On my system and the go-oo version the sqareroot (and braces) are distorted if hardware acceleration is selected in "tools->options->view". If it is unselected, everthing displays normally. in the official Version, the box is always greyed and hardware acceleration cannot be selected at al...

Hi tjkopena, just like acknack, I never found the behaviour you decribe in any OOversion (up to OODEV3.2m6) in a newly created Openoffice presentation(using ubuntu, presently on karmic). I did find ,however, effects similar to the one you describe in presentations, that I initially created in powerp...

hi, unfortunately playing media directly in impress is still some sort of adventure(sometimes works moreless in one version, sometimes not in the next and vice versa, in any case you have to do some fiddling around with the jmf). As a workaround so far I recommend to call the video file as an "...

Hi all, this seems to be a bug of the intermediate Openoffice-Version 3.1 that comes with ubuntu intrepid. The newest OO-version from the OO-website doesn't have this bug any more. If you install that one in place of the repository version however, you exchange this bug against some other one's that...

From the menu:
Insert -> Object -> OLE Object -> Select "Spreadsheet" and "Create from File and mark "link" , then select your Spreadsheet.
Now just doubleclick the chart and move the window of the shown part to the chart.

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micha137

Hello, media embedding was buggy und did not function in all the OO3.x I have tried so far in Ubuntu (Hardy and Intrpid) up to the Ubuntu version(!!!) included in jaunty. The ubuntu team obviously managed finally to get sounds and videos running reliably(and to be able to use animated bulleted lists...

Hi, I was wrong in the last posting :oops: , it is not a matter of formats or retyping. It is a matter of having other objects in front! Animations run more smoothly, if the textbox is lying on top. If other textfields are arranged in front of the animated one(regardless of position, overlap is not ...

Hi there, my Problem: I am using impress for more that two years now for lots of lecture presentations and have lately changed to a 1 kg-netbook with lower processor power for presentations. Most of my presentations have been created with OO2.2 - OO2.3x(formerly under windows). On my netbook all the...

Hi, I am using video and sound a lot in presentations under linux ubuntu. I have the feeling that in OO3.x there is not a problem of writing a guide, there is a problem of having it run at all. I have spent hours and hours trying to get it work, sometimes it does -a little bit(like playing newly ins...

Perhaps you updated to OO3.0 ? Downgrading to 2.4 might help! I had no troubles with sound and videos in OO2.4 under Linux-Ubuntu (after massaging the jmf somewhat like stated in past threads). Now in OO3.0 the multimedia features seem to be broken for me and old impress presentations cause a hard c...

I am using RC1 base. Regarding your problem 1: Opening a form does in deed takes surprisingly long. On my machine I have to wait 3-4 seconds till the form opens. I didn't consider this to be a serious problem yet but indeed it made me wonder what the hell is going on in my computer during these seco...

it is not easy to really change shapes and orientation of objects in impress (At least I don't know any way yet). Just tried to group acknaks angled arrow with a white box and add a straight line downwards as vertical arrow part. In principle You could then move this object downwards and produce the...

Hi Cedivad, as far as I know, impress doesn't embed media files. (I personally think that it is good to do it that way, since a big video on your disk is a video and should not be camouflaged to be a fat presentation....) To solve your problem, you could pack the presentation and the video into one ...

Hi,
You can just use the animation path "freeform line" and stack the movements on top of each other.
I'll attach the sample presentation "workday" (made in OOO3.0_rc1).
As far as I remember, the freeform line animation works since OOO2.4.(not shure though)

regards
micha137

Dear Forum users, my problem is: I am working on a study plan for a six semester engineering curriculum and am using base for this - the datbase itself and forms for working with the curriculum are set up to my satisfaction. At faculty meetings my colleagues are used to looking at the study plan in ...

Hi there, I frequently had the same problem when porting presentations between machines with different directory structures, when accidentally absolute paths were introduced. For me directly editing the content.xml file seemed the best option. You don't have to rename the files to *.zip. You can exp...

Hi sanderja and jill, I agree that it is a pity, that antialiasing of vector- and pixelgraphics has not been implemented yet in open office. The degree of annoyance depends strongly on the format of the image you embed. if you embed pictures scanned in black and white or in an indexed color scale, t...

Hi there, a workaround might be to produce the drawings in inkscape (or export the OO-drawing to svg-format and then import into inkscape). Inkscape does antialiasing perfectly and you can export to pixelgraphics in very good quality. I have been doing this once in a while, but (for me at least)it i...

Hi there, I forgot to mention: This procedure worked for me for all versions since I first tried it on Openoffice 2.2 (i.e. with 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.4 and OOdev3.0) Insert movies with "Insert-Movie and sound" and not with "insert-object-movie". (The latter crashed on me in 2.x and...

Hi caver, I can't tell much for Openoffice under windows, but figured out a procedure to play most(all I have tried) video formats under Linux(Ubuntu) - worked for me at least. 1. Download JMF from the sun website 2. Look up, which JRE you are using in Openoffice(it is important to know precisely wh...

Hi there, under Linux it took me some internet research and some messing around with the JRE but I finally got videos playing pretty well in my open office presentations (They won't play on a click though - they start automatically after entering the viewgraph containing them is shown.) I give all m...

Hi there,

if you are using 2.3.0, I am pretty shure the bug responsible is the one mentioned also in the posting:
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/ ... f=10&t=375

Try upgrading to 2.3.1 or 2.4 rc1 - the defect should be gone then.

Best regards
micha137

I tried to use base about a year ago as a replacement to access. At that point of time it crashed frequently and drove me up the wall to the point that I completely stopped using it. Tried it again a couple of moths ago (OO_2.3.1 and now OOdev_m4 under ubuntu gutsy) for a serious application(databas...

same in my case with OO2.3.0 from the ubuntu repository.
(resolution had been set to 300 dpi in all cases.)

regards
micha137

Hmm, I just tried printing the notes of one of my presentations to pdf with the current oo-dev(m4) and 2.3.1 under Ubuntu 7.10. The resolution of Notes and Viewgraphs turned out fine in my case. (The only annoyance was that they were printed out in "landscape" orientation despite my settin...

Hi, the post made me check again in more detail. In my case the ghost image indeed comes with pasted draw objects from an old (faulty) oo-draw version. The ghost is gone when I copy the grouped drawing to the a current oo-draw page, delete the group in impress and plainly reinsert it again per copy ...

Hi, I have a similar annoyance with an unused background pattern. Searching the styles part gave me some 2-3 references, but the pattern is definitely not used. Additionally there is no style among the applied styles which uses it. I suspect the background pattern came with a graphics object(not usi...

hello kida, to update to the newest Openoffice version under ubuntu do the following: 1.) uninstall the original ubuntu-version of openoffice (e.g. with the synaptic package manager). Don't worry, your personal OO-profile is preserved. 2.) download the debian version of openoffice 2.3.1 (if you wish...

@kuchl

these are exactly the symtoms of the bug I was thinking of.
It has been fixed in 2.3.1

good luck

thanks kabin,

I did it this way and it worked nicely (Main form was the Query containing the join, subform was the table).

regards
micha137