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Bug 315551

Summary: Word target format ignores padding / margin
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Christoph Henniger <henniger>
Component: BIRTAssignee: Birt-ReportEngine-inbox <Birt-ReportEngine-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: bluesoldier, h.vonbargen, rlu
Version: 2.5.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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word example with broken margins / paddings
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Description Christoph Henniger CLA 2010-06-03 06:34:30 EDT 
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Margin and padding settings for paragraphs on target format word will be ignored.

target format pdf is ok.

example report see attached files.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Christoph Henniger CLA 2010-06-03 06:35:52 EDT 
Created attachment 170927 [details]
example report
Comment 2 Christoph Henniger CLA 2010-06-03 06:36:44 EDT 
Created attachment 170928 [details]
word example with broken margins / paddings
Comment 3 Christoph Henniger CLA 2010-06-03 06:37:08 EDT 
Created attachment 170929 [details]
pdf example with correct margin / paddings
Comment 4 Xiaoying Gu CLA 2010-08-23 05:20:37 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 301208 ***
Comment 5 Henning von Bargen CLA 2014-04-03 11:18:59 EDT 
Please re-open this bug. It is not really a duplicate of bug 301208:

For example, in a report there is a dynamic text item of type "plain" (not HTML!).

The word emitter will create a paragraph for this. The margin and padding settings will be silently ignored by the WordEmitter, as the original reporter says.

In contrast to images, Word supports at least margins for paragraphs.
The margins can be specified using <w:spacing> and <w:ind> elements.

Padding is not supported, however. This would require a 1x1 table, like it's done with ForeignContent.