https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126799

orcmid <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from orcmid <[email protected]> ---
I want to clarify some things about practice, just to obtain better information
on what you are experiencing.

Usually, when a presentation is edited in a 4:3 format, it will be presented in
that format, even to a 16:9 display.  That is to present distortion and/or
clipping of the displayed image .

If a 16:9 layout proportion is selectable, that will often change some features
of the presentation.  In fact, I have had presentations that, because of the
amount of text and bulleted lists, presented better in 4:3 even to a wider
display.

What I do personally, if I am traveling with a presentation and I don't know
what the combination of presentation hardware and projector capabilities might
be, is prepare both formats and use the one that works best using what is
available.

Now, to the reported problem.

On the Master View of a fresh presentation with no background (the supplied
Presentation Wizard backgrounds seem to be automatically fixed at about 23:16
on my computer), I was able to use Format > Page and change the "Paper format"
from the default "screen" setting (about 13 by 10) to 16" by 10" (the
proportions of my 2560:1600 display).  That gave me a wider master and slides.

I made one slide with a title that filled the width of that field, a line that
filled the width of the body field, and some lines that filled the height of
the body field.

Unfortunately, on a SlideShow view, although my 2560:1600 (16:10) display was
completely and exactly filled, the slide content did not all show.  Instead,
the wider part at the right is visible, showing the title and body text that
reached over that far, but most of the left of the slide is all white, as if
there is a blank overlay at the default presentation proportions.  That
all-white area is about 20" by 16" (not far off from 13 by 10).

I tried 16" by 9", adjusting the slide content accordingly, expecting black
bars at the bottom and/or top then.  That happens but there is still the full
white overlay on the left part of the display, leaving only a few inches of the
actual slide showing on the right.

So (1) it appears there are provisions for changing the proportions of the
slides being edited and (2) there is something that prevents their correct
presentation.

This would seem to be an essential problem to deal with.  The ease of changing
proportions, and having background graphics that fit any chosen presentation
become subsequent challenges.

I have not looked to see if there are extensions available that provide
templates for different screen layouts.  

System used:
  Dell XPS 8500 system
  Hewlett-Packard ZR30w 
  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
  Microsoft Windows 10
  Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2

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