Description: Working as a college math professor, most undergraduate textbooks come with premade Powerpoint lecture slides from the publisher. I would like to present these with Libre Office Impress. However, in every case the animated OLE math objects fail to animate properly. This is consistently the case across a large number of textbooks, authors, producers, etc., that I've tried to use (working mostly with Pearson textbooks). Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the PPTX file 2. Start the slide show, proceed to slide with OLE animations, click through (e.g., in attached file, slides 5, 7, 8, etc.) Actual Results: OLE objects fail to animate (in view at all times) Expected Results: OLE objects should animate (start invisible, then transition to visible on click) Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No OpenGL enabled: Yes Additional Info: - Note that text objects animate fine; it is only OLE objects (math images) that do not. - If the PPTX file is converted to ODP, the problem persists (OLE objects do not animate) - Although though the OLE objects don't animate, the slide still "eats up" the expected clicks; we must click as many times as OLE objects to get to the next slide - Even if we delete all the animations on a slide, these "hidden" clicks persist; we must still click as many times as objects to get to the next slide - Trying to backtrack to the previous slide often fails on slides with OLE animations that we tried to remove. - I can provide an arbitrary number of publisher-made PPTX slide decks with this problem, if desired (e.g., hundreds)
Created attachment 180272 [details] Publisher-made PPTX with OLE animations. Animated OLE objects start on slide 5.
Note that on conversion from PPTX to ODP, OLE object animation entries are lost from the Animations sidebar. E.g., in the attached PPTX example, on slide 5, there are 5 animations listed -- 2 text and 3 OLE embedded objects. After conversion to ODP format, only 2 animations are listed -- just the 2 text objects. Nonetheless, the slide still "eats up" 3 extra clicks for the missing OLE animations.
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can confirm that the bug is present in Version: 7.4.0.0.alpha1+ / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 66d8951df3c11ead0b9415eb292c3ae88689edf1 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-IN (en_IN); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Version: 7.2.0.4 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 9a9c6381e3f7a62afc1329bd359cc48accb6435b CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-IN (en_IN); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Actual Result: OLE math objects Success to animate properly. It's Starts with Slide no:5,7,8,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,19,20,24,27,28,29.
I reproduced the problem in older versions, but it is fine now in 7.4.3. I found a problem in an unreleased version and reported it as bug 152990
Agreed, confirmed this works for me now with the 7.4.4.2 download. Major fix for me, thanks to whoever made that happen.