https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90490
--- Comment #18 from Yousuf (Jay) Philips <philip...@hotmail.com> --- (In reply to Gerry from comment #17) > Hi Jay, Hi Gerry, > the styles system in LibreOffice is really powerful (and outstanding > compared to MS Office), but has not really been improved in recent years (it > lacks picture styles, document styles, colour sets, table styles and chart > styles). Yes LO's styling system isnt optimal at the moment, but progress is being made with document styles (bug 90497) and i'm hopeful that table styles will soon come after that. Not sure what picture styles are, so you'll have to enlighten me on that. > With regard to chart styles, there are existing synergies with character, > paragraph and frame styles, e.g. for chart headings, sub-headings, axis > descriptions, legend, legend frames, chart frames, etc. It would be a pity > if that is being duplicated. Presently LO's chart system is a completely independent module and doesnt support character, paragraph, or cell styles, only direct formatting. > Also, a predefined set of colours is something which has synergies beyond > charts, because it should be also possible to have the same default colours > sets for drawings as for charts (when color sets will exist). Yes this is hoped for with the work going on with document theming (bug 90497). > I understand that the chart edit mode might make it difficult (impossible?) > to implement it with the existing styles system. But it would be also a > pity, if LibreOffice makes with table styles, color sets and chart styles > the same mistake like with "auto-formats" for Writer tables. This system was > 100% not integrated in the styles system. Not even the logic behind... I believe that once document theming is implemented, that there would likely be a means of giving the chart edit mode access to the document theming in the file that the chart is placed in. Yes its unfortunate that LO hasnt implemented table styles and more worrying that it doesnt support importing ODF table styles (bug 94076). Looking at Writer's Autoformats dialog, it seems to be copied from WordPerfect. You can read details i've been collecting about table styles here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zOsEe_cj-VnFyuPZcld4-WPjwmdsfsaHuOO8e2dfhU0/edit?usp=sharing > Thanks for every progress on chart styles (and others like table styles)! Glad i could move the needle forward. > I think it would be great if the system would allow to "switch" a chart from > one chart style with one click to another chart style. Imaging if you have a > publication with dozens of charts for an online publication in color and > then for the print publication in greyscale. At the moment, this takes ages > to reformat those charts in LO. Yes i'm hopeful that it can be achieved in the future, though presently there isnt any developer who has committed to do it, but atleast we can get things as ready as possible so that it can be implemented or possibly be a GSoC project. Please do give my chart styles document a read when you get a chance, as i have just completed it, with samples. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZ2JchTHZ0_o4CZwMNB-xVqIKJVomrnSw8LetfX-uZ8/edit?usp=sharing -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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