Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 58602
Warning if characters aren't available while export to SWF
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:08:33 UTC
I wanted to post a presentation on intranet page. The presentation has been gaven me in PPS format, so it was great opportunity for me to test the flash export. The result was not so pleasant and even not very useful for me. Since some custom font has been used in PPS, in Flash some diacritics was lost. The strange moment is, that in OOo, the PPS has been displayed with diacritics (some different font has been used for diacritical symbols however). In flash, the diacritical symbols Å¡,ž,ň,Å¥,Ä,ľ,Ä are completely missing. The á,é,Ã,ý,ú are OK. I don't know, how to solve this, but there should be some solution. Either warn the user, or even offer him the usage of an alternative font.
Can you attach a sample fiel and the resulting flash file please? Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 31884 [details] PPS document
Created attachment 31885 [details] exported flash
Thanks for the documents, we are evaluating this. Would it be possible to attach a pdf file of the 3rd slide and a screenshot of the 3rd slide how it looks in your office? That would be nice. Maybe this is duplicate to 35203.
Created attachment 31888 [details] 3rd slide
Created attachment 31889 [details] 3rd slide screenshot
Hope it will help. Please ask for any other help necessary. I'd be proud to assist You. Thank You for Your valuable time.
Thanks for posting the documents so fast. Reassigning: @hdu, does this help you?
*** Issue 58602 has been confirmed by votes. ***
I think, diacritics was corrupted because of missing appropriate Czech font under Linux, so Impress replaced the missing characters by standard font, but SWF export filter exported it without it, so unavailable characters aren't available in Flash. This is probably caused by some incompatibilities between the original PPS file and 'Century Gothic' font and between this font through platforms. Under Windows XP SP2 opens Impress 2.0.1 PPS correctly -- in contrast to PowerPoint 2003 which behaves the same as described in report ;) -- and diacritics is without problems in exported SWF. So it is an enhancement to show some warning message if some characters aren't available, rather than defect. It isn't our bug. -- Martin Kozák CS User Support Leader
HDU: Shoud be well to reassign it to requirements.
Hi, Martin I cannot agree that this is an enhancement. We can split the issue to two sub-problems: 1, OOo should warn user that there are going to be problems with diacritical characters. We must say that OOo has all information necessarry to do that. Because it dosen't warn the user, and everything seems alright on screen, the output we can consider "unexpected behaviour" or, being more agressive, even "DATA LOSS" (diacritical information is unexpectedely lost) This is clearly a bug and I disagree with lowering the priority. I also disagree with calling this "enhancement". 2, OOo might then solve the situation the same way as it already does while displaying the originating PPS -by using other suitable font. This is however only partially an "enhancement" -because OOo should behave consistently. Inconsistent behaviour can be considered a bug. If OOo is able to solve font problem in one action, the same way it should behave in other situation. User can expect this, and he's right. Conclusion: Because of the 1, it SHOULDN'T be an enhancement. The issue could also gain P2.
I say "could" because it isn't completely clear. However I do think, that it is enough for P3: "The user interface for a common functionality is confusing."
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".