Issue 18373 - ppt file has wrong justification and font when printed out
Summary: ppt file has wrong justification and font when printed out
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 8978
Alias: None
Product: Impress
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC3
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: wolframgarten
QA Contact: issues@graphics
URL:
Keywords: oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-08-18 22:44 UTC by faught
Modified: 2003-12-09 10:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---


Attachments
Original version of file created by PowerPoint, prints fine (8.00 KB, application/ms-powerpoint)
2003-08-18 22:52 UTC, faught
no flags Details
File after importing and saving with OOo (11.00 KB, application/ms-powerpoint)
2003-08-18 22:55 UTC, faught
no flags Details
Postscript output after printing the modified file from PowerPoint (25.03 KB, application/postscript)
2003-08-18 22:57 UTC, faught
no flags Details

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Description faught 2003-08-18 22:44:46 UTC
Here's a fascinating one.  This is as simplified as I could get it.

1) Create a presentation using PowerPoint (I have PowerPoint 2002), in ppt
format.   
2) Make a slide with the Title Only or Title and Text format (not Title Slide).  
3) Add centered text to the slide title.
4) If you print the presentation from PowerPoint now, all is well.  Save and close.
5) Open the file with OOo.  Save with Save As and close.
6) Open the file in PowerPoint again.  Looks fine on the screen.
7) Print the file from PowerPoint, and notice that the centered text shows up
left-justified.  

I originally saw this with a large presentation that looked fine on screen but
all the slide titles were mangled when I printed.  I can only reproduce this by
creating the file with PowerPoint first and importing in OOo.  Note that I did
my testing by printing to a dummy PostScript device, but I also saw this problem
when printing to the fax modem.

While the bad behavior is occurring in PowerPoint, I suspect that OOo is
generating data in the ppt file that PowerPoint doesn't know how to handle.
Comment 1 faught 2003-08-18 22:52:17 UTC
Created attachment 8555 [details]
Original version of file created by PowerPoint, prints fine
Comment 2 faught 2003-08-18 22:55:20 UTC
Created attachment 8556 [details]
File after importing and saving with OOo
Comment 3 faught 2003-08-18 22:57:16 UTC
Created attachment 8557 [details]
Postscript output after printing the modified file from PowerPoint
Comment 4 pmartel60 2003-08-19 03:17:48 UTC
Confirmed with the attached files and with new files created following
the instructions (using "Fax" as target printer).
Changed summary to reflect loss of font as well as justification.
Discovered that this appears to be a known problem: issue 8978 .
Resolving as a duplicate.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 8978 ***
Comment 5 wolframgarten 2003-12-09 10:42:10 UTC
Closed.