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Bayram Çiçek 5c8b89c3b6 starmath OOXML: keep the font color of text in a formula
Steps to reproduce:
1) Write a formula with a color command, such as color red { 1 }.
2) Save the document as DOCX and open it again.
The formula comes back at the default color, and the color command has
gone from its text.

A run is one stretch of text with a single set of formatting. In a
formula each run carries two property elements. The import already read
the math element m:rPr. The font color sits in the text element w:rPr.
The import skipped that one as an unexpected tag, and the export never
wrote it.

Read w:color on import and put a color command around the text of that
run. A color that StarMath has a name for is written with that name, so
a formula written as color red reads the same way after a round trip.
Other colors become hexadecimal digits, which the parser reads only in
upper case. A value of auto leaves the default color in place, and so
does black, which keeps ordinary formulas clean and lets the color
follow a dark document theme.

The braces of a color command hold an expression, and a run holds
whatever text the document put in it. A run of operators is written as a
literal, which is an expression and keeps the color. A run that does not
parse for any other reason keeps no color command, so the formula reads
the way it did before any color was carried over. The import never
writes command text that fails to parse.

On export, write w:color for a run whose node has a color of its own, but
only for a DOCX. A slide or a sheet never declares the w namespace, so the
color stays out of a presentation or a spreadsheet. The tree has been
arranged by then, so a surrounding color command has already reached the
leaf nodes.

The color of the lines and signs a formula draws, such as a fraction
bar, travels elsewhere and is not covered here.

Added the testMathColor and testMathObjectColorOmittedInSlide unit tests.

Signed-off-by: Bayram Çiçek <bayram.cicek@collabora.com>
Change-Id: I4207aab6a363e5f841de58e3f743d9e010609c10
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/10046
Tested-by: Jenkins CPCI <releng@collaboraoffice.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Stahl <michael.stahl@collabora.com>
(cherry picked from commit dfcc0c42df5c774f4087f425cad0af81ecea6b5e)
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/211415
Tested-by: Jenkins
Reviewed-by: Xisco Fauli <xiscofauli@libreoffice.org>
2026-09-24 13:05:07 +02:00
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LibreOffice Impress / Draw Application

The core directory for the impress/draw applications.

Think of impress as a hack on top of draw.

sd module contains impress/draw specific code, non-shared UI and part of ppt and pptx filter, few other filters too.

the slideshow UI lives here as well, the slideshow engine is in slideshow module though (including the 3D transitions engine slideshow/source/engine/opengl).

the most used filters are ODF's odp, binary ppt and OOXML's pptx. their locations are listed below:

  • odp import and export filters are in xmloff module (mostly xmloff/source/draw)

  • ppt import is in sd/source/filter/ppt (big shared chunks are also in svx)

  • ppt export is in sd/source/filter/eppt (big shared chunks are also in svx)

  • pptx import is in oox/source/ppt (and uses a lot of oox/source/drawingml and oox/source/*)

  • pptx export is in sd/source/filter/eppt (mostly in pptx-* source files) and shared part is in oox/source/export

PPTX Export / Import Filters

PPTX export filter is split into 2 parts. Impress related part is in sd/source/filter/eppt/pptx-* and the other part is in oox/source/export/ because it contains mostly code related to DrawingML, which is shared with writer and calc ooxml export.

The export filter was written in 2009 IIRC and was not much extended feature-wise lately.

Presenter Console

The main screen uses a hardware-accelerated canvas (e.g. cairo canvas), while the entire secondary screen uses a VCL-canvas that is created in sd::framework::FullScreenPane::CreateCanvas().

The secondary screen contains 3 Panes which each have 2 XWindows for the border area & the actual content, and each content Pane is backed by a sd::presenter::PresenterCanvas that wraps the FullScreenPane's canvas and does clipping.

Future Works

Add custom shapes export (see below). enhance text output, we don't write text style for indentation levels now, need to export a:lvl1pPr, a:lvl2pPr, ... elements.

PPTX import was written by Sun/Oracle and then extended in LibreOffice a lot during bug fixing. It is located in oox/source/ppt and oox/source/drawingml. The areas with most bugs (at least until today) were shape placeholders and text style inheritance.