0009464: Text formatting changes itself - Mantis Issue Tracker for Scribus

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0009464	Scribus	General	public	2010-11-04 01:46	2016-05-09 15:17

Reporter	Heracles	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	Intel core2 Duo	OS	Linux	OS Version	Ubuntu 10.10
Product Version	1.3.8

Summary	0009464: Text formatting changes itself
Description	When a document is being constructed the text is formatted and imported from Open Office. When another frame is edited or imported the text formatting changes in some of the already completed frames.
Steps To Reproduce	I set up the template for my 24 page magazine with 2 columns per page for pages 3 to 23 and insert an Open Office document into a set of linked frames. Then insert three or more documents and save after each insertion. Use the text editor to make a small change to any one of the documents inserted and at least one of the others will have changed its formatting.
Additional Information	This may be connected to another bug relating to the text editing facility. I can't upload the file as it is 2.3Mb at its smallest.
Tags	#pending, #please_test

Patch	No

Kunda 2016-04-26 22:08 updater ~0040520	Ben, do you mind testing this?

Ben 2016-04-28 04:30 reporter ~0040564 Last edited: 2016-05-02 17:56	The reporter, Heracles, describes a 21-page span of double-column pages, with at least some of the text frames linked. Over that many pages, it seems likely that the text frames were automatically created by Scribus, in which case they were ALL linked and behave as one huge text frame for the purposes of this ticket. If so, Heracles would have actually been using a series of append imports to populate the frames. Heracles reports that he was importing from OpenOffice. Currently append imports from OpenOffice are broken (ticket 0014010), making a faithful replication in the most current SVN impossible. Some thoughts anyway Heracles reports that the anomaly occurs when a frame is edited or imported. These could be two very different issues. Using Scribus 1.4.3 (Heracles used 1.3.8), I was able to create an editing anomaly matching Hereacles' description, but I was never able to repeat it, leading me to think that I had actually stumbled across 0013779, with perhaps a bit of 0011974 before I realized it. An importing anomaly is much easier to create, either by the process documented in 0007359 or by simply not checking the box to prepend a tag to the incoming style name to guarantee uniqueness. This report may provide another example of the need for more nuanced options in dealing with the styles when importing styled text (tickets 0013643, 0008024, 0011420, 0010107, 0011814). Text imports affect only the contents of the one text frame they are placed in. Styles, on the other hand, have an intentionally document-wide scope. In the case of a style name collision during import, the current ODT importer rewrites the document-wide style to reflect the settings in the ODT file currently being imported. The "prepend item name" option during import can usually solve this problem by changing the imported style's name to simulate a separate style scope (namespace) for each import destination (not each import source, see next paragraph). Regression The current SVN prepends the name of the text frame; the previous importer prepended the name of the .odt source file. This is an important distinction when appending imports into the same text frame. The prior importer provided the necessary uniqueness to prevent an import from changing pre-existing contents during appends; the current importer does not. If the reporter has created an entire magazine body consisting of one set of linked text frames, that would bypass any protections offered by the prepend frame title option because there is effectively only one body frame and all imported styles are back to sharing names again, even with the prepend option. Suggested relationship: 0007359, possibly even the ticket originator's real problem; we don't have enough information to be sure. Thanks for your patience. Hope this helps.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-11-04 01:46	Heracles	New Issue
2016-04-25 13:19	Kunda	Tag Attached: #pending
2016-04-25 13:20	Kunda	Tag Attached: #please_test
2016-04-26 22:08	Kunda	Note Added: 0040520
2016-04-28 04:30	Ben	Note Added: 0040564
2016-04-28 16:31	Kunda	Patch	=> No
2016-04-28 16:31	Kunda	Priority	high => normal
2016-04-28 16:31	Kunda	Severity	major => minor
2016-05-02 17:56	Ben	Note Edited: 0040564
2016-05-09 15:17	Kunda	Relationship added	related to 0013643
2016-05-09 15:17	Kunda	Relationship added	related to 0008024
2016-05-09 15:17	Kunda	Relationship added	related to 0011420
2016-05-09 15:17	Kunda	Relationship added	related to 0010107
2016-05-09 15:17	Kunda	Relationship added	related to 0011814