Thanks Martin I installed the Adobe acroread from this source. http://debian-multimedia.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/ I used gimp to convert the gif to another format the problem went away.If you want I can email you the OOo template and the gif that is causing the problem.
Paul Martin Michlmayr wrote:
reassign 405949 openoffice.org thanks * J. Paul Bissonnette <jpaulb@eastlink.ca> [2007-01-07 11:18]:package: ArcoreadAcroread is not in Debian but it sounds like a problem in OOo anyway.