On 23 Sep 2008 at 16:52, Michele wrote: > 2008/9/22 mike scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > An oddity here, causing problems. > > > > I've made a slide show with maybe a dozen slides so far. I set a > > common background picture (from a png file) by R-clicking on a slide, > > picking 'slide | set background picture, and then saying yes on the > > 'for all slides?' dialogue box. So far, so good. > > > > Saved and reopened the presentation. > > > > Now, the background is gone. Just plain white left. So.... pick a ...
> > > No idea about what is going on unfortunately, but you may want to use a > safer way, i.e. modify the slide master. > View > Master > Slide Master > > The easy way: > Insert > Picture > from file > then while the image is selected right click and in the context menu > Arrange > Send to back > > The hard way > Format > Area > Bitmap page, then press Import and import your image > Format > Page > Background page > Select Bitmap as gradient and click on the imported image. > > The advantage of the "hard way" is that you can control the image a bit > better. Thanks - I've already made use of the "easy way", quite adequate in this case. > > All this and more on the OOoAuthors user guide ;-) Hmmm. I'm not sure that mentions bugs :-) Page 288 (in my copy of the users_guide2_draft) seems the relevant page. I'm not entirely convinced by the quality of Impress, I must say. This is only the second time I've really done anything serious with it; both times I've been bitten by nasty bugs - the above; text disappearing after a transition; characters shuffling sideways after appearing on screen; jerkiness in transitions; menu problems. Some one can live with or work around (like this one), some are killers (eg missing text). I'm hoping v3 will show some improvements! -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
