If an end-user application crashes during normal use, it is ultimately the fault of its software developer. That's the case even if your crash is caused by corrupt images that you've imported into your presentation, a bug in Windows or what have you.
But that's not going to make your crash go away. OOo is a cross-platform program. The crashy code might be in the windows-specific portion of OOs's codebase. If that's actually the case, you might not experience the crash were you to use Linux or or Mac OS X. Perhaps you have a friend who already has a Linux or OS X box that you could test with. If it works OK on Linux, then you could install it in a virtual machine such as VirtualBox. I suggest this just to enable you to present your presentation. Most people who create presentations do so for their jobs. Quite likely the presentation itself is very important to you or your employer. It would aid the OOo developers were you to create a minimal test case. Make a copy of your document. Then make a copy of that copy; delete the last half of the slides from your presentation, then try to reproduce the bug again. If you don't get the crash, then make another copy of your original .odp, then delete the first half of your slides. There is some chance you can narrow the problem down to just one slide. Perhaps the graphic in that slide is corrupted. Also check for malware on your computer. Do you have a virus checker? If so, are its virus definitions up-to-date? If you don't have a virus checker, you can get ClamWin for free. It won't disinfect a document but it's quite good at identifying infections. Mike Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Chester Delf <chester-d...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > Please help! Multiple times a day my Open Office Presentation crashes on me. > I try to save a presentation of 24 screenshots. The full file is about 15.2 > MB. If I click too quickly between slides it crashes. If I try to print > more than about 5 or 6 slides at a time it crashes. If I copy a slide and > paste it to create a new slide with the formatting I need already on it, it > crashes. I originally thought it was because i was automatically saving my > presentation in the PowerPoint format, but the crashes continued even when I > keep the file format as odp. What gives? Is there anything I can do to > prevent this? I'm running it on Windows 8.1 64 bit. Thank you for any > assistance. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
