Presentation hell in FC4

[Peter van Hooft]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:56:35AM -0400, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:56:00 +0100
> From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>
> Subject: Presentation hell in FC4
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> 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