NoOp wrote:
On 11/15/2007 12:20 AM, rob clement wrote:
Apologies for sending out a read receipt with my last request.
Some time ago I discovered a web site called www.powerbacks.com. The
contents of the web site is a series of presentation templates. I found
one in the technical section that seemed to suit my requirements, so I
downloaded all the technical templates.
I found that the templates were for PowerPoint to I proceeded to convert
them. I renamed template called 001 to Powerbacks_tech001 and used
Impress to read the template. I then saved this as an Impress template.
I then imported the Impress template using > File > Templates > Organize
>Presentation Backgrounds and used command >Import template.
I then started to build my Impress presentation using template
Powerbacks_tech001. Please note that in the file name there are no
spaces. I created several slides and then as I was stopping for a while
to do something else so I saved and closed the presentation.
When I reopened the presentation the background that I had chosen was
changed from a photograph of a printed circuit board to a piece of
modern art with a blue circle an red oblong and a green triangle in it.
On further checking using > Format > Slide Design the filename had
become powerback%20tech001. I believe that %20 is a space but that is
immaterial. The filename of my background had become corrupt.
What can be done to reinstate the correct file as the background?
Is this a failure of Impress or the fact that I have tried to convert a
PowerPoint presentation background?
If I cannot get an answer I will have to install Powerpoint 2003 and do
my work from there.
Your issue may be related to this bug:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70669
[Import of templates fails when the name contains spaces - Target
milestone: OOo 2.4]
I'd recommend that you eliminate the underscores in the template name.
Other possibly related issues:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=54896
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=82902
BTW: an underscore "_" is hex 5F so the translation should be %5F rather
than %20 which is hex for a space " ". So you might want to add your
problem to the 70669 bug report.
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Apologies there is not one problem here but two.
Problem 1
When I documented the procedure to create the OOo Impress template I
omitted one thing. I created the template as “powerbacks tech001” and
when I found a problem importing the template into OpenOffice, I renamed
the template from “powerbacks tech001” to “powerbacks_tech001” and
thought no more about it. This however is the core of the problem. The
original filename must be stored somewhere within the template file as
when the Impress presentation is saved the background filename reverts
to the original “powerbacks tech001”. So when I look at the file using
>format >slide design it shows the old filename.
Moral never rename an impress template, always save it afresh.
Can someone please confirm that the original filename of an Impress
template is stored within the file.
Problem 2
The change to the modern art background is a different problem. When I
created the new Impress template with the correct name, the background
still changed to the square, circle and triangle again but by using the
>format >slide design I found that the file name was the new file name
of the file and the background could be reset by selecting “exchange
background page” and clicking load then you had a choice of backdrops
and need to choose the original backdrop.
It is strange that now I have created the presentation, the file name
shown in >format >slide design is now shown as default.
If anyone has any ideas about this then it would be helpful but at least
we have a workaround.
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Thanks
Rob
www.valleyoftears.co.uk
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