Bug 113823

Summary:	When importing a pps file Kpresenter shows a popup "Missing export filter"...
Product:	[Applications] calligrastage	Reporter:	Miquel Torres <miquel.t>
Component:	filters	Assignee:	KOffice Bug Wranglers <koffice-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	crash	CC:	deivid.rodriguez, pesel, roytheman29330, zander
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.4.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	The (totally unimportant) file that causes it

Description Miquel Torres 2005-10-04 07:53:57 UTC

Version:           1.4.1 (using KDE KDE 3.4.1)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

When importing a pps file Kpresenter shows a popup "Missing export filter" that wrongly says "Could not export file". When you press the OK button, the popup appears again. You can click as many times you won't, the popup comes again and so the app is blocked, and must be killed (so it is not a crash, but just as bad).

An import filter (tricky business) may fail to import a file, but it should never block or crash the whole application.

Comment 1 Miquel Torres 2005-10-04 08:03:03 UTC

Created attachment 12839 [details]
The (totally unimportant) file that causes it

Comment 2 Halla Rempt 2005-10-17 14:43:29 UTC

I don't get the popup with today's svn -- although it says something similar on the command-line, but kpresenter does hang. I'll confirm this bug.

Comment 3 Nicolas Cedilnik 2007-01-09 18:04:30 UTC

also have this bug with a .ppt file, using Debian/Unstable packages

Comment 4 Sindhu Sundar 2008-07-04 08:12:10 UTC

I get this popup box too, any fix yet?

Comment 5 Sven Langkamp 2009-01-15 16:54:06 UTC

*** Bug 153619 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Roy S. Smith 2009-01-25 19:01:17 UTC

The Kpresenter handbook says that Kpresenter 1.6.3 only attempts to open Microsoft PPS files but sometimes it is not reliable in doing so, depending on the version of the Powerpoint that created them and the content of the files. I also noticed that clicking OK over and over again to get rid of the error message simply coresponds to the number of slides in the presentation. For instance, if there are 15 slides, you will have to click OK fifteen times for the message to go away but after that Kpresenter shows a blank presentation. I am using Gentoo.

Comment 7 Roy S. Smith 2009-01-25 19:02:30 UTC

I am using Kpresenter 1.6.3 and the Kpresenter handbook says that "Kpresenter only attempts to open Microsoft PPS files but sometimes it is not reliable in doing so, depending on the version of the Powerpoint that created them and the content of the files". I also noticed that clicking OK over and over again to get rid of the error message simply coresponds to the number of slides in the presentation. For instance, if there are 15 slides, you will have to click OK fifteen times for the message to go away but after that Kpresenter shows a blank presentation. I am using Gentoo.

Comment 8 Roy S. Smith 2009-01-25 19:11:33 UTC

sorry for the double post

Comment 9 deivid 2009-11-08 19:16:28 UTC

I'm experiencing the same bug