Created attachment 97379 [details] This is the exported PDF. The final two lines are missing. When exporting to PDF, some pages have missing lines of text at the bottom. The exporter is unconsistent when exporting; some times they appear, but sometimes they do not appear. Don't know what causes it, but is very unreliable for exporting long documents (we have to check page by page).
Created attachment 97380 [details] This is the working document in Writer: it features the two missing lines from the exported PDF.
I've experienced the same issue with version 3.5.7 too.
The working document has more than 35 pages, makes extensive use of styles for paragraphs and pages; has embedded graphics produced with LO Draw and features lots of page-breaks (this is in case you have to test your own documents).
Hi Star Man, thank you for your bug report. We’ve just released LibreOffice 4.3, which features several improvements to the PDF import/export engine. Please retry with that version and tell us if you are still able to reproduce the problem. Should you continue to experience the bug, it would be helpful if you could attach (or provide a link to) the affected document, only if it contains no private information.
I've seen this bug on LO 3.5.6, 4.1.x, 4.2.x and the current 4.3 Unfortunately the document I'm working on I cannot share because is private. I'll try to reproduce this issue on a new document and send it to you. But if you can do this research too, the document should have lots of paragraph styles applied, many page styles also, many graphics produced on LO Draw mixing text and graphics, and more than 50 pages.
In the meantime I'm reproducing this document to submit for you, I'd like to point that, when attempting to export my 56-pages document to PDF, I first open the print-preview panel. Then, in the multiple pages preview I choose a grid of 8x7 pages. At that oping, the 8x7 grid of pages is drawn page by page, from left to right. After it finishes drawing the grid, I notice the application re-scans the grid page by page again, the same order, and, in the case of my document, when arriving to the page no. 23, paragraphs reacommodate, and the same for the subsequent pages. That means that the document I'm working on, and the document previewed on the print-preview panel are different (you saw the screenshot I took). Why is that happening that way? So, in the end it makes document-editing somewhat unreliable, for sometimes the exported PDF will be missing lines ant the bottom of pages, wich are present in the original editing document. I think this is an important bug to adress. I hope I can reproduce the document for you to analyze.
Finally! I managed to scramble the document's text and replace its graphics, and still keep this bug showing up. Notice that for this bug to show, the spanish dictionary found on http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/spanish-dictionaries (the generic one) should be activated. Otherwise it won't reproduce. *This is because I'm a spanish speaker and I need my documents to be properly hyphenated. Using Ubuntu, I always need to install this extension right after the suite installation. I have also embedded the document fonts so that it looks the same (because I don't know if they are part responsible for the bug.) They are open source fonts. In the print-preview window, the rescanning of the document, mentioned before, makes changes to the positions of paragraphs from page 23 to page 36 (at least in my system), showing all the pages in a grid of 9x7 You can find this zipped document on the following link: https://mega.co.nz/#!XQUCDBAS!EMud1QXV0arhJ4uP4lOFn8558XCAVGR4cm06-AeOxv8 Good luck!
I hope you had luck reviewing the document. The issues I'm about to cooment here I didn't tested with this document, but my original one. Today I tested this issue on Mac OS X v10.6.8 using the same extensions. The bug appeared there also. There were missing lines at the end of the page 23 on my original document, exactly as the previous screenshots I posted here. On Linux, today I also noticed another issue related to this bug. On the bottom end of page 46 on my original Writer document, the last paragraph ends about two lines above the page number. But, in the exported PDF, the same paragraph ends about just a single line above it. It's different, but it shouldn't be... It should export exactly as I'm editing in Writer. I'm pretty sure this has to do with many Draw illustrations embedded into the document. When autoformatting, the engine does really strange things in combination with the hyphenation extension.
No need for NEEDINFO anymore.
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