Issue 88063 - WW8/Calc: grouped draw objects lose position when exporting to MS Office format
Summary: WW8/Calc: grouped draw objects lose position when exporting to MS Office format
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: save-export (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.3.1
Hardware: All Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2008-04-08 19:27 UTC by cpudesigner
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Developer Difficulty: ---

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originally created shapes in .odg (8.26 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-08 19:28 UTC, cpudesigner 		no flags Details
writer created file as .doc with garbled drawing (68.50 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-08 19:29 UTC, cpudesigner 		no flags Details
odt after group has been pasted from Draw (8.22 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2008-04-09 12:36 UTC, michael.ruess 		no flags Details
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Description cpudesigner 2008-04-08 19:27:53 UTC 
Using Draw to construct some basic shapes.  place & rotate.  save in .odg OK.  
Copy shapes.  Open new write file and paste the drawing.  Save as .doc format, 
close it then reopen it and drawing is messed up.

I have 2 example files and as soon as I can figure out how to attach them I 
will.
Comment 1 cpudesigner 2008-04-08 19:28:40 UTC 
Created attachment 52661 [details]
originally created shapes in .odg
Comment 2 cpudesigner 2008-04-08 19:29:31 UTC 
Created attachment 52662 [details]
writer created file as .doc with garbled drawing
Comment 3 cpudesigner 2008-04-08 19:51:14 UTC 
Windows XP X64
Comment 4 Rainer Bielefeld 2008-04-09 10:37:18 UTC 
I checked with "2.4.0  Multilingual version German UI WIN XP:
[680m12(Build9286)]"  and can confirm the reported effect. It looks even worse
when you open test2.doc with MS WORDVIEWER, no graphic object visible at all.

Similar problems if you try to create an EXCEL document with those DRAW objects
from CALC.

It seems that the problem only occurs for objects inserted as "Drawing format"
(standard). DRAW8 format works better.

Reduce priority to 3, because warning "This document might contain objects that
...". But I agree, the result is not acceptable.

I am pretty sure that I already have seen a report concerning this problem, but
currently I can't find that issue.
Comment 5 michael.ruess 2008-04-09 12:36:21 UTC 
Created attachment 52684 [details]
odt after group has been pasted from Draw
Comment 6 michael.ruess 2008-04-09 12:48:29 UTC 
MRU->SJ: when exporting the object group in the attached odt, all the objects
get an additional "border object" added.
Comment 7 discoleo 2008-04-09 18:06:08 UTC 
Is this realted to issue 59051?
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59051

Only that it is more severe than that issue (more things now broken, not just
the arrows)?
Comment 8 cpudesigner 2008-04-09 19:03:40 UTC 
Workaround:  Copy objects and paste into Windows Paint.  Then select objects in 
Paint and paste into writer.
Comment 9 cpudesigner 2008-04-16 18:13:48 UTC 
Use draw tools in Write, place some objects & group them together.  Save 
as .doc.  Close file and reopen.  Objects have moved.
Comment 10 sven.jacobi 2008-04-17 10:20:39 UTC 
sj: I try to sum up the problem we have. If I read the first issue description
it is all about grouped drawing objects that are not stored correctly to the
"DOC" format, they lose their position. Reading further on this should also be
the fact when storing these objects to Excel. And yes, I can confirm this, Calc
& Writer are sharing the same export code. I change the title.