Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 99929
WW8: blank pages appear while updating
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:15:41 UTC
I have exported the attached text document as PDF. Before exporting, the Writer repaginates the document. This is done leaving some blank pages. In the attached document, between the last chapter and the frame there are 5 blank pages. I have reduced as much as possible the document to help troubleshoot the bug. In the original one there were 30 blank pages. The problem can be seen directly in the writer (and of course, also opening the pdf).
Created attachment 60753 [details] 5 blank pages
This is not a P1. Concerns probably the Word import.
The document is not a Word import. I have typed it afresh from within the Writer. It is a P1 because it relates to the very basic functionality of a word processor. Forcing an author to spend a whole day trying to make a final (and important) document presentable (which is not when it has dozens of blank pages) is a P1 issue.
I mentioned "Word import" because it's a Word document but also to stress that it has nothing to do with a PDF export (Tools - Update all shows the same extra pages) (Please read: http://www.openoffice.org/scdocs/ddIssues_EnterModify.html#priority This is neither a P1 nor even a P2 (not blocking a whole component, a crash or other data loss). Priorities are defined following objective and not subjective (personal impact) criteria.)
I might agree that it could be be a P1, but not that it is not a P2. Of course, I do not know how many users are affected. But anyone that would find 30 blank pages in his document would objectively think that an essential functionality of the product is affected by that bug. By the way, the first time that it occurred, the Writer crashed, a window appeared telling me that the problem had been sent to SUN (I guess some data describing the crash). P.S. perhaps the ".dot" extensions of the attached file is misleading. The document has nothing to do with Words. It is a Openoffice Writer document that originated from typing it in the Writer, and not importing from Word.
Indeed it's not a Word document (however why it has a .doc extension...??) @OS: The document contains to conditionally hidden sections. The condition is a variable defined a top of doc. I noticed after the hidden sections a Heading with "Page break before in its settings". -> When exporting to PDF or Update All, some additional pages appear which are placed at and are fromthe length of the sections. But the sections remain hidden. Notes: - I could not reproduce this from scratch. - Only "Update *all*" and exporting show this behavior. None of the other "Tools - Update commands"...
What is important is that you could at least reproduce it with "update all". I tried to reproduce the problem reducing further the document, but removing paragraphs or sections, or page breaks, etc. makes the problem disappear. I guess it might be due to some bug in the formatting algorithm, like, e.g. using some not-initialized variable, or because of some races.
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".