Description: I try to use a formula in Impress but you can't change its size or color. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open impress document 2.Insert formula object 3. Use formula editor to make formula 4. Exit into impress Actual Results: Formula object is the wrong shape, size and color, but it can't be modified. Expected Results: Should be able to scale object by dragging its corners in Impress, ad change its color by changing its properties. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: It should have created an object whose properties I can set in Impress (color and size).
After some work I find that the only way to change the size of the formula is to change the size of the font in the text dialog in the formula. when you enlarge it to a size useable in Impress, the forumla become illegible. But then snaps to size once you exit the editor. This is no good. THERE IS NO WAY TO CHANGE THE FORMULA COLOR. You can have any color you want as long as it's black. That doesn't work for Impress. In fact kind of useless. Again, you should be able to resize the whole thing by dragging its corners, and it should have a color property that can be changed from Impress, and follow the colors of the slide color scheme by default. Currently Formula objects are unusable in Impress.
Created attachment 192242 [details] Examples See attached document how to change size of the formula object and how to change the font color. A Math object is an OLE object. As such it has a 'display' object on the slide to display its content. If you change the font color of this 'display' object, it has no effect on the real Math object. You need to change the font color in the Math object itself. The same is true for an inserted chart. A chart is an OLE object too. And for charts as well you cannot change the font color by the style of the 'display' object. The best way to change the font size of a Math object is to use the 'size' command. That method is compatible with MathML markup and has best interoperability with other applications.