Bug#749831: LibreOffice mail merge didn't work under Gnome 3
Package: LibreOffice
Version: 1:4.2.4-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
I started with an old form letter from 2006 and modified it for use today. Apart
from cosmetic changes, this required replacing the mail-merge fields with ones from
a new spreadsheet. I've been using Gnome 3 for the last couple of day because of
a KDE problem. However I couldn't get the form letter to print to file (I didn't
try printing it directly). Moreover, the pulldown to select a field to base the
file name on also didn't display the field names. Printing as a single document
also failed.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
I logged out of Gnome 3 and into KDE and tried again.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Everything worked properly.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages LibreOffice depends on:
ii fonts-dejavu 2.34-1
ii fonts-sil-gentium-basic 1.1-7
ii libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer 1:4.2.4-3
ii libreoffice-base 1:4.2.4-3
ii libreoffice-calc 1:4.2.4-3
ii libreoffice-core 1:4.2.4-3
ii libreoffice-draw 1:4.2.4-3
ii libreoffice-impress 1:4.2.4-3
ii libreoffice-java-common 1:4.2.4-3
ii libreoffice-math 1:4.2.4-3
ii libreoffice-report-builder-bin 1:4.2.4-3
ii libreoffice-writer 1:4.2.4-3
ii python-uno 1:4.2.4-3
Versions of packages LibreOffice recommends:
ii fonts-liberation 1.07.4-1
ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu3
ii ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.5
Versions of packages LibreOffice suggests:
ii cups-bsd 1.7.2-3
ii default-jre [java5-runtime] 2:1.7-52
ii gcj-4.4-jre [java5-runtime] 4.4.7-1
ii gcj-4.6-jre [java5-runtime] 4.6.4-2
ii gcj-4.7-jre [java5-runtime] 4.7.3-2
ii gcj-4.8-jre [java5-runtime] 4.8.2-21
ii gcj-4.9-jre [java5-runtime] 4.9.0-4
ii gcj-jre [java5-runtime] 4:4.9.0-1
pn gstreamer1.0-ffmpeg <none>
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad 1.2.4-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.2.4-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.2.4-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly 1.2.4-1
pn hunspell-dictionary <none>
pn hyphen-hyphenation-patterns <none>
ii icedove 24.5.0-2
ii iceweasel 29.0.1-2
ii imagemagick 8:6.7.7.10+dfsg-1
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 10.1.2-1
pn libreoffice-gnome | libreoffice-kde <none>
pn libreoffice-grammarcheck <none>
ii libreoffice-help-en-us [libreoffice-help-4.2] 1:4.2.4-3
pn libreoffice-l10n-4.2 <none>
pn libreoffice-officebean <none>
ii libsane 1.0.24-1.1+b1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1
ii myspell-en-us [myspell-dictionary] 1:3.3.0-4
ii mythes-en-us [mythes-thesaurus] 1:3.3.0-4
pn openclipart-libreoffice <none>
ii openjdk-6-jre [java5-runtime] 6b31-1.13.3-1
ii openjdk-7-jre [java5-runtime] 7u55-2.4.7-2
ii pstoedit 3.62-1
ii unixodbc 2.3.1-3
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