Bug#607377: impress exports ppt files with empty slides due to images that are recognized as corrupt by powerpoint

Package: openoffice.org-impress
Version: 1:3.2.1-9
Severity: important
Tags: squeeze upstream

Exporting to ppt creates files that are partly unreadable by current powerpoint.

"PowerPoint was unable to display some of the text, images, or objects
on slides in the file "...", because they have become corrputed.
Affected slides have been replaced by blank slides in the presentation
and it is not possible to recover the lost information. To ensure that
the file can be opened in previous versions of PowerPoint and use Save
As command and save the file with either the same or a new name."

Saving the file from PowerPoint then permanently loses the data on the slides.

The problem has been described here:
http://user.services.openoffice.org...opic.php?f&p752
0
and one sample .ppt file is attached within the thread.

A more in-depth analysis can be found here:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t1404

In short: grouping objects as written by OO are not recognized as
valid anymore.  As a workaround, it is possible to ungroup all objects
in the presentation in OO, then export the file to powerpoint.

The problem has been filed as an OpenOffice.org issue here:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id6023

It was potentially fixed as the "group shape bug", one of two bugs in
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id5898 I can't see
what patches were applied
as a fix // what revisions belong to the report, though - from the bug
I assume, that the fix is for 3.3.x and might need to be adjusted for
3.2.1 in squeeze.

Cheers,
Karsten

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages openoffice.org-impress depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library
ii openoffice.org-core 1:3.2.1-9 office productivity suite -- arch-
ii openoffice.org-draw 1:3.2.1-9 office productivity suite -- drawi
ii ure 1.6.1+OOo3.2.1-9 OpenOffice.org UNO runtime environ

openoffice.org-impress recommends no packages.

openoffice.org-impress suggests no packages.


Versions of packages openoffice.org-core depends on:
ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.0-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libdb4.8 4.8.30-2 Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgraphite3 1:2.3.1-0.2 SILGraphite - a "smart font" rende
ii libgstreamer-plugins-ba 0.10.30-1 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.30-1 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user
interface ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.11-1 spell checker
and morphological an
ii libhyphen0 2.5-1 ALTLinux hyphenation library - sha
ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libicu44 4.4.1-7 International Components for Unico
ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG
Group's JPEG ii libmythes-1.2-0 2:1.2.1-1 simple
thesaurus library
ii libneon27-gnutls 0.29.3-3 An HTTP and WebDAV client
library ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable
Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.8-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii librdf0 1.0.10-3 Redland Resource Description Frame
ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-3 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1-3 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-3 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-6 XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii openoffice.org-common 1:3.2.1-9 office productivity suite -- arch-
ii ttf-opensymbol 1:3.2.1-9 OpenSymbol TrueType font
ii ure 1.6.1+OOo3.2.1-9 OpenOffice.org UNO runtime environ
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages openoffice.org-draw depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library
ii libwpd8c2a 0.8.14-1 Library for handling WordPerfect d
ii libwpg-0.1-1 0.1.3-1 WordPerfect graphics import/conver
ii openoffice.org-core 1:3.2.1-9 office productivity suite -- arch-
ii ure 1.6.1+OOo3.2.1-9 OpenOffice.org UNO runtime environ
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime





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