Created attachment 189264 [details] Sample slide (PPTX) 1. Open the sample document. 2. Observe how the three rectangles I marked with an orange border show square corners instead of round corners (in PowerPoint). Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 642f2d7177ea3e6c365da2c2082a50a5137cd988 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US ...back all the way to at least Version: 6.4.8.0.0+ Build ID: 99b065ec31d032fc08ab14f66430dac4fef904a5 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.4; 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 189265 [details] Visual comparison PowerPoint (left) vs Impress (right)
The shapes are derived from the outline placeholders. LibreOffice takes the type of shape and the size from the definition on the master slide. It imports them as "css.presentation.OutlineShape" which is in fact a text box. It might be possible to detect the special case "rounded rectangle" and set the rounded corner of the text box accordingly. A text box does not have a property "Resize shape to fit text" but only "Fit height to text". But that property does not shrink the shape automatically, when its content is smaller than the current size, but only expand height if the content would overflow otherwise. Therefore the shapes are too large. Here the import needs to look at the shape on the slide and use its current size instead of using the size from the master page. I don't know why the size is correct for the third object. A further problem is, that the layout of the master page has four outline placeholders. That is not possible in LibreOffice, we have maximal two outline placeholders. There exists a feature request to allow further layouts, bug 78156. It might be useful to split this report to address one issue at a time and to simplify the example file as much as possible. Do you have PowerPoint on hand to create specific examples?
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #2) > The shapes are derived from the outline placeholders. LibreOffice ... Thank you for sharing this background and the analysis, Regina! > It might be useful to split this report to address one issue at a > time and to simplify the example file as much as possible. Do you > have PowerPoint on hand to create specific examples? I meant to create a sibling covering the height of the boxes, simply did not have the time back then. Now done as bug #157285 . And you referred to the existing bug #bug 78156 wrt. allowing for further layouts. Is there another aspect to cover. I do not have access to PowerPoint, only the web-based version which is very limited, but which I used to create the example file. Not sure how to make this significantly simpler still? Can you help, maybe?
Ok, let's set this one to "new" and make it depend on the two other reports. Of course, smaller sample document are welcome. Regina, this isn't the same issue as in bug 103200 comment 7, is it?