Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 93699
Impress unreasonably limits the position of images
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:08:20 UTC
When importing presentations from Powerpoints, I run into a problem with some particular presentations that use large scanned images that are placed in such a way that most of the image is off the 'page'. Clearly in Powerpoint, this is not a problem, and images are allows to be wherever the user likes. However, in Impress, there seems to be a hard limit on the distance by which an image can be allowed to 'jutt out' off the top or bottom of the page. This hard limit results in incorrectly imported Powerpoint documents. For example, a page containing a table scanned from a textbook combined with a red circle to indicate the necessary information can be imported incorrected, with the scanned image moved to an 'acceptable' position during the import process, with the result that the red circle no longer is positioned over the text of interest. The hard limit on the placement of objects should be relaxed in so way, so that importing of powerpoints of this type is not broken.
*** Issue 93700 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Please attach a sample document for reproducing.
OK, so it's a bit more complex that I first thought. 1. Open existing powerpoint file using OpenOffice 2.4.1 on Ubuntu Hardy. 2. Create a new document using the attached lecture template 3. Copy all range of pages from the imported powerpoint into the new OOo document 4. Observe that object positions have been messed up. It seems to be a problem with the copy and paste function, rather than the import function. I will attach the lecture template, but can I please send the original PPT document to you confidentially/privately? Please let me know an email address. Cheers JP
Created attachment 56373 [details] open office template into which import powerpoints are pasted
My mailadress is wg@openoffice.org.
Did you send any file yet?
Yes, I sent it to you on 10 Sept 19:43 AEST.
Reproducible. Reassigned.
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