Hi, On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 00:05, NoOp wrote: > 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.
Please have a look at Issue 91466 - Bullets lost when loading in 2.4.1 <http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=91466> Manfred --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
