On 10/19/2008 03:39 AM, Stefan Gradmann wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am not sure whether this is the right place to post this message -  
> but I need some help urgently. So here we go:
> 
> I am a long time user of OOo and not only use the software for my own  
> purposes wherever possible but also try to spread the message about  
> the numerous virtues of this wonderful application suite as well as of  
> the importance of having a non proprietary, open document format among  
> my students (Library and Information Science) and colleagues in  
> universities and several EC funded projects.
> 
> To my embarrassment I now feel that there may be a serious bug still  
> present in the recently released version of OOo Impress, since I am  
> loosing parts of the formatting information of any presentation file  
> saved in impress 3.0: basically, numbering and bulleting formats  
> either vanish completely or get partially distorted.
> 
> I could provide examples of such distorted presentations if these are  
> needed - and I now hope for a quick answer: I would indeed be happy to  
> be told that I got something wrong, but for the time being i simply  
> have a problem.

I can verify the issue that Stephan is experiencing; he sent me sample
OOo 3.0 Impress files with bullets & indentations. I opened the files in
OOo 3.0 and they were fine. However opening the OOo 3.0 .odp file(s) in
the following (all linux) resulted in complete loss of the bullets &
indentations/paragraph formating:

- OOo 2.4.1
- Ubuntu OOo 2.4.1
- StarOffice 8 (opening in StarOffice 9 Beta was fine)
- Lotus Symphony 1

Note: I'll test on WinXP later.

Now the interesting part is: if the OOo 3.0 Impress file is saved as a
MS Office Powerpoint file (.ppt), that file opens just fine in the above
and retains all the bullets & indentations. Pretty embarrassing that OOo
3.0 Impress can save as .ppt and retain it's bullets & formating, but
saving as an .odp and opening in earlier versions of OOo does not.

Just to be sure that the issue wasn't with Stephan's file, I opened the
file and saved (using OOo 3.0) with a different filename to test.

I've recommended that Stephan file a bug/issue as this is a serious
regression IMO.







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