I editted a doc, made sure the formatting was correct, and created a proper-looking PDF. Saved and closed the doc. Exited loffice. Restarted and opened the doc. The header and footer paragraph margins/spacings/indents/tabstops are altered. I can select the paragraphs and change the style to something else and back using the Style and Formatting window to correct it. Left and right pages must be fixed separately. It seems to make the same alterations every time. Also, picture alignment type changes. The position itself remains correct. The type of alignment changes from 'centered' to 'left from' with a measurement. I am running v4.3.0.4 DLed from the LO site on 64-bit Debian Wheezy (16GiB RAM, several TB of disk). I'll make the doc and PDF available if desired. I imagine it might be helpful if I save a version with the altered settings. If it isn't a save problem, it should illuminate what is being changed. An associate says he's never seen these problems on his Windows version; I don't know which version he runs. Other notes/comments -------------------- Is there a possibility there is leftover cruft in the doc? I created it using an older version of LO or OO but had so many problems with RTF import that I created a fresh doc and copy/pasted the plain text from the RTF. I updated to 4.3.0.4 due to problems with another doc; Draw integration and on-screen rendering in writer was problematic in the last version I ran. It's much better now, but there's still room for improvement.
Yes, please attach a test document and the resulting pdf-file and if possible a screenshot with multiple pages (see status bar) after reopening the document. You do not describe, in which file format you have saved. But it is essential, whether you use ODF or an alien format.
Created attachment 104917 [details] test doc Test doc saved with the correct settings.
Created attachment 104918 [details] test pdf PDF that shows the correct layout of the headers and footers.
Created attachment 104919 [details] bad doc Doc saved just after opening; has munged headers and footers
Created attachment 104920 [details] bad PDF PDF that shows munged headers and footers
Oops. I saved the doc using native .odt format. Attachments added.
Created attachment 105261 [details] shows random BOLD words in both footers Every time I open the ODT file different words in the footers go bold
I regularly write a 20 page newsletter with LO Writer with pages which have headers and footers. The footer looks as follows: 10 Bowen Mountain Association Newsletter – September 2014 Every time I save and then re-open one of the the ODT files, one or more of the words in the footer have turned to BOLD - always different words. Other times the page number which is meant to be BOLD has gone non-BOLD. When I mark the whole of one of these words, the BOLD button does not show it is bold. I have to put just the cursor in the middle of one of these bold words which then brings up the BOLD button, which I can press, which unboldens just the one word. Other bold words in the line are not changed. Every time I open one of the files I have to check all the footers and unbolden all bold words which have reappeared before I finally export the file to a PDF for printing. Never seem to have this problem with the headers. I am running: LibreOffice Version: 4.1.6.2 Build ID: 410m0(Build:2)distributed with OS: Linux 3.11.10-17-desktop openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU B940 @ 2.00GHz - dual CPU Memory: 1 GiByte Drive: TOSHIBA MK3276GSX - 298.1 GiB Related attachment: shows random BOLD words in both footers Last time I opened the attached file the word "Bowen" and "Association" were BOLD in the first (left odd) footer and the word "Association" and "Newsletter" were BOLD in the second (right even) footer. But this varies.
I opened John's doc three times and it displayed the footers differently each time: random words bold, random normal.
Thanks Neal for confirming that this bolding and unbolding in the footers really happens. Were you using LO 4.3.0.4 release? That is a newer Version than my 4.1.6.2. I am surprised nobody else has picked this up - it is so annoying. Should I make this a separate Bug Report. I would like to have it in the main Index. How do I do that. I am a newbie on Bugzilla and I would appreciate help.
(In reply to comment #10) > Thanks Neal for confirming that this bolding and unbolding in the footers > really happens. Were you using LO 4.3.0.4 release? That is a newer Version > than my 4.1.6.2. I am surprised nobody else has picked this up - it is so > annoying. > > Should I make this a separate Bug Report. I would like to have it in the > main Index. How do I do that. I am a newbie on Bugzilla and I would > appreciate help. Yes, using v4.3.0.4. Looked at your effect again. It doesn't just change normal/bold. Click in the middle of a word and type some characters. They might or might not be bold, but LO thinks they're of different size (that is, 10 != 10). I'd leave it here for now. It shows that more than one user is affected, and that it's existed for a while. Leave it to an LO developer to split the report.
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