Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 89214
full screen slideshow only displays blank screens
Last modified: 2009-09-27 16:19:53 UTC
Open any presentation file (.ppt, .odp, etc) and press F5. It will display each slide as a blank screen. One can go through all the slides and it will display "click to exit..." as usual. Everything is fine in all the five tabs (normal, outline, notes, handout, slide sorter).
I checked with "2.4.0 Multilingual version German UI WIN XP: [680m12(Build9286)]" and can NOT confirm the reported effect. @freemant: This really works for you with preference menu 'Slide show -> Slide Show Settings ... -> Type "Window"'? Pls. contribute more information concerning your PC (Graphic card ...)
Found an important clue: It works in 256 colors but will display blank screen (white) at 16bit or 32bit colors. My display card is SiS 300/200. It happens regardless of the resolution (800x600 or 1024x768). The "window" mode shows the same behavior: blank screen (white). OOo 2.3 works fine.
Reassigned.
does it help to turn of the option "Use hardware acceleration" under "Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->View"? This sounds like an SIS driver bug, do you have the latest driver version installed? Updating directx may also help.
Yeah, turning off "Use hardware acceleration" fixes the problem. The driver I am using is SiS 300 version 5.0.2128.1000, published and signed by Microsoft.
Setting to works for me. Seems to be the drivers fault.
Closed.
We have identified this issue in 3.0.0_m9 during the Hebrew OO.o L10N effort, and it seems to have a language / direction (RTL) tie-in. Windows XP, SP2 ATI Rage II+ 3D, PCI 16-bit video @ 1152 x 864 The behavior was as follows: - Start OO.o - Create new presentation - Choose basic template (1 header box above, 1 bullet box below) - Enter Hebrew text - Show Slide show (F5) - Screen is blank To fix the problem: - Add Latin text - Show Slide Show - Screen is correct, with both Latin and Hebrew Once the problem was fixed, it did not recur, and slides showed correctly, whether they contained Latin text, Hebrew, or a combination. We did some testing, and established that the "use" of Latin text was enough to enable display of the slide, for example: - Start OO.o - Create new presentation - Choose basic template (1 header box above, 1 bullet box below) - Enter Latin text in a field - Delete the Latin text - Enter Hebrew text - Show Slide Show - Screen is correct, showing Hebrew It sure "smells" like an uninitialized variable (or missing initialization procedure) that is invoked from Latin (English) text but not from Hebrew (RTL) text. Whether it is a function of the direction (RTL vs. LTR), or of the font / language set, is unclear. If there is someone who is set up with Arabic it might be instructive to see if they have the same problem, in which case it's more likely an RTL issue.
@eli_sko -> As this issue is already closed, I suggest that you'll open a follow up issue regarding RTL.