Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 109871
Slide formatting not backwards compatible
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:11:51 UTC
I have several presentations recently created in Openoffice Impress 2.x and saved in standard odp format. When I open these in Oo Impress 3.1, the formatting on many of my slides is changed, with, for example, text being shifted relative to graphics on various slides, and text boxes that previously fit fine on a slide now being too large. It is difficult to know exactly what is causing the problem (could it be something as simple as a change in the default page size?) It is really frustrating that a presentation created in a recent version of Impress and saved in the standard OO format would fail to open in exactly the same way in a newer version (and dealing with this on a slide-by-slide basis will be a ton of work). Backwards compatibility should surely be one of the most important things to ensure? In any case, is this a known issue? Is there a work around? Could it be fixed permanenently? THanks! Christian PS: I would be happy to provide a sample slide whose format is altered along with a saved PDF version of what the same slide looked like in 2.x.
Created attachment 68181 [details] 3 files in this archive: (i) screenshot of pdf file the way the presentation looked in v2; (ii) screenshot of the way it looks for me in v3; (iii) slide of the presentation itself in odp format (re-saved under v3)
Please have a look on the plattform and the OS in your issue and change them to the correct ones.
Reproducible also in 3.2. Reassigned.
I am just wondering if I can expect a resolution to this issue on a time-scale (days to weeks at most) that is relevant to me. Thanks! Christian
Christian, can you please attach the original document from 2.x that was never saved with a 3.x?
Created attachment 68393 [details] As requested, here is the odp file produced with version 2 (please note that I can't guarantee it is *exactly* identical, since this is just the most recent, pre-v3.x, snapshot I have. I may have slightly edited the file in the interim...
thanks. so this file was saved with an OOo 2.4 wich is latest&greatest 2.x. Opening the document in OOo 2.4 and OOo 3.3 (m74) gives the same result but not the correct one, the formulars are all a little of. But what is rendered is mainly what is saved in the ODF. So this document must have got broken before. Christian, have you edited this document using 2.x and 3.x versions before? If not than I suspect the document got broken between 2.3 and 2.4/OOo 3.x as that was the point where we fixed the bullet issues in OOo where Impress/Draw had an issue using OOo text lists correctly. Maybe I can find some time next week to have a deeper look but I advise to repair the document and stick with the latest 3.x version.
Thanks for the quick reply. The document I just sent earlier definitely hadn't been touched with 3.x. Whether it was created/saved under 2.4 or only earlier versions... I have to admit I'm not sure. It was whatever version came bundled with Ubuntu 8.10. ... which is also relevant cause I've only recently discovered that the Ubuntu bundled Oo is not the standard one. For example, one issue that I thought was related to the upgrade to 3.x -- the fact that I was getting weird squashed fonts, especially in things like subscripts -- turned out to be related to problems only with the Ubuntu version. I have now reinstalled OO 3.2 directly from the openoffice website myself (after uninstalling the bundled version) and that particular issue seems to have gone away. The other problems with formatting seem to still be there, however. For what it's worth, I am currently suspecting that the problem may be linked to the paragraph spacing. In my slides, I often used things like proportional inter-paragraph spacing set to 90%. I noticed that, for the most part, I can "fix" the bad formatting I get under 3.x by adjusting the proportional paragraph spacing to a suitable percentage. It's tedious, but I have started to follow your advice and convert my documents. C.
@lazygun37: to add another data point here - your second document loads perfectly on my box, in a 3.2 with roughly the same set of modifications that the Ubuntu version has - did not yet try a 3.1, though. This _sounds_ like a font replacement problem, FreeSans may be matched differently in different versions, due to varying levels of platform integration - e.g. the modified OOo versions tend to use more system libraries, and better cairo integration. Anyways, the way these slides are formatted is very sensitive to font size changes, something Impress (somewhat better than Writer) is not really able to abstract away. Any other changes on your machine, except the OOo upgrade? Is FreeSans available ("fc-list | grep FreeSans")?
@thb: that's interesting! Here is what I get for FreeSans christian@astrolap13~ > fc-list | grep FreeSans FreeSans:style=Medium,obyčejné,Mittel,µεσαία,Normal,Medio,Gemiddeld,odmiana zwykła,Обычный,navadno,Vừa FreeSans:style=Oblique,ležeče FreeSans:style=Bold,polkrepko FreeSans:style=BoldOblique,polkrepko ležeče I assume this is OK? As noted previously, I have (some) of these formatting problems regardless of whether I use the Ubuntu-bundled version or the standard vanilla flavour. Is there a way of forcing the fonts to be the same as in previous versions (either in Ubuntu or OO specifically)? Thanks!
@lazygun37: drats, yeah, that's exactly the font list I see here, too.
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