Font size changes when pasting cells from LibreOffice Calc
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 Build ID: 20120423122843 Steps to reproduce: 1. click 'Write' (Create a new message) 2. type some text 3. select and copy a cells from LibreOffice Calc with default formatting 4. paste into the new message Actual results: The font size of all text in the new message (including pasted table contents) is very small. Expected results: The font size should not be affected by pasting text into the message
It's a standard build from an Ubuntu 12.04 package repository. I observed this behaviour when using a new profile and in safe-mode. I ran thunderbird with this command: thunderbird -ProfileManager -safe-mode -compose contents of "Troubleshooting Information" : Application Basics Name: Thunderbird Version: 12.0.1 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 Profile Directory: Open Directory (Local drive) Application Build ID: 20120430052736 Enabled Plugins: about:plugins Build Configuration: about:buildconfig Crash Reports: about:crashes Memory Use: about:memory Mail and News Accounts account1: INCOMING: account1, , (imap) anumail.anu.edu.au:143, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext OUTGOING: mail.anu.edu.au:587, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext, true account2: INCOMING: account2, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext Extensions EDS Contact Integration, 0.3.9, true, edsintegration@mozilla.com Global Menu Bar integration, 2.0.6, true, globalmenu@ubuntu.com Lightning, 1.4, true, {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103} Messaging Menu and Unity Launcher integration, 0.8.3, true, messagingmenu@mozilla.com Provider for Google Calendar, 0.13, true, {a62ef8ec-5fdc-40c2-873c-223b8a6925cc} Timezone Definitions for Mozilla Calendar, 1.2011n, true, calendar-timezones@mozilla.org Important Modified Preferences Name: Value browser.cache.disk.capacity: 1048576 browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 276480 browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false extensions.lastAppVersion: 12.0.1 mail.openMessageBehavior.version: 1 network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true Graphics Adapter Description: X.Org -- Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV620 Vendor ID: .Org Device ID: V620 Driver Version: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 WebGL Renderer: X.Org -- Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV620 -- 2.1 Mesa 7.11 GPU Accelerated Windows: 0/2
Looking at the HTML source (via select-all then Insert->HTML...) I found this appended after the HTML table containing the pasted cells: <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="LibreOffice 3.4 (Unix)"> <style> <!-- BODY,DIV,TABLE,THEAD,TBODY,TFOOT,TR,TH,TD,P { font-family:"Arial"; font-size:x-small } --> </style> removing "font-size:x-small" fixed the problem.
Comment 3•12 years ago
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(In reply to ian wood from comment #2) Similar bugs: bug 591995 and bug 682438.
Comment 4•12 years ago
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also worth looking at on http://www-archive.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/ if the issue is present there , then it's a core bug.
(In reply to Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul] from comment #4) > also worth looking at on http://www-archive.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/ if > the issue is present there , then it's a core bug. Confirmed. http://www-archive.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/ has the same behaviour. Further experimentation reveals that the offending style tag of the pasted html derives from the spreadsheets default style (even if another style is applied to the cell). imho that style tag should not be present. Should this be posted as a LibreOffice bug? Note: if a style is applied to a cell in Calc, that style is reflected in the pasted html as various html tags (<b>, <font> etc..) within the <td> of the pasted cell. In this case, the offending style tag (outside the pasted <table>) is still present.
Updated•12 years ago
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Comment 6•12 years ago
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Yes, this is a LibreOffice bug.
For those looking for a workaround, you can select the pasted text (which appears as a table), from the "Insert" menu selct "HTML...", then remove everything between "<style>" and "</style>" including the style tags themselves.
