https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129061
--- Comment #45 from Rafael Lima <[email protected]> --- Created attachment 197441 --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=197441&action=edit Sample PPTX file with various equations and text So I was taking a look at how Impress now works after Mike's patches and I'm not sure the situation has improved. I would say that in some respects it got worse. Let me explain... Take this sample file... it is an Operations Research lecture I had prepared in 2017 using PowerPoint. It has a lot of equations mixed with text (slides 5 and 6 are good examples). Prior to the patches, if I opened this file the text on slides 5 and 6 was imported alright, but the equations that were mixed in the text were simply ignored; and the equation objects that were not alongside any text were imported as equations in Impress, though their sizes were all broken. Now, after the patches, all equations are imported as images; and all objects that contain equations are also entirely imported as images. This is problematic because all the text in the slides are no longer editable. They look OK at first, but as soon as you try to edit them, they're all images and the text can't be changed. If an uninformed user opens a PPTX file like this, edit something else and saves it, they'll lose all their text data... all the text will have been transformed into images. This is why I think this new behavior did not improve the situation... and for me, this is actually worse, because now I simply cannot open these files in Impress anymore. Previously I at least could import the text and fix what was missing; but now I can't import neither the text, nor the equations. I would like to stress that this is possibly the biggest missing feature in Impress that makes it really hard to use it for preparing lectures involving mathematical notations. And this is well supported by our competitors OnlyOffice and WPS. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
