Failure to have openoffice.org-math intalled causes "data corruption"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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openoffice.org (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Chris Cheney | ||
Hardy |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Intrepid |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: openoffice.org
When editing an .odt file that contains formulas without the openoffice.org-math package installed, formulas in the document are somehow corrupted. If the same file is opened in an instance of openoffice that does have -math installed, the formulas show visual glitches, and the only way to restore them is to make a change to each one, one at a time. As far as I can tell the actual formula is still there. I'm unsure if this is a bug in openoffice or if -math should just always be included as a dependency. My default hardy install did not come with openoffice.org-math installed.
Steps to reproduce
Installed openoffice.org-math
Create a document with a formula in it
Uninstall openoffice.org-math
Reopen the document and make some change and save
Reinstall openoffice.org-math
Observe strange drawing of formulas.
Related branches
Changed in openoffice.org: | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
Changed in openoffice.org: | |
milestone: | intrepid-alpha-4 → intrepid-alpha-5 |
Changed in openoffice.org: | |
milestone: | intrepid-alpha-5 → intrepid-alpha-6 |
Changed in openoffice.org: | |
assignee: | ccheney → nobody |
milestone: | intrepid-alpha-6 → none |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in openoffice.org: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
importance: | Undecided → High |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-8.04.2 |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in openoffice.org: | |
assignee: | nobody → ccheney |
milestone: | none → jaunty-alpha-4 |
status: | Fix Released → Triaged |
Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu Hardy): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
I'd agree that the simple fact that this package is not installed by default is a bug. Formulas are an integral ( :) ) part of OOo.
And if Hardy's OOo packages silently trash any document that CONTAINS a formula, that's a severe bug.
I didn't discover that Hardy's install of OOo was broken until Hardy had trashed an entire day's worth of my work (editing documents for my summer chemistry classes). Every one of those documents has formulas, and every one was corrupted by this bug. I will be spending the rest of today cleaning up the mess. (I didn't discover what the problem *was* until I tried to *edit* one of the formulas.)
On my install, the corrupted formulas display as mostly blanks. Editing them once ooo-math was installed would cause them to come back, but in the wrong sized box. The only way I could get the formulas back to normal was to open each one, copy the text version of the formula, then insert a new formula and paste the formula text back in.