Created attachment 182595 [details] Sample slide (PPTX) I must have reached a half dozen reports of text rendering horizontally instead of vertically or vice versa - apparently PowerPoint users are very creative in coming up with different ways to articulate direction... How to reproduce: Open sample document and observe how the text in the three text boxes is very condensed (not really readable) and renders horizontally instead of vertically. Seen with Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community Build ID: e79741488cc740f49ebd4426c40b45e7139ff663 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US and I reproduced with all release branches back to 6.4 (which is the earliest I have).
Created attachment 182596 [details] Visual comparison: Powerpoint (left) vs Impress (right)
I can confirm this with all the versions of LO I have available for testing, including the latest build. Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community Build ID: bdf346830b735aa484fba0df94be71fd1ea5cdfd CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb) Locale: pt-BR (pt_BR.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded I'd say this is inherited from OO, but I can't confirm. In MS Powerpoint this is stacked text. AFAIK Impress does not support stacked text orientation.
confirm with Version: 7.4.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 6500106dff0f0cd86f509ffd01542aab77c21596 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: cs-CZ (cs_CZ.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Jumbo *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 67347 ***
Created attachment 192614 [details] Screenshot with LibreOffice Impress as of 20240217 As of today, and after Attila Szűcs committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/f846efa507252b0584d2753a251f2dd99c34541a tdf#67347 pptx import: stacked text, minimal impl. the situation has improved quite a bit; see this new screenshot. Just the text appears higher vertically than with PowerPoint.
Created attachment 192820 [details] visual comparison after fix, LO - PP
(In reply to Attila Szűcs from comment #5) > Created attachment 192820 [details] > visual comparison after fix, LO - PP This is looking really good. Thanks Attila!
Happy to confirm as the original reporter that with tonight's build this really looks great. Thank you, Attila! Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 5234ef71c7459506236d4d0dfe7beb5f00d8cc41 CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.7; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US