Created attachment 189926 [details] 5PointStar as connector target Open attached file in LibreOffice and in PowerPoint and compare. Notice, that the target points of the connector lines are wrong. The 5-point-star has originally only glue points in the tips of the star. The problem exists with some other shapes too. The wrong leaving direction and the different routing is another problem that is not tracked here.
Created attachment 189927 [details] Screenshots compared
Created attachment 189928 [details] MS-Office binaryFormatSpecification This older version of the "Microsoft Office Drawing 97-2007 Binary Format Specification" contains the needed information. This information is not contained in newer versions currently available from Microsoft. The specification for the 5-point-star is on page 109.
Regina Henschel committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/dd7fc07f83416a3d8a444947b7d28f7347520d6a tdf#157543 Add glue points to binary 5-point star It will be available in 24.2.0. 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.
This is fixed for 5-point star. The import from pptx is still wrong, but that is tracked in bug 157516. When other shape types are handled, we can write a new report or reopen this one.
Created attachment 189961 [details] screenshot The line shape it's different from PowerPoint 97, but it's much better.
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