Bug 43548 - FILESAVE Images lose both title and description (text alternatives) when exporting ODP to PPT
Summary: FILESAVE Images lose both title and description (text alternatives) when expo...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: filters and storage (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
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Keywords: accessibility, filter:ppt
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Blocks: a11y, Accessibility PPT
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Reported: 2011-12-06 04:14 UTC by Christophe Strobbe
Modified: 2024-05-20 11:25 UTC (History)
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Description Christophe Strobbe 2011-12-06 04:14:48 UTC
When exporting ODP from Impress to the Microsoft PowerPoint format PPT, both the title and the description (text alternatives for accessibility) on images is lost.

Steps to reproduced the issue:
1. Create a new presentation in Impress.
2. Add an image and give it only a title (right-click, choose "Description" from the context menu and fill in "Title").
3. Add an image and give it only a description (right-click, choose "Description" and fill in "Description").
4. Add an image and give it both a title and a description (right-click, choose "Description" and fill in both fields in the dialog window).
5. Save the file as "Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP/2003 (.ppt)".
6. Open the PPT file in Microsoft PowerPoint, right-click on each image, choose "Format picture", then "Alt text": both the Title field and the Description field are empty.

Note: you can give images a name (so they become visible in the Navigator), but this does not make a difference.

Desired behaviour:
When exporting to PPT, ODF's title and description should be mapped to
PowerPoint's title and description.

For a test file, see the one attached to bug 43547.
Comment 1 Christophe Strobbe 2012-01-27 06:06:47 UTC
Version info was previously LibO 3.4.3. I confirm that this bug is still
present in LibreOffice 3.5.0 RC1. Changing status from UNCONFIRMED to NEW.
Comment 2 retired 2014-08-25 10:24:09 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 retired 2014-08-25 10:28:57 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2015-09-04 02:49:25 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2016-09-07 03:27:31 UTC
I assume that once bug 43547 is fixed, it will automatically fix this issue.
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2018-10-22 02:47:24 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Christophe Strobbe 2018-10-22 14:39:59 UTC
I retested this in LibreOffice Impress 6.1.2.1 on Manjaro Linux; the issue is still present when exporting to PPTX (but now when exporting to the older PPT format). Both Title and Description are empty after exporting to PPTX ("PowerPoint 2007-2019").

The only difference in the process is that you need to select 'Description' from the Format menu in order to access the Title and Description, instead of using the context menu.
Comment 8 Christophe Strobbe 2018-10-22 14:51:36 UTC
My previous comment should just have said that the issue no longer exists for the PPT format (at least when I reopen the PPT in LibreOffice Impress). PPTX output is covered in a different bug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43547.
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2019-10-23 02:48:03 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete, spam)
Comment 10 Justin L 2020-04-24 11:33:06 UTC
I think you have it backwards. Name/Description (but not title) are retained for PPTX, but all are lost with PPT.

tested with LO 7.0
Comment 11 Timur 2020-05-20 12:46:46 UTC
PPT is tested with MSO and bug is still here.
Comment 12 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2021-07-12 13:16:07 UTC
Reproduced in LO 7.3 alpha0.
You don't need MS Office to test this:

1. Open Impress
2. Insert an image
3. Fill in the "Title" and "Description" fields for the image
4. Save as > PPT
5. Close and reopen

Observed: both fields are empty.

Version: 7.3.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 4146be28450c77159ae8c7f8d4d7f471756ec14c
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2021-07-10_02:16:38
Calc: threaded
Comment 13 QA Administrators 2023-07-13 03:13:59 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 14 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-05-20 11:25:03 UTC
The UI now has different labels, but result is the same, all are lost on save and reload:
- Name
- Text
- Alt Text

Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 5e23cac5767c164b93491d46deef039409ea286c
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

...but I doubt export to an obsolete binary format is going to attract much attention.