How to export 'Octagon Bevel' and 'Diamond Bevel' to OOXML

Regina Henschel rb.henschel at t-online.de
Thu Apr 21 15:05:11 UTC 2022


Hi Miklos,
Hi Miklos,

Miklos Vajna schrieb am 21.04.2022 um 16:31:
> Hi Regina,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 01:32:23AM +0200, Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> wrote:
>> The appearance we currently get (without any patch) cannot be exported to
>> OOXML, if we want, that it remains to be a shape. And when reopening the
>> file the shape will have different shading than before saving, if we not
>> change 'Octagon Bevel' and 'Diamond Bevel' to an OOXML-compatible shape at
>> the same time.
>>
>> The alternative would be to export the shape not as a shape but as an image.
>> For what purpose are these bevel-shapes used? Likely for giving a frame to a
>> text. And then text and background should be still editable after roundtrip.
>> That is my opinion. So for me export as image would be the worse solution.
> 
> I agree that exporting it as an image sounds quite poor.

I have added export of its shading in
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5168d06b1302c43a305d0f670ee65079f21063b5

I think, that is a good compromise. Only handles are missing. But that 
is a general problem.

Kind regards,
Regina


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