Bug 154301

Summary:	No UI to add blur to shadow
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	buzea.bogdan, fitojb, gdp77, stephane.guillou, xordevoreaux
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1.0.3 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48722 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154300 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85463
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Bug Blocks:	113209

Description Mike Kaganski 2023-03-21 07:19:19 UTC

In bug 48722, blur had been implemented for shadows (v.7.1), and Draw/Impress have an UI to set it up.

But the UI is absent in Writer. This is not only a consistency issue: while one can create such an effect in Draw, copying such an object and pasting in to Writer does not offer the same end effect (see bug 154300: particularly, the pasted object with the blurred shadow would arrive as a Drawing object, and would not allow assigning frame styles).

Comment 1 xordevoreaux 2023-03-21 12:45:18 UTC

Using

Version: 7.5.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: fcbaee479e84c6cd81291587d2ee68cba099e129
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

I drew a circle in Draw, added a shadow, gave it a 6pt shadow with a 5pt blur, copied & pasted the circle into Writer, and did not see a way to modify the blur / shadow from writer's property sidebar.

While properties for the object are exposed for shadow & blur under
Format --> Text Box and Shape --> Shadow, those properties don't match the values that I set in Draw.

Instead, they show use shadow checked, color  gray 0% (correct), a blur value of 3 points instead of the draw's 5 points, and a distance expressed as inches in a scrollbar rather than as 6 points as I selected in Draw.

I can confirm there is no exposure in the UI at all via the sidebar for an object pasted from draw for Shadow / Blur, and that the values found under Format/Text Box and Shape/Shadow for the object I pasted don't match the original values I selected in Draw. 

So something's definitely amiss.

Comment 2 BogdanB 2023-04-12 16:11:43 UTC

In Writer, if you insert a shape, right click - Area - Shadow - we have here Blur.

Comment 3 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-10-30 19:18:55 UTC

(In reply to BogdanB from comment #2)
> In Writer, if you insert a shape, right click - Area - Shadow - we have here
> Blur.
That's correct, drawing objects have it.
But not available for e.g. Paragraphs or Images.

Mike, is the same code used for paragraphs and image shadows? In that case, I think this can be marked as a duplicate of bug 148177.

Comment 4 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-10-30 19:32:05 UTC

*** Bug 157962 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***