OOo Bug:
Bug 102502 -  Ability to flip texboxes  
<http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102502>
Comment 3 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-04-01 09:40:47 UTC
Created attachment 45142 [details]
Sample Document, see Comment 1
Comment 4 Bob Harvey 2011-04-01 14:14:25 UTC
@Rainer Bielefeld
>I can't understand the restriction

Agreed.  Other graphics editors, like Serif draw plus, can manage to do it: there is sometimes a bit of tidying to do, but in most cases they make a pretty good guess. 

Inkscape does it, but reverses the text direction which may or may not be the desired result.
Comment 5 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 11:50:53 UTC
[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Comment 6 Bob Harvey 2011-12-27 13:19:27 UTC
Confirm that the problem still exists in 3.5
don't know if I am supposed to change the version
Comment 7 Bob Harvey 2012-04-06 14:42:04 UTC
Problem still present in 3,5.2.2 Ubuntu
Comment 8 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-04-07 04:15:27 UTC
<http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport_Details#Version>
Comment 9 Bob Harvey 2012-10-25 10:16:35 UTC
Problem still present in Version 3.6.2.2 (Build ID: da8c1e6)
Comment 10 Bob Harvey 2014-02-04 17:20:37 UTC
Created attachment 93389 [details]
test sheet with example flips and screengrab of greyed out menu

Confirmed that eh problem is unchanged in 4.2.0.4


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