Impress 3.4 prints polygons as rectangles and ovals as polygons

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#1

I used Impress in 3.4.3 to create a presentation containing graphics of
various shapes, eg, polygons, ovals, etc. They looked fine when viewing in
a browser and they looked find in the little preview in the printer dialog
box. However, for some of the pages in the presentation printed on my
Epson 400SX, the polygons are printed as squares (but with the polygon
border visible within) and the ovals are printed as polygons (again with the
oval border visible within).

I reinstalled LibreOffice 3.4.3, no joy. I uninstalled and installed 3.4.2,
no joy.

I uninstalled and installed 3.3.4, and they are now printed correctly.

So, it seems there is some problem with the 3.4 series.

Anyone come across this or know the cause?

#2

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Is it possible for you to upload a sample somewhere? Note: unfortunately
this list doesn't allow attachments, so perhaps upload via nabble or to
an alternate site. Also, in order for others to test properly, please
let us know what operating system you are using, and, how you created
the polygons and ovals (standard draw shapes, hand crafted/line edit
points etc).

#3

NoOp wrote:

Is it possible for you to upload a sample somewhere? Note: unfortunately
this list doesn't allow attachments, so perhaps upload via nabble or to
an alternate site. Also, in order for others to test properly, please
let us know what operating system you are using, and, how you created
the polygons and ovals (standard draw shapes, hand crafted/line edit
points etc).

Yes, I can send the doc, but I don't know how to do it via nabble.
Otherwise, I could email it you or maybe email a google docs link to you.
What do you prefer/would be easiest?

This is on Win-7 64-bit. The polygons/ovals were just standard shapes, with
standard bitmap fills (which are incorrectly printed as rectangles/polygons,
respectively, though with the correct polygon/oval outlines).

Thanks, Simon.

#4

How are you creating the polygons? From the shapes listed on the shape "taskbar" which is at the bottom of the screen layout? I have "Drawing" checked in the View>Toolbars.

I created a 6 sided poly and printed it out via Cups-PDF. It printed just fine with 3.4.1 on 64-bit Ubuntu/Debian version. It also printed fine with Export to PDF.

#5

NoOp wrote:

Is it possible for you to upload a sample somewhere? Note: unfortunately
this list doesn't allow attachments, so perhaps upload via nabble or to
an alternate site. Also, in order for others to test properly, please
let us know what operating system you are using, and, how you created
the polygons and ovals (standard draw shapes, hand crafted/line edit
points etc).

Yes, I can send the doc, but I don't know how to do it via nabble.
Otherwise, I could email it you or maybe email a google docs link to you.
What do you prefer/would be easiest?

Email is fine. Or you could try:
http://www.senduit.com/
You can set the link expiration link from 30 minutes to 1 week.

[OT] Which brings up another issue: the OOo list allowed ODF
attachments. It's too bad that we can't do the same on this list. But
I'll bring that up on the discussions list later.

This is on Win-7 64-bit. The polygons/ovals were just standard shapes, with
standard bitmap fills (which are incorrectly printed as rectangles/polygons,
respectively, though with the correct polygon/oval outlines).

I can test on Win7 (mine is 64bit as well, but that doesn't matter as LO
is using 32bit), WinXP, and linux. LO versions 3.3.3 and 3.4.3 (others
are easily loaded in linux), and OOo 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.3.0, and 3.4.0 (dev).

Thanks, Simon.

Happy to help if I can.
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#6

Hi :slight_smile:
You can upload to Nabble to keep the attachment with the thread.

Click on this link to see this thread in Nabble
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Impress-3-4-prints-polygons-as-rectangles-and-ovals-as-polygons-td3329585.html
Click on "Reply" and then "More Options" and "Upload File"
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

The server resources would be much higher if there was attachments allowed.

Actually, the last time I was using OOo and on their list, they did not allow attachments, even .odt ones, on it. When did it change? I have been off the list since later spring.

For me, I rarely used the Nabble system, so I did not know about the attachments. Maybe I might go there when I need to have an attachment instead of uploading it onto one of my domains so the LO list answers would have my image/document/etc. "attached".

Never heard of senduit.com. I may look into it some time. How large is the file size restrictions [some do not state the actual limit which is lower than stated], if you know off hand. My hosting company does not state that I cannot have file sizes above 300-400 MB. The actual figure is unknown since I was working with CD and DVD ISO sizes when it was rejected due to size limitations.

#8

Duh it was so easy! OK, hopefully attached below is the doc that my daughter
had created. She first created slides 1-5 and found that slide 5 printed
incorrectly, as I described above. I then helped create slide 6 to see if
that solved the problem, but didn't. At that point I tried 3.4.2 (bad) and
then 3.3.4 (good).

The polygons came from "Basic shapes" and the oval from "Ellipse". We also
used "Flowcharts", though I can't remember if they print incorrectly too. I
still have 3.3.4 installed, but I can "upgrade" to 3.4.3 if that would help.

http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3333441/german_and_history_homework.odp
german_and_history_homework.odp

#9

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Thanks Tom for the Nabble upload info.

I only printed page 5 from LO 3.4.3 Win7 to an Epson Workforce 635; the
results were not pretty. I then exported as a PDF and that looked fine.
So I then printed to PDFCreator and the results of that PDF look nearly
the same as when printed to the printer.

Screenshot of page 5 with PDFCreator is here:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/716/screenshotgermanandhist.png/

Scanned image of print (Win7 LO 3.4.3) is here:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/827/germanprint.png/
[I printed in Black & White to save ink]

I then printed the same (page 5) from LO 3.4.3 linux to the same printer
& that printed properly. Exporting to PDF was fine, as was printing to
cups-pdf.

I'll uninstall 3.4.3 & reinstall 3.4.3 on Win7 & see if the results are
different.

#10

Sorry, meant: I'll reinstall 3.3.4 on Win7.

Did that & page 5 prints just fine. Scanned print image is here:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/842/german334.png/

So I reckon that you've a valid bug report issue... and we can all skip the:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
<quote>
LibreOffice 3.4.3 Final (2011-08-31)

*Safe for production use by most users and enterprises.*
</quote - emphasis mine>
bit...

#11

NoOp wrote:

I only printed page 5 from LO 3.4.3 Win7 to an Epson Workforce 635; the
results were not pretty.

Yes, and I can see you also get the extra shapes in slide 5. I wasn't
certain that those extra shapes were also bugs - my daughter insisted she
had not created those shapes at any stage and they genuinely didn't appear
to be in the slide but I couldn't imagine that a bug would manifest itself
in that way.

NoOp wrote:

So I reckon that you've a valid bug report issue...

Thanks, I've reported it now, referencing this thread, as
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40863 40863 .

Thanks again for your help!

#12

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Thank you for taking the time to open the bug report! I'll add the
screenshots of my tests to the report so that the devs don't have to go
searching on imageshack.

Gary

#13

Hi :slight_smile:
Nicely done :)  Good team-work there.  The bug-report has the 4 attachments already now.  Thanks for posting a link to the bug-report in here.  It made it easy to click and have a quick around.  Hopefully that might help people if they run into a similar problem in the future.  Hmmm, or more hopefully the bug will get completely fixed in amazingly quickly as happens in LO sometimes.
Thanks and regards from
Tom :slight_smile: