[Solved] PPTX font color always shown as black

[jcernoch]

If I open an PPTX presentation in MS Office, it is a black slide with yellow text.
If I open the same PPTX in OpenOffice 4.1.5., it is a black slide with black text.
Does anybody know how it could be fixed? Converting the text color into e.g. white does not help (it is again black).
My real use-case is a black image used as a slide background and white text over it. I need to keep the white text color. I understand compatibility issues in edge casese but I'm a bit surprised that something substantial like the text color is not preserved. Any reason for this?
Affected PPTX attached.

Look in MS Office:

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Look in OO Impress:

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[RoryOF]

Sometimes a ppt slide opened in OpenOffice brings the background to the front (top layer); I have run across this when a speaker brings only a USB stick with a presentation expecting there to be a compatible computer there - they being of the school that thinks computers are "magic boxes", and don't realise they are not all the same.

[cwolan]

Opened in 3.4.1 — a black slide with yellow text
Opened in 4.x — a black slide with black text
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Issue 125568 ("PPTX font color is set to black") might be a similar case.

[jcernoch]

Hello! This seems not to be this case. If I open the PPTX, then change the text color in Impress, the text is above the background.
Actually, the problem does not relate to background at all.
If I create only an empty (white) slide with yellow text, it is black when opened in Impress. The text color simply returns to black. See PPTX_compatibility2.pptx.

[Hagar Delest]

For the record, it opens fine in LibreOffice (the attachment of the first post).
See [Tutorial] Considering a Switch from OpenOffice to LibreOffice? Some Useful Information.

[jcernoch]

Thanks everyone for responses. You helped me even it is not actually fixed.

For the record, it opens fine in LibreOffice (the attachment of the first post).
See [Tutorial] Considering a Switch from OpenOffice to LibreOffice? Some Useful Information.

Thanks. This is very helpful. I think I can move to LibreOffice, I will definitely check in few days (it is not related to my computer).

[Nick N,]

Hi,

Sorry, I do not want to bother you with former versions. By the way, did you try to save your power point file in PPT format?

[Hagar Delest]

Since it seems to be an import issue, few chance that at the export the same bug would do the reverse...
PPT is anyway quite deprecated now.

[jcernoch]

If the original PPTX is saved as PPT in PowerPoint and opened in OpenOffice, it works. Maybe it is interesting, but not related to my problem because when a PPTX arrives at PC where no MS Office is installed, I can't do this step.
But anyway, now I plan to move to LibreOffice...

[Hagar Delest]

Ah, I thought the proposal was to save in PPT from AOO...
Interesting indeed, that means that there is a regression in the pptx import filter.
You can file a bug report since it is easily reproductible: [Tutorial] Reporting bugs or suggestions.

[jcernoch]

Unfortunately, I was not able to create an account at bugzilla for AOO - tutorial leads to this: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/createaccount.cgi
and the shown e-mail is not working (This is the qmail-send program at apache.org. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.)
But anyway, if AOO is no longer constantly supported, it is not a pitty. Thanks for tip.

[Nick N,]

Excuse me Sir,

I have seen for myself and managed to handle an XML PPTX as follows:

- After having reloaded the file in IMPRESS i saved it as odp first.
- Subsequently I opened my odp and noticed that I could change font colors.

By now, should I face same situation, I would act as above.

Regards

Nick