Created attachment 189187 [details] Sample slide (PPTX) Comparing the sample document between PowerPoint and Impress the latter - left aligns all text (instead of right aligning some of it), - uses significantly more vertical space between lines/paragraphs. Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: e15bf7363adb20c77aee51e09b6f2604d741619b CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US ...and back to (at least) 6.4 all the way.
Created attachment 189188 [details] Visual comparison PowerPoint (left) vs Impress (right)
Problem is, that both the default and the actual tap positions specified by PowerPoint are larger than the text area width. LibreOffice behaves unreasonable in such cases. It should use the right edge as tab stop in such cases. The problem is not a problem in the import filter, but you can see the same problem with a text box created in LibreOffice.
Both paragraphs are left aligned. The text portions are right aligned by a right-align tab stop.
Samuel Mehrbrodt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/d84c900bb78168dd9bd0fd1ea02c0769a5ba5f14 tdf#156955 Properly align text when tabstop is outside of textbox It will be available in 24.8.0. 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.
Happy to confirm this fixes my original bug document. What a two liner can change sometimes! :-) Are you planning to add a testcase?