[Upstream] Cannot resize inserted formula in Impress via mouse

[Fredrik Nyqvist]

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04

2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-impress
libreoffice-impress:
  Installed: 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What is expected to happen in a blank Impress file is if one adds a formula via Insert -> Object -> Formula, one may resize the formula window.

4) What happens instead is the formula is not resizable via clicking and dragging the edges of the formula.

WORKAROUND: Secondary click the formula -> Position and Size... -> under Protect uncheck checkbox Size -> under Size choose the desired Width and Height.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libreoffice-impress 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 7 17:44:23 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120417)
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Svend-walter (svend-walter)]

Impossible to change the size of the formula in wrtier.

In draw, the size is protected (size is checked in position and size).

When unchecked, size is automatically checked again.

[Jbf-faure-9 (jbf-faure-9)]

What do you mean by "change the size of the formula" ? Please provide a step by step scenario to reproduce the problem.
Good thing to read before reporting a suspected bug : http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport#Reporting_a_bug_in_few_Steps

Best regards. JBF

[Svend-walter (svend-walter)]

Did you try to resize a formula in writer ? Type a formula, enter and then try to grab one size to resize : not possible.

In draw : Right clicking and uncheck size under protection in "Position and Size" does not do anything, it's checked again and again

[Jbf-faure-9 (jbf-faure-9)]

A formula is not an image. The size of the formula is defined by the size of the used fonts : menu Format -> Font size.

Best regards. JBF

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been reported upstream, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48846 . It seems that it might not be considered a bug, to resize the formula one can change the font size while in the formula editor.

[Fredrik Nyqvist (fredrik-nyqvist)]

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04

2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-impress
libreoffice-impress:
  Installed: 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What is expected to happen in a blank Impress file is if one adds a formula via Insert -> Object -> Formula, one may resize the formula window.

4) What happens instead is the formula is not resizable via clicking and dragging the edges of the formula.

WORKAROUND: Secondary click the formula -> Position and Size... -> under Protect uncheck checkbox Size -> under Size choose the desired Width and Height.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Fredrik Nyqvist, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48846 is a similar but different upstream report as it is about Writer, and it does not share the same workaround. Hence, the issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport . If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about the status. Thanks in advance.

[Fredrik Nyqvist (fredrik-nyqvist)]

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04

2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-impress
libreoffice-impress:
  Installed: 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What is expected to happen in a blank Impress file is if one adds a formula via Insert -> Object -> Formula, one may resize the formula window.

4) What happens instead is the formula is not resizable via clicking and dragging the edges of the formula.

WORKAROUND: Secondary click the formula -> Position and Size... -> under Protect uncheck checkbox Size -> under Size choose the desired Width and Height.

[Fredrik Nyqvist (fredrik-nyqvist)]

I have now reported the bug here https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49614 , with the number 49614. Hope that was right.

[Stgohi-lobugs (stgohi-lobugs)]

reproducible with LO 4.0.2.2 (Win7 Home, 64bit)

[Stgohi-lobugs (stgohi-lobugs)]

reproducible with LO 4.0.2.2 (Win7 Home, 64bit)

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[JBF (jbf-faure)]

It is not a bug it is by design because a formula is not an image. You can set the size of the formula by modifying it (use the keyword size).

Closing as NOTABUG.

Best regards. JBF

[Opensource-c (opensource-c)]

This problem, or its close relatives, have existed in OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice ever since the very first version!
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=5266
Can we get it sorted out please?
My comment from OOO bug tracker…

I have a degree in computer science, and I just spent about 1 hour converting a formula into SVG graphic format.
This required approximately the following procedure:
* Open LibreOffice Math
* Write formula
* Could not find a way to "export to Draw", "export to SVG", etc.
* Open LibreOffice Draw
* Menu: Insert/ Object/ Formula
* Manually edit the formula (paste in formula code)
* Format/ Font size/ make the text incredibly tiny with 5 point text, so that the entire formula would be shown inside the tiny, rigid, NON-RESIZEABLE box thata Insert/Object had placed it inside (the formula was internally overflowing, and being clipped) — of course this NON-RESIZEABLE box was NOT automatically resizing itself to the formula contained inside it…
* Context menu: Convert to profile (initially attempted convert to curve, but this resulted in resizing & clipping so had to try another option)
* Manually resize resulting formula-profile to width of page.
* Manually resize page to vertical size of object
* Export as SVG

I'm running LO 5.2.3.3 x64 — it baffles me how anyone thinks this procedure is acceptable in 2017. Perhaps with Windows 3.1 in 1992, I would have thought this about normal, but these days, this is well below my expectations for how software should work! Anyone who thinks that being inside this strait-jacket is a "feature" is frankly an idiot. Sorry for the undiplomatic language!

[JBF (jbf-faure)]

(In reply to Matthew Slyman from comment #4)
> This problem, or its close relatives, have existed in OpenOffice.org /
> LibreOffice ever since the very first version!

This bug tracker is not an helpdesk. For help on Math module you can ask on users mailing list or on https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questions/
In comment #3 it is indicated that the size of a formula can be modified by using the keyword size in the formula code.

Please don't reopen a old bug report closed as Not_A_Bug. If you think that this functionality should be implemented, please open a new enhancement request.

If you think that the procedure you described in comment #4, that is different than resizing a formula using the mouse, don't work as expected, please open a distinct bug report.

Closing again.

Best regards. JBF

[Beluga (beluga)]

*** Bug 117361 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.