Soft edge effect on objects in LibreOffice

After implementing glow effect recently, we at Collabora Productivity also implemented soft edge effect for objects in Draw and Impress. And again, that was done thanks to SUSE who made it possible.

The relevant bug report‘s duplicate contains a sample that I use here for illustration. First, take a look at how it was before:

How it was in LibreOffice 6.4

Now let’s see what it looks like now:

How it looks in LibreOffice 7.0

And finally here is the reference look of the slide:

Reference

This will be available in the upcoming LibreOffice 7.0.