<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hello everyone!</div><div><br></div><div>I have recently joined the comms team in London as a Graphic Designer and have been tasked with updating the slideshow presentations for the company. I was hoping someone out there may be able to shed some light on some problems I have been encountering while trying to build slides in Libre Office, as detailed below. I am building these slides as brand-compliant templates for others to use so would like, in turn, to be able to advise them on how to overcome such issues.</div><div><br></div><div>It is probably worth mentioning that I am using Libre Office in Mac OS as my machine doesn't seem to get along too well with Ubuntu :-(</div><div><br></div><div>Here we go...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Image quality</b></div><div><br></div><div>Poor image quality when placing images, such as the pictograms, into Libre Office. Images seem to degrade further when the slides are displayed (jaggedy edges or fuzzy). I have tried various formats to no avail – vector images seem to disappear from the file leaving nothing but an empty picture box and jpegs/pngs etc. all suffer the fuzzy or jaggedy effect. (see screenshot of a png below)</div><div><img id="098c3dec-3ddd-49ca-add5-22e8cc033e69" height="101" width="91" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:8FAD8579-E940-4BE6-88F6-661403A0F8CC@millbank"></div><div><br></div><div><b>Consistency when cropping images</b></div><div><br></div><div>I'm having problems cropping images of various size so they all match – is there a way to specify a crop area for all such images without stretching/squashing them, such as placing into picture boxes of a specific size, instead of trying to crop each image individually?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Text formatting</b></div><div><br></div><div>When copying and pasting text from one text box to another, the formatting disappears/defaults. This is a particular problem with text that contains bullet points – bullet points appear where I had none and disappear from where I did, they also change colour! It also sometimes happens when dragging slides from one presentation to another. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Those are the main ones – if anyone knows how to get round any of them I would be really grateful! </div><div><br></div><div>Have a lovely day :-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Emily</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><b>Emily Maher</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; ">Graphic designer</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; display: inline !important; ">Communications team</div></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; display: inline !important; ">Canonical UK ltd</div></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><a href="mailto:emily.maher@canonical.com">emily.maher@canonical.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><irc>emily</div><div><br></div></span></div></div></body></html>