I just stumbled across this problem and thought that it might have to do with the new hyperlink support of "impressive" and therefore with "pdftk". So I uninstalled the "pdftk" package, and it seems that everything runs fine now. BTW, I'm on Kubuntu Karmic.
Before removing "pdftk": Welcome to Impressive version 0.10.2 /usr/bin/impressive:94: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import random, getopt, os, types, re, codecs, tempfile, glob, StringIO, md5, re Detected screen size: 1680x1050 pixels OpenGL renderer: Mesa DRI R300 (RV515 7145) 20090101 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL Using GL_ARB_texture_rectangle. Note: file produced by pdftk not readable, hyperlinks disabled. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/impressive", line 4015, in <module> run_main() File "/usr/bin/impressive", line 3576, in run_main main() File "/usr/bin/impressive", line 3569, in main HandleEvent(pygame.event.wait()) File "/usr/bin/impressive", line 3021, in HandleEvent TransitionTo(GetNextPage(Pcurrent, 1)) File "/usr/bin/impressive", line 2479, in TransitionTo UpdateCaption(page) File "/usr/bin/impressive", line 2337, in UpdateCaption pygame.display.set_caption(caption, __title__) TypeError: argument 1 must be string without null bytes, not str After removing "pdftk": Welcome to Impressive version 0.10.2 /usr/bin/impressive:94: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import random, getopt, os, types, re, codecs, tempfile, glob, StringIO, md5, re Detected screen size: 1680x1050 pixels OpenGL renderer: Mesa DRI R300 (RV515 7145) 20090101 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL Using GL_ARB_texture_rectangle. Note: pdftk failed, hyperlinks disabled. Total presentation time: 0:20. -- impressive dies on ooimpress generated pdf files in Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490246 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs