DOCX import: MS Office WordArt to LO Fontwork

[Regina Henschel]

Hi Miklos,

Miklos Vajna schrieb am 15.12.2022 um 09:34:
> Hi Regina,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 11:39:03PM +0100, Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> wrote:
>> (B)
>> The current import does not generate a Fontwork at all. However, LO will
>> recreate the WordArt from the GrabBags, if the document is resaved to docx
>> and nothing on the shape was changed. With my work, a Fontwork is created
>> which will nicely look as far it is principle possible and will be kept when
>> converting to ODF, but resave to docx looses the styling of the Fontwork.
>>
>> How to progress? Use this approach nevertheless and start working on export
>> of Fontwork to WordArt after that (which would include export from ODF), or
>> extend my work to cover export too?
> 
> I think it makes sense to progress in steps. Let's get the DOCX import
> in, then you can look at the DOCX export. And next time perhaps do it in
> the other order to avoid temporary problems. :-)

You are right about the order. And the export is not trivial. On the one 
hand you have to consider special features like a fontwork shape in a 
frame or a fontwork shape with bitmap fill. On the other hand, the 
export part is also used by Impress, so it has to fit there as well. The 
import part took me almost two months. The export part will probably 
take even longer, because I still have to work out the export to VML and 
it is not yet clear to what extent and under what conditions formatting 
originally in MS Word can and should be restored. Maybe I should try to 
improve the export first? The import is now in Gerrit and can be 
reactivated at any time.

Kind regards,
Regina