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Bug 605835 - Orca sometimes ignores text in OpenOffice Writer
Orca sometimes ignores text in OpenOffice Writer
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: orca
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.29.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Orca Maintainers
Orca Maintainers
post-3.0
Depends on:
Blocks: Andalucia
 
 
Reported: 2010-01-01 02:02 UTC by Zachary Kline
Modified: 2013-01-06 22:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description Zachary Kline 2010-01-01 02:02:00 UTC 
Occasionally when reading files in OpenOffice Writer, I notice certain chunks
of text appear to be ignored.
I will be arrowing down through a document and come to a point where no feedback
is given, not even the indication of a blank line.
If I continue arrowing down, eventually I reach new text, but it is not 
the text in the ignored region.
I can generally reproduce this in files from Microsoft programs, such as .docx or .rtf.
However, it isn't consistent: I can usually maximize and unmaximize the window,
for instance, and it goes away for a few minutes until I reach another such block of ignored text.
Comment 1 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2010-05-16 01:41:44 UTC 
Zachary, are you still seeing the problem?

If so, could you please do the following:

1. Capture a full debug.out taken whilst the problem is occurring 
   (http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Debugging)

2. Attach that output to this bug

3. Attach the document used in the debug.out to this bug

Thanks in advance!
Comment 2 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2010-07-05 01:58:37 UTC 
Planning spam. Sorry!
Comment 3 Tobias Mueller 2010-10-19 13:36:05 UTC 
Zachary, may I ask you to address the questions asked in comment #1, although Joanmarie doesn't want me to help out and send reminders here? Thanks in advance.
Comment 4 Zachary Kline 2010-10-25 10:25:37 UTC 
Hi,
No, apologies, I have not noticed the problem lately.  However, I haven't used OpenOffice
very much lately either, so it might not be actually fixed.
Comment 5 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2013-01-06 22:22:45 UTC 
There are some bugs introduced in LibreOffice 3.6 (which was released significantly after this bug was filed) and we need the LibreOffice folks to fix them.

But independent of that, e.g. when using LibreOffice 3.5 things seem to be working as expected and text is not being ignored. That plus the age of this bug, makes me think that this bug is fixed.

If this bug is still reproducible with a pretty recent Orca and LibreOffice 3.5, and a reliable test case can be found, please reopen or file a new bug and attach the test case. Thanks!