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
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