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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:opensource@slyman.org" title="Matthew Slyman <opensource@slyman.org>"> <span class="fn">Matthew Slyman</span></a>
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title="REOPENED - Cannot resize inserted formula in Impress via mouse"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49614">bug 49614</a>
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="REOPENED - Cannot resize inserted formula in Impress via mouse"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49614#c4">Comment # 4</a>
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title="REOPENED - Cannot resize inserted formula in Impress via mouse"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49614">bug 49614</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:opensource@slyman.org" title="Matthew Slyman <opensource@slyman.org>"> <span class="fn">Matthew Slyman</span></a>
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<pre>This problem, or its close relatives, have existed in OpenOffice.org /
LibreOffice ever since the very first version!
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=5266">https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=5266</a>
Can we get it sorted out please?
My comment from OOO bug tracker…
I have a degree in computer science, and I just spent about 1 hour converting a
formula into SVG graphic format.
This required approximately the following procedure:
* Open LibreOffice Math
* Write formula
* Could not find a way to "export to Draw", "export to SVG", etc.
* Open LibreOffice Draw
* Menu: Insert/ Object/ Formula
* Manually edit the formula (paste in formula code)
* Format/ Font size/ make the text incredibly tiny with 5 point text, so that
the entire formula would be shown inside the tiny, rigid, NON-RESIZEABLE box
thata Insert/Object had placed it inside (the formula was internally
overflowing, and being clipped) — of course this NON-RESIZEABLE box was NOT
automatically resizing itself to the formula contained inside it…
* Context menu: Convert to profile (initially attempted convert to curve, but
this resulted in resizing & clipping so had to try another option)
* Manually resize resulting formula-profile to width of page.
* Manually resize page to vertical size of object
* Export as SVG
I'm running LO 5.2.3.3 x64 — it baffles me how anyone thinks this procedure is
acceptable in 2017. Perhaps with Windows 3.1 in 1992, I would have thought this
about normal, but these days, this is well below my expectations for how
software should work! Anyone who thinks that being inside this strait-jacket is
a "feature" is frankly an idiot. Sorry for the undiplomatic language!</pre>
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