Bug 70266

Summary: FILEOPEN: PPT not properly converted, displayed, copy, pasted
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Y <libreoffice13>
Component: ImpressAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: jbfaure, samuel.mehrbrodt
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.1.2.3 release   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Y 2013-10-08 00:39:16 UTC
I am using Ubuntu, but I used a Windows machine to verify that the problem occurs also there and to make this screenshot:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1nwaxlo5bhd2m8y/ppt_impress_hyero.png

To reproduce:
1. Open the PPT at https://www.dropbox.com/s/cxd7vqm38eyy4f8/Pr%C3%A9sentation%20pp%201004%201%C3%A8re%20semaine.ppt
2. Click into text
3. CTRL+A to select all text
4. CTRL+C to copy
5. Open a new LibreOffice Writer document
6. CTRL+V to paste
7. CTRL+Z to undo
8. CTRL+SHIFT+V and paste as unformatted text

Current behavior:

* does not display text correctly (left hand side of screenshot)
* may not be copying properly
* does not paste properly
* damages the Writer document when undoing
 
Expected behavior:

* display like right hand side of screenshot
* paste text properly
* do not leave cruft or eat up other text when undoing

Unfortunately I cannot motivate my professors to use LibreOffice for their presentations, so I need the ability to open and convert properly their PPT.  Thank you for looking into this.
Comment 1 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2013-11-23 23:03:48 UTC
Versions 4.1.4.0.0+ and 4.2.0.0.beta1+ view a font problem in this ppt file: LibreOffice says that the used font is Wingdings. You can fix the problem by doing this:
1/ Open Styles and Formatting (F11)
2/ Select "Outline 1" style, right clic and choose modify
3/ In the Font tab change the font
4/ OK

That said, I can open this file without problem with version 4.0.6 which that the font used is Tahoma. Please could you try this version too. You can easily download it at http://fr.libreoffice.org/telecharger/

Now, it might be interesting to know which software and which version your professor used to produce her ppt file. And what is the OS of her computer.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 2 Y 2013-12-05 19:20:08 UTC
Thanks for the workaround.

The professor's software looked like windows 7 and MS Office 2010.  I experienced similar, though less drammatic issues with the PPTs of another professor.  In his case I am sure he used MS Office 2010 on Windows 7.  Attribudes such as bold/italic/underline do not match between what is shown on his screen and what I get on LibreOffice 4.1.3.2 / Xubuntu 13.10.

You will forgive me for not trying the LibreOffice version you are suggesting, for three reasons:

(1) This is my production machine.  I cannot afford to cause unnecessary downtime, nor can I afford backward-incompatibility within my documents.

(2) Installing French localized software on my English localized machine is probably not a good idea.  The PPT is in French because I am temporarily on academic exchange in a French-speaking university.

(3) For Ubuntu, I prefer software from the official repositories or from Ubuntu-hosted PPAs such as https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa or for the specific version you are suggesting https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-4-0

I will be back home, where I have a spare machine that I can experiment with, after the New Year.  If you still want me to test an older version of LibreOffice on Ubuntu, I can do it then on that machine, but frankly I doubt such a test will have much value.

Libreoffice may say that the font used is Wingdings, but MS Office, on which the file was created and opens correctly, says it is not.  I will leave it up to you to conclude which one of the two is right and which one is wrong.
Comment 3 Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2014-07-02 19:54:31 UTC
I can't reproduce this in current master version.
Please reopen if you still have this issue.
Comment 4 Y 2014-07-03 04:56:12 UTC
I confirm that the file opens and displays correctly in LibreOffice Version 4.2.4.2 on Xubuntu 14.04.

Many thanks for fixing this!