Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 44297
Character problems while exporting Impress to a ppt file
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:21:02 UTC
When you export an impress presentation as a PowerPoint file, some of the Turkish chars loses their fonts. Especially the ğ,Ğ,ş,Ş,ı,İ are not exported correctly. If you open the exported ppt file with OpenOffice you'll see no problem. But if you want to open this file you can easily see the corrupted characters.
Created attachment 23434 [details] Here is the exported file
Reassigned.
I loaded the file with PPT 97, 2000, xp and 2003 and everything looks good. I saw no corrupted characters. Please attach the original OOo - File.
Created attachment 23447 [details] Original OpenOffice Impress File
Created attachment 23448 [details] MS PowerPoint file
Created attachment 23449 [details] Screen snapshot from the ppt...
set to new and change the target
I see the bug in the attached socument. Please have a look.
change the target to p4
This bug needs to be better treated, in my opinion. The problems stemming from this problem will affect a lot of businesses running OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 and wish to migrate to OpenOffice.org 2.0. There are plenty of companies, institutions and individuals who are waiting for OpenOffice.org 2.0 to migrate, and this bug has a bad countereffect for Turkish speaking people trying to adopt OpenOffice.org Please reconsider using a high priority (like P2 or something else) to eliminate this headache in OpenOffice.org 2.0... Görkem Çetin Turkish OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead Turkish OpenOffice.org NL Project Lead
I want also that the bug will be fixed in 2.0. Therefore I talked with the developer and we decided to change the prio and not the target.
sj: Sorry, at the moment I don't have any idea how to fix this issue, the code is very complex and I don't want to break functionality by providing a last minute fix. Therefore I have to shift the target to OOo 2.01.
accepted
Because of a too huge workload I can't fix this issue for OOo 2.01 -> changed target to OO Later.
Created attachment 52167 [details] Test case with phrases in several languages
Created attachment 52168 [details] Screenshot
I attached zip archive (44297-pangram-test-case.zip) with some more files, that may hopefully help fixing this bug. Archive contains ODP and PPT files with some phrases in various languages. Those files were created with versions 2.3.0.1.2 (under linux), 2.3.1 and 2.4.0rc2 (under windows). Also attached a screenshot showing how these PPT files look like when opened with MS Power Point. This bug is really annoying, as there is no easy way to fix the corrupted font in PPT file in MS Power Point. When you select text and change font setting for selection, those "bad" characters remain unchanged. I guess that Sun ODF Plugin 1.1 for Microsoft Office shares the same import/export code with OOo, as original ODP files imported with this tool are behaving the same way in MS Power Point.