[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136740] New: pasting RTF content to LO writer resets tab stops setting in options

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136740

            Bug ID: 136740
           Summary: pasting RTF content to LO writer resets tab stops
                    setting in options
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.4.1.1 rc
          Hardware: All
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: xvids121 at crapmail.org

Description:
Every time paste special is used in LO writer to paste something with formatted
clipboard data (such as bold, underline, different colours, etc) the tab stops
configuration is reset to its installation default of 1.27cm (or equivalent in
inches).

When this setting is reset any existing tabs entered in the document are
changed in the viewport, wrecking the page layout.  Setting the tab stops
manually back to the custom value makes the document legible again but this
setting should not be reset every time pasting simple formatting documents.

This occurs from 6.4.1 upwards including up 7.1alpha (64-bit).

Steps to Reproduce:
1. copy some text which has been formatted in some way to the clipboard, eg 
some text which has bold or underline or different size text in the same
sentence.  This is happening from all sources with some formatting, including
PDF documents (using various non-browser based PDF viewers), web based
browsers, and windows wordpad / write.exe
2. paste this text using the paste special function or by it's assigned
keyboard shortcut. Select RTF format.


Actual Results:
- text is pasted as expected
- except the tab stop variable is reset from whatever the user has customised
it to to the installation default 1.27cm (or equivalent in inches). 
Tools→Options→LibreOffice Writer tab→General→Tab stops.
- this behaviour changes the layout of previously applied tabs within the
document, wrecking the text layout.
- this prevents reliance on using tab to apply spacing.
- having to keep changing the tab stops configuration variable in options back
to my custom every time I paste special to maintain correct document layout.


Expected Results:
- pasting (special) should not alter Libreoffice configuration settings.



Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
- have tried resetting user profile / trying fresh installation on another
machine.
- do not know if this affects other operating systems.
- I have tried many builds from 6.4.1 up to alpha, which I am currently on.

Version: 7.1.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: 3ad21220992e348ccfc59ce5ffb67ee9dd0e4b88
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-GB
Calc: CL

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