Created attachment 195035 [details] Sample slide (PPTX) How to repeat: 1. open sample document 2. observe purely black element, no text 3. compare with screenshot from PowerPoint Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 97833217ebacd77d01b8e06ee1eb05cc06c17afc CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.9; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Might this be (partially) be related to bug #135320?
Created attachment 195036 [details] Visual comparison: LibreOffice (left) - PowerPoint (right)
The blur shadow is a "inner shadow". Those are not supported by LibreOffice. The according request is in bug 146237. LibreOffice is not able to render a glow affect on texts of a shape. The according request is in bug 144061 and bug 49246.
Balazs Varga committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/3eac847927a0cdfa40c3fea38c473ed2ad7faecc tdf#161826 - Add uniform Glow effect for texts in shapes It will be available in 25.2.0. 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.
Happy to confirm the text now looks as in PowerPoint with last night's build: Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 044980edc41544dd5973d5aa57f134d4bfe6d0e7 CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.10; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Created attachment 196115 [details] Screenshot with the text display fixed And here is a screenshot showing the text and the shadow effect. Nicely done, thanks!
Balazs Varga committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/5bb5a7ea60c4496d7ad21ad81a0f37f6f5fd2288 Related: tdf#161826 - Add uniform Glow effect for texts in shapes It will be available in 25.2.0. 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.