Actual rendering of WedgeRectCallout is different from definition in preset

Regina Henschel 151

Hi all,

Draw a WedgeRectCallout in PowerPoint and drag the handle to inside the rectangle. You see a full rectangle. Save the presentation.
Open the package and exchange the prstGeom with the corresponding custGeom from presetShapeDefinitions.xml from the OOXML standard. Open the changed file in PowerPoint. You see a notch in the rectangle.

Hung-Chun Yu 976 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-07-15T15:36:36.327+00:00

Hi @Regina Henschel

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Open Specifications Support.
I will be helping you look into this issue. Stay tuned.

Hung-Chun Yu
Microsoft Open Specifications Support
Hung-Chun Yu 976 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-07-15T15:39:34.147+00:00

Hi @Regina Henschel

Could you share the PPTX file in question and screenshot of the issue as well?

Hung-Chun Yu
Microsoft Open Specifications Support
Regina Henschel 151 Reputation points

2022-07-15T23:37:01.397+00:00

Hi @Hung-Chun Yu ,

The red shape is the shape with custGeom, the gray shape in the middle has prstGeom, the right object is a screenshot of the gray shape in edit mode. I have sent the document itself to dochelp@microsoft.com.

Such shape with a handle inside the rectangle is not a user error but such shape is part of SmartArt "Interconnected Block Process".
Doaa Abd El Kader 31 Reputation points

2022-07-15T23:48:31.303+00:00

good cours
Hung-Chun Yu 976 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-07-16T00:02:09.8+00:00

Hi @Regina Henschel

Filed received. I will attach it to the case. Thank you very much

Hung-Chun Yu
Microsoft Open Specifications Support

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Todd 76 Reputation points

2022-07-27T01:47:00.22+00:00

Hi Regina,
This is a documented bug. Not sure when the fix will arrive in presetShapeDefinitions.xml, but the fix is in the Word docx attachment on https://mailman.vse.cz/pipermail/sc34wg4/2018-November/004555.html. There are fixes for circularArrow, wedgeRectCallout, wedgeRoundRectCallout, and wedgeEllipseCallout in that document.

Todd
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Hung-Chun Yu 976 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-07-27T16:52:13.207+00:00

Hi @Regina Henschel

Let me know if this answered your question?

Hi @Todd

That is awesome. I will share the finding with Product Group. I will provide an update to this post, once the document is updated,

Hung-Chun Yu
Microsoft Open Specifications Support

Regina Henschel 151 Reputation points

2022-07-30T14:18:53.313+00:00

Hi @ HungChunYu-3579,
this answered my question.

Hi @Todd ,
thank you for the link to the document. The proposed changes to wedgeRectCallout work for me. I know, there exists some more corrections to the presetShapeDefinitions.xml. Could you bring a corrected version of the file to ISO? Shouldn't that be possible without the full process needed for a new version of the standard?

Todd 76 Reputation points

2022-07-30T14:55:43.153+00:00

@Regina Henschel , good to hear this worked for you.

Regarding other changes to the standard, I'm just a developer like you, so I don't have any ability to influence how updates/changes to the standard get published.

There used to be something called the OpenXML Implementation Guide which listed out clarifications and bug fixes that seemed to have been updated on a more regular basis. It's got a different name now, I don't remember what it is, but it is super useful.
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