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[upstream] OOo Draw / Writer drawing snap has a vertical offset

Bug #158711 reported by martin hodges on 2007-10-30

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	OpenOffice	Confirmed	Unknown	openoffice-bugs #76031
	openoffice.org (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

This also appears to affect Draw despite what is stated below..

Binary package hint: openoffice.org-writer

Placing a rectangle, drawn directly in an A4 document with snap active and margins of 2 cm. Grid values of 1 cm and 3 points. The resulting rectangle is placed on the grid, but is moved down to the next grid point. Further vertical movement of the object or key points re-aligns the object away from the vertical grid by 0.05cm. Similar steps in an OpenOffice Draw document behave as expected. Corners and edges snap correctly when moved.

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martin hodges (martin-hodges) wrote on 2007-10-30:

emc_adcsdi_av-mux_daaa.odt Edit (13.1 KiB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)

The attached file has the error. The bug disappears if the grid subdivider points is set to 4. Yukk.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2008-03-10:

I found this report a little difficult to understand, so here's my interpretation of it after some experimentation (reproducing the bug in the process). I hope this is accurate.

Open the document provided, then Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org Writer -> Grid; set Snap to grid, Visible grid, resolution to 1cm for both, subdivision to 1cm for both. Enable the Drawing toolbar in View -> Toolbars, then place a rectangle somewhere. Observe that Writer shows you the outline of the rectangle as it's drawing it, and then when you let go of the mouse button it actually places it one subdivision further down from where it said it was going to. Next (zoom in to 200% to see this) if you try to move the rectangle it doesn't snap properly to the grid, but snaps to something slightly offset from it.

This smacks of a rounding bug, perhaps.

Changed in openoffice.org:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Confirmed

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martin hodges (martin-hodges) wrote on 2008-03-11: Re: [Bug 158711] Re: Openoffice Writer drawing snap has a vertical offset

Hi,
It sounds about right.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-03-25

Changed in openoffice:
status:	Unknown → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-03-27

Changed in openoffice:
status:	New → Invalid

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-04-02

Changed in openoffice:
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

Chris Cheney (ccheney) on 2008-06-13

Changed in openoffice.org:
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Chris Cheney (ccheney) on 2009-10-08

summary:	- [Upstream] [hardy] Openoffice Writer drawing snap has a vertical offset + [upstream] OOo Draw / Writer drawing snap has a vertical offset
description:	updated

Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen) on 2011-09-15

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Won't Fix

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Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen) wrote on 2011-09-15: migrating packaging from OpenOffice.org to Libreoffice

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There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.