Issue 73836

Summary:	Powerpoint's "AutoFit Text" Feature is Desirable
Product:	Impress	Reporter:	abonet <angelobemail-forums>
Component:	formatting	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	cmoulin, issues
Version:	OOo 1.1.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	FEATURE	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description abonet 2007-01-24 19:56:59 UTC

Powerpoint has a feature that automatically adjusts the font-sizes and
line-spacing of text within a "outline" when it otherwise fall off the bottom of
the text frame.  This adjusting is progressive -- the more bullets added to the
outline, the more the fonts and line spacings are manipulated to allow the text
to fit.  I believe Powerpoint calls this feature "AutoFit Text To Placeholder".

There appears to be no built-in way to recreate this behavior in a OO presentation.

In OO, the line spacing can be modified manually by changing the "Line spacing"
to "Proportional" and then providing some percentage less than 100%.  But this
doesn't affect font-sizes.

The other OO option is to force the text to "Fit To Frame", but this ends up
resizing the text as if it were a graphic -- which makes all the text and fonts
deformed.

I consider this feature to be very desirable.

Comment 1 wolframgarten 2007-01-25 07:45:02 UTC

Reassigned.

Comment 2 clippka 2007-05-10 13:30:22 UTC

the oasis tc has integrated attribute "draw:shrink-to-fit" to support this
feature in ODF 1.1.

I will take over this issue to implement that feature in OOo

Comment 3 tbird20d 2007-06-20 18:31:20 UTC

Whoever you are, cl, thanks very much!  This has been a problem for me with OOo
for some time.  My normal workflow with presentations is to develop the
presentation in OOo, sometimes manually adjusting fonts to get things to fit,
until I get close to finished.  For long presentations, the workload of
continually adjusting the font sizes can become burdensome.  At that point, I
switch to PowerPoint, remove all the manually-set font sizes, and start using
autofit.  Unfortunately, this means I can't take that same document back to OOo,
since it will mangle the font sizes thereafter.

If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know.

Comment 4 clippka 2007-09-12 13:44:11 UTC

retargeted

Comment 5 mathiasm 2007-12-01 20:33:19 UTC

Should not this be considered a duplicate of #12533 ? It seems so.

Comment 6 camillem 2010-01-16 17:41:07 UTC

this feature has been implemented in Go-OO 3.1. any chance to have the code
merged upstream ?

Comment 7 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:08:51 UTC

Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".