Bug 86020

Created attachment 109117 [details]
bugdoc (PPT)

Open the attached .ppt file. In page 3, all of the character spacing information is missing. The problem here is that we don't import the expanded / condensed state. 

Running our ppt dumper tool on two variants of a minimal sample document, with and without character spacing applied in PowerPoint 2013, it is evident that the character spacing is implemented through the use of embedded OOXML in the .ppt. This is a feature of newer .ppt variants (since MSO 2007) and something that as far as I can see OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice does not support.

The ppt dumper displays for a trivial document with a "very tight" character spacing:

     ====================================================================
     [DFF_msofbtUDefProp]
     (type: F122h (61730) inst: 0001h (1), vers: 0003h, start: 86, size: 1850)
     ====================================================================

     F122h: -------------------------------------------------------------
     F122h: Zipped content:
     F122h: 
     F122h: [Content_Types].xml:
     F122h: -------------------------------------------------------------
     F122h: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
     F122h: <Types xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/content-types">
     F122h:  <Default Extension="rels"
     F122h:           ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-package.relationships+xml">
     F122h:  <Default Extension="xml" ContentType="application/xml">
     F122h:  <Override PartName="/drs/shapexml.xml"
     F122h:            ContentType="application/vnd.ms-office.DrsShape+xml">
     F122h:  <Override PartName="/drs/downrev.xml"
     F122h:            ContentType="application/vnd.ms-office.DrsDownRev+xml">
     F122h: </Types>
     F122h: -------------------------------------------------------------
     F122h: 

[...]

     F122h: drs/shapexml.xml:
     F122h: -------------------------------------------------------------
     F122h: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
     F122h: <p xmlns:p="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/presentationml/2006/main">
     F122h:  <p>
     F122h:   <p id="4" name="TextBox 3">
     F122h:   <p txBox="1">
     F122h:   <p>
     F122h:  </p>

[...]

     F122h:    <a>
     F122h:     <a kumimoji="0" lang="fi-FI" sz="1800" b="0" i="0" u="none"
     F122h:        strike="noStrike" kern="1200" cap="none" spc="-300" normalizeH="0"
     F122h:        baseline="0" noProof="0" dirty="0" smtClean="0">
     F122h:      <a>
     F122h:       <a>
     F122h:      </a>

[...]

where the spc="-300" presumably corresponds to the "very tight" character spacing. In an otherwise identical document with no character spacing applied, this whole embedded OOXML-ish record is not present.

Possibly the MS symbolic name for the 0xf122 is OfficeArtTertiaryFOPT, defined in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd950206(v=office.12).aspx , part of something called "Office Drawing Binary Format", which can be includes also in PPT, as said on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd910075(v=office.12).aspx . But I haven't been able to find any documentation for this embedded OOXML stuff.