[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 144525] Allow fill for line strokes and borders of shapes

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144525

Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> ---
(In reply to Lucas J from comment #5)
> If possible, I would prefer the
> previous request to either be removed or replaced with this one. However, I
> believe your discretion would be best on what we should do.

I will set this to "New" and the previous one to "Duplicate".

(In reply to Lucas J from comment #5)
> As a supporter of LibreOffice, I would love to help develop this feature
> myself. While I am new to the project, I would love to contribute despite
> the time it may take to develop such a feature.

Then you should start with https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Developmen.
Follow the links in section "Getting Started with Development". For discussing
problems (e.g. in getting a build, or looking for code pointers) please use the
mailing libreoffice at lists.freedesktop.org or
irc://irc.libera.chat/#libreoffice-dev.

 Is it possible that I can
> send the ODF specification request to the people at OASIS? Do you have
> information on how I could proceed with this? I would love to continue to
> see this technology improve and be more available to everyone.

The ODF technical committee (TC) does only accepts feature requests, if there
exist an implementation that shows how it could work. That need not be a final
release of an application. The TC tries to help developers to implement new
features in a way, that it could be added to the standard:
https://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/ProposalTemplate%20ODF%201.4
But you are far away from that point.

(In reply to Lucas J from comment #6)
> Instead of modifying the ODF standard and significantly modifying the code,
> if the user wants to change the style of the stroke, why not automatically
> convert the line to contour behind the scenes and still allow the user to
> interact with the object as if it were just a normal line?
> 

If you convert a shape to contour, then currently the original object type is
lost. I think, such conversion should never be done "behind the scenes" but
needs explicit agreement from the user, see for example the tool "Distort".
Nevertheless such tool "Fill line with gradient" or "Fill line with bitmap"
would be possible. It would even be possible as macro. But it does not solve
the problem, how such line filling should be handled by the import filter for
MS Office drawings.

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