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--- Comment #39 from Eyal Rozenberg  ---
As I was working on my LOConf presentation this year, I need to copy, paste
and/or duplicate Master Slides - and I couldn't. Annoying!

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--- Comment #38 from Buovjaga  ---
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> Are there any code pointers to help with this as a newbie?

I see pointers in comment 0 and comment 35. Please research based on them and
ask something more specific, if needed.

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--- Comment #37 from Abdallah Elhdad  ---
Are there any code pointers to help with this as a newbie?

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--- Comment #36 from Eyal Rozenberg  ---
(In reply to Jean-Francois Nifenecker from comment #35)
> copy masterslide option would be a
> workaround to the lack of masterslides inheritance. 

Is there an open bug about that possibility? If not, please open one and
describe this more fully.


> This bug is still present, 10 yrs after being opened ...  This is very 
> annoying

Apparently no newbie coder has taken this easy hack upon themselves over the
past decade, so perhaps the veterans would take care of this one.

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--- Comment #35 from Jean-Francois Nifenecker 
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Version: 7.3.6.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: c28ca90fd6e1a19e189fc16c05f8f8924961e12e
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR
Calc: threaded

OS: LinuxMint 20.3 (Cinnamon)

This bug is still present, 10 yrs after being opened :,(
This is very annoying in that the copy masterslide option would be a workaround
to the lack of masterslides inheritance. It is tedious to duplicate many
properties from a given masterslide to another.

Note that the API exposes a .Duplicate() method in the Impress document service
(XDrawPageDuplicator interface), see page:
https://api.libreoffice.org/docs/idl/ref/interfacecom_1_1sun_1_1star_1_1drawing_1_1XDrawPageDuplicator.html
where one can read:
"creates a duplicate of a DrawPage or MasterPage, including the Shapes on that
page and inserts it into the same model."
which is erroneous. While this method can duplicate standard slides, it can't
duplicate master ones. See attachment:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=183427.

So I see two options: (1) fix the API help page or (2) fix the .Duplicate()
method to apply to the master slides as explained. My take goes to (2), and
adding the Add option in the UI :)

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--- Comment #34 from Jean-Francois Nifenecker 
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Created attachment 183427
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=183427=edit
ODP file with a macro that should duplicate a master slide.

Run the TestAddMasterPage() sub in the document Standard:Module1.
Expected: You get a duplicate of the 1st masterpage (there's only one).
Found : You get a duplicate of the first standard slide.

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--- Comment #32 from j...@curioussymbols.com ---
sorry, a bunch of text there that I intended to delete. can't seem to do it
here.

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--- Comment #31 from j...@curioussymbols.com ---
There is a some 'clever' but infuriating behaviour hiding behind this bug.
Master slides seem to carry some kind of unique ID code with them, to help
reformatting of slides when they are being restyled.

Example:
1. Create new ('original') ODP
2. modify the *master* slide by placing a text box "TEST" on it, close the
master.
3. Create a second ('new') ODP
3. copy the slide from the first ODP to the second ODP

Result: the master-slide text "TEST" does not appear in the copied slide. This
is because the master slide is being recognised as "equivalent" in both cases,
and the modifications in the original ODP are being dropped when the slide is
copied to the new ODP.

Expected result: perhaps it would be expected to be asked if (1) the existing
master slide used (2) the new master used to replace the old master, or (3) a
duplicate master added, so that both slides can look just as they were before.

I thought it might be possible to hack the "copy master" behaviour by tweaking
the name field in the styles.xml file embedded inside original.odp. But so far
I couldn't figure it out. How can I convince Impress to think that the master
slide in original.odp is NOT the same as the master slide in new.odp?

Copying styled slides therefore has some very strange behaviour that depends on
the exact way that the masters were created. 




If a single slide is copied from an original ODP to a new ODP, then its master
slide edited, then the slide is copied back top the original ODP, the modified
master does not overwrite the master in the original ODP.

It would appear that there is a unid UD

 its master modified, then copied back to the original  

There seem to be various issues with the support for master slides in Impress
-- certain attempts to edit text styles don't get kept, and it's all a bit
mystifying, especially when starting with PPTX templates that have been
generated in a recent Powerpoint version.

What seems to work well is creating the master slides again from scratch! But
this is very tedious, because of the current bug. Having set up the font for
titles and outline text, one cannot copy a master slide in order to create the
different 'variants' that a complete template requires.

That's the use-case for this bug -- being able to duplicate master slides makes
it much easier to develop a set of master slides with a common theme/styling.

People are trying all sorts of desperate hacks out there!
https://superuser.com/questions/1258788/how-to-copy-a-master-slide

Adding the 'duplicate' feature would be enough, in my mind, if that's easier.
Copy and paste is not necessary, since one can always copy and slide
(inheriting whatever master) instead, and that works fine between different
.odp documents.

Modifying a master by copying it to another sheet then copying it back doesn't
seem to work. It seems that there is some sort of unique identifer attached to
each master slide design... is that true? Copying

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--- Comment #30 from Hossein  ---
Re-evaluating the EasyHack in 2022

This issue is still relevant. The master slides are not copy-able in the slide
sorter.

This copy is possible in MS PowerPoint.

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--- Comment #29 from Eyal Rozenberg  ---
So, Quan, have you had time to devote to this?

Also, note I filed the related bug 149342 about duplicating masters.

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Hi, I'll work on this bug.

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Dear Nimisha,
This bug has been in ASSIGNED status for more than 3 months without any
activity. Resetting it to NEW.
Please assign it back to yourself if you're still working on this.

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the number of people in CC higher than 20

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--- Comment #23 from Cor Nouws  ---
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> Just came across this issue, really would be nice to have it fixed

(In reply to samtuke from comment #22)
> This is still high priority from my perspective

Keywords and initial description give a hint ;)

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This is still high priority from my perspective

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