when using the wizard to batch convert files it works nice with excel and word files but for powerpoint files it finds nothing to convert. doesn't find ppt nor pptx files the document converter is accessible from the menu in the route: File -> Wizards -> Document Converter
Confirmed. Version 4.1.0.0.alpha0+ (Build ID: 9601a571d42b0199bdccf2256fc8be82e14af8a Date: Mon Feb 18 23:22:17 2013 +0100 Bodhi Linux 2.2 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ New (confirmed) Minor (makes the converter useless for powerpoint files but still can open ppt and pptx files and manually save them, ie. no loss of data, no prevention from making high quality work) Medium (low is default, seems like this feature might affect a substantial amount of people plus might be reason for people to think twice about moving to LibreOffice) ProposedEasyHack -- assuming it's just detection that is borked
On pc Debian x86-64 with master sources updated today, I reproduced the problem. In wizards/source/importwizard/DialogModul.xba, I noticed this line: 349 MSFilterName(2,2) = "odp|odp" (why odp twice?) but above all, I noticed that if I change the line 347: MSFilterName(2,0) = "ppt|pps|pptx|pptm|ppsx|ppsm" by MSFilterName(2,0) = "ppt|pps" + make dev-install, it worked. Now I don't know: - why it works with this changed line - where's the really faulty line - why I need to run "make dev-install" I tried to avoid this last one (because it's quite long to run it) by making changing directly the content of ./solver/unxlngx6/pck/basicsrvimport.zip but it didn't work. Noel: any idea?
ppt,pps,pptx,ppsx,pptm,ppsm are being detected and ppt,pptx,pps are being converted to odp but Formats ppsx , pptm , ppsm are not being converted still . I think there is some problem with these formats support . and we require make-dev-install to make it work , as make wizards doesn’t modify the build . https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/3548/1/wizards/source/importwizard/DialogModul.xba
Works for those now, that was commited as http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=f25ad4403645cd67b2e50026abf0fe6e81ed9213
there's a magic "SBMAXEXTENSIONLENGTH" value in the wizards which seems to be used in a truly bizarre way
Julien Nabet committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=b10e69287c42db61679d70146ed5e7c54ee1863e fdo#60265 Really fixes Basic problem The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Caolan McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=25547fbddda1d540d2191e9e9a893c7f263b80e2 Related: fdo#60265 fix lunatic way to detect special filter name The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.