Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 57050
Animation effectts set on master page do not show during slide show
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:44:25 UTC
1) create a new presentation 2) view->master->slide master 3) add custom animation to the text (e.g. peak in) 4) close slide master view 5) create a new slide with "Title, text" layout 6) fill in some text New slides do not inherit any custom animation from the slide master. I experienced the same behaviour on Debian Sarge using OO 2.0.0-1 and Windows2000 using OO 2.0rc3
Reassigned.
In my mind this is an feature and not a defect. It should be possible to assign an custom animation to the placeholder on the masterpage or we shuld grey out the custom animation dialog when a placeholder is selected.
Confirmed using OOo 2.0 on wXP All animations on a master page are also completely lost on loading a presentation made with Powerpoint XP and a .ppt file .
*** Issue 63214 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
As for the feature versus defect classification: What is the purpose of being able to assing animation effects to master slides? As far as I can see, the only purpose would be to propagate the effects to derived slides.
Was finally ready to try to embrace OOo but this one leaves me cold. Use presentations weekly and need to have animation. Can not take the time to animate each slide's text individually. Just bought a new Win7 machine and was SO hoping to not have to buy new MS Office. This feature is important enough to spend the money for MS PP.
Might this be a dupe of issue #30596?
No, issue 30596 is about normal shapes with animation on master page. This issue is about propagating animation from placeholders on the master page like title and outline to the placeholders on the slides using that masterpage. but indeed issue 73090 is a dupe. will close that
*** Issue 73090 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 75662 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I have to agree with almanme - found myself trying to migrate a fairly large ppt presentation to OpenOffice and came up against this issue. Applying the same animations to each slide individually is not feasible. I think I might have to hold off for now.
I'm new to ooo, but I find this to be a major bug and am shocked to come here and find that it's existed for the better part of a decade!?
2013 and still no changes on this subject? How can anybody expect impress to be used for serious presentations which such a major bug? And how could this be considered a feature? I can define and assign custom animations to masterpage elements, so why don't they work as expected? Unfortunately, OpenOffice has quite a few of these showstoppers and nobody cares about them...
Checking for the removal of this bug every couple of years I am shocked to see that no dev finds time to address it, no target Milestone has been set and importance is set to trivial. Ladies and gentlemen, you are facing the number one reason why no serious user will shift to Impress here and mark it as trivial? How come? Let the few users who showed interest in this feature know what made you decide this way. We deserve an answer.
And please, set importance a *little* higher.
Just to make amraam's point, a very three-letter company that we are all familiar with mandates that all company documents be produced in an OOo derivative unless the user submits a specific request for something else. Every single user there requests MS Office due to deficiencies in Impress, and this issue is one of the big ones. Note that this is a defect, not a feature, as it goes against expected behaviour whether or not the issue is caused by a programming error. It is expected that the Master slide sets the defaults for all other slides. This setting is not being properly propagated.
It seems so strange to me that a bug of such paramount importance is marked as trivial. Maybe as it has been said before, serious users abandon Impress as soon as this bug is evident. I found a simple solution submitted in a forum post and I thought it would be a good idea to share it with people watching this issue. It's a macro just ***nine lines long*** which does the job. It was written by an amateur at programming. https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=10410#p135198 The macro has to be run on every page. You can assign the macro to a keyboard shortcut or a toolbar button. At least it saves you from the trouble of going through multiple clicks in custom animation dialog. More about installing macros here: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=5519 I have the following question: how hard is it for a serious developer in the openoffice team to implement the following pseudocode: On MASTER save, do: copy animation from MASTER body apply animation to every slide body (using this 9-line snippet) done If openoffice has some kind of trigger after master saving, the above would be a 15 minutes job plus 10 minutes testing. Unfortunately, I am not a java developer to implement it. But, if someone will implement it I'll buy him a 12pack of beers.
Reset the assignee to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".