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		<title>Importing list indentation from legacy PowerPoint (ppt) format</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>We had reports about PowerPoint files (ppt binary format) not having list indentation correctly imported. After some debugging it turned out we are importing all properties from the ppt format correctly &#8211; but at some point Microsoft decided to put something in the ppt file named `metroBlob`. Each shape has such a `metroBlob` which contains [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/importing-list-indentation-from-legacy-powerpoint-ppt-format/">Importing list indentation from legacy PowerPoint (ppt) format</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.collaboraonline.com/">Collabora Online and Collabora Office</a>.</p>
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									<p class="western">We had reports about PowerPoint files (ppt binary format) not having list indentation correctly imported.</p><p class="western">After some debugging it turned out we are importing all properties from the ppt format correctly &#8211; but at some point Microsoft decided to put something in the ppt file named `metroBlob`.</p><p class="western">Each shape has such a `metroBlob` which contains basically an OOXML representation of that shape. They did this to write newer PowerPoint features to the legacy format.</p><p class="western">So to properly import ppt files that have been written with a newer version of PowerPoint, we need to import that too and read the `marL` (margin left) and `indent` properties from there which was done with <a href="https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/202418">this fix</a>. </p>								</div>
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									Some subtle differences remain in certain corner cases – that comes from different concepts how hanging indent is represented in Impress and PowerPoint – but we are much closer to the PowerPoint Layout now.								</div>
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		<p>The post <a href="https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/importing-list-indentation-from-legacy-powerpoint-ppt-format/">Importing list indentation from legacy PowerPoint (ppt) format</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.collaboraonline.com/">Collabora Online and Collabora Office</a>.</p>
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