Created attachment 55747 Test .ppt and mangled result 1. mangle.ppt is the original drawing created in PPT 2003 2. open mangle.ppt in LOImpress 3.5.0b2 3. add one word to the slide, outside the diagram 4. save as mangle2.ppt 5. exit LOImpress 6. Open mangle2.ppt in LOImpress or PPT 2003
Result: some of the text which was originally horizontal has rotated to vertical. 3.4.4 release does exactly the same thing. I just went through a .ppt file I had been using to import .pdf (as a way of converting SVG drawings) which had been repeatedly opened in LOImpress 3.4.4. There were numerous examples of mangled diagrams, mostly text originally rotated by 90 degrees now at -90 degrees, and a few cases where the rotation was completely lost (not shown). Some of them were really awful, with text drawn mirrored, possibly the result of multiple cycles of .ppt open/save in LOImpress. (I have not yet reproduced that problem.) Conclusion: it is unsafe to open a .ppt drawing in LOImpress and save it again in that same format. The only safe way to convert (from PDF) through LO is to create a fresh .ppt for each diagram imported and then later move the contents of that .ppt into the main .ppt within Microsoft PowerPoint. The "easy" method, doing that conversion in the complete .ppt opened in LOImpress, results in earlier slides being mangled by later .ppt saves. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505188 Title: [Upstream] Impress mis-rotates text saving to .pptx Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: In Progress Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org Ubuntu-Karmic Openoffice version (3.1.1 = 310m19) 64bits & 32bits Binary package hint: libreoffice 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu natty (development branch) Release: 11.04 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-impress libreoffice-impress: Installed: 1:3.3.1-1ubuntu4 Candidate: 1:3.3.1-1ubuntu4 Version table: *** 1:3.3.1-1ubuntu4 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) What is expected to happen is when one performs at the Terminal: cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/505188/+attachment/1868399/+files/rotations.odp && loimpress -nologo rotations.odp click File -> Save as -> File type: Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 XML (.pptx) -> Save button -> Keep format button -> close file -> reopen via the Terminal: loimpress -nologo rotations.pptx the text is displayed as it was in rotations.odp. 4) What happens instead is that the text in rotations.pptx have been rotated erroneously. Unconfirmed OOo WORKAROUND: OOo from openoffice.org (version 3.1 and 3.2) ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Jan 9 17:21:15 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: openoffice.org-impress 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic SourcePackage: openoffice.org Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686 XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1489): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/505188/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
