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First of all: Thanks for your great work!
I am trying to use your extension (v0.7) in LibreOffice 6.4.3.2 on Ubuntu 20.04. Unfortunately, I can't get it to work. I always receive the following error:

A Scripting Framework error occurred while running Basic script vnd.sun.star.script:ExpandAnimations.Main?-language=Basic&location=application

Message: The following Basic script could not be found:
library: 'ExpandAnimations'
module: 'ExpandAnimations'
method: 'Main'
location: 'application'

Here's a screenshot:

I tried to install versions 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6 under Fedora 30 (LibreOffice 6.2.2) and Debian 10 (LibreOffice 6.1.5). Both failed with a "Bad Zip File, Zip Exception: Zip END signature not found!" complaint by the Extension Manager. Am I missing a library dependency, or what may cause this problem?

Esperanto-English-Español
LibreOffice 6.4, 7.1
GNU/Linux, LinuxMint 20.1, Ubuntu 20.04
https://personal.us.es/gmolleda/Error-LO-ExpandAnimations.odp Github not support .odp, but support .docx, .pptx, .xlsx, When go to other git platform?
Esperanto
Mi pensas, ke ĝi estas libreoffice-eraro, ĉar ĝi estas la funkcio store() ĉe linio 168 de la makro expandanimations. Tie kun ĉi tiu dosiero okazas kraŝo.
Dum ĝi estas riparita, vi povas komenti tiun linion kaj ĝi funkcios, sed la dosiero devas unue esti purigita de kaŝitaj diapozitivoj.
' doc.store()

English
I think it's a libreoffice bug, because it's the store() function on line 168 of the expananimations macro. There with this file there is a crash.
While fixing, you can comment that line and it will work, but the file must first be cleaned of hidden slides.
' doc.store()

Español:
Creo que es un error de libreoffice, porque es la función store() en la línea 168 de la macro de expananimations. Ahí con este fichero hay un crash.
Mientras se arregla, se puede quitar esa línea y funcionará, pero el fichero debe ser antes limpiado de diapositivas ocultas.
' doc.store()

Errors in this function it seems:

' checks if the given animation node changes a shape's visibility
function isVisibilityAnimation(animNode as Object) as Boolean
isVisibilityAnimation = HasUnoInterfaces(animNode, ANIMSET) and _
(animNode.AttributeName = VISATTR)
end function

I can send slides if desired.

• download latest libreoffice
• install ExpandAnimations on the command line
• export an example file
• compare the result against a reference pdf

If I put slide numbers in the footer, the number still progresses with "animations" in the expanded version. Usually it would still be considered one slide though.

I think basic logical "and" behavior is not short circuting, so this code should give an error on a non-existent attribute:

function isVisibilityAnimation(animNode as Object) as Boolean
    isVisibilityAnimation = HasUnoInterfaces(animNode, ANIMSET) and _
                            (animNode.AttributeName = VISATTR)
end function

tried on this:

http://www.psc.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sample.ppt

Hi all,

I have a LibreOffice impress presentation with several GIFs in it.

I found this extension while looking for a way to export it to a pdf and maintain the GIFs animation.

I tried it and it did not work. Did I do something wrong or the extension does not support this functionality?

Some fancy animations could not converted to static slides. The process ends up with an error. The example files are located here:

• http://www.bf.lu.lv/ftp/pub/RakstuDarbi/OpenOffice/extensions/impress/ExpandAnimationsMonperrus.errors/unsupported-01.odp
• http://www.bf.lu.lv/ftp/pub/RakstuDarbi/OpenOffice/extensions/impress/ExpandAnimationsMonperrus.errors/unsupported-02.odp

For some slides the title slide value is present in the TOC, where as in some it is "Slide: #slide_number".

Is is possible to get all the entries of TOC in one format or the other?

config.load_project() doesnt work as expected, or maybe I did not understand correctly.
In my project I have a fabile.py with

from fabric2 import task, Connection
@task
def my_task(c):
    print(c.config)
    other_connection = Connection(host="my_host")
    print(other_connection.config)
    other_connection.config.load_project()
    print(other_connection.config)

In a config file fabric.json I have

{
    "key": "MY_VALUE"
}

Executing the command line

 python -m fabric2  my_task

shows that the config is read from fabric.json when invoking the task, and passed to c.config, but it is not read when calling other_connection.config.load_project().
Did I miss something ?

