Bug 148152 - Using a digital pen with LO: Ink drawings / annotations with Stylus, Pen or Finger on Touchscreen or Tablet
Summary: Using a digital pen with LO: Ink drawings / annotations with Stylus, Pen or F...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.3.1.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL: https://support.office.com/en-us/arti...
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: 35092 81299 145588 153557 157300 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Win-Tablet-Mode
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Reported: 2022-03-23 22:13 UTC by sebastian_kaemper
Modified: 2024-05-23 11:14 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description sebastian_kaemper 2022-03-23 22:13:56 UTC
Description:
Dear community, unfortunately it's not possible to use a digital pen with LO. Word offers an possibility to write something with a pen and to turn it into text. Also you can note anything with a pen.
I think this might be a big enhancement of your suite!
Regards, Sebastian!

Actual Results:
No one.

Expected Results:
One.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



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No.
Comment 1 Timur 2022-03-24 14:42:08 UTC
*** Bug 35092 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Timur 2022-03-24 14:48:22 UTC
This report is a duplicate of 11 years old bug 35092 started by Ian. But since that one is spammed, I closed it as a duplicate of this one.

Many devices (i.e. notebooks and tablets) have touch screens and support stylus, pen or finger input. Support for ink drawings / annotations is helpful on these devices.

Ian: 
It would be nice to include inking functionality in LO. When my school was looking at purchasing Office 2007 they compared it against the OpenOffice version at the time, and the only show stopper was the lack of tablet support. We have students hand-write equations and answers into labs and worksheets


Regina:
Ink-graphics are originally specified in https://www.w3.org/TR/InkML/.
Microsoft uses it as extension to OOXML, details in "[MS-ODRAWXML]: Office Drawing Extensions to Office Open XML Structure".
In ODF it could be stored as <draw:image> element in a <draw:frame> element. Being an "image" does not mean, that it cannot be edited. Being able to create and to edit such format, would be an implementation detail of LibreOffice, not of the file format. [Similar as for SVG. Being able to edit an SVG would be a feature of LibreOffice, not of the file format.]
The frame is able to contain different format versions of the same object and it is up to the application to choose the format which it can handle best. So it would be possible to store a original "ink"-format of MS Office in a <draw:image> element for a later export to MS Office and have a second <draw:image> with png for the current display.
Comment 3 Timur 2022-03-24 14:49:44 UTC
*** Bug 145588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Timur 2022-03-24 14:50:11 UTC
*** Bug 81299 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 V Stuart Foote 2022-03-30 13:48:57 UTC
*** Bug 148268 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 almos 2022-05-14 13:15:30 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Timur 2022-05-18 09:58:20 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 almos 2022-05-19 22:27:41 UTC
(In reply to Timur from comment #7)
> almos ,this bug is for using digital pen, not for reading of files. 
> See bug 120052 that Pen annotations are shown in documents from LO 7.0. 
> If you have an example that doesn't work, and that's different from bug
> 138147, please open bug.

I opened bug #148268 about the lack of InkML support, and it was resolved as a duplicate of this one.

I now checked #120052 and it is CLOSED FIXED for 7.0, even though 7.3 still cannot display the InkML in the pptx that I attached to #148268.
Comment 9 V Stuart Foote 2022-10-27 18:55:43 UTC
*** Bug 35092 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 V Stuart Foote 2023-01-15 04:16:36 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 11 V Stuart Foote 2023-02-12 07:55:46 UTC
*** Bug 153557 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-09-18 08:55:18 UTC
*** Bug 157300 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 V Stuart Foote 2024-05-23 11:14:19 UTC
*** Bug 35092 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***