Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 54676
Slugish Animations and No Sound When Importing .ppt files
Last modified: 2005-11-25 11:41:55 UTC
Hi, I'm currently having issues when importing this file. The sounds that are meant to play don't. I also have very slugish animations and effects. I am running a 3.0GHz with 1GB DDR 400 Ram. I have also sent the problematic file to two friends who also has the same issues as me. Both are running Windows XP with newish machines. The sound issue could just be due to broken links within the file. It does need to be confirmed though. The sluggyness is a definite problem though. Here is the file I am using (Note: I can't attatch the file as it is above the allocated file limit.) http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/magazineforall/Jumpy_Powerpoint_Import.ppt This file was saved from Microsoft Powerpoint 2000 and then imported into Open Office. The file plays ok in Microsoft Powerpoint. I am not sure about the sound though. This is not the original file as confidential information was listed on the original. If this needs to be looked at then I will submit it. Thanks for your help, If you have any questions please feel free to ask. I hope this has been of some help.
I'm not sure I have made myself clear enough in the previous post. Just a few other notes is that the sluggish animation appears when viewing the slideshow. Whilst I work with the file Open Office performs very well.
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I too noticed a problem importing a ppt file. The file has sound for some of the slides in the Sound box in the Modify transition fields. In PP the sounds play while the slide in displayed and stops when advanced to the next slide. There is no transition on the slide. If I make the slide transition I hear the sound for the time the slide is redrawing. If I step through the slides with a transition on for a sound slide then step back through the slides the sound slide (not the first slide) will start to play and continue with the slide in front of it. The sound cannot be stopped (that I have found) until it completes playing the clip.
Hi, Thanks for your comments rollab. I'm not sure if any of the developers have seen these bug fix yet. If anyone needs more info though please feel free to ask.
In the linked file I can see that there no animations when I play the file in PPT 2000 but there are several animations when I play the file in PPT 2003. In OOo the file looks identical to the file in PPT 2003.Neither in PPT 2000 nor in PPT 2003 are sounds. When you have another file where I can see the bug please send it to me or attach it.
Thanks for your feedback cgu. As I mentioned before the sound may have lost its links and that's why it could not be playing. I will however double check this with another file I will make. I'll send you that as soon as I have the oppurtunity to create one. However. What is the current situation with the slugish animations playing? I assume you can see the animations in Open Office. When I say animations. Just to make sure I am being clear enough. When the mouse is clicked. Some text will scroll to the top. For example. It's animations like this that are playing slowly. Or have a jerkyness about them. Have I made myself clear enough? :) Thanks for the help. I'll try and get this sound bug replicated as soon as I can. However I am more concerned about the jerkness/slugishness of animations.
I see several things which looks different to PPT but the animations seems to be ok on my system. I write new issues for the other bugs in the document. Please give me an example for an animation whitch is too slow (e.g. the text on the left on slide 3, ...) Did you realy use PPT 2000 to create this document? Because with PPT 2000 I see no animation in the presentation. With PPT xp or PPT 2003 there are animations.
Hi cgu :) Thanks for your reply. The powerpoint was created in 2000. However I have since updated the powerpoint (about two days ago.) To do that I used MS Powerpoint 2003. So I imported the 2000 file into 2003 Pro. Then simply saved it again. Please note that link to the download is now another file. The previous presentation I uploaded was opened in Open Office and then saved as a powerpoint presentation from there. As I didn't have MS Office on my comp at the time. So I'll outline the issues I am currently facing when importing my presentation. Please redownload the file as it is now updated. 1. On slide 9 (The lady with hands on head in pain) When the slide is viewed I get the image with a white sort of border around the edge of the image. If you look at the image when its not showing the slideshow it is fine. This then disappears when the image has finished loading. Another image this happens with is on slide 10 (The drawing of a man with his hands touching his head. In the top left) Again once this has loaded the border disappears. 2. On slide 8 when the fire appears. The speech bubble with the text "I only flicked the switch at the back of the computer. Some of that goes behind the image and then reappears. This is when the image has finished loading. Can this be fixed? I think this is possibly due to when the sound has finished playing the speech bubble goes back to normal. You will also notice on slide 9 when the guy in the suit on a blue background animates (moves from top downwards.) When it goes over the text. The text disappears behind it. When the animation stops. The text appears again. This is also the case with the text on slide 11. I have tested this in PP 2003 and this does not occur. 3. On slide 4. When the text has finished animating. It seems to smoothen. Is this normal? I think I have the answer to why I thought it was the animations being slugish. As rollab said the next animation is not playing until the sound has finished. I think this is why I thought Open Office was running slowly. I'd never thought of this reason before. 4. On slide 12. The sound that I have imported does not play. Where the speaker icon is when clicked nothing happens. However I have tested this on MS Office 2000 and 2003 and it does work. I have tested it on a few computers as well. When the sound is playing it does not allowed you to stop it and go onto the next animation. 5. On slide 13 when you hover over the picture of me it goes wonky. The picture of me is on the left and right. 6. Finally, when I saved the presentation from Open Office to a 97/2000/XP none of the sound is saved with the file. I hope I have made my points clear. Sorry if I have caused any confusion. Thanks for your help. If you need any more help resolving these issues please feel free to ask. Just so you don't have to scroll again. Here is the link to the powerpoint file: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/magazineforall/Jumpy_Powerpoint_Import.ppt
Hi matius_4 (Matthew?) I can reproduce all of your bugs (and found another 2 by my own). For the different bugs are different developer responsible therefore I write new issues for the bugs. Your 2nd bug is duplicate to issue 37778 and I think the 3rd bug should not occure in the latest developer build (m139) because in the meantime we can stop playing sounds. When I'm finished writing the new issues I will note them down in this issue. Please don't test the m139 with this document because you can't save it as ppt (it's the bug I found. It occures only with this document.) regards Christian.
Here are the ID's of the new issues: issue 58423 issue 58426 issue 58427 issue 58428 issue 58429 issue 58431 I set this issue to invalid because of the new issues.
I close this issue as invalid.