Bug 82760 - Arrows from MSO shapes have wrong heads
Summary: Arrows from MSO shapes have wrong heads
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: filter:doc, filter:pptx
: 105796 105797 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: PPTX-Shapes Arrow_Style 42753
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Reported: 2014-08-18 10:03 UTC by Ruslan Kabatsayev
Modified: 2026-04-17 03:17 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Attachments
Test file DOC (40.00 KB, application/msword)
2014-08-18 10:03 UTC, Ruslan Kabatsayev
Details
How it should look (128.88 KB, image/png)
2014-08-18 10:04 UTC, Ruslan Kabatsayev
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How it looks in LibO (144.01 KB, image/png)
2014-08-18 10:06 UTC, Ruslan Kabatsayev
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Test file PPTX with arrow (28.80 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation)
2017-05-03 15:34 UTC, Timur
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Test file DOC compared MSO 2016 LO 7.1+ (114.73 KB, image/png)
2020-07-31 13:25 UTC, Timur
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PPTX attachment 130947 compared MSO LO (43.06 KB, image/png)
2020-07-31 13:30 UTC, Timur
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Description Ruslan Kabatsayev 2014-08-18 10:03:39 UTC
Created attachment 104811 [details]
Test file DOC

See test file. In Word the arrows have nice heads, while in LibO they are disconnected from the heads and don't even resemble Word-rendered ones.
Comment 1 Ruslan Kabatsayev 2014-08-18 10:04:18 UTC
Created attachment 104812 [details]
How it should look
Comment 2 Ruslan Kabatsayev 2014-08-18 10:06:30 UTC
Created attachment 104813 [details]
How it looks in LibO
Comment 3 tommy27 2014-09-26 21:10:31 UTC
I confirm issue under Win7 with all LibO releases I have from 3.3.3. to 4.3.1 and today's 4.4.0 master.

same issue with OOo 3.3.0 and AOO 4.1

bug is inherited from OOo
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2015-10-14 19:57:33 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 tommy27 2015-10-14 20:13:39 UTC
bug is still present in LibO 5.1.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: f830600ece806ec365a4839e79afabe183c5e36d
TinderBox: Win-x86@62-merge-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2015-10-06_22:49:09
Locale: it-IT (it_IT)
Comment 6 Xisco Faulí 2017-02-06 15:35:30 UTC
*** Bug 105797 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Tobias Burnus 2017-02-06 15:46:42 UTC
Include data from bug 105797; the issue was tested up to today's MASTER build of LO and 5.3.0.3:

* The issue also affects imports in PowerPoint (PPTX) [PowerPoints "open arrow" ("----->") gets imported as LibreOffice's "line arrow" ("----- >") with a gap between the corner of the ">" and the "---"]. Test case: attachment 130947 [details]

* While LibreOffice's "line arrow" ("----- >") has a gap, LO's "short line arrow" does not - and could be used instead. Cf. attachment 130946 [details] (left: PowerPoint 2007, right LO 5.3.0.3)

* The latter has an issue of its own (bug 82760). Namely, the line width of the head of "short line arrow" does not scale with the line width of the tail - such that one has something like: "====->"
Comment 8 Tobias Burnus 2017-02-06 15:47:49 UTC
(In reply to Tobias Burnus from comment #7)
> * The latter has an issue of its own (bug 82760). Namely, the line width of
> the head of "short line arrow" does not scale with the line width of the
> tail - such that one has something like: "====->"

Should have been: bug 105796.
Comment 9 Xisco Faulí 2017-02-10 17:21:22 UTC
*** Bug 105796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Timur 2017-05-03 15:34:33 UTC
Created attachment 133035 [details]
Test file PPTX with arrow

Actually, it's not just arrows from MS Word, here is PPTX. I'll change the title.
Comment 11 QA Administrators 2018-06-25 02:40:49 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 Ruslan Kabatsayev 2018-06-25 05:40:21 UTC
Still present in 6.0.4.2.
Comment 13 Timur 2020-07-31 13:25:10 UTC
Created attachment 163812 [details]
Test file DOC compared MSO 2016 LO 7.1+

attachment 104811 [details] DOC file still has slight differences on arrow head shape, maybe not even worth fixing.
Same file as DOCX was explained in https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45479#c16.

attachment 130947 [details] PPTX also is similar with small differences.

attachment 133035 [details] PPTX also not fixed.
Comment 14 Timur 2020-07-31 13:30:27 UTC
Created attachment 163813 [details]
PPTX attachment 130947 [details] compared MSO LO

(In reply to Timur from comment #13)
> attachment 130947 [details] PPTX also is similar with small differences.
Comment 15 QA Administrators 2024-04-13 03:15:16 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 16 Tobias Burnus 2024-04-16 16:05:08 UTC
In LO 24.2.2.2 (X86_64/Linux),
 bug 45479's attachment 104811 [details] (.docx file) → comment 13
still looks like "————— >" instead of "—————→",
namely as in the old screen shots:

→ attachment 163812 [details] (left Word, right LO)

Likewise for others, e.g. attachment 163813 [details] – albeit the last → (stealth array) doesn't look as bad as the one in the Word document; it is still different, however, and there is still a small gap.
Comment 17 QA Administrators 2026-04-17 03:17:11 UTC
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