Impress Custom animations glitch in Maverick

[Michael Anders]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

System: ubuntu 10.10 maverick meercat (and only here, ok in Lucid)
package: Openoffice / Impress
graphics: 1024x600 on a netbook mini-9 from dell, intel 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GM

When using custom animation at deselected option "hardware acceleration" nontrivial entry-animations (e.g. flyin, i.e.all except "appear") the background is treated improperly. There appear rectangular black fields on the screen after the animation and the background is not restored properly(see attached example). If the animated object is a group object, it is only shown partially after the animation. The error also occurs with hardware acceleration selected, although less gravely. There seem to be processing-performance related aspects involved.

This is a serious one: Using Openoffice for professional presentations containing animations is not possible anymore. I will have to downgrade to lucid again.

This effect does only occur in ubuntu maverick, not in previous versions. Additionally it occurs in the go-oo openoffice from ubuntu as well as in the original OO from sun. I presume it is a graphics(XORG??) bug. There might also be a chance, that it is an openoffice bug exposed in maverick due to new and different handling of graphics.

[Tim Holy (holy-wustl)]

I should add that I see problems with background even with "trivial" entry animations (e.g., Appear). It also seems independent of whether I'm using hardware acceleration or not. For me, the glitches only occur in presentation mode; when in normal view (editing mode) they look fine. I'm attaching two full screenshots, "normalview" is the normal view mode (e.g., editing mode) and "presenterview" (presentation mode, e.g., after hitting F5).

I agree with the original reporter: this is a serious bug. I have quite a few years worth of presentations that are currently not usable.

[Tim Holy (holy-wustl)]

Here's a small presentation (a single slide) that exhibits the problem.

[Tim Holy (holy-wustl)]

Lastly, I should have specified my hardware: Thinkpad T60, ATI x1400 graphics card. Likewise, this all worked up through Lucid, and seems broken in Maverick.

[Tim Holy (holy-wustl)]

Sorry to pepper this report with "spam", but I downloaded and tested the presentation submitted with the original report. For me it seems to work (meaning, I don't see obvious glitches), so this may be more than one bug, or one with different shades depending on hardware.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Michael Anders, thank you for reporting this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. This problem is unreproducible in Ubuntu 10.10 via LibreOffice Impress at the Terminal:

cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/686424/+attachment/1764186/+files/present.odp && loimpress -nologo present.odp

Does this work for you?

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y install libreoffice-impress

apt-cache policy libreoffice-impress
libreoffice-impress:
  Installed: 1:3.3.0-1maverick1
  Candidate: 1:3.3.0-1maverick1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.3.0-1maverick1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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