Noel - as I recall you did a load of fixing in this area for a recent LibreOffice - perhaps you can help unwind this.
Please avoid cluttering the bug with details about 3.5.x versions - development of and new releases for that branch is long dead. Also anything prior to 3.6.2 is also not that useful we had significant fixes in this area for 3.6.3: commit 46f9e6ce6b9fc6c21c1d682a35954523ed435647 Author: Noel Power <noel.po...@novell.com> Date: Thu Aug 9 11:15:43 2012 +0100 misc comment import/export fixes a) fix vmldrawing.vml for xlsx export ( changed from frame to textbox, added support for shadow element with attributes, shadow color, shadow obscured ) b) use proper fillcolor attribute c) detect whether note/comment is shown on import d) export state of note ( shown/hidden ) etc. - that fixed note show/hide serialization, and added a number of other features to import/export there. Thanks Antonio for this: > After removing ~/.libreoffice, in Ubuntu 12.10 LibreOffice Version 3.6.4.3 > (Build ID: 360m1(Build:3)) it can still be replicated. it's good to know it's not profile related :-) bfoman - thanks for the screenshot; it really is extraordinary - I still can't repeat the problems on load here [ and the save/re-load thing is not good to tangle up with this bug IMHO ]. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022640 Title: [Upstream] VIEWING: Comments are not readable (shown in white over yellow) Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: Incomplete Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Sample spreadsheet created in Excel 2010 saved as xls format. It contains a comment. It was never edited by LibreOffice. Problem description: If you open a simple file in xls format, cell comments are shown in white over yellow colors. As a result, user cannot see the comment. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create new spreadsheet in Excel 2007 or 2010 2. Insert a comment for one cell 3. Save as xls format 4. Open spreadsheet in LibreOffice Current behavior: The comment is in white over yellow Expected behavior: The comment should be in color "Automatic" and not white Not reproduce in *Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit -LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 -LibreOffice 3.6.0 beta 3 *Ubuntu 11.10 Gnome Shell *Fedora 17 x86_64 with Gnome Shell 3.4.2 Libreoffice 3.5.4.2 build ID: 350m1(build:2) Reproduce in: *Ubuntu 11.10 Unity with ttf-mscorefonts -LibreOffice 3.4.4 OOO340m1 (Build:402) from Ubuntu -LibreOffice 3.6.0.0.beta3 (Build ID: 3e2b862) *Ubuntu 12.04 Unity x86_64 -LibreOffice 3.5.3.2 Version ID : 350m1(Build:2) from Ubuntu -LibreOffice 3.6.0.0.beta3 (Build ID: 3e2b862) *OpenSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) with KDE : 4.7.2 (4.7.2) "release 5" with LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:1505) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: libreoffice-calc 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Jul 9 18:56:49 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328) SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1022640/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp