Re: [office] How to calculate the start and end point of an elliptical arc from given angles.

[Thorsten Behrens <tbehrens@suse.com>]

Hi Regina,

thanks for another detailed analysis here -

you wrote:
> But the specification does not describe, how to calculate the start
> and end point. I have tested it with some applications and found,
> that actually two methods are used.
> 
> (1) Used by LibreOffice 4.0 and PowerPoint 2013 Preview
> Draw an angle with the given value (here 30deg and 315deg).
> Calculate the intersection of the leg of the angle with the full
> ellipse (here center (3000|1000) and size (6000|2000)).
> 
That at least appears to be the simplest interpretation. Also note
that those enhanced paths are more-or-less a bijection of those binary
ppt autoshape things (see also 20.1.9 in ISO 29500), and keeping that
mapping lossless and/or preventing excessive recalculation seems
desirable.

> I have no proposal, because both methods are reasonable.
> 
I wonder how wide-spread those commands are - where did you notice the
difference, I presume there is a bug report somewhere?

> (C) The applications agree in which direction they draw the arc. But
> it looks not like "clockwise", although "clockwise" is specified.
>
That looks like an easy fix then.

> (D) The applications agree use the angle direction as positive from
> positive x-axis to negative y-axis. That is against mathematical
> definition. Again a problem of insufficient angle definitions in the
> specification.
>
Seems uncontroversial to fix, too?

Kind regards,

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Thorsten Behrens

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