Brian, frankly, I never noticed. :) Then again, what can I say about this invisible world?
But yes, as for the display problems, it did sound like something was missing. Glad you found it. -eric On May 11, 2018, at 6:36 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > For the people that were at the meeting last night you saw that Barbara > observed/complained that her presentation, that was created in PowerPoint, > was formatted oddly. > The strange thing is that we were sure that it was showing correctly on my > other laptop, and I verified that it was a little bit ago. > The first thing I assumed was that the versions were different, but both > laptops were on the exact same version. The next thing I assumed was my > other laptop was missing the MS core fonts, but I found that they were > installed. > I was finally able to get it to show up correctly when I noticed that the > "libreoffice" meta package wasn't actually installed. When I installed it, it > pulled in the following extra packages: > > fonts-crosextra-caladea fonts-crosextra-carlito fonts-liberation2 > fonts-sil-gentium fonts-sil-gentium-basic libbsh-java libreoffice > libreoffice-librelogo > libreoffice-nlpsolver libreoffice-ogltrans libreoffice-report-builder > libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-script-provider-bsh > libreoffice-script-provider-js > libreoffice-script-provider-python libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql > libreoffice-wiki-publisher > > So the the "fix" was in the form of the fonts-crosextra-caladea font package. > The presentation used the cambria font and that package provides a visually > similar font with the same metrics. > > As for the wrong colors and missing dashed lines. That turned out to be my > fault. I found that the document would load correctly, but if it were > modified in LibreOffice and saved to it's original pptx format and then > reloaded the colors were messed up and the dashed lines were converted to > solid lines. I messed it up when I moved a couple of things around trying to > get the formatting better. > > Anyway, I just thought I would share just in case anyone way curious as to > why the presentation was showing up strangely... and who knows maybe someone > has the same issue and it's simply a package load away for better formatting. > > Brian Cluff > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
