Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 23884
PowerPoint import problems
Last modified: 2004-06-04 10:51:08 UTC
A recent PPT presentation of mine exposes a large number of import filter problems when imported into the latest stable build of OOo (1.1.0). Virtually all of these are verified to exist on Win2K, Mac OSX (under Apple X11), and Linux (under XFree86 4.3.0). I have cut out all the slides that import correctly from the original PPT file, and documented the errors in the remaining slides as specifically as possible. I will try to attach the PPT file and my notes (plain text) to this issue as soon as I submit it. -H
Created attachment 12116 [details] 30 PPT slides that cause problems for the OOo 1.1.0 import filter
Created attachment 12117 [details] Slide-by-slide descriptions of import problems relative to original PPT document
Reassigned to Christian.
The reference to "slide 38" in the comments on slide 15 should actually refer to "slide 16" instead (sorry about that...). -H
Comment regarding slide 5 is moot. The problem is in the original presentation as well.
Just noticed I forgot to mention an important pre-requisite regarding the math equations throughout the presentation. Either Mathtype or MS Equation Editor *must* be installed on the machine running Powerpoint in order to render the equations correctly. Otherwise it will be difficult to compare what they should look like with how OO renders them.
I can see the bug and the description file is very good. Please have a look.
Not sure if this is directly relevant to the importer, but importing from the original PPT and then doing a Save As... in the same PPT format (Win2000/Me/XP), without any modifications whatsoever, results in a file that looks just as bad when opened up in PPT. Thus the exporter seems to faithfully reproduce the problems introduced in the importing process, as described above.
SJ->CGU: Can you please breakdown this issue into single tasks, so we can prioritise each defect on his own. And please keep in mind that many defects are already double to existing bugs. Please also hand out the bugs to the corresponding developer, I am not responsible for every bug that is listed, e.g. there are some new impress features mentioned which are more adequate to be sent to the user experience team or project owner. Thanks, Sven
Sorry for the long delay. Please write only one issue for each bug in future. Some of the bugs are fixed in the latest 'Snapshot Developer Release'. Other are already known and written in issues or q_pcds. I will investigate the list and will have a look which bugs are already handeled. I write new issues for the bugs which are not handeled jet.
heywood->cgu: Sorry to lump all of these together -- this was the first bug report I filed with OOo. At the time, it seemed more efficient to do it this way because I could attach a single document that displayed all the bugs in one place. Will try my best to file individual bug reports in the future. In the meantime, let me know if there are any fixes for these bugs in 680_m34 that need testing on Win or Lin. I'd been looking at the changelogs for the past few snapshots and it always seemed like many of the fixes were for the word processor component, with only a few for presentation, so I haven't been testing the snapshots so far. (I didn't understand the Q-PCD designation until just now.) Cheers, H
First of all the fixed and the known bugs: - Wrong size of 'graphics' and bounding boxes (slide 1, 3, 8, 9) is fixed. - Arrows look different (slide 1) issue 166 - different or wrong animation (slide 3, 5, 8, 9, 23, 25, 27) issue 20477 - wrong path of the connectors (slide 29) internal bug 110364
Verified graphics/bounding box fix looks good on Linux. Only weird thing is that when the PPT is first opened on 680_m34, the planet earth on the slide 1 is very, very small -- but paging ahead one slide and then back causes it to be drawn at the correct size. However, this only seems to happen if I close the "Preview" window before it renders the first slide. Bullets, text, and formulas being drawn black instead of white (slides 1, 6, 10, 12-18, 24, and 26) *may* be related to issue 28252, but it doesn't look quite the same. New(?) bug: The JPEGs on slide 6 look fine in OOo 1.1.1, but on 680_m34 they disappear. May be related to issue 22235, but that was marked fixed as of 1.1.1. Also may be related to issue 24519, but the last comment there says it was cleared up in 1.1.1rc -- so perhaps this is new (or re-broken)?
I wrote some issues on Friday for the bugs which are not fixed and not known. Unfortunately I had not enough time to write the issue IDs in this issue. the issues are: Bullets have wrong color - issue 28259 OLE looks different - issue 28265 wrong z-order (white boxes in front of graphics) - issue 28269 Math objects are black - issue 28270 Bounding boxes are too small - issue 28282 And I wrote 2 Feature tasks: Hatchings (Patterns) in lines - issue 28283 Dottet lines need squared and round dots. - issue 28284 The missing OLE-Server on Slide 18 is not a bug. You need the MS-aplication as OLE-server. If there is no OLE server (No MS Office) you get the OLE-Error. To convert the OLEs in OOo OLEs while loading you must select the options below [L] in 'Tools , Options , Load/Save , Microsoft Office' Slide 5: I don't know if the pos of the object is wrong or the Line spacing of the text. I examine it and write an issue when I know the bug. I can't reproduce the bugs on slide 18 (Double click ) and on slide 20.
heywood->cgu: thanks for all your hard work writing the individual issues. will have a look at slides 5, 18, and 20 and post follow-up(s) if necessary. cheers, H
I think all bugs are handeld therefore I close this issue as invalid.
I close the issue