(In reply to Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] from comment #6) > Yes, this is a LibreOffice bug. I'm not so sure, I had a look at the 'text/html' data on the clipboard. It contains a complete html page with the offending <style> tag in the <head>. This does not seem to be incorrect imho. The styles that are there should *only* be applied to the pasted text, not to the whole document, as currently occurs. I know it's a pain, but they should either be applied as inline styles to the pasted tags (or something equivalent) or perhaps ignored. Here is the contents of the 'text/html' clipboard data (the cell contents was 'tes' with default formatting): <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <TITLE></TITLE> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="LibreOffice 3.4 (Unix)"> <STYLE> <!-- BODY,DIV,TABLE,THEAD,TBODY,TFOOT,TR,TH,TD,P { font-family:"Arial"; font-size:x-small } --> </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY TEXT="#000000"> <TABLE FRAME=VOID CELLSPACING=0 COLS=1 RULES=NONE BORDER=0> <COLGROUP><COL WIDTH=86></COLGROUP> <TBODY> <TR> <TD WIDTH=86 HEIGHT=17 ALIGN=LEFT>tes</TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>
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Comment 10•12 years ago
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reopening this bug as LibreOffice behaviour seems to be ok.
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Comment 11•12 years ago
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Please change the status of this bug to 'confirmed' or 'new' as had been done with the duplicate bug 648797.
Comment 12•12 years ago
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(In reply to Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] from comment #6) > Yes, this is a LibreOffice bug. Ehsan is the person who knows the mozilla code for editor. If he says it's a libre office bug then it is.
Comment 13•12 years ago
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The resolution makes no sense. There may be a bug in Office, but the style of the pasted PART of text can not affect the style of the entire composed document.
Comment 14•12 years ago
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Well, OK, yeah, we could fix this if we had support for scoped styles.
Comment 15•12 years ago
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Perhaps, the "offending" style elements/attributes can be parsed out from the clipboard's contents in the mean time?
Comment 16•12 years ago
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(In reply to Mikhail Teterin from comment #15) > Perhaps, the "offending" style elements/attributes can be parsed out from > the clipboard's contents in the mean time? That would be harder than just fixing bug 508725 I think. :-)
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Comment 17•12 years ago
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(In reply to Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] from comment #16) > (In reply to Mikhail Teterin from comment #15) > > Perhaps, the "offending" style elements/attributes can be parsed out from > > the clipboard's contents in the mean time? > > That would be harder than just fixing bug 508725 I think. :-) Currently, the "offending" style tag is being parsed out from the <head> of the pasted html and prepended to the contents of the pasted <body>. Depending on where in the code that is happening (eg: if it's not tangled up with other components etc..) perhaps it would be simple to not prepend the <style>? I'm not sure how it is with html copied from other applications, but with LibreOffice, the <style> tag in the head derives from the 'Default' style. Any other applied styles appear inline within the <body> of the copied html (the style tag in the head is still present in this case). I think it would not be unreasonable to ignore this default style so that (in the absence such inline styles) the text appears according to the default style Thunderbird applies.
Comment 18•12 years ago
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We don't have any way to know where the style tag is coming from. If we do ignore them, others will complain that the styles in their source document are not applied when pasting.
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Comment 19•12 years ago
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(In reply to Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] from comment #18) > We don't have any way to know where the style tag is coming from. If we do > ignore them, others will complain that the styles in their source document > are not applied when pasting. I played around a bit with Writer as well: it's behaviour is inconsistent. Purely user defined styles appear to be provided inline whereas a style defined as "linked with" one of the default styles appear as a class defined in a style tag in the head. I imagine you've seen the likes of this before... If applications are inconsistent with their generation of clipboard html, then short of scoped styles or parsing (potentially broken) style tags it's hard to know what to do ): then there's the issue that many mail clients don't support style tags (only inline styles), but I guess that's another story (: Anyone looking for a workaround, refer to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758999#c7
Comment 20•12 years ago
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If you find this bug as irritating as I do, try this workaround (it works in Windows 7 x64 anyway): Paste your LibreOffice Calc table into Thunderbird. Click on the line immediately after the inserted table. Press shift-back arrow. Press delete. Tada! - the email goes back to normal size text everywhere :-) YMMV, but this works every time for me. Cheers, Mark
Updated•11 years ago
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Comment 21•10 years ago
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Regarding the workaround, you can simplify it further by simply clicking into the very end of the last cell in the table, and then pressing the DEL button on the keyboard. On Ubuntu10 I was able to do as Mark Hodge explained in the post above, but without the need of pressing the shift button.
