On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:56:35AM -0400, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Message: 14 > Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:56:00 +0100 > From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Presentation hell in FC4 > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <200604141456.05862.cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I have an .sxi presentation that needs updating. To my horror, I find that > OpenOffice2 crashes every time I try to work with it. I have tried opening > it and saving to different formats, including odp, but every time I get a > crash when trying to work with the document. OOo2 does manage to recover the > file, but I can't work with it. > > I then tried kpresenter. Despite all claims to the contrary, kpresenter > cannot work with an .odp file saved by OOo2, and OOo2 cannot work with the > file saved by kpresenter. It looks as though I'm going to have to try to > build the presentation again from scratch, and at the moment I don't know > whether OOo2 or kpresenter is the better bet, particularly since there is a > chance that I may have to carry the presentation on a key-drive, and the host > may not have koffice. > In the past I've had the same problem with oocalc, and after some hours of troubleshooting I found that if you remove the .recently-used file in your home directory oocalc stopped crashing. Perhaps this will help you as well. peter
