Bug 34436

on Liberoffice 3.3.1 still exist

User vitriol explained that you should use <Shift+Enter> to separate lines in
vertically aligned paragraph (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38064#c1).

With Shift-Enter it works.
My be need only add line "Use Shift-Enter for new line if text in table cell" to tooltip in Format->Character->tab Position->area Rotation/Scaling. It will solve this problem for many users.

There is possibility to set the "Text direction" in "Table properties"("Text flow" tab). If you set "Right-to-left (vertical)" it work more correctly, intuitive and simply (for multiline just press Enter), than if you use  Format/Character/Position/Rotate. But the top of letters directed to the right. Therefore, I propose to add a item "Left-to-right (vertical)" to "Text direction" that would work similarly, but the top of the letters will look to the left. In my opinion this is the most correct and logical solution to rotate text for the table-cells.

Why when cursor is situated in start of string he became that:

[url=http://itmages.ru/image/view/289061/5d2603bf][img]http://storage1.static.itmages.ru/i/11/0925/s_1316941191_4035998_5d2603bf71.png[/img][/url]

Why when cursor in the end of string and I push Enter cursor stand that place:

[url=http://itmages.ru/image/view/289059/41fccf43][img]http://storage8.static.itmages.ru/i/11/0925/s_1316941168_3799594_41fccf438d.png[/img][/url]

But when I countinue print I saw that cursor is stand in start of first string:

[url=http://itmages.ru/image/view/289058/001e3a6f][img]http://storage7.static.itmages.ru/i/11/0925/s_1316941112_3483110_001e3a6fe4.png[/img][/url]

Just try to work with vertical align of text and you understand that it is not obvious and asked...

P.S.: Would be cool if with LO we can make any degrees such as last picture (blue color).

Created attachment 53287 [details]
Test case

Video that show the problem with test case attachment:

http://monteldvd.sf.net/bug/text_rotated.avi

I can confirm that behaviour (also the wrong display mentioned by druido77@libero.it) in LO 3.5 beta1. It gave me quite a hard time here at the company until I found out that Ctrl+Enter is needed. 
Perhaps it is more intuitive to let "Enter" behave like "ctrl+Enter" when the orientation of the following paragraph is rotated, too.

reset some values that come without appropriate reason, see http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport_Details

I don't understand why you have changed from 3.4.4 back to 3.3.0 . I change newly to 3.4.4 because I have this problem on LibO 3.4.4 on Windows XP

LibreOffice 3.4.4 
OOO340m1 (Build:402)


(In reply to comment #9)
> reset some values that come without appropriate reason, see
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport_Details

Same problem on 

LOdev 3.5.0beta2 Windows XP
Build ID: 8589e48-760cc4d-f39cf3d-1b2857e-60db978

@druido77@libero.it 
Version - it is where bug first time found, and not current version.

*** Bug 41459 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Reproducible] with reporter's sample and "LibreOffice 3.5.0 RC2 German UI/Locale [Build-ID: e371a95-bf68a13-5a1aa2b-d3c1ae9-b938258] on German WIN7 Home Premium  (64bit). Also reproducible with own document.

Bug 41459 shows bug with a much more simple test case.

Related to "Bug 37828 - rotated text is not saved correctly in doc format"?

@Cédric:
Please feel free to reassign (or reset Assignee to default) if it’s not your area or if provided information is not sufficient. Please set Status to ASSIGNED if you accept this Bug.

I suggest the block 37361 should be removed cause this's not a frequently used feature and has a workaround.

Also I suggest downgrading it's priority.

Confirmed on Version 4.1.0.0.alpha0+ (Build ID: 027bb41aa16793e88e9fc1b3550c8c893363647). 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Because LibreOffice 3.5 is now at end of life the 3.5 MAB is being closed. 

I agree with dE's input, while this might be quite annoying for some users, that list of users is very limited and therefore this bug should not be a MAB. 

MAB should affect a large portion of our user base OR be such a big bug that it would make professional quality work impossible. For this particular bug there is a workaround (although not ideal) which is to create the table in Spreadsheet and then copy/paste it to Writer - just tested this and it works.

Thanks for your understanding and apologies for the long delay.

Sasha, I just tried reproducing this problem in latest LO 4.2 master. But couldn't find the rotating option. Could you describe the exact steps how to reproduce?

Select text, then menu Format->Character, then in dialog tab "Position" field "Rotation/Scaling" option "90 degrees" or "270 degrees".

*** Bug 69678 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Created attachment 101906 [details]
table with rotated text

See left column. It contains a paragraph with 2 strings only. But it is presented in LO 4.3.0.0b2 with big distortions.

The bug is still actual for LO 4.3.0.0 beta2.