Description: Saving a document with Fontwork as Word 2007-365 (.docx) shows garbled text upon opening it. Steps to Reproduce: 1. On a new document, Insert -> Fontwork... -> choose any 2. Save -> Word 2007-365 (.docx) 3. Open the saved document Actual Results: The Fontwork is broken, with unformatted text surrounded by blank shapes and colors, or other undesirable effects that seem to depend on the specific platform. Expected Results: After opening the document, the Fontwork should look exactly as it did before saving it. This is the behavior with both ODF text documents and Word 97-2003 documents. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Although the test was performed on a Linux (Ubuntu-based) machine, the problem has been spotted on Windows 10 too. The visual distortions observed are very different on Windows. I have tested Fontworks with different backgrounds on my machine; all of them produce the same undesired result. On the other machine, however, only bitmap backgrounds were tested, and they gave an homogeneous rectangular bitmap with no text whatsoever. Help - About LibreOffice Version: 6.3.3.2 Build ID: a64200df03143b798afd1ec74a12ab50359878ed CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can confirm that the bug is present in: Version: 6.3.2.2 (x64) Build ID: 98b30e735bda24bc04ab42594c85f7fd8be07b9c CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: win; Locale: pl-PL (pl_PL); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha1 (x64) Build ID: cc57df8f942f239d29cb575ea5a7cb01405db787 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.1 Service Pack 1 Build 7601; UI render: default; VCL: win; Locale: pl-PL (pl_PL); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
Inherit from OOo issue
OOo or AOO has no export to docx at all, so cannot be inherit form OOo. LO 6.4 should produce a Fontwork with working handles, and does it here under Windows 10. Export of filling is not implemented yet. The Fontwork gets as solid color that color, which is set for the characters of the text in the "Font Effect" tab. This color is not visible in Writer. Import of Fontwork from docx is not implemented at all, because it conflicts with the text box, that is used on import of shapes in Writer. So to see the actual exported shape, you need to open the file in MS Word.
still repro in Version: 7.2.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 77419c6f3aba1fd5b1660795923c22a39bdb1bad CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.1 Service Pack 1 Build 7601; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: ru-RU (ru_RU); UI: ru-RU Calc: CL
An import of Fontwork shapes in docx is implemented in the meantime, see bug 125884. (In reply to Aritz Erkiaga from comment #0) > Expected Results: > After opening the document, the Fontwork should look exactly as it did > before saving it. This is the behavior with both ODF text documents and Word > 97-2003 documents. Looking the same in Word and LO is not possible, because "WordArt" and "abc transform" in Word and "Fontwork" in LibreOffice have different features. We can only try to make it as near as possible. There will always be compromises, especially when the Fontwork shape is contained in a frame.
Regina Henschel committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/7eac3e78abcdece849b8bac61545b0d3ddf5800c tdf#128568 Improve export to docx of Fontwork with bitmap fill It will be available in 7.6.0. 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.
Regina Henschel committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/a6bbf5db743583e21a2af3ef5b5a608f7bd46502 tdf#128568 more font properties in VML Fontwork export It will be available in 7.6.0. 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.
I have now worked a while on Fontwork export and have found, that there are a lot of bugs and missing features in export of Fontwork in Writer (and in import too). Thus I think, that it is not a good idea to produce all commit messages here without problem description. But adding all such descriptions and text documents would make this bug report confusing, too long to read and difficult to track the individual problems. Therefore, in the future, I will write a bug report for each individual problem I find and link it here. That means, I will treat this bug report as kind of "Meta" bug for Fontwork in Writer and docx.