On 21.07.2014 11:30, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:55:34 +0100
Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:31:45 +0100
Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:53:17 +0200
Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
Rory O'Farrell wrote:
I have tried with Impress 4.1.0 to open and display as Slide Shows
some existing .odp files made and displayed with OO 3.4 (and
earlier). Tomorrow I'll find a sample file to upload to Bugzilla;
pending that, I thought I'd give advance warning of such instability,
so that others can check out some of their existing presentations. If
this is confirmed should we consider it as a showstopper?
It will help to know in detail what's going wrong (are the file not
displayed at all? not even opened correctly?), but if we have a
regression opening old .odp files this would for sure qualify for a
"release blocker candidate" and need investigation (and hopefully fix)
before 4.1.1.
On the other hand, I opened many .odp files that I had created with
earlier OpenOffice versions in 4.1.0 and I didn't notice regressions.
Regards,
Andrea.
I think I have tracked this down! (Famous last words??!!) The crash on Slide
Show seems to be caused by use of Fade smoothly or Fade through black
transitions between slides. Substitution of some other transitions (note - a
random small selection, not extensive testing of all transitions) to replace
the Fade/Fade Down transitions made the presentation stable. Could some others
please test if the Fade transitions cause such instability. I have a small
presentation of eleven sides (700KB) which I was preparing for a project
(stillborn), which I use as a test. I'll willingly share this with anyone who
is interested.
I failed to reproduce this crash on an Ubuntu 14.4 (vanilla, no X or K)
machine. Therefore I would like to ask you for (all or some) of the
following:
- the 700 KB document you mentioned above, either per personal mail or
as attachment in a bug
- a Bugzilla bug description
- more information, like
- do you use more than one display?
- is the presenter screen enabled?
- your graphics hardware (probably not important; don't open your
computer when you don't know :-)
- does it crash when the slide effect starts or ends?
- does your console show a stack trace of the crash?
Regards,
Andre
--
Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
Also, under OO 4.1 on Xubuntu 14.04, application of Fade Smoothly or Fade to
Black transitions to a presentation under construction immediately caused a
crash.
I've been doing a little more testing. I find the following transitions cause
an immediate crash on application to a presentation under construction:
Fade Smoothly
Fade to Black
Flipping Tiles
Outside turning cube
Fall
Turn around
Iris
Turn down
Rochade
In general, I only tested one of each group of transitions. I assumed if (e.g.)
Wipe Down worked, then probably all the other Wipe directions would be stable
also.
(OO 4.1 on Xubuntu 14.04)
Other than Fade Smoothly, I cannot comment on stability when they are used in a
Slide Show of an existing presentation. My expectation would be that such slide
show might immediately crash. as happens when Fade Smoothly is used in an
existing presentation.
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