Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 4167
Open Office slide causes presentation package to crash
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:54:41 UTC
There is a slide in the middle of my slideset that causes OpenOffice to crash when it tries to render the slide. The slide number is 31. The slide before it renders fine, and the slide after it. It is only when this one slide tries to be rendered on the screen that the application crashes. I also cannot save the file. The message that comes out is that it fails due to a "general I/O problem", but the permissions on the files are fine, there is space to save it, etc. I can mail the file to you, if you want. It is 2.9 MB in size. My email address is maddog@li.org, to request the file or any more info on the problem. Warmest regards,
How were you able to create the document and save it the first time? Maybe it is a conversion from some other fomat (ie: SO52 or PPT)? Can you create a small document that still exhibits the same problem (ie: a 1 or 2 slide document, rather than the 31+ slide document you have now)?
[I have added these comments into IssueZilla at the request of Stefan Taxhet.] >How were you able to create the document and save it the first time? I created a skeleton application of one slide in Star Office (in order to get the "clouds" background. Then I opened it in Open Office and converted it to sxi format. I used sxi format after that, typing in the slides one by one. From time to time I would save it, and keep working. A couple of times I would get completely out of Open Office (shutting down the computer, etc.) and then get back in and open it up again. I went to bed the night before my talk. I had been working on the document that night and was really tired. I only had a few slides to add in the morning. I started Open Office, opened the file, went to the back of the presentation, added the few additional slides and tried to save it. It told me it could not save it due to "general I/O problems". As I said in the problem report, it seems to be ONE SLIDE that is causing the problem. I can view all the slides up until that one, and then it blows up. If I skip backwards from the end to that slide, everything is fine until I render it. When I am in outline form, I can see what is on the slide in text format,but if I highlight it (as in selecting the slide to cut or copy), the program segfaults. In outline form, even if I just place the cursor next to the slide symbol where the slide number is, the program segfaults. I have managed to get the file down to only three slides. The problem is that I still can not save the smaller file! Ergo, if you want to find out what is making this happen, I am afraid that you will have to be able to accept the entire 2,7 MByte file. I can break this file up using uuencode and split to email it to you in smaller pieces, if you wish. >Maybe it is a conversion from some other fomat (ie: SO52 or PPT)? No. I had grabbed just the background (clouds) from a Star Office presentation, but I converted it to Open Office mode early on in the process, and created the context of the slides under Open Office using .sxi mode. Now I can't even store it under some other mode to see if another presentation package can read it. >Can you create a small document that still exhibits the same >problem (ie: a 1 or 2 slide document, rather than the 31+ slide >document you have now)? I tried using the same pictures, bacmground and steps that I used before on that one slide, but it formulates, saves, and restores properly. I will be flying to Brazil on Saturday morning for a week or so. If you want me to send you the file, please tell me before then Otherwise you will have to wait until I get back. Warmest regards, md
Hello Jon, please attach that file. Thank you.
Created attachment 1611 [details] Slide 31 is the bad one
Document is now attached, reassigning issue to default-owner of selected component.
Reassigned to Christian.
I can see the bug in the attached doc, but I can't create a new doc with the same bug.
*** Issue 4556 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
This seems to be the region problem you worked on
This bug has been fixed now in vcl/source/gdi/outdev3.cxx -r1.91 ImplNewFont(). There were a really bad neverending recursion which sometimes happens in scaled ole objects. The bugfix for this issue will make it into the next version. Thanks, Sven
With next version Sven meant 1.0.1.
Verified in the OOo1.0.2.
I Close the issue.