If the odp document have an hyperlink to other slide in the same document, when before there are some hide slides, then the hide slides are removed and change the number slide of the destination slide but the hyperlink don't change. The result is that the hyperlinks are wrong.

follow-up of #35

Hi,

I tried to use this to export a slide deck with a few animations. It worked for some slides, but not others. Looking at the code the problem appears to be that only visibility changing animations are supported - the animations that didn't get split into separate pages were of type "Emphasis: Change Fill Color" (which I find useful for emphasis).

Regards,

Andres

I recently ran this script on LibreOffice 4.0.0.3, and I encountered a strange error at around line 191 where the containsObject() will fail because target is Empty. Maybe my file was corrupt or something. I couldn't see anything particularly special about the slide where it was encountering an error. Anyway, I was able to solve the problem by adding another test:

if not IsEmpty(target) then ...

before the

if not containsObject(shapes, target) then ...

see 345d5c3#r40017455

The text in copy in function fixateSlideNumber is aligned left. How to let it align right? It seems that TextShape object doesn't have such a property.

Once again, thanks for your work!
It would be great if the option to trigger ExpandAnimations would not only be found under Tools>>Add-ons>>Expand animations but also in the NotebookBar "Extension"-Tab. Some further information regarding this is provided here.

Can thie extension be used in CmdLine with soffice.bin?

When expanding a slide that contains connectors the connection points change during the expansion. Even if the transition does not touch the elements that are connected.

You can find an example of what I mean here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1151396/oo_expand/testanimation.odp
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1151396/oo_expand/testanimation-expanded.pdf

This example is relatively mild, in a 'real' presentation I was working with the connector lines actually went off-screen on the expanded slides.

BTW - great plugin, hope this can be fixed :)

Internal links not working:
If I insert a link to slide 24, if I export to pdf directly the link works, the link is:
file:///.../filename.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A127%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22FitR%22%7D%2C0%2C-0.001%2C793.701%2C595.275%5D

But if I use expandanimations the link points to:
#Slide%2024
and open the file browser.

Hi,

I am trying to expand a presentation with some elementary overlays, but some characters end up missing in the exported pdf version. I suspect this has something to do with the fonts not being embedded. Is there any way to change this? Thanks!

Here's an example:
In the LibreOffice file I type set

In the exported PDF this appears as

The fonts being used here are standard Latin Modern fonts.

In LibreOffice Impress (4.1.3.2)I import a file from Powerpoint 2011 (14.3.8) in pptx format. Then, after doing some cosmetic work, I try to export it with ExpandAnimations: Tools > Add-.Ons > Expand animations. The plugin crashes with this message: "Inadmissible value or data type. Index out of defined range."

I had previously used the extension without problems, but now I have Libreoffice 6.0. When I attempt to use the extension on slides.odp, the program starts by generating slides-expanded.odp, but later quits with error:

Inadmissible value or data type. Index out of defined range.

For the problem, Basic editor points to the line 208, which is:
dim visibility(UBound(shapes), nFrames-1) as Boolean

I am not sure how to present/debug this issue, but ExpandAnimations freezes while soffice.bin runs at 100% of the CPU. Nothing useful gets created other than a -expanded.odp file pretty much identical to the original file. The only way to regain control of the software is to kill libreoffice.

Hi,

Thanks for this wonderful extension. Was almost about to make that unwanted switchback to Microsoft Office due to the lack of font embedding support in ODF. Till I came across this life-saver. I can live with the basic appear animation on my slides (mainly bullet point-driven sales pitches) and the portability of PDF is almost universal. I downloaded it yesterday & it worked great with a couple of test slides.

I've hit this hitch though. I have this presentation with 7 slides which is the reason that led me to download this extension. The first slide has only the Title element. The next 4 slides have a Title element & a text box with bullet points. The sixth has a Title with a bitmap. I have animated the bullet point text-boxes and the bitmap with the appear effect. The last one is only the Title.

When I tried compiling the presentation using this extension, I run into a BASIC Runtime error that has the description Property or method not found:createEnumerate. The script aborts and I'm left with an intermediate odp file named [original-filename]-expanded.odp & the script window with the line animNodes = effectNode.createEnumeration() highlighted. The intermediate odp file has the first 4 slides intact. Then there are seven copies of the 5th slide (the last one with animated bullet points). Then there is one with only the title of the slide with the bitmap...followed by one with the bitmap. The last slide is intact.

I have zilch idea of scripts & macros. So have no clue what is going on. But I can follow instructions well. Any help resolving this problem would be greatly appreciated. Apologies if any of my post is incoherent. Please ask for specifics that may help you understand this better & I'll cooperate to my best.

Thanks a million. :)

Sam

Hi

Thanks for this great extension which fills an important gap!

