Bug 143044 - Alternative text for shapes is omitted upon exporting to PDF
Summary: Alternative text for shapes is omitted upon exporting to PDF
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57423
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Printing and PDF export (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.1.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: accessibility
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Blocks: PDF-Export PDF-Accessibility
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Reported: 2021-06-24 11:09 UTC by Miroslav Michalek
Modified: 2023-09-18 11:46 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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document for reproducing the issue (2.77 MB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation)
2021-06-24 11:10 UTC, Miroslav Michalek 		Details
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Description Miroslav Michalek 2021-06-24 11:09:27 UTC 
Description:
Alternative texts for shapes in the PPTX document are omitted during the export to PDF.
Resulted tags don't preserve the alternative text, especially for the shapes listed below.

CTShape - 2D shapes(rectangle, circle, heart, user drawings, etc.)
CTConnector - various lines, arrows in diagrams.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the attached document or create a new PPTX with shapes in it and provide alt texts.
2.Export to PDF
3.Inspect resulted tags for missing alt texts.

Actual Results:
Alternative texts are missing for resulted tags.

Expected Results:
Alternative texts are preserved.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 7.1.0.3 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: f6099ecf3d29644b5008cc8f48f42f4a40986e4c
CPU threads: 12; OS: Mac OS X 10.16; UI render: default; VCL: osx
Locale: ar-SA (en_CZ.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Miroslav Michalek 2021-06-24 11:10:52 UTC 
Created attachment 173158 [details]
document for reproducing the issue
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2021-07-19 16:02:02 UTC 
I guess this is right-click - Description. I don't see this working with ODP documents either. Does it work for you?

NixOS
Version: 7.3.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: b1df9c67349cf4cc5be4128d797aefb87f50e38f
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 5.13; UI render: default; VCL: x11
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 3 Miroslav Michalek 2021-07-19 16:17:15 UTC 
Nice find. It doesn't work for me with ODP either.
Comment 4 Sophie Sipasseuth 2023-07-07 07:43:26 UTC 
Repro, no alternative text (menu format > description) in pptx and pdf with:

Version: 7.4.0.0.alpha1+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: c94961c6869c34b3874d21cfaa5ec1488609acfe
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR); UI: en-US
Calc: CL

Version: 7.5.0.1.0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: ced8585bcb92aa58ca3e24197ff38fb82cc8a703
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

Version: 7.6.0.0.beta1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 1b5cee822e0bc15ddbdfc86926678ca35ab3e082
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 5 Michael Stahl (allotropia) 2023-09-18 11:46:45 UTC 
PDF export should be fixed already.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 57423 ***