[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 38779] New: Position of text boxes not retained when opening MS Office .doc files FORMATTING problem

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38779

           Summary: Position of text boxes not retained when opening MS
                    Office .doc files FORMATTING problem
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
        AssignedTo: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: ians at hbic.co.za


Created an attachment (id=48565)
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Shows text boxes misaligned

When opening a Microsoft document with LibO 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.4.0 or 3.4.1RC3 on
Linux or Windows the page format is not maintained such that text boxes are
misaligned.

OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 seems to do a reasonable job of maintaining
margins/positions and placing the text boxes almost correctly.  I hope that
drawing comparisons between the two apps will help.

The document "header" (not in a heading area) contains 3 text boxes and one
image.


When viewing the position of the leftmost text box in OpenOffice it shows the
horizontal position from left as -0.10" to Paragraph area

whereas:

LibO seems to interpret the horizontal position as 0.00" from left to Entire
Page resulting in the text box moving to the left.

In OpenOffice the horizontal position of the rightmost text box is positioned
4.86" from left to Paragraph area

whereas:

In LibO the rightmost text box is positioned 4.86" from left to Entire Page


There seems to be differences in interpreting the MS format.

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