Comment 1 Xiaodan Wang 2007-04-23 23:18:38 EDT

Created attachment 64672 [details]
design file

Comment 2 Xiaodan Wang 2007-04-23 23:18:58 EDT

Created attachment 64673 [details]
screenshot

Comment 3 Hongchang Lin 2007-06-05 01:52:19 EDT

*** Bug 190121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Hongchang Lin 2007-06-14 01:20:16 EDT

Bug 183701, bug 183716, bug 192570 all about the text rendering in PPT format. Schedule to 2.2.1 to handle.

Comment 5 Jun Ouyang 2007-07-10 04:06:27 EDT

*** Bug 192125 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Jun Ouyang 2007-07-10 04:06:27 EDT

*** Bug 193377 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Jun Ouyang 2007-07-16 03:47:00 EDT

Clipping doesn't support in PPT.

Comment 8 Jun Ouyang 2007-07-23 02:50:16 EDT

If we use pdf layout to render ppt, this bug can't be fixed. We should provide another special layout manager for ppt.

Comment 9 Jun Ouyang 2007-09-09 23:04:04 EDT

*** Bug 202056 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Wei Yan 2007-10-22 03:47:49 EDT

Need supporting of clipping in PPT API.

Comment 11 Wei Yan 2008-06-09 23:02:37 EDT

defer to future to see if we can resolved it in Open office xml version.

Comment 12 Gang Liu 2009-03-19 03:56:39 EDT

*** Bug 269301 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Steven Cheung 2010-03-25 23:01:40 EDT

We have tested on Build: I2020319-1449 on Win7 in TChinese and Turkish, the overlap still exist. Please see screenshot.

Comment 14 Steven Cheung 2010-03-25 23:02:20 EDT

Created attachment 163056 [details]
TChinese on Win7

Comment 15 Steven Cheung 2010-03-25 23:03:04 EDT

Created attachment 163057 [details]
Turkish on Win7

Comment 16 Steven Cheung 2010-03-30 06:04:31 EDT

Hi,

Could any one give us an update?

Many thanks

Comment 17 Wenfeng Li 2010-03-30 14:33:27 EDT

(In reply to comment #16)
> Hi,
> Could any one give us an update?
> Many thanks

To fix this bug, we need clipping support in ppt.

Comment 18 JingwenShen 2010-03-30 22:34:17 EDT

*** Bug 307331 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19 Steven Cheung 2010-04-05 22:19:16 EDT

(In reply to comment #17)
> (In reply to comment #16)
> > Hi,
> > Could any one give us an update?
> > Many thanks
> 
> To fix this bug, we need clipping support in ppt.

Hi, does this mean this is a limitation of a 3rd party tool?  Could you help confirm this?

If not, could you help confirm whether this will be fixed?

Many thanks.

- Steven.

Comment 20 Steven Cheung 2010-04-06 01:42:18 EDT

Hi JingWen, in bug 307331, you mentioned that the work-around is to re-size.  We tried to do this, and it is painstakingly difficult.  This is because when the file is opened in ppt, the table which is shown in the ppt file are actually made up of individual vertical/horizontal drawing lines.  Therefore, resizing the columns is quite an difficult task for the end user, as it would mean moving lines physically for all columns, which renders the exported report as not very useful for editing.

If this can be fixed or made better, it would be great.  Please let us know your thoughts.  Thanks.

- Steven.

Comment 21 Steven Cheung 2010-04-12 03:24:52 EDT

Response from Cheng-Yee Lin via Email: -


Yes, as Wenfeng (the PMC lead for BIRT) mentioned in his comment (Comment 17), the Microsoft PPT (PowerPoint) does not provide adequate API for resizing the comments programmatically, so when BIRT generates the PPT report, it has no way to do proper resizing.  It would require Microsoft to provide proper API for resolving this issue.

Thanks,
-- Cheng-Yee

Looks to be a 3rd party issue for PPT.

Has a request been made to the 3rd party developer for this function?  If so, please could you kindly provide a reference number here for tracking purposes.

Thanks.

- Steven.