Problem with Impress.

users
#1

I posted this before but haven't seen an answer in awhile so I'm doing it again.

I hope this is the right place to report issues. Perhaps I'm just not using
the program correctly.

I made a slideshow presentation using the basic default theme. I changed the
background to a single jpg graphic I found which was applied to the whole
thing. However, I wanted to change the background to something else for two
slides.

I changed the background on those two slides and told it not to apply it to
the whole presentation.

I saved the presentation.

Even though I saved it, when I opened my presentation later it did not save
the backgrounds on those two slides. It changed the backgrounds back to the
master background.

How can I get that to save?

Troy

#2

I posted this before but haven't seen an answer in awhile so I'm doing it
again.

I hope this is the right place to report issues. Perhaps I'm just not using
the program correctly.

I made a slideshow presentation using the basic default theme. I changed the
background to a single jpg graphic I found which was applied to the whole
thing. However, I wanted to change the background to something else for two
slides.

I changed the background on those two slides and told it not to apply it to
the whole presentation.

I saved the presentation.

Even though I saved it, when I opened my presentation later it did not save
the backgrounds on those two slides. It changed the backgrounds back to the
master background.

How can I get that to save?

Hi Troy

I had a similar problem using master pages

Ismael Fanlo from spanish community found the solution[1]. Where you
need a different background pictures must be inserted and then,
arrange > send to back.

hope that helps, regards

[1] http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/es/users/msg00060.html

#3

So are you saying not to replace the background on those slides but instead import the image as a picture and then send it to back?

Troy

#4

So are you saying not to replace the background on those slides but instead import the image as a picture and then send it to back?

as I said on previous message my problem was related to master pages,
in that case setting a different background on each master page didn't
work. But importing the images and then send them to back did. So,
give it a try and tell us.

#5

Ok. I manually imported an image. I then stretched it to take up the full size of the slide. I then sent to back. I saved it and re-opened it and it appears now.

However, in my mind, we shouldn't have to do it that way. It's a pain and not very intuitive. We should be able to just change the background on a slide by slide basis.

#6

Ok. I manually imported an image. I then stretched it to take up the full
size of the slide. I then sent to back. I saved it and re-opened it and it
appears now.

However, in my mind, we shouldn't have to do it that way. It's a pain and
not very intuitive. We should be able to just change the background on a
slide by slide basis.

Sure, I agree with you

#7

Me too. Just 'cause there's a workaround doesn't mean it's not a bug.

Please consider filing a bug report on the LibreOffice bugtracker at http://bugs.freedesktop.org (if you search and find it hasn't been reported yet).

Cheers,

-r

#8

Hi Troy,

Troy Schulz schrieb:

I posted this before but haven't seen an answer in awhile so I'm doing
it again.

I hope this is the right place to report issues. Perhaps I'm just not using
the program correctly.

I made a slideshow presentation using the basic default theme. I changed
the
background to a single jpg graphic I found which was applied to the whole
thing. However, I wanted to change the background to something else for two
slides.

You should not change the page of a slide, but create a master page for each of the different backgrounds.

Give each master page a name.

Apply the master page immediately to a slide.

I changed the background on those two slides and told it not to apply it to
the whole presentation.

I saved the presentation.

In which format do you save? ppt is not able to held different page backgrounds but for the title page.

Even though I saved it, when I opened my presentation later it did not save
the backgrounds on those two slides. It changed the backgrounds back to the
master background.

How can I get that to save?

Use master pages and save in odp-format. I have no trouble using different backgrounds. I work with LO3.3.2 (and a lot of OOo) on WinXP.

Kind regards
Regina

#9

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#10

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#11

[ replied off list to John ]
John Davies wrote (04-04-11 22:42)