Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 72377
Non-ASCII characters in the font default to Arial Unicode Ms
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:21:02 UTC
When exporting the Impress file to PPT, international characters in some fonts get mangled. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Write some text in the presentation using some non-ASCII characters, e.g., Polish characters, in Verdana font (or any non-Arial font) 2. Save to PPT 3. Open in PPT: you'll see Verdana text with Arial Unicode MS characters interspersed (looks quite ugly, see the attachment)
Created attachment 41221 [details] Arial Unicode in Verdana string after export to PowerPoint
Reassigned.
note that this doesn't appear on Export to PDF nor in printing, this is only PowerPoint issue
Hello milek_pl, could you give us some more information like - which OS are you using (I think you are using Windows, but which version?)? - which version of OOo (as 2.1. is not released now - as far as I know ... ;) )? - have you tried other fonts (or their replacements) as well, like Times New Roman, Courier and the like? I could not test this issue here, as I am using Debian Sid and OOo 2.1RC2, and have no M$O here ... ;) Thomas.
Thackert: 1/ Windows XP, SP2 2/ OpenOffice.org 2.1RC2 - I'm doing the QA for this build, that's how I found this bug (I forgot about it, it is present in all 2.x builds I've found) 3/ With Courier New and Times New Roman the situation is the same - Arial Unicode MS is being substituted for the Polish national chars. It looks even more ugly on export :( AFAIK, you can try wine and PowerPoint Viewer to confirm the issue on Debian.
Nam Nguyá»…n reports that when saving a .sxi file to .ppt then opening it in PowerPoint, the font is changed. (Windows XP on i386, OpenOffice.org 2.1 RC2 Vietnamese build.) I myself observed this font change (Mac OSX Intel, same version), but when opening a PowerPoint file and saving it to .odt (OpenDocument) in Impress. (Note: saving .ppt as .sxi displayed accurately on my system.) I'd downloaded the file from the Net: a beautiful .ppt slideshow raising awareness about a health matter. It looked really impressive (sic) in .ppt format, but when I saved it in .odt format, the font had changed, throughout the document. Yuk. The Vietnamese characters were still shown in both these cases (Windows XP > PPT and Mac OSX Intel > .odt), but in font(s) different from the original file. In both cases, this meant fonts less suitable for Vietnamese, which looked pretty awful. So this problem will put users off using the app. :( In my case (Mac OSX Intel), the original PowerPoint file used Georgia, Helvetica Neue and Verdana. The .odt version had converted them all to Times. Interestingly, when the .ppt version is open, the font picker in the toolbar shows Times by default, unless you select an existing textbox. Please see the attached two screenshots. I will ask Nam for further details on which fonts were involved.
Drat, I can't attach screenshots to another's issue. Please see: http://www.riverland.net.au/~clytie/OpenOffice/anhchup/Loi/PowerPoint_original_doc.png http://www.riverland.net.au/~clytie/OpenOffice/anhchup/Loi/OpenDocument_exported_doc.png
More info given, removing keyword
Please attach the / a document to reproduce the bug.
Created attachment 42748 [details] Original presentation file (not garbled yet)
Created attachment 42749 [details] Garbled file in PowerPoint (open with PowerPoint, not Impress to see how ugly this looks)
cgu -> I attached two files. The PPT file was saved in Impress. On openining in PowerPoint 2000, it displays two fonts under the "Tytuł": Times New Roman interspersed with Arial Unicode MS. Probably results from saving Polish characters as Unicode and not CP-1250 in the PowerPoint file with Impress.
Set to new and change the target.
I can reproduce the bug. Please have a look.
Note: it looks fine in PowerPoint 2007.
Hello milek_pl, *, does your last entry mean, that this issue is fixed? Would you be so kind to test it again with a newer version of OOo than 2.1, please? And does it still look again in PowerPoint 2007? If so: Would you be so kind to close this issue? TIA Thomas.
@thackert: no, the issue is not fixed. All I meant is that the problem appears in when the file is open PowerPoint versions 97...2003, and not later. Note that in 2007, ppt is no longer a native format, so maybe the error is lost during internal Microsoft Office conversion. I attach a screenshot of how it looks in PowerPoint Viewer 2003.
Created attachment 64037 [details] PowerPoint Viewer 2003 garbled fonts
@thackert: to be clear: I just tested the export in OOo 3.1, and it's still there. Maybe I should be more clear about why it is important for all presenters that use PowerPoint in their native languages: if we prepare the presentation in Impress, we cannot simply be sure there will be OpenOffice.org (sometimes you cannot use your own laptop), so we would like to save to ppt, as pdf doesn't save animations etc. As it is now, ppt export is unreliable.