Issue 115632

Sorry, not reproducible. Is this an original OOo version you are using or from
some other distributor?

Created attachment 75031 [details]
Example of bad animation.

The Debian version (1:3.2.1-7 according to their classification). Their own bugtacking page for 
impress seems unmaintained at the moment, so I decided to check upstream.

I've created an attachment. After opening the file, press F5 and click to trigger animation. Observe 
differently coloured regions near letter "A".

Please confirm or reject denoting the impress version you are using.

works like a charm on Solaris x86 with OOo330m15 (OOo 3.3.0 RC5)

Thank you, as soon as I install it, I'll report here.

By the way: the bug exists also in the version listed as

OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 
OOO320m19 (Build:9505)
ooo-build 3.2.1.4, Debian package 1:3.2.1-9

Sorry, don't have openoffice any more, cannot re-test. Please close the bug report unless you have new findings.

This Issue requires more information ('needmoreinfo'), but has not been updated
within the last year. Please provide feedback as requested and re-test with the the latest version of OpenOffice - the problem(s) may already be addressed. 

You can download Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 from http://www.openoffice.org/download

Please report back the outcome of your testing, so this Issue may be closed or
progressed as necessary - otherwise the issue may be Resolved as Invalid in the
future.

We should have enough info to confirm or reject on AOO 3.4.1

Replicating the Report

I tried replicating this on two configurations using Open Office 4.1.0  (AOO410m18, Build:9764)

1. MacBook Pro (Early 2011), Mac OSX 10.9.3 (AMD Raedon HD Graphics Card)
2. Dell Laptop (2013), Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 (NVIDIA NVS 5200M Graphics Card)

I couldn’t reproduce the bug on either configuration using the either the attached slide-set or newly created ones and didn’t observe any colour distortion as described.

However, in my attempts to replicate the original problem, I did observe some anomalies associated with animations involving overlapping objects. They may have been a result of the same error that prompted the original report from jaakov, and for that reason, I’ll elaborate on them below.

- Create a rectangle with the default fill colour (blue in this instance)
- Create a text box (F2) with some black text and place it on top of the rectangle
- Add a ‘change fill colour’ animation so the rectangle changes colour to red (set the speed to ‘slow)

After starting the slideshow and the animation, two things were visible during the animation sequence:

- The text completely disappears from view for a fraction of a second
- Once the text reappears, the outline of the text has a thin white border which becomes more visible as the animation darkens the fill colour (once the animation stops however, the text no longer has the ‘fuzzy borders’

Follow-Up Tests

Object Proximity Variation: I extended the level of text overlap with the rectangle  and observed that any part of a text string overlapped the rectangle it also disappeared from view momentarily.

Hardware/OS: As I observed this on the Mac, I immediately tried it on Windows and observed the same behaviour.

ODP Slide in Microsoft Powerpoint: If I imported the same OO slide from my earlier tests into Powerpoint and played it, I observed neither of the anomalies. 

PPT Slide in OpenOffice:  Similarly, if I imported the native PPT file I created in Powerpoint into OpenOffice, I observed both anomalies again.

Animation Variation: I was curious whether this was limited to one of more animations, but saw the behaviour with Teeter, Flicker and Desaturate animations as well.

Object Depth Variation: Neither issue was visible when the text was behind the rectangle - only when it was in front.

The natural follow-up test would be to try it on Linux and perhaps vary the graphics card - The MacBook Pro had a AMD Radeon HD graphics card while the Dell Windows 7 setup had a NVIDIA NVS 5200M card.

Attachments

I have attached 3 files

animate.odp - The file created with AOO
animate.ppt - The file created with PP
animate.swf - A short movie to illustrate my observations as viewed on both Mac and Windows platforms.

Although the observations I made do not cause catastrophic failures, they do take the visible shine off any presentation that uses elements in this way.

Created attachment 83555 [details]
Native ODP File with overlapping objects/emphasis animation

Created attachment 83556 [details]
Native PPT File with overlapping objects/emphasis animation

Created attachment 83557 [details]
SWF movie file of slide show anomalies captured using Jing