Problem viewing SmartDraw OLE objects

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#1

I tried to upgrade from Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 to LibreOffice 4 however, when I went to open documents that had embedded SmartDraw diagrams in them, all the relevant pages were blank. These are embedded OLE objects.

If I clicked on the blank page in the document, then the SmartDraw application came up correctly with the picture. When I saved the picture again, LibreOffice still showed the page as blank.

Note that I did uninstall the Apache version before installing the LibreOffice version.
I am running under Windows XP (Service Pack 3). SmartDraw is version VP August 2010.

Is this a bug with LibreOffice? Latest official version of Apache does not suffer this problem. Any suggestion to solve the problem?

#2

What file format are the diagrams in? SDR? I have never heard of SmartDraw format being supported (either by OO or LO). What format do you use for OLE?

#3

I am not sure what format SmartDraw uses. When I do this using the Apache OpenOffice, I just insert a SmartDraw OLE object (from a new file). SmartDraw is invoked. I then draw some stuff and then close SmartDraw. The resulting picture is visible in my OpenOffice document. It is not visible in LibreOffice.

#4

Thanks for clarifying this. It sounds like SmartDraw registers itself as an OLE application and LO (et al.) pick this up from the registry. Unfortunately I have no answer as to why it is not working.

#5

I am going to provide a partial answer to this question, even though the details of why the diagrams are not displaying, is not fully clear. I think this is likely to be an OLE issue. Essentially it is the same type of problem as described in fdo#33613, which deals with MSDraw OLE objects. A couple of developers have recently looked at that bug and appear to be working on something.

There is no currently open bug relating to SmartDraw objects and I think it would be a good idea to raise a separate bug, with an example file, and link it to this bug. If you raise a bug please report the reference back here in the form “fdo#123456”. Thanks.

#6

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