Bernie Gardner wrote:
On Friday 24 October 2008, Basil Chupin wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
My autoupdate has installed 3.0 and its a bomb.
I tried opening some files I was working on last week with 2.4 and it crashed.
Restarting causes a recovery, that then crashes.
Trying to open without a document causes the recovery of the old document to run ... and then a crash.
Updates seem to be daily, but this is distressing in the mean time. Definitely a work-stopper!
David C. Rankin said the following on 10/24/2008 02:10 AM:
Basil Chupin wrote:
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2.4.1 has been great. I'm in no hurry for 3.0 from a "need new features" standpoint, but I can't wait to see the improvements.
Strange, working perfectly here with all documents including ones created using MS Word.
Ciao.
I have been using OpenOffice 2.4.1 Impress to edit powerpoint files. It had worked well until recently when a particular existing ppt file caused it to crash. The automatic recovery didn't work. So I installed the 3.0 version from the Suse repository. It opened the file ok, but I quickly found that if I used anything other than the default, plain background master slide, it would not save as a powerpoint file. Since I need them to be useable in MS Office, that was not acceptable. As an experiment, I removed the OpenSuse version of OpenOffice and installed the version from the OpenOffice site. This installed into my root directory, and seems to work ok. I can save powerpoint files with no problem. The same file occasionally causes OO to crash, but the automatic recovery works, and even provides a useful reporting option. So the question is, why an Opensuse branded version which doesn't work when the OpenOffice version works just fine. The only thing I get with the Suse version is automatic entries in the KDE menu, but I can change those links myself!
Cannot comment on anything you mention about editing powerpoint files because I do not use powerpoint for anything. You don't make it clear (above) which you are referring to when you mention "powerpoint file" - are you talking about what OO produces or what MS produces? However, I can express a query about your use of "a particular existing ppt file" and which caused you a problem, and my understanding that MS creates files with the *.pps extension. I am guessing that you are using OO to create *.ppt files which you then convert to *.pps to use in MS Powerpoint. My wife receives *.pps files from a friend oversea and I have looked at them last night using OO v3 and converted them backwards and forwards between *.ppt and *.pps and have had no hassles with either conversions or reading them. But as I said, I do not use *.ppt/*.pps files in anything I do on a daily basis. And to make sure that we are talking about apples and oranges, I am using 11.0, 32-bit version, with KDE4.1.x and the latest v3.0.x OO - all having been upgraded to the latest versions over the past few days (give or take a day or so -- I upgrade several times a day [if there are upgrades available]). Ciao. -- If you go through life with your head in the sand, all people will see is an arse. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org