Created attachment 151758 [details] OOXML WordArt shape and screenshot of PowerPoint 365 Open the attached file. It contains a shape with a "triangle" transform and an image of the shape in PowerPoint. Notice, that the text is not scaled to the path length. The error does not only occur in this shape, but other shapes with 'warp transform' are effected too. The OOXML specification contains an algorithm how to transform the text content. It is in section 20.1.9.16 prstTxWarp. That is page 2906/2907 in ISO/IEC 29500-1:2016(E). The idea is, that the tightest rectangle around the text is mapped to the area between the two paths of the shape. If you move the handle a little bit, the paths are drawn as help lines. This is a follow up report to bug 116350, where the feature was implemented.
Reproduced in Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: aa687b22991e6c674b1d8653d52fbe9a50080174 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
I have collected some remarks on the problem in https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Remarks_on_Fontwork_and_TextWarp, especially in sections Scale and ScaleX.
Created attachment 152361 [details] Document for experiments with ScaleX There exist no UI to change the value of property "ScaleX". The attached document, contains a macro, to toggle this property for a selected shape in Impress. (The macro is only for to examine the property ScaleX and is not designed for general usage.)
Regina Henschel committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/e7c0bc4811029abca878343dcce8057f9d3b7053%5E%21 tdf#125573 Scale text to path for TextWarp, use fromWordArt It will be available in 6.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
The fix is integrated in Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) Build ID: 9105b85c708f42024ce063b9a944466c0afdfe9a CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default; VCL: win; TinderBox: Win-x86_64@42, Branch:master, Time: 2019-06-28_22:42:37 Locale: de-DE (en_US); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded There are still some differences for those shapes, which have more than one pair of paths, and for legacy shapes which multiple lines. That is no problem of import, but the current drawing engine is not able to draw it the same way as MS Office. The missing properties of the shapes, e.g. fill, are treated in other issues. So I think, the part of getting the correct outline of the shape is fixed now (besides easy hack bug 125560).