PPTX is opened in Draw not in Impress

[Alexander Kallenbach]

After updating to Ubuntu version 21.04 and thus also updating LibreOffice to 7.1, some PPTX presentations are no longer opened with Impress, but with Draw.

Unfortunately, I can not upload the presentations, because I would violate the privacy and / or copyright rights.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: libreoffice (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-16.17-generic 5.11.12
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Apr 27 09:27:33 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-02-09 (76 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-04-23 (3 days ago)

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

One ppt gets opened in Writer.

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

According to the Nautilus dialog, the presentation should be opened with Impress. But when I click on Open, Draw or in another case Writer opens.

Opening from within Impress does not make any difference either. I.e. also then the presentation is opened in Draw.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Trying on a testfile here it does open with impress as expected

Could you try to do
$ gio info <presentation.pptx>

and add the log to the report?

Could be that you changed the default? You can reset the association in the nautilus preferences dialog on a file of the format

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

Anzeigename: PPPWeihnachtsfrieden.pptx
Name bearbeiten: PPPWeihnachtsfrieden.pptx
Name: PPPWeihnachtsfrieden.pptx
Typ: regular
Größe: 6490146
Adresse: file:///home/****/AntonCloud/PPPWeihnachtsfrieden.pptx
lokaler Pfad: /home/****/AntonCloud/PPPWeihnachtsfrieden.pptx
Unix-Einhängepunkt: /dev/mapper/vgubuntu-root / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro
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  standard::copy-name: PPPWeihnachtsfrieden.pptx
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[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

@Sebstian Bacher: If you want to I could send you the file via PM/Email.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what's the output of

$ gio mime application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation

and did you try to check the default association in nautilus and reset it?

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

Standardanwendung für »application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation«: libreoffice-impress.desktop
Registrierte Anwendungen:
 libreoffice-impress.desktop
 org.gnome.FileRoller.desktop
 org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop
Empfohlene Anwendungen:
 libreoffice-impress.desktop

In Nautilus the default association has been set to impress. I tried to change it, and changed it back to impress. But still the presentation is opened in Draw.

As described above. I just preformed the upgrade to Ubuntu 21.04. Before everything worked fine.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

so you pick impress and draw opens?!

what is '$ libreoffice --impress' doing on your system?

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

libreoffice --impress launches Impress. Today I found that the presentation I had sent you produced the same problem on a Windows machine running an older version of LibreOffice (6**). There, too, it was opened with Draw, although "Open with Impress" was also selected in Windows.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

indeed, confirmed, libreoffice --impress on that pptx does open it draw instead

[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

It seeems that this problem has been reported before: https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/122653/why-is-it-opening-pptx-in-draw-instead-of-impress/

So I'd like to file a bug upstream with the pptx in question. They need a file that reproduces the issue. Alex, would you be ok with providing me with the pptx and allowing me to post it to an upstream bug report?