The following objects can be exported as vector objects from LibreOffice: - shapes - fontwork - formulas - QR codes / barcodes For example: - when exporting a selection from Draw, or exporting the whole document as PDF: these objects can be manipulated as vector objects. (e.g. in Inkscape.) - when exporting as XHTML: QR codes use SVG, and formulas use MathML (shapes and fontworks are missing, different issue). However, when saving an ODT or ODS as HTML, all these objects are converted to bitmaps. This means: - objects with bad resolution, especially for objects like QR codes, rendered unreadable (likely linked to bug 157323) - objects that can't be manipulated further (node-by-node, coloring of parts, breaking, modifying shapes...) SVG is now widespread and a standard that goes hand-in-hand with HTML on the web and elsewhere. We should use it instead of bitmap when possible. Steps: 1. Create ODS or ODT 2. Insert a shape, an OLE formula, a QR code and a fontwork (for fontwork, use a pure-vector option like "Snow") 3. File > Save as > HTML 4. Reload Result: all objects are bitmaps Expected: all objects are vector objects and can be further manipulated. Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 91ca15e3f8ae13b22531745a634459a2d9b4596a CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Same in OOo 3.3.
Ah, a more general "don't use Gif" request had been filed before in bug 115360. Let's keep this one as a more specific "use SVG for vector objects" request, and make it block the older report.
Created attachment 190831 [details] ODT with four vector-ish objects Document with the four types of objects suggested in the reproduction instructions.
I would call gratuitous rasterization a bug.