Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 94516
preview problem with slides in page format A4
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:11:05 UTC
I generated a new presentation. Formatting the page with A4 gives for some slides no preview (on the left), but only a blank or coloured page. If I choose screen as format for the pages, the contents of the slides appear in the preview.
Does it help to resize the slide pane (-> slide previews on the left). If possible it would be helpful if the file could be attached. Thanks.
Resizing of the slide pane helped. I first increased the size with no effect, but decreasing the size suddenly made the contents appear. I will upload the file.
Created attachment 56955 [details] file showing the defect
Created attachment 56957 [details] screenshot with non-visible first slide
I added a screenshot with the non-visible first slide. However, this now only happens at a very specific slide pane width. The initial behaviour does interestingly not show up when I reopen the file after resizing the slide pane and having the contents appearing there.
I was not able to reproduce exactly the same problem with the A4 size not displaying the first slide however I performed the following steps and made the following observations of similar behaviour. Using the same presentation file but Windows XP SP 2 (OOO300m8 Build 9357) 1. Open the file by clicking on the document. 2. Select Format> Page> 3. Change the Page size to A0 and click OK 4. The preveiw pane shows only 2 slides and text for Slide 6 (as shown in the attachment) 5. If you move the slider for the preview pane, the outlines of the remaining slides start to appear and if you resize it, all of the slides appear normally in the preview pane. 6. Once the slider has been resized, the behaviour is again normal with all slides being visible in the preview pane. 7. To recreate the problem you have to close Impress and then restart by opening the file and following the steps as outlined above. By simply resizing the slider and reopening the file, there was no difference – I had to change the page size. The following Page formats were also attempted with the following observations: 1. A1 shows the preview of 3 slides 2. A2 shows the preview of 4 slides 3. A3 shows the preview of 5 slides 4. A5 has all 6 slides visible I also tried other presentation documents with multiple slides and experienced similar behaviour. In Powerpoint 2007, I was not able to reproduce the problem. The preview pane showed all of the slides. Other than moving the preview pane slider, there is one more action which will display all slides normally. Following are the steps. 1. Open any Impress file by double clicking on the file. (Let’s say “File1â€) 2. Open another impress file from the menu “File > Open†(Let’s Say “File 2â€) 3. In the opened file “File 2â€, change the Page size to A0 and click ‘OK’ – The problem is reproduced. 4. Press “Alt +Tab†from the keyboard -> Impress file “File 1†is displayed. 5. Press “Alt+Tab†again from the keyboard -> “File 2†is displayed but the problem has disappeared.
Created attachment 57002 [details] screenshot of 2 slides visible for A0
Reproducible. Reassigned.
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