[upstream] "Changing page assignment" error, OOo can't open Powerpoint read-only password protected presentations

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After being able to view many MS-Power Point presentations without any problem, I encountered one .pps file that would not load in my OpenOffive ver.2.4 runnin on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Warning message was: "Change Page assignment. The loading of password encrypted MS-Power Point presentation is not supported".
All other files still load correctly.
I was not able to find out how to change the "page assignment" in the help sections.
I changed the "Properties" of the file without any effect.

Thank You

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Can you please attach an example document exhibiting this problem?

[[e-mail] (alpichat-verizon)]

Chris Cheney wrote:
> Can you please attach an example document exhibiting this problem?
>
> ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>
Here is the attached .pps file that would not open in Open Office.org 2.4

It responds with:
"Change background page assignment. The loading of password-encrypted
Microsoft Power Point presentations
is not supported."

This file opens in a standard Windows XP computer. No password is required.

Thank you
Al Pichat

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Thanks for the file! It has been determined to be an upstream issue and a bug has already been filed in their bugtracker.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Upstream #97966 was a duplicate o #46307. I've updated the link.

The upstream bug indicates:
"We can see in various OOo forums that PowerPoint files password protected for
modifications, but not protected for reading, are becoming common."

[Fabio M. Panico (fbugnon)]

Just linking things. It looks like it's the same bug reported by the OpenOffice team in

http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=46307