Created attachment 182218 [details] Sample slides 1 and 2 (PPTX) Some text elements in the SmartArt are vertically too low (compared to Office 365). Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 449317473740d98338a61aca1e4ffb8821681c8e CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US back to Version: 6.4.8.0.0+ Build ID: 99b065ec31d032fc08ab14f66430dac4fef904a5 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:libreoffice-6-4, Time: 2020-10-08_08:57:08 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Created attachment 182219 [details] Visual comparison Powerpoint (left) vs Impress (right) of slide 1
Reproduced in Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community Build ID: ee003ca99f94c9a5517ebba67ed02abb2a60dae8 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.10; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: es-ES (es_ES.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded and Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: 9bc848cf0d301aa57eabcffa101a1cf87bad6470 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.10; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: es-ES (es_ES.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded and Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: 6eeac3539ea4cac32d126c5e24141f262eb5a4d9 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.10; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: es-ES (es_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded
An observation: When I "Enter Group" of the diagram the two text boxes in question have vertical alignment of "center". If I change that to "top" for both, it looks like in PowerPoint. Maybe just an import problem? Using (wrong) default?
Looks like this is a SmartArt of the "Segmented Process" type. Here there are three shapes: one blue rectangle with callout arrow and two grey rectangles - these form a group. PP seems to take the height of the grey rectangles into account when calculating the text position in the blue rectangle with callout arrow. This can be observed by deleting the two grey rectangles - the text of the remaining blue rectangle moves down. Another interesting detail is the bottom group where the blue rectangle does not have callout arrow - that ones text looks well-placed, but only since this 4.3 commit: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5d3211ce2a84c31334bea370ddae654aee6b0380 author Zolnai Tamás <tamas.zolnai@collabora.com> 2014-05-30 13:45:36 +0200 committer Zolnai Tamás <zolnaitamas2000@gmail.com> 2014-05-30 08:03:19 -0500 commit 5d3211ce2a84c31334bea370ddae654aee6b0380 (patch) bnc#870237: wrong text position in grouped list In grouped list text area does not cover the whole shape but just a part of it at the top. To get the same visual effect modify text distance attribute. Unfortunately this seems like a workaround for a missing feature in the SmartArt handling :(.
Balazs Varga committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/9948c2ed03d227e178b9002dabc6edf34c32a5af tdf#150789 - FILEOPEN PPTX: fix text in SmartArt vertically off It will be available in 25.8.0. 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.
Happily verified with last night's daily build: Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: f27d2d76c4e577c7231ae755548a8fc20711ca48 CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.11; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Balazs Varga committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-25-2": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/25c5b910966ab6ca1049d6e34a78ffb448f30899 tdf#150789 - FILEOPEN PPTX: fix text in SmartArt vertically off It will be available in 25.2.0.0.beta2. 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.