Description: The attached file contains music notation meant to be shown to a church congregation to sing. When opened, the music notation is not visible, but other elements are. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Opened the attached file. Actual Results: The music is not visible, but other notations on the slide are. Expected Results: Over the background, music notation (Two lines on most slides, full staff with notes and words) should be visible. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: Version information: Version: 24.8.4.2 (X86_64) Build ID: 480(Build:2) CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+wayland) Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Created attachment 198973 [details] Presentation (PPTX) with music notation This is the file that has issues showing the music notation. I have permission from the copyright holder to attach the file for debugging purposes.
Created attachment 199005 [details] Screenshoot Is this right? Version: 24.8.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: bb3cfa12c7b1bf994ecc5649a80400d06cd71002 CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
That's what it's supposed to look like. Attaching "BadScreenshot" to show what I'm seeing.
Created attachment 199006 [details] BadScreenshot
I see the images with the music notation, in: Version: 24.8.5.0.0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 7b11ebe90ae90560ffb56013abc9d405acd9389c CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: qt5 (cairo+xcb) Locale: hu-HU (hu_HU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded and in newer linux-bibisect repos as well (and older like 7.0, 6.0 too); and under Windows with recent versions too.
No repro with Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 7da1497aa462e2b719aa9b308a749caf7b9a19b1 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: cs-CZ (cs_CZ.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
(In reply to Roger D. Cook from comment #4) > Created attachment 199006 [details] > BadScreenshot That's strange as Impress doesn't seem to have any option to hide images. If you create a new presentation and insert an image, is it displayed?
Created attachment 203677 [details] New presentation with image Freshly generated pptx with image.
I was able to verify that the issue is still present in: > Version: 25.8.2.2 (X86_64) > Build ID: 580(Build:2) > CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.17; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+wayland) > Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US > Calc: threaded I created a new presentation and was able to embed an image and save it as both an odf and pptx. I was able to reopen it in LibreOffice successfully. I was also able to open it in OnlyOffice desktop editor successfully. > ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors > Community version 9.1.0.173 (snap)
What if you go to Help - Restart in safe mode, click Continue in safe mode and then open attachment 198973 [details], are the images still invisible?
The images are still invisible in safe mode. In both cases, I can see the background image.
I did some digging in the attached PPTX. The background file which is rendered is a JPEG file, but the musical notation itself is stored in EMF files. Is there a chance that my specific environment may somehow lack the ability to render EMF files? Here's my current version information: LibreOffice: ``` Version: 25.8.4.2 (X86_64) Build ID: 580(Build:2) CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.18; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+wayland) Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded ``` System: ``` $ cat /etc/*-release | sort | uniq ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43" DEFAULT_HOSTNAME="fedora" DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f43/" Fedora release 43 (Forty Three) HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/" ID=fedora LOGO=fedora-logo-icon NAME="Fedora Linux" PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition)" REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora" REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=43 REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora" REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=43 RELEASE_TYPE=stable SUPPORT_END=2026-12-02 SUPPORT_URL="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/" VARIANT_ID=workstation VARIANT="Workstation Edition" VERSION="43 (Workstation Edition)" VERSION_CODENAME="" VERSION_ID=43 $ ```
(In reply to Roger D. Cook from comment #12) > I did some digging in the attached PPTX. The background file which is > rendered is a JPEG file, but the musical notation itself is stored in EMF > files. > > Is there a chance that my specific environment may somehow lack the ability > to render EMF files? Here's my current version information: Can you see the objects in the Navigator deck of the Sidebar? For me, in the first slide the Navigator shows 6 objects. There are two separate objects named "Picture 2", but they are actually somehow linked. The first one in the list represents the background image and the last one the "Precious cornerstone" notes. If I click the last one in the Navigator, it actually selects both objects in the presentation canvas. Then, if I carefully click and drag, both also appear as selected in the Navigator. Alternatively, hitting Delete gets rid of both. Unzipping the file and examining ppt/slides/slide1.xml I see <p:cNvPr id="313346" name="Picture 2" descr="sky-neutral4"/> and <p:cNvPr id="3" name="Picture 2" descr="All To Us v1a (Aaron).eps"/> So the .eps extension is interesting. When I open the .emf files found in ppt/media in a text editor and compare to some other .emf files found in our bug tracker, I see that yours have PDF-1.3 in the first line and then PDF-like instructions such as /Type /FontDescriptor. So maybe they indeed are .eps files in disguise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulated_PostScript Do you have the ghostscript package installed? https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/ghostscript/ghostscript/
I see the same thing in Navigator. Yes, Ghostscript is installed. I can view the emf files by using $ ghostscript image10.emf GPL Ghostscript 10.05.1 (2025-04-29) Copyright (C) 2025 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. **** Warning: File has some garbage before %PDF- . Invalid number format: sign not at the start Processing pages 1 through 1. Page 1 >>showpage, press <return> to continue<< The following errors were encountered at least once while processing this file: startxref offset invalid xref table was repaired The following warnings were encountered at least once while processing this file: File has some garbage before %PDF- **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored. **** The file was produced by: **** >>>> PSNormalizer.framework <<<< **** Please notify the author of the software that produced this **** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF **** specification. GS> Ghostscript shows the image initially, but when I press return, it has a larger, all white window.
Doing a little digging on the EPS file, I'm pretty sure that the program this company used to engrave their music is called Finale which has since been sunsetted. This software could generate EPS files for the engraving.
I tried in a distrobox container of Fedora 42, which doesn't even have ghostscript installed and the file displays fine with LibreOffice 24.8. A container is of course not the same as a full OS.