[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107402] New: FILESAVE - Export to PDF of a BASE form often leaves DATE fields blank and does not handle LONGVARCHAR fields correctly

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            Bug ID: 107402
           Summary: FILESAVE - Export to PDF of a BASE form often leaves
                    DATE fields blank and does not handle LONGVARCHAR
                    fields correctly
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.3.2.2 release
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Base
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: ostersund18647 at gmail.com

To demonstrate the problems :-

Create a database with one table and one form

Configure the table with five fields (all options set to default) :-
Date1 - Key field of type Date [DATE]
Text1 - Field of type Text [VARCHAR]
Date2 - Field of type Date [DATE]
Date3 - Field of type Date [DATE]
Memo1 - Field of type Memo [LONGVARCHAR]

Configure the form to show all five fields

Use the form to input "01/01/81" into all five fields (enter six such lines in
Memo1) and save it

Problem 1 :-
Display the form and export it as a PDF file, every checkbox on the "General"
panel unchecked except "Create PDF Form" and "View PDF after export", with
"PDF" selected as the "Submit Format"

Expected result is that the displayed (and saved) PDF should show all fields as
"01/01/81" (six such lines in Memo1)

My first actual result was that Date1 was blank, Text1 was shown as "01/01/81",
Date2 was blank, Date3 was shown as "01/01/81" and Memo1 was shown as six lines
of "01/01/81"

If I then exited from LibreOffice, restarted it, redisplayed the form and
performed the same export to PDF, I got slightly different results - this time,
only Text1 and Memo1 were shown correctly, but all three date fields were blank

ie. Actual results are unpredictable, but there is a definite problem somewhere
with fields of type date

I only have release 5.3.2.2 available for testing. I may well be wrong, but I
have the feeling that this problem may not have occurred on the release that
was available early in 2016.

Problem 2 :-
If checkbox "Archive PDF/A-1a (ISO19005-1)" is checked when exporting the form
as PDF, all dates are displayed correctly, but a white area is shown in Memo1,
obscuring most of the text.

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