Bug#599155: Bugs in OpenOffice.org of Debian Lenny
From: nathanael_scdrid@bsnl.in
Sub: Various bugs in OpenOffice.org Writer
Package: openoffice.org-writer
Version: 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny8
1) I have more than 1,000 fonts installed. Many of which are Windows fonts as
well as Tamil fonts. In OpenOffice.org Writer, editing of any drawing object,
chart or picture makes every work thereafter dead slow. Scrolling
particularly is a nightmare. The whole negative experience waits to repeat
after saving and opening afresh. Removing all the fonts makes things slightly
better, however not as normal as it was in older versions, especially
OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 found in Debian Etch. Form Fields in questionnaires
behave more worse after editing drawing objects, pictures and charts.
2) When working with a OpenOffice.org Writer document, clicking the ‘New’
button opens another Writer document. If I want a new spreadsheet, I choose
from the drop-down list. Now, when I am back to the Writer and once again
click ‘New’, it opens a spreadsheet, not a blank Writer document. In short,
upon clicking ‘New’, OpenOffice.org opens a blank application from the last
invoked template disregarding the application type from which I invoke
the “New’ command.
3) In OpenOffice.org Writer, copying a drawing object by ‘ctrl plus mouse
drag’ doesn’t show the copied object on screen. I have to ‘undo and then
redo’ to show the object.
4) In OpenOffice.org Writer, selecting a table row by clicking from the left
margin and dragging further to select more rows fails miserably. Rows are
selected only until the screen end. Thereafter, Writer bizarrely de-selects
the rows.
5) In OpenOffice.org Writer, I selected two paragraphs and invoked ‘Find &
Replace’ command. Option ‘Current selection only’ is selected in the ‘More
options’ command. I entered two space bar clicks in the ‘Search for’ box to
search for a double space. In the ‘Replace with’ box, I entered a single
blank space by clicking the space bar once. When I clicked the ‘Replace’
command, the entire selected text is wiped out with a single space.
However, ‘Find’ and ‘Replace All’ commands work correctly.
6) In OpenOffice.org Writer, Bold, Italic and/or Underline do not work
properly for very long selections. For example, if everything is selected in
a long document of more than 50 single-spaced pages with text, tables, charts
and figures, clicking Bold makes everything bold. However, keeping that
selection, clicking Bold again does nothing. It should have reversed the bold
formatting as it does in smaller documents.
7) In OpenOffice.org Writer, it seems that Undo and Redo are unreliable when
the number of instances is higher, say hundred or more. Once I ‘Undo’ed 115
times and ‘Redo’ed one by one. After four ‘Redo’s, when I clicked the ‘Redo’
button for the fifth time, all the 115 instances were ‘Redo’ed instantly. In
another case, when I inserted a long document with ‘Insert File’ command, and
for some reason tried Undo and again Redo, the Writer crashed. Overall, Undo
and Redo operations give a sense of fear for unstableness.
8) OpenOffice.org Writer does not recognise image files without extension.
When I wanted to insert a PNG format image, it was not listed upon
invoking ‘Insert File’ command. It needed renaming with .png extension for it
to recognise.
9) In OpenOffice.org Writer, ‘Select All’ function does not work if the very
starting of a document is table. Invoking the command selects only the first
cell. Invoking the command again selects the entire table. Selecting the
entire document is impossible.
10) In OpenOffice.org Writer, while one can set negative numbers for indents
and spacing normally, the same is not possible with Find/Replace. Searching
and replacing a paragraph with negative indents or spacing is impossible.
Thanking you
A.M. Tony Allwyn
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