Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing serial letters

-------- Original Message  -------- From: Heinrich Stöllinger
<hc.stoellinger@aon.at> To: Dave Barton
<db@tasit.net>hc.stoellinger@aon.at Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 23:25:45 +0200

> Dave Barton schrieb:
> > Heinrich Stöllinger wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > A long time ago (REALLY long ago!) I complained that LO does not print
> > > serial letters correctly.
> > > I think I also filed a bug report with (in MY opinion!) the right test
> > > data. I just tried to
> > > print such serial letters again today. Unfortunately the problem still
> > > exists. As you can maybe
> > > see from the enclosed pdf-file, only the FIRST letter prints correctly,
> > > while ANY letters after
> > > the first one miss out lines of text (e.g. the place and date near the
> > > top on the right),
> > > drawn lines (near the bottom). Even though I use a MySQL database as
> > > "supplier" of DB-fields,
> > > I don't think this has anything to do with Base.
> > > It should be easy enough to put together a test for this issue, but I
> > > include the respective
> > > .odt-file in any case. Again, I don't think a DB-table is necessary for
> > > testing.
> > > Regards
> > > Heinrich
> > Heinrich,
> > Is https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76257 the bug report you
> > are referring to? If so, I will take a look and see if I can replicate
> > and confirm it.
> >
> > Gary,
> > Please add a reproducible example to Heinrich's report. This will:
> > a) Assist QA in assessing if it is the same bug or not.
> > b) Add more weight to the issue, which in turn is more likely to attract
> > a developer's interest.
> > If you know it's not the exactly the same issue and your reference to
> > "messing up colors" suggests that it may not be, please find and
> > contribute to an existing report, or open a new one.
> > Nobody (developer, QA or other) "denies the existence of an issue", but
> > no issue can be effectively resolved if it cannot be replicated and it's
> > cause determined. Which is where we come in with accurate reports and
> > reproducible examples.
> >
> > This list is a great place to vent our frustrations about our "pet"
> > issues, but at the end of the day our "rants" here do nothing, only our
> > contributions (ie. bug reports and reproducible examples) will help to
> > get anything done.
> >
> > Dave
> Yes it is

OK! Give me a few days to check it out and I will post my findings on
Bugzilla.

> and - looking at it again I can see that I DID add attachments
> for testing.

Yes, I know you did. My comments about attachments were in response to
Gary's part of this thread.

> Regards
> Heinrich

Regards
Dave



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