Version: 1.6.3 (using 3.5.9 "release 49.1" , openSUSE 11.0) Compiler: Target: x86_64-suse-linux OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.25.18-0.2-xen Using koffice-wordprocessing-1.6.3-157.1 I get a totally wrong page size for A4 pages which has not been the case in previous versions of this program.
Can not reproduce and koffice has not been changed for quite some time. Maybe its suse specific?
It is the same under FreeBSD 7.1. No distro specific problem.
If you reopen a but closed as "worksforme" I'd have to be able to reproduce it ;) So could you please give me a step-by-step explanation of what you do and a "I expected" and a "I got instead" kind of report? That would greatly help with reproducing this.
1. start kword 2. select 'blank document' A new page appears that seems to be landscape format. However if I try to adjust the page format at Format->Page Layout the page is stated to already be in upright format. If you again select landscape format an even more squenched page that is not usable at all appears.
I don't understand how such a fatal bug can stay unencountered and uncomplained for such a long time. Simply incredible. That way kword is not usable at all. Please fix it as soon as possible! It can't be the way that this does not appear at you at all; or can it?
Indeed, it works just as expected here. And as you say its quite unbelievable that it goes undetected for so long (the version you report against has been out for years). Its much more likely its not a KOffice bug but something else. Unfortunately we can't help there. :( Closing as 'worksforme'
In times of Suse10.1 this has worked very well. It is definitely a bug of koffice since the old version installed in a chroot container still works as desired. Please have a look at elder versions of KWord. Your program will otherwise not be usable for 98% of all prospective users.
Please don't reopen my bugs. I see your frustration, but reopening doesn't change the situation.
Why don't you have a look on what is going wrong here? It will be crucial for the acceptance of Kword. Does it make sense to develop an application that simply can not be used?
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Please understand that the application is broken for you but not for others. Its probably a local problem (did you try it with a clean user?). I'm sorry that this is causing you problems.
The application is broken for different operating systems and distributions (Suse/Debian Linux, FreeBSD, ...) using a plain and empty user account. Do not think that other people do not encounter this problem just because they do not complain about it! Most people simply have used Kword for the last time encountering such a crucial failure!
Please leave this as wontfix if you won't fix it.
confirmed for debian/lenny
Even entering the page size manually does not help. It will always display a page which is more broad than high.
I'm suspecting a X11 configuration error; xdpyinfo | grep resolution will show something weird. But, yeah, not a KWord bug. Please, for the last time, don't reopen my bugs.
Great Thanks!! In deed, that`s it. > xdpyinfo | grep resolution resolution: 176x87 dots per inch I will report this upstream. Wouldn`t have thought that this could be the bug of an external utility/library. KWord is a neat and small word processing utility, which I like very much.
upstream bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20409
now fixed upstream (xorg-x11-server-7.4-17.4.1). However it remains a question whether it really makes sense to scale the underlying page to the values returned by xdpyinfo while fonts and bitmaps stay unadjusted.