Bug#705605: libreoffice-impress: Export to .pptx screws up several formattings
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:25:08PM +0200, Nick Manini wrote:
> Package: libreoffice-impress
> Version: 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4
Sorry, this version is basically unsupported now - except security and
maybe trivial and important stuff for stable (703602).
That bug NEVER will be fixed there.
> I encountered at least three separate issues with
> Export to "Microsoft PowerPoint 2007/2010 XML (.pptx)" File type.
>
> 1) random center-formatted lines change to left-formatted lines;
> 2) background colors of text boxes are changed;
> 3) wrapping of text boxes is removed.
Which is useless to handle in one bug. What are you going to do when
one of this is fixed and the others not?
With that mixed up, it even doesn't make much sense to forward this bug.
(Will do anyway.)
> No such problem is detected when saving in the "Microsoft PowerPoint
> 97/2000/XP/2003 (.ppt)" File type.
which is not surprising.
> I'll shortly send a followup mail to this bug number with attached a simple
> .odp file which illustrates all these issues. To reproduce this bug, just
> open bug_libreoffice.odp in libreoffice impress, click on File, Save As,
> and select the format "Microsoft PowerPoint 2007/2010 XML (.pptx)". Open
> the resulting bug_libreoffice.pptx (again with libreoffice) and see the
> differences.
Yes, please.
> This bug is present in the current wheezy version of libreoffice. I've got
> no machines running unstable or experimental here, so it would be too
> complicated for me to test if the bug is reproduced in some up-to-date
> libreoffice, but probably someone around can check.
Then use a chroot? Seriously, it makes no sense at all to report it against
a version from a totally obsolete branch (we're at 4.0.x right now and between
that was 3.6.6 which even is near it's lifecyle)
> I'm keeping the severity to normal, but this bug but has a potential for
> data loss/deterioration for anybody so unwise to trust their presentations
> entirely to the .pptx format.
Yes.. No surprise, though for a version released almost 1 year ago[1]
where pptx support was beginning to be done.
Regards,
Rene
[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/3.5#3.5.4_release
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