Created attachment 71008 [details] LibreOffice Impress example of Text2Line distortion When a text object is converted to a curve / polygon / contour object and the file is closed and re-opened, the curve / polygon / contour object is sometimes distorted. This happens in the LibreOffice Impress and Draw applications. Steps to recreate this bug: 1) Open a new document in LibreOffice Impress or Draw. 2) Create a text object containing the text "4" (in bold 64pt) 3) Right-click the text object and from the menu chose Convert -> To Curve (or To Polygon or To Contour) 4) Save the file and close the LibreOffice Impress/Draw application. 5) Re-open the file in the LibreOffice Impress/Draw application. RESULT: the curve / polygon / contour object's shape is distorted. See also the attached "Text2Line.odp" example file. This seems to happen specifically with the text "4" but not "1", "2" or "3". It also happens with the letter "A" which suggests the problem might be specific to line objects with holes in them (however I also tried with the text "6", "8" and "B" all of which seemed to be undistorted). The problem occurs even when "Edit Points" is used to manuall modify the point positions of the line object.
The same problem occurs also when converting an image to a curve (Libreoffice 3.5.4.2). This is extremely annoying because it makes it impossible to continue work later.
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I have tested this in LibreOffice Impress v4.2.7.2 Build ID: 420m0(Build:2) (the latest version on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) and it appears to be resolved for me. Following the "steps to recreate this bug", the characters "1", "4", "6", "8" and "A" are all shown correctly in all cases (convert to curve, polygon or contour).