Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 103218
Slide titles have extreme shadowing
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:11:38 UTC
Upon upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1, found that slide titles in a previous presentation have extreme shadowing. Image attached. Font is Tahoma, checked style to see that no shadowing was turned on. Tried changing font/size/shadowing but the problem persisted. This is a showstopper issue for me that makes Impress unusable until fixed.
Created attachment 63290 [details] OOO3.1BugExtremeShadowing.png
Example available in url. Since OOO 3.1 install clobbered my 3.0 version, I now have to figure out how to backtrack. :(
Go to View, Master, Slide Master. Select the title with the shadow, right-click the title, in the context menu select Area. Go to the Shadow tab, unselect the Use shadow check box. Click OK, then Close Master View.
solution works, thanks. suggestion: check the loader defaults, i did not have the shadow set on when using earlier versions of OO.
Reproducible. Reassigned.
Reopened, since there is only a workaround but not a fix.
*** Issue 105847 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I yet fail to understand what the issue is. [1] Is there a document created with a version prior to OOo 3.1 where there was no shadow and in OOo 3.1 and newer there is shadow? [2] Was there a shadow in that document but not as extreme as in OOo 3.1? If [1] is the case we need a document that shows no shadow in versions prior to OOo 3.1 and that shows a shadow in OOo 3.1 and newer. If such documents exists I can have a look at it. If [2] then the rendering of the shadow may have changed with implementation of the primitives so this is one for aw. I simply doubt that [1] is the case as this should be reported more often. If not reproducable this issue can not be fixed as of now.
Ok sorry I didn't saw the bugdoc url. I had a look at this document and the title style has a shadow enabled. Which previosly was not usefull for a title object as a title object has only text but no filling and no outline. In 3.1 we added a new drawing layer that had many enhancements. One was that now text is also included in a shapes shadow (which makes perfectly sense). Unfortunatly the core guys didn't thought about the implecations when loading old documents. Maybe whe should introduce a new xml flag and fix this when importing document created with versions before OOo 3.1. But this actually should hit only a minority of users which had shadow set to shapes with text and without filling (if the shape has a filling the text shadow is not seen).
changing target as this has a workaround and should only happen to a few users. Correct fix needs a file format change.
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".