Rotation exported from LibreOffice Calc not honored

[Jens B.]

I exported a chart from LibreOffice, however Inkspace dishonors the axis label transformation. I don't know if this is a error in Inkscape or Calc, but seems to me Inkscape relevant.
The XML of the relavant part is:

<text class="TextShape">
  <tspan class="TextParagraph" font-family="Arial" font-size="318px" font-weight="400">
    <tspan class="TextPosition" x="837" y="4893" transform="translate(837,4893) rotate(-90) translate(-837,-4893)">
      <tspan fill="rgb(0,0,0)" stroke="none">RTT in ms</tspan>
    </tspan>
  </tspan>
</text>

If you need more info or an example .svg, feel free to ask. I would love to help.

[Seanmax76 (seanmax76)]

Rotated text appears as non-rotated. Tested in both Drawing and Presentation.

System: LO Version 4.0.0.0.alpha0+ (Build ID: 378e43) @ Linux (Kubuntu 12.10).

OBS: LO Version 3.6.2.2 works fine. The exported svg file has the right rotated text.

How to reproduce (LO 4.0.0.0):
1 - Create a new Drawing or Presentation document.
2 - Insert a new text box (F2) and write something in it.
3 - Select the box and Format->Position and Size (F4).
4 - Select tab "Rotation" and change the rotation angle.
5 - Export do SVG.

Result: non-rotated text in the svg file

[Korrawit Pruegsanusak (detective-conan-1412)]

Confirm on Windows 7 x64 Home Premium, with build from tinderbox Win-x86@6, pull time 2012-11-16 23:06:35, core: 4767bbb00dc9eacce6f6d60fd4c55107333cee2d

Also confirm as regression, because 3.6 beta 1 works fine.

Change platform to All because it is on Linux (comment 0) and Windows (this comment).

Sean, thanks for reporting this bug! :-)

[Libreoffice-bugs (libreoffice-bugs)]

Horacio Fernandes committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=b49ea0c9d24aa48d62590cb3443c3ad4143d2e2f

fdo#57215: Fixed wrong text rotation in SVG Export

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds
Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.

[Seanmax76 (seanmax76)]

I can confirm the proposed patch fixed the problem. Tested in both Drawing and Presentation.

System: Version 4.0.0.0.alpha1+ (Build ID: affd2b5c4fba727c1b119bdcbdb71325c10ef95) @ Linux (Kubuntu 12.10).

Changing status to "Resolved".

[Jmadero-dev (jmadero-dev)]

Excellent, thanks for marking as FIXED, glad it's solved.

Regards,
Joel

[Korrawit Pruegsanusak (detective-conan-1412)]

Horacio Fernandes,

Thanks for the patch! :-) Unfortunately, I tested with 4.0 beta1 and 4.1.0.0.alpha0+ (Build ID: 8e43393c9514f39e6b43e581503b61177a00bd3) on Windows 7 x64, and it still have this bug. (I opened svg with Google Chrome 23, Firefox Aurora 19, and Internet Explorer 9). REOPENing

I will attach the svg produced in next comment.

[Korrawit Pruegsanusak (detective-conan-1412)]

Created attachment 71132
svg produced -- still have a bug

[Korrawit Pruegsanusak (detective-conan-1412)]

hmm... or all three browsers on my computer can't open this svg correctly?

[Horacio-fernandes (horacio-fernandes)]

It worked on Gimp and I just assumed it was working in the browsers. Already found the problem and I'll have a new patch soon. Thanks for noticing that!

[Michael-meeks-1 (michael-meeks-1)]

Great news Horacio - any progress with the patch ? :-) if it gets in tonight it can be in 4.0 Beta2 - thanks !

[Jmadero-dev (jmadero-dev)]

@Horacio - any update on this one? I can confirm it's still a problem in 4.1 master

[Ruslan (b7-10110111)]

I confirm the bug is present with Version 4.0.0.1+ (Build ID: f3cf01ba35e836ecbef03e8140b8afcbb11fdd4).
BTW, interesting behavior for text in test file and in files I generated:
Not rotated: in Firefox & Inkscape
Rotated: in Geeqie

[Ruslan (b7-10110111)]

More apps:
Rotated: gqview, mirage, gimp, gpicview
Not rotated: opera

Not opened at all (black sheet): LibreOffice... i.e. it doesn't open the file it generated...

[Rb-henschel (rb-henschel)]

The attribute "transform" is in an element "tspan" in the example. But an element "tspan" does not allow an attribute "transform", see list of attributes in http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html#TSpanElement. It should be on the element "g". The syntax would allow it on the element "text" too, but neither Seamonkey nor Inkscape will rotate the text then.

