[Libreoffice-qa] Inserting an image from an URL removes page break in LO 4.1.5.3?

Thomas Hackert thackert at nexgo.de
Sun Apr 6 01:23:37 PDT 2014


Hello Joren, *,
On Sonntag, 6. April 2014 10:14 Joren DC wrote:
> Thomas Hackert schreef op 6/04/14 09:00:
>> I copied an image from
>> 
https://www.google.com.mx/search?q=sol&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=R5UyU5e5OOXLsQT8rIDAAw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=483#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=LqB-IrJ9puxFEM%253A%3BJ_D6dBUvsAJ5qM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fcommons%252Ff%252Ff6%252FAfiche_del_sol.svg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fes.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FSol%3B3880%3B2560
>> into Writer via context menu and selecting "Paste". This neither
>> crashes nor slows down Writer, as the bug reporter has written it
>> in his bug description. So far, so good :)
> 
>> 
>> But when I deselect the image, go to "Insert – Manual Break..."
>> and press Enter, I can paste the same copy of this picture on the
>> following page in LO Version: 4.2.3.3 Build ID:
>> 6c3586f855673fa6a1576797f575b31ac6fa0ba3 (parallel installed,
>> following the instructions from
>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel) with
>> Germanophone lang- as well as helppack under Debian Testing i686.
>> So far, so good, so ... ;)
>> 
>> But if I try the same with LO Version: 4.1.5.3 Build-ID:
>> 1c1366bba2ba2b554cd2ca4d87c06da81c05d24, it removes the page
>> break instead ... :(
> 
> Tested using Mac OSX 10.9 with LibreOffice Version: 4.1.5.3
> Build ID: 1c1366bba2ba2b554cd2ca4d87c06da81c05d24
> I also can reproduce a major slowdown and freezes. Also I can
> reproduce the fact the second pasted image removes the page break.

thank you very much for confirming :)

>> Steps to reproduce:
>> 1. Go to the above mentioned Gargle link
>> 2. Rightclick on one of the images and choose "Copy image" (or
>> something like that. In German, it is "Grafik kopieren")
>> 3. Open Writer
>> 4. Rightclick in Writer and choose "Paste"
>> 5. Click somewhere next to the image to deselect it
>> 6. Go to "Insert – Manual Break..."
>> 7. Press the Enter key
>> 8. Try this in 4.1.5.3 as well as 4.2.3.3.
>> 
>> You will see, that in 4.2.3.3 the page break will still be there
>> after inserting the image on the second side. In LO 4.1.5.3 this
>> page break will vanish ... :(
> 
> Confirmed, in 4.2.3.3 the page break retains.

Thanks again :)

>> Can someone confirm it with a different OS/architecture or even
>> in an older version of LO? Does anybody know, if this is already
>> reported? Or should I add this as a comment to bug #76624??
> 
> Not sure this is already reported, but I'm not sure reporting a
> bug for LibreOffice 4.1-branch is worth it. If we find/bibisect
> the commit that fixed this issue, it may not be backportable to
> upcoming EOL version 4.1.6.

O.K.

> Also it _might_ be fixed thanks to the fix of bug 52547
> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52547)

Thank you for this link :) I will read this bug report later today 
... ;)
Thanks again for testing
Thomas.

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