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  2. CONFSERVER-36681

Office Powerpoint Macro Formatting Issues

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      The following issues pertain to the use of the confluence plugin that inserts an interactive Microsoft Powerpoint presentation into the page.

      1) Numbered lists
      Numbered lists in powerpoint appear as bullets when embedded in the page.

      2) Font Resizing
      Font size is enlarged from original. This causes text to appear in a different location when compared to say a background template image and can cause text to wrap onto multiple lines, when it originally displays within the same line. The text wrapping contributes to the phenomenon where lines of text are cut off and not displayed when the presentation is embedded in the page.

      Note: I spot checked a handful of font faces (including the default theme fonts) and sizes varying from 12 to 32 and the font size was enlarged regardless of my selection.

      3) Dimensions
      Unless you either a) set the powerpoint page setup to use a custom width of 10 inches and a height of 8 inches or b) explicitly set the macro properties for height and width accordingly, the embedded image will be resized with different ratio dimensions, resulting in grey matting above, below, to the left, and or to the right of your presentation. This may also exacerbate the cropping issue where partial text appears on the screen.

      Note: Why hard code the macro to change the default ratio of the presentation versus preserving the ratio? If a default ratio must be set and not at 100% by 100%, then consider the fact that Microsoft defaults the on screen ratio of 4:3 to 10 by 7.5 inches.

      4) Fullscreen Cropping
      Switching to the fullscreen mode crops additional portions of the text that would otherwise appear.

      See attached for an example powerpoint and resulting screenshots that exhibits these issues.

      Note: The second issue is similar to https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28606, but I wasn't sure if we were reporting the same issue or even talking about the same macro.

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        5. Test PPT.key
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        6. TestResizeIssue.pptx
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