[Libreoffice-z (libreoffice-z)]

Something went wrong here, this one has nothing to do with Bug 63585

[Thb-b (thb-b)]

Created attachment 78666
Not-quite-perfect patch

Sticking the transform several levels up doesn't cut it either - see attached patch, which works for one paragraph, but messes up with multiple ones, stacked in y-direction. The absolute positioning of both text and paths breaks down badly here, and would need rather more involved changes in svgwriter.cxx

I'd leave it with the current fix for 4.0.x, which at least on FF displays nicely.

[Fdes (fdes)]

I experienced this bug in LibreOffice Draw 4.0.3.3 (Ubuntu 13.04 @ 64 bit) while trying to export as svg a chart which has been pasted from Calc: the title of the Y axis lost its rotation.

[Michael-meeks-1 (michael-meeks-1)]

Thorsten - did you mean to close this issue with that patch pushed ? Given that fix - is this still a regression ? fdes - can you file a new bug for your problem, along with a minimal sample document please ?

Thanks !

[Fdes (fdes)]

Michael, it seems that only Inkscape shows wrong orientation from such a .svg file, so perhaps it is an Inkscape bug.

However LibreOffice Draw has issues opening its .svg files, so I will file a new bug for this.

[Thb-b (thb-b)]

So, for the while, this seems in limbo - re-assigning to default owner, maybe that gets another volunteer interested. I currently lack the bandwidth to fix it properly, since it would need some rework on how we currently export svg.

[Florianmanschwetus (florianmanschwetus)]

I could confirm still there in 4.1.0.4

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

I just came across this bug, which is a particular shame since 4.1 adds hyperlinks to SVG export.

Re. comment 17 "Michael, it seems that only Inkscape shows wrong orientation from such a .svg file, so perhaps it is an Inkscape bug." please let's avoid this mentality. SVG is a standard-defined language, and as pointed out in comment 13, the current output is wrong. Even if all known apps rendered the output correctly, it's a bug and should be fixed (though admittedly in that case the priority would be lower).

Here, Inkscape and current Chrome fail to rotate the text; the fact that Firefox copes is nice for Firefox users, but doesn't make LO's SVG export valid SVG. (Also, the chances are that the problem affects every other WebKit browser too.)

[Momonasmon (momonasmon)]

*** Bug 70723 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Barta-c (barta-c)]

*** Bug 73207 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

- could you attach the complete svg file?
- also, which OS, and which version of Inkscape, see Help->About Inkscape

[su_v (suv-lp)]

The SVG 1.1 specification lists 'transform' for <text> but not for <tspan>:

<http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#TextElement>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#TSpanElement>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/attindex.html#RegularAttributes>

Possible Inkscape is correct in ignoring the 'transform' attribute of the <tspan> element (Batik 1.7 does, too).

(Needs to be verified)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Related bug report for LibreOffice:
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65788>

«the problem is that the code is "correct", but sadly the translate and rotate is "added" in the wrong object (tspan instead of text)»
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65788#c3>

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Proposing to close as 'Invalid' for project 'Inkscape'.

[Jens B. (jens-bavendiek)]

Thanks for the clarification and quick response!

[Stéphane Guillou (stephane-guillou)]

Moving to mab4.1 (Bug 60270) because:
- 4.0 reached EOL (End Of Life)
- bug confirmed in later version

[Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca (luizluca)]

Still present in 4.2.1.1. Inkscape and IE shows no rotation. I also tried to open it in LO but it is not able to read its own exported svg file.

[Stéphane Guillou (stephane-guillou)]

*** Bug 75381 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Barta-c (barta-c)]

Created attachment 98959
test .odp file with rotated text

still reproducible under Win7x64 using 4.2.4.2 and 4.3.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: a1dd961c3093f5f7624e4d1f2240e9120fd13f23
TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2014-05-06_11:47:48

I attach a minimal test case and move this to mab4.2 list since 4.1.x is END OF LIFE

[Christopher Yeleighton (giecrilj)]

Still in 4.2.5.2 (Linux, x64).

[Guilleron29 (guilleron29)]

*** Bug 82520 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[ulrfuc (u-fuchs)]

Bug also in 4.3.2.2 /kubuntu

[Jmadero-dev (jmadero-dev)]

Please don't update version - it's the oldest version that demonstrates the problem, not newest. Thanks

[Takis Issaris (panagiotis-e)]

I'm having the same problem on OS X 10.9.5 with LibreOffice 4.3.2.2.

[Barta-c (barta-c)]

still reproducible under Win8.1 x64 using LO 4.3.4.1 and 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 6b096f273ac9d7bbe93d2cb083958b3a04866d73
TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2014-12-04_22:57:23

moving this to mab4.3 list since 4.2.x is END OF LIFE.

I set status to NEW since there's no assigned developer to it.