Quick question: is it possible to restrict the range of the pages to be exported to pdf (as is possible with OO's standard export to pdf)? I understand though that at this point there is no dialog when exporting (i.e. just go to Tools -> add-Ons -> Expand)?

Thanks!

The plugin runs, but the exported pdf does not contain any sort of expanded animation. It is basically the same as just clicking on the export pdf button.

If you have a text with two or more lines and with vertical align center, when the first line appears, it is write in the center and not in the original place.
View the .odp attached (rename .zip to .odp):
BadVerticalAlign.zip

Using a Master with the only "Slide Number" field, exported pdf contains "Slide Number / Slide Count" (see screenshot).
Is it an intended behavior? Is it possible to disable?

When an "appear" effect concerns only a text fragment (i.e. only a part of a tex box must appear), this yields the error:
Type: com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException
Message: cannot coerce argument type during coreflection call!.

The extension could be installed but there is no item in the Tools menu. When I look at Tools > Macros > Run macro, I can se an entry for ExpandAnimations along with a list of macros.

I'm using LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 on Ubuntu 13.04.

Is it possible to use this extension when converting from ppt to pdf form the command line?

I succesfully installed the 0.4 version. However when I export the odp file to PDF the effects are not displayed

Hi. Firstoff, this is a great extension and works (since 0.40) almost entirely as expected. There is just one issue: the slide numbers aren't preserved and will go up with any bullet point appearing.
Anyways, I can understand if fixing that issue is out of scope for this project, but thanks for considering it, and most of all thanks for this great extension.

(Follow-up of #19 (comment))

Pull request welcome!

In my presentations I often have bullet lists, i.e. a single text box that contains several lines of text. There are animations that allow me to reveal the lines one after another. ExpandAnimations does take care of this: It basically creates one slide per line, in which the text box contains only the lines that have been revealed so far.
The problem is: Since the text box automatically adjusts the font size of its content, this leads to the very first line appearing in a large font size. When the second line is revealed, the font size of the first line decreases, because now that the text box should contain two lines it adjusts the font size. A further decrease (this time for the first two lines) happens when the third line is revealed, and so on.

Workaround: I will now manually try to turn off this "automatic font size" and hope that this helps. But I think ExpandAnimations should do this for me.

it would be great to have continuous delivery, and push a new release on Github at each commit on master

we could also push to the default LibreOffice extension server.

Hi,
I got an error on LO 3.5

New file is created, loaded, some slides are generated... but :

Macro stop on slide.remove(shapes(n)) from :

' remove from the given slide all shapes that are invisible in the specified frame
sub removeInvisibleShapes(slide as Object, visibility, frame as Integer)
shapes = getAnimatedShapes(slide)
for n = 0 to UBound(shapes)
if visibility(n, frame) = false then
slide.remove(shapes(n)) <------ HERE
end if
next
end sub

Message is :
Cannot coerce argument type during corereflection call!

Have any idea ?
Thanks
Eric

v 0.6 in 6.2.8.2 (ubuntu 16.04)
Opening from file, or from extension manager or from SO, the same error in three cases
Is my version of LibreOffice? with the old works fine

(com.sun.star.lang.WrappedTargetRuntimeException) { { { Message = "Bad Zip File, ZipException: Zip END signature not found!", Context = (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface) @7fa19400e7c0 (ImplementationName = "com.sun.star.packages.comp.ZipPackage") } }, TargetException = (any) { (com.sun.star.packages.zip.ZipIOException) { { { Message = "Bad Zip File, ZipException: Zip END signature not found!", Context = (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface) @7fa19400e7c0 (ImplementationName = "com.sun.star.packages.comp.ZipPackage") } } } } }

I just installed version 0.5 on LibreOffice to expand an animation. Ended with a runtime error (unrelated to the document, I think). Worked with 0.4, so I think the latest commit writing to tmp broke something.

LibreOffice version:

Version: 6.1.0.3 (x64)
Build-ID: efb621ed25068d70781dc026f7e9c5187a4decd1
CPU-Threads: 4; BS: Windows 6.1; UI-Render: Standard;
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE); Calc: CL

Basic Exception:
Type: com.sun.star.io.IOException
Message: SfxBaseModel::impl_store file:///tmp/DijkstraAnimated-expanded.odp failed: 0x507(Error Area:Io Class:Access Code:7).

Getting an error when opening the .oxt file (tried both .13 & .12 releases)

Sorry, LOo dialogs do not allow copying text, and I'm too lazy to copy the whole text, so I'm sending a screenshot of the error