https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163239
Bug ID: 163239
Summary: Impress: allow customized placeholder text in master
slides
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Keywords: filter:pptx
Severity: enhancement
Priority: low
Component: Impress
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Created attachment 196828
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custom placeholder text.pptx: created in PowerPoint 2010
A master slide can contain placeholder textboxes - which contain strings that
are not seen in a slideshow, nor are printed. In MS PowerPoint this text can be
customized to say whatever you want, but in LO these are uneditable,
pre-defined strings (like STR_PRESOBJ_TITLE", "Click to add Title" or
STR_PRESOBJ_MPTITLE", "Click to edit the title text format")
For a long time (at least since LO 5.3) LO has displayed MSO's custom text in
the master page view. However, that custom placeholder text has never been
displayed on the slide layout. Instead, SdPage::GetPresObjText() just uses the
STR_PRESOBJ_* strings. [LO crashes in old versions when I try to look at the
master slide, so I don't know when support for custom placeholder text
started.]
AFAICS, while ODF allows importing/exporting these customized strings, there is
no way in the UI to create or modify them.
PPTX indicates customized placeholders with: <p:ph ... hasCustomPrompt="1"/>
Steps to reproduce:
1.) Open custom placeholder text.pptx. (Note two empty slides. The first slide
has a title box with "Click to add Title" instead of "Custom Title 1")
2.) Switch to master slide view (View - Master Slide). (Note the title is
"Custom Title 1" as expected).
Now to be honest, I'm not sure it is a good idea to do what this bug report is
requesting. My reasoning relates to how confused the user will likely be when
that customized text is NOT displayed during the slideshow. Much better is our
consistent, action-oriented strings which instruct the user to fill in the
desired content.
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