Comment 22•10 years ago
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Hello? Is there anyone taking a looking on this 2 years old bug? Thanks,
Comment 23•9 years ago
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Confirm bug is still there with Libre Office 5 and Thunderbirds 38.3.0 in Ubuntu 14.04.3. And confirm the work-aournd with DEL works. Any clue to know if this will be solve anytime ?
Comment 24•8 years ago
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This is so annoying. Bug still exists with LibreOffice 5.1.4 and Thunderbird 45.3.0 in Ubuntu 16.04.
Comment 25•8 years ago
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Just reporting existence of this bug while OpenOffice Calc 4.1.0 and Thunderbird 45.3.0 (upgraded to 45.30.0 in hopes that it will be resolved :( ) If the reported workaround doesn't work (placing the cursor at the very last cell/character of the newly created pasted table and press Del), then you need to remove the tags at the beginning of the pasted table by placing the cursor at the end of the previous paragraph before the table and also pressing the Delete (Del) key, the email text should revert back to normal again.
Comment 26•8 years ago
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Confirming for Thunderbird 45.4.0, LibreOffice 5.2.3.2, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus. Notice that while writing the email, the font size is normal everywhere (body text + html table text). However, once sent, the email received makes use of a small way too small. The email in the sent box also shows with small fonts, looking exactly like the received email.
Comment 27•5 years ago
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Still happening on some emails sent, but not all. Thunderbird 60.8.0 (64-bit), LibreOffice 6.3.1.2, Ubuntu 19.04. Looking at the source code of the email, I wonder if it not a problem with the zoom changing automatically for showing more on the view pane. But I am not an expert regarding TB.
Comment 28•3 years ago
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Thunderbird 78.13.0 (64-bit), Ubuntu.
This stuff gets inserted:
"<style type="text/css">body,div,table,thead,tbody,tfoot,tr,th,td,p { font-family:"Arial"; font-size:x-small } ..."
Format -> Size from the menu shows Medium, and changing the font size there has no effect. Everything is still x-small.
Got here from this 11 year old bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648797
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Comment 29•1 year ago
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This is really annoying and a waste of time to try to format it back like it was before. Bug was opened 12 years ago! :(
Issue is still happening with LibreOffice 6.4.7.2 and Thunderbird 102.4.2 and so easy to reproduce; just copy cells from LibreOffice Calc to Thunderbird when you reply to an email. Everything is messed up.
The fix from Mark still works but no need to click, after pasting the cells: DOWN ARROW then SHIFT+LEFT ARROW then DELETE
Comment 30•1 year ago
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You'd think that two open source software would work well together but that is not the case.
My fix is still the fastest way around: paste the cells like CTRL-V, then DOWN ARROW once then SHIFT+LEFT ARROW then DELETE
However, I just found out, make sure that the copied cells are not the last lines in the emails, else it will not work. Press ENTER a couple of times and paste above.
Comment 31•1 year ago
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Could it be possible to manage the copied html from Libreoffice:
- wrapping the content in one new <div>, so to isolate the new pasted html
- get the original libreofffice <style> contained in the <head>, and move it as a <style> for the new <div>
the idea is to keep the pasted style, without applying it to the whole message.
In case there is no <head> with a <style> (eg: no libreoffice clipboard source) in the clipboard content , the paste is performed just injecting the clipboard content in a new <div>
May it work ?
Comment 32•1 year ago
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This is an 11 years old bug, not assigned. There is no developer following this issue.
Forget it. It will never be fixed.
Consider the workaround on Comment #20 as the only possible solution.
Comment 33•1 year ago
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An excellent idea, by Giuliano Lotta, in Comment 31.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758999#c31
Comment 34•1 year ago
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Thunderbird 102, Libre Office 7.4, the bug is still there and very upsetting...
Thanx for the workaround, but it's a bit tricky for non tech people :-(
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