Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 13026
import/export of connectors needs to be improved
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
I have a doc with a few line-drawings - bubbles, arrows and text. When opened under openoffice, almost everything "worked" (looked as good or better than word). However some connectors required that I edit them and put them back in the *same place*... The lines seem in fact to be infulenced by the text around them. When I create a test file with only the drawing, it opens perfectly. When I include the surrounding text, the some arrows take a short-cut ;) Its very minor, but it could be indiciataive of something else...
Created attachment 5459 [details] MS word fragment with line drawing from Powerpoint...
Thank you for using and supporting OOo. Verified 1.1 Beta 2. Page 1, first diagram demonstrates the problem
Reassigned to MRU
MRU->SJ: I am not an export of thoses "Connctors", because the Writer does not have in UI for this. So my question is: Can the import of the connectors be improved?
Re-targeted to 2.0.
It won't be easy, but I hope that we will be able to improve the import of connectors soon.
changed title.
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changed issue type
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Created attachment 16807 [details] bugdoc from issue 31561
I attach the document from issue 31561 which is duplicate to this issue.
KA: unfortunately, this not possible for SO8 anymore => set to OOo Later
Please have also a look to issue 31235. It's duplicate to this one.
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sj: Changed the title, so that this issue is also addressing the export of connectors. In general to fix this issue we need to load/save also path characteristics of the connector.
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I think that the ammount of duplicates (and duplicates in the refering issues) should indicate that end-userd do see this as a significant issue. It is quite minor, but affecting a lot of people. I am not suggesting that OOo should follow strictly the mechanism used by MSO to render Bezier connectors. Simply his difference in the rendering should be realized and indicated in Help and Documentation guides.
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I doubt that only WIN NT is affected, and I also doubt that LATER is an adequate time schedule. Presentations ar an office application where interoperability is very important, but currently the connector export causes too many problems, so that it seems keen to risk to export an IMPRESS document to the PP format and trust that it can be presented with PP. Of course it is very very difficult to reach a perfect export, so that everything looks identical to the .odp when you open an exported ppt with POWERPOINT. But a realistic and reachable goal should be that OOo will show exported .ppt documents without changes to the original .odp. Currently that is not realized satisfactory as attached test.odp shows (please compare the different views).
Created attachment 41946 [details] compare views!
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'test.odp' has been created with "2.0.2 German version WIN XP: [680m5(Build9011)]", I just saw that the export has been improved in "2.1.0 German version WIN XP: [680m6(Build9095)]". It's still not really satisfactory, but some stumbling blocks have been eleminated.
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issue 89499 contains a presentation which shows the problem with import
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Most comments here minimize this issue. It does not just affect power point documents, but it affects also drawings created inside Word. Effectively, this bug (and a couple of others) lmit the usage of OOffice with word documents: You open a word docuemtn, add some text, save, you effectively destroyed the diagrams contained in the document.