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. > > > -- > 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. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
